Azure Data Factory Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 88 169
Rank change year-on-year -84 +81 +11
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 17 83 40
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.39% 2.26% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 7.15% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 54 37
10th Percentile £411 £500 £463
25th Percentile £413 £503 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £623 £600
Median % change year-on-year -27.71% +3.75% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £613 £652 £677
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.65%

All Cloud Skills
South East

Azure Data Factory falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,353 1,161 1,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.95% 31.61% 28.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 959 790 1,006
10th Percentile £213 £261 £206
25th Percentile £363 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £575 £630 £625
90th Percentile £669 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 17 32
10th Percentile £12.50 £17.10 £17.05
25th Percentile £14.75 £19.30 £19.63
Median hourly rate £20.00 £28.50 £29.66
Median % change year-on-year -29.82% -3.91% +48.30%
75th Percentile £48.75 £43.75 £55.78
90th Percentile £94.10 £64.73 £79.00
England median hourly rate £26.50 £29.00 £24.31
% change year-on-year -8.62% +19.32% +8.02%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Data Factory relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Azure Data Factory job vacancy trend in the South East

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Data Factory.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the South East over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in the South East

Azure Data Factory
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Data Factory.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Data Factory within the South East region over the 6 months to 22 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley -77 10 £438 -30.00% 7
Berkshire -65 9 £425 -32.00% 3
Surrey +3 4 £563 -
Hampshire -15 2 £413 -23.26% 6
East Sussex +5 1 £600 +26.32% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £750 - 2
Azure Data Factory
England

Azure Data Factory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (58.82%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (41.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (23.53%) Azure AKS
4 4 (23.53%) Azure Storage
4 4 (23.53%) IaaS
4 4 (23.53%) PaaS
4 4 (23.53%) Snowflake
5 3 (17.65%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Functions
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (11.76%) Serverless
7 1 (5.88%) Dagster
7 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.88%) GCP
7 1 (5.88%) GitHub
7 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.88%) Lucidchart
7 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (35.29%) Data Lake
2 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
3 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (23.53%) Metadata
4 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.88%) Data Vault
5 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.88%) MySQL
5 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
5 1 (5.88%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Poetry
2 1 (5.88%) Pylint
2 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Automotive
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Data Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Site Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Data Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Data Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Applications Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Lead
6 1 (5.88%) Logic Apps Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Senior
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) PySpark
2 4 (23.53%) ADO
3 2 (11.76%) Kafka
4 1 (5.88%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Data Fabric
2 1 (5.88%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) DevOps
2 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
3 7 (41.18%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (41.18%) ETL
4 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
5 5 (29.41%) Analytics
6 4 (23.53%) Data Architecture
6 4 (23.53%) Data Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) Agile
7 3 (17.65%) Data Governance
7 3 (17.65%) Data Integration
7 3 (17.65%) Data Transformation
7 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven
7 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
7 3 (17.65%) Migration
8 2 (11.76%) Coaching
8 2 (11.76%) Code Quality
8 2 (11.76%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) SQL
2 8 (47.06%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) T-SQL
4 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.88%) Bicep
5 1 (5.88%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.88%) PMP
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Databricks
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Ab Initio
3 2 (11.76%) Informatica
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Google
4 1 (5.88%) RedGate