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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 110 144
Rank change year-on-year -31 +34 +62
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 20 74 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.57% 1.61% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.91% 6.23% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 53 67
10th Percentile £401 £500 £458
25th Percentile £413 £506 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £494 £650 £699
90th Percentile £565 £651 £750
England median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -

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 1,046 1,188 1,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.04% 25.88% 28.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 820 1,141
10th Percentile £204 £300 £206
25th Percentile £359 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -2.38% +2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £650 £671 £706
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 22 54
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.77 £16.43
25th Percentile £15.13 £19.66 £19.81
Median hourly rate £18.82 £40.50 £27.83
Median % change year-on-year -53.53% +45.53% +33.41%
75th Percentile £29.00 £60.44 £60.78
90th Percentile £46.13 £64.73 £74.10
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Azure Data Factory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory 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 17 September 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 17 September 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
Berkshire -22 16 £425 -32.00% 13
Thames Valley -38 16 £425 -32.00% 17
Hampshire +10 3 £375 -31.82% 2
Surrey +4 1 £550 - 1
Azure Data Factory
England

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (65.00%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (45.00%) Azure AKS
3 9 (45.00%) Azure Storage
3 9 (45.00%) IaaS
3 9 (45.00%) PaaS
4 7 (35.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (10.00%) GitHub
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
8 1 (5.00%) GCP
8 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
8 1 (5.00%) Serverless
8 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.00%) Data Vault
5 1 (5.00%) Metadata
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (5.00%) MySQL
5 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.00%) Power BI
5 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Poetry
2 1 (5.00%) Postman
2 1 (5.00%) Pylint
2 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 8 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 8 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 8 (40.00%) Site Engineer
1 8 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Data Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Applications Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Logic Apps Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) ADO
2 2 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.00%) PySpark
3 1 (5.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Smart Meter
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) DevOps
2 13 (65.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (45.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 7 (35.00%) Data Modelling
5 5 (25.00%) Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (15.00%) Agile
7 3 (15.00%) Data Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) Data Transformation
7 3 (15.00%) ETL
8 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (10.00%) Change Data Capture
8 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (10.00%) Data Governance
8 2 (10.00%) Event-Driven
8 2 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
8 2 (10.00%) Microservices
8 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) Bicep
3 2 (10.00%) R
4 1 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMP
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Grafana
3 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Databricks
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) Snow