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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 148 136
Rank change year-on-year -57 -12 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 24 17 56
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.36% 0.49% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 1.64% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 43
10th Percentile £406 £375 £431
25th Percentile £494 £413 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £625
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -32.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £613 £519 £650
90th Percentile £659 £580 £658
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% -6.09%

All Cloud Computing 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 1,765 1,037 1,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.55% 29.96% 23.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 668 856
10th Percentile £265 £246 £309
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year - -2.68% -4.42%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 48 35
10th Percentile £21.35 £14.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £31.25 £15.50 £17.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £18.82 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +271.94% -37.27% +11.11%
75th Percentile £83.75 £32.12 £56.63
90th Percentile £104.00 £48.55 £61.38
England median hourly rate £37.24 £26.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +43.23% +18.18% -33.33%

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 31 July 2026.

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 31 July 2026. 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 -58 8 £575 +35.29% 9
West Sussex - 8 £375 -
Berkshire -34 4 £644 +51.47% 4
Buckinghamshire - 4 £500 - 4
Surrey -17 3 £500 -9.09%
East Sussex - 2 £600 -
Hampshire -33 1 £400 +25.00%
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 (4.17%) Apache
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Functions
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 3 (12.50%) Serverless
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (8.33%) GitHub
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Batch
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Stack
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Power BI
2 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.17%) Metadata
5 1 (4.17%) PowerPivot
5 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Data Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Lead
3 4 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 2 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) PySpark
2 3 (12.50%) YAML
3 2 (8.33%) JSON
3 2 (8.33%) Streamlit
3 2 (8.33%) XML
4 1 (4.17%) .NET
4 1 (4.17%) JWT
4 1 (4.17%) OAuth
4 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.17%) Pandas
4 1 (4.17%) pytest
4 1 (4.17%) REST
4 1 (4.17%) SOAP
4 1 (4.17%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
1 2 (8.33%) Wiki
2 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) ETL
2 11 (45.83%) Data Integration
2 11 (45.83%) Data Pipeline
3 10 (41.67%) Data Modelling
3 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (37.50%) Agile
4 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 9 (37.50%) Data Engineering
5 8 (33.33%) AI
6 7 (29.17%) Analytics
7 6 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (25.00%) Data Architecture
7 6 (25.00%) Data Governance
8 5 (20.83%) Data Extraction
8 5 (20.83%) Data Ingestion
8 5 (20.83%) Data Management
8 5 (20.83%) DevOps
8 5 (20.83%) Test Automation
9 4 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
10 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 20 (83.33%) SQL
2 11 (45.83%) Python
3 5 (20.83%) C#
4 3 (12.50%) Bicep
4 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (8.33%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (4.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Databricks
2 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk