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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 103 166
Rank change year-on-year -57 +63 -7
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 24 54 42
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.48% 1.78% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 5.48% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 34 38
10th Percentile - £466 £413
25th Percentile £413 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £598 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% -0.42% +5.26%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £650 £649 £688
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -

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 1,517 985 1,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.61% 32.44% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,105 670 1,006
10th Percentile £260 £263 £210
25th Percentile £388 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £615
90th Percentile £675 £663 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 21 50
10th Percentile £12.50 £15.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.37 £18.50 £19.56
Median hourly rate £37.00 £29.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.59% -3.33% +31.87%
75th Percentile £73.13 £46.30 £59.95
90th Percentile £92.90 £75.50 £62.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £27.38 £21.37
% change year-on-year +46.12% +28.10% -14.52%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -81 8 £475 -23.39% 8
Surrey - 8 £425 - 2
Berkshire -61 7 £450 -28.00% 4
East Sussex +5 4 £600 +26.32% 2
Kent - 2 £650 - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £750 -
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:

Applications
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (45.83%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (37.50%) Azure Functions
3 9 (37.50%) Serverless
4 8 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (29.17%) Azure Storage
6 5 (20.83%) Azure API Management
6 5 (20.83%) GitHub
7 4 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
8 3 (12.50%) Snowflake
9 2 (8.33%) Azure AI
9 2 (8.33%) Azure AKS
9 2 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (8.33%) IaaS
9 2 (8.33%) PaaS
10 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (4.17%) Lucidchart
10 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (45.83%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 7 (29.17%) SQL Server
4 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (12.50%) Metadata
5 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (8.33%) Power BI
6 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
7 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
7 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
7 1 (4.17%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Azure Engineer
2 10 (41.67%) Data Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Azure Data Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Architect
4 5 (20.83%) Azure Software Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Software Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Data Architect
5 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Site Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Consultant
7 1 (4.17%) Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) REST
2 5 (20.83%) .NET
2 5 (20.83%) ARM Templates
2 5 (20.83%) PySpark
3 2 (8.33%) ADO
3 2 (8.33%) JSON
3 2 (8.33%) XML
3 2 (8.33%) YAML
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%) SOAP
4 1 (4.17%) Streamlit
4 1 (4.17%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Wiki
4 1 (4.17%) Data Fabric
4 1 (4.17%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) DevOps
2 13 (54.17%) ETL
3 11 (45.83%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
5 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (33.33%) Agile
6 8 (33.33%) Data Engineering
7 7 (29.17%) Analytics
8 5 (20.83%) Coaching
8 5 (20.83%) Data Governance
8 5 (20.83%) Data Integration
8 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
9 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
9 4 (16.67%) Event-Driven
9 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 4 (16.67%) Observability
9 4 (16.67%) User Stories
9 4 (16.67%) Workflow
10 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (12.50%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 22 (91.67%) SQL
2 19 (79.17%) Python
3 11 (45.83%) C#
4 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
5 4 (16.67%) T-SQL
6 2 (8.33%) Bicep
6 2 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (8.33%) PL/SQL
6 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Databricks
2 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Ab Initio
3 2 (8.33%) Foundry
3 2 (8.33%) Informatica
3 2 (8.33%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) RedGate