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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 102 166
Rank change year-on-year -57 +64 +35
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 19 80 46
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.49% 1.92% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 6.49% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 57 43
10th Percentile £398 £500 £425
25th Percentile £413 £506 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £644
90th Percentile £605 £651 £700
England median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -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 1,220 1,232 1,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.52% 29.55% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 821 836 1,086
10th Percentile £204 £262 £213
25th Percentile £363 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% +2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £663 £663 £695
England median daily rate £500 £535 £528
% change year-on-year -6.45% +1.33% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 22 43
10th Percentile £12.50 £19.45 £18.59
25th Percentile £14.75 £23.44 £20.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.38% +72.73% +32.72%
75th Percentile £27.88 £60.95 £57.81
90th Percentile £42.02 £64.73 £71.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 -40 14 £450 -28.00% 47
Thames Valley -60 14 £450 -28.00% 49
Hampshire -5 3 £375 -30.23% 4
Surrey +3 2 £550 - 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 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (57.89%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (42.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 7 (36.84%) Azure AKS
4 7 (36.84%) Azure Storage
4 7 (36.84%) IaaS
4 7 (36.84%) PaaS
5 3 (15.79%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (5.26%) Dagster
7 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.26%) GCP
7 1 (5.26%) GitHub
7 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (26.32%) Data Lake
3 4 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
4 2 (10.53%) Metadata
4 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.26%) Data Vault
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.26%) MySQL
5 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.26%) Power BI
5 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
5 1 (5.26%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Poetry
2 1 (5.26%) Pylint
2 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Automotive
3 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Site Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Data Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Data Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) Applications Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Lead
6 1 (5.26%) Logic Apps Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) ADO
2 3 (15.79%) PySpark
3 2 (10.53%) Kafka
4 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
4 1 (5.26%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Smart Meter
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) DevOps
2 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (36.84%) Data Modelling
3 7 (36.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (31.58%) Analytics
4 6 (31.58%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (21.05%) ETL
5 4 (21.05%) Mentoring
6 3 (15.79%) Agile
6 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (15.79%) Data Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) Data Transformation
7 2 (10.53%) Change Data Capture
7 2 (10.53%) Coaching
7 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (10.53%) Data Governance
7 2 (10.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 16 (84.21%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) Bicep
3 2 (10.53%) R
4 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.26%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.26%) PMP
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.26%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Grafana
3 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Databricks
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) RedGate