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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 135 166
Rank change year-on-year -58 +31 -30
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 26 20 42
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.41% 0.64% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 2.03% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 33
10th Percentile - £394 £415
25th Percentile £413 £413 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £468 £625
Median % change year-on-year +22.99% -25.20% +4.17%
75th Percentile £628 £528 £650
90th Percentile £655 £638 £675
England median daily rate £509 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +1.75% -6.98% -2.27%

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 1,690 985 1,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.80% 31.32% 23.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 632 894
10th Percentile £280 £250 £275
25th Percentile £413 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £593 £608
90th Percentile £688 £660 £675
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 50 57
10th Percentile £19.39 £15.20 £17.69
25th Percentile £29.07 £15.91 £18.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £18.85 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +218.39% -37.18% +11.11%
75th Percentile £85.00 £42.92 £59.95
90th Percentile £105.60 £71.50 £61.60
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%

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 1 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 1 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
West Sussex - 8 £375 - 1
Thames Valley -67 6 £594 +29.08% 2
Surrey -18 5 £425 -22.73%
Berkshire -46 4 £644 +39.95%
East Sussex 0 3 £600 +26.32%
Kent - 2 £650 -
Buckinghamshire - 2 £500 - 1
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 (3.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) Azure Functions
2 7 (26.92%) Power Platform
2 7 (26.92%) Serverless
3 6 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (23.08%) GitHub
4 5 (19.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (15.38%) Azure API Management
5 4 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (15.38%) Azure Storage
6 3 (11.54%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (7.69%) Azure AI
7 2 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Stack
8 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (19.23%) Power BI
3 4 (15.38%) Data Lake
4 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.85%) PowerPivot
5 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Git
General
1 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.85%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Data Engineer
2 9 (34.62%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Lead
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Data Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Software Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Senior
4 4 (15.38%) Software Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Developer
7 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) .NET
1 5 (19.23%) REST
2 4 (15.38%) ARM Templates
3 3 (11.54%) PySpark
3 3 (11.54%) YAML
4 2 (7.69%) JSON
4 2 (7.69%) Streamlit
4 2 (7.69%) XML
5 1 (3.85%) JWT
5 1 (3.85%) OAuth
5 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
5 1 (3.85%) Pandas
5 1 (3.85%) pytest
5 1 (3.85%) SOAP
5 1 (3.85%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.69%) Wiki
4 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) ETL
2 13 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 10 (38.46%) Data Integration
4 10 (38.46%) Data Modelling
4 10 (38.46%) DevOps
5 9 (34.62%) Agile
5 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (30.77%) AI
6 8 (30.77%) Analytics
6 8 (30.77%) Data Engineering
7 6 (23.08%) Data Architecture
8 5 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (19.23%) Data Extraction
8 5 (19.23%) Data Governance
8 5 (19.23%) Data Ingestion
8 5 (19.23%) Data Management
8 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
9 4 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (15.38%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 23 (88.46%) SQL
2 15 (57.69%) Python
3 10 (38.46%) C#
4 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.69%) Bicep
5 2 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (69.23%) Databricks
2 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) Foundry
3 2 (7.69%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.85%) Splunk