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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 145 123
Rank change year-on-year -54 -22 +11
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 27 20 59
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.41% 0.56% 1.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.51% 1.91% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 45
10th Percentile £406 £401 £500
25th Percentile £494 £413 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £625
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -32.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £644 £494 £650
90th Percentile £713 £565 £651
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%

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 1,790 1,049 1,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.91% 29.54% 24.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,177 684 812
10th Percentile £263 £208 £301
25th Percentile £413 £375 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 44 29
10th Percentile £16.49 £14.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £31.25 £15.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £64.24 £18.82 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +241.34% -46.23% +15.78%
75th Percentile £82.25 £32.05 £59.95
90th Percentile £104.00 £49.95 £64.73
England median hourly rate £34.18 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.95% -12.33% -9.09%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -40 14 £538 +26.47% 8
West Sussex - 8 £375 -
Buckinghamshire - 8 £500 - 2
Berkshire -28 6 £656 +54.41% 2
Surrey -18 3 £500 -9.09% 3
Hampshire -29 2 £550 +46.67%
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 2 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 4 (14.81%) AWS
4 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 3 (11.11%) GCP
5 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (7.41%) GitHub
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (7.41%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Batch
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Databricks
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Stack
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) Power BI
2 4 (14.81%) Data Lake
2 4 (14.81%) Metadata
3 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.70%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.70%) PowerPivot
5 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.70%) Marketing
4 1 (3.70%) Military
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Data Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Lead
3 4 (14.81%) Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Data Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 2 (7.41%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (7.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Governance Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Principal Data Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) PySpark
2 2 (7.41%) Streamlit
3 1 (3.70%) .NET
3 1 (3.70%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
1 1 (3.70%) IoT
1 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
1 1 (3.70%) PMI
1 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
1 1 (3.70%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Data Modelling
2 15 (55.56%) ETL
3 13 (48.15%) Analytics
3 13 (48.15%) Data Integration
4 12 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
5 11 (40.74%) Data Governance
6 10 (37.04%) Data Engineering
7 9 (33.33%) AI
7 9 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (29.63%) Agile
8 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (25.93%) Data Architecture
10 6 (22.22%) Data Ingestion
10 6 (22.22%) DevOps
11 5 (18.52%) Data Extraction
11 5 (18.52%) Deployment Automation
11 5 (18.52%) Migration
11 5 (18.52%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (74.07%) SQL
2 9 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) Bicep
3 1 (3.70%) C#
3 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.41%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.70%) CAPM
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (74.07%) Databricks
2 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.11%) Google
4 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.70%) Splunk