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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 100 166
Rank change year-on-year -59 +66 +22
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 18 77 46
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.45% 1.86% 0.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 6.24% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 55 43
10th Percentile - £500 £425
25th Percentile £413 £503 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £620 £575
Median % change year-on-year -27.42% +7.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £541 £650 £644
90th Percentile £606 £652 £700
England median daily rate £525 £558 £550
% change year-on-year -5.83% +1.36% -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 1,243 1,234 1,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.29% 29.80% 28.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 842 1,070
10th Percentile £204 £263 £212
25th Percentile £363 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% -2.38% +1.94%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £655 £669 £688
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 22 40
10th Percentile £12.50 £19.45 £19.22
25th Percentile £14.75 £23.44 £20.88
Median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £32.31
Median % change year-on-year -60.38% +47.01% +53.86%
75th Percentile £27.63 £60.95 £62.03
90th Percentile £42.02 £64.73 £72.78
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +9.38% +45.45%

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 14 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 14 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 -46 14 £450 -28.00% 7
Thames Valley -52 14 £450 -28.00% 10
Surrey 0 2 £550 - 1
Hampshire -4 2 £413 -23.26% 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 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (61.11%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (38.89%) Azure AKS
3 7 (38.89%) Azure Storage
3 7 (38.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 7 (38.89%) IaaS
3 7 (38.89%) PaaS
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.56%) Dagster
6 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.56%) GCP
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (27.78%) Data Lake
3 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (11.11%) Metadata
4 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.56%) Data Vault
5 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.56%) MySQL
5 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Poetry
2 1 (5.56%) Pylint
2 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Automotive
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Site Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Logic Apps Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) ADO
2 3 (16.67%) PySpark
3 2 (11.11%) Kafka
4 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
4 1 (5.56%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Smart Meter
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) DevOps
2 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
3 7 (38.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 5 (27.78%) Analytics
5 5 (27.78%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (16.67%) Agile
6 3 (16.67%) Data Transformation
6 3 (16.67%) ETL
6 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (11.11%) Change Data Capture
7 2 (11.11%) Code Quality
7 2 (11.11%) Data Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven
7 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (5.56%) Design Patterns
8 1 (5.56%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) SQL
2 5 (27.78%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) Bicep
3 2 (11.11%) R
4 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
1 1 (5.56%) PMP
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Grafana
3 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Databricks
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) RedGate