Azure Data Factory Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 296 243
Rank change year-on-year +2 -53 -10
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 186 75 127
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.68% 0.49% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.28% 1.58% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 54 109
10th Percentile £403 £402 £405
25th Percentile £434 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -9.30% -6.52%
75th Percentile £589 £538 £638
90th Percentile £648 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £539
% change year-on-year - -7.19% -6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £21.50 - -
75th Percentile £21.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.50 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,174 4,742 4,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.69% 30.92% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,255 3,170 3,374
10th Percentile £281 £254 £243
25th Percentile £405 £385 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £590 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 483 191 193
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +80.13% -11.70% -14.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £36.75 £53.00
90th Percentile £84.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +25.00% +15.80% -26.73%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Data Factory relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Azure Data Factory job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Data Factory.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Factory
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Data Factory.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Midlands +5 82 £500 - 15
West Midlands -2 63 £496 -3.17% 11
North of England -39 42 £500 - 18
South East -59 26 £500 +14.29% 50
North West -38 24 £500 - 7
East Midlands 0 19 £503 +22.56% 4
Yorkshire -30 16 £500 +25.00% 8
South West -41 14 £500 -3.85% 7
Scotland -11 9 £544 +39.24% 7
East of England -16 8 £588 +6.82% 5
Wales -8 6 £450 -10.00% 7
North East - 2 £500 - 3
Azure Data Factory
UK

Azure Data Factory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (5.38%) Apache Spark
2 9 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (4.30%) Apache
4 4 (2.15%) Confluence
5 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.54%) JBoss
6 1 (0.54%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.08%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.54%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 186 (100.00%) Azure
2 67 (36.02%) Power Platform
3 62 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 36 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (10.22%) Serverless
6 18 (9.68%) Snowflake
7 17 (9.14%) GitHub
8 16 (8.60%) Microsoft Purview
9 13 (6.99%) Azure Functions
9 13 (6.99%) Azure Storage
10 11 (5.91%) AWS
10 11 (5.91%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (5.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 9 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (4.84%) Entra ID
13 8 (4.30%) GCP
14 7 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (3.76%) SaaS
15 6 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
15 6 (3.23%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.30%) Firewall
2 1 (0.54%) DNS
2 1 (0.54%) Network Security
2 1 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (35.48%) Power BI
2 54 (29.03%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (24.19%) Data Lake
4 36 (19.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 31 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 19 (10.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 17 (9.14%) Delta Lake
8 16 (8.60%) Metadata
9 10 (5.38%) Relational Database
10 7 (3.76%) NoSQL
10 7 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (2.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.69%) Data Vault
11 5 (2.69%) Oracle Database
12 4 (2.15%) Big Data
12 4 (2.15%) DataStage
12 4 (2.15%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.61%) Spark SQL
13 3 (1.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (13.44%) Git
2 4 (2.15%) JIRA
3 2 (1.08%) Newman
3 2 (1.08%) Postman
4 1 (0.54%) MLflow
4 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.54%) Toad
General
1 36 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (13.98%) Public Sector
4 22 (11.83%) Finance
5 9 (4.84%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.76%) Retail
7 6 (3.23%) Law
8 5 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.61%) Marketing
9 3 (1.61%) Military
10 2 (1.08%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.08%) Billing
10 2 (1.08%) Local Government
11 1 (0.54%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.54%) Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 85 (45.70%) Data Engineer
2 32 (17.20%) Senior
3 23 (12.37%) Architect
3 23 (12.37%) Lead
4 22 (11.83%) Azure Engineer
4 22 (11.83%) Senior Data Engineer
5 20 (10.75%) Data Architect
6 15 (8.06%) Azure Data Engineer
7 12 (6.45%) Analyst
8 10 (5.38%) Data Analyst
8 10 (5.38%) Developer
9 7 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.23%) Integration Engineer
10 6 (3.23%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (2.69%) Azure Architect
11 5 (2.69%) Project Manager
12 4 (2.15%) DBA
12 4 (2.15%) Junior
12 4 (2.15%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.98%) PySpark
2 14 (7.53%) Kafka
3 7 (3.76%) Pandas
4 5 (2.69%) .NET
5 4 (2.15%) ARM Templates
5 4 (2.15%) YAML
6 3 (1.61%) JSON
6 3 (1.61%) pytest
6 3 (1.61%) REST
6 3 (1.61%) Streamlit
7 2 (1.08%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.08%) Great Expectations
7 2 (1.08%) React
7 2 (1.08%) SOAP
7 2 (1.08%) XML
7 2 (1.08%) XML Schema
8 1 (0.54%) Jest
8 1 (0.54%) JWT
8 1 (0.54%) MERN Stack
8 1 (0.54%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.14%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.38%) Data Structures
2 10 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.76%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.76%) SCADA
4 6 (3.23%) IoT
4 6 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.15%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.08%) Life Science
7 2 (1.08%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.08%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.54%) Clustering
8 1 (0.54%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.54%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.69%) Linux
2 4 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.15%) Windows
3 3 (1.61%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (63.44%) ETL
2 107 (57.53%) Data Modelling
3 92 (49.46%) Data Pipeline
4 89 (47.85%) Analytics
5 68 (36.56%) Business Intelligence
5 68 (36.56%) CI/CD
6 62 (33.33%) Data Engineering
7 57 (30.65%) DevOps
7 57 (30.65%) Migration
8 47 (25.27%) Data Integration
9 42 (22.58%) Data Architecture
10 41 (22.04%) Validation
11 40 (21.51%) Data Governance
12 37 (19.89%) Data Transformation
13 34 (18.28%) AI
14 32 (17.20%) Agile
15 29 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (15.05%) Decision-Making
17 27 (14.52%) Data Migration
18 25 (13.44%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 147 (79.03%) SQL
2 79 (42.47%) Python
3 20 (10.75%) T-SQL
4 17 (9.14%) PowerShell
5 9 (4.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (3.76%) Bicep
7 4 (2.15%) C#
8 2 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.54%) Ada
9 1 (0.54%) Bash
9 1 (0.54%) Java
9 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.54%) R
9 1 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (20.43%) Security Cleared
2 23 (12.37%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.45%) Degree
4 11 (5.91%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.08%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (41.94%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.99%) GDPR
3 11 (5.91%) QA
4 7 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.54%) GxP
6 1 (0.54%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.54%) NIST
6 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (3.23%) Docker
2 4 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (10.22%) Terraform
2 10 (5.38%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.08%) Grafana
3 2 (1.08%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.54%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.54%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 103 (55.38%) Databricks
2 83 (44.62%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.91%) Informatica
4 10 (5.38%) SAP
5 8 (4.30%) Oracle
6 5 (2.69%) Cognos
6 5 (2.69%) IBM
7 4 (2.15%) Google
7 4 (2.15%) MuleSoft
7 4 (2.15%) Netezza
7 4 (2.15%) Talend
8 3 (1.61%) RedGate
8 3 (1.61%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.08%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.08%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.08%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.54%) Denodo
10 1 (0.54%) HP
10 1 (0.54%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.54%) Salesforce