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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 240 262
Rank change year-on-year -43 +22 -9
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 158 98 138
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.66% 0.77% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.22% 2.39% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 67 114
10th Percentile £400 £363 £405
25th Percentile £425 £413 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -4.23%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £638
90th Percentile £639 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.35 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 -

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 7,118 4,102 5,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.63% 32.09% 26.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,829 2,904 3,832
10th Percentile £281 £241 £213
25th Percentile £400 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -2.86% -2.20%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £670 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 159 260
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.31 £16.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £21.46 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year +121.34% +21.21% -28.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £33.45 £26.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £69.25 £61.51
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -22 60 £500 +13.64% 14
West Midlands -23 48 £500 +5.26% 8
North of England -44 46 £500 +5.26% 22
South East -67 26 £575 +6.48% 27
North West -33 23 £481 -3.75% 12
South West -18 22 £500 +5.26% 7
Yorkshire -40 15 £500 +29.03% 10
East Midlands -26 12 £450 +18.42% 6
North East -16 8 £475 +32.68%
East of England -27 8 £589 +47.19% 6
Scotland +1 6 £675 +56.61% 3
Wales -8 1 - - 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 13 (8.23%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.06%) Apache
2 8 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.90%) Confluence
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.63%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 158 (100.00%) Azure
2 65 (41.14%) Power Platform
3 61 (38.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 36 (22.78%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (15.19%) GitHub
6 22 (13.92%) Serverless
7 18 (11.39%) Azure Functions
8 15 (9.49%) Snowflake
9 12 (7.59%) AWS
9 12 (7.59%) GCP
9 12 (7.59%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (6.96%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (6.96%) Azure Storage
11 9 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (5.70%) Power Automate
12 8 (5.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (5.06%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (4.43%) Entra ID
14 6 (3.80%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.90%) Firewall
2 2 (1.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (33.54%) Power BI
2 46 (29.11%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (24.68%) Data Lake
4 31 (19.62%) Azure SQL Database
5 20 (12.66%) SQL Server
6 19 (12.03%) Delta Lake
7 14 (8.86%) Metadata
7 14 (8.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (3.80%) Big Data
9 6 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.80%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (3.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.16%) Spark SQL
11 4 (2.53%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.53%) Oracle Database
11 4 (2.53%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.90%) Power Query
12 3 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (1.90%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (12.66%) Git
2 4 (2.53%) JIRA
3 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 39 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.86%) Finance
4 13 (8.23%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.06%) Law
6 6 (3.80%) Retail
7 2 (1.27%) Banking
7 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.27%) Legal
7 2 (1.27%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.27%) Marketing
8 1 (0.63%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (48.10%) Data Engineer
2 28 (17.72%) Azure Engineer
3 26 (16.46%) Senior
4 25 (15.82%) Architect
5 20 (12.66%) Azure Data Engineer
5 20 (12.66%) Lead
6 19 (12.03%) Senior Data Engineer
7 17 (10.76%) Data Architect
8 11 (6.96%) Developer
9 9 (5.70%) Analyst
9 9 (5.70%) Data Analyst
9 9 (5.70%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (5.06%) Azure Architect
11 6 (3.80%) Data Migration Lead
12 5 (3.16%) Azure Software Engineer
12 5 (3.16%) Software Engineer
13 4 (2.53%) Data Migration Engineer
13 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Engineer
13 4 (2.53%) Migration Engineer
14 3 (1.90%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (15.82%) PySpark
2 19 (12.03%) Kafka
3 13 (8.23%) REST
4 11 (6.96%) .NET
5 8 (5.06%) Pandas
6 7 (4.43%) ARM Templates
7 6 (3.80%) Keycloak
7 6 (3.80%) YAML
8 4 (2.53%) JSON
8 4 (2.53%) NumPy
9 3 (1.90%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.90%) Flask
9 3 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.90%) React
9 3 (1.90%) SOAP
10 2 (1.27%) .NET Framework
10 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET
10 2 (1.27%) CSS
10 2 (1.27%) Entity Framework
10 2 (1.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.56%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.13%) Product Ownership
3 13 (8.23%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (7.59%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.16%) Data Fabric
5 5 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.16%) IoT
6 4 (2.53%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.53%) SCADA
7 3 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.27%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.27%) Wiki
9 1 (0.63%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (62.03%) ETL
2 84 (53.16%) Data Modelling
3 81 (51.27%) Analytics
3 81 (51.27%) Data Pipeline
4 61 (38.61%) CI/CD
4 61 (38.61%) DevOps
5 60 (37.97%) Business Intelligence
6 57 (36.08%) Data Engineering
7 41 (25.95%) Data Governance
8 36 (22.78%) Data Architecture
9 35 (22.15%) Agile
10 31 (19.62%) Migration
11 29 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (16.46%) Data Integration
12 26 (16.46%) Data Transformation
13 24 (15.19%) AI
14 22 (13.92%) Data Migration
15 20 (12.66%) Decision-Making
15 20 (12.66%) Performance Tuning
16 16 (10.13%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 120 (75.95%) SQL
2 86 (54.43%) Python
3 18 (11.39%) C#
4 15 (9.49%) T-SQL
5 10 (6.33%) Bicep
5 10 (6.33%) PowerShell
6 9 (5.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (4.43%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.80%) Go
9 3 (1.90%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 28 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 20 (12.66%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.23%) Azure Certification
4 7 (4.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.53%) Degree
6 3 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (37.97%) Data Quality
2 13 (8.23%) GDPR
3 10 (6.33%) QA
4 5 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.63%) Basel II
6 1 (0.63%) Basel III
6 1 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.63%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (6.33%) Docker
2 4 (2.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (12.03%) Terraform
2 6 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.90%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.63%) Control-M
4 1 (0.63%) Grafana
Vendors
1 79 (50.00%) Databricks
2 68 (43.04%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.70%) Informatica
4 7 (4.43%) Oracle
5 6 (3.80%) Talend
6 5 (3.16%) SAP
7 2 (1.27%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.27%) Foundry
7 2 (1.27%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.27%) Splunk
8 1 (0.63%) Brio
8 1 (0.63%) Cognos
8 1 (0.63%) Infor