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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 229 276
Rank change year-on-year -63 +47 +36
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 97 142 138
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.83% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 2.89% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 110 111
10th Percentile £402 £413 £406
25th Percentile £413 £475 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £605 £638 £669
90th Percentile £651 £651 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%

All Cloud 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 5,374 4,906 6,656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.11% 28.79% 31.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,630 3,134 4,839
10th Percentile £240 £250 £220
25th Percentile £375 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £664 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 124 234
10th Percentile £13.25 £15.99 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.67 £21.03 £16.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £34.47 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.97% +53.18% +16.70%
75th Percentile £35.84 £68.98 £47.17
90th Percentile £65.03 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +9.38% +42.22%

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 23 October 2025.

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 23 October 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
Midlands -11 41 £575 +9.52% 43
West Midlands -1 33 £575 - 32
South East -43 20 £425 -32.00% 84
North of England -37 14 £475 +5.56% 39
Scotland +9 9 £550 +22.22% 13
South West +10 8 £575 - 4
East of England +1 8 £550 - 13
North West -25 7 £475 +6.15% 23
East Midlands -9 4 £458 +14.38% 11
Yorkshire -28 4 £400 -17.10% 11
North East -4 3 £550 +59.42% 6
Wales -5 3 £410 -18.00% 2
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 6 (6.19%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.12%) Apache
2 4 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.03%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (6.19%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (6.19%) SAP PM
2 1 (1.03%) Endur
2 1 (1.03%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 97 (100.00%) Azure
2 48 (49.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 36 (37.11%) Power Platform
4 27 (27.84%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (18.56%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (13.40%) Microsoft Purview
7 11 (11.34%) GitHub
8 10 (10.31%) Azure AKS
8 10 (10.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 10 (10.31%) Collibra
9 9 (9.28%) Azure Storage
9 9 (9.28%) IaaS
9 9 (9.28%) PaaS
10 8 (8.25%) AWS
11 7 (7.22%) GCP
11 7 (7.22%) Snowflake
12 6 (6.19%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (6.19%) Serverless
13 5 (5.15%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (5.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (36.08%) Power BI
2 32 (32.99%) Azure SQL Database
3 27 (27.84%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (21.65%) Data Lake
5 17 (17.53%) SQL Server
6 14 (14.43%) Delta Lake
7 6 (6.19%) GIS
7 6 (6.19%) Oracle Database
8 5 (5.15%) Data Mining
8 5 (5.15%) Metadata
8 5 (5.15%) NoSQL
8 5 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (5.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (5.15%) Tableau
9 4 (4.12%) Big Data
9 4 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (4.12%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (2.06%) DynamoDB
10 2 (2.06%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Git
2 1 (1.03%) JIRA
2 1 (1.03%) Poetry
2 1 (1.03%) Pylint
2 1 (1.03%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (23.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.15%) Finance
5 4 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.09%) Retail
7 2 (2.06%) Law
7 2 (2.06%) Marketing
8 1 (1.03%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.03%) Automotive
8 1 (1.03%) Banking
8 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (38.14%) Data Engineer
2 20 (20.62%) Architect
3 17 (17.53%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (13.40%) Data Architect
5 10 (10.31%) Senior
6 9 (9.28%) Azure Architect
6 9 (9.28%) Azure Data Engineer
6 9 (9.28%) Developer
7 8 (8.25%) Analyst
7 8 (8.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) Dynamics 365 Architect
7 8 (8.25%) Enterprise Architect
7 8 (8.25%) Senior Data Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) Site Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Business Architect
8 5 (5.15%) Data Migration Specialist
8 5 (5.15%) Lead
8 5 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.46%) Kafka
2 11 (11.34%) ADO
3 9 (9.28%) PySpark
4 4 (4.12%) Keycloak
5 2 (2.06%) .NET
5 2 (2.06%) pytest
5 2 (2.06%) REST
5 2 (2.06%) SOAP
5 2 (2.06%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (1.03%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.03%) Express.js
6 1 (1.03%) JSON
6 1 (1.03%) Node.js
6 1 (1.03%) Prophet
6 1 (1.03%) React
6 1 (1.03%) RESTful
6 1 (1.03%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.03%) XGBoost
6 1 (1.03%) XML
6 1 (1.03%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.22%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.19%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (6.19%) IoT
2 6 (6.19%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (6.19%) SCADA
3 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.12%) Replication
4 3 (3.09%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.09%) Smart Meter
5 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.06%) NHS
6 1 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.03%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (45.36%) Analytics
2 43 (44.33%) DevOps
3 41 (42.27%) Business Intelligence
3 41 (42.27%) Data Modelling
4 38 (39.18%) ETL
5 30 (30.93%) Data Governance
6 28 (28.87%) CI/CD
7 24 (24.74%) Data Pipeline
8 20 (20.62%) Data Engineering
9 18 (18.56%) Data Integration
10 17 (17.53%) Agile
11 14 (14.43%) AI
11 14 (14.43%) Data Architecture
12 13 (13.40%) Migration
12 13 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (11.34%) Data Migration
13 11 (11.34%) Machine Learning
14 10 (10.31%) Data Transformation
15 9 (9.28%) Actionable Insight
15 9 (9.28%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 63 (64.95%) SQL
2 38 (39.18%) Python
3 6 (6.19%) Bicep
3 6 (6.19%) Kusto Query Language
3 6 (6.19%) T-SQL
4 5 (5.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (4.12%) Go
5 4 (4.12%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.12%) R
6 2 (2.06%) Java
6 2 (2.06%) Scala
7 1 (1.03%) C#
7 1 (1.03%) C++
7 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (12.37%) Azure Certification
2 10 (10.31%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.22%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.09%) Degree
6 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.06%) MCSE
7 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.03%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.03%) PMP
7 1 (1.03%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (22.68%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.34%) GDPR
3 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.09%) QA
4 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (5.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (15.46%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.19%) Terraform
3 1 (1.03%) Grafana
3 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (44.33%) Microsoft
2 42 (43.30%) Databricks
3 8 (8.25%) Oracle
4 7 (7.22%) Informatica
5 6 (6.19%) SAP
6 5 (5.15%) Google
7 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.03%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.03%) RedGate
8 1 (1.03%) Talend
8 1 (1.03%) Virgin Media