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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 273 252
Rank change year-on-year -19 -21 +10
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 163 77 141
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.57% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.14% 1.79% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 58 122
10th Percentile £412 £365 £405
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £529
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -10.17% -5.58%
75th Percentile £600 £524 £638
90th Percentile £650 £579 £673
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +1.00% -6.98% -2.27%

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 7,608 4,313 5,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.54% 32.17% 25.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,003 2,961 3,798
10th Percentile £301 £250 £220
25th Percentile £400 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £590
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 175 276
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.39
Median % change year-on-year +98.73% -7.43% -24.50%
75th Percentile £68.75 £34.48 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.35 £65.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.36% +27.27% -37.14%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -16 58 £500 +17.65% 8
West Midlands -20 45 £500 +15.61% 5
North of England -49 42 £500 +5.26% 8
South East -51 28 £525 +10.53% 20
North West -28 23 £500 - 5
South West -13 19 £500 - 2
Yorkshire -52 14 £500 +33.33% 2
East Midlands -13 13 £600 +54.84% 3
Scotland -4 9 £613 +42.11% 3
East of England -22 9 £589 +15.44% 3
North East - 5 £450 - 1
Wales - 3 £450 - 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 11 (6.75%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.52%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.29%) Apache
4 3 (1.84%) Confluence
5 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 163 (100.00%) Azure
2 61 (37.42%) Power Platform
3 56 (34.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 34 (20.86%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (12.88%) Serverless
6 20 (12.27%) GitHub
7 18 (11.04%) Azure Functions
8 16 (9.82%) Azure Storage
8 16 (9.82%) Snowflake
9 10 (6.13%) AWS
10 9 (5.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 9 (5.52%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (4.91%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (4.91%) dbt
12 7 (4.29%) Entra ID
12 7 (4.29%) GCP
12 7 (4.29%) Microsoft Purview
13 6 (3.68%) Azure API Management
13 6 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (3.07%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.84%) Firewall
2 2 (1.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (33.13%) Power BI
2 43 (26.38%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (22.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 35 (21.47%) Data Lake
5 25 (15.34%) SQL Server
6 16 (9.82%) Delta Lake
7 11 (6.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (4.29%) Metadata
9 6 (3.68%) Big Data
10 4 (2.45%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.45%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.45%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (2.45%) Spark SQL
11 3 (1.84%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.84%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (1.84%) Power Query
11 3 (1.84%) Star Schema
12 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (13.50%) Git
2 4 (2.45%) JIRA
3 1 (0.61%) Newman
3 1 (0.61%) Postman
3 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 34 (20.86%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (11.04%) Finance
4 15 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.91%) Retail
6 6 (3.68%) Law
7 5 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.84%) Marketing
9 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.61%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.61%) Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Legal
10 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 79 (48.47%) Data Engineer
2 26 (15.95%) Azure Engineer
3 25 (15.34%) Senior
4 24 (14.72%) Architect
5 21 (12.88%) Lead
6 18 (11.04%) Azure Data Engineer
6 18 (11.04%) Senior Data Engineer
7 17 (10.43%) Data Architect
8 9 (5.52%) Azure Architect
9 8 (4.91%) Analyst
9 8 (4.91%) Data Analyst
9 8 (4.91%) Developer
10 7 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.68%) Project Manager
12 5 (3.07%) Azure Software Engineer
12 5 (3.07%) Data Migration Lead
12 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Engineer
12 5 (3.07%) Software Engineer
13 4 (2.45%) DBA
13 4 (2.45%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (15.34%) PySpark
2 11 (6.75%) .NET
2 11 (6.75%) Kafka
3 8 (4.91%) REST
4 7 (4.29%) ARM Templates
5 6 (3.68%) Pandas
5 6 (3.68%) YAML
6 4 (2.45%) JSON
6 4 (2.45%) Streamlit
7 3 (1.84%) React
7 3 (1.84%) XML
8 2 (1.23%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.23%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.23%) CSS
8 2 (1.23%) Entity Framework
8 2 (1.23%) HTML
8 2 (1.23%) Next.js
8 2 (1.23%) Playwright
8 2 (1.23%) pytest
8 2 (1.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.88%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.36%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (6.75%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.13%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.45%) Data Fabric
5 4 (2.45%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.45%) SCADA
6 3 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.84%) IoT
7 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.23%) Life Science
7 2 (1.23%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.23%) Wiki
8 1 (0.61%) Clustering
8 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.61%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) NHS
8 1 (0.61%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.84%) Windows
1 3 (1.84%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (58.90%) ETL
2 90 (55.21%) Data Modelling
3 86 (52.76%) Data Pipeline
4 74 (45.40%) Analytics
5 71 (43.56%) CI/CD
6 57 (34.97%) Data Engineering
7 55 (33.74%) DevOps
8 54 (33.13%) Business Intelligence
9 34 (20.86%) Data Architecture
9 34 (20.86%) Migration
10 33 (20.25%) Data Governance
11 32 (19.63%) AI
12 30 (18.40%) Data Integration
12 30 (18.40%) Data Transformation
13 26 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (15.34%) Agile
14 25 (15.34%) Validation
15 22 (13.50%) Decision-Making
15 22 (13.50%) Performance Tuning
16 20 (12.27%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 131 (80.37%) SQL
2 80 (49.08%) Python
3 16 (9.82%) T-SQL
4 15 (9.20%) C#
5 14 (8.59%) PowerShell
6 11 (6.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (5.52%) Bicep
8 7 (4.29%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 22 (13.50%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.98%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.29%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.68%) Degree
5 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (37.42%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.36%) GDPR
3 10 (6.13%) QA
4 5 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.61%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (3.07%) Docker
2 4 (2.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (11.04%) Terraform
2 3 (1.84%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.61%) Control-M
3 1 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.61%) Grafana
3 1 (0.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 92 (56.44%) Databricks
2 68 (41.72%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.29%) Informatica
4 5 (3.07%) Oracle
4 5 (3.07%) SAP
5 4 (2.45%) Talend
6 3 (1.84%) RedGate
6 3 (1.84%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.23%) Foundry
7 2 (1.23%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.23%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.23%) Splunk
8 1 (0.61%) Cognos
8 1 (0.61%) Infor