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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 210 280
Rank change year-on-year -79 +70 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 120 132 131
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.98% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.89% 3.01% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 87 103
10th Percentile £399 £365 £413
25th Percentile £413 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £608 £604 £638
90th Percentile £651 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £524 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +1.21% -5.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.35 -
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -47.69% - -

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 6,356 4,382 5,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.97% 32.66% 28.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,411 2,951 4,273
10th Percentile £240 £232 £215
25th Percentile £375 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 103 230
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.29 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.11 £15.44
Median hourly rate £39.43 £24.66 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +59.89% +18.73% +3.85%
75th Percentile £60.00 £40.47 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £71.31
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +30.91% +22.22% -10.00%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -19 47 £550 +39.15% 28
West Midlands -18 40 £550 +15.79% 18
North of England -62 26 £475 +18.75% 25
South East -71 26 £488 -18.75% 34
South West -11 21 £550 +12.82% 8
North West -32 11 £425 -8.11% 16
Scotland +14 9 £600 +33.33% 5
North East -9 8 £475 +32.68% 4
East Midlands -17 7 £450 +16.13% 10
Yorkshire -59 7 £500 +29.03% 5
East of England -18 6 £650 +62.50% 5
Wales -11 2 £410 -18.00% 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 8 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.17%) Apache
2 5 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.83%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.83%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 120 (100.00%) Azure
2 49 (40.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 47 (39.17%) Power Platform
4 35 (29.17%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (18.33%) GitHub
6 15 (12.50%) Serverless
7 14 (11.67%) Azure Functions
7 14 (11.67%) GCP
8 12 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (9.17%) AWS
9 11 (9.17%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (8.33%) Snowflake
11 9 (7.50%) Azure Storage
12 8 (6.67%) Azure AKS
12 8 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (5.00%) Azure API Management
13 6 (5.00%) Entra ID
13 6 (5.00%) Power Automate
14 5 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
15 4 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (29.17%) Data Warehouse
1 35 (29.17%) Power BI
2 27 (22.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 24 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 15 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 13 (10.83%) Delta Lake
5 13 (10.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (9.17%) Metadata
8 5 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (3.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.33%) Big Data
9 4 (3.33%) Data Mining
9 4 (3.33%) Spark SQL
10 3 (2.50%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.50%) Power Query
10 3 (2.50%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (2.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 13 (10.83%) Git
2 2 (1.67%) JIRA
3 1 (0.83%) Poetry
3 1 (0.83%) Pylint
3 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.67%) Finance
5 5 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.17%) Law
6 3 (2.50%) Retail
7 2 (1.67%) Banking
7 2 (1.67%) Legal
8 1 (0.83%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.83%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.83%) Marketing
8 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (46.67%) Data Engineer
2 26 (21.67%) Azure Engineer
3 23 (19.17%) Architect
4 21 (17.50%) Senior
5 17 (14.17%) Azure Data Engineer
5 17 (14.17%) Senior Data Engineer
6 12 (10.00%) Lead
7 11 (9.17%) Data Architect
8 10 (8.33%) Azure Architect
9 8 (6.67%) Developer
10 7 (5.83%) Enterprise Architect
10 7 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Architect
12 5 (4.17%) Azure Software Engineer
12 5 (4.17%) Software Engineer
13 4 (3.33%) Data Analyst
13 4 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
13 4 (3.33%) Site Engineer
13 4 (3.33%) TOGAF Architect
13 4 (3.33%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.67%) Kafka
2 15 (12.50%) PySpark
3 13 (10.83%) REST
4 12 (10.00%) Keycloak
5 7 (5.83%) .NET
6 6 (5.00%) ADO
6 6 (5.00%) ARM Templates
7 5 (4.17%) JSON
8 4 (3.33%) Pandas
9 3 (2.50%) FastAPI
9 3 (2.50%) Flask
9 3 (2.50%) NumPy
9 3 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.50%) SOAP
9 3 (2.50%) XML
9 3 (2.50%) YAML
10 2 (1.67%) React
10 2 (1.67%) Streamlit
11 1 (0.83%) Entity Framework
11 1 (0.83%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.67%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (9.17%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 8 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.50%) NHS
6 2 (1.67%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.67%) IoT
6 2 (1.67%) Wiki
7 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.83%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (55.83%) DevOps
2 64 (53.33%) ETL
3 57 (47.50%) Analytics
4 49 (40.83%) Data Modelling
4 49 (40.83%) Data Pipeline
5 48 (40.00%) Data Engineering
6 46 (38.33%) Business Intelligence
7 42 (35.00%) CI/CD
8 35 (29.17%) Data Governance
9 29 (24.17%) Agile
10 27 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (20.00%) Data Architecture
12 17 (14.17%) Data Integration
13 15 (12.50%) Migration
14 14 (11.67%) Batch Processing
15 13 (10.83%) AI
16 12 (10.00%) Containerisation
16 12 (10.00%) DataOps
16 12 (10.00%) Mentoring
17 11 (9.17%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 82 (68.33%) SQL
2 70 (58.33%) Python
3 15 (12.50%) C#
4 12 (10.00%) Go
5 11 (9.17%) T-SQL
6 9 (7.50%) Bicep
6 9 (7.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (5.83%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.17%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 18 (15.00%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.50%) Degree
6 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (23.33%) Data Quality
2 11 (9.17%) GDPR
3 8 (6.67%) QA
4 2 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.83%) Basel II
5 1 (0.83%) Basel III
5 1 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (11.67%) Docker
2 4 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 14 (11.67%) Terraform
3 3 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.83%) Control-M
4 1 (0.83%) Grafana
Vendors
1 51 (42.50%) Databricks
2 49 (40.83%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.83%) Informatica
4 4 (3.33%) Talend
5 3 (2.50%) Google
5 3 (2.50%) Oracle
6 2 (1.67%) Ab Initio
6 2 (1.67%) Foundry
6 2 (1.67%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.83%) Brio
7 1 (0.83%) RedGate
7 1 (0.83%) Splunk
7 1 (0.83%) Virgin Media