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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 280 255
Rank change year-on-year -22 -25 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 171 81 138
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.55% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.13% 1.74% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 57 122
10th Percentile £401 £375 £405
25th Percentile £425 £413 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £520 £622
90th Percentile £650 £543 £651
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 8,010 4,650 5,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.78% 31.50% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,198 3,136 3,759
10th Percentile £289 £250 £231
25th Percentile £402 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £594
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £516 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.20% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 483 192 268
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £15.88
Median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.73% -10.14% -21.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £34.62 £46.18
90th Percentile £86.73 £66.38 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
% change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -36.29%

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 July 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 July 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 -12 70 £500 +13.64% 20
West Midlands -29 51 £500 +6.38% 15
North of England -47 43 £500 - 18
North West -34 24 £500 - 7
South East -59 24 £575 +25.00% 26
East Midlands +1 19 £503 +29.68% 5
South West -22 18 £500 - 7
Yorkshire -43 14 £500 +25.00% 9
East of England -19 9 £589 +11.08% 12
Scotland -5 8 £613 +56.85% 7
North East - 5 £450 - 2
Wales -8 4 £450 -10.00% 7
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 12 (7.02%) Apache Spark
2 10 (5.85%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.09%) Apache
4 5 (2.92%) Confluence
5 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 171 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (37.43%) Power Platform
3 60 (35.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 27 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (11.70%) Serverless
6 17 (9.94%) GitHub
6 17 (9.94%) Snowflake
7 15 (8.77%) Azure Functions
8 13 (7.60%) AWS
8 13 (7.60%) Azure Storage
9 10 (5.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (5.85%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (4.68%) dbt
11 8 (4.68%) GCP
12 7 (4.09%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (4.09%) Entra ID
13 6 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (3.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.09%) Firewall
2 3 (1.75%) Network Security
3 1 (0.58%) DNS
3 1 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (33.33%) Power BI
2 45 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (21.64%) Data Lake
4 35 (20.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 30 (17.54%) SQL Server
6 19 (11.11%) Delta Lake
7 15 (8.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (5.85%) Metadata
9 7 (4.09%) Big Data
10 6 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (3.51%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.92%) NoSQL
12 4 (2.34%) Oracle Database
12 4 (2.34%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (2.34%) Spark SQL
13 3 (1.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (1.75%) Star Schema
14 2 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (1.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 25 (14.62%) Git
2 5 (2.92%) JIRA
3 1 (0.58%) MLflow
3 1 (0.58%) Newman
3 1 (0.58%) Postman
3 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 33 (19.30%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (11.70%) Finance
4 19 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.26%) Retail
6 7 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.51%) Law
7 6 (3.51%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.75%) Marketing
9 2 (1.17%) Billing
9 2 (1.17%) Military
10 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.58%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.58%) Banking
10 1 (0.58%) Legal
10 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Police
10 1 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 86 (50.29%) Data Engineer
2 33 (19.30%) Senior
3 25 (14.62%) Azure Engineer
4 24 (14.04%) Senior Data Engineer
5 23 (13.45%) Lead
6 22 (12.87%) Architect
7 19 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
8 18 (10.53%) Data Architect
9 9 (5.26%) Analyst
9 9 (5.26%) Developer
10 7 (4.09%) Data Analyst
11 6 (3.51%) Azure Architect
11 6 (3.51%) Lead Data Engineer
12 5 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (2.92%) Integration Engineer
12 5 (2.92%) Project Manager
12 5 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
13 4 (2.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 4 (2.34%) DBA
13 4 (2.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.79%) PySpark
2 14 (8.19%) Kafka
3 7 (4.09%) .NET
4 6 (3.51%) ARM Templates
4 6 (3.51%) Pandas
4 6 (3.51%) YAML
5 4 (2.34%) JSON
5 4 (2.34%) REST
5 4 (2.34%) Streamlit
6 3 (1.75%) React
6 3 (1.75%) XML
7 2 (1.17%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.17%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.17%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (1.17%) CSS
7 2 (1.17%) HTML
7 2 (1.17%) Jest
7 2 (1.17%) Next.js
7 2 (1.17%) Playwright
7 2 (1.17%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.36%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.85%) Data Structures
2 10 (5.85%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.92%) SCADA
5 4 (2.34%) IoT
5 4 (2.34%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.75%) Data Fabric
6 3 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.17%) Life Science
7 2 (1.17%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.17%) Wiki
8 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.58%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.34%) Linux
1 4 (2.34%) Windows
2 3 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.75%) Ubuntu
2 3 (1.75%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (59.06%) ETL
2 98 (57.31%) Data Modelling
3 89 (52.05%) Data Pipeline
4 84 (49.12%) Analytics
5 67 (39.18%) CI/CD
6 63 (36.84%) Data Engineering
7 58 (33.92%) Business Intelligence
8 52 (30.41%) DevOps
9 40 (23.39%) Migration
10 36 (21.05%) Data Architecture
10 36 (21.05%) Data Governance
11 34 (19.88%) AI
12 33 (19.30%) Agile
13 32 (18.71%) Data Transformation
13 32 (18.71%) Validation
14 31 (18.13%) Data Integration
15 30 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
16 25 (14.62%) Decision-Making
17 24 (14.04%) Performance Tuning
18 23 (13.45%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 136 (79.53%) SQL
2 82 (47.95%) Python
3 18 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 15 (8.77%) T-SQL
5 11 (6.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (5.85%) C#
7 8 (4.68%) Bicep
8 3 (1.75%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (16.37%) Security Cleared
2 19 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.85%) Degree
4 7 (4.09%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.17%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (40.35%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.19%) GDPR
3 12 (7.02%) QA
4 6 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.58%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.58%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.92%) Docker
2 3 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (10.53%) Terraform
2 5 (2.92%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.34%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.17%) Grafana
5 1 (0.58%) Control-M
5 1 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.58%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 93 (54.39%) Databricks
2 67 (39.18%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.68%) Informatica
4 7 (4.09%) SAP
5 6 (3.51%) Oracle
6 4 (2.34%) Talend
7 3 (1.75%) RedGate
7 3 (1.75%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.17%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.17%) Foundry
8 2 (1.17%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.17%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.17%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.17%) Splunk
9 1 (0.58%) Cognos
9 1 (0.58%) HP
9 1 (0.58%) Infor