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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 208 274
Rank change year-on-year -100 +66 +15
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 97 151 127
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.54% 1.01% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 3.23% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 104 98
10th Percentile £399 £413 £411
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £639 £651 £677
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.44%
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 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 5,826 4,679 6,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.27% 31.21% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,027 3,070 4,423
10th Percentile £239 £238 £220
25th Percentile £379 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 109 191
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.95 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.31 £20.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +26.19% +7.69%
75th Percentile £53.19 £42.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.50% +11.00% +11.11%

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 December 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 18 December 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 -20 43 £550 - 28
West Midlands -19 35 £550 - 21
North of England -58 18 £475 +6.74% 31
South East -84 16 £488 -21.69% 52
South West +4 15 £550 +15.79% 17
Scotland +9 9 £550 +22.22% 8
North West -23 7 £420 -9.19% 19
North East -6 6 £525 +46.65% 2
East Midlands -12 6 £478 +0.47% 7
East of England -15 6 £625 - 15
Yorkshire -43 5 £438 -7.89% 10
Wales -1 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 8 (8.25%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.12%) Apache
3 3 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.03%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (1.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.03%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (1.03%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 97 (100.00%) Azure
2 44 (45.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 39 (40.21%) Power Platform
4 24 (24.74%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (17.53%) Dynamics 365
6 15 (15.46%) GitHub
7 11 (11.34%) GCP
7 11 (11.34%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (10.31%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (9.28%) Serverless
10 8 (8.25%) Azure Functions
11 7 (7.22%) AWS
12 6 (6.19%) Power Automate
12 6 (6.19%) Snowflake
13 5 (5.15%) Azure AKS
13 5 (5.15%) SaaS
14 4 (4.12%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (4.12%) Collibra
14 4 (4.12%) IaaS
14 4 (4.12%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (34.02%) Power BI
2 29 (29.90%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (19.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 19 (19.59%) Data Lake
4 15 (15.46%) SQL Server
5 13 (13.40%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (12.37%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (11.34%) Metadata
8 8 (8.25%) Delta Lake
8 8 (8.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (5.15%) Data Mining
9 5 (5.15%) Relational Database
9 5 (5.15%) Tableau
10 4 (4.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (3.09%) MongoDB
11 3 (3.09%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (3.09%) Spark SQL
11 3 (3.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (2.06%) NoSQL
12 2 (2.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (10.31%) 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 29 (29.90%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.19%) Finance
3 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (4.12%) Law
5 2 (2.06%) Marketing
6 1 (1.03%) Agriculture
6 1 (1.03%) Automotive
6 1 (1.03%) Banking
6 1 (1.03%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 45 (46.39%) Data Engineer
2 21 (21.65%) Senior
3 19 (19.59%) Architect
4 16 (16.49%) Senior Data Engineer
5 15 (15.46%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (11.34%) Azure Data Engineer
6 11 (11.34%) Data Architect
7 9 (9.28%) Developer
8 8 (8.25%) Dynamics 365 Architect
8 8 (8.25%) Enterprise Architect
8 8 (8.25%) Lead
9 6 (6.19%) Azure Architect
10 5 (5.15%) Azure Developer
10 5 (5.15%) Business Architect
10 5 (5.15%) TOGAF Architect
10 5 (5.15%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
11 4 (4.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.12%) Site Engineer
11 4 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.59%) Kafka
2 12 (12.37%) Keycloak
3 11 (11.34%) PySpark
4 7 (7.22%) REST
5 6 (6.19%) ADO
6 3 (3.09%) FastAPI
6 3 (3.09%) Flask
6 3 (3.09%) NumPy
6 3 (3.09%) Pandas
6 3 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (3.09%) SOAP
7 2 (2.06%) JSON
8 1 (1.03%) .NET
8 1 (1.03%) Express.js
8 1 (1.03%) Node.js
8 1 (1.03%) pytest
8 1 (1.03%) RESTful
8 1 (1.03%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (1.03%) XML
8 1 (1.03%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.37%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (8.25%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.19%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.09%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.09%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.09%) NHS
6 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.06%) IoT
6 2 (2.06%) Replication
7 1 (1.03%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.03%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (51.55%) ETL
2 49 (50.52%) DevOps
3 42 (43.30%) Analytics
3 42 (43.30%) Data Modelling
4 41 (42.27%) Business Intelligence
5 35 (36.08%) Data Pipeline
6 31 (31.96%) Data Engineering
7 28 (28.87%) Data Governance
8 26 (26.80%) CI/CD
8 26 (26.80%) Data Architecture
9 25 (25.77%) Agile
10 17 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (15.46%) Data Integration
12 14 (14.43%) Migration
13 12 (12.37%) Batch Processing
13 12 (12.37%) Containerisation
13 12 (12.37%) DataOps
14 10 (10.31%) Data Migration
14 10 (10.31%) Enterprise Architecture
15 9 (9.28%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 61 (62.89%) SQL
2 51 (52.58%) Python
3 12 (12.37%) Go
4 7 (7.22%) T-SQL
5 5 (5.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (4.12%) C#
7 3 (3.09%) Bicep
7 3 (3.09%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.06%) Java
8 2 (2.06%) R
8 2 (2.06%) Scala
9 1 (1.03%) C++
9 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (19.59%) Azure Certification
2 18 (18.56%) Security Cleared
3 17 (17.53%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.12%) Degree
4 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.03%) PMP
6 1 (1.03%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.59%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.25%) GDPR
3 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.09%) QA
4 1 (1.03%) Basel II
4 1 (1.03%) Basel III
System Software
1 12 (12.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (17.53%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (41.24%) Microsoft
2 36 (37.11%) Databricks
3 6 (6.19%) Informatica
4 4 (4.12%) Google
4 4 (4.12%) Oracle
4 4 (4.12%) Talend
5 2 (2.06%) Ab Initio
5 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.03%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.03%) Brio
6 1 (1.03%) RedGate
6 1 (1.03%) Virgin Media