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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 292 233
Rank change year-on-year -3 -59 +31
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 175 80 139
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.53% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.14% 1.69% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 60 112
10th Percentile £400 £405 £419
25th Percentile £438 £413 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £638
90th Percentile £660 £601 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £21.50 - -
75th Percentile £21.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £34.00 -
% change year-on-year -36.76% - -

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 8,188 4,747 4,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.49% 31.20% 27.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,277 3,158 3,245
10th Percentile £268 £250 £250
25th Percentile £405 £380 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £590 £564 £600
90th Percentile £675 £641 £670
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 174 148
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.82 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.95 £17.24
Median hourly rate £32.50 £19.27 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +68.66% -31.79% +4.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £39.86 £61.98
90th Percentile £83.63 £67.18 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.75 £29.07 £30.00
% change year-on-year +16.08% -3.10% -14.29%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -6 77 £500 - 19
West Midlands -10 57 £496 -3.17% 12
North of England -46 38 £485 -3.00% 19
South East -61 28 £500 +17.65% 35
East Midlands -2 20 £500 +9.29% 7
North West -51 19 £550 +10.00% 12
Yorkshire -30 18 £475 +18.75% 6
South West -31 11 £500 -3.85% 9
Scotland -28 9 £544 -1.14% 6
East of England -20 8 £588 +10.85% 8
Wales -12 5 £450 -10.00% 4
North East -39 1 £450 -18.18% 1
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 (4.57%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (4.57%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.00%) Apache
3 3 (1.71%) Confluence
4 2 (1.14%) nginx
4 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.57%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.14%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.57%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 175 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (36.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 63 (36.00%) Power Platform
4 33 (18.86%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (12.57%) Azure Databricks
6 18 (10.29%) Snowflake
7 17 (9.71%) Serverless
8 16 (9.14%) GitHub
8 16 (9.14%) Microsoft Purview
9 13 (7.43%) Entra ID
10 12 (6.86%) Azure Storage
11 11 (6.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 11 (6.29%) Azure Functions
11 11 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (6.29%) SaaS
12 10 (5.71%) AWS
13 9 (5.14%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (5.14%) IaaS
13 9 (5.14%) PaaS
14 8 (4.57%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.86%) Firewall
2 1 (0.57%) DNS
2 1 (0.57%) Network Security
2 1 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (36.00%) Power BI
2 49 (28.00%) Data Lake
2 49 (28.00%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (18.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (17.14%) SQL Server
5 16 (9.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 15 (8.57%) Delta Lake
7 14 (8.00%) Metadata
8 11 (6.29%) NoSQL
9 9 (5.14%) Relational Database
10 7 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (2.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.86%) Data Vault
11 5 (2.86%) Oracle Database
12 4 (2.29%) DataStage
12 4 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (2.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (1.71%) Big Data
13 3 (1.71%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (1.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 22 (12.57%) Git
2 3 (1.71%) JIRA
3 2 (1.14%) Newman
3 2 (1.14%) Postman
4 1 (0.57%) GitLab
4 1 (0.57%) MLflow
4 1 (0.57%) Toad
General
1 38 (21.71%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.57%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 24 (13.71%) Finance
5 11 (6.29%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.00%) Retail
7 5 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.86%) Law
8 4 (2.29%) Military
9 3 (1.71%) Marketing
10 2 (1.14%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.14%) Billing
10 2 (1.14%) Local Government
11 1 (0.57%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.57%) Banking
11 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 71 (40.57%) Data Engineer
2 30 (17.14%) Senior
3 24 (13.71%) Azure Engineer
4 23 (13.14%) Architect
5 21 (12.00%) Lead
5 21 (12.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 20 (11.43%) Data Architect
7 13 (7.43%) Azure Data Engineer
8 11 (6.29%) Analyst
9 10 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (5.14%) Data Analyst
11 8 (4.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (3.43%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (3.43%) Databricks Engineer
13 6 (3.43%) Developer
14 5 (2.86%) Azure Architect
14 5 (2.86%) Integration Engineer
15 4 (2.29%) DBA
15 4 (2.29%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.57%) PySpark
2 20 (11.43%) Terraform
3 14 (8.00%) Kafka
4 4 (2.29%) .NET
4 4 (2.29%) YAML
5 3 (1.71%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.71%) JSON
5 3 (1.71%) Pandas
5 3 (1.71%) Streamlit
6 2 (1.14%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.14%) Great Expectations
6 2 (1.14%) pytest
6 2 (1.14%) React
6 2 (1.14%) XML
6 2 (1.14%) XML Schema
7 1 (0.57%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.57%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.57%) CSS
7 1 (0.57%) HTML
7 1 (0.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.86%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.71%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.57%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.57%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.00%) IoT
4 7 (4.00%) SCADA
5 6 (3.43%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.29%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.14%) Life Science
7 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.14%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.14%) PMI
7 2 (1.14%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.57%) NHS
8 1 (0.57%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.00%) Linux
2 5 (2.86%) Windows
3 4 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.71%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.14%) VMS
6 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (60.00%) ETL
2 98 (56.00%) Data Modelling
3 86 (49.14%) Analytics
4 85 (48.57%) Data Pipeline
5 65 (37.14%) Business Intelligence
6 62 (35.43%) CI/CD
7 57 (32.57%) Migration
8 55 (31.43%) DevOps
9 54 (30.86%) Data Engineering
10 44 (25.14%) Data Integration
11 39 (22.29%) Data Architecture
11 39 (22.29%) Data Governance
11 39 (22.29%) Validation
12 34 (19.43%) Agile
12 34 (19.43%) Lakehouse
13 33 (18.86%) Data Transformation
14 31 (17.71%) AI
15 28 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
16 27 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
17 25 (14.29%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 136 (77.71%) SQL
2 67 (38.29%) Python
3 19 (10.86%) PowerShell
4 16 (9.14%) T-SQL
5 8 (4.57%) Bicep
6 7 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.71%) Bash
7 3 (1.71%) C#
8 2 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.57%) Ada
9 1 (0.57%) Java
9 1 (0.57%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.57%) R
9 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (20.57%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.57%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.29%) Azure Certification
4 10 (5.71%) Degree
5 5 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.14%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.14%) CAPM
8 2 (1.14%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (39.43%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.00%) GDPR
3 11 (6.29%) QA
4 7 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.57%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.57%) GxP
6 1 (0.57%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.57%) NIST
6 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (5.71%) Docker
2 4 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.29%) Grafana
2 4 (2.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.57%) Ansible
3 1 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.57%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 102 (58.29%) Databricks
2 79 (45.14%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.29%) Informatica
3 11 (6.29%) SAP
4 8 (4.57%) Oracle
5 5 (2.86%) Cognos
5 5 (2.86%) IBM
6 4 (2.29%) Google
6 4 (2.29%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.29%) Netezza
6 4 (2.29%) Talend
7 3 (1.71%) RedGate
7 3 (1.71%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.14%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.14%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.57%) Denodo
9 1 (0.57%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.57%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.57%) TIBCO