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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 218 262
Rank change year-on-year -66 +44 +46
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 84 155 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.87% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.72% 3.15% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 124 133
10th Percentile £405 £419 £413
25th Percentile £413 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £547 £638 £675
90th Percentile £611 £650 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% -

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 4,891 4,915 6,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.62% 27.60% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,283 3,239 4,896
10th Percentile £250 £246 £225
25th Percentile £380 £392 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £572 £600 £600
90th Percentile £644 £666 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 139 241
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.35 £18.17 £16.50
Median hourly rate £19.27 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.77% +11.11% +40.30%
75th Percentile £36.00 £66.74 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £28.75 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.26% -11.43% +62.79%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Data Factory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -7 30 £503 -4.29% 13
West Midlands -9 22 £525 -8.70% 12
South East -31 20 £425 -32.00% 48
North of England -23 16 £500 +4.71% 23
North West -21 11 £500 +8.11% 9
East of England +10 7 £530 - 7
South West +6 6 £520 -3.26% 5
Scotland -4 5 £550 +23.94% 3
East Midlands -6 4 £458 +14.38% 1
Yorkshire -15 4 £400 -20.00% 8
Wales +2 2 £455 -9.00% 2
North East -3 1 £550 +59.42% 6
Azure Data Factory
UK

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.76%) Apache
2 4 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.19%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (7.14%) SAP PM
2 5 (5.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.19%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 84 (100.00%) Azure
2 36 (42.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 29 (34.52%) Power Platform
4 24 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 12 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (13.10%) Microsoft Purview
7 10 (11.90%) Azure AKS
7 10 (11.90%) Azure Storage
8 9 (10.71%) IaaS
8 9 (10.71%) PaaS
9 8 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (9.52%) Collibra
10 7 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (8.33%) GitHub
11 6 (7.14%) AWS
11 6 (7.14%) Snowflake
12 5 (5.95%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (5.95%) GCP
12 5 (5.95%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (35.71%) Azure SQL Database
2 29 (34.52%) Power BI
3 22 (26.19%) Data Lake
4 19 (22.62%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 13 (15.48%) Delta Lake
7 7 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (7.14%) Big Data
8 6 (7.14%) GIS
8 6 (7.14%) Oracle Database
8 6 (7.14%) Tableau
9 4 (4.76%) Metadata
9 4 (4.76%) NoSQL
10 3 (3.57%) Data Mining
10 3 (3.57%) Dremio
10 3 (3.57%) Relational Database
11 2 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (2.38%) DynamoDB
11 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
11 2 (2.38%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Git
2 3 (3.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (3.57%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.19%) ERwin
3 1 (1.19%) JIRA
3 1 (1.19%) Poetry
3 1 (1.19%) Postman
3 1 (1.19%) Pylint
3 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.14%) Finance
4 5 (5.95%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.57%) Retail
6 2 (2.38%) Marketing
7 1 (1.19%) Agriculture
7 1 (1.19%) Automotive
7 1 (1.19%) Banking
7 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (34.52%) Data Engineer
2 17 (20.24%) Azure Engineer
3 16 (19.05%) Architect
4 11 (13.10%) Data Architect
5 10 (11.90%) Developer
6 9 (10.71%) Azure Data Engineer
7 8 (9.52%) Analyst
7 8 (9.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 8 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (9.52%) Site Engineer
7 8 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (8.33%) Azure Architect
9 6 (7.14%) Senior
10 5 (5.95%) Data Migration Specialist
10 5 (5.95%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 5 (5.95%) Migration Specialist
10 5 (5.95%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (4.76%) Data Scientist
12 3 (3.57%) TOGAF Architect
12 3 (3.57%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.10%) Kafka
2 10 (11.90%) ADO
3 8 (9.52%) PySpark
4 2 (2.38%) .NET
4 2 (2.38%) pytest
4 2 (2.38%) scikit-learn
4 2 (2.38%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (1.19%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.19%) Express.js
5 1 (1.19%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.19%) MERN Stack
5 1 (1.19%) Node.js
5 1 (1.19%) Pandas
5 1 (1.19%) Prophet
5 1 (1.19%) React
5 1 (1.19%) Streamlit
5 1 (1.19%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.19%) XGBoost
5 1 (1.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 6 (7.14%) IoT
1 6 (7.14%) SCADA
2 5 (5.95%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.57%) Replication
3 3 (3.57%) Smart Meter
4 2 (2.38%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) NHS
5 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (44.05%) Data Modelling
2 34 (40.48%) Analytics
3 33 (39.29%) DevOps
4 31 (36.90%) Business Intelligence
5 29 (34.52%) ETL
6 25 (29.76%) CI/CD
6 25 (29.76%) Data Governance
7 20 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
8 18 (21.43%) Data Engineering
9 17 (20.24%) Data Integration
10 15 (17.86%) Agile
11 13 (15.48%) Machine Learning
12 12 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
12 12 (14.29%) Data Transformation
13 10 (11.90%) Migration
14 9 (10.71%) Data Architecture
14 9 (10.71%) Data Migration
14 9 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 8 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (9.52%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 58 (69.05%) SQL
2 30 (35.71%) Python
3 7 (8.33%) T-SQL
4 6 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (5.95%) Bicep
6 4 (4.76%) R
7 3 (3.57%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.38%) Java
8 2 (2.38%) Scala
9 1 (1.19%) C#
9 1 (1.19%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (13.10%) Azure Certification
2 7 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.76%) Degree
3 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.38%) MCSE
6 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.19%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.19%) PMP
6 1 (1.19%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.24%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.33%) GDPR
3 5 (5.95%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.57%) QA
5 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (13.10%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (1.19%) Grafana
3 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (51.19%) Databricks
2 37 (44.05%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.33%) Informatica
3 7 (8.33%) Oracle
4 6 (7.14%) SAP
5 4 (4.76%) Google
6 2 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.19%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.19%) Snow
7 1 (1.19%) Talend