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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 205 276
Rank change year-on-year -91 +71 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 107 142 129
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.57% 1.02% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 3.23% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 94 100
10th Percentile £400 £373 £412
25th Percentile £413 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £638 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -
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 6,022 4,393 5,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.94% 31.70% 29.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,231 2,914 4,215
10th Percentile £238 £236 £215
25th Percentile £375 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 104 209
10th Percentile £13.18 £15.33 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.62 £20.24 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.72% +26.19% +9.60%
75th Percentile £57.25 £41.31 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.33 £68.75 £68.30
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.86
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.64% +9.70%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -21 47 £550 +15.79% 46
West Midlands -23 41 £550 +10.00% 29
North of England -58 22 £475 +18.75% 41
South East -78 20 £425 -29.17% 68
South West +2 17 £550 +15.79% 28
Scotland +12 9 £550 +22.22% 6
North East -10 8 £475 +32.68% 5
North West -33 7 £420 -6.67% 23
Yorkshire -50 7 £500 +21.21% 13
East Midlands -23 6 £478 +23.54% 17
East of England -21 3 £615 +53.75% 30
Wales -11 2 £410 -18.00% 11
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 (7.48%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.67%) Apache
3 4 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.87%) Confluence
5 1 (0.93%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.93%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 107 (100.00%) Azure
2 44 (41.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 42 (39.25%) Power Platform
4 35 (32.71%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (19.63%) GitHub
6 13 (12.15%) Serverless
7 12 (11.21%) Azure Functions
7 12 (11.21%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (11.21%) GCP
8 10 (9.35%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (8.41%) Azure Storage
10 8 (7.48%) AWS
10 8 (7.48%) Azure AKS
10 8 (7.48%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (7.48%) Snowflake
11 6 (5.61%) Azure API Management
11 6 (5.61%) Power Automate
12 5 (4.67%) Entra ID
12 5 (4.67%) SaaS
13 4 (3.74%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (30.84%) Power BI
2 32 (29.91%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (25.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 20 (18.69%) Data Lake
5 14 (13.08%) SQL Server
6 12 (11.21%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (11.21%) Metadata
6 12 (11.21%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (10.28%) Delta Lake
8 10 (9.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (4.67%) Data Mining
10 4 (3.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.74%) Big Data
10 4 (3.74%) Power Query
10 4 (3.74%) Relational Database
10 4 (3.74%) Tableau
11 3 (2.80%) MongoDB
11 3 (2.80%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (2.80%) Spark SQL
11 3 (2.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (9.35%) Git
2 3 (2.80%) JIRA
3 1 (0.93%) Poetry
3 1 (0.93%) Pylint
3 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (30.84%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (8.41%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.61%) Finance
4 5 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.74%) Law
6 2 (1.87%) Banking
6 2 (1.87%) Legal
7 1 (0.93%) Agriculture
7 1 (0.93%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.93%) Marketing
7 1 (0.93%) Retail
7 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (41.12%) Data Engineer
2 22 (20.56%) Architect
3 21 (19.63%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (16.82%) Senior
5 14 (13.08%) Senior Data Engineer
6 12 (11.21%) Azure Data Engineer
7 11 (10.28%) Data Architect
8 9 (8.41%) Azure Architect
8 9 (8.41%) Lead
9 8 (7.48%) Developer
9 8 (7.48%) Enterprise Architect
10 7 (6.54%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 7 (6.54%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (4.67%) Azure Software Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Business Architect
11 5 (4.67%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) TOGAF Architect
11 5 (4.67%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
12 4 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.74%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.69%) Kafka
2 13 (12.15%) PySpark
2 13 (12.15%) REST
3 12 (11.21%) Keycloak
4 7 (6.54%) .NET
5 6 (5.61%) ADO
6 5 (4.67%) ARM Templates
7 3 (2.80%) FastAPI
7 3 (2.80%) Flask
7 3 (2.80%) JSON
7 3 (2.80%) NumPy
7 3 (2.80%) Pandas
7 3 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.80%) SOAP
8 2 (1.87%) React
9 1 (0.93%) Entity Framework
9 1 (0.93%) Express.js
9 1 (0.93%) Node.js
9 1 (0.93%) pytest
9 1 (0.93%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.08%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (8.41%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.61%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.67%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.80%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.80%) NHS
7 2 (1.87%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.87%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.87%) IoT
8 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.93%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.93%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (57.01%) DevOps
2 60 (56.07%) ETL
3 48 (44.86%) Analytics
4 44 (41.12%) Data Modelling
5 42 (39.25%) Business Intelligence
5 42 (39.25%) Data Pipeline
6 38 (35.51%) CI/CD
7 34 (31.78%) Data Engineering
8 30 (28.04%) Data Governance
9 27 (25.23%) Agile
10 25 (23.36%) Data Architecture
11 21 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (14.95%) Data Integration
13 14 (13.08%) Containerisation
13 14 (13.08%) Migration
14 12 (11.21%) AI
14 12 (11.21%) Batch Processing
14 12 (11.21%) DataOps
15 10 (9.35%) Enterprise Architecture
15 10 (9.35%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (65.42%) SQL
2 63 (58.88%) Python
3 12 (11.21%) Go
4 11 (10.28%) C#
5 9 (8.41%) T-SQL
6 7 (6.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (6.54%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.61%) Bicep
8 3 (2.80%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.87%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.87%) R
9 2 (1.87%) Scala
10 1 (0.93%) C++
10 1 (0.93%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.69%) Azure Certification
3 18 (16.82%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.74%) Degree
6 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.93%) PMP
7 1 (0.93%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (21.50%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.41%) GDPR
3 6 (5.61%) QA
4 3 (2.80%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.93%) Basel II
5 1 (0.93%) Basel III
5 1 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (14.02%) Docker
2 4 (3.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (14.95%) Kubernetes
2 12 (11.21%) Terraform
3 3 (2.80%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 46 (42.99%) Databricks
2 45 (42.06%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.61%) Informatica
4 4 (3.74%) Talend
5 3 (2.80%) Google
5 3 (2.80%) Oracle
6 2 (1.87%) Ab Initio
6 2 (1.87%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.93%) Brio
7 1 (0.93%) RedGate
7 1 (0.93%) Virgin Media