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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 280 255
Rank change year-on-year -24 -25 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 175 79 135
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.53% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.17% 1.70% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 55 119
10th Percentile £400 £389 £405
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £520 £613
90th Percentile £650 £545 £650
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +1.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 - -

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 8,071 4,654 5,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.86% 31.41% 26.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,226 3,126 3,717
10th Percentile £300 £250 £234
25th Percentile £403 £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 £666
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 481 196 250
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £15.85
Median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.73% -5.65% -24.47%
75th Percentile £70.00 £35.07 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £66.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.76 £22.00
% change year-on-year +29.68% +26.18% -37.14%

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 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 18 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 -8 73 £500 +12.36% 14
West Midlands -21 54 £496 +5.59% 11
North of England -55 42 £500 - 9
South East -50 25 £575 +25.00% 17
North West -41 24 £500 - 2
East Midlands +2 19 £503 +26.02% 3
South West -26 19 £500 - 3
Yorkshire -32 14 £500 +25.00% 5
East of England -17 9 £589 +11.08% 2
Scotland -7 8 £613 +56.85%
Wales -10 4 £450 -10.00% 3
North East - 4 £500 - 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 13 (7.43%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.14%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (4.57%) Apache
4 5 (2.86%) Confluence
5 1 (0.57%) JBoss
5 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.14%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 175 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (36.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 64 (36.57%) Power Platform
3 30 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (10.86%) Serverless
5 18 (10.29%) Snowflake
6 16 (9.14%) GitHub
7 14 (8.00%) Azure Functions
8 13 (7.43%) AWS
8 13 (7.43%) Microsoft Purview
9 12 (6.86%) Azure Storage
10 10 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (5.14%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (5.14%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (4.57%) dbt
12 8 (4.57%) Entra ID
12 8 (4.57%) GCP
13 7 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (3.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.00%) Firewall
2 3 (1.71%) Network Security
3 1 (0.57%) DNS
3 1 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (33.14%) Power BI
2 47 (26.86%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (21.71%) Data Lake
4 34 (19.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 30 (17.14%) SQL Server
6 19 (10.86%) Delta Lake
7 18 (10.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (6.29%) Metadata
9 6 (3.43%) Big Data
9 6 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (3.43%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.86%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.29%) Data Vault
11 4 (2.29%) Oracle Database
11 4 (2.29%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (2.29%) Spark SQL
12 3 (1.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (1.71%) Star Schema
13 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 25 (14.29%) Git
2 5 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (0.57%) MLflow
3 1 (0.57%) Newman
3 1 (0.57%) Postman
3 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 36 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 20 (11.43%) Finance
5 9 (5.14%) Retail
6 7 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.43%) Law
7 6 (3.43%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.71%) Marketing
9 2 (1.14%) Billing
9 2 (1.14%) Military
10 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.57%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.57%) Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Legal
10 1 (0.57%) Local Government
10 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Police
10 1 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (50.86%) Data Engineer
2 33 (18.86%) Senior
3 25 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 24 (13.71%) Architect
4 24 (13.71%) Senior Data Engineer
5 23 (13.14%) Lead
6 20 (11.43%) Azure Data Engineer
7 19 (10.86%) Data Architect
8 9 (5.14%) Analyst
8 9 (5.14%) Developer
9 7 (4.00%) Data Analyst
10 6 (3.43%) Azure Architect
10 6 (3.43%) Lead Data Engineer
10 6 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (2.86%) Integration Engineer
11 5 (2.86%) Project Manager
12 4 (2.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 4 (2.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (2.29%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.00%) PySpark
2 14 (8.00%) Kafka
3 6 (3.43%) .NET
3 6 (3.43%) Pandas
3 6 (3.43%) YAML
4 5 (2.86%) ARM Templates
4 5 (2.86%) JSON
5 4 (2.29%) REST
5 4 (2.29%) Streamlit
6 3 (1.71%) React
6 3 (1.71%) XML
7 2 (1.14%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.14%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.14%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (1.14%) CSS
7 2 (1.14%) HTML
7 2 (1.14%) Jest
7 2 (1.14%) Next.js
7 2 (1.14%) Playwright
7 2 (1.14%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.71%) Data Structures
2 10 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (5.14%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.86%) SCADA
5 4 (2.29%) Data Fabric
5 4 (2.29%) IoT
5 4 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.14%) Life Science
7 2 (1.14%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.14%) Wiki
8 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.57%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.57%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.29%) Linux
1 4 (2.29%) Windows
2 3 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.71%) Ubuntu
2 3 (1.71%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (58.86%) ETL
2 101 (57.71%) Data Modelling
3 90 (51.43%) Data Pipeline
4 85 (48.57%) Analytics
5 67 (38.29%) CI/CD
5 67 (38.29%) Data Engineering
6 61 (34.86%) Business Intelligence
7 56 (32.00%) DevOps
8 40 (22.86%) Migration
9 37 (21.14%) Data Architecture
10 36 (20.57%) Data Governance
11 34 (19.43%) Agile
12 33 (18.86%) AI
13 32 (18.29%) Data Integration
13 32 (18.29%) Data Transformation
13 32 (18.29%) Validation
14 30 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (14.86%) Decision-Making
16 23 (13.14%) Observability
16 23 (13.14%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 138 (78.86%) SQL
2 81 (46.29%) Python
3 19 (10.86%) PowerShell
4 17 (9.71%) T-SQL
5 11 (6.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 9 (5.14%) Bicep
6 9 (5.14%) C#
7 2 (1.14%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.57%) R
8 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (16.57%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.29%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.71%) Degree
4 7 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.71%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (38.86%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.00%) GDPR
3 12 (6.86%) QA
4 6 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.57%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.57%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (3.43%) Docker
2 3 (1.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (10.29%) Terraform
2 6 (3.43%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.29%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.14%) Grafana
5 1 (0.57%) Control-M
5 1 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.57%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 94 (53.71%) Databricks
2 70 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.14%) Informatica
4 7 (4.00%) SAP
5 6 (3.43%) Oracle
6 4 (2.29%) Talend
7 3 (1.71%) RedGate
7 3 (1.71%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.14%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.14%) Foundry
8 2 (1.14%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.14%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.14%) Splunk
9 1 (0.57%) Cognos
9 1 (0.57%) Denodo
9 1 (0.57%) HP
9 1 (0.57%) IBM
9 1 (0.57%) Infor
9 1 (0.57%) Red Hat