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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 220 274
Rank change year-on-year -96 +54 +20
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 95 148 136
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.93% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 3.01% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 104 106
10th Percentile £403 £413 £406
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -2.05% -
75th Percentile £606 £638 £647
90th Percentile £645 £651 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -1.12%
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 5,828 4,921 6,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.50% 30.78% 31.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,008 3,169 4,562
10th Percentile £225 £250 £220
25th Percentile £375 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £654 £675 £683
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 126 213
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.88 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.56 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.84 £27.24 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -16.15% +29.39% +9.18%
75th Percentile £49.38 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.90 £70.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.15 £30.00 £25.38
% change year-on-year -12.83% +18.20% +12.80%

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 6 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 6 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 -17 45 £550 +4.76% 18
West Midlands -14 36 £550 +4.76% 14
North of England -53 15 £445 +4.71% 18
South West +4 14 £550 +15.79% 3
South East -72 13 £450 -27.42% 57
Scotland +8 9 £550 +22.22% 6
East of England - 8 £550 - 5
East Midlands -10 7 £450 -5.31% 4
North West -26 7 £418 -6.18% 12
Yorkshire -37 5 £438 -9.33% 5
North East -5 3 £550 +53.63% 1
Wales -9 3 £410 -18.00%
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 7 (7.37%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.21%) Apache
3 3 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.05%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (1.05%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (7.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.05%) Endur
2 1 (1.05%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (1.05%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) Azure
2 41 (43.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 37 (38.95%) Power Platform
4 21 (22.11%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (17.89%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (13.68%) GitHub
7 11 (11.58%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (10.53%) GCP
9 9 (9.47%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (8.42%) AWS
10 8 (8.42%) Snowflake
11 7 (7.37%) Azure Functions
11 7 (7.37%) Serverless
12 6 (6.32%) Power Automate
13 5 (5.26%) Azure AKS
13 5 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (5.26%) SaaS
14 4 (4.21%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (4.21%) Collibra
14 4 (4.21%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (34.74%) Power BI
2 27 (28.42%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 18 (18.95%) Data Lake
5 14 (14.74%) SQL Server
6 12 (12.63%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (11.58%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (9.47%) Metadata
8 9 (9.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (7.37%) Delta Lake
10 5 (5.26%) Data Mining
11 4 (4.21%) Relational Database
11 4 (4.21%) Tableau
12 3 (3.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (3.16%) Big Data
12 3 (3.16%) MongoDB
12 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
12 3 (3.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (2.11%) Power Query
13 2 (2.11%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (8.42%) Git
2 1 (1.05%) JIRA
2 1 (1.05%) Poetry
2 1 (1.05%) Pylint
2 1 (1.05%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (30.53%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.32%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.26%) Finance
5 4 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Law
7 2 (2.11%) Marketing
8 1 (1.05%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.05%) Automotive
8 1 (1.05%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (46.32%) Data Engineer
2 19 (20.00%) Senior
3 18 (18.95%) Architect
4 15 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (15.79%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (11.58%) Azure Data Engineer
5 11 (11.58%) Data Architect
6 9 (9.47%) Developer
7 8 (8.42%) Azure Architect
7 8 (8.42%) Dynamics 365 Architect
7 8 (8.42%) Enterprise Architect
7 8 (8.42%) Lead
8 5 (5.26%) Business Architect
8 5 (5.26%) TOGAF Architect
8 5 (5.26%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
9 4 (4.21%) Azure Developer
9 4 (4.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Site Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.95%) Kafka
2 11 (11.58%) Keycloak
3 9 (9.47%) PySpark
4 6 (6.32%) ADO
4 6 (6.32%) REST
5 3 (3.16%) FastAPI
5 3 (3.16%) Flask
5 3 (3.16%) NumPy
5 3 (3.16%) Pandas
5 3 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (3.16%) SOAP
6 2 (2.11%) pytest
7 1 (1.05%) FHIR
7 1 (1.05%) MERN Stack
7 1 (1.05%) Node.js
7 1 (1.05%) React
7 1 (1.05%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.05%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (1.05%) Streamlit
7 1 (1.05%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.63%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (9.47%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.16%) NHS
4 3 (3.16%) Replication
5 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.05%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.05%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.05%) IoT
6 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (47.37%) DevOps
1 45 (47.37%) ETL
2 41 (43.16%) Analytics
3 39 (41.05%) Business Intelligence
4 37 (38.95%) Data Modelling
5 32 (33.68%) Data Pipeline
6 28 (29.47%) Data Engineering
6 28 (29.47%) Data Governance
7 24 (25.26%) CI/CD
8 23 (24.21%) Data Architecture
9 22 (23.16%) Agile
10 16 (16.84%) Data Integration
11 15 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (13.68%) DataOps
13 12 (12.63%) Containerisation
13 12 (12.63%) Migration
14 11 (11.58%) Batch Processing
15 10 (10.53%) Data Migration
16 9 (9.47%) CRM
16 9 (9.47%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 56 (58.95%) SQL
2 47 (49.47%) Python
3 11 (11.58%) Go
4 6 (6.32%) T-SQL
5 5 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.16%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.11%) Bicep
7 2 (2.11%) Java
7 2 (2.11%) R
7 2 (2.11%) Scala
8 1 (1.05%) C#
8 1 (1.05%) C++
8 1 (1.05%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (18.95%) Azure Certification
1 18 (18.95%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.89%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.16%) Degree
5 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.05%) MCSE
6 1 (1.05%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.05%) PMP
6 1 (1.05%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.84%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.32%) GDPR
3 3 (3.16%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.11%) QA
System Software
1 12 (12.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (17.89%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (41.05%) Microsoft
2 36 (37.89%) Databricks
3 4 (4.21%) Google
3 4 (4.21%) Informatica
3 4 (4.21%) Talend
4 3 (3.16%) Oracle
5 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.05%) Brio
6 1 (1.05%) RedGate
6 1 (1.05%) Virgin Media