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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 291 224
Rank change year-on-year -16 -67 +37
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 177 88 155
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.62% 0.57% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.13% 1.77% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 66 124
10th Percentile £400 £403 £414
25th Percentile £428 £413 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year - -8.05% -5.43%
75th Percentile £592 £569 £638
90th Percentile £685 £619 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £550
% change year-on-year -1.48% -7.73% -4.35%
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 8,294 4,970 4,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.27% 32.11% 27.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,279 3,333 3,182
10th Percentile £263 £250 £250
25th Percentile £403 £380 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 161 132
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.75 £14.38
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.30 £19.78
Median hourly rate £31.13 £19.27 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.52% -41.61% +29.67%
75th Percentile £69.77 £40.65 £68.98
90th Percentile £82.43 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.45 £33.00
% change year-on-year +18.40% -16.82% -5.44%

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 24 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 24 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 -2 76 £500 -2.91% 35
West Midlands -13 55 £500 -9.09% 24
North of England -45 34 £475 - 38
South East -54 31 £500 +17.65% 53
East Midlands -1 21 £500 +9.29% 11
North West -40 19 £550 +12.82% 24
South West -28 16 £523 +0.48% 14
Yorkshire -24 14 £454 +13.44% 10
Scotland -20 11 £544 -1.14% 7
East of England -29 8 £588 +10.85% 9
Wales -8 5 £450 -1.10% 3
North East -45 1 £450 -2.70% 5
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 11 (6.21%) Apache Spark
2 10 (5.65%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (4.52%) Apache
4 2 (1.13%) Confluence
4 2 (1.13%) nginx
4 2 (1.13%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.56%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.13%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.56%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 177 (100.00%) Azure
2 65 (36.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 57 (32.20%) Power Platform
4 32 (18.08%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (10.73%) Azure Databricks
6 18 (10.17%) Snowflake
7 16 (9.04%) Entra ID
8 14 (7.91%) Microsoft Purview
9 13 (7.34%) SaaS
10 12 (6.78%) AWS
10 12 (6.78%) GitHub
10 12 (6.78%) Serverless
11 11 (6.21%) IaaS
12 10 (5.65%) Azure Storage
12 10 (5.65%) PaaS
13 9 (5.08%) Azure Functions
13 9 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (5.08%) GCP
14 8 (4.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.21%) Firewall
2 1 (0.56%) DNS
2 1 (0.56%) Network Security
2 1 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (32.20%) Power BI
2 53 (29.94%) Data Lake
3 46 (25.99%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (18.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 29 (16.38%) SQL Server
6 16 (9.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (7.91%) Metadata
8 11 (6.21%) Delta Lake
9 10 (5.65%) NoSQL
9 10 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (5.08%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (5.08%) Relational Database
11 6 (3.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 5 (2.82%) Big Data
12 5 (2.82%) Data Vault
13 4 (2.26%) DataStage
13 4 (2.26%) Hadoop
13 4 (2.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (1.13%) SAP BW
14 2 (1.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (11.86%) Git
2 2 (1.13%) JIRA
2 2 (1.13%) Newman
2 2 (1.13%) Postman
3 1 (0.56%) GitLab
3 1 (0.56%) MLflow
3 1 (0.56%) Toad
General
1 37 (20.90%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.82%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (13.56%) Finance
4 23 (12.99%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.34%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.95%) Retail
7 5 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.82%) Law
8 4 (2.26%) Military
9 3 (1.69%) Marketing
10 2 (1.13%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.13%) Banking
10 2 (1.13%) Billing
10 2 (1.13%) Local Government
11 1 (0.56%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 74 (41.81%) Data Engineer
2 33 (18.64%) Senior
3 25 (14.12%) Azure Engineer
4 23 (12.99%) Senior Data Engineer
5 21 (11.86%) Architect
5 21 (11.86%) Lead
6 19 (10.73%) Data Architect
7 12 (6.78%) Azure Data Engineer
7 12 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (5.65%) Analyst
8 10 (5.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.52%) Data Analyst
10 6 (3.39%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.39%) Databricks Engineer
10 6 (3.39%) Developer
11 5 (2.82%) Integration Engineer
12 4 (2.26%) DBA
12 4 (2.26%) Junior
12 4 (2.26%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.86%) PySpark
2 17 (9.60%) Terraform
3 16 (9.04%) Kafka
4 5 (2.82%) YAML
5 4 (2.26%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (1.69%) .NET
6 3 (1.69%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.69%) JSON
6 3 (1.69%) Keycloak
6 3 (1.69%) Pandas
6 3 (1.69%) Streamlit
7 2 (1.13%) Great Expectations
7 2 (1.13%) pytest
7 2 (1.13%) XML
7 2 (1.13%) XML Schema
8 1 (0.56%) Express.js
8 1 (0.56%) MERN Stack
8 1 (0.56%) React
8 1 (0.56%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.08%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.52%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.26%) Data Fabric
5 4 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.26%) IoT
5 4 (2.26%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.26%) SCADA
6 3 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.13%) Life Science
7 2 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.13%) PMI
7 2 (1.13%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.56%) Clustering
8 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.95%) Linux
2 5 (2.82%) Windows
3 4 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.69%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.13%) VMS
6 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (57.63%) ETL
2 95 (53.67%) Data Modelling
3 91 (51.41%) Data Pipeline
4 87 (49.15%) Analytics
5 64 (36.16%) CI/CD
6 60 (33.90%) DevOps
7 59 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
8 58 (32.77%) Migration
9 56 (31.64%) Data Engineering
10 45 (25.42%) Data Integration
11 40 (22.60%) Data Architecture
12 39 (22.03%) Data Governance
13 36 (20.34%) Validation
14 35 (19.77%) Agile
15 30 (16.95%) Lakehouse
15 30 (16.95%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (16.38%) Data Transformation
17 27 (15.25%) Decision-Making
18 26 (14.69%) Infrastructure as Code
18 26 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 136 (76.84%) SQL
2 71 (40.11%) Python
3 21 (11.86%) PowerShell
4 15 (8.47%) T-SQL
5 7 (3.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (3.39%) Bicep
7 3 (1.69%) Bash
7 3 (1.69%) C#
7 3 (1.69%) Go
8 2 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.13%) Scala
9 1 (0.56%) Ada
9 1 (0.56%) Java
9 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (23.16%) Security Cleared
2 25 (14.12%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.34%) Azure Certification
4 10 (5.65%) Degree
5 8 (4.52%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.13%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.13%) CAPM
8 2 (1.13%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (37.29%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.21%) GDPR
3 8 (4.52%) QA
4 4 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.13%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.56%) GxP
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (6.78%) Docker
2 4 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (9.60%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.26%) Grafana
2 4 (2.26%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.56%) Ansible
3 1 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.56%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 102 (57.63%) Databricks
2 72 (40.68%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.52%) Informatica
3 8 (4.52%) SAP
4 5 (2.82%) Cognos
4 5 (2.82%) IBM
4 5 (2.82%) Oracle
5 4 (2.26%) Google
5 4 (2.26%) MuleSoft
5 4 (2.26%) Netezza
5 4 (2.26%) Talend
6 3 (1.69%) RedGate
6 3 (1.69%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.13%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.13%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.13%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.56%) Ariba
8 1 (0.56%) Denodo
8 1 (0.56%) HP
8 1 (0.56%) JD Edwards