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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 256 244
Rank change year-on-year -36 -12 +9
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 156 87 148
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.68% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.16% 2.13% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 56 123
10th Percentile £400 £360 £407
25th Percentile £425 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% -6.52%
75th Percentile £591 £538 £638
90th Percentile £650 £613 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £481 £538
% change year-on-year +3.90% -10.47% -2.27%

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 7,225 4,075 5,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.55% 31.79% 25.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,825 2,847 3,720
10th Percentile £300 £236 £213
25th Percentile £400 £381 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £586 £575 £588
90th Percentile £670 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 161 260
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.53 £21.28 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +90.46% +20.09% -29.12%
75th Percentile £67.58 £34.46 £26.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.31 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +35.67% +28.69% -38.94%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -34 53 £500 +20.48% 9
North of England -48 45 £500 +5.26% 18
West Midlands -34 44 £500 +13.64% 4
South East -70 28 £575 +15.00% 26
South West -22 23 £500 - 8
North West -28 23 £481 -3.75% 9
Yorkshire -48 14 £500 +29.03% 9
East Midlands -19 9 £475 +25.00% 5
North East -18 8 £475 +32.68%
East of England -26 8 £589 +47.19% 3
Scotland +1 7 £675 +56.61% 4
Wales - 1 - - 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 12 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.49%) Apache
4 3 (1.92%) Confluence
5 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.64%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 156 (100.00%) Azure
2 63 (40.38%) Power Platform
3 60 (38.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 35 (22.44%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (14.74%) GitHub
6 19 (12.18%) Serverless
7 16 (10.26%) Snowflake
8 15 (9.62%) Azure Functions
9 11 (7.05%) Azure Storage
10 10 (6.41%) Microsoft Purview
11 9 (5.77%) AWS
11 9 (5.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (5.13%) GCP
13 7 (4.49%) dbt
13 7 (4.49%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (4.49%) Entra ID
14 6 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (3.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.92%) Firewall
2 2 (1.28%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (34.62%) Power BI
2 42 (26.92%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (23.72%) Data Lake
4 31 (19.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 22 (14.10%) SQL Server
6 18 (11.54%) Delta Lake
7 11 (7.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (6.41%) Metadata
9 7 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (3.85%) Big Data
10 6 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (3.21%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (2.56%) NoSQL
12 4 (2.56%) Oracle Database
12 4 (2.56%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.56%) Spark SQL
13 3 (1.92%) Power Query
13 3 (1.92%) Star Schema
14 2 (1.28%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 17 (10.90%) Git
2 4 (2.56%) JIRA
3 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 33 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.97%) Finance
3 14 (8.97%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.13%) Law
5 6 (3.85%) Retail
6 3 (1.92%) Marketing
7 2 (1.28%) Banking
7 2 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.28%) Legal
7 2 (1.28%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.64%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (47.44%) Data Engineer
2 28 (17.95%) Azure Engineer
3 26 (16.67%) Architect
4 21 (13.46%) Senior
5 20 (12.82%) Azure Data Engineer
6 18 (11.54%) Data Architect
6 18 (11.54%) Lead
7 16 (10.26%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (6.41%) Developer
9 9 (5.77%) Analyst
9 9 (5.77%) Azure Architect
9 9 (5.77%) Data Analyst
10 8 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.85%) Data Migration Lead
12 5 (3.21%) Azure Software Engineer
12 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Engineer
12 5 (3.21%) Software Engineer
13 4 (2.56%) Data Migration Engineer
13 4 (2.56%) Migration Engineer
13 4 (2.56%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (16.67%) PySpark
2 14 (8.97%) Kafka
3 11 (7.05%) .NET
4 9 (5.77%) REST
5 7 (4.49%) ARM Templates
6 6 (3.85%) YAML
7 5 (3.21%) Pandas
8 4 (2.56%) JSON
8 4 (2.56%) Keycloak
9 3 (1.92%) React
10 2 (1.28%) .NET Framework
10 2 (1.28%) ASP.NET
10 2 (1.28%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (1.28%) CSS
10 2 (1.28%) Entity Framework
10 2 (1.28%) Jest
10 2 (1.28%) Next.js
10 2 (1.28%) Playwright
10 2 (1.28%) SOAP
10 2 (1.28%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.46%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 12 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.21%) Data Fabric
4 5 (3.21%) IoT
5 4 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.56%) SCADA
6 3 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.28%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.28%) Wiki
8 1 (0.64%) Clustering
8 1 (0.64%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.64%) Life Science
8 1 (0.64%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.28%) Windows
1 2 (1.28%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (59.62%) ETL
2 86 (55.13%) Data Modelling
3 80 (51.28%) Data Pipeline
4 79 (50.64%) Analytics
5 62 (39.74%) CI/CD
6 59 (37.82%) Business Intelligence
7 58 (37.18%) DevOps
8 54 (34.62%) Data Engineering
9 34 (21.79%) Data Architecture
9 34 (21.79%) Data Governance
10 31 (19.87%) Migration
11 29 (18.59%) Agile
11 29 (18.59%) Data Transformation
12 27 (17.31%) Data Integration
13 25 (16.03%) AI
13 25 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (14.10%) Performance Tuning
15 21 (13.46%) Data Migration
16 16 (10.26%) Decision-Making
16 16 (10.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 117 (75.00%) SQL
2 78 (50.00%) Python
3 18 (11.54%) C#
4 17 (10.90%) T-SQL
5 12 (7.69%) PowerShell
6 10 (6.41%) Bicep
7 9 (5.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (4.49%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.56%) Go
10 3 (1.92%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.05%) Azure Certification
4 7 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.21%) Degree
6 3 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (35.26%) Data Quality
2 13 (8.33%) GDPR
3 10 (6.41%) QA
4 5 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.64%) Basel II
5 1 (0.64%) Basel III
5 1 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.64%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.64%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (4.49%) Docker
2 4 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (12.18%) Terraform
2 3 (1.92%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.92%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.64%) Control-M
3 1 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.64%) Grafana
Vendors
1 82 (52.56%) Databricks
2 67 (42.95%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.49%) Oracle
4 6 (3.85%) Informatica
5 5 (3.21%) SAP
6 4 (2.56%) Talend
7 2 (1.28%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.28%) Foundry
7 2 (1.28%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.28%) RedGate
7 2 (1.28%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.28%) Splunk
8 1 (0.64%) Cognos
8 1 (0.64%) Infor