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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 291 251
Rank change year-on-year -4 -40 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 180 77 127
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.50% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.22% 1.62% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 56 108
10th Percentile £406 £409 £405
25th Percentile £438 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £638
90th Percentile £644 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.89%
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 8,124 4,750 4,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.48% 31.03% 26.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,223 3,183 3,326
10th Percentile £275 £250 £246
25th Percentile £403 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £590 £569 £600
90th Percentile £675 £640 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 191 180
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £14.13
25th Percentile £17.92 £16.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.42
Median % change year-on-year +80.13% -11.88% -15.52%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.05 £54.06
90th Percentile £84.38 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.15%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -1 80 £500 - 13
West Midlands -11 61 £496 -3.17% 9
North of England -52 40 £493 -1.50% 10
South East -57 26 £500 +14.29% 38
North West -31 23 £488 -2.50% 4
East Midlands -3 19 £503 +22.56% 4
Yorkshire -28 16 £500 +25.00% 3
South West -41 12 £500 -3.85% 2
Scotland -13 9 £544 +26.16% 1
East of England -11 8 £588 +6.82% 1
Wales -11 6 £450 -10.00% 5
North East -36 1 £450 -18.18% 3
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 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.89%) Apache
3 3 (1.67%) Confluence
4 2 (1.11%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.56%) JBoss
5 1 (0.56%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.56%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 180 (100.00%) Azure
2 63 (35.00%) Power Platform
3 62 (34.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 36 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (10.56%) Serverless
6 16 (8.89%) GitHub
6 16 (8.89%) Microsoft Purview
6 16 (8.89%) Snowflake
7 13 (7.22%) Azure Functions
7 13 (7.22%) Azure Storage
8 11 (6.11%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (5.56%) Entra ID
10 9 (5.00%) AWS
10 9 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (4.44%) SaaS
12 7 (3.89%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (3.89%) GCP
13 6 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (0.56%) DNS
2 1 (0.56%) Network Security
2 1 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (35.00%) Power BI
2 50 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (24.44%) Data Lake
4 37 (20.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 30 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 19 (10.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (8.89%) Delta Lake
8 15 (8.33%) Metadata
9 10 (5.56%) Relational Database
10 8 (4.44%) NoSQL
11 7 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (2.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 5 (2.78%) Data Vault
12 5 (2.78%) Oracle Database
13 4 (2.22%) DataStage
13 4 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (1.67%) Big Data
14 3 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (1.67%) Star Schema
15 2 (1.11%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 25 (13.89%) Git
2 3 (1.67%) JIRA
3 2 (1.11%) Newman
3 2 (1.11%) Postman
4 1 (0.56%) MLflow
4 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.56%) Toad
General
1 35 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (14.44%) Public Sector
4 22 (12.22%) Finance
5 9 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.33%) Retail
8 5 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.78%) Law
9 3 (1.67%) Marketing
9 3 (1.67%) Military
10 2 (1.11%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.11%) Billing
10 2 (1.11%) Local Government
11 1 (0.56%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.56%) Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 80 (44.44%) Data Engineer
2 31 (17.22%) Senior
3 23 (12.78%) Architect
3 23 (12.78%) Azure Engineer
4 22 (12.22%) Lead
4 22 (12.22%) Senior Data Engineer
5 20 (11.11%) Data Architect
6 15 (8.33%) Azure Data Engineer
7 10 (5.56%) Analyst
7 10 (5.56%) Developer
8 8 (4.44%) Data Analyst
9 7 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (2.78%) Azure Architect
10 5 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (2.78%) Integration Engineer
10 5 (2.78%) Lead Data Engineer
11 4 (2.22%) DBA
11 4 (2.22%) Junior
11 4 (2.22%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.33%) PySpark
2 19 (10.56%) Terraform
3 13 (7.22%) Kafka
4 7 (3.89%) Pandas
5 5 (2.78%) .NET
5 5 (2.78%) YAML
6 3 (1.67%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.67%) JSON
6 3 (1.67%) pytest
6 3 (1.67%) REST
6 3 (1.67%) Streamlit
7 2 (1.11%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.11%) Great Expectations
7 2 (1.11%) React
7 2 (1.11%) SOAP
7 2 (1.11%) XML
7 2 (1.11%) XML Schema
8 1 (0.56%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.56%) CSS
8 1 (0.56%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.44%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 9 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.89%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.89%) SCADA
4 6 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.33%) IoT
4 6 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.22%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.11%) Life Science
6 2 (1.11%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.11%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.56%) Clustering
7 1 (0.56%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.78%) Linux
2 4 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.22%) Windows
3 3 (1.67%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (63.89%) ETL
2 104 (57.78%) Data Modelling
3 89 (49.44%) Data Pipeline
4 86 (47.78%) Analytics
5 65 (36.11%) Business Intelligence
5 65 (36.11%) CI/CD
6 58 (32.22%) Data Engineering
7 56 (31.11%) DevOps
7 56 (31.11%) Migration
8 46 (25.56%) Data Integration
9 41 (22.78%) Data Architecture
10 40 (22.22%) Validation
11 39 (21.67%) Data Governance
12 35 (19.44%) Data Transformation
13 33 (18.33%) AI
14 32 (17.78%) Agile
15 29 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (15.56%) Decision-Making
17 26 (14.44%) Data Migration
18 25 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 143 (79.44%) SQL
2 74 (41.11%) Python
3 19 (10.56%) T-SQL
4 17 (9.44%) PowerShell
5 9 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (4.44%) Bicep
7 4 (2.22%) C#
8 2 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.56%) Ada
9 1 (0.56%) Bash
9 1 (0.56%) Java
9 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.56%) R
9 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.22%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.67%) Degree
4 11 (6.11%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.11%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (41.11%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.22%) GDPR
3 11 (6.11%) QA
4 7 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.56%) 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 7 (3.89%) Docker
2 4 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (6.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.11%) Grafana
2 2 (1.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.56%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 98 (54.44%) Databricks
2 81 (45.00%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.11%) Informatica
4 9 (5.00%) SAP
5 8 (4.44%) Oracle
6 5 (2.78%) Cognos
6 5 (2.78%) IBM
7 4 (2.22%) Google
7 4 (2.22%) MuleSoft
7 4 (2.22%) Netezza
7 4 (2.22%) Talend
8 3 (1.67%) RedGate
8 3 (1.67%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.11%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.11%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.56%) Denodo
10 1 (0.56%) HP
10 1 (0.56%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.56%) Salesforce