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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 207 279
Rank change year-on-year -90 +72 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 101 145 127
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.55% 1.04% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 3.28% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 97 99
10th Percentile £400 £381 £411
25th Percentile £413 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £663
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -1.91% -5.00% -
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 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 5,908 4,421 5,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.06% 31.71% 29.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,130 2,926 4,162
10th Percentile £230 £238 £213
25th Percentile £375 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -1.53%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 109 179
10th Percentile £12.95 £16.11 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.21 £26.50 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +26.37% +9.45%
75th Percentile £55.25 £41.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.63 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £28.22 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +2.62% +18.46% +3.18%

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 January 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 January 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 -21 44 £550 +12.82% 25
West Midlands -18 38 £550 +4.76% 22
North of England -54 20 £463 +12.12% 20
South East -78 19 £425 -31.45% 33
South West -3 17 £550 +15.79% 5
Scotland +9 9 £550 +22.22% 4
North East -12 7 £500 +39.66% 2
North West -22 7 £420 -6.67% 14
East Midlands -22 6 £478 +23.54% 3
Yorkshire -54 6 £438 +2.94% 4
East of England -15 3 £615 - 6
Wales -8 2 £410 -18.00% 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 (7.92%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.95%) Apache
3 4 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.99%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.99%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.99%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.99%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) Azure
2 45 (44.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 40 (39.60%) Power Platform
4 33 (32.67%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (18.81%) GitHub
6 12 (11.88%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (11.88%) GCP
6 12 (11.88%) Serverless
7 11 (10.89%) Azure Functions
8 9 (8.91%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (7.92%) AWS
9 8 (7.92%) Azure AKS
9 8 (7.92%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (7.92%) Azure Storage
10 6 (5.94%) Power Automate
11 5 (4.95%) Azure API Management
11 5 (4.95%) SaaS
11 5 (4.95%) Snowflake
12 4 (3.96%) IaaS
12 4 (3.96%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (32.67%) Power BI
2 29 (28.71%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (24.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 21 (20.79%) Data Lake
5 15 (14.85%) SQL Server
6 12 (11.88%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (11.88%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (10.89%) Metadata
8 10 (9.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (8.91%) Delta Lake
10 5 (4.95%) Data Mining
10 5 (4.95%) Tableau
11 4 (3.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.96%) Power Query
11 4 (3.96%) Relational Database
12 3 (2.97%) Big Data
12 3 (2.97%) MongoDB
12 3 (2.97%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (2.97%) Spark SQL
12 3 (2.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (9.90%) Git
2 2 (1.98%) JIRA
3 1 (0.99%) Poetry
3 1 (0.99%) Pylint
3 1 (0.99%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (31.68%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.91%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.94%) Finance
5 4 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.96%) Law
6 1 (0.99%) Agriculture
6 1 (0.99%) Banking
6 1 (0.99%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.99%) Legal
6 1 (0.99%) Marketing
6 1 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (45.54%) Data Engineer
2 20 (19.80%) Azure Engineer
2 20 (19.80%) Senior
3 19 (18.81%) Architect
4 16 (15.84%) Senior Data Engineer
5 12 (11.88%) Azure Data Engineer
6 9 (8.91%) Azure Architect
6 9 (8.91%) Lead
7 8 (7.92%) Data Architect
7 8 (7.92%) Enterprise Architect
8 7 (6.93%) Developer
8 7 (6.93%) Dynamics 365 Architect
8 7 (6.93%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.95%) Business Architect
9 5 (4.95%) TOGAF Architect
9 5 (4.95%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
10 4 (3.96%) Azure Software Engineer
10 4 (3.96%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.96%) Site Engineer
10 4 (3.96%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (18.81%) Kafka
2 13 (12.87%) PySpark
3 12 (11.88%) Keycloak
4 11 (10.89%) REST
5 6 (5.94%) ADO
6 5 (4.95%) .NET
7 4 (3.96%) ARM Templates
8 3 (2.97%) FastAPI
8 3 (2.97%) Flask
8 3 (2.97%) JSON
8 3 (2.97%) NumPy
8 3 (2.97%) Pandas
8 3 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.97%) SOAP
9 1 (0.99%) Express.js
9 1 (0.99%) Node.js
9 1 (0.99%) pytest
9 1 (0.99%) React
9 1 (0.99%) RESTful
9 1 (0.99%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.87%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (7.92%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.93%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.95%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.97%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.97%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.97%) NHS
7 2 (1.98%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.98%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.98%) IoT
8 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.99%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.99%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (56.44%) DevOps
1 57 (56.44%) ETL
2 46 (45.54%) Analytics
3 41 (40.59%) Business Intelligence
4 40 (39.60%) Data Modelling
5 38 (37.62%) Data Pipeline
6 34 (33.66%) CI/CD
7 31 (30.69%) Data Engineering
8 26 (25.74%) Agile
8 26 (25.74%) Data Governance
9 23 (22.77%) Data Architecture
10 20 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (16.83%) Data Integration
12 14 (13.86%) Containerisation
12 14 (13.86%) Migration
13 12 (11.88%) Batch Processing
13 12 (11.88%) DataOps
14 11 (10.89%) AI
15 10 (9.90%) Enterprise Architecture
16 9 (8.91%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 67 (66.34%) SQL
2 59 (58.42%) Python
3 12 (11.88%) Go
4 9 (8.91%) C#
4 9 (8.91%) T-SQL
5 7 (6.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (5.94%) Bicep
7 5 (4.95%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.97%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.98%) Java
9 2 (1.98%) R
9 2 (1.98%) Scala
10 1 (0.99%) C++
10 1 (0.99%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (19.80%) Azure Certification
1 20 (19.80%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.83%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.96%) Degree
5 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.99%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.99%) PMP
6 1 (0.99%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (19.80%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.92%) GDPR
3 5 (4.95%) QA
4 3 (2.97%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.99%) Basel II
5 1 (0.99%) Basel III
System Software
1 14 (13.86%) Docker
2 3 (2.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (16.83%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (42.57%) Databricks
1 43 (42.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.94%) Informatica
3 4 (3.96%) Google
3 4 (3.96%) Talend
4 3 (2.97%) Oracle
5 2 (1.98%) Ab Initio
5 2 (1.98%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.99%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.99%) Brio
6 1 (0.99%) RedGate
6 1 (0.99%) Virgin Media