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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 250 273
Rank change year-on-year -38 +23 -12
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 147 91 128
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.71% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.10% 2.20% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 61 106
10th Percentile £400 £363 £413
25th Percentile £425 £413 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -6.32% -2.95%
75th Percentile £588 £540 £630
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.35 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 -

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 6,995 4,137 5,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.99% 32.39% 26.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,796 2,939 3,908
10th Percentile £275 £235 £213
25th Percentile £400 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% -2.86% -3.17%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £663 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 155 250
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.04 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.84 £16.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.69
Median % change year-on-year +106.52% +30.02% -23.59%
75th Percentile £68.75 £34.50 £25.98
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.25 £59.50
UK median hourly rate £42.59 £27.76 £21.00
% change year-on-year +53.43% +32.19% -30.58%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 56 £500 +28.21% 16
West Midlands -27 45 £506 +6.53% 12
North of England -51 45 £500 +17.65% 33
South West -13 23 £550 +15.79% 5
North West -39 23 £481 -3.75% 18
South East -56 23 £575 +5.50% 24
Yorkshire -49 14 £500 +29.03% 14
East Midlands -26 11 £450 +18.42% 4
North East -10 8 £475 +32.68% 3
East of England -27 8 £589 +47.19% 5
Scotland +2 5 £675 +56.61% 3
Wales -8 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 (8.16%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.44%) Apache
3 7 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.04%) Confluence
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.68%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 147 (100.00%) Azure
2 57 (38.78%) Power Platform
3 55 (37.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 36 (24.49%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (17.01%) GitHub
6 22 (14.97%) Serverless
7 18 (12.24%) Azure Functions
8 14 (9.52%) Snowflake
9 12 (8.16%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (7.48%) AWS
10 11 (7.48%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (7.48%) Azure Storage
10 11 (7.48%) GCP
11 9 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (5.44%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (5.44%) Power Automate
13 7 (4.76%) Entra ID
14 6 (4.08%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (4.08%) dbt
14 6 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.04%) Firewall
2 2 (1.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (30.61%) Data Warehouse
1 45 (30.61%) Power BI
2 33 (22.45%) Data Lake
3 29 (19.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 19 (12.93%) Delta Lake
4 19 (12.93%) SQL Server
5 14 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (8.16%) Metadata
7 11 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (6.12%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (4.08%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (3.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.40%) Big Data
10 5 (3.40%) Spark SQL
11 4 (2.72%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.72%) Oracle Database
11 4 (2.72%) Relational Database
12 3 (2.04%) Power Query
12 3 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (2.04%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (12.24%) Git
2 4 (2.72%) JIRA
3 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 39 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.84%) Finance
3 13 (8.84%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.44%) Law
5 6 (4.08%) Retail
6 2 (1.36%) Banking
6 2 (1.36%) Legal
6 2 (1.36%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.68%) Agriculture
7 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (48.30%) Data Engineer
2 29 (19.73%) Azure Engineer
3 25 (17.01%) Senior
4 21 (14.29%) Architect
4 21 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
5 18 (12.24%) Lead
5 18 (12.24%) Senior Data Engineer
6 13 (8.84%) Data Architect
7 11 (7.48%) Developer
8 9 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (5.44%) Analyst
9 8 (5.44%) Azure Architect
9 8 (5.44%) Data Analyst
10 6 (4.08%) Data Migration Lead
11 5 (3.40%) Azure Software Engineer
11 5 (3.40%) Software Engineer
12 3 (2.04%) Consultant
12 3 (2.04%) Migration Engineer
12 3 (2.04%) Project Manager
12 3 (2.04%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.97%) PySpark
2 20 (13.61%) Kafka
3 13 (8.84%) REST
4 11 (7.48%) .NET
5 9 (6.12%) Keycloak
6 8 (5.44%) Pandas
7 7 (4.76%) ARM Templates
8 6 (4.08%) YAML
9 4 (2.72%) JSON
9 4 (2.72%) NumPy
10 3 (2.04%) FastAPI
10 3 (2.04%) Flask
10 3 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (2.04%) React
10 3 (2.04%) SOAP
11 2 (1.36%) ASP.NET Core
11 2 (1.36%) Jest
11 2 (1.36%) Next.js
11 2 (1.36%) Playwright
11 2 (1.36%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.88%) Product Ownership
3 13 (8.84%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (7.48%) Data Structures
5 8 (5.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.40%) IoT
7 4 (2.72%) Data Fabric
7 4 (2.72%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.04%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.04%) SCADA
9 2 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.36%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.36%) Wiki
10 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.68%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.68%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (61.90%) ETL
2 76 (51.70%) Data Modelling
3 73 (49.66%) Data Pipeline
4 70 (47.62%) Analytics
5 63 (42.86%) DevOps
6 57 (38.78%) Data Engineering
7 56 (38.10%) CI/CD
8 53 (36.05%) Business Intelligence
9 39 (26.53%) Data Governance
10 32 (21.77%) Agile
11 31 (21.09%) Data Architecture
12 30 (20.41%) Migration
13 27 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (15.65%) Data Integration
15 22 (14.97%) Data Transformation
16 21 (14.29%) AI
16 21 (14.29%) Data Migration
17 19 (12.93%) Performance Tuning
18 16 (10.88%) Decision-Making
19 15 (10.20%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 111 (75.51%) SQL
2 84 (57.14%) Python
3 18 (12.24%) C#
4 15 (10.20%) T-SQL
5 10 (6.80%) Bicep
5 10 (6.80%) PowerShell
6 9 (6.12%) Go
7 8 (5.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (4.76%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.04%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 29 (19.73%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.97%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.88%) Azure Certification
4 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.72%) Degree
6 3 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (38.78%) Data Quality
2 13 (8.84%) GDPR
3 10 (6.80%) QA
4 5 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.68%) Basel II
6 1 (0.68%) Basel III
6 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.68%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (8.84%) Docker
2 4 (2.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (13.61%) Terraform
2 9 (6.12%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.04%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.68%) Control-M
4 1 (0.68%) Grafana
Vendors
1 73 (49.66%) Databricks
2 63 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.12%) Informatica
4 7 (4.76%) Oracle
5 5 (3.40%) SAP
6 3 (2.04%) Talend
7 2 (1.36%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.36%) Foundry
7 2 (1.36%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.36%) Splunk
8 1 (0.68%) Brio
8 1 (0.68%) Cognos
8 1 (0.68%) Infor