Azure Data Factory Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Data Factory over the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 252 263
Rank change year-on-year -19 +11 +29
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 77 141 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.66% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.79% 2.57% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 122 147
10th Percentile £365 £405 £404
25th Percentile £413 £428 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £529 £560
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% -5.58% +6.67%
75th Percentile £524 £638 £675
90th Percentile £579 £673 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -

All Cloud 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 4,307 5,480 7,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 25.56% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,958 3,797 5,452
10th Percentile £250 £220 £240
25th Percentile £380 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £590 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £694
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 276 219
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.47
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.50 £17.05
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.39 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% -24.50% +41.44%
75th Percentile £34.15 £43.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £67.13 £70.00 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.76 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.18% -37.14% +59.09%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Data Factory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London

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 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Factory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London

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 June 2025. 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
South East +31 23 £475 -24.00% 394
Midlands +13 20 £425 -10.53% 259
North of England -1 20 £475 -3.06% 327
North West +2 15 £500 - 164
West Midlands +5 14 £433 -15.40% 146
South West +16 8 £500 -6.98% 140
Yorkshire +10 5 £375 -21.05% 129
East of England +25 4 £510 +24.39% 203
East Midlands +7 4 £388 -3.13% 113
Scotland +4 3 £431 -5.53% 100
Azure Data Factory
UK

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.90%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.30%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.30%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.30%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (7.79%) SAP PM
2 2 (2.60%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.30%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 77 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (29.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 22 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 18 (23.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 8 (10.39%) Azure Storage
5 8 (10.39%) PaaS
6 7 (9.09%) Azure AKS
6 7 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
6 7 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
6 7 (9.09%) IaaS
6 7 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (7.79%) Azure API Management
7 6 (7.79%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (7.79%) Collibra
8 5 (6.49%) GitHub
9 4 (5.19%) AWS
9 4 (5.19%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (5.19%) Serverless
10 3 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.60%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (41.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 21 (27.27%) Power BI
3 17 (22.08%) SQL Server
4 16 (20.78%) Data Lake
5 12 (15.58%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (15.58%) Delta Lake
6 8 (10.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (9.09%) GIS
8 6 (7.79%) Metadata
8 6 (7.79%) Oracle Database
9 5 (6.49%) NoSQL
10 4 (5.19%) Big Data
11 3 (3.90%) Dremio
11 3 (3.90%) Power Query
11 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (3.90%) Tableau
12 2 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (2.60%) DynamoDB
12 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
12 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Selenium
2 3 (3.90%) Git
2 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (3.90%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.60%) Postman
4 1 (1.30%) ERwin
4 1 (1.30%) JIRA
General
1 17 (22.08%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.69%) Finance
3 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.49%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.90%) Retail
5 2 (2.60%) Banking
6 1 (1.30%) Billing
6 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Publishing
6 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (35.06%) Data Engineer
2 18 (23.38%) Azure Engineer
3 12 (15.58%) Architect
3 12 (15.58%) Azure Data Engineer
4 10 (12.99%) Analyst
5 9 (11.69%) Developer
6 8 (10.39%) Data Architect
7 6 (7.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Site Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Azure Architect
8 5 (6.49%) Azure Developer
8 5 (6.49%) Data Analyst
8 5 (6.49%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (5.19%) Azure Data Architect
9 4 (5.19%) Consultant
9 4 (5.19%) Data Migration Specialist
9 4 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (5.19%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.58%) ADO
2 7 (9.09%) Kafka
3 5 (6.49%) .NET
4 4 (5.19%) PySpark
5 2 (2.60%) JSON
5 2 (2.60%) RESTful
6 1 (1.30%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.30%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.30%) Matplotlib
6 1 (1.30%) Middleware
6 1 (1.30%) Pandas
6 1 (1.30%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.30%) SOAP
6 1 (1.30%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (1.30%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.30%) Web Services
6 1 (1.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.09%) IoT
2 6 (7.79%) SCADA
3 5 (6.49%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.19%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (3.90%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.90%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.90%) Smart Meter
6 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.60%) NHS
6 2 (2.60%) Replication
6 2 (2.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.30%) Clustering
7 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.30%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.30%) Windows
1 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
1 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (41.56%) Analytics
2 30 (38.96%) ETL
3 29 (37.66%) DevOps
4 27 (35.06%) Data Modelling
5 23 (29.87%) Business Intelligence
6 20 (25.97%) Data Integration
6 20 (25.97%) Data Pipeline
7 19 (24.68%) Agile
8 18 (23.38%) CI/CD
9 16 (20.78%) Data Governance
10 15 (19.48%) Data Engineering
11 11 (14.29%) Data Migration
11 11 (14.29%) Migration
11 11 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (12.99%) Machine Learning
13 8 (10.39%) Artificial Intelligence
13 8 (10.39%) Data Management
13 8 (10.39%) Data Transformation
13 8 (10.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 7 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 55 (71.43%) SQL
2 26 (33.77%) Python
3 10 (12.99%) T-SQL
4 6 (7.79%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (5.19%) Bicep
5 4 (5.19%) Java
5 4 (5.19%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.90%) C#
6 3 (3.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.90%) R
7 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.30%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 8 (10.39%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.60%) Degree
4 2 (2.60%) MCSE
5 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.30%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (24.68%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.09%) GDPR
3 4 (5.19%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.19%) QA
4 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.30%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.79%) Terraform
3 1 (1.30%) Grafana
3 1 (1.30%) Perfmon
3 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.30%) SCOM
3 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 35 (45.45%) Databricks
2 30 (38.96%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.39%) SAP
4 7 (9.09%) Informatica
5 6 (7.79%) Oracle
6 2 (2.60%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (1.30%) Google
7 1 (1.30%) Sage
7 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.30%) Snow
7 1 (1.30%) Talend
7 1 (1.30%) VMware