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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 261 257
Rank change year-on-year -13 -4 +36
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 79 134 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.64% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.73% 2.44% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 117 150
10th Percentile £389 £405 £410
25th Percentile £413 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £520 £600 £675
90th Percentile £545 £650 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -

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 4,575 5,495 7,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.77% 26.08% 32.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,094 3,797 5,508
10th Percentile £250 £225 £240
25th Percentile £381 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £666 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 274 235
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.85 £16.84
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.99 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.08% -20.81% +37.68%
75th Percentile £33.88 £43.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £60.63 £70.00 £75.80
UK median hourly rate £27.63 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.59% -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 5 July 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 5 July 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
Midlands +16 26 £440 -4.86% 81
South East +13 20 £468 -22.08% 96
North of England -10 18 £500 +5.26% 98
West Midlands +10 16 £470 -6.00% 51
North West -3 14 £500 +4.17% 52
South West +20 8 £500 -6.98% 37
East Midlands +4 6 £388 -3.13% 28
East of England +25 5 £510 +24.39% 49
Yorkshire -4 4 £400 -15.79% 31
Scotland 0 3 £431 -5.53% 26
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 4 (5.06%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.27%) Apache
2 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.27%) Confluence
2 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (7.59%) SAP PM
2 3 (3.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.27%) Endur
3 1 (1.27%) Sage 200
3 1 (1.27%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 79 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (30.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 23 (29.11%) Power Platform
4 22 (27.85%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (17.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (11.39%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (10.13%) Azure Storage
7 8 (10.13%) PaaS
8 7 (8.86%) Azure AKS
8 7 (8.86%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (8.86%) IaaS
8 7 (8.86%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (7.59%) Collibra
9 6 (7.59%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (6.33%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (6.33%) GitHub
10 5 (6.33%) Serverless
10 5 (6.33%) Snowflake
11 4 (5.06%) AWS
11 4 (5.06%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (37.97%) Azure SQL Database
2 22 (27.85%) Power BI
3 19 (24.05%) Data Lake
4 16 (20.25%) SQL Server
5 13 (16.46%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (15.19%) Delta Lake
7 7 (8.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (7.59%) GIS
8 6 (7.59%) Oracle Database
9 5 (6.33%) Metadata
9 5 (6.33%) NoSQL
10 4 (5.06%) Big Data
11 3 (3.80%) Dremio
11 3 (3.80%) Power Query
11 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
11 3 (3.80%) Tableau
12 2 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (2.53%) DynamoDB
12 2 (2.53%) MongoDB
13 1 (1.27%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Git
2 3 (3.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (3.80%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.53%) Postman
4 1 (1.27%) ERwin
4 1 (1.27%) JIRA
4 1 (1.27%) Selenium
General
1 19 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.39%) Finance
3 6 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.80%) Retail
6 2 (2.53%) Banking
7 1 (1.27%) Automotive
7 1 (1.27%) Billing
7 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Publishing
7 1 (1.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (36.71%) Data Engineer
2 19 (24.05%) Azure Engineer
3 13 (16.46%) Architect
3 13 (16.46%) Azure Data Engineer
4 9 (11.39%) Analyst
4 9 (11.39%) Data Architect
4 9 (11.39%) Developer
5 6 (7.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.59%) Data Migration Specialist
5 6 (7.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.59%) Migration Specialist
5 6 (7.59%) Site Engineer
5 6 (7.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Azure Architect
6 5 (6.33%) Senior
6 5 (6.33%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.06%) Azure Data Architect
7 4 (5.06%) Azure Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Business Intelligence Architect
8 3 (3.80%) Data Analytics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.39%) ADO
1 9 (11.39%) Kafka
2 5 (6.33%) PySpark
3 4 (5.06%) .NET
4 2 (2.53%) RESTful
4 2 (2.53%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.27%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.27%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.27%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.27%) Middleware
5 1 (1.27%) Pandas
5 1 (1.27%) Prophet
5 1 (1.27%) pytest
5 1 (1.27%) SOAP
5 1 (1.27%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (1.27%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.27%) Web Services
5 1 (1.27%) XGBoost
5 1 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.86%) IoT
2 6 (7.59%) SCADA
3 5 (6.33%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.06%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.80%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.80%) Smart Meter
6 2 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.53%) NHS
6 2 (2.53%) Replication
6 2 (2.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (43.04%) Analytics
2 32 (40.51%) ETL
3 31 (39.24%) Data Modelling
4 29 (36.71%) DevOps
5 24 (30.38%) Business Intelligence
6 23 (29.11%) Data Pipeline
7 21 (26.58%) CI/CD
7 21 (26.58%) Data Integration
8 18 (22.78%) Data Engineering
8 18 (22.78%) Data Governance
9 15 (18.99%) Agile
10 11 (13.92%) Machine Learning
11 10 (12.66%) Data Migration
11 10 (12.66%) Data Transformation
11 10 (12.66%) Migration
11 10 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (10.13%) Artificial Intelligence
12 8 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (10.13%) Data Management
12 8 (10.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 56 (70.89%) SQL
2 26 (32.91%) Python
3 8 (10.13%) T-SQL
4 6 (7.59%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (5.06%) Bicep
6 3 (3.80%) C#
6 3 (3.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.80%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.80%) R
7 1 (1.27%) Java
7 1 (1.27%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.27%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 9 (11.39%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.86%) Azure Certification
3 4 (5.06%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.53%) Degree
5 2 (2.53%) MCSE
6 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.27%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (26.58%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.86%) GDPR
3 4 (5.06%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.06%) QA
4 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 7 (8.86%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.59%) Terraform
3 1 (1.27%) Grafana
3 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (50.63%) Databricks
2 32 (40.51%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.86%) Informatica
3 7 (8.86%) Oracle
3 7 (8.86%) SAP
4 1 (1.27%) Google
4 1 (1.27%) Liquidlogic
4 1 (1.27%) Sage
4 1 (1.27%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.27%) Snow
4 1 (1.27%) Talend