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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 287 220
Rank change year-on-year -20 -67 +57
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 177 91 156
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.58% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.16% 1.79% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 69 122
10th Percentile £400 £404 £413
25th Percentile £425 £413 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £665 £625 £651
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -2.65%
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 8,176 5,081 4,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.13% 32.38% 28.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,177 3,430 3,143
10th Percentile £263 £250 £250
25th Percentile £402 £376 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 166 133
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.75 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.30 £20.30
Median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +40.88%
75th Percentile £69.69 £35.25 £68.75
90th Percentile £80.63 £65.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +15.38% -24.56% +4.44%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +2 81 £500 -6.98% 32
West Midlands -19 57 £500 -13.04% 20
South East -48 31 £500 +17.65% 48
North of England -51 31 £458 -3.68% 36
East Midlands +10 24 £500 +9.29% 12
South West -27 17 £575 +10.58% 9
North West -33 17 £550 +12.82% 20
Scotland -9 13 £600 +4.35% 8
Yorkshire -25 13 £400 - 12
Wales -10 5 £450 -1.10% 1
East of England -26 4 £505 -4.72% 8
North East -39 1 £450 -2.70% 4
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 (6.78%) Apache
1 12 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
1 12 (6.78%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.13%) Confluence
3 2 (1.13%) nginx
4 1 (0.56%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.13%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.56%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 177 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (36.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 61 (34.46%) Power Platform
4 34 (19.21%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (12.99%) Snowflake
6 19 (10.73%) Azure Databricks
7 15 (8.47%) Entra ID
7 15 (8.47%) Microsoft Purview
7 15 (8.47%) SaaS
8 13 (7.34%) IaaS
8 13 (7.34%) Serverless
9 12 (6.78%) AWS
9 12 (6.78%) PaaS
10 11 (6.21%) GitHub
11 10 (5.65%) Azure Functions
11 10 (5.65%) Azure Storage
12 9 (5.08%) GCP
13 8 (4.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (3.39%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.34%) Firewall
2 2 (1.13%) DNS
2 2 (1.13%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.56%) DHCP
3 1 (0.56%) Network Security
3 1 (0.56%) PBX
3 1 (0.56%) VoIP
3 1 (0.56%) VPN
3 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (33.90%) Power BI
2 53 (29.94%) Data Lake
3 47 (26.55%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (18.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (14.12%) SQL Server
6 17 (9.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (9.04%) Metadata
8 12 (6.78%) Delta Lake
8 12 (6.78%) NoSQL
9 10 (5.65%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (4.52%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.82%) Big Data
11 5 (2.82%) Data Vault
11 5 (2.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (2.26%) DataStage
12 4 (2.26%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.69%) SAP BW
14 2 (1.13%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 21 (11.86%) Git
2 4 (2.26%) GitLab
3 3 (1.69%) Postman
4 2 (1.13%) JIRA
4 2 (1.13%) Newman
5 1 (0.56%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.56%) MLflow
5 1 (0.56%) Toad
General
1 40 (22.60%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (15.25%) Finance
4 26 (14.69%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.91%) Manufacturing
6 9 (5.08%) Retail
7 7 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.82%) Military
9 3 (1.69%) Law
9 3 (1.69%) Marketing
10 2 (1.13%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.13%) Banking
10 2 (1.13%) Billing
10 2 (1.13%) Local Government
11 1 (0.56%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 76 (42.94%) Data Engineer
2 33 (18.64%) Senior
3 26 (14.69%) Azure Engineer
4 25 (14.12%) Senior Data Engineer
5 20 (11.30%) Architect
6 18 (10.17%) Data Architect
7 17 (9.60%) Lead
8 14 (7.91%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (6.78%) Azure Data Engineer
10 11 (6.21%) Analyst
11 10 (5.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (5.08%) Data Analyst
13 8 (4.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (4.52%) Developer
14 6 (3.39%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
14 6 (3.39%) Databricks Engineer
14 6 (3.39%) Junior
15 5 (2.82%) Junior Data Engineer
15 5 (2.82%) Python Engineer
15 5 (2.82%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.73%) PySpark
2 17 (9.60%) Kafka
2 17 (9.60%) Terraform
3 6 (3.39%) YAML
4 4 (2.26%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (2.26%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.26%) JSON
4 4 (2.26%) Keycloak
5 3 (1.69%) .NET
5 3 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.69%) Pandas
5 3 (1.69%) REST
5 3 (1.69%) Streamlit
5 3 (1.69%) XML
6 2 (1.13%) Great Expectations
6 2 (1.13%) pytest
6 2 (1.13%) XML Schema
7 1 (0.56%) React
7 1 (0.56%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (0.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.04%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.65%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.52%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.26%) Data Fabric
6 4 (2.26%) IoT
6 4 (2.26%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.26%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.26%) SCADA
7 2 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.13%) Life Science
7 2 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.13%) PMI
7 2 (1.13%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.56%) AS400
8 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.52%) Linux
2 5 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.82%) Windows
3 4 (2.26%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.13%) VMS
6 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (57.63%) ETL
2 94 (53.11%) Data Pipeline
3 90 (50.85%) Data Modelling
4 85 (48.02%) Analytics
5 68 (38.42%) CI/CD
6 65 (36.72%) DevOps
7 63 (35.59%) Business Intelligence
8 60 (33.90%) Data Engineering
8 60 (33.90%) Migration
9 46 (25.99%) Data Integration
10 41 (23.16%) Agile
11 40 (22.60%) Data Governance
12 38 (21.47%) Validation
13 37 (20.90%) Data Architecture
14 30 (16.95%) Decision-Making
14 30 (16.95%) Lakehouse
15 29 (16.38%) Data Transformation
16 27 (15.25%) Infrastructure as Code
16 27 (15.25%) Stakeholder Management
17 26 (14.69%) AI
Programming Languages
1 134 (75.71%) SQL
2 75 (42.37%) Python
3 19 (10.73%) PowerShell
4 14 (7.91%) T-SQL
5 7 (3.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (3.39%) Bicep
7 4 (2.26%) Go
8 3 (1.69%) Bash
8 3 (1.69%) C#
9 2 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.13%) Scala
10 1 (0.56%) Ada
10 1 (0.56%) Java
10 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (25.99%) Security Cleared
2 29 (16.38%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.91%) Azure Certification
4 11 (6.21%) Degree
5 9 (5.08%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.13%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.13%) CAPM
8 2 (1.13%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (33.90%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.08%) GDPR
2 9 (5.08%) QA
3 3 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.13%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.56%) GxP
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (6.21%) Docker
2 6 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (10.73%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.26%) Grafana
2 4 (2.26%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.56%) Ansible
3 1 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.56%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 99 (55.93%) Databricks
2 67 (37.85%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.08%) SAP
4 8 (4.52%) Informatica
5 5 (2.82%) IBM
6 4 (2.26%) Cognos
6 4 (2.26%) Google
6 4 (2.26%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.26%) Netezza
6 4 (2.26%) Oracle
6 4 (2.26%) Talend
7 3 (1.69%) RedGate
7 3 (1.69%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.13%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.13%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.13%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.56%) Denodo
9 1 (0.56%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.56%) TIBCO