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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 205 269
Rank change year-on-year -99 +64 +23
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 97 150 128
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 1.04% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 3.34% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 104 98
10th Percentile £400 £400 £411
25th Percentile £425 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -5.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £605 £638 £669
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -2.22%
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 5,878 4,491 5,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.09% 31.20% 30.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,109 2,962 4,310
10th Percentile £240 £243 £219
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £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 192 110 184
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.18 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.86 £25.34 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.98% +20.67% +8.64%
75th Percentile £55.25 £41.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £65.13 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.19
% change year-on-year -1.05% +9.17% +11.96%

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 2 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 2 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 -17 42 £550 - 17
West Midlands -23 35 £550 -2.22% 13
North of England -44 18 £475 +15.15% 12
South East -82 17 £425 -32.00% 18
South West 0 16 £550 +15.79% 3
Scotland +13 9 £550 +22.22% 2
North West -34 7 £420 -6.67% 5
North East -7 6 £525 +46.65% 2
East Midlands -15 6 £478 +19.23% 4
East of England -14 5 £625 - 6
Yorkshire -52 5 £438 +2.94% 5
Wales -8 3 £410 -18.00%
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 (8.25%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.12%) Apache
3 3 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.03%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (1.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (6.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.03%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (1.03%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 97 (100.00%) Azure
2 44 (45.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 40 (41.24%) Power Platform
4 27 (27.84%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (17.53%) GitHub
6 15 (15.46%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (11.34%) GCP
7 11 (11.34%) Microsoft Purview
7 11 (11.34%) Serverless
8 10 (10.31%) Azure Functions
9 9 (9.28%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (7.22%) AWS
11 6 (6.19%) Azure Storage
11 6 (6.19%) Power Automate
12 5 (5.15%) Azure AKS
12 5 (5.15%) SaaS
12 5 (5.15%) Snowflake
13 4 (4.12%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (4.12%) Collibra
13 4 (4.12%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (35.05%) Power BI
2 29 (29.90%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (23.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 22 (22.68%) Data Lake
5 16 (16.49%) SQL Server
6 13 (13.40%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (12.37%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (11.34%) Metadata
9 10 (10.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (8.25%) Delta Lake
11 5 (5.15%) Data Mining
11 5 (5.15%) Relational Database
11 5 (5.15%) Tableau
12 4 (4.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (3.09%) MongoDB
13 3 (3.09%) Power Query
13 3 (3.09%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (3.09%) Spark SQL
13 3 (3.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (2.06%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 11 (11.34%) Git
2 1 (1.03%) JIRA
2 1 (1.03%) Poetry
2 1 (1.03%) Pylint
2 1 (1.03%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (32.99%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.22%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.19%) Finance
5 4 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.12%) Law
6 2 (2.06%) Marketing
7 1 (1.03%) Agriculture
7 1 (1.03%) Automotive
7 1 (1.03%) Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.03%) Legal
7 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (46.39%) Data Engineer
2 21 (21.65%) Senior
3 18 (18.56%) Architect
4 17 (17.53%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (16.49%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (11.34%) Azure Data Engineer
7 10 (10.31%) Data Architect
8 9 (9.28%) Lead
9 8 (8.25%) Developer
9 8 (8.25%) Dynamics 365 Architect
9 8 (8.25%) Enterprise Architect
10 6 (6.19%) Azure Architect
11 5 (5.15%) Business Architect
11 5 (5.15%) TOGAF Architect
11 5 (5.15%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
12 4 (4.12%) Azure Developer
12 4 (4.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 4 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (4.12%) Site Engineer
12 4 (4.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.59%) Kafka
2 12 (12.37%) Keycloak
2 12 (12.37%) PySpark
3 9 (9.28%) REST
4 6 (6.19%) ADO
5 3 (3.09%) .NET
5 3 (3.09%) FastAPI
5 3 (3.09%) Flask
5 3 (3.09%) NumPy
5 3 (3.09%) Pandas
5 3 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (3.09%) SOAP
6 2 (2.06%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.06%) JSON
7 1 (1.03%) FHIR
7 1 (1.03%) MERN Stack
7 1 (1.03%) pytest
7 1 (1.03%) RESTful
7 1 (1.03%) XML
7 1 (1.03%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.37%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (9.28%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.22%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (6.19%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.15%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.09%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.09%) NHS
7 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.06%) IoT
7 2 (2.06%) Replication
8 1 (1.03%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.03%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (55.67%) ETL
2 52 (53.61%) DevOps
3 42 (43.30%) Analytics
3 42 (43.30%) Business Intelligence
4 41 (42.27%) Data Modelling
5 36 (37.11%) Data Pipeline
6 30 (30.93%) Data Engineering
7 28 (28.87%) CI/CD
7 28 (28.87%) Data Governance
8 25 (25.77%) Data Architecture
9 24 (24.74%) Agile
10 17 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (15.46%) Data Integration
11 15 (15.46%) Migration
12 12 (12.37%) Batch Processing
12 12 (12.37%) Containerisation
12 12 (12.37%) DataOps
13 11 (11.34%) Data Migration
14 10 (10.31%) Enterprise Architecture
15 9 (9.28%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (63.92%) SQL
2 54 (55.67%) Python
3 12 (12.37%) Go
4 8 (8.25%) T-SQL
5 6 (6.19%) C#
5 6 (6.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.09%) Bicep
6 3 (3.09%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.09%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.06%) Java
7 2 (2.06%) R
7 2 (2.06%) Scala
8 1 (1.03%) C++
8 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (19.59%) Azure Certification
2 18 (18.56%) Security Cleared
3 16 (16.49%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.12%) Degree
4 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.03%) PMP
6 1 (1.03%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.59%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.25%) GDPR
3 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.09%) QA
4 1 (1.03%) Basel II
4 1 (1.03%) Basel III
System Software
1 12 (12.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (17.53%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (42.27%) Microsoft
2 40 (41.24%) Databricks
3 6 (6.19%) Informatica
4 4 (4.12%) Google
4 4 (4.12%) Talend
5 3 (3.09%) Oracle
6 2 (2.06%) Ab Initio
6 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.03%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.03%) Brio
7 1 (1.03%) RedGate
7 1 (1.03%) Virgin Media