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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 284 251
Rank change year-on-year -17 -33 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 173 76 133
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.51% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.15% 1.63% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 53 118
10th Percentile £400 £385 £405
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £638
90th Percentile £650 £550 £651
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 - -

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 8,057 4,675 5,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.86% 31.31% 26.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,187 3,141 3,617
10th Percentile £288 £250 £240
25th Percentile £402 £380 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £595
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 195 231
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.85 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.37 £18.87 £20.29
Median % change year-on-year +98.04% -6.98% -24.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £36.00 £44.97
90th Percentile £87.33 £66.80 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.02 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +34.62% +25.00% -37.14%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -7 71 £496 +10.28% 16
West Midlands -26 52 £493 -1.50% 14
North of England -41 41 £525 +5.00% 12
South East -56 26 £550 +24.29% 19
North West -32 25 £500 - 2
East Midlands +3 19 £503 +26.02% 2
South West -29 18 £500 +2.56% 2
Yorkshire -36 13 £525 +31.25% 8
East of England -14 10 £589 +7.05% 1
Scotland -6 8 £613 +56.85%
Wales -12 4 £450 -10.00% 3
North East - 3 £550 - 3
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 13 (7.51%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.20%) Apache
2 9 (5.20%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.31%) Confluence
4 1 (0.58%) JBoss
4 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.16%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 173 (100.00%) Azure
2 63 (36.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 63 (36.42%) Power Platform
3 29 (16.76%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (10.98%) Serverless
5 16 (9.25%) GitHub
5 16 (9.25%) Snowflake
6 14 (8.09%) Azure Functions
7 13 (7.51%) Microsoft Purview
8 12 (6.94%) AWS
8 12 (6.94%) Azure Storage
9 10 (5.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (5.78%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (5.20%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (5.20%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (5.20%) Entra ID
11 7 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (4.05%) GCP
12 6 (3.47%) SaaS
13 5 (2.89%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.05%) Firewall
2 3 (1.73%) Network Security
3 1 (0.58%) DNS
3 1 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (34.10%) Power BI
2 45 (26.01%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (23.70%) Data Lake
4 32 (18.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 31 (17.92%) SQL Server
6 18 (10.40%) Delta Lake
6 18 (10.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (6.36%) Metadata
8 7 (4.05%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (2.89%) Big Data
10 5 (2.89%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.31%) Data Vault
11 4 (2.31%) Oracle Database
11 4 (2.31%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (2.31%) Spark SQL
12 3 (1.73%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (1.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (14.45%) Git
2 4 (2.31%) JIRA
3 2 (1.16%) Newman
3 2 (1.16%) Postman
4 1 (0.58%) MLflow
4 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 34 (19.65%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (13.87%) Public Sector
4 20 (11.56%) Finance
5 9 (5.20%) Retail
6 6 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.47%) Law
6 6 (3.47%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.73%) Marketing
7 3 (1.73%) Military
8 2 (1.16%) Billing
9 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.58%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.58%) Banking
9 1 (0.58%) Local Government
9 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 90 (52.02%) Data Engineer
2 33 (19.08%) Senior
3 25 (14.45%) Azure Engineer
4 24 (13.87%) Lead
4 24 (13.87%) Senior Data Engineer
5 21 (12.14%) Architect
6 19 (10.98%) Azure Data Engineer
7 16 (9.25%) Data Architect
8 10 (5.78%) Analyst
9 8 (4.62%) Data Analyst
9 8 (4.62%) Developer
10 6 (3.47%) Azure Architect
10 6 (3.47%) Lead Data Engineer
10 6 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.89%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (2.89%) Integration Engineer
11 5 (2.89%) Project Manager
12 4 (2.31%) Data Migration Engineer
12 4 (2.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (2.31%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.18%) PySpark
2 13 (7.51%) Kafka
3 8 (4.62%) Pandas
4 6 (3.47%) YAML
5 5 (2.89%) .NET
5 5 (2.89%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.89%) JSON
6 4 (2.31%) Streamlit
6 4 (2.31%) XML
7 3 (1.73%) pytest
7 3 (1.73%) REST
8 2 (1.16%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.16%) Great Expectations
8 2 (1.16%) React
8 2 (1.16%) SOAP
8 2 (1.16%) XML Schema
9 1 (0.58%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.58%) CSS
9 1 (0.58%) HTML
9 1 (0.58%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.67%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.94%) Data Structures
3 11 (6.36%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (5.20%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.89%) SCADA
6 4 (2.31%) Data Fabric
6 4 (2.31%) IoT
7 3 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.16%) Life Science
8 2 (1.16%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.16%) Wiki
9 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.58%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.31%) Linux
1 4 (2.31%) Windows
2 3 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.73%) Ubuntu
2 3 (1.73%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (57.80%) ETL
2 99 (57.23%) Data Modelling
3 89 (51.45%) Data Pipeline
4 84 (48.55%) Analytics
5 65 (37.57%) CI/CD
5 65 (37.57%) Data Engineering
6 62 (35.84%) Business Intelligence
7 53 (30.64%) DevOps
8 42 (24.28%) Migration
9 36 (20.81%) Data Architecture
10 35 (20.23%) Data Governance
10 35 (20.23%) Validation
11 34 (19.65%) Data Integration
12 32 (18.50%) Agile
12 32 (18.50%) AI
13 30 (17.34%) Data Transformation
13 30 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (15.03%) Decision-Making
15 22 (12.72%) Observability
16 21 (12.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 136 (78.61%) SQL
2 80 (46.24%) Python
3 18 (10.40%) PowerShell
4 17 (9.83%) T-SQL
5 11 (6.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 9 (5.20%) Bicep
7 8 (4.62%) C#
8 1 (0.58%) Ada
8 1 (0.58%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.58%) R
8 1 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (17.34%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.40%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.78%) Degree
4 7 (4.05%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.73%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (39.88%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.51%) GDPR
2 13 (7.51%) QA
3 5 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.58%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.58%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.89%) Docker
2 3 (1.73%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (9.25%) Terraform
2 6 (3.47%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.16%) Grafana
4 1 (0.58%) Control-M
4 1 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.58%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 95 (54.91%) Databricks
2 70 (40.46%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.20%) Informatica
4 7 (4.05%) SAP
5 6 (3.47%) Oracle
6 4 (2.31%) Talend
7 3 (1.73%) RedGate
7 3 (1.73%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.16%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.16%) Foundry
8 2 (1.16%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.16%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.16%) Splunk
9 1 (0.58%) Cognos
9 1 (0.58%) Denodo
9 1 (0.58%) HP
9 1 (0.58%) Infor
9 1 (0.58%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.58%) TIBCO