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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 230 294
Rank change year-on-year -83 +64 +7
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 96 138 122
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.83% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 2.77% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 101 98
10th Percentile £404 £413 £404
25th Percentile £434 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £603 £638 £638
90th Percentile £641 £651 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.35 -
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £27.35 -
% change year-on-year +24.31% - -

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 5,766 4,977 6,492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.66% 29.89% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,964 3,180 4,712
10th Percentile £230 £254 £219
25th Percentile £375 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 134 220
10th Percentile £13.65 £16.83 £14.23
25th Percentile £16.58 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +25.00% +15.30%
75th Percentile £44.78 £53.56 £47.81
90th Percentile £76.35 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.30 £29.86
% change year-on-year -14.18% +1.46% +35.73%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 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 44 £550 - 31
West Midlands -14 34 £550 - 28
South East -62 15 £438 -29.44% 53
North of England -42 14 £473 +5.00% 23
South West +3 13 £550 +15.79% 7
Scotland +4 9 £550 +22.22% 12
East Midlands -6 8 £449 -5.63% 3
East of England - 8 £550 - 6
Yorkshire -40 6 £425 -11.92% 4
North West -28 5 £473 +5.00% 17
North East -4 3 £550 +49.66% 2
Wales -10 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 7 (7.29%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.21%) Apache
3 4 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (1.04%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 7 (7.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.04%) Endur
2 1 (1.04%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (1.04%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 96 (100.00%) Azure
2 41 (42.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 35 (36.46%) Power Platform
4 24 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (18.75%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (13.54%) GitHub
7 10 (10.42%) AWS
7 10 (10.42%) Azure Logic Apps
7 10 (10.42%) GCP
8 8 (8.33%) Azure AKS
8 8 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (8.33%) Snowflake
9 7 (7.29%) Azure Storage
9 7 (7.29%) IaaS
9 7 (7.29%) PaaS
9 7 (7.29%) Serverless
10 6 (6.25%) Azure Functions
11 5 (5.21%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (5.21%) Power Automate
11 5 (5.21%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (32.29%) Power BI
2 28 (29.17%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (23.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 20 (20.83%) Data Lake
5 15 (15.63%) SQL Server
6 10 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (9.38%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (9.38%) Metadata
8 8 (8.33%) Delta Lake
8 8 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (5.21%) Data Mining
9 5 (5.21%) Tableau
10 4 (4.17%) Big Data
10 4 (4.17%) NoSQL
10 4 (4.17%) Relational Database
11 3 (3.13%) MongoDB
11 3 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (2.08%) DynamoDB
12 2 (2.08%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (1.04%) JIRA
2 1 (1.04%) Poetry
2 1 (1.04%) Pylint
2 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.29%) Finance
4 6 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.08%) Law
6 2 (2.08%) Marketing
7 1 (1.04%) Agriculture
7 1 (1.04%) Automotive
7 1 (1.04%) Banking
7 1 (1.04%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (43.75%) Data Engineer
2 18 (18.75%) Architect
3 17 (17.71%) Azure Engineer
3 17 (17.71%) Senior
4 13 (13.54%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (11.46%) Azure Data Engineer
5 11 (11.46%) Data Architect
6 9 (9.38%) Azure Architect
6 9 (9.38%) Developer
7 8 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Architect
7 8 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
8 7 (7.29%) Lead
9 6 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) Site Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Analyst
10 5 (5.21%) Business Architect
10 5 (5.21%) TOGAF Architect
10 5 (5.21%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.67%) Kafka
2 10 (10.42%) PySpark
3 9 (9.38%) ADO
3 9 (9.38%) Keycloak
4 6 (6.25%) REST
5 3 (3.13%) FastAPI
5 3 (3.13%) Flask
5 3 (3.13%) NumPy
5 3 (3.13%) Pandas
5 3 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (3.13%) SOAP
6 2 (2.08%) pytest
7 1 (1.04%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.04%) Express.js
7 1 (1.04%) Node.js
7 1 (1.04%) Prophet
7 1 (1.04%) React
7 1 (1.04%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.04%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (1.04%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.46%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.21%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.17%) Replication
5 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.13%) NHS
6 2 (2.08%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.04%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (50.00%) DevOps
2 42 (43.75%) ETL
3 41 (42.71%) Analytics
4 38 (39.58%) Business Intelligence
5 35 (36.46%) Data Modelling
6 30 (31.25%) Data Governance
6 30 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
7 29 (30.21%) CI/CD
8 26 (27.08%) Data Engineering
9 23 (23.96%) Agile
10 21 (21.88%) Data Architecture
11 17 (17.71%) Data Integration
12 15 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (11.46%) Containerisation
13 11 (11.46%) DataOps
13 11 (11.46%) Migration
14 10 (10.42%) Decision-Making
15 9 (9.38%) Batch Processing
15 9 (9.38%) CRM
15 9 (9.38%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 59 (61.46%) SQL
2 43 (44.79%) Python
3 9 (9.38%) Go
4 6 (6.25%) T-SQL
5 5 (5.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (4.17%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.13%) Bicep
8 2 (2.08%) Java
8 2 (2.08%) R
8 2 (2.08%) Scala
9 1 (1.04%) C#
9 1 (1.04%) C++
9 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (17.71%) Azure Certification
2 16 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 15 (15.63%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.13%) Degree
6 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.08%) MCSE
7 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.04%) PMP
7 1 (1.04%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.71%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.29%) GDPR
3 3 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 11 (11.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (19.79%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (1.04%) Grafana
3 1 (1.04%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 37 (38.54%) Databricks
3 4 (4.17%) Google
3 4 (4.17%) Informatica
3 4 (4.17%) Talend
4 3 (3.13%) Oracle
5 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.04%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.04%) Brio
6 1 (1.04%) RedGate
6 1 (1.04%) Virgin Media