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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 291 243
Rank change year-on-year -2 -48 +14
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 177 80 135
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.52% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.16% 1.67% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 59 111
10th Percentile £400 £404 £413
25th Percentile £430 £413 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £638
90th Percentile £650 £603 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
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 8,183 4,801 4,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.47% 31.13% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,258 3,198 3,294
10th Percentile £274 £250 £243
25th Percentile £405 £380 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £592 £569 £600
90th Percentile £675 £640 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 483 183 157
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £14.04
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.95 £16.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £19.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +71.05% -21.42% -10.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.05 £60.60
90th Percentile £83.72 £67.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.75 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.37% -4.17% -14.29%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 76 £500 - 14
West Midlands -6 58 £493 -3.90% 8
North of England -47 42 £483 -3.50% 9
South East -54 27 £500 +17.65% 39
North West -46 22 £500 - 4
Yorkshire -31 19 £483 +20.63% 4
East Midlands +1 18 £500 +9.29% 6
South West -36 11 £500 -3.85% 3
Scotland -16 9 £544 -1.14% 3
East of England -21 8 £588 +10.85% 4
Wales -10 5 £450 -10.00% 3
North East -37 1 £450 -18.18% 1
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 (4.52%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (4.52%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.95%) Apache
3 3 (1.69%) Confluence
4 2 (1.13%) nginx
4 2 (1.13%) SharePoint
5 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%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.56%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 177 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (36.16%) Power Platform
3 62 (35.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 34 (19.21%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (12.43%) Azure Databricks
6 17 (9.60%) Serverless
6 17 (9.60%) Snowflake
7 16 (9.04%) GitHub
7 16 (9.04%) Microsoft Purview
8 12 (6.78%) Azure Storage
9 11 (6.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (6.21%) Azure Functions
9 11 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (5.65%) AWS
10 10 (5.65%) Entra ID
11 9 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (4.52%) SaaS
13 7 (3.95%) GCP
14 6 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.08%) Firewall
2 1 (0.56%) DNS
2 1 (0.56%) Network Security
2 1 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (36.16%) Power BI
2 50 (28.25%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (26.55%) Data Lake
4 34 (19.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 30 (16.95%) SQL Server
6 18 (10.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (9.04%) Delta Lake
8 15 (8.47%) Metadata
9 9 (5.08%) Relational Database
10 8 (4.52%) NoSQL
11 7 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (2.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 5 (2.82%) Data Vault
12 5 (2.82%) Oracle Database
13 4 (2.26%) DataStage
13 4 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (1.69%) Big Data
14 3 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 2 (1.13%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 22 (12.43%) Git
2 3 (1.69%) JIRA
3 2 (1.13%) Newman
3 2 (1.13%) Postman
4 1 (0.56%) GitLab
4 1 (0.56%) MLflow
4 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.56%) Toad
General
1 37 (20.90%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (14.69%) Public Sector
4 23 (12.99%) Finance
5 9 (5.08%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.39%) Retail
8 5 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.82%) Law
9 4 (2.26%) Military
10 3 (1.69%) Marketing
11 2 (1.13%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.13%) Billing
11 2 (1.13%) Local Government
12 1 (0.56%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.56%) Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 75 (42.37%) Data Engineer
2 30 (16.95%) Senior
3 23 (12.99%) Architect
3 23 (12.99%) Azure Engineer
4 21 (11.86%) Lead
4 21 (11.86%) Senior Data Engineer
5 20 (11.30%) Data Architect
6 14 (7.91%) Azure Data Engineer
7 11 (6.21%) Analyst
8 9 (5.08%) Data Analyst
9 8 (4.52%) Developer
10 7 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.39%) Databricks Engineer
12 5 (2.82%) Azure Architect
12 5 (2.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (2.82%) Integration Engineer
13 4 (2.26%) DBA
13 4 (2.26%) Junior
13 4 (2.26%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.99%) PySpark
2 20 (11.30%) Terraform
3 14 (7.91%) Kafka
4 5 (2.82%) .NET
5 4 (2.26%) Pandas
5 4 (2.26%) YAML
6 3 (1.69%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.69%) JSON
6 3 (1.69%) Streamlit
7 2 (1.13%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.13%) Great Expectations
7 2 (1.13%) pytest
7 2 (1.13%) React
7 2 (1.13%) REST
7 2 (1.13%) XML
7 2 (1.13%) XML Schema
8 1 (0.56%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.56%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.56%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.73%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.65%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.52%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.95%) IoT
5 7 (3.95%) SCADA
6 6 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.26%) Data Fabric
7 4 (2.26%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.13%) Life Science
8 2 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.13%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.13%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.56%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.56%) NHS
9 1 (0.56%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.95%) Linux
2 5 (2.82%) Windows
3 4 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.69%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.13%) VMS
6 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (62.71%) ETL
2 101 (57.06%) Data Modelling
3 87 (49.15%) Analytics
4 85 (48.02%) Data Pipeline
5 66 (37.29%) Business Intelligence
6 61 (34.46%) CI/CD
7 56 (31.64%) Data Engineering
8 55 (31.07%) Migration
9 54 (30.51%) DevOps
10 46 (25.99%) Data Integration
11 39 (22.03%) Data Architecture
11 39 (22.03%) Data Governance
11 39 (22.03%) Validation
12 36 (20.34%) Lakehouse
13 33 (18.64%) Agile
13 33 (18.64%) Data Transformation
14 31 (17.51%) AI
15 27 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
16 26 (14.69%) Data Migration
16 26 (14.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 138 (77.97%) SQL
2 69 (38.98%) Python
3 19 (10.73%) PowerShell
4 18 (10.17%) T-SQL
5 8 (4.52%) Bicep
5 8 (4.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (2.26%) C#
7 3 (1.69%) Bash
8 2 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.56%) Ada
9 1 (0.56%) Java
9 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.56%) R
9 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.43%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.21%) Azure Certification
4 10 (5.65%) Degree
5 5 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.13%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.56%) CAPM
9 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (40.68%) Data Quality
2 14 (7.91%) GDPR
3 11 (6.21%) QA
4 7 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.13%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.56%) GxP
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (3.95%) Docker
2 4 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (6.78%) 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 98 (55.37%) Databricks
2 81 (45.76%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.21%) Informatica
4 10 (5.65%) SAP
5 8 (4.52%) Oracle
6 5 (2.82%) Cognos
6 5 (2.82%) IBM
7 4 (2.26%) Google
7 4 (2.26%) MuleSoft
7 4 (2.26%) Netezza
7 4 (2.26%) Talend
8 3 (1.69%) RedGate
8 3 (1.69%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.13%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.13%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.13%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.56%) Denodo
10 1 (0.56%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.56%) TIBCO