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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 280 263
Rank change year-on-year -23 -17 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 168 77 138
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.57% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.18% 1.76% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 54 119
10th Percentile £411 £371 £405
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £514 £625
90th Percentile £650 £538 £650
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +1.00% -6.10% -3.18%

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 7,722 4,364 5,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.63% 32.08% 26.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,037 2,970 3,797
10th Percentile £300 £250 £225
25th Percentile £401 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £594
90th Percentile £675 £650 £669
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 472 176 275
10th Percentile £15.53 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £15.68
Median hourly rate £37.88 £18.87 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year +100.72% -10.01% -20.81%
75th Percentile £69.52 £34.47 £43.75
90th Percentile £84.88 £60.31 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.08
% change year-on-year +33.93% +26.84% -36.93%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -20 65 £500 +15.61% 12
West Midlands -28 49 £500 +13.64% 9
North of England -46 42 £500 +2.56% 12
South East -53 26 £575 +25.00% 22
North West -40 23 £500 - 8
South West -26 18 £500 - 4
East Midlands -3 16 £553 +42.58% 3
Yorkshire -31 14 £500 +33.33% 3
Scotland +1 9 £613 +42.11% 3
East of England -23 9 £589 +15.44% 5
North East - 5 £450 - 1
Wales - 4 £450 - 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 11 (6.55%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.17%) Apache
4 5 (2.98%) Confluence
5 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.19%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 168 (100.00%) Azure
2 62 (36.90%) Power Platform
3 57 (33.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 33 (19.64%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (11.90%) Serverless
6 19 (11.31%) GitHub
7 17 (10.12%) Azure Functions
8 16 (9.52%) Snowflake
9 15 (8.93%) Azure Storage
10 10 (5.95%) AWS
10 10 (5.95%) Entra ID
11 9 (5.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (4.76%) Azure AKS
12 8 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (4.76%) dbt
13 7 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (4.17%) GCP
13 7 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.57%) Firewall
2 3 (1.79%) Network Security
3 1 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (32.74%) Power BI
2 43 (25.60%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (22.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 37 (22.02%) Data Lake
5 26 (15.48%) SQL Server
6 17 (10.12%) Delta Lake
7 12 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (4.17%) Metadata
9 6 (3.57%) Big Data
9 6 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (2.38%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.38%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (2.38%) Spark SQL
11 3 (1.79%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.79%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.79%) Star Schema
12 2 (1.19%) Power Query
12 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (13.10%) Git
2 6 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (0.60%) Newman
3 1 (0.60%) Postman
3 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 35 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (10.71%) Finance
4 15 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.76%) Retail
6 6 (3.57%) Law
7 5 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.98%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.79%) Marketing
9 2 (1.19%) Billing
10 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.60%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.60%) Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.60%) Legal
10 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 79 (47.02%) Data Engineer
2 28 (16.67%) Senior
3 27 (16.07%) Azure Engineer
4 24 (14.29%) Architect
5 22 (13.10%) Lead
6 19 (11.31%) Senior Data Engineer
7 18 (10.71%) Azure Data Engineer
8 17 (10.12%) Data Architect
9 10 (5.95%) Analyst
10 9 (5.36%) Azure Architect
11 8 (4.76%) Data Analyst
11 8 (4.76%) Developer
12 7 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (3.57%) Project Manager
14 5 (2.98%) Data Migration Lead
14 5 (2.98%) Lead Data Engineer
15 4 (2.38%) DBA
15 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Engineer
15 4 (2.38%) Migration Engineer
15 4 (2.38%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.48%) PySpark
2 11 (6.55%) Kafka
3 10 (5.95%) .NET
4 9 (5.36%) ARM Templates
5 7 (4.17%) REST
6 6 (3.57%) Pandas
6 6 (3.57%) YAML
7 5 (2.98%) JSON
8 4 (2.38%) Streamlit
9 3 (1.79%) React
9 3 (1.79%) XML
10 2 (1.19%) .NET Framework
10 2 (1.19%) ASP.NET
10 2 (1.19%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (1.19%) CSS
10 2 (1.19%) Entity Framework
10 2 (1.19%) Jest
10 2 (1.19%) Next.js
10 2 (1.19%) pytest
10 2 (1.19%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (6.55%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.95%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.38%) Data Fabric
5 4 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.38%) SCADA
6 3 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.79%) IoT
7 2 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.19%) Life Science
7 2 (1.19%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.19%) Wiki
8 1 (0.60%) Clustering
8 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.60%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.60%) NHS
8 1 (0.60%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.38%) Windows
2 3 (1.79%) Linux
2 3 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.79%) Ubuntu
2 3 (1.79%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (56.55%) ETL
2 91 (54.17%) Data Modelling
3 85 (50.60%) Data Pipeline
4 79 (47.02%) Analytics
5 70 (41.67%) CI/CD
6 60 (35.71%) Data Engineering
7 57 (33.93%) DevOps
8 55 (32.74%) Business Intelligence
9 39 (23.21%) Migration
10 34 (20.24%) Data Architecture
11 33 (19.64%) Data Governance
12 32 (19.05%) AI
13 31 (18.45%) Data Transformation
14 30 (17.86%) Agile
14 30 (17.86%) Data Integration
15 29 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (17.26%) Validation
16 23 (13.69%) Decision-Making
17 22 (13.10%) Performance Tuning
18 20 (11.90%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 133 (79.17%) SQL
2 80 (47.62%) Python
3 17 (10.12%) PowerShell
4 15 (8.93%) T-SQL
5 14 (8.33%) C#
6 11 (6.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (5.36%) Bicep
8 6 (3.57%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 16 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 8 (4.76%) Degree
4 5 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (36.90%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.14%) GDPR
2 12 (7.14%) QA
3 5 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.60%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (4.17%) Docker
2 6 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (10.71%) Terraform
2 4 (2.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.60%) Control-M
4 1 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.60%) Grafana
4 1 (0.60%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 94 (55.95%) Databricks
2 68 (40.48%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.17%) Informatica
4 5 (2.98%) Oracle
4 5 (2.98%) SAP
5 4 (2.38%) Talend
6 3 (1.79%) RedGate
6 3 (1.79%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.19%) Foundry
7 2 (1.19%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.19%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.19%) Splunk
8 1 (0.60%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.60%) Cognos
8 1 (0.60%) HP
8 1 (0.60%) Infor