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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 211 278
Rank change year-on-year -86 +67 -9
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 110 133 133
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.98% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 3.05% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 87 105
10th Percentile £387 £365 £409
25th Percentile £413 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £602 £625 £638
90th Percentile £649 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £519 £550
% change year-on-year -1.20% -5.68% -
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 6,110 4,362 6,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.83% 32.08% 28.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,279 2,901 4,343
10th Percentile £229 £238 £217
25th Percentile £375 £380 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -1.77%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 107 233
10th Percentile £13.24 £15.24 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.02 £19.90 £15.50
Median hourly rate £33.09 £24.66 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year +34.16% +17.60% +4.85%
75th Percentile £58.75 £41.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.13 £68.75 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £33.09 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +20.31% +22.22% -6.25%

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 February 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 February 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 -22 45 £550 +37.33% 34
West Midlands -14 39 £550 +15.79% 28
North of England -51 25 £488 +21.88% 24
South East -71 22 £425 -30.33% 41
South West -10 18 £550 +10.00% 10
North West -29 10 £450 - 18
Scotland +10 9 £550 +22.22% 2
North East -10 8 £475 +32.68% 4
Yorkshire -59 7 £500 +25.00% 2
East of England -17 6 £650 +62.50% 5
East Midlands -18 6 £478 +23.54% 6
Wales -9 2 £410 -18.00% 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 8 (7.27%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.55%) Apache
3 4 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.91%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.91%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.91%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.91%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 110 (100.00%) Azure
2 47 (42.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 43 (39.09%) Power Platform
4 34 (30.91%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (20.00%) GitHub
6 13 (11.82%) Serverless
7 12 (10.91%) Azure Functions
7 12 (10.91%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (10.91%) GCP
8 10 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (8.18%) Azure Storage
10 8 (7.27%) AWS
10 8 (7.27%) Azure AKS
10 8 (7.27%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (7.27%) Snowflake
11 6 (5.45%) Azure API Management
11 6 (5.45%) Power Automate
12 5 (4.55%) Entra ID
13 4 (3.64%) IaaS
13 4 (3.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.82%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (29.09%) Data Warehouse
1 32 (29.09%) Power BI
2 27 (24.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 21 (19.09%) Data Lake
4 14 (12.73%) SQL Server
5 13 (11.82%) Delta Lake
6 12 (10.91%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (10.91%) Metadata
6 12 (10.91%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (3.64%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.64%) Big Data
8 4 (3.64%) Data Mining
8 4 (3.64%) Power Query
8 4 (3.64%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.64%) Tableau
9 3 (2.73%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.73%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (2.73%) Spark SQL
9 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (1.82%) JIRA
3 1 (0.91%) Poetry
3 1 (0.91%) Pylint
3 1 (0.91%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.18%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.27%) Finance
4 5 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.64%) Law
6 2 (1.82%) Banking
6 2 (1.82%) Legal
6 2 (1.82%) Retail
7 1 (0.91%) Agriculture
7 1 (0.91%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.91%) Marketing
7 1 (0.91%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (40.91%) Data Engineer
2 23 (20.91%) Architect
3 22 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (16.36%) Senior
5 14 (12.73%) Senior Data Engineer
6 13 (11.82%) Azure Data Engineer
7 11 (10.00%) Data Architect
8 10 (9.09%) Azure Architect
8 10 (9.09%) Lead
9 9 (8.18%) Developer
10 7 (6.36%) Enterprise Architect
10 7 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (5.45%) Dynamics 365 Architect
12 5 (4.55%) Azure Software Engineer
12 5 (4.55%) Software Engineer
13 4 (3.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 4 (3.64%) Business Architect
13 4 (3.64%) Site Engineer
13 4 (3.64%) TOGAF Architect
13 4 (3.64%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.18%) Kafka
2 13 (11.82%) PySpark
2 13 (11.82%) REST
3 12 (10.91%) Keycloak
4 7 (6.36%) .NET
5 6 (5.45%) ADO
6 5 (4.55%) ARM Templates
7 3 (2.73%) FastAPI
7 3 (2.73%) Flask
7 3 (2.73%) JSON
7 3 (2.73%) NumPy
7 3 (2.73%) Pandas
7 3 (2.73%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.73%) SOAP
8 2 (1.82%) React
9 1 (0.91%) ASP.NET Core
9 1 (0.91%) FHIR
9 1 (0.91%) Jest
9 1 (0.91%) Next.js
9 1 (0.91%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.73%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (8.18%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.36%) Data Structures
4 7 (6.36%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.73%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.73%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.73%) NHS
6 2 (1.82%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.82%) IoT
7 1 (0.91%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.91%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.91%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (56.36%) DevOps
2 61 (55.45%) ETL
3 51 (46.36%) Analytics
4 45 (40.91%) Data Modelling
5 44 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
6 42 (38.18%) Business Intelligence
7 38 (34.55%) CI/CD
8 34 (30.91%) Data Engineering
9 32 (29.09%) Data Governance
10 26 (23.64%) Agile
11 25 (22.73%) Data Architecture
12 21 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (14.55%) Data Integration
14 14 (12.73%) Migration
15 13 (11.82%) AI
15 13 (11.82%) Containerisation
16 12 (10.91%) Batch Processing
16 12 (10.91%) DataOps
17 11 (10.00%) Mentoring
18 10 (9.09%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (65.45%) SQL
2 62 (56.36%) Python
3 12 (10.91%) Go
4 11 (10.00%) C#
5 9 (8.18%) T-SQL
6 7 (6.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (6.36%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.45%) Bicep
8 3 (2.73%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.82%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.82%) Scala
10 1 (0.91%) C++
10 1 (0.91%) Java
10 1 (0.91%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (19.09%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.18%) Azure Certification
3 18 (16.36%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.64%) Degree
6 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.91%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.91%) PMP
7 1 (0.91%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (20.91%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.18%) GDPR
3 6 (5.45%) QA
4 2 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.91%) Basel II
5 1 (0.91%) Basel III
5 1 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.91%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (13.64%) Docker
2 4 (3.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (14.55%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.91%) Terraform
3 3 (2.73%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 48 (43.64%) Databricks
2 47 (42.73%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.45%) Informatica
4 4 (3.64%) Talend
5 3 (2.73%) Google
5 3 (2.73%) Oracle
6 2 (1.82%) Ab Initio
6 2 (1.82%) Foundry
6 2 (1.82%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.91%) Brio
7 1 (0.91%) RedGate
7 1 (0.91%) Virgin Media