Azure Data Factory Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 291 303
Rank change year-on-year +32 +12 -37
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 476 258 319
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.95% 0.87% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.68% 2.30% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 177 255
10th Percentile £386 £365 £405
25th Percentile £425 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £638
90th Percentile £688 £675 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £533
% change year-on-year +5.26% -10.80% -7.39%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 17,766 11,224 14,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.41% 37.90% 32.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,881 7,582 9,970
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £632
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 581 274 359
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.17 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.55 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +29.60% +31.93% -38.17%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £19.95
% change year-on-year +94.60% -3.41% -25.42%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Data Factory relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Azure Data Factory job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Data Factory.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Data Factory in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Data Factory.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 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
England +16 437 £513 +2.50% 71
London +6 254 £525 +0.96% 37
UK excluding London -31 164 £500 +5.26% 50
Work from Home +22 156 £505 +1.00% 47
Midlands -16 56 £500 +21.95% 11
West Midlands -28 44 £500 +19.05% 9
North of England -52 44 £500 +5.26% 13
South East -54 29 £525 +10.53% 14
North West -32 23 £500 - 8
South West -15 20 £500 - 2
Yorkshire -44 14 £500 +29.03% 4
East Midlands -14 12 £553 +42.58% 2
East of England -25 9 £589 +15.44% 4
Scotland -12 8 £644 +49.36% 3
North East - 7 £475 - 1
Wales - 3 £450 - 3

Azure Data Factory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 38 (7.98%) Apache Spark
2 29 (6.09%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (4.41%) Apache
4 8 (1.68%) Appian
5 7 (1.47%) Confluence
6 2 (0.42%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.05%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.63%) Infor M3
3 3 (0.63%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.42%) Endur
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 476 (100.00%) Azure
2 188 (39.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 180 (37.82%) Power Platform
4 136 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (15.97%) GitHub
6 45 (9.45%) Serverless
7 42 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
8 41 (8.61%) AWS
9 40 (8.40%) Snowflake
10 32 (6.72%) Microsoft Purview
11 31 (6.51%) Azure Functions
12 25 (5.25%) Azure Key Vault
13 24 (5.04%) dbt
13 24 (5.04%) Power Automate
14 21 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
15 20 (4.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 19 (3.99%) Azure Monitor
16 19 (3.99%) Azure Storage
17 16 (3.36%) GCP
18 14 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.26%) Firewall
1 6 (1.26%) Network Security
2 1 (0.21%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (34.03%) Data Lake
2 158 (33.19%) Power BI
3 143 (30.04%) Data Warehouse
4 92 (19.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 92 (19.33%) SQL Server
5 67 (14.08%) Delta Lake
6 39 (8.19%) Metadata
7 38 (7.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 23 (4.83%) Snowflake Schema
8 23 (4.83%) Star Schema
9 21 (4.41%) Spark SQL
10 16 (3.36%) NoSQL
11 12 (2.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 12 (2.52%) Relational Database
11 12 (2.52%) Tableau
12 11 (2.31%) Big Data
12 11 (2.31%) Power Query
13 10 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 8 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 69 (14.50%) Git
2 15 (3.15%) JIRA
3 12 (2.52%) MLflow
4 8 (1.68%) GitLab
4 8 (1.68%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.63%) ERwin
5 3 (0.63%) git-flow
5 3 (0.63%) JMeter
5 3 (0.63%) Postman
5 3 (0.63%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.42%) Selenium
6 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.21%) Newman
7 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.21%) SoapUI
General
1 123 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 100 (21.01%) Finance
3 68 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.56%) Public Sector
5 16 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (2.73%) Retail
7 12 (2.52%) Banking
8 10 (2.10%) Marketing
8 10 (2.10%) Publishing
9 7 (1.47%) Law
10 4 (0.84%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.63%) Military
12 2 (0.42%) Front Office
12 2 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.42%) Local Government
12 2 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.21%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.21%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.21%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 230 (48.32%) Data Engineer
2 82 (17.23%) Azure Engineer
3 75 (15.76%) Senior
4 68 (14.29%) Architect
5 64 (13.45%) Azure Data Engineer
6 50 (10.50%) Senior Data Engineer
7 46 (9.66%) Data Architect
8 40 (8.40%) Lead
9 25 (5.25%) Analyst
10 24 (5.04%) Azure Architect
10 24 (5.04%) Developer
11 23 (4.83%) Data Analyst
12 16 (3.36%) Consultant
13 15 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (2.73%) Azure Data Architect
14 13 (2.73%) Platform Engineer
15 11 (2.31%) Business Analyst
15 11 (2.31%) DevOps Engineer
16 10 (2.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 10 (2.10%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (22.06%) PySpark
2 31 (6.51%) Pandas
2 31 (6.51%) REST
3 29 (6.09%) Kafka
4 26 (5.46%) YAML
5 24 (5.04%) .NET
6 18 (3.78%) scikit-learn
7 14 (2.94%) ARM Templates
7 14 (2.94%) pytest
8 12 (2.52%) JSON
8 12 (2.52%) XML
9 11 (2.31%) NumPy
10 10 (2.10%) Matplotlib
10 10 (2.10%) TensorFlow
10 10 (2.10%) Web Services
11 9 (1.89%) FastAPI
11 9 (1.89%) JWT
11 9 (1.89%) OAuth
11 9 (1.89%) RESTful
11 9 (1.89%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 50 (10.50%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.09%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (4.20%) Data Structures
4 18 (3.78%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.10%) IoT
5 10 (2.10%) Low-Code
6 9 (1.89%) Reinsurance
7 8 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.26%) Data Fabric
8 6 (1.26%) SCADA
8 6 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.05%) NHS
10 4 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.84%) Reference Data
10 4 (0.84%) Replication
11 3 (0.63%) Clustering
11 3 (0.63%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.68%) Unix
2 5 (1.05%) Linux
2 5 (1.05%) Windows
3 3 (0.63%) VMS
4 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (52.52%) Data Modelling
2 244 (51.26%) Analytics
3 240 (50.42%) ETL
4 221 (46.43%) Data Pipeline
5 207 (43.49%) CI/CD
6 196 (41.18%) DevOps
7 174 (36.55%) Data Engineering
8 166 (34.87%) Business Intelligence
9 136 (28.57%) Data Governance
10 107 (22.48%) Agile
10 107 (22.48%) Data Architecture
11 90 (18.91%) Migration
12 89 (18.70%) AI
13 79 (16.60%) Data Transformation
14 67 (14.08%) Data Integration
15 65 (13.66%) Infrastructure as Code
16 64 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
17 59 (12.39%) Validation
18 58 (12.18%) Decision-Making
19 54 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 357 (75.00%) SQL
2 249 (52.31%) Python
3 44 (9.24%) T-SQL
4 34 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 30 (6.30%) C#
6 27 (5.67%) Bicep
7 26 (5.46%) PowerShell
8 22 (4.62%) Scala
9 15 (3.15%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.05%) Bash
10 5 (1.05%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.63%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.63%) R
12 2 (0.42%) Java
12 2 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.21%) C
13 1 (0.21%) Korn
Qualifications
1 88 (18.49%) Security Cleared
2 71 (14.92%) SC Cleared
3 48 (10.08%) Azure Certification
4 21 (4.41%) Degree
4 21 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.68%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.84%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 3 (0.63%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.42%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.42%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.42%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.21%) CISA
11 1 (0.21%) CISM
11 1 (0.21%) CISSP
11 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (38.03%) Data Quality
2 35 (7.35%) GDPR
3 22 (4.62%) QA
4 7 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.63%) NIST
6 3 (0.63%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.21%) EMIR
8 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.21%) MiFID
8 1 (0.21%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (6.51%) Docker
2 5 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.21%) RACF
Systems Management
1 77 (16.18%) Terraform
2 27 (5.67%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.47%) Ansible
4 4 (0.84%) Progress Chef
4 4 (0.84%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.84%) Puppet
5 3 (0.63%) Grafana
6 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.21%) Control-M
7 1 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 259 (54.41%) Databricks
2 182 (38.24%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.99%) Informatica
4 18 (3.78%) OpenAI
5 12 (2.52%) Oracle
6 10 (2.10%) SAP
7 9 (1.89%) Foundry
8 8 (1.68%) Automation Anywhere
8 8 (1.68%) UiPath
9 6 (1.26%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.05%) Infor
10 5 (1.05%) Talend
11 4 (0.84%) Cloudera
11 4 (0.84%) Hortonworks
11 4 (0.84%) SimCorp
12 3 (0.63%) Adobe
12 3 (0.63%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.42%) Ab Initio
13 2 (0.42%) OpenLink
13 2 (0.42%) SolarWinds