Hybrid/Remote Azure Data Factory Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 205 204
Rank change year-on-year +28 -1 +70
Contract jobs citing Azure Data Factory 134 124 174
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.32% 1.05% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.08% 2.72% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 86 127
10th Percentile £397 £349 £412
25th Percentile £463 £423 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -5.68% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £673 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -47.69% - -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,357 4,566 6,617
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.86% 38.77% 38.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,961 3,067 4,791
10th Percentile £330 £329 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £732 £750 £717
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 49 81
10th Percentile £17.88 £20.86 £15.42
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £37.00 £37.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - -22.11% +35.71%
75th Percentile £65.69 £64.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £78.34 £81.50 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -9.31% +16.00% +11.11%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Data Factory and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Azure Data Factory job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Data Factory.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Data Factory over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Azure Data Factory daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Azure Data Factory
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Data Factory.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 18 (13.43%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.73%) Apache
2 5 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (5.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.75%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.75%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 134 (100.00%) Azure
2 58 (43.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 51 (38.06%) Power Platform
4 27 (20.15%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (11.94%) Serverless
6 15 (11.19%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (10.45%) Azure Logic Apps
8 13 (9.70%) Azure Functions
9 12 (8.96%) Power Automate
10 11 (8.21%) AWS
10 11 (8.21%) Snowflake
11 9 (6.72%) PowerApps
12 8 (5.97%) dbt
12 8 (5.97%) Microsoft Purview
13 6 (4.48%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (3.73%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (3.73%) Azure Stack
14 5 (3.73%) GCP
14 5 (3.73%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.24%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (35.82%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (35.07%) Power BI
3 45 (33.58%) Data Lake
4 36 (26.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (9.70%) NoSQL
6 12 (8.96%) SQL Server
7 9 (6.72%) Metadata
8 8 (5.97%) Snowflake Schema
8 8 (5.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (5.22%) Data Vault
9 7 (5.22%) Delta Lake
10 6 (4.48%) Big Data
11 5 (3.73%) Relational Database
11 5 (3.73%) Tableau
12 4 (2.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.99%) MongoDB
12 4 (2.99%) MySQL
13 3 (2.24%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
14 2 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (16.42%) Git
2 2 (1.49%) GCC
2 2 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.75%) ERwin
3 1 (0.75%) Liquibase
3 1 (0.75%) MLflow
3 1 (0.75%) Pylint
3 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.43%) Finance
3 13 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.72%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.48%) Banking
6 5 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.24%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.24%) Marketing
8 3 (2.24%) Retail
9 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.49%) Police
10 1 (0.75%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.75%) Automotive
10 1 (0.75%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.75%) Law
10 1 (0.75%) Legal
10 1 (0.75%) Military
10 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (48.51%) Data Engineer
2 38 (28.36%) Azure Engineer
3 35 (26.12%) Azure Data Engineer
4 25 (18.66%) Architect
5 18 (13.43%) Data Architect
6 11 (8.21%) Developer
7 10 (7.46%) Azure Architect
8 9 (6.72%) Lead
9 7 (5.22%) Azure Data Architect
9 7 (5.22%) Senior
10 6 (4.48%) Consultant
10 6 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.73%) Azure Developer
12 4 (2.99%) Lead Data Engineer
13 3 (2.24%) Analyst
13 3 (2.24%) Applications Developer
13 3 (2.24%) Azure Specialist
13 3 (2.24%) Data Consultant
13 3 (2.24%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 3 (2.24%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (20.15%) PySpark
2 9 (6.72%) Kafka
3 7 (5.22%) REST
4 5 (3.73%) JSON
5 4 (2.99%) .NET
5 4 (2.99%) SOAP
6 3 (2.24%) Ajax
6 3 (2.24%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.24%) FastAPI
6 3 (2.24%) HTML
6 3 (2.24%) LangChain
6 3 (2.24%) OAuth
6 3 (2.24%) OAuth2
6 3 (2.24%) Pandas
6 3 (2.24%) YAML
7 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.49%) RESTful
8 1 (0.75%) Node.js
8 1 (0.75%) NumPy
8 1 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.73%) Data Structures
2 4 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.24%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.49%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.49%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.49%) Reference Data
4 2 (1.49%) Replication
4 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.75%) Clustering
5 1 (0.75%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.75%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.75%) Life Science
5 1 (0.75%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (48.51%) Data Modelling
2 62 (46.27%) Data Pipeline
3 58 (43.28%) ETL
4 53 (39.55%) Business Intelligence
4 53 (39.55%) DevOps
5 51 (38.06%) Analytics
6 46 (34.33%) Data Engineering
7 44 (32.84%) Data Governance
8 40 (29.85%) CI/CD
8 40 (29.85%) Data Integration
9 31 (23.13%) Agile
9 31 (23.13%) Data Architecture
10 20 (14.93%) Data Transformation
10 20 (14.93%) Migration
11 16 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (11.19%) AI
12 15 (11.19%) Data Ingestion
12 15 (11.19%) Machine Learning
13 14 (10.45%) Mentoring
13 14 (10.45%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 90 (67.16%) SQL
2 53 (39.55%) Python
3 15 (11.19%) Scala
4 8 (5.97%) C#
5 6 (4.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (3.73%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.99%) Java
7 4 (2.99%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.24%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.24%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.49%) Bash
9 2 (1.49%) Bicep
10 1 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.75%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (20.15%) Security Cleared
2 26 (19.40%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.96%) Degree
4 11 (8.21%) Azure Certification
5 7 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.75%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.75%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (32.84%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.46%) GDPR
3 4 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.24%) QA
5 2 (1.49%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.75%) Basel II
6 1 (0.75%) Basel III
6 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (4.48%) Docker
2 2 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (5.22%) Terraform
2 6 (4.48%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.49%) Grafana
Vendors
1 74 (55.22%) Databricks
2 47 (35.07%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.46%) Oracle
4 6 (4.48%) Informatica
5 4 (2.99%) SAP
6 3 (2.24%) Talend
7 2 (1.49%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.75%) Google
8 1 (0.75%) New Relic
8 1 (0.75%) RedGate
8 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.75%) Workday