Azure Data Factory Job Trends in England

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 315 433
Rank change year-on-year -76 +118 -57
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 334 350 469
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.91% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 2.68% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 263 280 419
10th Percentile £47,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £79,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £66,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.21% +6.00% -7.41%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Azure Data Factory falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 24,605 13,078 30,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.58% 34.15% 34.50%
Number of salaries quoted 14,376 9,204 24,332
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,741 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Azure Data Factory job vacancy trend in England

Azure Data Factory
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Data Factory.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Data Factory in England

Azure Data Factory
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Data Factory within the England region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -40 143 £83,500 +9.51% 26
North of England -33 55 £80,000 +33.33% 9
Midlands -28 45 £58,750 -9.62% 7
West Midlands -30 40 £58,750 -7.84% 3
Yorkshire -38 38 £80,000 +33.33% 3
East of England -4 34 £90,000 +67.44% 1
South East -64 29 £50,000 -23.08% 21
North West -8 16 £61,250 -2.00% 6
South West -52 16 £55,000 -29.03% 2
East Midlands -36 5 £57,500 -11.54% 4
North East -38 1 - -
Azure Data Factory
UK

Azure Data Factory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 35 (10.48%) SharePoint
2 23 (6.89%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.89%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.99%) Apache
5 9 (2.69%) Appian
6 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.90%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.60%) Luigi
9 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.60%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.30%) Endur
3 1 (0.30%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 334 (100.00%) Azure
2 146 (43.71%) Power Platform
3 99 (29.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 64 (19.16%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (12.28%) Azure Logic Apps
6 40 (11.98%) Power Automate
7 33 (9.88%) PowerApps
8 32 (9.58%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (6.89%) Serverless
10 21 (6.29%) Azure Functions
11 20 (5.99%) AWS
11 20 (5.99%) Azure Monitor
12 19 (5.69%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.69%) Microsoft Purview
12 19 (5.69%) OneDrive
13 18 (5.39%) GitHub
14 17 (5.09%) GCP
15 15 (4.49%) dbt
15 15 (4.49%) Microsoft Copilot
16 14 (4.19%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.30%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (41.32%) Power BI
2 101 (30.24%) Data Lake
3 97 (29.04%) Data Warehouse
4 82 (24.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 53 (15.87%) SQL Server
6 34 (10.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 33 (9.88%) Delta Lake
7 33 (9.88%) Spark SQL
8 19 (5.69%) Metadata
9 18 (5.39%) Relational Database
10 17 (5.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 14 (4.19%) Tableau
12 13 (3.89%) Star Schema
13 11 (3.29%) Big Data
13 11 (3.29%) BigQuery
13 11 (3.29%) Power Query
14 9 (2.69%) Pinecone
14 9 (2.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
16 6 (1.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 32 (9.58%) Git
2 11 (3.29%) MLflow
3 5 (1.50%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.20%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.30%) JIRA
General
1 118 (35.33%) Social Skills
2 114 (34.13%) Finance
3 49 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (2.99%) Public Sector
4 10 (2.99%) Retail
5 9 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (1.50%) Law
7 4 (1.20%) Advertising
7 4 (1.20%) Automotive
7 4 (1.20%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.90%) Legal
8 3 (0.90%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.60%) Banking
9 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.30%) Billing
10 1 (0.30%) Local Government
10 1 (0.30%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 161 (48.20%) Data Engineer
2 71 (21.26%) Senior
3 55 (16.47%) Lead
4 49 (14.67%) Azure Engineer
5 43 (12.87%) Developer
6 41 (12.28%) Senior Data Engineer
7 33 (9.88%) Azure Data Engineer
8 29 (8.68%) Platform Engineer
9 27 (8.08%) Lead Data Engineer
10 22 (6.59%) Architect
11 20 (5.99%) Consultant
12 18 (5.39%) Data Architect
12 18 (5.39%) Senior Developer
13 15 (4.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 13 (3.89%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 13 (3.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 12 (3.59%) Automation Engineer
16 11 (3.29%) Microsoft Engineer
17 10 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 8 (2.40%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (21.56%) PySpark
2 30 (8.98%) .NET
2 30 (8.98%) REST
3 22 (6.59%) .NET Core
3 22 (6.59%) JSON
4 21 (6.29%) CSS
4 21 (6.29%) HTML
5 19 (5.69%) HTML5 Canvas
5 19 (5.69%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (5.69%) SPFx
6 14 (4.19%) ARM Templates
7 12 (3.59%) RESTful
8 10 (2.99%) FastAPI
8 10 (2.99%) Kafka
8 10 (2.99%) NumPy
8 10 (2.99%) Pandas
8 10 (2.99%) PyTorch
8 10 (2.99%) scikit-learn
8 10 (2.99%) TensorFlow
9 9 (2.69%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.59%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (4.49%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.29%) Low-Code
4 9 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.40%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.10%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.80%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (1.80%) Replication
8 4 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.20%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.20%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.60%) Clustering
10 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.30%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (49.40%) ETL
2 163 (48.80%) Analytics
2 163 (48.80%) Data Modelling
3 154 (46.11%) Business Intelligence
4 148 (44.31%) Data Engineering
5 142 (42.51%) CI/CD
6 140 (41.92%) Data Pipeline
7 115 (34.43%) DevOps
8 79 (23.65%) AI
9 75 (22.46%) Data Governance
10 69 (20.66%) Agile
11 67 (20.06%) Problem-Solving
12 64 (19.16%) Decision-Making
13 61 (18.26%) Machine Learning
14 56 (16.77%) Data Architecture
15 50 (14.97%) Data Integration
16 48 (14.37%) Infrastructure as Code
17 41 (12.28%) Mentoring
18 39 (11.68%) Data Science
19 38 (11.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 254 (76.05%) SQL
2 165 (49.40%) Python
3 33 (9.88%) PowerShell
4 30 (8.98%) C#
5 26 (7.78%) JavaScript
6 24 (7.19%) Scala
7 19 (5.69%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (4.79%) T-SQL
10 12 (3.59%) Java
11 10 (2.99%) R
12 7 (2.10%) Bicep
13 3 (0.90%) VBA
14 2 (0.60%) C++
14 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.60%) PHP
15 1 (0.30%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (11.38%) Degree
2 23 (6.89%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.99%) Azure Certification
4 19 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (5.09%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.50%) IIBA
7 5 (1.50%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.50%) PMP
8 4 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (29.04%) Data Quality
2 24 (7.19%) GDPR
3 8 (2.40%) QA
4 5 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.50%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.60%) GRC
5 2 (0.60%) IFRS
5 2 (0.60%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.60%) SLA
6 1 (0.30%) COBIT
6 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 16 (4.79%) Docker
2 4 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (11.98%) Terraform
2 20 (5.99%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.30%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 150 (44.91%) Databricks
2 133 (39.82%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.69%) Adobe
4 16 (4.79%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.69%) Automation Anywhere
5 9 (2.69%) UiPath
6 7 (2.10%) Alteryx
6 7 (2.10%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.10%) SAP
7 6 (1.80%) Foundry
7 6 (1.80%) Google
8 5 (1.50%) Anaplan
9 2 (0.60%) Informatica
9 2 (0.60%) Talend
9 2 (0.60%) Trapeze
10 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.30%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.30%) Infor
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle
10 1 (0.30%) Teradata