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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 354 389
Rank change year-on-year -74 +35 -59
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 358 313 434
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.72% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.46% 2.21% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 265 247 354
10th Percentile £48,950 £43,900 £44,125
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £81,875
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% - -

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 24,596 14,167 22,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.55% 32.60% 31.86%
Number of salaries quoted 17,090 9,871 14,664
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,500 £39,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -48 174 £80,000 - 89
North of England +3 66 £68,000 +23.38% 23
Yorkshire -15 38 £82,500 +37.50% 6
South East -63 36 £62,500 +13.64% 40
Midlands -51 34 £85,000 +41.67% 19
West Midlands -36 27 £85,000 +41.67% 12
East of England -22 25 £90,000 +80.00% 8
North West -11 22 £55,000 - 14
South West -60 20 £85,000 +17.24% 7
East Midlands -32 7 - - 7
North East -55 6 £47,500 -9.52% 3
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 38 (10.61%) Apache Spark
2 23 (6.42%) SharePoint
3 18 (5.03%) Apache
4 11 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.56%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.56%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.28%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 358 (100.00%) Azure
2 169 (47.21%) Power Platform
3 124 (34.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 77 (21.51%) Azure DevOps
5 61 (17.04%) Azure Databricks
6 48 (13.41%) Azure Logic Apps
7 46 (12.85%) Microsoft Purview
8 28 (7.82%) Serverless
9 25 (6.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 25 (6.98%) Azure Functions
10 24 (6.70%) PowerApps
10 24 (6.70%) Snowflake
11 23 (6.42%) Power Automate
12 21 (5.87%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (4.75%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 17 (4.75%) AWS
13 17 (4.75%) OneDrive
14 14 (3.91%) dbt
14 14 (3.91%) GCP
15 13 (3.63%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (46.09%) Power BI
2 117 (32.68%) Data Warehouse
3 99 (27.65%) Data Lake
4 79 (22.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 64 (17.88%) Metadata
6 49 (13.69%) SQL Server
7 47 (13.13%) Delta Lake
8 28 (7.82%) Spark SQL
8 28 (7.82%) Star Schema
9 26 (7.26%) Tableau
10 22 (6.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 20 (5.59%) Data Vault
11 20 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (5.03%) Big Data
13 17 (4.75%) NoSQL
13 17 (4.75%) Relational Database
14 16 (4.47%) Semantic Layer
15 12 (3.35%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (3.35%) BigQuery
15 12 (3.35%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 41 (11.45%) Git
2 8 (2.23%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.96%) MLflow
4 5 (1.40%) GitLab
5 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.56%) JIRA
7 1 (0.28%) ERwin
7 1 (0.28%) kappa
7 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.28%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 124 (34.64%) Social Skills
2 96 (26.82%) Finance
3 61 (17.04%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.31%) Legal
5 14 (3.91%) Law
5 14 (3.91%) Retail
6 11 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (1.96%) Banking
8 6 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.68%) Marketing
9 4 (1.12%) Advertising
9 4 (1.12%) Billing
9 4 (1.12%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.12%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.84%) Games
10 3 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.84%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.28%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 169 (47.21%) Data Engineer
2 100 (27.93%) Senior
3 68 (18.99%) Lead
4 58 (16.20%) Azure Engineer
4 58 (16.20%) Senior Data Engineer
5 53 (14.80%) Architect
6 49 (13.69%) Data Architect
7 44 (12.29%) Developer
8 42 (11.73%) Azure Data Engineer
9 31 (8.66%) Lead Data Engineer
10 23 (6.42%) Databricks Engineer
11 20 (5.59%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.31%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 17 (4.75%) Senior Developer
14 16 (4.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 15 (4.19%) Consultant
16 12 (3.35%) Analyst
17 10 (2.79%) Business Developer
17 10 (2.79%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 10 (2.79%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (22.07%) PySpark
2 48 (13.41%) Terraform
3 28 (7.82%) Kafka
4 27 (7.54%) JSON
5 25 (6.98%) REST
6 19 (5.31%) .NET
7 18 (5.03%) .NET Core
7 18 (5.03%) CSS
7 18 (5.03%) HTML
8 17 (4.75%) HTML5 Canvas
8 17 (4.75%) Microsoft Graph
8 17 (4.75%) SPFx
9 11 (3.07%) ARM Templates
10 10 (2.79%) Keycloak
11 5 (1.40%) SOAP
11 5 (1.40%) XML
12 3 (0.84%) Apache Avro
12 3 (0.84%) LangChain
12 3 (0.84%) YAML
13 2 (0.56%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.06%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.66%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.40%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.40%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.12%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.12%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.12%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.12%) Replication
10 3 (0.84%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.84%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.56%) Clustering
11 2 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.23%) Windows
2 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (56.15%) Business Intelligence
2 198 (55.31%) Analytics
3 187 (52.23%) Data Modelling
4 172 (48.04%) ETL
5 170 (47.49%) Data Engineering
6 169 (47.21%) CI/CD
7 155 (43.30%) Data Pipeline
8 151 (42.18%) DevOps
9 99 (27.65%) AI
10 98 (27.37%) Lakehouse
11 93 (25.98%) Data Governance
12 85 (23.74%) Machine Learning
13 84 (23.46%) Data Architecture
14 81 (22.63%) Decision-Making
15 79 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
16 74 (20.67%) Data Science
17 72 (20.11%) Agile
18 70 (19.55%) Technical Leadership
19 69 (19.27%) Data Integration
20 56 (15.64%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 274 (76.54%) SQL
2 201 (56.15%) Python
3 40 (11.17%) Scala
4 32 (8.94%) PowerShell
5 29 (8.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 28 (7.82%) C#
7 21 (5.87%) Bicep
7 21 (5.87%) JavaScript
8 17 (4.75%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.63%) T-SQL
10 11 (3.07%) Java
11 10 (2.79%) Go
12 6 (1.68%) R
13 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.56%) VBA
14 1 (0.28%) PHP
14 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 51 (14.25%) Azure Certification
2 38 (10.61%) Degree
3 37 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 32 (8.94%) SC Cleared
5 25 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.47%) SnowPro
8 10 (2.79%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.84%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.28%) ICAEW
13 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (37.43%) Data Quality
2 36 (10.06%) GDPR
3 17 (4.75%) QA
4 7 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.40%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.56%) IFRS
6 2 (0.56%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (3.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (3.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.28%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 174 (48.60%) Microsoft
2 161 (44.97%) Databricks
3 17 (4.75%) Adobe
4 10 (2.79%) SAP
5 9 (2.51%) Informatica
6 8 (2.23%) Talend
7 7 (1.96%) Google
7 7 (1.96%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.68%) Foundry
8 6 (1.68%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.28%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.28%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.28%) Confluent
9 1 (0.28%) Infor
9 1 (0.28%) Meraki
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle
9 1 (0.28%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.28%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.28%) Teradata