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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 333 433
Rank change year-on-year -81 +100 -53
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 324 347 488
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.87% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.41% 2.54% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 251 270 421
10th Percentile £49,638 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,750 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +8.00% -6.72%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year +23.08% +1.96% -2.67%

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 23,048 13,639 31,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.25% 34.02% 32.91%
Number of salaries quoted 15,375 9,702 24,725
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,425
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £82,500 £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% -8.95%

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 24 June 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 24 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -43 146 £85,000 +7.94% 30
North of England -13 58 £80,000 +33.33% 11
Yorkshire -19 40 £80,000 +33.33% 3
Midlands -21 40 £57,500 -11.54% 10
West Midlands -10 34 £57,500 - 8
East of England -6 33 £90,000 +69.01% 4
South East -65 19 £50,000 -23.08% 21
North West -3 16 £62,500 +13.64% 7
South West -60 15 £56,250 -27.42% 4
East Midlands -28 6 £57,500 -11.54% 2
North East -44 2 - - 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 36 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 24 (7.41%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.09%) Apache
5 6 (1.85%) Appian
6 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.93%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.62%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.62%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.62%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.31%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 324 (100.00%) Azure
2 145 (44.75%) Power Platform
3 95 (29.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 64 (19.75%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (13.27%) Azure Logic Apps
6 36 (11.11%) Power Automate
7 32 (9.88%) Microsoft 365
7 32 (9.88%) PowerApps
8 30 (9.26%) Microsoft Purview
9 23 (7.10%) Serverless
10 22 (6.79%) Azure Functions
11 19 (5.86%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.86%) OneDrive
12 18 (5.56%) AWS
13 16 (4.94%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (4.94%) GCP
13 16 (4.94%) Snowflake
14 15 (4.63%) Microsoft Copilot
15 14 (4.32%) Azure AI
15 14 (4.32%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.31%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (42.90%) Power BI
2 92 (28.40%) Data Lake
2 92 (28.40%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (24.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 49 (15.12%) SQL Server
5 36 (11.11%) Delta Lake
6 33 (10.19%) Spark SQL
6 33 (10.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 28 (8.64%) Metadata
8 18 (5.56%) Relational Database
8 18 (5.56%) Tableau
9 17 (5.25%) Star Schema
10 14 (4.32%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 13 (4.01%) Big Data
11 13 (4.01%) Power Query
12 12 (3.70%) BigQuery
13 10 (3.09%) Data Vault
14 9 (2.78%) Semantic Layer
15 8 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (9.26%) Git
2 8 (2.47%) MLflow
3 5 (1.54%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.62%) JIRA
6 2 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.31%) ERwin
7 1 (0.31%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 112 (34.57%) Social Skills
2 103 (31.79%) Finance
3 52 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.40%) Retail
5 10 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.47%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.16%) Law
8 7 (2.16%) Legal
9 4 (1.23%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.93%) Advertising
10 3 (0.93%) Automotive
10 3 (0.93%) Banking
10 3 (0.93%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.62%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.62%) Marketing
12 1 (0.31%) Billing
12 1 (0.31%) Games
12 1 (0.31%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 152 (46.91%) Data Engineer
2 74 (22.84%) Senior
3 57 (17.59%) Lead
4 49 (15.12%) Azure Engineer
5 40 (12.35%) Developer
5 40 (12.35%) Senior Data Engineer
6 35 (10.80%) Architect
7 33 (10.19%) Azure Data Engineer
8 31 (9.57%) Data Architect
9 30 (9.26%) Platform Engineer
10 27 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
11 18 (5.56%) Senior Developer
12 15 (4.63%) Consultant
13 14 (4.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 13 (4.01%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 13 (4.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 12 (3.70%) Microsoft Engineer
16 9 (2.78%) Automation Engineer
17 8 (2.47%) Analyst
17 8 (2.47%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (22.22%) PySpark
2 26 (8.02%) REST
3 25 (7.72%) .NET
4 23 (7.10%) JSON
5 22 (6.79%) .NET Core
6 21 (6.48%) CSS
6 21 (6.48%) HTML
7 19 (5.86%) HTML5 Canvas
7 19 (5.86%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (5.86%) SPFx
8 13 (4.01%) ARM Templates
9 11 (3.40%) Kafka
10 9 (2.78%) RESTful
11 7 (2.16%) FastAPI
11 7 (2.16%) NumPy
11 7 (2.16%) Pandas
11 7 (2.16%) PyTorch
11 7 (2.16%) scikit-learn
11 7 (2.16%) TensorFlow
12 6 (1.85%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.94%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.47%) Low-Code
7 7 (2.16%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (2.16%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.85%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.85%) Replication
9 5 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.23%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.23%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.93%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.93%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.62%) Clustering
12 2 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.62%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (51.23%) Analytics
2 160 (49.38%) Business Intelligence
3 159 (49.07%) Data Modelling
4 148 (45.68%) ETL
5 147 (45.37%) Data Engineering
6 141 (43.52%) CI/CD
7 133 (41.05%) Data Pipeline
8 116 (35.80%) DevOps
9 93 (28.70%) AI
10 82 (25.31%) Data Governance
11 70 (21.60%) Decision-Making
11 70 (21.60%) Machine Learning
12 66 (20.37%) Agile
12 66 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
13 63 (19.44%) Data Architecture
14 56 (17.28%) Data Integration
15 51 (15.74%) Infrastructure as Code
16 47 (14.51%) Technical Leadership
17 46 (14.20%) Data Science
18 44 (13.58%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 246 (75.93%) SQL
2 158 (48.77%) Python
3 36 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 26 (8.02%) C#
5 24 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 24 (7.41%) Scala
6 19 (5.86%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (4.01%) T-SQL
9 12 (3.70%) Bicep
10 9 (2.78%) Java
11 8 (2.47%) R
12 2 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.62%) PHP
12 2 (0.62%) VBA
13 1 (0.31%) C++
13 1 (0.31%) Go
Qualifications
1 37 (11.42%) Degree
2 29 (8.95%) Azure Certification
3 25 (7.72%) Security Cleared
4 20 (6.17%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.85%) SnowPro
8 4 (1.23%) IIBA
8 4 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.23%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.23%) PMP
9 3 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.31%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (30.56%) Data Quality
2 27 (8.33%) GDPR
3 9 (2.78%) QA
4 5 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.54%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.62%) GRC
6 2 (0.62%) IFRS
6 2 (0.62%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.62%) SLA
7 1 (0.31%) COBIT
7 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 13 (4.01%) Docker
2 4 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (13.58%) Terraform
2 15 (4.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.31%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 147 (45.37%) Databricks
2 137 (42.28%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.86%) Adobe
4 15 (4.63%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.47%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.47%) SAP
6 6 (1.85%) Alteryx
6 6 (1.85%) Automation Anywhere
6 6 (1.85%) Foundry
6 6 (1.85%) Google
6 6 (1.85%) UiPath
7 4 (1.23%) Anaplan
8 3 (0.93%) Informatica
9 2 (0.62%) Talend
9 2 (0.62%) Trapeze
10 1 (0.31%) Confluent
10 1 (0.31%) Infor
10 1 (0.31%) Nintex
10 1 (0.31%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow