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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 384 389
Rank change year-on-year -56 +5 -43
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 365 285 438
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.66% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.49% 2.04% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 263 235 347
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £43,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +3.59%

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 24,456 13,971 21,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.69% 32.40% 32.11%
Number of salaries quoted 17,087 9,777 13,871
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,700 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £84,125
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 25 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 25 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 -19 187 £80,000 - 146
North of England -22 67 £60,250 +9.55% 34
Yorkshire -6 36 £80,000 +33.33% 8
South East -60 36 £62,500 +13.64% 54
Midlands -46 35 £85,000 +38.78% 35
West Midlands -50 27 £85,000 +41.67% 24
North West -12 26 £55,000 - 22
South West -59 23 £85,000 +17.24% 12
East of England -15 21 £90,000 +80.00% 10
North East -66 9 £53,750 +2.38% 5
East Midlands -30 8 - - 11
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 42 (11.51%) Apache Spark
2 20 (5.48%) Apache
3 18 (4.93%) SharePoint
4 13 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.55%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.55%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.82%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.27%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 365 (100.00%) Azure
2 170 (46.58%) Power Platform
3 131 (35.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 87 (23.84%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (17.26%) Azure Databricks
6 49 (13.42%) Microsoft Purview
7 43 (11.78%) Azure Logic Apps
8 28 (7.67%) Snowflake
9 27 (7.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 25 (6.85%) Serverless
11 21 (5.75%) AWS
11 21 (5.75%) PowerApps
12 20 (5.48%) Azure Functions
13 19 (5.21%) Power Automate
14 18 (4.93%) dbt
15 17 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
16 15 (4.11%) Azure Machine Learning
16 15 (4.11%) GCP
17 13 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
17 13 (3.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.82%) Firewall
2 2 (0.55%) DNS
3 1 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (46.03%) Power BI
2 125 (34.25%) Data Warehouse
3 95 (26.03%) Data Lake
4 91 (24.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 69 (18.90%) Metadata
6 50 (13.70%) SQL Server
7 47 (12.88%) Delta Lake
8 32 (8.77%) Star Schema
9 27 (7.40%) Tableau
10 24 (6.58%) Spark SQL
11 22 (6.03%) NoSQL
11 22 (6.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 20 (5.48%) Data Vault
12 20 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
13 19 (5.21%) Big Data
14 18 (4.93%) Semantic Layer
15 17 (4.66%) Relational Database
16 15 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
17 14 (3.84%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 13 (3.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 44 (12.05%) Git
2 11 (3.01%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.19%) GitLab
4 7 (1.92%) MLflow
5 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.55%) JIRA
6 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.27%) ERwin
7 1 (0.27%) kappa
7 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.27%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 120 (32.88%) Social Skills
2 104 (28.49%) Finance
3 65 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (5.75%) Legal
5 16 (4.38%) Retail
6 14 (3.84%) Law
7 11 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.19%) Banking
10 6 (1.64%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.37%) Billing
11 5 (1.37%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.37%) Marketing
12 4 (1.10%) Advertising
12 4 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.10%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.82%) Games
14 2 (0.55%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 176 (48.22%) Data Engineer
2 102 (27.95%) Senior
3 65 (17.81%) Azure Engineer
3 65 (17.81%) Senior Data Engineer
4 61 (16.71%) Lead
5 52 (14.25%) Architect
6 47 (12.88%) Data Architect
7 46 (12.60%) Azure Data Engineer
8 41 (11.23%) Developer
9 28 (7.67%) Lead Data Engineer
10 23 (6.30%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (4.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 18 (4.93%) Databricks Engineer
12 17 (4.66%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 15 (4.11%) Consultant
14 13 (3.56%) Analyst
14 13 (3.56%) Python Data Engineer
14 13 (3.56%) Python Engineer
14 13 (3.56%) Senior Developer
15 12 (3.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (21.64%) PySpark
2 55 (15.07%) Terraform
3 36 (9.86%) Kafka
4 24 (6.58%) JSON
5 23 (6.30%) REST
6 14 (3.84%) .NET
7 13 (3.56%) .NET Core
7 13 (3.56%) CSS
7 13 (3.56%) HTML
7 13 (3.56%) HTML5 Canvas
7 13 (3.56%) Microsoft Graph
7 13 (3.56%) SPFx
8 12 (3.29%) Keycloak
9 9 (2.47%) ARM Templates
10 6 (1.64%) XML
11 5 (1.37%) SOAP
11 5 (1.37%) YAML
12 4 (1.10%) Apache Avro
13 3 (0.82%) LangChain
13 3 (0.82%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.40%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.66%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (3.84%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.64%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.37%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.10%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.10%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.10%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.82%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.55%) PKI
11 2 (0.55%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.29%) Windows
2 3 (0.82%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.55%) Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (56.16%) Analytics
1 205 (56.16%) Business Intelligence
2 190 (52.05%) Data Modelling
3 180 (49.32%) CI/CD
4 172 (47.12%) Data Engineering
5 170 (46.58%) ETL
6 163 (44.66%) Data Pipeline
7 162 (44.38%) DevOps
8 94 (25.75%) AI
9 89 (24.38%) Data Governance
10 88 (24.11%) Data Architecture
10 88 (24.11%) Lakehouse
11 82 (22.47%) Agile
12 81 (22.19%) Decision-Making
12 81 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
13 79 (21.64%) Machine Learning
14 74 (20.27%) Data Science
15 69 (18.90%) Data Integration
16 64 (17.53%) Technical Leadership
17 56 (15.34%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 278 (76.16%) SQL
2 202 (55.34%) Python
3 44 (12.05%) Scala
4 32 (8.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 32 (8.77%) PowerShell
5 25 (6.85%) Bicep
5 25 (6.85%) C#
6 18 (4.93%) JavaScript
7 15 (4.11%) T-SQL
8 13 (3.56%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.29%) Go
9 12 (3.29%) Java
10 8 (2.19%) R
11 3 (0.82%) Bash
12 2 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.55%) VBA
13 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 57 (15.62%) Azure Certification
2 43 (11.78%) Security Cleared
3 41 (11.23%) SC Cleared
4 38 (10.41%) Degree
5 25 (6.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.38%) SnowPro
7 15 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (3.29%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.82%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.55%) CISSP
12 2 (0.55%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.27%) ICAEW
13 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (38.90%) Data Quality
2 33 (9.04%) GDPR
3 17 (4.66%) QA
4 9 (2.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 8 (2.19%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.55%) IFRS
6 2 (0.55%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.55%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (5.21%) Docker
2 2 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.82%) Ansible
2 3 (0.82%) Grafana
2 3 (0.82%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 176 (48.22%) Microsoft
2 158 (43.29%) Databricks
3 13 (3.56%) Adobe
4 12 (3.29%) SAP
5 11 (3.01%) Informatica
6 9 (2.47%) Talend
7 7 (1.92%) Google
8 6 (1.64%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.10%) Foundry
9 4 (1.10%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.55%) Oracle
11 1 (0.27%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.27%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.27%) Confluent
11 1 (0.27%) Infor
11 1 (0.27%) Meraki
11 1 (0.27%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.27%) Teradata