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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 321 419
Rank change year-on-year -70 +98 -40
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 329 360 465
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.91% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 2.63% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 253 288 417
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,438 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,125 £95,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -6.72%

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 24,121 13,676 29,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.35% 34.71% 35.05%
Number of salaries quoted 13,904 9,775 24,165
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £83,738 £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 20 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 20 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 -31 143 £83,500 +6.03% 33
North of England -24 51 £80,000 +28.00% 15
Midlands -33 45 £60,000 -7.69% 16
West Midlands -32 40 £60,000 -4.00% 12
Yorkshire -33 35 £80,000 +33.33% 8
East of England 0 34 £90,000 +71.43% 1
South East -55 29 £50,000 -23.08% 28
North West -1 15 £60,000 -4.00% 6
South West -60 15 £56,250 -11.76% 7
East Midlands -32 5 £57,500 -11.54% 4
North East -40 1 - - 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 (10.94%) SharePoint
2 24 (7.29%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.04%) Apache
4 10 (3.04%) Appian
5 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.61%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.61%) Luigi
7 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.61%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.30%) Endur
3 1 (0.30%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 329 (100.00%) Azure
2 153 (46.50%) Power Platform
3 97 (29.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 66 (20.06%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (12.46%) Power Automate
6 38 (11.55%) Azure Logic Apps
7 33 (10.03%) PowerApps
8 32 (9.73%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (6.69%) Serverless
10 21 (6.38%) AWS
11 20 (6.08%) Azure Functions
12 19 (5.78%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.78%) Azure Monitor
12 19 (5.78%) Microsoft Purview
12 19 (5.78%) OneDrive
13 18 (5.47%) GCP
13 18 (5.47%) GitHub
14 16 (4.86%) PaaS
15 15 (4.56%) Azure AI
15 15 (4.56%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.30%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (43.77%) Power BI
2 101 (30.70%) Data Warehouse
3 98 (29.79%) Data Lake
4 83 (25.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 56 (17.02%) SQL Server
6 38 (11.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 33 (10.03%) Delta Lake
8 32 (9.73%) Spark SQL
9 19 (5.78%) Relational Database
10 18 (5.47%) Metadata
11 17 (5.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 16 (4.86%) Tableau
13 13 (3.95%) Star Schema
14 11 (3.34%) Big Data
14 11 (3.34%) Power Query
15 10 (3.04%) BigQuery
15 10 (3.04%) Pinecone
15 10 (3.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 7 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
16 7 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 34 (10.33%) Git
2 12 (3.65%) MLflow
3 5 (1.52%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.52%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.30%) JIRA
5 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 115 (34.95%) Social Skills
2 112 (34.04%) Finance
3 48 (14.59%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (3.04%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.43%) Retail
8 5 (1.52%) Law
9 4 (1.22%) Advertising
9 4 (1.22%) Automotive
9 4 (1.22%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.91%) Legal
10 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.91%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.61%) Banking
11 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.30%) Billing
12 1 (0.30%) Local Government
12 1 (0.30%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 159 (48.33%) Data Engineer
2 69 (20.97%) Senior
3 51 (15.50%) Lead
4 50 (15.20%) Azure Engineer
5 43 (13.07%) Developer
6 41 (12.46%) Senior Data Engineer
7 34 (10.33%) Azure Data Engineer
8 28 (8.51%) Platform Engineer
9 26 (7.90%) Lead Data Engineer
10 20 (6.08%) Architect
10 20 (6.08%) Consultant
11 17 (5.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 17 (5.17%) Data Architect
11 17 (5.17%) Senior Developer
12 13 (3.95%) Automation Engineer
12 13 (3.95%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 13 (3.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.34%) Microsoft Engineer
14 10 (3.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 8 (2.43%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (21.58%) PySpark
2 32 (9.73%) REST
3 30 (9.12%) .NET
4 24 (7.29%) JSON
5 22 (6.69%) .NET Core
6 21 (6.38%) CSS
6 21 (6.38%) HTML
7 20 (6.08%) HTML5 Canvas
8 19 (5.78%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (5.78%) SPFx
9 13 (3.95%) ARM Templates
9 13 (3.95%) RESTful
10 11 (3.34%) Kafka
10 11 (3.34%) NumPy
10 11 (3.34%) Pandas
10 11 (3.34%) PyTorch
10 11 (3.34%) scikit-learn
10 11 (3.34%) TensorFlow
11 10 (3.04%) pytest
11 10 (3.04%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.08%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.56%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (4.56%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.65%) Low-Code
4 8 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (2.43%) Distributed Computing
4 8 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.13%) AI Agents
5 7 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.82%) Replication
7 5 (1.52%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.91%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.91%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.30%) Life Science
10 1 (0.30%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.30%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (51.06%) ETL
2 165 (50.15%) Data Modelling
3 163 (49.54%) Analytics
4 156 (47.42%) Business Intelligence
5 145 (44.07%) Data Engineering
6 140 (42.55%) CI/CD
7 139 (42.25%) Data Pipeline
8 115 (34.95%) DevOps
9 80 (24.32%) AI
10 73 (22.19%) Data Governance
11 69 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
12 68 (20.67%) Agile
13 64 (19.45%) Decision-Making
14 61 (18.54%) Machine Learning
15 54 (16.41%) Data Architecture
16 49 (14.89%) Data Integration
17 47 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
18 41 (12.46%) Visualisation
19 37 (11.25%) Data Science
20 36 (10.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 253 (76.90%) SQL
2 161 (48.94%) Python
3 34 (10.33%) PowerShell
4 29 (8.81%) C#
5 27 (8.21%) JavaScript
6 24 (7.29%) Scala
7 19 (5.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (5.78%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.86%) T-SQL
9 11 (3.34%) Java
9 11 (3.34%) R
10 6 (1.82%) Bicep
11 2 (0.61%) C++
11 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.61%) PHP
11 2 (0.61%) VBA
12 1 (0.30%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (12.16%) Degree
2 25 (7.60%) Security Cleared
3 20 (6.08%) Azure Certification
3 20 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (5.78%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.82%) IIBA
6 6 (1.82%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.82%) PMP
7 3 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (29.79%) Data Quality
2 24 (7.29%) GDPR
3 6 (1.82%) QA
4 5 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.52%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.61%) GRC
6 2 (0.61%) IFRS
6 2 (0.61%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.61%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) COBIT
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 18 (5.47%) Docker
2 4 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (11.55%) Terraform
2 21 (6.38%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.30%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 149 (45.29%) Databricks
2 128 (38.91%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.78%) Adobe
4 17 (5.17%) OpenAI
5 10 (3.04%) Automation Anywhere
5 10 (3.04%) UiPath
6 8 (2.43%) Alteryx
7 7 (2.13%) SAP
8 6 (1.82%) Anaplan
8 6 (1.82%) Google
8 6 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.52%) Foundry
10 3 (0.91%) Informatica
10 3 (0.91%) Talend
11 2 (0.61%) Trapeze
12 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.30%) Cognizant
12 1 (0.30%) Infor
12 1 (0.30%) Oracle
12 1 (0.30%) SolarWinds