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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 335 405
Rank change year-on-year -88 +70 -61
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 332 356 448
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.82% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 2.46% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 253 269 381
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +3.85% -0.76%
75th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% - -

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 24,424 14,448 25,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.25% 33.26% 32.54%
Number of salaries quoted 16,354 10,332 19,416
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,574 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -61 149 £80,000 - 35
North of England +1 66 £80,000 +33.33% 11
Yorkshire -7 42 £80,000 +33.33% 7
Midlands -41 38 £58,750 -4.08% 15
West Midlands -25 32 £57,500 - 13
East of England -7 31 £90,000 +66.67% 1
South East -74 21 £50,000 -23.08% 19
North West +7 20 £55,000 -4.35% 2
South West -53 18 £84,000 +8.39% 1
East Midlands -33 6 £60,000 -7.69% 2
North East -49 4 £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 33 (9.94%) Apache Spark
2 31 (9.34%) SharePoint
3 14 (4.22%) Apache
4 12 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.90%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.60%) Luigi
7 1 (0.30%) Appian
Applications
1 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.60%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.30%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 332 (100.00%) Azure
2 156 (46.99%) Power Platform
3 98 (29.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 63 (18.98%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (13.86%) Azure Logic Apps
6 35 (10.54%) Microsoft Purview
7 32 (9.64%) PowerApps
8 31 (9.34%) Power Automate
9 24 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (6.63%) Azure Functions
10 22 (6.63%) Serverless
11 21 (6.33%) Snowflake
12 19 (5.72%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.72%) OneDrive
13 18 (5.42%) AWS
14 17 (5.12%) GCP
15 16 (4.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 13 (3.92%) dbt
16 13 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
17 12 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (45.18%) Power BI
2 104 (31.33%) Data Warehouse
3 87 (26.20%) Data Lake
4 75 (22.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 49 (14.76%) SQL Server
6 40 (12.05%) Metadata
7 37 (11.14%) Delta Lake
8 33 (9.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 32 (9.64%) Spark SQL
10 22 (6.63%) Tableau
11 21 (6.33%) Star Schema
12 20 (6.02%) Relational Database
13 17 (5.12%) Big Data
14 14 (4.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 14 (4.22%) Data Vault
15 13 (3.92%) BigQuery
15 13 (3.92%) Power Query
16 12 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
17 11 (3.31%) Semantic Layer
18 10 (3.01%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 28 (8.43%) Git
2 6 (1.81%) MLflow
3 5 (1.51%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.51%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.90%) GitLab
4 3 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.60%) JIRA
5 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.30%) ERwin
6 1 (0.30%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 112 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 91 (27.41%) Finance
3 57 (17.17%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
4 13 (3.92%) Retail
5 12 (3.61%) Legal
6 11 (3.31%) Law
7 6 (1.81%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.20%) Marketing
8 4 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.90%) Advertising
9 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.90%) Games
9 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.90%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.60%) Banking
10 2 (0.60%) Billing
10 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.30%) Automotive
11 1 (0.30%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 161 (48.49%) Data Engineer
2 81 (24.40%) Senior
3 61 (18.37%) Lead
4 45 (13.55%) Azure Engineer
4 45 (13.55%) Senior Data Engineer
5 42 (12.65%) Architect
6 40 (12.05%) Data Architect
6 40 (12.05%) Developer
7 34 (10.24%) Azure Data Engineer
8 29 (8.73%) Lead Data Engineer
9 23 (6.93%) Platform Engineer
10 18 (5.42%) Senior Developer
11 16 (4.82%) Consultant
12 14 (4.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 9 (2.71%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 9 (2.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 8 (2.41%) Data Manager
14 8 (2.41%) Microsoft Engineer
14 8 (2.41%) Senior Consultant
15 7 (2.11%) Microsoft 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (21.69%) PySpark
2 23 (6.93%) .NET
2 23 (6.93%) JSON
3 21 (6.33%) .NET Core
3 21 (6.33%) CSS
3 21 (6.33%) HTML
3 21 (6.33%) REST
4 20 (6.02%) Kafka
5 19 (5.72%) HTML5 Canvas
5 19 (5.72%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (5.72%) SPFx
6 12 (3.61%) ARM Templates
7 6 (1.81%) SOAP
8 5 (1.51%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.90%) Middleware
9 3 (0.90%) RESTful
10 2 (0.60%) Node.js
10 2 (0.60%) NumPy
10 2 (0.60%) Smarty
10 2 (0.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.34%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.12%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (3.31%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.81%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.81%) Replication
7 4 (1.20%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.20%) Reinsurance
8 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.90%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.90%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.60%) Clustering
9 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (55.42%) Analytics
2 178 (53.61%) Business Intelligence
3 173 (52.11%) Data Modelling
4 152 (45.78%) Data Engineering
5 151 (45.48%) ETL
6 144 (43.37%) CI/CD
7 143 (43.07%) Data Pipeline
8 125 (37.65%) DevOps
9 99 (29.82%) AI
10 90 (27.11%) Data Governance
11 84 (25.30%) Machine Learning
12 80 (24.10%) Decision-Making
13 74 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
14 69 (20.78%) Agile
15 65 (19.58%) Data Architecture
16 62 (18.67%) Data Integration
17 60 (18.07%) Data Science
18 57 (17.17%) Technical Leadership
19 50 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
19 50 (15.06%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 251 (75.60%) SQL
2 167 (50.30%) Python
3 35 (10.54%) PowerShell
4 29 (8.73%) Scala
5 24 (7.23%) C#
6 23 (6.93%) JavaScript
7 20 (6.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 19 (5.72%) TypeScript
9 16 (4.82%) Bicep
10 12 (3.61%) T-SQL
11 10 (3.01%) Java
12 7 (2.11%) R
13 5 (1.51%) Go
14 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.60%) PHP
14 2 (0.60%) VBA
15 1 (0.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 39 (11.75%) Azure Certification
2 32 (9.64%) Degree
3 30 (9.04%) Security Cleared
4 25 (7.53%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.01%) SnowPro
8 6 (1.81%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.90%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.30%) ICAEW
13 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (31.33%) Data Quality
2 32 (9.64%) GDPR
3 15 (4.52%) QA
4 5 (1.51%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.51%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.60%) GRC
6 2 (0.60%) IFRS
6 2 (0.60%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.60%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 9 (2.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (13.55%) Terraform
2 10 (3.01%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.30%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 157 (47.29%) Databricks
2 143 (43.07%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.72%) Adobe
4 10 (3.01%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.41%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.41%) SAP
6 7 (2.11%) Foundry
6 7 (2.11%) Google
7 3 (0.90%) Informatica
8 2 (0.60%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.60%) Talend
8 2 (0.60%) Trapeze
9 1 (0.30%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.30%) Confluent
9 1 (0.30%) Infor
9 1 (0.30%) Nintex
9 1 (0.30%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.30%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.30%) UiPath