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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 336 435
Rank change year-on-year -80 +99 -82
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 332 362 471
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.84% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 2.52% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 253 281 398
10th Percentile £47,750 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +3.85% -2.99%
75th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,000
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 24,020 14,359 29,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.42% 33.13% 33.00%
Number of salaries quoted 16,016 10,262 22,984
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,080
25th Percentile £43,847 £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 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 15 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 15 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 -68 147 £80,000 - 40
North of England +2 65 £67,500 +12.50% 21
Yorkshire -4 40 £80,000 +33.33% 8
Midlands -36 37 £57,500 -4.17% 29
East of England -8 33 £90,000 +66.67% 16
West Midlands -32 32 £57,500 - 21
North West 0 21 £57,500 -4.17% 9
South East -66 21 £50,000 -23.08% 25
South West -57 18 £60,000 -22.58% 10
East Midlands -26 5 £60,000 -7.69% 8
North East -58 4 £47,500 -9.52% 4
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%) SharePoint
2 29 (8.73%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.92%) Apache
4 12 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.90%) Appian
5 3 (0.90%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.60%) Luigi
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
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
2 151 (45.48%) Power Platform
3 99 (29.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 66 (19.88%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (13.86%) Azure Logic Apps
6 33 (9.94%) Power Automate
7 32 (9.64%) Microsoft Purview
7 32 (9.64%) PowerApps
8 26 (7.83%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (6.93%) Azure Functions
9 23 (6.93%) Serverless
10 19 (5.72%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 19 (5.72%) AWS
10 19 (5.72%) OneDrive
10 19 (5.72%) Snowflake
11 17 (5.12%) GCP
12 16 (4.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 14 (4.22%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (3.92%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.30%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (43.67%) Power BI
2 98 (29.52%) Data Warehouse
3 91 (27.41%) Data Lake
4 79 (23.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 48 (14.46%) SQL Server
6 34 (10.24%) Metadata
7 33 (9.94%) Delta Lake
7 33 (9.94%) Spark SQL
8 32 (9.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (6.02%) Star Schema
10 19 (5.72%) Tableau
11 18 (5.42%) Relational Database
12 14 (4.22%) Big Data
13 13 (3.92%) Power Query
14 12 (3.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 12 (3.61%) BigQuery
14 12 (3.61%) Data Vault
15 9 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
15 9 (2.71%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 28 (8.43%) Git
2 6 (1.81%) MLflow
3 5 (1.51%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.20%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.60%) JIRA
6 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.30%) ERwin
7 1 (0.30%) GitLab
7 1 (0.30%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 114 (34.34%) Social Skills
2 95 (28.61%) Finance
3 55 (16.57%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (3.61%) Law
5 12 (3.61%) Retail
6 10 (3.01%) Legal
7 7 (2.11%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.90%) Advertising
9 3 (0.90%) Games
9 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.90%) Marketing
9 3 (0.90%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.60%) Billing
10 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.30%) Automotive
11 1 (0.30%) Banking
11 1 (0.30%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 159 (47.89%) Data Engineer
2 74 (22.29%) Senior
3 61 (18.37%) Lead
4 46 (13.86%) Azure Engineer
5 41 (12.35%) Developer
6 39 (11.75%) Architect
6 39 (11.75%) Senior Data Engineer
7 37 (11.14%) Data Architect
8 34 (10.24%) Azure Data Engineer
9 30 (9.04%) Lead Data Engineer
10 25 (7.53%) Platform Engineer
11 17 (5.12%) Senior Developer
12 15 (4.52%) Consultant
13 14 (4.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 10 (3.01%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 10 (3.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.71%) Microsoft Engineer
16 8 (2.41%) Analyst
16 8 (2.41%) Azure Architect
16 8 (2.41%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (20.78%) PySpark
2 24 (7.23%) .NET
3 23 (6.93%) JSON
3 23 (6.93%) REST
4 22 (6.63%) .NET Core
5 21 (6.33%) CSS
5 21 (6.33%) HTML
6 19 (5.72%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.72%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.72%) SPFx
7 15 (4.52%) Kafka
8 12 (3.61%) ARM Templates
9 6 (1.81%) SOAP
10 5 (1.51%) RESTful
11 4 (1.20%) FastAPI
11 4 (1.20%) NumPy
11 4 (1.20%) Pandas
11 4 (1.20%) PyTorch
11 4 (1.20%) scikit-learn
11 4 (1.20%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.43%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.12%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.31%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (2.11%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.81%) Replication
7 5 (1.51%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.51%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.20%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.20%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.90%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.60%) Clustering
10 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.60%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (53.01%) Analytics
2 173 (52.11%) Business Intelligence
3 166 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 151 (45.48%) Data Engineering
5 149 (44.88%) ETL
6 145 (43.67%) CI/CD
7 141 (42.47%) Data Pipeline
8 123 (37.05%) DevOps
9 94 (28.31%) AI
10 89 (26.81%) Data Governance
11 80 (24.10%) Machine Learning
12 77 (23.19%) Decision-Making
13 70 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
14 68 (20.48%) Agile
15 60 (18.07%) Data Architecture
16 59 (17.77%) Data Integration
17 55 (16.57%) Data Science
17 55 (16.57%) Technical Leadership
18 47 (14.16%) Data Strategy
18 47 (14.16%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 255 (76.81%) SQL
2 161 (48.49%) Python
3 36 (10.84%) PowerShell
4 25 (7.53%) C#
5 24 (7.23%) Scala
6 22 (6.63%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (5.72%) TypeScript
8 14 (4.22%) Bicep
9 13 (3.92%) T-SQL
10 9 (2.71%) Java
11 6 (1.81%) R
12 3 (0.90%) Go
13 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.60%) PHP
13 2 (0.60%) VBA
14 1 (0.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 35 (10.54%) Degree
2 34 (10.24%) Azure Certification
3 27 (8.13%) Security Cleared
4 22 (6.63%) SC Cleared
5 17 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.41%) SnowPro
8 6 (1.81%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.90%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.90%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.30%) IIBA
12 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (30.72%) Data Quality
2 33 (9.94%) GDPR
3 14 (4.22%) QA
4 5 (1.51%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.51%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.20%) 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%) COBIT
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 11 (3.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (13.86%) Terraform
2 12 (3.61%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.30%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 151 (45.48%) Databricks
2 138 (41.57%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.72%) Adobe
4 12 (3.61%) 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%) Alteryx
7 3 (0.90%) Automation Anywhere
7 3 (0.90%) Informatica
7 3 (0.90%) UiPath
8 2 (0.60%) Talend
8 2 (0.60%) Trapeze
9 1 (0.30%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.30%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.30%) Confluent
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle
9 1 (0.30%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow