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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 330 381
Rank change year-on-year -32 +51 +23
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 310 326 496
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.83% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.44% 2.20% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 232 264 437
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -13.60%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £104,500 £100,000 £92,200
UK median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -11.11%

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 21,601 14,789 27,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.95% 37.79% 37.58%
Number of salaries quoted 11,910 10,102 23,351
10th Percentile £29,298 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 14 March 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 14 March 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 +19 153 £83,000 +5.40% 59
Midlands -3 52 £60,000 -4.00% 20
West Midlands +23 49 £60,000 -4.00% 15
North of England -52 35 £67,500 +3.85% 24
South East -58 27 £50,000 -28.57% 30
Yorkshire -46 16 £79,000 +31.67% 12
East of England +13 15 £73,750 -7.81% 4
South West -28 15 £77,500 +21.57% 9
North West -19 12 £62,500 -3.85% 11
North East -16 7 £51,000 -21.54% 1
East Midlands -33 3 £60,000 +19.40% 5
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 17 (5.48%) Apache Spark
2 16 (5.16%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.87%) Appian
4 8 (2.58%) Apache
5 7 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.29%) SAS
7 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 23 (7.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.65%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Endur
2 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 310 (100.00%) Azure
2 166 (53.55%) Power Platform
3 115 (37.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 58 (18.71%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (8.06%) Power Automate
6 22 (7.10%) Microsoft Purview
7 20 (6.45%) PaaS
8 18 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (5.81%) Snowflake
9 16 (5.16%) Anthropic Claude
9 16 (5.16%) GitHub
10 15 (4.84%) AWS
10 15 (4.84%) Azure AI
11 14 (4.52%) Azure Storage
11 14 (4.52%) Microsoft Copilot
11 14 (4.52%) PowerApps
11 14 (4.52%) SaaS
12 13 (4.19%) Matillion
13 12 (3.87%) dbt
13 12 (3.87%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.65%) DNS
2 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (49.68%) Power BI
2 107 (34.52%) Data Lake
3 92 (29.68%) SQL Server
4 91 (29.35%) Data Warehouse
5 82 (26.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 44 (14.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 31 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 22 (7.10%) Delta Lake
9 21 (6.77%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 16 (5.16%) Metadata
11 15 (4.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 14 (4.52%) Tableau
13 12 (3.87%) Pinecone
13 12 (3.87%) Spark SQL
14 11 (3.55%) Star Schema
15 8 (2.58%) MySQL
15 8 (2.58%) Relational Database
16 7 (2.26%) Big Data
16 7 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
16 7 (2.26%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 31 (10.00%) Git
2 12 (3.87%) MLflow
3 3 (0.97%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.97%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 124 (40.00%) Finance
2 111 (35.81%) Social Skills
3 48 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (4.84%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.58%) Automotive
6 8 (2.58%) Billing
6 8 (2.58%) Law
7 7 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.29%) Retail
10 3 (0.97%) Banking
10 3 (0.97%) Legal
11 2 (0.65%) Advertising
11 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.65%) Marketing
12 1 (0.32%) International Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 141 (45.48%) Data Engineer
2 51 (16.45%) Senior
3 39 (12.58%) Senior Data Engineer
4 35 (11.29%) Azure Engineer
5 33 (10.65%) Lead
6 30 (9.68%) Developer
7 27 (8.71%) Azure Data Engineer
8 21 (6.77%) Architect
9 17 (5.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 16 (5.16%) Analyst
10 16 (5.16%) Data Architect
11 15 (4.84%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (4.52%) Automation Engineer
13 13 (4.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 13 (4.19%) Lead Data Engineer
14 12 (3.87%) Consultant
15 9 (2.90%) Microsoft Engineer
16 8 (2.58%) Data Manager
16 8 (2.58%) Project Manager
17 7 (2.26%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (17.10%) PySpark
2 23 (7.42%) REST
3 18 (5.81%) .NET
4 15 (4.84%) RESTful
5 13 (4.19%) OAuth
6 12 (3.87%) Django
6 12 (3.87%) Faiss
6 12 (3.87%) FastAPI
6 12 (3.87%) Flask
6 12 (3.87%) Hugging Face
6 12 (3.87%) JWT
6 12 (3.87%) NumPy
6 12 (3.87%) OpenAPI
6 12 (3.87%) Pandas
6 12 (3.87%) pytest
6 12 (3.87%) PyTorch
6 12 (3.87%) scikit-learn
6 12 (3.87%) Swagger
6 12 (3.87%) TensorFlow
6 12 (3.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.81%) Analytical Mindset
1 18 (5.81%) Legacy Systems
1 18 (5.81%) Low-Code
2 15 (4.84%) Cloud Native
3 9 (2.90%) Enterprise Cloud
4 8 (2.58%) AI Agents
4 8 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.94%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.61%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.29%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.29%) Replication
9 3 (0.97%) Clustering
9 3 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.65%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.65%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (56.77%) Analytics
2 165 (53.23%) Business Intelligence
3 156 (50.32%) ETL
4 151 (48.71%) Data Modelling
5 139 (44.84%) Data Engineering
5 139 (44.84%) Data Pipeline
6 114 (36.77%) CI/CD
7 94 (30.32%) DevOps
8 92 (29.68%) AI
9 80 (25.81%) Decision-Making
10 74 (23.87%) Agile
11 71 (22.90%) Problem-Solving
12 58 (18.71%) Visualisation
13 56 (18.06%) Data Governance
14 49 (15.81%) Machine Learning
15 44 (14.19%) Data Architecture
16 42 (13.55%) Stakeholder Management
17 39 (12.58%) Migration
18 35 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
19 34 (10.97%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 230 (74.19%) SQL
2 148 (47.74%) Python
3 29 (9.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 22 (7.10%) T-SQL
5 18 (5.81%) Scala
6 17 (5.48%) C#
7 15 (4.84%) PowerShell
8 10 (3.23%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.58%) Java
10 7 (2.26%) R
11 6 (1.94%) Bicep
12 3 (0.97%) C++
12 3 (0.97%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.65%) PHP
14 1 (0.32%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (10.00%) Degree
2 19 (6.13%) Security Cleared
3 15 (4.84%) Azure Certification
3 15 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.58%) IIBA
4 8 (2.58%) PMI Certification
4 8 (2.58%) PMP
5 7 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 3 (0.97%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.65%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.32%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (30.97%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.48%) GDPR
3 7 (2.26%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.97%) QA
7 2 (0.65%) GRC
7 2 (0.65%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.32%) COBIT
8 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (6.13%) Docker
2 5 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (9.03%) Terraform
2 26 (8.39%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.32%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 135 (43.55%) Databricks
2 119 (38.39%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.16%) OpenAI
4 12 (3.87%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (3.87%) UiPath
5 10 (3.23%) Alteryx
6 8 (2.58%) Anaplan
7 5 (1.61%) Talend
8 4 (1.29%) Informatica
9 3 (0.97%) Adobe
9 3 (0.97%) Foundry
9 3 (0.97%) Oracle
10 2 (0.65%) Google
10 2 (0.65%) RedGate
10 2 (0.65%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.65%) SAP
10 2 (0.65%) Trapeze
11 1 (0.32%) Nintex
11 1 (0.32%) Palantir
11 1 (0.32%) SolarWinds