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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 325 426
Rank change year-on-year -100 +101 -56
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 319 355 493
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.90% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 2.62% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 247 279 435
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £109,500 £90,150 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £66,375 £62,500
% change year-on-year +20.53% +6.20% -4.58%

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 22,469 13,540 31,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.06% 34.23% 32.85%
Number of salaries quoted 14,908 9,592 24,741
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,750 £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 £82,500 £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% -10.16%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -53 138 £85,000 +9.68% 46
North of England -15 56 £80,000 +33.33% 18
Midlands -12 42 £58,750 -9.62% 11
Yorkshire -18 39 £80,000 +33.33% 6
West Midlands -20 36 £58,750 +2.17% 8
East of England -2 34 £90,000 +71.43% 4
South East -59 19 £50,000 -23.08% 20
North West -1 16 £61,250 +11.36% 8
South West -51 16 £57,500 -25.81% 5
East Midlands -23 6 £57,500 -11.54% 3
North East -47 1 - - 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 35 (10.97%) SharePoint
2 23 (7.21%) Apache Spark
3 13 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.13%) Apache
5 7 (2.19%) Appian
6 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.94%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.63%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.63%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.31%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 319 (100.00%) Azure
2 142 (44.51%) Power Platform
3 89 (27.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 63 (19.75%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (12.85%) Azure Logic Apps
6 38 (11.91%) Power Automate
7 33 (10.34%) PowerApps
8 30 (9.40%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (8.15%) Microsoft Purview
10 21 (6.58%) Serverless
11 20 (6.27%) Azure Functions
12 19 (5.96%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.96%) OneDrive
13 18 (5.64%) AWS
14 17 (5.33%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (5.02%) dbt
15 16 (5.02%) GCP
16 14 (4.39%) GitHub
16 14 (4.39%) Microsoft Copilot
16 14 (4.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.31%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (42.63%) Power BI
2 90 (28.21%) Data Lake
3 89 (27.90%) Data Warehouse
4 78 (24.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 49 (15.36%) SQL Server
6 34 (10.66%) Delta Lake
7 33 (10.34%) Spark SQL
7 33 (10.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 24 (7.52%) Metadata
9 18 (5.64%) Relational Database
10 17 (5.33%) Tableau
11 15 (4.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 15 (4.70%) Star Schema
12 13 (4.08%) Big Data
13 12 (3.76%) Power Query
14 11 (3.45%) BigQuery
15 9 (2.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 8 (2.51%) Data Vault
17 7 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
17 7 (2.19%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 31 (9.72%) Git
2 9 (2.82%) MLflow
3 5 (1.57%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.25%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.63%) JIRA
6 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.31%) ERwin
7 1 (0.31%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 112 (35.11%) Social Skills
2 104 (32.60%) Finance
3 49 (15.36%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
4 9 (2.82%) Retail
5 8 (2.51%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.57%) Law
6 5 (1.57%) Legal
7 4 (1.25%) Automotive
7 4 (1.25%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.94%) Advertising
8 3 (0.94%) Banking
8 3 (0.94%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.63%) Marketing
10 1 (0.31%) Local Government
10 1 (0.31%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 152 (47.65%) Data Engineer
2 70 (21.94%) Senior
3 56 (17.55%) Lead
4 47 (14.73%) Azure Engineer
5 41 (12.85%) Developer
6 40 (12.54%) Senior Data Engineer
7 31 (9.72%) Azure Data Engineer
8 30 (9.40%) Platform Engineer
9 29 (9.09%) Architect
10 27 (8.46%) Lead Data Engineer
11 25 (7.84%) Data Architect
12 18 (5.64%) Senior Developer
13 15 (4.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 15 (4.70%) Consultant
14 13 (4.08%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 13 (4.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.45%) Microsoft Engineer
16 10 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
17 8 (2.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 8 (2.51%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (22.57%) PySpark
2 27 (8.46%) .NET
2 27 (8.46%) REST
3 22 (6.90%) .NET Core
3 22 (6.90%) JSON
4 21 (6.58%) CSS
4 21 (6.58%) HTML
5 19 (5.96%) HTML5 Canvas
5 19 (5.96%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (5.96%) SPFx
6 13 (4.08%) ARM Templates
7 11 (3.45%) Kafka
8 10 (3.13%) RESTful
9 8 (2.51%) FastAPI
9 8 (2.51%) NumPy
9 8 (2.51%) Pandas
9 8 (2.51%) PyTorch
9 8 (2.51%) scikit-learn
9 8 (2.51%) TensorFlow
10 7 (2.19%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.15%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.70%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (2.82%) Low-Code
5 7 (2.19%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (2.19%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.88%) Replication
7 5 (1.57%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.25%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.25%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.94%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.94%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.63%) Clustering
10 2 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.63%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (50.16%) Analytics
2 156 (48.90%) Data Modelling
3 154 (48.28%) Business Intelligence
4 147 (46.08%) ETL
5 144 (45.14%) Data Engineering
6 140 (43.89%) CI/CD
7 129 (40.44%) Data Pipeline
8 113 (35.42%) DevOps
9 83 (26.02%) AI
10 75 (23.51%) Data Governance
11 66 (20.69%) Decision-Making
12 65 (20.38%) Agile
12 65 (20.38%) Machine Learning
12 65 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
13 60 (18.81%) Data Architecture
14 55 (17.24%) Data Integration
15 49 (15.36%) Infrastructure as Code
16 42 (13.17%) Data Science
17 41 (12.85%) Mentoring
17 41 (12.85%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 241 (75.55%) SQL
2 154 (48.28%) Python
3 35 (10.97%) PowerShell
4 28 (8.78%) C#
5 26 (8.15%) JavaScript
6 23 (7.21%) Scala
7 19 (5.96%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 13 (4.08%) T-SQL
10 10 (3.13%) Bicep
11 9 (2.82%) Java
12 8 (2.51%) R
13 2 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.63%) PHP
13 2 (0.63%) VBA
14 1 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 36 (11.29%) Degree
2 24 (7.52%) Azure Certification
2 24 (7.52%) Security Cleared
3 19 (5.96%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.25%) IIBA
6 4 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.25%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.25%) PMP
6 4 (1.25%) SnowPro
7 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (30.41%) Data Quality
2 25 (7.84%) GDPR
3 9 (2.82%) QA
4 5 (1.57%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.57%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.63%) GRC
6 2 (0.63%) IFRS
6 2 (0.63%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.63%) SLA
7 1 (0.31%) COBIT
7 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 14 (4.39%) Docker
2 4 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (13.17%) Terraform
2 18 (5.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.31%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 144 (45.14%) Databricks
2 130 (40.75%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.96%) Adobe
4 14 (4.39%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.19%) Automation Anywhere
5 7 (2.19%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.19%) SAP
5 7 (2.19%) UiPath
6 6 (1.88%) Alteryx
6 6 (1.88%) Google
7 5 (1.57%) Foundry
8 4 (1.25%) Anaplan
9 2 (0.63%) Informatica
9 2 (0.63%) Talend
9 2 (0.63%) Trapeze
10 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.31%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.31%) Infor
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle
10 1 (0.31%) Teradata