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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 383 378
Rank change year-on-year -44 -5 -44
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 371 274 435
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.63% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 1.97% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 267 226 344
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £42,875
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £89,375 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +4.00%

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 24,110 13,926 21,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.22% 32.27% 32.24%
Number of salaries quoted 16,993 9,673 13,348
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +2.36%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -17 193 £80,000 - 111
North of England -29 66 £60,000 +9.09% 33
Midlands -46 36 £85,000 +38.78% 33
South East -67 36 £62,500 +13.64% 28
Yorkshire -7 34 £80,000 +33.33% 10
West Midlands -48 29 £85,000 +41.67% 21
North West -13 26 £55,000 - 20
South West -58 24 £85,000 +17.24% 9
East of England -20 21 £90,000 +80.00% 7
North East -61 10 £55,000 +4.76% 4
East Midlands -33 7 - - 12
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 42 (11.32%) Apache Spark
2 20 (5.39%) Apache
3 18 (4.85%) SharePoint
4 13 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.54%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.54%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.27%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 371 (100.00%) Azure
2 176 (47.44%) Power Platform
3 134 (36.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 91 (24.53%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (16.98%) Azure Databricks
6 49 (13.21%) Microsoft Purview
7 42 (11.32%) Azure Logic Apps
8 28 (7.55%) Snowflake
9 27 (7.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 26 (7.01%) Serverless
11 23 (6.20%) AWS
12 22 (5.93%) PowerApps
13 20 (5.39%) Azure Functions
13 20 (5.39%) Power Automate
14 19 (5.12%) dbt
15 16 (4.31%) Azure Machine Learning
15 16 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
16 15 (4.04%) GCP
17 14 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
18 12 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.35%) Firewall
2 4 (1.08%) DNS
3 1 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (46.36%) Power BI
2 127 (34.23%) Data Warehouse
3 97 (26.15%) Data Lake
4 93 (25.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 69 (18.60%) Metadata
6 51 (13.75%) SQL Server
7 46 (12.40%) Delta Lake
8 32 (8.63%) Star Schema
9 27 (7.28%) Tableau
10 22 (5.93%) NoSQL
10 22 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
10 22 (5.93%) Spark SQL
11 21 (5.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 20 (5.39%) Data Vault
13 19 (5.12%) Big Data
14 18 (4.85%) Semantic Layer
15 17 (4.58%) Relational Database
16 16 (4.31%) Elasticsearch
17 15 (4.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 13 (3.50%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 44 (11.86%) Git
2 11 (2.96%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.16%) GitLab
4 7 (1.89%) MLflow
5 3 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.54%) JIRA
6 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.27%) ERwin
7 1 (0.27%) kappa
7 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.27%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 123 (33.15%) Social Skills
2 107 (28.84%) Finance
3 66 (17.79%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.93%) Legal
5 17 (4.58%) Retail
6 14 (3.77%) Law
7 11 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.16%) Banking
10 7 (1.89%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.35%) Billing
11 5 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.35%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.35%) Marketing
12 4 (1.08%) Advertising
12 4 (1.08%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.08%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.81%) Games
14 2 (0.54%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 180 (48.52%) Data Engineer
2 105 (28.30%) Senior
3 68 (18.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 67 (18.06%) Azure Engineer
5 62 (16.71%) Lead
6 53 (14.29%) Architect
7 49 (13.21%) Azure Data Engineer
8 47 (12.67%) Data Architect
9 39 (10.51%) Developer
10 28 (7.55%) Lead Data Engineer
11 21 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (4.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 17 (4.58%) Consultant
12 17 (4.58%) Databricks Engineer
13 16 (4.31%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 14 (3.77%) Python Data Engineer
14 14 (3.77%) Python Engineer
15 13 (3.50%) Kafka Engineer
15 13 (3.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 13 (3.50%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (20.75%) PySpark
2 57 (15.36%) Terraform
3 37 (9.97%) Kafka
4 24 (6.47%) REST
5 23 (6.20%) JSON
6 13 (3.50%) .NET
6 13 (3.50%) Keycloak
7 12 (3.23%) .NET Core
7 12 (3.23%) CSS
7 12 (3.23%) HTML
7 12 (3.23%) HTML5 Canvas
7 12 (3.23%) Microsoft Graph
7 12 (3.23%) SPFx
8 9 (2.43%) ARM Templates
9 6 (1.62%) XML
9 6 (1.62%) YAML
10 5 (1.35%) SOAP
11 4 (1.08%) Apache Avro
12 3 (0.81%) LangChain
12 3 (0.81%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.97%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.55%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.89%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.35%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.08%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.08%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.08%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.08%) PKI
10 3 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.81%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.54%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.77%) Windows
2 5 (1.35%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.08%) Linux
4 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (56.33%) Business Intelligence
2 208 (56.06%) Analytics
3 191 (51.48%) Data Modelling
4 183 (49.33%) CI/CD
5 172 (46.36%) Data Engineering
6 170 (45.82%) ETL
7 167 (45.01%) Data Pipeline
7 167 (45.01%) DevOps
8 95 (25.61%) AI
9 88 (23.72%) Data Governance
10 87 (23.45%) Data Architecture
11 86 (23.18%) Lakehouse
12 85 (22.91%) Agile
13 84 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
14 83 (22.37%) Decision-Making
15 79 (21.29%) Machine Learning
16 75 (20.22%) Data Science
17 69 (18.60%) Data Integration
18 64 (17.25%) Technical Leadership
19 57 (15.36%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 282 (76.01%) SQL
2 205 (55.26%) Python
3 45 (12.13%) Scala
4 34 (9.16%) PowerShell
5 32 (8.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 27 (7.28%) Bicep
7 24 (6.47%) C#
8 17 (4.58%) JavaScript
9 15 (4.04%) T-SQL
10 13 (3.50%) Go
10 13 (3.50%) Java
11 12 (3.23%) TypeScript
12 8 (2.16%) R
13 3 (0.81%) Bash
14 2 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.54%) VBA
15 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 59 (15.90%) Azure Certification
2 45 (12.13%) Security Cleared
3 43 (11.59%) SC Cleared
4 37 (9.97%) Degree
5 25 (6.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.31%) SnowPro
7 14 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (3.50%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.08%) CISSP
10 4 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.81%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.54%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.27%) ICAEW
13 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (39.08%) Data Quality
2 33 (8.89%) GDPR
3 17 (4.58%) QA
4 9 (2.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (1.89%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.54%) IFRS
6 2 (0.54%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.54%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (5.66%) Docker
2 4 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (6.20%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.81%) Ansible
2 3 (0.81%) Grafana
2 3 (0.81%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 181 (48.79%) Microsoft
2 157 (42.32%) Databricks
3 13 (3.50%) SAP
4 12 (3.23%) Adobe
5 11 (2.96%) Informatica
6 9 (2.43%) Talend
7 7 (1.89%) Google
8 5 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.08%) Foundry
9 4 (1.08%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.54%) Oracle
11 1 (0.27%) Actian
11 1 (0.27%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.27%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.27%) Confluent
11 1 (0.27%) Infor
11 1 (0.27%) Meraki
11 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.27%) Teradata