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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 327 430
Rank change year-on-year -60 +103 -47
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 331 355 471
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.91% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 2.65% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 260 284 418
10th Percentile £47,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,438 £48,906
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £81,563 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,500 £90,000 £96,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -7.41%

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 24,577 13,413 30,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.50% 34.27% 34.15%
Number of salaries quoted 14,422 9,439 24,399
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,375 £42,500 £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% -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 1 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 1 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 -43 140 £83,500 +11.33% 54
North of England -18 55 £80,000 +33.33% 17
Midlands -30 45 £58,750 -9.62% 19
West Midlands -23 40 £58,750 -2.08% 14
Yorkshire -35 38 £80,000 +33.33% 5
East of England -4 34 £90,000 +71.43% 1
South East -51 29 £50,000 -23.08% 23
North West -11 16 £61,250 -2.00% 9
South West -50 16 £55,000 -29.03% 9
East Midlands -38 5 £57,500 -11.54% 5
North East -45 1 - - 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 35 (10.57%) SharePoint
2 22 (6.65%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.93%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.02%) Apache
5 9 (2.72%) Appian
6 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.91%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.60%) Luigi
9 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.60%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.30%) Endur
3 1 (0.30%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 331 (100.00%) Azure
2 143 (43.20%) Power Platform
3 95 (28.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 65 (19.64%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (12.39%) Azure Logic Apps
6 40 (12.08%) Power Automate
7 33 (9.97%) PowerApps
8 32 (9.67%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (6.65%) Serverless
10 20 (6.04%) AWS
10 20 (6.04%) Azure Functions
10 20 (6.04%) Azure Monitor
11 19 (5.74%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.74%) OneDrive
12 18 (5.44%) GitHub
12 18 (5.44%) Microsoft Purview
13 17 (5.14%) GCP
14 15 (4.53%) dbt
14 15 (4.53%) Microsoft Copilot
15 14 (4.23%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.30%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (41.39%) Power BI
2 97 (29.31%) Data Lake
3 94 (28.40%) Data Warehouse
4 82 (24.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 51 (15.41%) SQL Server
6 34 (10.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 33 (9.97%) Delta Lake
7 33 (9.97%) Spark SQL
8 19 (5.74%) Metadata
9 18 (5.44%) Relational Database
10 17 (5.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 14 (4.23%) Tableau
12 13 (3.93%) Star Schema
13 11 (3.32%) Big Data
13 11 (3.32%) BigQuery
13 11 (3.32%) Power Query
14 9 (2.72%) Pinecone
14 9 (2.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
16 6 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (9.67%) Git
2 11 (3.32%) MLflow
3 5 (1.51%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.21%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.30%) JIRA
General
1 118 (35.65%) Social Skills
2 114 (34.44%) Finance
3 49 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (3.02%) Public Sector
4 10 (3.02%) Retail
5 9 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (1.51%) Law
7 4 (1.21%) Automotive
7 4 (1.21%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.91%) Advertising
8 3 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.91%) Legal
8 3 (0.91%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.60%) Banking
9 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.30%) Billing
10 1 (0.30%) Local Government
10 1 (0.30%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 162 (48.94%) Data Engineer
2 70 (21.15%) Senior
3 55 (16.62%) Lead
4 49 (14.80%) Azure Engineer
5 43 (12.99%) Developer
6 41 (12.39%) Senior Data Engineer
7 33 (9.97%) Azure Data Engineer
8 30 (9.06%) Platform Engineer
9 27 (8.16%) Lead Data Engineer
10 21 (6.34%) Architect
11 18 (5.44%) Consultant
11 18 (5.44%) Senior Developer
12 17 (5.14%) Data Architect
13 15 (4.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 13 (3.93%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 13 (3.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 12 (3.63%) Automation Engineer
16 11 (3.32%) Microsoft Engineer
17 10 (3.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 8 (2.42%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (21.75%) PySpark
2 30 (9.06%) .NET
2 30 (9.06%) REST
3 22 (6.65%) .NET Core
3 22 (6.65%) JSON
4 21 (6.34%) CSS
4 21 (6.34%) HTML
5 19 (5.74%) HTML5 Canvas
5 19 (5.74%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (5.74%) SPFx
6 14 (4.23%) ARM Templates
7 12 (3.63%) RESTful
8 10 (3.02%) FastAPI
8 10 (3.02%) Kafka
8 10 (3.02%) NumPy
8 10 (3.02%) Pandas
8 10 (3.02%) PyTorch
8 10 (3.02%) scikit-learn
8 10 (3.02%) TensorFlow
9 9 (2.72%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.65%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.53%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (4.53%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.32%) Low-Code
4 9 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.42%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.81%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.81%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (1.81%) Replication
8 4 (1.21%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.21%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.91%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.91%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.60%) Clustering
10 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.30%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (48.94%) Analytics
1 162 (48.94%) Data Modelling
1 162 (48.94%) ETL
2 151 (45.62%) Business Intelligence
3 146 (44.11%) Data Engineering
4 142 (42.90%) CI/CD
5 140 (42.30%) Data Pipeline
6 115 (34.74%) DevOps
7 76 (22.96%) AI
8 74 (22.36%) Data Governance
9 68 (20.54%) Agile
10 67 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
11 64 (19.34%) Decision-Making
12 60 (18.13%) Machine Learning
13 56 (16.92%) Data Architecture
14 49 (14.80%) Data Integration
15 48 (14.50%) Infrastructure as Code
16 40 (12.08%) Mentoring
17 39 (11.78%) Data Science
18 36 (10.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 251 (75.83%) SQL
2 161 (48.64%) Python
3 34 (10.27%) PowerShell
4 30 (9.06%) C#
5 26 (7.85%) JavaScript
6 23 (6.95%) Scala
7 19 (5.74%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 16 (4.83%) T-SQL
9 11 (3.32%) Java
10 10 (3.02%) R
11 7 (2.11%) Bicep
12 3 (0.91%) VBA
13 2 (0.60%) C++
13 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (11.48%) Degree
2 23 (6.95%) Security Cleared
3 19 (5.74%) Azure Certification
3 19 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (5.14%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.51%) IIBA
6 5 (1.51%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.51%) PMP
7 4 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (29.00%) Data Quality
2 24 (7.25%) GDPR
3 8 (2.42%) QA
4 5 (1.51%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.51%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.60%) GRC
5 2 (0.60%) IFRS
5 2 (0.60%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.60%) SLA
6 1 (0.30%) COBIT
6 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 16 (4.83%) Docker
2 4 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (12.39%) Terraform
2 20 (6.04%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.30%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 146 (44.11%) Databricks
2 130 (39.27%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.74%) Adobe
4 16 (4.83%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.72%) Automation Anywhere
5 9 (2.72%) UiPath
6 7 (2.11%) Alteryx
6 7 (2.11%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.11%) SAP
7 6 (1.81%) Foundry
7 6 (1.81%) Google
8 5 (1.51%) Anaplan
9 2 (0.60%) Informatica
9 2 (0.60%) Talend
9 2 (0.60%) Trapeze
10 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.30%) Infor
10 1 (0.30%) Palantir
10 1 (0.30%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.30%) Teradata