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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 344 401
Rank change year-on-year -90 +57 -49
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 326 353 448
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.81% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 2.45% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 247 266 379
10th Percentile £49,050 £44,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +3.85% -0.76%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £96,250
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 24,635 14,419 24,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.99% 33.14% 32.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,587 10,300 18,639
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,633 £40,903 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 31 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 31 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 -68 150 £80,000 - 38
North of England +10 66 £80,000 +33.33% 10
Yorkshire -3 41 £80,000 +33.33% 5
East of England -8 31 £90,000 +69.01% 3
Midlands -53 31 £60,000 -4.00% 16
West Midlands -31 26 £60,000 +4.35% 14
South East -79 22 £50,000 -23.08% 21
North West +10 20 £55,000 -4.35% 3
South West -52 17 £84,000 +8.39% 3
East Midlands -25 5 - - 2
North East -48 5 £47,500 -9.52% 2
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 (10.12%) Apache Spark
2 27 (8.28%) SharePoint
3 14 (4.29%) Apache
4 12 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.61%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.61%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.61%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.31%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 326 (100.00%) Azure
2 153 (46.93%) Power Platform
3 100 (30.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 63 (19.33%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (14.11%) Azure Logic Apps
6 38 (11.66%) Microsoft Purview
7 29 (8.90%) PowerApps
8 27 (8.28%) Power Automate
9 23 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (7.06%) Serverless
10 22 (6.75%) Azure Functions
10 22 (6.75%) Snowflake
11 19 (5.83%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.83%) OneDrive
12 17 (5.21%) AWS
13 16 (4.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 16 (4.91%) GCP
14 14 (4.29%) dbt
15 12 (3.68%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (45.40%) Power BI
2 101 (30.98%) Data Warehouse
3 89 (27.30%) Data Lake
4 75 (23.01%) Azure SQL Database
5 45 (13.80%) SQL Server
6 44 (13.50%) Metadata
7 40 (12.27%) Delta Lake
8 32 (9.82%) Spark SQL
9 28 (8.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 23 (7.06%) Tableau
11 20 (6.13%) Relational Database
12 18 (5.52%) Star Schema
13 17 (5.21%) Big Data
14 15 (4.60%) Data Vault
15 14 (4.29%) Semantic Layer
16 13 (3.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 13 (3.99%) BigQuery
17 12 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
18 11 (3.37%) Power Query
19 10 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 27 (8.28%) Git
2 7 (2.15%) MLflow
3 5 (1.53%) GitLab
3 5 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.23%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.61%) JIRA
5 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.31%) ERwin
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.31%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 109 (33.44%) Social Skills
2 89 (27.30%) Finance
3 55 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
4 12 (3.68%) Legal
4 12 (3.68%) Retail
5 11 (3.37%) Law
6 5 (1.53%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.23%) Advertising
7 4 (1.23%) Marketing
7 4 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.92%) Games
8 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.92%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.61%) Banking
9 2 (0.61%) Billing
9 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.31%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 159 (48.77%) Data Engineer
2 81 (24.85%) Senior
3 61 (18.71%) Lead
4 46 (14.11%) Architect
5 45 (13.80%) Azure Engineer
5 45 (13.80%) Senior Data Engineer
6 44 (13.50%) Data Architect
7 37 (11.35%) Developer
8 34 (10.43%) Azure Data Engineer
9 29 (8.90%) Lead Data Engineer
10 23 (7.06%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (5.52%) Senior Developer
12 16 (4.91%) Consultant
13 10 (3.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 9 (2.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 9 (2.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 9 (2.76%) Microsoft Engineer
15 8 (2.45%) Data Manager
15 8 (2.45%) Senior Consultant
16 7 (2.15%) Senior Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (22.39%) PySpark
2 22 (6.75%) .NET
2 22 (6.75%) JSON
3 20 (6.13%) .NET Core
3 20 (6.13%) CSS
3 20 (6.13%) HTML
3 20 (6.13%) Kafka
4 19 (5.83%) HTML5 Canvas
4 19 (5.83%) Microsoft Graph
4 19 (5.83%) REST
4 19 (5.83%) SPFx
5 12 (3.68%) ARM Templates
6 6 (1.84%) SOAP
7 5 (1.53%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.61%) LangChain
8 2 (0.61%) Middleware
8 2 (0.61%) YAML
9 1 (0.31%) LangGraph
9 1 (0.31%) Model Context Protocol
9 1 (0.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.51%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.21%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (3.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.15%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.53%) Replication
8 4 (1.23%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.23%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.23%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.92%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.92%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.92%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.61%) Clustering
10 2 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.61%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (55.52%) Analytics
2 177 (54.29%) Business Intelligence
3 170 (52.15%) Data Modelling
4 151 (46.32%) Data Engineering
5 145 (44.48%) CI/CD
6 144 (44.17%) ETL
7 141 (43.25%) Data Pipeline
8 126 (38.65%) DevOps
9 100 (30.67%) AI
10 92 (28.22%) Data Governance
11 83 (25.46%) Machine Learning
12 74 (22.70%) Decision-Making
13 71 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
14 68 (20.86%) Agile
15 67 (20.55%) Data Architecture
16 61 (18.71%) Data Science
17 60 (18.40%) Data Integration
18 59 (18.10%) Technical Leadership
19 51 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
19 51 (15.64%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 244 (74.85%) SQL
2 166 (50.92%) Python
3 34 (10.43%) PowerShell
4 29 (8.90%) Scala
5 23 (7.06%) C#
6 22 (6.75%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.83%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (4.91%) Bicep
10 12 (3.68%) T-SQL
11 10 (3.07%) Java
12 7 (2.15%) R
13 5 (1.53%) Go
14 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.61%) VBA
15 1 (0.31%) C++
15 1 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (12.27%) Azure Certification
2 31 (9.51%) Security Cleared
3 30 (9.20%) Degree
4 26 (7.98%) SC Cleared
5 19 (5.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.37%) SnowPro
8 6 (1.84%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.53%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.92%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.31%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (30.98%) Data Quality
2 31 (9.51%) GDPR
3 15 (4.60%) QA
4 5 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.53%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.61%) GRC
5 2 (0.61%) IFRS
5 2 (0.61%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.61%) SLA
6 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 8 (2.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (14.11%) Terraform
2 9 (2.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.31%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 157 (48.16%) Databricks
2 145 (44.48%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.83%) Adobe
4 9 (2.76%) SAP
5 8 (2.45%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.15%) Foundry
6 7 (2.15%) Google
6 7 (2.15%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.92%) Informatica
8 2 (0.61%) Trapeze
9 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.31%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.31%) Confluent
9 1 (0.31%) Infor
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle
9 1 (0.31%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.31%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.31%) Talend
9 1 (0.31%) Teradata