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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 325 430
Rank change year-on-year -87 +105 -49
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 320 350 496
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.88% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 2.58% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 248 273 436
10th Percentile £48,997 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,500 £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 £109,000 £90,600 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £65,625 £62,500
% change year-on-year +21.90% +5.00% -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 22,555 13,551 31,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.07% 34.17% 32.87%
Number of salaries quoted 14,999 9,606 24,909
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £30,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £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% -9.45%

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 18 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 18 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 -49 141 £84,250 +8.71% 37
North of England -20 56 £80,000 +33.33% 14
Midlands -26 40 £58,750 -4.08% 10
Yorkshire -15 39 £80,000 +33.33% 3
East of England -2 34 £90,000 +69.01% 3
West Midlands -17 34 £58,750 +2.17% 7
South East -59 19 £50,000 -23.08% 23
South West -56 16 £57,500 -25.81% 3
North West +6 15 £62,500 - 8
East Midlands -25 6 £57,500 -11.54% 3
North East -49 2 - - 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 (10.94%) SharePoint
2 23 (7.19%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.75%) 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 (1.56%) 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
Cloud Services
1 320 (100.00%) Azure
2 145 (45.31%) Power Platform
3 90 (28.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 63 (19.69%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (13.13%) Azure Logic Apps
6 38 (11.88%) Power Automate
7 33 (10.31%) PowerApps
8 30 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (8.13%) Microsoft Purview
10 22 (6.88%) Serverless
11 21 (6.56%) Azure Functions
12 19 (5.94%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.94%) OneDrive
13 18 (5.63%) AWS
14 16 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (5.00%) GCP
15 15 (4.69%) dbt
15 15 (4.69%) Microsoft Copilot
16 14 (4.38%) Azure AI
16 14 (4.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.31%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (43.44%) Power BI
2 90 (28.13%) Data Lake
3 89 (27.81%) Data Warehouse
4 80 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 50 (15.63%) SQL Server
6 33 (10.31%) Delta Lake
6 33 (10.31%) Spark SQL
6 33 (10.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 24 (7.50%) Metadata
8 18 (5.63%) Relational Database
8 18 (5.63%) Tableau
9 16 (5.00%) Star Schema
10 14 (4.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 13 (4.06%) Big Data
12 12 (3.75%) Power Query
13 11 (3.44%) BigQuery
14 9 (2.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 8 (2.50%) Data Vault
15 8 (2.50%) Semantic Layer
16 7 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 30 (9.38%) Git
2 9 (2.81%) MLflow
3 5 (1.56%) 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
1 113 (35.31%) Social Skills
2 105 (32.81%) Finance
3 51 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
4 9 (2.81%) Retail
5 8 (2.50%) Public Sector
6 6 (1.88%) Legal
7 5 (1.56%) Law
8 4 (1.25%) Automotive
8 4 (1.25%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.94%) Advertising
9 3 (0.94%) Banking
9 3 (0.94%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.63%) Marketing
11 1 (0.31%) Billing
11 1 (0.31%) Local Government
11 1 (0.31%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 152 (47.50%) Data Engineer
2 71 (22.19%) Senior
3 56 (17.50%) Lead
4 47 (14.69%) Azure Engineer
5 40 (12.50%) Developer
5 40 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
6 31 (9.69%) Architect
6 31 (9.69%) Azure Data Engineer
7 30 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
8 27 (8.44%) Data Architect
8 27 (8.44%) Lead Data Engineer
9 18 (5.63%) Senior Developer
10 15 (4.69%) Consultant
11 14 (4.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 13 (4.06%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 13 (4.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.44%) Microsoft Engineer
14 10 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
15 8 (2.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 8 (2.50%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (22.19%) PySpark
2 27 (8.44%) .NET
2 27 (8.44%) REST
3 22 (6.88%) .NET Core
3 22 (6.88%) JSON
4 21 (6.56%) CSS
4 21 (6.56%) HTML
5 19 (5.94%) HTML5 Canvas
5 19 (5.94%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (5.94%) SPFx
6 13 (4.06%) ARM Templates
7 11 (3.44%) Kafka
8 10 (3.13%) RESTful
9 8 (2.50%) FastAPI
9 8 (2.50%) NumPy
9 8 (2.50%) Pandas
9 8 (2.50%) PyTorch
9 8 (2.50%) scikit-learn
9 8 (2.50%) TensorFlow
10 7 (2.19%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.13%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.69%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.06%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (2.81%) Low-Code
5 7 (2.19%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (2.19%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.88%) AI Agents
6 6 (1.88%) Replication
7 5 (1.56%) 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
1 161 (50.31%) Analytics
2 157 (49.06%) Business Intelligence
2 157 (49.06%) Data Modelling
3 146 (45.63%) Data Engineering
3 146 (45.63%) ETL
4 141 (44.06%) CI/CD
5 130 (40.63%) Data Pipeline
6 113 (35.31%) DevOps
7 87 (27.19%) AI
8 77 (24.06%) Data Governance
9 66 (20.63%) Decision-Making
9 66 (20.63%) Machine Learning
9 66 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
10 64 (20.00%) Agile
11 62 (19.38%) Data Architecture
12 56 (17.50%) Data Integration
13 48 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 43 (13.44%) Data Science
14 43 (13.44%) Technical Leadership
15 41 (12.81%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 243 (75.94%) SQL
2 154 (48.13%) Python
3 36 (11.25%) PowerShell
4 28 (8.75%) C#
5 26 (8.13%) JavaScript
6 22 (6.88%) Scala
7 19 (5.94%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 13 (4.06%) T-SQL
10 10 (3.13%) Bicep
11 9 (2.81%) Java
12 8 (2.50%) 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 37 (11.56%) Degree
2 26 (8.13%) Azure Certification
3 24 (7.50%) Security Cleared
4 19 (5.94%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.25%) IIBA
7 4 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.25%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.25%) PMP
7 4 (1.25%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (30.31%) Data Quality
2 26 (8.13%) GDPR
3 8 (2.50%) QA
4 5 (1.56%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.56%) 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 (4.38%) Docker
2 4 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (13.13%) Terraform
2 18 (5.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.31%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 144 (45.00%) Databricks
2 131 (40.94%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.94%) Adobe
4 15 (4.69%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.50%) SAP
6 7 (2.19%) Automation Anywhere
6 7 (2.19%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.19%) UiPath
7 6 (1.88%) Alteryx
7 6 (1.88%) Google
8 5 (1.56%) Foundry
9 4 (1.25%) Anaplan
10 3 (0.94%) Informatica
11 2 (0.63%) Talend
11 2 (0.63%) Trapeze
12 1 (0.31%) Confluent
12 1 (0.31%) Infor
12 1 (0.31%) Nintex
12 1 (0.31%) Refinitiv
12 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow