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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 337 432
Rank change year-on-year -76 +95 -63
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 325 362 474
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.86% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 2.57% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 250 282 403
10th Percentile £48,625 £44,150 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £51,174
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +3.85% -2.99%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +18.52% +3.85% -

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 23,525 14,069 30,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.39% 33.43% 32.99%
Number of salaries quoted 15,714 10,076 24,113
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £44,042 £41,250 £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% -8.73%

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 4 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 4 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 -58 145 £83,500 +4.38% 51
North of England 0 62 £80,000 +33.33% 16
Yorkshire 0 40 £80,000 +33.33% 8
Midlands -31 39 £57,500 -9.80% 18
West Midlands -29 33 £57,500 - 15
East of England -6 32 £90,000 +69.01% 3
North West -8 20 £60,000 +4.35% 7
South East -76 19 £50,000 -23.08% 32
South West -62 16 £57,500 -25.81% 6
East Midlands -20 6 £57,500 -11.54% 3
North East -46 2 - - 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 34 (10.46%) SharePoint
2 27 (8.31%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.69%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (3.38%) Apache
5 4 (1.23%) Appian
6 3 (0.92%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.62%) Luigi
7 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.62%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.62%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.31%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 325 (100.00%) Azure
2 143 (44.00%) Power Platform
3 95 (29.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 64 (19.69%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (13.54%) Azure Logic Apps
6 34 (10.46%) Power Automate
7 32 (9.85%) PowerApps
8 31 (9.54%) Microsoft Purview
9 28 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (7.08%) Serverless
11 22 (6.77%) Azure Functions
12 19 (5.85%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.85%) OneDrive
13 18 (5.54%) AWS
14 17 (5.23%) Snowflake
15 16 (4.92%) GCP
16 15 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (4.62%) Dynamics 365
17 14 (4.31%) dbt
18 13 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.31%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (42.15%) Power BI
2 94 (28.92%) Data Warehouse
3 88 (27.08%) Data Lake
4 78 (24.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 50 (15.38%) SQL Server
6 34 (10.46%) Delta Lake
6 34 (10.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 33 (10.15%) Spark SQL
8 31 (9.54%) Metadata
9 19 (5.85%) Tableau
10 18 (5.54%) Relational Database
11 17 (5.23%) Star Schema
12 13 (4.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 13 (4.00%) Big Data
12 13 (4.00%) Power Query
13 12 (3.69%) BigQuery
14 11 (3.38%) Data Vault
15 9 (2.77%) Semantic Layer
16 8 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (8.62%) Git
2 6 (1.85%) MLflow
3 5 (1.54%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.62%) JIRA
6 2 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.31%) ERwin
7 1 (0.31%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 113 (34.77%) Social Skills
2 96 (29.54%) Finance
3 53 (16.31%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.00%) Retail
5 12 (3.69%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (3.38%) Law
7 9 (2.77%) Legal
8 8 (2.46%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.92%) Advertising
11 3 (0.92%) Automotive
11 3 (0.92%) Games
11 3 (0.92%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.62%) Banking
12 2 (0.62%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.62%) Marketing
13 1 (0.31%) Billing
13 1 (0.31%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 154 (47.38%) Data Engineer
2 77 (23.69%) Senior
3 60 (18.46%) Lead
4 45 (13.85%) Azure Engineer
5 42 (12.92%) Developer
6 41 (12.62%) Senior Data Engineer
7 38 (11.69%) Architect
8 34 (10.46%) Data Architect
9 32 (9.85%) Azure Data Engineer
10 29 (8.92%) Lead Data Engineer
11 28 (8.62%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (5.54%) Senior Developer
13 15 (4.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 15 (4.62%) Consultant
14 11 (3.38%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 10 (3.08%) Microsoft Engineer
16 8 (2.46%) Analyst
16 8 (2.46%) Data Manager
17 7 (2.15%) Senior Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (21.54%) PySpark
2 24 (7.38%) .NET
3 23 (7.08%) JSON
3 23 (7.08%) REST
4 22 (6.77%) .NET Core
5 21 (6.46%) CSS
5 21 (6.46%) HTML
6 19 (5.85%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.85%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.85%) SPFx
7 12 (3.69%) ARM Templates
7 12 (3.69%) Kafka
8 7 (2.15%) RESTful
9 6 (1.85%) SOAP
10 5 (1.54%) FastAPI
10 5 (1.54%) NumPy
10 5 (1.54%) Pandas
10 5 (1.54%) PyTorch
10 5 (1.54%) scikit-learn
10 5 (1.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.31%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.23%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.77%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.15%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (2.15%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.85%) Low-Code
6 6 (1.85%) Replication
7 4 (1.23%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.23%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.23%) Reinsurance
8 3 (0.92%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.92%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.62%) Clustering
9 2 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.62%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (51.69%) Analytics
2 161 (49.54%) Business Intelligence
3 160 (49.23%) Data Modelling
4 146 (44.92%) Data Engineering
4 146 (44.92%) ETL
5 141 (43.38%) CI/CD
6 135 (41.54%) Data Pipeline
7 118 (36.31%) DevOps
8 89 (27.38%) AI
9 85 (26.15%) Data Governance
10 75 (23.08%) Decision-Making
11 73 (22.46%) Machine Learning
12 68 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
13 65 (20.00%) Agile
14 61 (18.77%) Data Architecture
15 57 (17.54%) Data Integration
16 51 (15.69%) Technical Leadership
17 49 (15.08%) Data Science
18 48 (14.77%) Infrastructure as Code
19 45 (13.85%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 247 (76.00%) SQL
2 156 (48.00%) Python
3 36 (11.08%) PowerShell
4 25 (7.69%) C#
5 23 (7.08%) Scala
6 22 (6.77%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.85%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 13 (4.00%) Bicep
9 13 (4.00%) T-SQL
10 9 (2.77%) Java
11 8 (2.46%) R
12 2 (0.62%) Go
12 2 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.62%) PHP
12 2 (0.62%) VBA
13 1 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 35 (10.77%) Degree
2 31 (9.54%) Azure Certification
3 26 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 21 (6.46%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.15%) SnowPro
8 5 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.92%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.62%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.62%) IIBA
11 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.62%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (29.85%) Data Quality
2 29 (8.92%) GDPR
3 12 (3.69%) QA
4 5 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.54%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.62%) GRC
6 2 (0.62%) IFRS
6 2 (0.62%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.62%) SLA
7 1 (0.31%) COBIT
7 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 11 (3.38%) Docker
2 2 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (13.85%) Terraform
2 12 (3.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.31%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 148 (45.54%) Databricks
2 134 (41.23%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.85%) Adobe
4 13 (4.00%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.46%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.46%) SAP
6 6 (1.85%) Foundry
6 6 (1.85%) Google
7 4 (1.23%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.23%) Automation Anywhere
7 4 (1.23%) UiPath
8 3 (0.92%) Informatica
9 2 (0.62%) Anaplan
9 2 (0.62%) Talend
9 2 (0.62%) Trapeze
10 1 (0.31%) Confluent
10 1 (0.31%) Infor
10 1 (0.31%) Nintex
10 1 (0.31%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow