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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 329 427
Rank change year-on-year -71 +98 -49
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 323 350 472
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.90% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 2.63% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 252 278 417
10th Percentile £47,275 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £104,500 £90,000 £97,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -6.72%

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 23,819 13,319 30,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.81% 34.21% 33.82%
Number of salaries quoted 14,389 9,345 24,398
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 4 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 4 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 -48 136 £83,500 +11.33% 44
North of England -29 55 £80,000 +33.33% 16
Midlands -39 44 £60,000 -7.69% 14
West Midlands -31 39 £60,000 - 10
Yorkshire -27 38 £80,000 +33.33% 4
East of England -11 33 £90,000 +71.43% 1
South East -56 27 £50,000 -23.08% 19
North West -3 16 £61,250 -2.00% 9
South West -48 16 £55,000 -29.03% 10
East Midlands -27 5 £57,500 -11.54% 4
North East -38 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 (10.84%) SharePoint
2 23 (7.12%) Apache Spark
3 13 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.10%) Apache
5 8 (2.48%) Appian
6 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.93%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.62%) Luigi
9 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.62%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.62%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.31%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 323 (100.00%) Azure
2 140 (43.34%) Power Platform
3 91 (28.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 62 (19.20%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (12.69%) Azure Logic Apps
6 39 (12.07%) Power Automate
7 33 (10.22%) PowerApps
8 31 (9.60%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (6.81%) Serverless
10 20 (6.19%) Azure Functions
11 19 (5.88%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.88%) AWS
11 19 (5.88%) OneDrive
12 18 (5.57%) Azure Monitor
12 18 (5.57%) Microsoft Purview
13 17 (5.26%) GCP
14 15 (4.64%) dbt
14 15 (4.64%) GitHub
15 14 (4.33%) Microsoft Copilot
16 13 (4.02%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.31%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (41.49%) Power BI
2 94 (29.10%) Data Warehouse
3 93 (28.79%) Data Lake
4 80 (24.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 48 (14.86%) SQL Server
6 33 (10.22%) Spark SQL
6 33 (10.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 32 (9.91%) Delta Lake
8 20 (6.19%) Metadata
9 18 (5.57%) Relational Database
10 17 (5.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 15 (4.64%) Tableau
12 13 (4.02%) Star Schema
13 11 (3.41%) Big Data
13 11 (3.41%) BigQuery
13 11 (3.41%) Power Query
14 9 (2.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 8 (2.48%) Pinecone
16 7 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
17 5 (1.55%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 31 (9.60%) Git
2 10 (3.10%) MLflow
3 5 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.55%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.31%) JIRA
General
1 116 (35.91%) Social Skills
2 108 (33.44%) Finance
3 48 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (3.10%) Retail
5 9 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (2.79%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.55%) Law
7 4 (1.24%) Automotive
7 4 (1.24%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.93%) Advertising
8 3 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.93%) Legal
8 3 (0.93%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.62%) Banking
9 2 (0.62%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.31%) Billing
10 1 (0.31%) Local Government
10 1 (0.31%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 158 (48.92%) Data Engineer
2 71 (21.98%) Senior
3 55 (17.03%) Lead
4 49 (15.17%) Azure Engineer
5 42 (13.00%) Developer
5 42 (13.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 33 (10.22%) Azure Data Engineer
7 29 (8.98%) Platform Engineer
8 27 (8.36%) Lead Data Engineer
9 22 (6.81%) Architect
10 18 (5.57%) Consultant
10 18 (5.57%) Data Architect
10 18 (5.57%) Senior Developer
11 15 (4.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 13 (4.02%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 13 (4.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.41%) Automation Engineer
13 11 (3.41%) Microsoft Engineer
14 9 (2.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 7 (2.17%) Microsoft 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (22.29%) PySpark
2 29 (8.98%) .NET
3 28 (8.67%) REST
4 22 (6.81%) .NET Core
4 22 (6.81%) JSON
5 21 (6.50%) CSS
5 21 (6.50%) HTML
6 19 (5.88%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.88%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.88%) SPFx
7 14 (4.33%) ARM Templates
8 11 (3.41%) RESTful
9 10 (3.10%) Kafka
10 9 (2.79%) FastAPI
10 9 (2.79%) NumPy
10 9 (2.79%) Pandas
10 9 (2.79%) PyTorch
10 9 (2.79%) scikit-learn
10 9 (2.79%) TensorFlow
11 8 (2.48%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.12%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.64%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.33%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.10%) Low-Code
5 9 (2.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.48%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (2.17%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.86%) Replication
9 5 (1.55%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.55%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.24%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.24%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.93%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.93%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.62%) Clustering
12 2 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.31%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (49.23%) Data Modelling
2 157 (48.61%) Analytics
2 157 (48.61%) ETL
3 150 (46.44%) Business Intelligence
4 145 (44.89%) Data Engineering
5 139 (43.03%) CI/CD
6 136 (42.11%) Data Pipeline
7 112 (34.67%) DevOps
8 75 (23.22%) AI
9 73 (22.60%) Data Governance
10 67 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
11 66 (20.43%) Agile
12 63 (19.50%) Decision-Making
13 60 (18.58%) Machine Learning
14 57 (17.65%) Data Architecture
15 50 (15.48%) Data Integration
16 47 (14.55%) Infrastructure as Code
17 40 (12.38%) Mentoring
18 38 (11.76%) Data Science
19 37 (11.46%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 245 (75.85%) SQL
2 159 (49.23%) Python
3 34 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 29 (8.98%) C#
5 26 (8.05%) JavaScript
6 23 (7.12%) Scala
7 19 (5.88%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 15 (4.64%) T-SQL
10 10 (3.10%) Java
11 9 (2.79%) R
12 8 (2.48%) Bicep
13 3 (0.93%) VBA
14 2 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.62%) PHP
15 1 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 37 (11.46%) Degree
2 23 (7.12%) Security Cleared
3 21 (6.50%) Azure Certification
4 19 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (5.26%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.24%) IIBA
7 4 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.24%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.24%) PMP
8 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.31%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (29.41%) Data Quality
2 24 (7.43%) GDPR
3 8 (2.48%) QA
4 5 (1.55%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.55%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.62%) GRC
5 2 (0.62%) IFRS
5 2 (0.62%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.62%) SLA
6 1 (0.31%) COBIT
6 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 15 (4.64%) Docker
2 4 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (12.38%) Terraform
2 19 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.31%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 146 (45.20%) Databricks
2 127 (39.32%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.88%) Adobe
4 15 (4.64%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.48%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (2.48%) UiPath
6 7 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.17%) SAP
7 6 (1.86%) Alteryx
7 6 (1.86%) Foundry
7 6 (1.86%) Google
8 4 (1.24%) Anaplan
9 2 (0.62%) Informatica
9 2 (0.62%) Talend
9 2 (0.62%) Trapeze
10 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.31%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.31%) Infor
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle
10 1 (0.31%) Teradata