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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 338 423
Rank change year-on-year -45 +85 -45
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 335 357 471
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.91% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.40% 2.54% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 263 289 422
10th Percentile £46,250 £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% -7.41%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £79,313
90th Percentile £99,750 £95,500 £93,625
UK median annual salary £75,000 £66,375 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.99% +6.20% -6.02%

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 23,970 14,057 29,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.78% 35.83% 35.29%
Number of salaries quoted 13,694 10,107 24,225
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +7.83% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.73% +4.78% -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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -39 142 £83,500 +4.38% 34
Midlands -32 51 £60,000 -7.69% 9
North of England -40 47 £80,000 +28.00% 20
West Midlands -20 46 £60,000 +4.35% 4
East of England +5 34 £90,000 +75.61% 3
Yorkshire -37 34 £80,000 +33.33% 12
South East -53 32 £50,000 -23.08% 24
South West -48 15 £56,250 -10.00% 6
North West -15 12 £62,500 -3.85% 8
East Midlands -28 5 £57,500 -11.54% 5
North East -43 1 - -
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 36 (10.75%) SharePoint
2 23 (6.87%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.58%) Apache
3 12 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (3.58%) Appian
4 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.60%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.60%) Luigi
6 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.19%) 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
1 335 (100.00%) Azure
2 155 (46.27%) Power Platform
3 101 (30.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 67 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (13.13%) Power Automate
6 39 (11.64%) Azure Logic Apps
7 34 (10.15%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (10.15%) PowerApps
8 21 (6.27%) AWS
8 21 (6.27%) Serverless
9 20 (5.97%) Microsoft Purview
9 20 (5.97%) PaaS
10 19 (5.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 19 (5.67%) Azure Functions
10 19 (5.67%) GCP
10 19 (5.67%) OneDrive
11 18 (5.37%) Azure Monitor
11 18 (5.37%) GitHub
12 17 (5.07%) Azure AI
12 17 (5.07%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.60%) DNS
2 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (43.58%) Power BI
2 106 (31.64%) Data Lake
3 101 (30.15%) Data Warehouse
4 80 (23.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 61 (18.21%) SQL Server
6 39 (11.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 30 (8.96%) Delta Lake
8 29 (8.66%) Spark SQL
9 21 (6.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 16 (4.78%) Metadata
11 15 (4.48%) Relational Database
12 12 (3.58%) Pinecone
13 11 (3.28%) Star Schema
13 11 (3.28%) Tableau
14 10 (2.99%) Big Data
15 9 (2.69%) BigQuery
15 9 (2.69%) Power Query
15 9 (2.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 7 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
17 6 (1.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 36 (10.75%) Git
2 14 (4.18%) MLflow
3 3 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (0.90%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.30%) JIRA
5 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 122 (36.42%) Social Skills
2 112 (33.43%) Finance
3 47 (14.03%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (3.28%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.09%) Retail
8 6 (1.79%) Automotive
8 6 (1.79%) Law
9 5 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.19%) Advertising
10 4 (1.19%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.60%) Banking
12 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.60%) Legal
13 1 (0.30%) Local Government
13 1 (0.30%) Marketing
13 1 (0.30%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 159 (47.46%) Data Engineer
2 70 (20.90%) Senior
3 48 (14.33%) Azure Engineer
3 48 (14.33%) Lead
4 45 (13.43%) Developer
5 43 (12.84%) Senior Data Engineer
6 33 (9.85%) Azure Data Engineer
7 26 (7.76%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (7.46%) Lead Data Engineer
9 22 (6.57%) Consultant
10 19 (5.67%) Architect
11 17 (5.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 17 (5.07%) Senior Developer
12 16 (4.78%) Data Architect
13 15 (4.48%) Automation Engineer
14 12 (3.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 12 (3.58%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 12 (3.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.28%) Microsoft Engineer
16 8 (2.39%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (20.00%) PySpark
2 35 (10.45%) REST
3 31 (9.25%) .NET
4 25 (7.46%) JSON
5 22 (6.57%) .NET Core
6 21 (6.27%) CSS
6 21 (6.27%) HTML
7 20 (5.97%) HTML5 Canvas
8 19 (5.67%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (5.67%) SPFx
9 15 (4.48%) RESTful
10 13 (3.88%) NumPy
10 13 (3.88%) OAuth
10 13 (3.88%) Pandas
10 13 (3.88%) PyTorch
10 13 (3.88%) scikit-learn
10 13 (3.88%) TensorFlow
11 12 (3.58%) Flask
11 12 (3.58%) pytest
11 12 (3.58%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.27%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.37%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.18%) Low-Code
5 9 (2.69%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.69%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.39%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.09%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.49%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.49%) Replication
9 3 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.90%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.90%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.30%) Life Science
11 1 (0.30%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.30%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (50.75%) ETL
2 167 (49.85%) Analytics
3 164 (48.96%) Data Modelling
4 157 (46.87%) Business Intelligence
5 146 (43.58%) Data Engineering
6 143 (42.69%) Data Pipeline
7 141 (42.09%) CI/CD
8 117 (34.93%) DevOps
9 86 (25.67%) AI
10 74 (22.09%) Agile
11 71 (21.19%) Data Governance
12 70 (20.90%) Decision-Making
12 70 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
13 67 (20.00%) Machine Learning
14 54 (16.12%) Data Architecture
15 48 (14.33%) Infrastructure as Code
16 44 (13.13%) Data Integration
17 42 (12.54%) Visualisation
18 40 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
19 37 (11.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 254 (75.82%) SQL
2 162 (48.36%) Python
3 35 (10.45%) PowerShell
4 30 (8.96%) C#
5 26 (7.76%) JavaScript
6 21 (6.27%) Scala
7 19 (5.67%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 17 (5.07%) T-SQL
10 10 (2.99%) Java
11 9 (2.69%) R
12 8 (2.39%) Bicep
13 2 (0.60%) C++
13 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.60%) PHP
13 2 (0.60%) VBA
14 1 (0.30%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (12.24%) Degree
2 22 (6.57%) Security Cleared
3 19 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (5.07%) Azure Certification
5 16 (4.78%) SC Cleared
6 10 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.39%) IIBA
7 8 (2.39%) PMI Certification
7 8 (2.39%) PMP
8 4 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (28.96%) Data Quality
2 23 (6.87%) GDPR
3 7 (2.09%) QA
4 5 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.49%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.60%) GRC
6 2 (0.60%) IFRS
6 2 (0.60%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.60%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) COBIT
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 18 (5.37%) Docker
2 4 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (11.64%) Terraform
2 22 (6.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.30%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 153 (45.67%) Databricks
2 137 (40.90%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.67%) Adobe
4 18 (5.37%) OpenAI
5 12 (3.58%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (3.58%) UiPath
6 10 (2.99%) Alteryx
7 8 (2.39%) Anaplan
8 5 (1.49%) Foundry
8 5 (1.49%) Google
8 5 (1.49%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.49%) SAP
9 3 (0.90%) Talend
10 2 (0.60%) Informatica
10 2 (0.60%) Oracle
10 2 (0.60%) Trapeze
11 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.30%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.30%) Infor
11 1 (0.30%) Teradata