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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 336 443
Rank change year-on-year -77 +107 -84
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 333 363 471
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.84% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 2.54% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 256 282 399
10th Percentile £48,125 £44,150 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +3.85% -2.99%
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £66,375 £65,000
% change year-on-year +20.53% +2.12% -

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 23,926 14,312 29,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.58% 33.23% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,967 10,253 23,629
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,100 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,500 £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 £78,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 9 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 9 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 -49 146 £83,500 +4.38% 40
North of England -5 64 £67,500 +12.50% 7
Yorkshire -6 40 £80,000 +33.33% 5
Midlands -32 40 £60,000 -4.00% 13
West Midlands -25 34 £60,000 +4.35% 11
East of England -4 33 £90,000 +66.67% 2
North West +2 21 £57,500 -4.17% 2
South East -81 21 £50,000 -23.08% 24
South West -52 18 £60,000 -22.58% 5
East Midlands -29 6 £57,500 -11.54% 2
North East -46 3 £47,500 -9.52% 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 34 (10.21%) SharePoint
2 28 (8.41%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (3.30%) Apache
5 4 (1.20%) Appian
6 3 (0.90%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.60%) Luigi
7 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.60%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.30%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 333 (100.00%) Azure
2 151 (45.35%) Power Platform
3 97 (29.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 65 (19.52%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (13.51%) Azure Logic Apps
6 34 (10.21%) Power Automate
7 32 (9.61%) PowerApps
8 31 (9.31%) Microsoft Purview
9 28 (8.41%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (6.61%) Azure Functions
10 22 (6.61%) Serverless
11 19 (5.71%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.71%) OneDrive
12 18 (5.41%) AWS
13 17 (5.11%) Snowflake
14 16 (4.80%) GCP
15 14 (4.20%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (4.20%) dbt
15 14 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
16 13 (3.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.30%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (43.54%) Power BI
2 93 (27.93%) Data Warehouse
3 89 (26.73%) Data Lake
4 79 (23.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 50 (15.02%) SQL Server
6 33 (9.91%) Delta Lake
6 33 (9.91%) Spark SQL
6 33 (9.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 31 (9.31%) Metadata
8 20 (6.01%) Tableau
9 19 (5.71%) Star Schema
10 18 (5.41%) Relational Database
11 14 (4.20%) Big Data
12 13 (3.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 13 (3.90%) Power Query
13 12 (3.60%) BigQuery
14 11 (3.30%) Data Vault
15 9 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
15 9 (2.70%) Semantic Layer
16 8 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (8.41%) Git
2 7 (2.10%) MLflow
3 5 (1.50%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.20%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.60%) JIRA
6 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.30%) ERwin
7 1 (0.30%) GitLab
7 1 (0.30%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 115 (34.53%) Social Skills
2 97 (29.13%) Finance
3 54 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
4 12 (3.60%) Retail
5 11 (3.30%) Law
6 9 (2.70%) Legal
7 8 (2.40%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.20%) Advertising
9 4 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.90%) Automotive
10 3 (0.90%) Games
10 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.90%) Marketing
10 3 (0.90%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.30%) Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Billing
12 1 (0.30%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 159 (47.75%) Data Engineer
2 77 (23.12%) Senior
3 60 (18.02%) Lead
4 46 (13.81%) Azure Engineer
5 43 (12.91%) Developer
6 41 (12.31%) Senior Data Engineer
7 38 (11.41%) Architect
8 34 (10.21%) Data Architect
9 33 (9.91%) Azure Data Engineer
10 29 (8.71%) Lead Data Engineer
11 27 (8.11%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (5.41%) Senior Developer
13 16 (4.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 15 (4.50%) Consultant
15 11 (3.30%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 10 (3.00%) Microsoft Engineer
17 8 (2.40%) Analyst
17 8 (2.40%) Data Manager
17 8 (2.40%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (21.32%) PySpark
2 24 (7.21%) .NET
2 24 (7.21%) REST
3 23 (6.91%) JSON
4 22 (6.61%) .NET Core
5 21 (6.31%) CSS
5 21 (6.31%) HTML
6 19 (5.71%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.71%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.71%) SPFx
7 15 (4.50%) Kafka
8 12 (3.60%) ARM Templates
9 7 (2.10%) RESTful
10 6 (1.80%) SOAP
11 5 (1.50%) FastAPI
11 5 (1.50%) NumPy
11 5 (1.50%) Pandas
11 5 (1.50%) PyTorch
11 5 (1.50%) scikit-learn
11 5 (1.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.80%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.10%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (2.10%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.80%) Low-Code
6 6 (1.80%) Replication
7 5 (1.50%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.20%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.20%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.90%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.60%) Clustering
10 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.60%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (52.55%) Analytics
2 169 (50.75%) Business Intelligence
3 162 (48.65%) Data Modelling
4 150 (45.05%) ETL
5 148 (44.44%) Data Engineering
6 143 (42.94%) CI/CD
7 139 (41.74%) Data Pipeline
8 121 (36.34%) DevOps
9 93 (27.93%) AI
10 86 (25.83%) Data Governance
11 77 (23.12%) Decision-Making
11 77 (23.12%) Machine Learning
12 69 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
13 67 (20.12%) Agile
14 60 (18.02%) Data Architecture
15 58 (17.42%) Data Integration
16 51 (15.32%) Data Science
16 51 (15.32%) Technical Leadership
17 48 (14.41%) Infrastructure as Code
18 45 (13.51%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 251 (75.38%) SQL
2 161 (48.35%) Python
3 36 (10.81%) PowerShell
4 25 (7.51%) C#
5 23 (6.91%) Scala
6 22 (6.61%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (5.71%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.90%) Bicep
8 13 (3.90%) T-SQL
9 9 (2.70%) Java
10 7 (2.10%) R
11 3 (0.90%) Go
12 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.60%) PHP
12 2 (0.60%) VBA
13 1 (0.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 34 (10.21%) Degree
2 33 (9.91%) Azure Certification
3 27 (8.11%) Security Cleared
4 22 (6.61%) SC Cleared
5 17 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.10%) SnowPro
8 5 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.90%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.90%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.60%) IIBA
11 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.60%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.60%) PMP
12 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (30.03%) Data Quality
2 30 (9.01%) GDPR
3 13 (3.90%) QA
4 5 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.50%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
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 12 (3.60%) Docker
2 2 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (13.51%) Terraform
2 13 (3.90%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.30%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 151 (45.35%) Databricks
2 136 (40.84%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.71%) Adobe
4 13 (3.90%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.40%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.40%) SAP
6 7 (2.10%) Foundry
6 7 (2.10%) Google
7 4 (1.20%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.20%) Automation Anywhere
7 4 (1.20%) UiPath
8 3 (0.90%) Informatica
9 2 (0.60%) Anaplan
9 2 (0.60%) Talend
9 2 (0.60%) Trapeze
10 1 (0.30%) Confluent
10 1 (0.30%) Infor
10 1 (0.30%) Nintex
10 1 (0.30%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow