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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 362 377
Rank change year-on-year -69 +15 -48
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 349 327 440
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.75% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 2.26% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 261 255 367
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £45,265
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £78,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +20.77% - -

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 24,616 14,441 22,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.32% 32.93% 31.79%
Number of salaries quoted 16,977 10,143 15,946
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -2.44% -5.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.37%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -46 167 £81,250 +1.56% 85
North of England -11 66 £74,000 +33.98% 14
Yorkshire -5 40 £81,250 +35.42% 5
Midlands -43 33 £60,000 -2.04% 16
South East -72 33 £58,750 +6.82% 42
East of England -7 27 £90,000 +80.00% 4
West Midlands -34 27 £60,000 - 10
North West -2 20 £55,000 - 5
South West -60 18 £85,000 +13.33% 4
East Midlands -29 6 - - 6
North East -60 6 £47,500 -9.52% 4
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 (10.32%) Apache Spark
2 26 (7.45%) SharePoint
3 18 (5.16%) Apache
4 10 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.57%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.57%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.29%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 349 (100.00%) Azure
2 163 (46.70%) Power Platform
3 118 (33.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 73 (20.92%) Azure DevOps
5 58 (16.62%) Azure Databricks
6 46 (13.18%) Azure Logic Apps
7 45 (12.89%) Microsoft Purview
8 26 (7.45%) PowerApps
9 25 (7.16%) Power Automate
10 24 (6.88%) Snowflake
11 23 (6.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 23 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (6.59%) Serverless
12 21 (6.02%) Azure Functions
13 19 (5.44%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 19 (5.44%) OneDrive
14 14 (4.01%) AWS
14 14 (4.01%) GCP
15 13 (3.72%) Azure Machine Learning
16 12 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (45.56%) Power BI
2 110 (31.52%) Data Warehouse
3 92 (26.36%) Data Lake
4 75 (21.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 59 (16.91%) Metadata
6 47 (13.47%) SQL Server
7 46 (13.18%) Delta Lake
8 29 (8.31%) Spark SQL
9 26 (7.45%) Star Schema
10 25 (7.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 24 (6.88%) Tableau
12 20 (5.73%) Data Vault
13 19 (5.44%) Relational Database
14 17 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
15 16 (4.58%) Big Data
16 15 (4.30%) Semantic Layer
17 13 (3.72%) NoSQL
18 12 (3.44%) BigQuery
19 11 (3.15%) Power Query
20 9 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 35 (10.03%) Git
2 7 (2.01%) MLflow
3 6 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.43%) GitLab
5 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.57%) JIRA
6 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.29%) ERwin
7 1 (0.29%) kappa
7 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.29%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 120 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 90 (25.79%) Finance
3 55 (15.76%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.16%) Legal
5 13 (3.72%) Law
5 13 (3.72%) Retail
6 10 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (1.72%) Marketing
8 5 (1.43%) Banking
8 5 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.43%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.15%) Advertising
9 4 (1.15%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.86%) Games
10 3 (0.86%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.86%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.57%) Billing
11 2 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.29%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 163 (46.70%) Data Engineer
2 94 (26.93%) Senior
3 65 (18.62%) Lead
4 54 (15.47%) Azure Engineer
5 52 (14.90%) Architect
6 51 (14.61%) Senior Data Engineer
7 49 (14.04%) Data Architect
8 45 (12.89%) Developer
9 39 (11.17%) Azure Data Engineer
10 31 (8.88%) Lead Data Engineer
11 23 (6.59%) Databricks Engineer
12 22 (6.30%) Platform Engineer
13 19 (5.44%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 19 (5.44%) Senior Developer
14 16 (4.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 16 (4.58%) Consultant
15 10 (2.87%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 10 (2.87%) Operations Engineer
16 9 (2.58%) Business Developer
16 9 (2.58%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (22.06%) PySpark
2 49 (14.04%) Terraform
3 26 (7.45%) REST
4 25 (7.16%) JSON
4 25 (7.16%) Kafka
5 22 (6.30%) .NET
6 20 (5.73%) .NET Core
6 20 (5.73%) CSS
6 20 (5.73%) HTML
7 19 (5.44%) HTML5 Canvas
7 19 (5.44%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (5.44%) SPFx
8 11 (3.15%) ARM Templates
9 8 (2.29%) Keycloak
10 6 (1.72%) SOAP
11 4 (1.15%) XML
12 3 (0.86%) LangChain
13 2 (0.57%) FastAPI
13 2 (0.57%) Middleware
13 2 (0.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.74%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.45%) Product Ownership
3 10 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.01%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.43%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.15%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.15%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.15%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.15%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.15%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.15%) Replication
9 2 (0.57%) Clustering
9 2 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.57%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.72%) Windows
2 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (56.16%) Business Intelligence
2 191 (54.73%) Analytics
3 180 (51.58%) Data Modelling
4 165 (47.28%) ETL
5 164 (46.99%) CI/CD
6 163 (46.70%) Data Engineering
7 149 (42.69%) Data Pipeline
8 144 (41.26%) DevOps
9 102 (29.23%) Lakehouse
10 99 (28.37%) AI
11 91 (26.07%) Data Governance
12 90 (25.79%) Machine Learning
13 80 (22.92%) Data Architecture
14 76 (21.78%) Decision-Making
15 74 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
16 73 (20.92%) Data Science
17 69 (19.77%) Technical Leadership
18 63 (18.05%) Agile
19 60 (17.19%) Data Integration
20 55 (15.76%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 268 (76.79%) SQL
2 190 (54.44%) Python
3 38 (10.89%) Scala
4 35 (10.03%) PowerShell
5 29 (8.31%) C#
6 27 (7.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 22 (6.30%) Bicep
7 22 (6.30%) JavaScript
8 19 (5.44%) TypeScript
9 14 (4.01%) T-SQL
10 8 (2.29%) Go
10 8 (2.29%) Java
11 5 (1.43%) R
12 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.57%) VBA
13 1 (0.29%) PHP
13 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (14.33%) Azure Certification
2 36 (10.32%) Degree
3 33 (9.46%) Security Cleared
4 28 (8.02%) SC Cleared
5 27 (7.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.58%) SnowPro
8 8 (2.29%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.01%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.86%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.29%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (35.24%) Data Quality
2 34 (9.74%) GDPR
3 15 (4.30%) QA
4 5 (1.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (1.43%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.86%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.57%) IFRS
6 2 (0.57%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.57%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 9 (2.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (2.87%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 169 (48.42%) Microsoft
2 162 (46.42%) Databricks
3 19 (5.44%) Adobe
4 9 (2.58%) SAP
5 8 (2.29%) Foundry
5 8 (2.29%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.01%) Google
6 7 (2.01%) Informatica
6 7 (2.01%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.72%) Talend
8 1 (0.29%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.29%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.29%) Confluent
8 1 (0.29%) Infor
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle
8 1 (0.29%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.29%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.29%) Teradata