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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 353 306
Rank change year-on-year +1 -47 +99
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 268 368 462
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 0.76% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 2.09% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 205 302 412
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,600 £41,325
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,000
UK median annual salary £73,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.31% +8.33% -11.11%

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 18,546 17,615 19,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.36% 36.53% 40.60%
Number of salaries quoted 10,337 10,419 16,685
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.05% +7.58% -7.69%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 +21 147 £85,000 +17.24% 36
Midlands +33 36 £60,000 -4.00% 34
West Midlands +34 35 £60,000 -7.69% 18
South East -25 33 £55,000 -15.38% 50
North of England -10 28 £56,367 -6.06% 34
North West +5 11 £57,500 +4.55% 16
South West +5 10 £77,500 +31.91% 15
Yorkshire -26 9 £79,000 +32.22% 13
North East +8 8 £51,000 -15.00% 5
East of England +18 6 £50,500 -36.88% 17
East Midlands 0 1 £82,500 +65.00% 16
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 16 (5.97%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.36%) Apache
2 9 (3.36%) Appian
3 5 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.87%) SAS
4 4 (1.49%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (7.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.37%) Endur
2 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 268 (100.00%) Azure
2 146 (54.48%) Power Platform
3 117 (43.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 45 (16.79%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (11.19%) Microsoft Purview
6 17 (6.34%) GitHub
7 16 (5.97%) Power Automate
8 15 (5.60%) Snowflake
9 14 (5.22%) AWS
9 14 (5.22%) SaaS
10 13 (4.85%) PaaS
11 12 (4.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 12 (4.48%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (4.48%) dbt
12 11 (4.10%) Anthropic Claude
12 11 (4.10%) GCP
12 11 (4.10%) Matillion
12 11 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (4.10%) Serverless
13 10 (3.73%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) DNS
1 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (49.63%) Power BI
2 104 (38.81%) Data Lake
3 96 (35.82%) SQL Server
4 85 (31.72%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (24.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 41 (15.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 36 (13.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 21 (7.84%) Delta Lake
9 20 (7.46%) Metadata
10 15 (5.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 14 (5.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 12 (4.48%) Tableau
13 10 (3.73%) MySQL
14 9 (3.36%) Pinecone
15 8 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
16 6 (2.24%) Big Data
16 6 (2.24%) Data Mining
16 6 (2.24%) Qlik Sense
17 5 (1.87%) Relational Database
17 5 (1.87%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 32 (11.94%) Git
2 9 (3.36%) MLflow
3 4 (1.49%) JIRA
4 3 (1.12%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.12%) Jenkins
General
1 109 (40.67%) Finance
2 106 (39.55%) Social Skills
3 48 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.60%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (4.48%) Law
6 10 (3.73%) Automotive
6 10 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.99%) Billing
8 8 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.99%) Retail
9 7 (2.61%) Banking
10 5 (1.87%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.49%) Legal
11 4 (1.49%) Marketing
11 4 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.12%) Advertising
13 2 (0.75%) Local Government
14 1 (0.37%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (46.27%) Data Engineer
2 42 (15.67%) Senior
3 36 (13.43%) Senior Data Engineer
4 30 (11.19%) Azure Engineer
5 25 (9.33%) Developer
6 23 (8.58%) Azure Data Engineer
7 22 (8.21%) Architect
8 19 (7.09%) Data Architect
9 18 (6.72%) Lead
10 14 (5.22%) Analyst
11 11 (4.10%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 11 (4.10%) Consultant
11 11 (4.10%) Data Manager
12 10 (3.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 9 (3.36%) Automation Engineer
13 9 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (2.99%) Azure Architect
15 7 (2.61%) Commercial Analyst
15 7 (2.61%) Insight Analyst
15 7 (2.61%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (17.16%) PySpark
2 20 (7.46%) REST
3 18 (6.72%) .NET
4 12 (4.48%) Pandas
5 10 (3.73%) OAuth
5 10 (3.73%) RESTful
6 9 (3.36%) Django
6 9 (3.36%) Faiss
6 9 (3.36%) FastAPI
6 9 (3.36%) Flask
6 9 (3.36%) Hugging Face
6 9 (3.36%) JWT
6 9 (3.36%) NumPy
6 9 (3.36%) OpenAPI
6 9 (3.36%) pytest
6 9 (3.36%) PyTorch
6 9 (3.36%) scikit-learn
6 9 (3.36%) Swagger
6 9 (3.36%) TensorFlow
6 9 (3.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.34%) Analytical Mindset
2 14 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
2 14 (5.22%) Low-Code
3 11 (4.10%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.61%) AI Agents
4 7 (2.61%) Enterprise Cloud
4 7 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.24%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.49%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.49%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.49%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.12%) Clustering
7 3 (1.12%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.12%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (54.85%) ETL
2 141 (52.61%) Analytics
3 139 (51.87%) Business Intelligence
4 119 (44.40%) Data Modelling
5 116 (43.28%) Data Engineering
6 114 (42.54%) Data Pipeline
7 88 (32.84%) CI/CD
8 81 (30.22%) Agile
9 76 (28.36%) AI
10 71 (26.49%) DevOps
11 66 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
12 65 (24.25%) Decision-Making
13 59 (22.01%) Data Governance
14 46 (17.16%) Visualisation
15 44 (16.42%) Data Architecture
16 42 (15.67%) Machine Learning
17 41 (15.30%) Stakeholder Management
18 32 (11.94%) Migration
19 28 (10.45%) Roadmaps
20 27 (10.07%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 198 (73.88%) SQL
2 137 (51.12%) Python
3 32 (11.94%) T-SQL
4 28 (10.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 20 (7.46%) Scala
6 17 (6.34%) C#
7 9 (3.36%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.36%) PowerShell
8 8 (2.99%) Java
9 6 (2.24%) Bicep
9 6 (2.24%) R
10 2 (0.75%) C++
11 1 (0.37%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.37%) PHP
11 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (10.07%) Degree
2 15 (5.60%) Azure Certification
3 13 (4.85%) Security Cleared
4 12 (4.48%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.99%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (2.61%) IIBA
7 7 (2.61%) PMI Certification
7 7 (2.61%) PMP
7 7 (2.61%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 6 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.49%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.12%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.37%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (30.22%) Data Quality
2 19 (7.09%) GDPR
3 7 (2.61%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.12%) QA
6 2 (0.75%) SLA
7 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
System Software
1 16 (5.97%) Docker
2 5 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (8.58%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.21%) Terraform
3 5 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 124 (46.27%) Databricks
2 121 (45.15%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.36%) Automation Anywhere
3 9 (3.36%) OpenAI
3 9 (3.36%) UiPath
4 8 (2.99%) Alteryx
5 7 (2.61%) Anaplan
6 6 (2.24%) Talend
7 4 (1.49%) Informatica
8 3 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.12%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.12%) Oracle
8 3 (1.12%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.12%) RedGate
9 2 (0.75%) SAP
10 1 (0.37%) Foundry
10 1 (0.37%) Google
10 1 (0.37%) Palantir
10 1 (0.37%) Salesforce