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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 313 412
Rank change year-on-year -42 +99 -31
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 351 361 476
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 0.96% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.41% 2.61% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 263 291 426
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £48,188
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% -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 24,835 13,835 29,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.75% 36.94% 35.79%
Number of salaries quoted 13,112 10,266 24,267
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,438 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,225 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.58% +8.22% -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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -11 154 £80,000 - 29
Midlands -29 55 £60,000 -4.00% 16
North of England -45 53 £75,000 +15.38% 24
West Midlands -17 50 £60,000 +4.35% 12
South East -78 33 £50,000 -28.57% 24
Yorkshire -41 31 £80,000 +33.33% 11
East of England -25 29 £90,000 +75.61% 6
North West -31 14 £65,000 -3.70% 13
South West -48 14 £57,500 -8.00% 7
North East -37 8 £51,000 -34.19% 1
East Midlands -49 5 £57,500 -11.54% 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 31 (8.83%) SharePoint
2 20 (5.70%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.42%) Appian
4 10 (2.85%) Apache
5 9 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 21 (5.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.57%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.28%) Endur
2 1 (0.28%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 351 (100.00%) Azure
2 173 (49.29%) Power Platform
3 123 (35.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 64 (18.23%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (11.11%) Power Automate
6 32 (9.12%) Azure Logic Apps
7 31 (8.83%) Microsoft 365
8 28 (7.98%) PowerApps
9 22 (6.27%) Microsoft Purview
10 20 (5.70%) PaaS
11 19 (5.41%) GitHub
12 18 (5.13%) AWS
12 18 (5.13%) Serverless
13 17 (4.84%) Azure AI
14 16 (4.56%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 16 (4.56%) Anthropic Claude
14 16 (4.56%) Azure Functions
14 16 (4.56%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (4.56%) GCP
14 16 (4.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.57%) DNS
2 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (45.87%) Power BI
2 111 (31.62%) Data Lake
3 97 (27.64%) Data Warehouse
4 96 (27.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 79 (22.51%) SQL Server
6 40 (11.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 28 (7.98%) Delta Lake
8 26 (7.41%) Spark SQL
9 24 (6.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 20 (5.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 15 (4.27%) Relational Database
12 14 (3.99%) Metadata
13 13 (3.70%) Tableau
14 12 (3.42%) Pinecone
15 11 (3.13%) Star Schema
16 9 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
17 8 (2.28%) Big Data
17 8 (2.28%) MySQL
18 7 (1.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 6 (1.71%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 34 (9.69%) Git
2 13 (3.70%) MLflow
3 3 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.28%) JIRA
General
1 132 (37.61%) Social Skills
2 131 (37.32%) Finance
3 57 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (3.99%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (3.99%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (1.99%) Automotive
6 7 (1.99%) Billing
6 7 (1.99%) Law
6 7 (1.99%) Manufacturing
6 7 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.42%) Retail
9 4 (1.14%) Advertising
9 4 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.57%) Banking
10 2 (0.57%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.57%) Legal
10 2 (0.57%) Marketing
11 1 (0.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 163 (46.44%) Data Engineer
2 72 (20.51%) Senior
3 47 (13.39%) Azure Engineer
4 45 (12.82%) Senior Data Engineer
5 42 (11.97%) Lead
6 41 (11.68%) Developer
7 33 (9.40%) Azure Data Engineer
8 23 (6.55%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (5.98%) Lead Data Engineer
10 20 (5.70%) Architect
11 17 (4.84%) Consultant
12 16 (4.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 16 (4.56%) Data Architect
12 16 (4.56%) Senior Developer
13 15 (4.27%) Analyst
13 15 (4.27%) Automation Engineer
14 12 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 12 (3.42%) Microsoft Engineer
15 10 (2.85%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 10 (2.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (18.52%) PySpark
2 31 (8.83%) REST
3 29 (8.26%) .NET
4 22 (6.27%) JSON
5 20 (5.70%) .NET Core
6 18 (5.13%) CSS
6 18 (5.13%) HTML
7 17 (4.84%) HTML5 Canvas
8 16 (4.56%) Microsoft Graph
8 16 (4.56%) SPFx
9 15 (4.27%) RESTful
10 13 (3.70%) NumPy
10 13 (3.70%) OAuth
10 13 (3.70%) Pandas
10 13 (3.70%) PyTorch
10 13 (3.70%) scikit-learn
10 13 (3.70%) TensorFlow
11 12 (3.42%) FastAPI
11 12 (3.42%) JWT
11 12 (3.42%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.98%) Analytical Mindset
2 20 (5.70%) Cloud Native
3 17 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (4.56%) Low-Code
4 16 (4.56%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.56%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (2.28%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.42%) Replication
10 4 (1.14%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.85%) Clustering
11 3 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.85%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.85%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (53.28%) Analytics
2 173 (49.29%) Business Intelligence
3 172 (49.00%) ETL
4 171 (48.72%) Data Modelling
5 154 (43.87%) Data Pipeline
6 153 (43.59%) Data Engineering
7 132 (37.61%) CI/CD
8 108 (30.77%) DevOps
9 95 (27.07%) AI
10 83 (23.65%) Decision-Making
11 82 (23.36%) Problem-Solving
12 73 (20.80%) Agile
13 72 (20.51%) Data Governance
14 61 (17.38%) Machine Learning
15 59 (16.81%) Visualisation
16 57 (16.24%) Data Architecture
17 43 (12.25%) Data Integration
18 42 (11.97%) Infrastructure as Code
19 40 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
20 39 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 268 (76.35%) SQL
2 161 (45.87%) Python
3 32 (9.12%) PowerShell
4 30 (8.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 28 (7.98%) C#
6 23 (6.55%) JavaScript
7 20 (5.70%) T-SQL
8 19 (5.41%) Scala
9 16 (4.56%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.56%) Java
11 7 (1.99%) Bicep
11 7 (1.99%) R
12 3 (0.85%) C++
13 2 (0.57%) PHP
14 1 (0.28%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (11.68%) Degree
2 22 (6.27%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.84%) Azure Certification
3 17 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.28%) IIBA
5 8 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.28%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.28%) PMP
6 7 (1.99%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 3 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.57%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.28%) MCSE
9 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (29.91%) Data Quality
2 24 (6.84%) GDPR
3 7 (1.99%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.42%) QA
5 4 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.14%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.57%) GRC
6 2 (0.57%) SLA
7 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.28%) COBIT
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 19 (5.41%) Docker
2 5 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (9.97%) Terraform
2 24 (6.84%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.28%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 150 (42.74%) Databricks
2 136 (38.75%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.13%) OpenAI
4 16 (4.56%) Adobe
5 12 (3.42%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (3.42%) UiPath
6 10 (2.85%) Alteryx
7 8 (2.28%) Anaplan
8 6 (1.71%) Talend
9 5 (1.42%) Foundry
9 5 (1.42%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.14%) Google
10 4 (1.14%) Informatica
10 4 (1.14%) SAP
11 3 (0.85%) Oracle
12 2 (0.57%) RedGate
12 2 (0.57%) Trapeze
13 1 (0.28%) Cognizant
13 1 (0.28%) Nintex
13 1 (0.28%) Palantir