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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 370 387
Rank change year-on-year -52 +17 -52
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 347 305 433
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.71% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.43% 2.17% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 252 245 351
10th Percentile £48,800 £43,850 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,188 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £92,875 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £76,250 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +17.31% - -

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 24,287 14,080 21,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.26% 32.56% 31.73%
Number of salaries quoted 16,844 9,807 14,443
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -42 174 £80,000 - 147
North of England -16 63 £65,250 +18.64% 40
Yorkshire -1 36 £82,500 +37.50% 13
South East -58 35 £62,500 +13.64% 56
Midlands -52 33 £85,000 +41.67% 25
West Midlands -42 26 £85,000 +41.67% 15
East of England -20 23 £90,000 +80.00% 11
North West -5 21 £55,000 - 22
South West -61 20 £85,000 +17.24% 13
East Midlands -30 7 - - 10
North East -60 6 £47,500 -9.52% 5
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 39 (11.24%) Apache Spark
2 21 (6.05%) SharePoint
3 18 (5.19%) Apache
4 11 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.58%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.58%) 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 7 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.29%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 347 (100.00%) Azure
2 160 (46.11%) Power Platform
3 122 (35.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 75 (21.61%) Azure DevOps
5 59 (17.00%) Azure Databricks
6 48 (13.83%) Microsoft Purview
7 47 (13.54%) Azure Logic Apps
8 26 (7.49%) Serverless
9 25 (7.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 24 (6.92%) Snowflake
11 23 (6.63%) Azure Functions
12 22 (6.34%) PowerApps
13 21 (6.05%) Power Automate
14 20 (5.76%) Microsoft 365
15 18 (5.19%) AWS
16 16 (4.61%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 16 (4.61%) OneDrive
17 14 (4.03%) dbt
17 14 (4.03%) GCP
18 13 (3.75%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (45.53%) Power BI
2 114 (32.85%) Data Warehouse
3 95 (27.38%) Data Lake
4 78 (22.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 65 (18.73%) Metadata
6 46 (13.26%) Delta Lake
7 44 (12.68%) SQL Server
8 28 (8.07%) Star Schema
9 27 (7.78%) Spark SQL
10 25 (7.20%) Tableau
11 20 (5.76%) Data Vault
11 20 (5.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (5.19%) NoSQL
12 18 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (5.19%) Relational Database
13 17 (4.90%) Big Data
14 16 (4.61%) Semantic Layer
15 13 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (3.46%) BigQuery
16 12 (3.46%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 42 (12.10%) Git
2 9 (2.59%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.02%) MLflow
4 5 (1.44%) GitLab
5 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.58%) JIRA
6 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio
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
1 119 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 95 (27.38%) Finance
3 59 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.48%) Legal
5 14 (4.03%) Law
5 14 (4.03%) Retail
6 11 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.02%) Banking
8 6 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.73%) Marketing
9 4 (1.15%) Advertising
9 4 (1.15%) Billing
9 4 (1.15%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.15%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.15%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.86%) Games
10 3 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.86%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 166 (47.84%) Data Engineer
2 98 (28.24%) Senior
3 62 (17.87%) Lead
4 59 (17.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 57 (16.43%) Azure Engineer
6 52 (14.99%) Architect
7 48 (13.83%) Data Architect
8 43 (12.39%) Developer
9 41 (11.82%) Azure Data Engineer
10 29 (8.36%) Lead Data Engineer
11 21 (6.05%) Databricks Engineer
12 20 (5.76%) Platform Engineer
13 19 (5.48%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 16 (4.61%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 16 (4.61%) Senior Developer
15 13 (3.75%) Consultant
16 12 (3.46%) Analyst
17 10 (2.88%) Business Developer
17 10 (2.88%) Kafka Engineer
17 10 (2.88%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (22.19%) PySpark
2 48 (13.83%) Terraform
3 29 (8.36%) Kafka
4 26 (7.49%) JSON
5 24 (6.92%) REST
6 17 (4.90%) .NET
7 16 (4.61%) .NET Core
7 16 (4.61%) CSS
7 16 (4.61%) HTML
7 16 (4.61%) HTML5 Canvas
7 16 (4.61%) Microsoft Graph
7 16 (4.61%) SPFx
8 11 (3.17%) ARM Templates
9 10 (2.88%) Keycloak
10 5 (1.44%) SOAP
10 5 (1.44%) XML
11 4 (1.15%) Apache Avro
11 4 (1.15%) YAML
12 3 (0.86%) LangChain
13 2 (0.58%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.09%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.36%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.44%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (1.44%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.15%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.15%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.86%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.86%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.58%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.58%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.58%) Replication
9 2 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.29%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.31%) Windows
2 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (55.62%) Business Intelligence
2 189 (54.47%) Analytics
3 181 (52.16%) Data Modelling
4 166 (47.84%) CI/CD
5 165 (47.55%) Data Engineering
5 165 (47.55%) ETL
6 151 (43.52%) Data Pipeline
7 148 (42.65%) DevOps
8 95 (27.38%) AI
9 93 (26.80%) Lakehouse
10 91 (26.22%) Data Governance
11 83 (23.92%) Data Architecture
12 82 (23.63%) Machine Learning
13 77 (22.19%) Decision-Making
14 75 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
15 73 (21.04%) Agile
15 73 (21.04%) Data Science
16 67 (19.31%) Data Integration
16 67 (19.31%) Technical Leadership
17 54 (15.56%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 266 (76.66%) SQL
2 196 (56.48%) Python
3 41 (11.82%) Scala
4 30 (8.65%) PowerShell
5 29 (8.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 26 (7.49%) C#
7 22 (6.34%) Bicep
8 20 (5.76%) JavaScript
9 16 (4.61%) TypeScript
10 12 (3.46%) Java
10 12 (3.46%) T-SQL
11 10 (2.88%) Go
12 7 (2.02%) R
13 2 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.58%) VBA
14 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 52 (14.99%) Azure Certification
2 37 (10.66%) Degree
2 37 (10.66%) Security Cleared
3 34 (9.80%) SC Cleared
4 25 (7.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.61%) SnowPro
7 10 (2.88%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.02%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.86%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.29%) ICAEW
11 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (38.90%) Data Quality
2 34 (9.80%) GDPR
3 17 (4.90%) QA
4 8 (2.31%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.86%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.58%) IFRS
7 2 (0.58%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (3.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 166 (47.84%) Microsoft
2 154 (44.38%) Databricks
3 16 (4.61%) Adobe
4 10 (2.88%) SAP
5 9 (2.59%) Informatica
6 8 (2.31%) Talend
7 7 (2.02%) Google
8 6 (1.73%) Foundry
8 6 (1.73%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.73%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.29%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.29%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.29%) Confluent
9 1 (0.29%) Infor
9 1 (0.29%) Meraki
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle
9 1 (0.29%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.29%) Teradata