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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 356 386
Rank change year-on-year -77 +30 -41
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 333 334 446
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.76% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 2.32% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 249 254 378
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,938 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £84,688 £81,875
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% - -

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 24,692 14,426 23,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.98% 32.96% 31.72%
Number of salaries quoted 16,841 10,189 16,862
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 19 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 19 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 -58 157 £80,000 - 87
North of England +3 66 £74,000 +28.70% 17
Yorkshire +7 40 £81,250 +35.42% 7
Midlands -46 31 £60,000 -4.00% 13
East of England -18 28 £90,000 +80.00% 2
South East -68 26 £50,500 -8.18% 39
West Midlands -34 25 £60,000 - 10
North West -4 20 £55,000 -2.22% 6
South West -49 18 £85,000 +13.33% 5
East Midlands -20 6 - - 3
North East -54 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 34 (10.21%) Apache Spark
2 26 (7.81%) SharePoint
3 16 (4.80%) Apache
4 10 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.90%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.60%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.30%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 333 (100.00%) Azure
2 152 (45.65%) Power Platform
3 111 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 67 (20.12%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (13.81%) Azure Logic Apps
6 42 (12.61%) Microsoft Purview
7 27 (8.11%) PowerApps
8 26 (7.81%) Power Automate
9 23 (6.91%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (6.91%) Serverless
9 23 (6.91%) Snowflake
10 22 (6.61%) Azure Functions
11 19 (5.71%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 19 (5.71%) OneDrive
12 15 (4.50%) AWS
12 15 (4.50%) GCP
13 12 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (3.30%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (44.44%) Power BI
2 100 (30.03%) Data Warehouse
3 92 (27.63%) Data Lake
4 72 (21.62%) Azure SQL Database
5 51 (15.32%) Metadata
6 45 (13.51%) SQL Server
7 43 (12.91%) Delta Lake
8 30 (9.01%) Spark SQL
9 26 (7.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 23 (6.91%) Tableau
11 20 (6.01%) Star Schema
12 19 (5.71%) Relational Database
13 18 (5.41%) Data Vault
14 17 (5.11%) Big Data
15 15 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
15 15 (4.50%) Semantic Layer
16 12 (3.60%) BigQuery
17 10 (3.00%) Power Query
18 9 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
18 9 (2.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 30 (9.01%) Git
2 7 (2.10%) MLflow
3 5 (1.50%) GitLab
3 5 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.20%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.60%) JIRA
5 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.30%) ERwin
6 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.30%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 110 (33.03%) Social Skills
2 84 (25.23%) Finance
3 55 (16.52%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.90%) Retail
5 12 (3.60%) Legal
6 10 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (3.00%) Law
7 5 (1.50%) Marketing
7 5 (1.50%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.20%) Advertising
8 4 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.90%) Games
9 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.90%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.60%) Banking
10 2 (0.60%) Billing
10 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.30%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.30%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 159 (47.75%) Data Engineer
2 87 (26.13%) Senior
3 62 (18.62%) Lead
4 51 (15.32%) Architect
5 50 (15.02%) Azure Engineer
6 49 (14.71%) Data Architect
7 47 (14.11%) Senior Data Engineer
8 40 (12.01%) Developer
9 37 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
10 28 (8.41%) Lead Data Engineer
11 22 (6.61%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.71%) Senior Developer
13 16 (4.80%) Consultant
14 11 (3.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 9 (2.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.70%) Microsoft Engineer
16 8 (2.40%) Azure Architect
16 8 (2.40%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 8 (2.40%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (21.62%) PySpark
2 22 (6.61%) .NET
2 22 (6.61%) JSON
2 22 (6.61%) Kafka
3 20 (6.01%) .NET Core
3 20 (6.01%) CSS
3 20 (6.01%) HTML
4 19 (5.71%) HTML5 Canvas
4 19 (5.71%) Microsoft Graph
4 19 (5.71%) REST
4 19 (5.71%) SPFx
5 11 (3.30%) ARM Templates
6 7 (2.10%) Keycloak
7 6 (1.80%) SOAP
8 3 (0.90%) LangChain
9 2 (0.60%) FastAPI
9 2 (0.60%) Middleware
9 2 (0.60%) YAML
10 1 (0.30%) Pandas
10 1 (0.30%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.61%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.31%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (2.10%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.50%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.50%) Replication
8 4 (1.20%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.20%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.20%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.20%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.20%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.60%) Clustering
9 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.60%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (56.16%) Analytics
2 183 (54.95%) Business Intelligence
3 175 (52.55%) Data Modelling
4 154 (46.25%) ETL
5 153 (45.95%) Data Engineering
6 151 (45.35%) CI/CD
7 146 (43.84%) Data Pipeline
8 129 (38.74%) DevOps
9 100 (30.03%) AI
10 90 (27.03%) Data Governance
11 85 (25.53%) Machine Learning
12 75 (22.52%) Data Architecture
12 75 (22.52%) Decision-Making
13 70 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
14 67 (20.12%) Data Science
15 66 (19.82%) Technical Leadership
16 62 (18.62%) Agile
17 58 (17.42%) Data Integration
18 53 (15.92%) Data Strategy
19 49 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 253 (75.98%) SQL
2 180 (54.05%) Python
3 34 (10.21%) PowerShell
3 34 (10.21%) Scala
4 26 (7.81%) C#
5 22 (6.61%) JavaScript
6 20 (6.01%) Bicep
7 19 (5.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (5.71%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.90%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.40%) Java
10 7 (2.10%) Go
11 5 (1.50%) R
12 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.60%) VBA
13 1 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 45 (13.51%) Azure Certification
2 33 (9.91%) Degree
3 32 (9.61%) Security Cleared
4 27 (8.11%) SC Cleared
5 22 (6.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (4.20%) SnowPro
8 7 (2.10%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.90%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.30%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 31 (9.31%) GDPR
3 16 (4.80%) QA
4 5 (1.50%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.60%) IFRS
6 2 (0.60%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.60%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) GRC
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 8 (2.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (14.11%) Terraform
2 9 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.30%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 161 (48.35%) Databricks
2 153 (45.95%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.71%) Adobe
4 9 (2.70%) SAP
5 8 (2.40%) Foundry
5 8 (2.40%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.10%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.80%) Google
8 4 (1.20%) Informatica
9 3 (0.90%) Talend
10 1 (0.30%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.30%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.30%) Confluent
10 1 (0.30%) Infor
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle
10 1 (0.30%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.30%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.30%) Teradata
10 1 (0.30%) Trapeze