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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 332 297
Rank change year-on-year -17 -35 +100
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 264 378 452
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 0.77% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 2.10% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 203 311 399
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,936 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,742 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -13.60%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £99,750 £96,250 £92,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +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 18,589 17,974 19,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.67% 36.43% 41.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10,339 10,672 15,946
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,700
25th Percentile £39,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 2 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 2 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 +8 140 £84,250 +16.21% 54
Midlands +30 37 £60,000 -4.00% 19
West Midlands +39 36 £60,000 -7.69% 15
South East -32 33 £55,000 -15.38% 33
North of England -4 29 £55,233 -3.94% 18
North West +17 11 £57,500 +4.55% 9
South West +14 10 £77,500 +40.91% 6
North East +10 9 £51,750 -13.75% 2
Yorkshire -18 9 £79,000 +32.22% 7
East of England +32 7 £52,750 -34.06% 9
East Midlands -20 1 £82,500 +65.00% 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 15 (5.68%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.03%) Apache
3 7 (2.65%) Appian
4 5 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.89%) SAS
5 3 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.38%) Endur
2 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 264 (100.00%) Azure
2 145 (54.92%) Power Platform
3 116 (43.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 44 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (10.61%) Microsoft Purview
6 17 (6.44%) GitHub
7 16 (6.06%) Snowflake
8 15 (5.68%) AWS
9 14 (5.30%) Power Automate
10 13 (4.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 13 (4.92%) dbt
11 12 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (4.55%) SaaS
12 11 (4.17%) GCP
12 11 (4.17%) Matillion
12 11 (4.17%) PaaS
13 10 (3.79%) Serverless
14 9 (3.41%) Azure Functions
14 9 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) DNS
1 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (50.00%) Power BI
2 101 (38.26%) Data Lake
3 94 (35.61%) SQL Server
4 83 (31.44%) Data Warehouse
5 66 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 41 (15.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 36 (13.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 20 (7.58%) Metadata
9 19 (7.20%) Delta Lake
10 15 (5.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 14 (5.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 12 (4.55%) Tableau
13 11 (4.17%) MySQL
14 9 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
15 7 (2.65%) Pinecone
15 7 (2.65%) Relational Database
16 6 (2.27%) Big Data
16 6 (2.27%) Data Mining
16 6 (2.27%) Qlik Sense
17 5 (1.89%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 32 (12.12%) Git
2 7 (2.65%) MLflow
3 4 (1.52%) Bitbucket
3 4 (1.52%) JIRA
4 3 (1.14%) Jenkins
General
1 104 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 101 (38.26%) Finance
3 48 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.68%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.55%) Law
6 10 (3.79%) Automotive
6 10 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.03%) Billing
8 8 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.65%) Retail
10 6 (2.27%) Banking
11 5 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.52%) Advertising
12 4 (1.52%) Legal
12 4 (1.52%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.52%) Marketing
13 2 (0.76%) Local Government
14 1 (0.38%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 123 (46.59%) Data Engineer
2 41 (15.53%) Senior
3 35 (13.26%) Senior Data Engineer
4 29 (10.98%) Azure Engineer
5 25 (9.47%) Developer
6 23 (8.71%) Azure Data Engineer
7 22 (8.33%) Architect
8 19 (7.20%) Data Architect
9 18 (6.82%) Lead
10 14 (5.30%) Analyst
11 12 (4.55%) Consultant
12 11 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 11 (4.17%) Data Manager
13 8 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 8 (3.03%) Azure Architect
14 7 (2.65%) Automation Engineer
14 7 (2.65%) Commercial Analyst
14 7 (2.65%) Insight Analyst
14 7 (2.65%) Insight Manager
14 7 (2.65%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (17.05%) PySpark
2 19 (7.20%) .NET
3 18 (6.82%) REST
4 11 (4.17%) Pandas
5 8 (3.03%) Kafka
5 8 (3.03%) OAuth
5 8 (3.03%) RESTful
6 7 (2.65%) Django
6 7 (2.65%) FastAPI
6 7 (2.65%) Flask
6 7 (2.65%) JSON
6 7 (2.65%) JWT
6 7 (2.65%) NumPy
6 7 (2.65%) OpenAPI
6 7 (2.65%) pytest
6 7 (2.65%) PyTorch
6 7 (2.65%) scikit-learn
6 7 (2.65%) Swagger
6 7 (2.65%) TensorFlow
6 7 (2.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.44%) Analytical Mindset
2 12 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (4.55%) Low-Code
3 7 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (1.89%) AI Agents
4 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (1.89%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.52%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.52%) Clustering
5 4 (1.52%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.52%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.14%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.14%) Market Risk
6 3 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (54.92%) ETL
2 139 (52.65%) Analytics
2 139 (52.65%) Business Intelligence
3 117 (44.32%) Data Modelling
4 112 (42.42%) Data Engineering
5 111 (42.05%) Data Pipeline
6 83 (31.44%) CI/CD
7 79 (29.92%) Agile
8 72 (27.27%) AI
9 68 (25.76%) DevOps
10 67 (25.38%) Problem-Solving
11 63 (23.86%) Decision-Making
12 57 (21.59%) Data Governance
13 47 (17.80%) Visualisation
14 42 (15.91%) Data Architecture
14 42 (15.91%) Machine Learning
15 39 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
16 32 (12.12%) Migration
17 27 (10.23%) Roadmaps
18 26 (9.85%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 196 (74.24%) SQL
2 134 (50.76%) Python
3 34 (12.88%) T-SQL
4 28 (10.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 20 (7.58%) Scala
6 18 (6.82%) C#
7 9 (3.41%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.03%) Java
8 8 (3.03%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.65%) Bicep
10 5 (1.89%) R
11 2 (0.76%) C++
12 1 (0.38%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.38%) PHP
12 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (9.09%) Degree
2 15 (5.68%) Azure Certification
3 13 (4.92%) Security Cleared
4 12 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (2.65%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 5 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.89%) IIBA
8 5 (1.89%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.89%) PMP
9 4 (1.52%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.52%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.38%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (28.79%) Data Quality
2 20 (7.58%) GDPR
3 7 (2.65%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.14%) QA
6 2 (0.76%) SLA
7 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
System Software
1 14 (5.30%) Docker
2 4 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (8.33%) Terraform
2 21 (7.95%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 124 (46.97%) Databricks
2 120 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.65%) Automation Anywhere
3 7 (2.65%) OpenAI
3 7 (2.65%) Talend
3 7 (2.65%) UiPath
4 6 (2.27%) Alteryx
5 5 (1.89%) Anaplan
5 5 (1.89%) Informatica
6 4 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.52%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.52%) Palo Alto
6 4 (1.52%) RedGate
7 3 (1.14%) Oracle
8 2 (0.76%) SAP
9 1 (0.38%) Foundry
9 1 (0.38%) Google
9 1 (0.38%) Palantir
9 1 (0.38%) Salesforce