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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 292 408
Rank change year-on-year -77 +116 -5
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 343 360 475
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 0.97% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.41% 2.62% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 257 290 425
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,000 £48,750
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 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% -6.72%

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 24,391 13,723 29,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.05% 37.03% 35.89%
Number of salaries quoted 12,921 10,191 24,290
10th Percentile £30,250 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,925 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +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 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 16 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 16 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 0 155 £81,750 +3.81% 43
Midlands -30 56 £60,000 -4.00% 20
West Midlands -2 51 £60,000 - 14
North of England -52 45 £71,250 +9.62% 36
South East -88 33 £50,000 -28.57% 24
East of England -21 25 £90,000 +75.61% 5
Yorkshire -49 24 £80,000 +33.33% 14
South West -55 16 £68,750 +7.84% 4
North West -35 14 £65,000 -1.89% 21
North East -27 7 £51,000 -34.19% 3
East Midlands -51 5 £57,500 -11.54% 6
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 27 (7.87%) SharePoint
2 20 (5.83%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.50%) Appian
4 10 (2.92%) Apache
5 9 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.58%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.29%) Endur
2 1 (0.29%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 343 (100.00%) Azure
2 170 (49.56%) Power Platform
3 122 (35.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 61 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (10.20%) Power Automate
6 27 (7.87%) Azure Logic Apps
6 27 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (7.00%) PowerApps
8 23 (6.71%) Microsoft Purview
9 20 (5.83%) PaaS
10 18 (5.25%) GitHub
11 17 (4.96%) AWS
11 17 (4.96%) Serverless
12 16 (4.66%) Anthropic Claude
12 16 (4.66%) Azure AI
13 15 (4.37%) Azure Functions
13 15 (4.37%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (4.37%) GCP
13 15 (4.37%) Microsoft Copilot
13 15 (4.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.58%) DNS
2 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (45.77%) Power BI
2 110 (32.07%) Data Lake
3 95 (27.70%) Data Warehouse
4 88 (25.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 80 (23.32%) SQL Server
6 41 (11.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 29 (8.45%) Delta Lake
8 25 (7.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 22 (6.41%) Spark SQL
10 19 (5.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 15 (4.37%) Metadata
11 15 (4.37%) Relational Database
12 13 (3.79%) Tableau
13 12 (3.50%) Pinecone
14 9 (2.62%) Big Data
14 9 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (2.62%) Star Schema
15 8 (2.33%) MySQL
16 7 (2.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 6 (1.75%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 35 (10.20%) Git
2 13 (3.79%) MLflow
3 3 (0.87%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.29%) JIRA
General
1 127 (37.03%) Finance
2 125 (36.44%) Social Skills
3 55 (16.03%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (4.08%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (2.33%) Law
6 7 (2.04%) Automotive
6 7 (2.04%) Billing
6 7 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.75%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.46%) Retail
9 4 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.87%) Advertising
11 2 (0.58%) Banking
11 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.58%) Legal
11 2 (0.58%) Marketing
12 1 (0.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 155 (45.19%) Data Engineer
2 66 (19.24%) Senior
3 45 (13.12%) Azure Engineer
4 42 (12.24%) Senior Data Engineer
5 39 (11.37%) Developer
5 39 (11.37%) Lead
6 32 (9.33%) Azure Data Engineer
7 22 (6.41%) Architect
8 21 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
9 19 (5.54%) Lead Data Engineer
10 17 (4.96%) Data Architect
11 16 (4.66%) Analyst
11 16 (4.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 15 (4.37%) Automation Engineer
12 15 (4.37%) Consultant
13 14 (4.08%) Senior Developer
14 12 (3.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 11 (3.21%) Microsoft Engineer
16 9 (2.62%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 9 (2.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (17.78%) PySpark
2 30 (8.75%) REST
3 25 (7.29%) .NET
4 18 (5.25%) JSON
5 16 (4.66%) .NET Core
6 15 (4.37%) RESTful
7 14 (4.08%) CSS
7 14 (4.08%) HTML
8 13 (3.79%) HTML5 Canvas
8 13 (3.79%) NumPy
8 13 (3.79%) OAuth
8 13 (3.79%) Pandas
8 13 (3.79%) PyTorch
8 13 (3.79%) scikit-learn
8 13 (3.79%) TensorFlow
9 12 (3.50%) Django
9 12 (3.50%) Flask
9 12 (3.50%) Microsoft Graph
9 12 (3.50%) pytest
9 12 (3.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.83%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (5.25%) Cloud Native
3 17 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (4.96%) Low-Code
4 15 (4.37%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.62%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.62%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.46%) Replication
10 4 (1.17%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.87%) Clustering
11 3 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.87%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.87%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (55.39%) Analytics
2 170 (49.56%) ETL
3 169 (49.27%) Business Intelligence
4 168 (48.98%) Data Modelling
5 152 (44.31%) Data Engineering
6 146 (42.57%) Data Pipeline
7 126 (36.73%) CI/CD
8 104 (30.32%) DevOps
9 97 (28.28%) AI
10 84 (24.49%) Decision-Making
11 82 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
12 74 (21.57%) Agile
13 67 (19.53%) Data Governance
14 60 (17.49%) Machine Learning
14 60 (17.49%) Visualisation
15 57 (16.62%) Data Architecture
16 44 (12.83%) Data Integration
17 42 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
18 39 (11.37%) Continuous Improvement
18 39 (11.37%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 258 (75.22%) SQL
2 159 (46.36%) Python
3 30 (8.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 26 (7.58%) PowerShell
5 24 (7.00%) C#
6 19 (5.54%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.54%) T-SQL
7 18 (5.25%) Scala
8 12 (3.50%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.33%) Java
10 7 (2.04%) Bicep
10 7 (2.04%) R
11 3 (0.87%) C++
12 2 (0.58%) PHP
13 1 (0.29%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (11.66%) Degree
2 21 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.66%) Azure Certification
3 16 (4.66%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.33%) IIBA
5 8 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.33%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.33%) PMP
6 7 (2.04%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 3 (0.87%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.58%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.29%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (30.61%) Data Quality
2 24 (7.00%) GDPR
3 7 (2.04%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.46%) QA
5 4 (1.17%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.17%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.58%) GRC
6 2 (0.58%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.29%) COBIT
7 1 (0.29%) IFRS
7 1 (0.29%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 19 (5.54%) Docker
2 5 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (10.20%) Terraform
2 24 (7.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 150 (43.73%) Databricks
2 132 (38.48%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.25%) OpenAI
4 12 (3.50%) Adobe
4 12 (3.50%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (3.50%) UiPath
5 10 (2.92%) Alteryx
6 8 (2.33%) Anaplan
7 6 (1.75%) Talend
8 5 (1.46%) Foundry
9 4 (1.17%) Google
9 4 (1.17%) Informatica
9 4 (1.17%) Oracle
9 4 (1.17%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.17%) SAP
10 2 (0.58%) RedGate
10 2 (0.58%) Trapeze
11 1 (0.29%) Confluent
11 1 (0.29%) Nintex
11 1 (0.29%) Palantir