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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 355 383
Rank change year-on-year -77 +28 -59
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 360 315 427
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.73% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.46% 2.23% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 270 249 347
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,950 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +19.23% - -

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 24,697 14,127 21,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.87% 32.55% 31.76%
Number of salaries quoted 17,106 9,832 14,541
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £104,000
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 9 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 9 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 -51 172 £80,000 - 101
North of England -17 66 £74,000 +34.26% 22
Yorkshire -14 39 £81,250 +35.42% 9
South East -49 37 £62,500 +13.64% 38
Midlands -52 36 £70,000 +16.67% 19
West Midlands -37 29 £70,000 +16.67% 11
East of England -27 26 £90,000 +80.00% 7
North West -4 21 £55,000 - 12
South West -55 20 £85,000 +17.24% 8
East Midlands -33 7 - - 8
North East -63 6 £47,500 -9.52% 1
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 38 (10.56%) Apache Spark
2 25 (6.94%) SharePoint
3 18 (5.00%) Apache
4 11 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.56%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.56%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.28%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 360 (100.00%) Azure
2 170 (47.22%) Power Platform
3 124 (34.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 77 (21.39%) Azure DevOps
5 61 (16.94%) Azure Databricks
6 47 (13.06%) Azure Logic Apps
6 47 (13.06%) Microsoft Purview
7 25 (6.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 25 (6.94%) PowerApps
7 25 (6.94%) Serverless
8 24 (6.67%) Power Automate
8 24 (6.67%) Snowflake
9 23 (6.39%) Azure Functions
10 22 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (5.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 18 (5.00%) OneDrive
12 16 (4.44%) AWS
13 14 (3.89%) GCP
14 13 (3.61%) Azure Machine Learning
15 12 (3.33%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (46.11%) Power BI
2 116 (32.22%) Data Warehouse
3 98 (27.22%) Data Lake
4 79 (21.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 64 (17.78%) Metadata
6 48 (13.33%) SQL Server
7 47 (13.06%) Delta Lake
8 30 (8.33%) Spark SQL
9 28 (7.78%) Star Schema
10 26 (7.22%) Tableau
11 23 (6.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 20 (5.56%) Data Vault
13 19 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
14 17 (4.72%) Big Data
14 17 (4.72%) NoSQL
14 17 (4.72%) Relational Database
15 16 (4.44%) Semantic Layer
16 12 (3.33%) BigQuery
16 12 (3.33%) Power Query
17 11 (3.06%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 41 (11.39%) Git
2 8 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.94%) MLflow
4 5 (1.39%) GitLab
5 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.56%) JIRA
7 1 (0.28%) ERwin
7 1 (0.28%) kappa
7 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.28%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 125 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 94 (26.11%) Finance
3 59 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.28%) Legal
5 14 (3.89%) Law
6 13 (3.61%) Retail
7 11 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.94%) Banking
9 6 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.67%) Marketing
10 5 (1.39%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.11%) Advertising
11 4 (1.11%) Billing
11 4 (1.11%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.83%) Games
12 3 (0.83%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.28%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 171 (47.50%) Data Engineer
2 102 (28.33%) Senior
3 69 (19.17%) Lead
4 58 (16.11%) Azure Engineer
4 58 (16.11%) Senior Data Engineer
5 53 (14.72%) Architect
6 49 (13.61%) Data Architect
7 45 (12.50%) Developer
8 42 (11.67%) Azure Data Engineer
9 33 (9.17%) Lead Data Engineer
10 23 (6.39%) Databricks Engineer
11 22 (6.11%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.28%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 18 (5.00%) Senior Developer
14 17 (4.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 16 (4.44%) Consultant
16 11 (3.06%) Analyst
16 11 (3.06%) Business Developer
17 10 (2.78%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 10 (2.78%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (22.22%) PySpark
2 48 (13.33%) Terraform
3 28 (7.78%) Kafka
4 27 (7.50%) JSON
5 25 (6.94%) REST
6 20 (5.56%) .NET
7 19 (5.28%) .NET Core
7 19 (5.28%) CSS
7 19 (5.28%) HTML
8 18 (5.00%) HTML5 Canvas
8 18 (5.00%) Microsoft Graph
8 18 (5.00%) SPFx
9 11 (3.06%) ARM Templates
10 10 (2.78%) Keycloak
11 5 (1.39%) SOAP
11 5 (1.39%) XML
12 3 (0.83%) LangChain
12 3 (0.83%) YAML
13 2 (0.56%) FastAPI
13 2 (0.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.72%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.39%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.11%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.11%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.11%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.11%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.11%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.11%) Replication
9 2 (0.56%) Clustering
9 2 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.56%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.22%) Windows
2 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (56.11%) Business Intelligence
2 198 (55.00%) Analytics
3 186 (51.67%) Data Modelling
4 172 (47.78%) ETL
5 171 (47.50%) CI/CD
6 170 (47.22%) Data Engineering
7 155 (43.06%) Data Pipeline
8 152 (42.22%) DevOps
9 101 (28.06%) Lakehouse
10 99 (27.50%) AI
11 95 (26.39%) Data Governance
12 88 (24.44%) Machine Learning
13 86 (23.89%) Data Architecture
14 82 (22.78%) Decision-Making
15 79 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
16 74 (20.56%) Data Science
17 70 (19.44%) Technical Leadership
18 69 (19.17%) Agile
19 66 (18.33%) Data Integration
20 57 (15.83%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 278 (77.22%) SQL
2 199 (55.28%) Python
3 40 (11.11%) Scala
4 33 (9.17%) PowerShell
5 29 (8.06%) C#
5 29 (8.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 22 (6.11%) JavaScript
7 21 (5.83%) Bicep
8 18 (5.00%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.61%) T-SQL
10 10 (2.78%) Go
10 10 (2.78%) Java
11 6 (1.67%) R
12 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.56%) VBA
13 1 (0.28%) PHP
13 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 52 (14.44%) Azure Certification
2 37 (10.28%) Degree
3 36 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 31 (8.61%) SC Cleared
5 26 (7.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.44%) SnowPro
7 10 (2.78%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.94%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.83%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.28%) ICAEW
11 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (37.22%) Data Quality
2 36 (10.00%) GDPR
3 16 (4.44%) QA
4 7 (1.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.39%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.39%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.56%) IFRS
6 2 (0.56%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.56%) SLA
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 11 (3.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.28%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 175 (48.61%) Microsoft
2 163 (45.28%) Databricks
3 18 (5.00%) Adobe
4 9 (2.50%) Informatica
4 9 (2.50%) SAP
5 8 (2.22%) Talend
6 7 (1.94%) Foundry
6 7 (1.94%) Google
6 7 (1.94%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.94%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.28%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.28%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.28%) Confluent
7 1 (0.28%) Infor
7 1 (0.28%) Meraki
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle
7 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.28%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.28%) Teradata