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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 358 329
Rank change year-on-year +8 -29 +76
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 281 359 468
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 0.75% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.48% 2.05% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 215 297 415
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,076 £42,200
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,250 £93,750
UK median annual salary £73,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.08% +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 18,932 17,502 22,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.57% 36.57% 39.44%
Number of salaries quoted 10,552 10,381 18,873
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,249 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -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 23 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 23 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 +31 151 £85,000 +21.43% 42
Midlands +37 43 £60,000 -4.00% 46
West Midlands +39 41 £60,000 -7.69% 29
South East -34 31 £58,750 -9.62% 68
North of England -12 28 £57,500 -11.20% 41
South West +3 11 £73,250 +33.18% 28
North West -1 11 £57,500 +4.55% 23
Yorkshire -25 9 £79,000 +22.48% 13
East of England +28 8 £50,500 -36.88% 30
North East 0 8 £51,000 -21.54% 5
East Midlands -6 2 £68,750 +56.25% 17
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 16 (5.69%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.56%) Appian
3 9 (3.20%) Apache
4 7 (2.49%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.78%) SAS
6 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (7.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) Endur
2 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 281 (100.00%) Azure
2 146 (51.96%) Power Platform
3 117 (41.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 49 (17.44%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (11.74%) Microsoft Purview
6 18 (6.41%) GitHub
7 17 (6.05%) PaaS
7 17 (6.05%) Power Automate
8 15 (5.34%) SaaS
8 15 (5.34%) Snowflake
9 14 (4.98%) Anthropic Claude
9 14 (4.98%) AWS
9 14 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (4.63%) Microsoft Copilot
11 12 (4.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 12 (4.27%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (4.27%) Azure Storage
11 12 (4.27%) ChatGPT
11 12 (4.27%) dbt
11 12 (4.27%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.71%) DNS
2 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (47.33%) Power BI
2 112 (39.86%) Data Lake
3 97 (34.52%) SQL Server
4 86 (30.60%) Data Warehouse
5 73 (25.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 40 (14.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 34 (12.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 23 (8.19%) Delta Lake
9 21 (7.47%) Metadata
10 16 (5.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 13 (4.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 12 (4.27%) Tableau
13 10 (3.56%) MySQL
13 10 (3.56%) Pinecone
14 8 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (2.14%) Big Data
15 6 (2.14%) Data Mining
15 6 (2.14%) Qlik Sense
16 5 (1.78%) Relational Database
16 5 (1.78%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 34 (12.10%) Git
2 10 (3.56%) MLflow
3 4 (1.42%) JIRA
4 3 (1.07%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.07%) Jenkins
General
1 118 (41.99%) Finance
2 110 (39.15%) Social Skills
3 47 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.69%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.98%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (4.63%) Law
7 12 (4.27%) Automotive
8 9 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.85%) Billing
9 8 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.85%) Retail
10 7 (2.49%) Banking
11 5 (1.78%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.42%) Advertising
12 4 (1.42%) Legal
12 4 (1.42%) Marketing
13 3 (1.07%) Local Government
14 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.36%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 129 (45.91%) Data Engineer
2 45 (16.01%) Senior
3 38 (13.52%) Senior Data Engineer
4 34 (12.10%) Azure Engineer
5 27 (9.61%) Developer
6 26 (9.25%) Architect
7 25 (8.90%) Azure Data Engineer
8 21 (7.47%) Data Architect
9 20 (7.12%) Lead
10 15 (5.34%) Analyst
11 14 (4.98%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 13 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 11 (3.91%) Data Manager
14 10 (3.56%) Automation Engineer
15 9 (3.20%) Azure Architect
15 9 (3.20%) Consultant
16 8 (2.85%) Lead Data Engineer
16 8 (2.85%) Lead Developer
16 8 (2.85%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (16.73%) PySpark
2 20 (7.12%) REST
3 16 (5.69%) .NET
4 12 (4.27%) RESTful
5 11 (3.91%) OAuth
5 11 (3.91%) Pandas
6 10 (3.56%) Django
6 10 (3.56%) Faiss
6 10 (3.56%) FastAPI
6 10 (3.56%) Flask
6 10 (3.56%) Hugging Face
6 10 (3.56%) JWT
6 10 (3.56%) NumPy
6 10 (3.56%) OpenAPI
6 10 (3.56%) pytest
6 10 (3.56%) PyTorch
6 10 (3.56%) scikit-learn
6 10 (3.56%) Swagger
6 10 (3.56%) TensorFlow
6 10 (3.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.41%) Analytical Mindset
2 15 (5.34%) Low-Code
3 14 (4.98%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (4.27%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.85%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.85%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.78%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.42%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.42%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.42%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.07%) Clustering
9 3 (1.07%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.07%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (54.45%) ETL
2 150 (53.38%) Analytics
3 143 (50.89%) Business Intelligence
4 126 (44.84%) Data Modelling
5 124 (44.13%) Data Pipeline
6 119 (42.35%) Data Engineering
7 101 (35.94%) CI/CD
8 80 (28.47%) AI
9 79 (28.11%) Agile
10 77 (27.40%) DevOps
11 67 (23.84%) Decision-Making
12 62 (22.06%) Data Governance
13 61 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
14 51 (18.15%) Visualisation
15 49 (17.44%) Data Architecture
16 44 (15.66%) Stakeholder Management
17 40 (14.23%) Machine Learning
18 35 (12.46%) Migration
19 32 (11.39%) Infrastructure as Code
20 30 (10.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 202 (71.89%) SQL
2 138 (49.11%) Python
3 30 (10.68%) T-SQL
4 28 (9.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 20 (7.12%) Scala
6 15 (5.34%) C#
7 11 (3.91%) PowerShell
8 8 (2.85%) Java
8 8 (2.85%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.14%) Bicep
10 5 (1.78%) R
11 2 (0.71%) C++
12 1 (0.36%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.36%) PHP
12 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (10.68%) Degree
2 16 (5.69%) Azure Certification
3 15 (5.34%) Security Cleared
4 13 (4.63%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.85%) IIBA
6 8 (2.85%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.85%) PMP
6 8 (2.85%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (2.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 6 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.42%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.07%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.36%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (32.03%) Data Quality
2 21 (7.47%) GDPR
3 7 (2.49%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.07%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.07%) QA
6 2 (0.71%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.36%) COBIT
7 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
System Software
1 18 (6.41%) Docker
2 6 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (9.61%) Terraform
2 25 (8.90%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 128 (45.55%) Databricks
2 120 (42.70%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.91%) OpenAI
4 10 (3.56%) Automation Anywhere
4 10 (3.56%) UiPath
5 9 (3.20%) Alteryx
6 8 (2.85%) Anaplan
7 6 (2.14%) Talend
8 4 (1.42%) Informatica
9 3 (1.07%) Oracle
9 3 (1.07%) RedGate
10 2 (0.71%) SAP
11 1 (0.36%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.36%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.36%) Foundry
11 1 (0.36%) Google
11 1 (0.36%) Palantir
11 1 (0.36%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.36%) Salesforce