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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 327 435
Rank change year-on-year -80 +108 -62
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 319 352 475
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.90% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.43% 2.62% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 247 279 420
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £59,375 £52,500 £49,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £90,625 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £76,250 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +17.31% +4.00% -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 22,238 13,441 30,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.16% 34.19% 33.36%
Number of salaries quoted 14,524 9,491 24,530
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.20%

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 June 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 June 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 -57 136 £83,500 +11.33% 36
North of England -28 55 £80,000 +33.33% 9
Midlands -21 44 £60,000 -7.69% 12
West Midlands -19 38 £60,000 +4.35% 11
Yorkshire -26 38 £80,000 +33.33% 2
East of England +6 33 £90,000 +67.44% 2
South East -56 22 £50,000 -23.08% 17
South West -38 17 £56,250 -27.42% 6
North West +1 16 £61,250 +4.26% 6
East Midlands -25 6 £57,500 -11.54% 1
North East -46 1 - - 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 35 (10.97%) SharePoint
2 23 (7.21%) Apache Spark
3 14 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.13%) Apache
5 8 (2.51%) Appian
6 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.94%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.63%) Luigi
9 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.63%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.31%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 319 (100.00%) Azure
2 139 (43.57%) Power Platform
3 85 (26.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 63 (19.75%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (12.85%) Azure Logic Apps
6 39 (12.23%) Power Automate
7 33 (10.34%) PowerApps
8 31 (9.72%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (6.90%) Serverless
10 20 (6.27%) Azure Functions
11 19 (5.96%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.96%) AWS
11 19 (5.96%) OneDrive
12 18 (5.64%) Azure Monitor
12 18 (5.64%) Microsoft Purview
13 17 (5.33%) GCP
14 16 (5.02%) dbt
15 15 (4.70%) GitHub
16 14 (4.39%) Microsoft Copilot
17 13 (4.08%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.31%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (41.69%) Power BI
2 91 (28.53%) Data Lake
2 91 (28.53%) Data Warehouse
3 81 (25.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 51 (15.99%) SQL Server
5 33 (10.34%) Spark SQL
5 33 (10.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 32 (10.03%) Delta Lake
7 20 (6.27%) Metadata
8 18 (5.64%) Relational Database
9 17 (5.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 15 (4.70%) Tableau
11 13 (4.08%) Star Schema
12 11 (3.45%) Big Data
12 11 (3.45%) BigQuery
12 11 (3.45%) Power Query
13 9 (2.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (2.51%) Pinecone
15 7 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
16 5 (1.57%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 31 (9.72%) Git
2 10 (3.13%) MLflow
3 5 (1.57%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.57%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.31%) JIRA
General
1 113 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 106 (33.23%) Finance
3 47 (14.73%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (3.13%) Retail
5 9 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (2.82%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.57%) Law
6 5 (1.57%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.25%) Automotive
7 4 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.94%) Advertising
8 3 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.94%) Legal
8 3 (0.94%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.63%) Banking
9 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.31%) Billing
10 1 (0.31%) Local Government
10 1 (0.31%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 157 (49.22%) Data Engineer
2 72 (22.57%) Senior
3 55 (17.24%) Lead
4 48 (15.05%) Azure Engineer
5 43 (13.48%) Senior Data Engineer
6 42 (13.17%) Developer
7 32 (10.03%) Azure Data Engineer
8 30 (9.40%) Platform Engineer
9 27 (8.46%) Lead Data Engineer
10 22 (6.90%) Architect
11 18 (5.64%) Data Architect
11 18 (5.64%) Senior Developer
12 15 (4.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 14 (4.39%) Consultant
14 13 (4.08%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 13 (4.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
15 11 (3.45%) Microsoft Engineer
16 9 (2.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 7 (2.19%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (22.57%) PySpark
2 29 (9.09%) .NET
3 28 (8.78%) REST
4 22 (6.90%) .NET Core
4 22 (6.90%) JSON
5 21 (6.58%) CSS
5 21 (6.58%) HTML
6 19 (5.96%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.96%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.96%) SPFx
7 14 (4.39%) ARM Templates
8 11 (3.45%) Kafka
8 11 (3.45%) RESTful
9 9 (2.82%) FastAPI
9 9 (2.82%) NumPy
9 9 (2.82%) Pandas
9 9 (2.82%) PyTorch
9 9 (2.82%) scikit-learn
9 9 (2.82%) TensorFlow
10 8 (2.51%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.21%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.70%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.13%) Low-Code
5 9 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.51%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (2.19%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.88%) Replication
9 5 (1.57%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.25%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.25%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.94%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.94%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.63%) Clustering
12 2 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.31%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (48.59%) Analytics
2 154 (48.28%) Data Modelling
3 151 (47.34%) ETL
4 148 (46.39%) Business Intelligence
5 143 (44.83%) Data Engineering
6 139 (43.57%) CI/CD
7 134 (42.01%) Data Pipeline
8 113 (35.42%) DevOps
9 75 (23.51%) AI
10 72 (22.57%) Data Governance
11 66 (20.69%) Agile
12 64 (20.06%) Decision-Making
12 64 (20.06%) Problem-Solving
13 60 (18.81%) Machine Learning
14 57 (17.87%) Data Architecture
15 51 (15.99%) Data Integration
16 47 (14.73%) Infrastructure as Code
17 41 (12.85%) Mentoring
18 38 (11.91%) Data Science
19 37 (11.60%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 244 (76.49%) SQL
2 156 (48.90%) Python
3 35 (10.97%) PowerShell
4 29 (9.09%) C#
5 26 (8.15%) JavaScript
6 23 (7.21%) Scala
7 19 (5.96%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (4.39%) T-SQL
10 10 (3.13%) Java
11 9 (2.82%) R
12 8 (2.51%) Bicep
13 3 (0.94%) VBA
14 2 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.63%) PHP
15 1 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 37 (11.60%) Degree
2 24 (7.52%) Security Cleared
3 21 (6.58%) Azure Certification
4 19 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (5.64%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.25%) IIBA
7 4 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.25%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.25%) PMP
8 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.31%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (29.78%) Data Quality
2 23 (7.21%) GDPR
3 8 (2.51%) QA
4 5 (1.57%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.57%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.63%) GRC
6 2 (0.63%) IFRS
6 2 (0.63%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.63%) SLA
7 1 (0.31%) COBIT
7 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 15 (4.70%) Docker
2 4 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (12.85%) Terraform
2 19 (5.96%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.31%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 141 (44.20%) Databricks
2 125 (39.18%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.96%) Adobe
4 15 (4.70%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.51%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (2.51%) UiPath
6 7 (2.19%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.19%) SAP
7 6 (1.88%) Alteryx
7 6 (1.88%) Foundry
7 6 (1.88%) Google
8 4 (1.25%) Anaplan
9 2 (0.63%) Informatica
9 2 (0.63%) Talend
9 2 (0.63%) Trapeze
10 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.31%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.31%) Infor
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle
10 1 (0.31%) Teradata