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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 340 415
Rank change year-on-year -88 +75 -70
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 329 353 450
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.82% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 2.45% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 252 267 380
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,000 £51,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +3.85% -1.52%
75th Percentile £93,125 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% - -

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 24,236 14,380 25,997
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.20% 33.23% 32.64%
Number of salaries quoted 16,240 10,268 20,056
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -57 147 £80,000 - 36
North of England +1 67 £73,750 +22.92% 12
Yorkshire -2 42 £80,000 +33.33% 7
Midlands -40 37 £58,750 -6.00% 15
West Midlands -37 32 £57,500 - 13
East of England -3 31 £90,000 +66.67% 1
North West +3 21 £57,500 - 3
South East -63 20 £50,000 -23.08% 17
South West -48 18 £84,000 +8.39% 1
East Midlands -28 5 £60,000 -7.69% 2
North East -47 4 £47,500 -9.52% 3
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 32 (9.73%) Apache Spark
2 31 (9.42%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.95%) Apache
4 12 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.91%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.61%) Luigi
7 1 (0.30%) Appian
Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.61%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.61%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.30%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 329 (100.00%) Azure
2 154 (46.81%) Power Platform
3 97 (29.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 64 (19.45%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
6 34 (10.33%) Microsoft Purview
7 32 (9.73%) PowerApps
8 31 (9.42%) Power Automate
9 24 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (6.99%) Azure Functions
10 23 (6.99%) Serverless
11 21 (6.38%) Snowflake
12 19 (5.78%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.78%) OneDrive
13 18 (5.47%) AWS
14 17 (5.17%) GCP
15 16 (4.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 13 (3.95%) dbt
16 13 (3.95%) Dynamics 365
17 12 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (44.98%) Power BI
2 102 (31.00%) Data Warehouse
3 86 (26.14%) Data Lake
4 76 (23.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 49 (14.89%) SQL Server
6 39 (11.85%) Metadata
7 37 (11.25%) Delta Lake
8 32 (9.73%) Spark SQL
8 32 (9.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 21 (6.38%) Tableau
10 19 (5.78%) Relational Database
10 19 (5.78%) Star Schema
11 17 (5.17%) Big Data
12 14 (4.26%) Data Vault
13 13 (3.95%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 13 (3.95%) BigQuery
13 13 (3.95%) Power Query
14 12 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
15 11 (3.34%) Semantic Layer
16 10 (3.04%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 28 (8.51%) Git
2 6 (1.82%) MLflow
3 5 (1.52%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.52%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.91%) GitLab
4 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.61%) JIRA
5 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.30%) ERwin
6 1 (0.30%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 112 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 88 (26.75%) Finance
3 56 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (3.65%) Legal
5 12 (3.65%) Retail
6 11 (3.34%) Law
7 6 (1.82%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.91%) Advertising
9 3 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.91%) Games
9 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.91%) Marketing
9 3 (0.91%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.61%) Banking
10 2 (0.61%) Billing
10 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.30%) Automotive
11 1 (0.30%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 158 (48.02%) Data Engineer
2 80 (24.32%) Senior
3 60 (18.24%) Lead
4 45 (13.68%) Azure Engineer
5 44 (13.37%) Senior Data Engineer
6 42 (12.77%) Architect
7 40 (12.16%) Data Architect
7 40 (12.16%) Developer
8 34 (10.33%) Azure Data Engineer
9 29 (8.81%) Lead Data Engineer
10 23 (6.99%) Platform Engineer
11 17 (5.17%) Senior Developer
12 16 (4.86%) Consultant
13 13 (3.95%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 9 (2.74%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 9 (2.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 8 (2.43%) Data Manager
15 8 (2.43%) Microsoft Engineer
15 8 (2.43%) Senior Consultant
16 7 (2.13%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (21.58%) PySpark
2 24 (7.29%) .NET
3 23 (6.99%) JSON
4 22 (6.69%) .NET Core
5 21 (6.38%) CSS
5 21 (6.38%) HTML
5 21 (6.38%) REST
6 19 (5.78%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.78%) Kafka
6 19 (5.78%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.78%) SPFx
7 12 (3.65%) ARM Templates
8 6 (1.82%) SOAP
9 5 (1.52%) Keycloak
10 3 (0.91%) Middleware
10 3 (0.91%) RESTful
11 2 (0.61%) Node.js
11 2 (0.61%) NumPy
11 2 (0.61%) Smarty
11 2 (0.61%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.42%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.17%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.34%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (3.34%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.82%) Replication
6 4 (1.22%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.22%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.22%) Reinsurance
7 3 (0.91%) Algorithms
7 3 (0.91%) Data Structures
7 3 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.91%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.61%) Clustering
8 2 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.61%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (54.71%) Analytics
2 176 (53.50%) Business Intelligence
3 170 (51.67%) Data Modelling
4 150 (45.59%) Data Engineering
5 149 (45.29%) ETL
6 144 (43.77%) CI/CD
7 141 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
8 125 (37.99%) DevOps
9 97 (29.48%) AI
10 90 (27.36%) Data Governance
11 82 (24.92%) Machine Learning
12 78 (23.71%) Decision-Making
13 73 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
14 68 (20.67%) Agile
15 64 (19.45%) Data Architecture
16 61 (18.54%) Data Integration
17 59 (17.93%) Data Science
18 57 (17.33%) Technical Leadership
19 50 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
20 49 (14.89%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 249 (75.68%) SQL
2 164 (49.85%) Python
3 35 (10.64%) PowerShell
4 29 (8.81%) Scala
5 25 (7.60%) C#
6 23 (6.99%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (5.78%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.86%) Bicep
9 12 (3.65%) T-SQL
10 10 (3.04%) Java
11 7 (2.13%) R
12 5 (1.52%) Go
13 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.61%) PHP
13 2 (0.61%) VBA
14 1 (0.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 38 (11.55%) Azure Certification
2 32 (9.73%) Degree
3 30 (9.12%) Security Cleared
4 25 (7.60%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.04%) SnowPro
8 6 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.52%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.91%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (31.31%) Data Quality
2 32 (9.73%) GDPR
3 15 (4.56%) QA
4 5 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.52%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.61%) GRC
6 2 (0.61%) IFRS
6 2 (0.61%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.61%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 9 (2.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (13.68%) Terraform
2 10 (3.04%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.30%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 153 (46.50%) Databricks
2 143 (43.47%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.78%) Adobe
4 10 (3.04%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.43%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.43%) SAP
6 7 (2.13%) Foundry
6 7 (2.13%) Google
7 3 (0.91%) Informatica
8 2 (0.61%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.61%) Talend
8 2 (0.61%) Trapeze
9 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.30%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.30%) Infor
9 1 (0.30%) Nintex
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle
9 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.30%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.30%) Teradata