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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 352 377
Rank change year-on-year -26 +25 +26
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 292 347 466
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.81% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 2.17% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 223 274 419
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -13.60%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,188 £75,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £66,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.78% +10.83% -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 20,631 16,006 25,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.53% 37.57% 38.46%
Number of salaries quoted 11,369 10,015 21,712
10th Percentile £29,194 £34,600 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,559 £41,670
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -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 27 February 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 27 February 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 £82,500 +10.00% 22
Midlands +16 52 £60,000 -4.00% 12
West Midlands +32 49 £60,000 -4.00% 7
North of England -31 30 £58,000 -10.77% 12
South East -59 26 £63,750 -5.56% 9
South West -4 14 £77,500 +24.00% 4
Yorkshire -46 12 £79,000 +31.67% 2
East of England +12 10 £62,500 -37.50% 2
North West -18 10 £59,000 -9.23% 8
North East -1 8 £51,000 -21.54% 2
East Midlands -26 3 £60,000 +36.36% 5
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 17 (5.82%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.11%) Appian
3 11 (3.77%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.74%) Apache
5 7 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.71%) SAS
7 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 23 (7.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.68%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Endur
2 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 292 (100.00%) Azure
2 155 (53.08%) Power Platform
3 111 (38.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 52 (17.81%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (8.22%) Microsoft Purview
6 21 (7.19%) Power Automate
7 19 (6.51%) PaaS
8 18 (6.16%) Snowflake
9 16 (5.48%) Anthropic Claude
9 16 (5.48%) AWS
9 16 (5.48%) GitHub
10 15 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (5.14%) SaaS
11 14 (4.79%) Azure Storage
11 14 (4.79%) Microsoft Copilot
12 13 (4.45%) Azure AI
12 13 (4.45%) dbt
12 13 (4.45%) GCP
12 13 (4.45%) Matillion
13 12 (4.11%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.68%) DNS
2 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (48.97%) Power BI
2 108 (36.99%) Data Lake
3 94 (32.19%) Data Warehouse
4 93 (31.85%) SQL Server
5 79 (27.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 43 (14.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 32 (10.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 23 (7.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 20 (6.85%) Delta Lake
10 16 (5.48%) Metadata
11 13 (4.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 12 (4.11%) Pinecone
12 12 (4.11%) Tableau
13 9 (3.08%) Star Schema
14 8 (2.74%) MySQL
14 8 (2.74%) Qlik Sense
14 8 (2.74%) Spark SQL
15 6 (2.05%) Big Data
15 6 (2.05%) Data Mining
15 6 (2.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (10.27%) Git
2 12 (4.11%) MLflow
3 3 (1.03%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 124 (42.47%) Finance
2 109 (37.33%) Social Skills
3 49 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.14%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (3.77%) Law
8 9 (3.08%) Automotive
9 8 (2.74%) Billing
9 8 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.71%) Legal
11 5 (1.71%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.37%) Retail
13 3 (1.03%) Advertising
13 3 (1.03%) Banking
13 3 (1.03%) Marketing
14 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.34%) Back Office
15 1 (0.34%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 132 (45.21%) Data Engineer
2 46 (15.75%) Senior
3 39 (13.36%) Senior Data Engineer
4 33 (11.30%) Azure Engineer
5 27 (9.25%) Developer
6 26 (8.90%) Azure Data Engineer
7 24 (8.22%) Architect
7 24 (8.22%) Lead
8 19 (6.51%) Data Architect
9 17 (5.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 16 (5.48%) Analyst
11 14 (4.79%) Automation Engineer
12 13 (4.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 12 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.77%) Data Manager
15 9 (3.08%) Lead Data Engineer
16 8 (2.74%) Consultant
16 8 (2.74%) Project Manager
17 7 (2.40%) IT Manager
17 7 (2.40%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (16.10%) PySpark
2 21 (7.19%) REST
3 14 (4.79%) .NET
3 14 (4.79%) RESTful
4 13 (4.45%) OAuth
5 12 (4.11%) Django
5 12 (4.11%) Faiss
5 12 (4.11%) FastAPI
5 12 (4.11%) Flask
5 12 (4.11%) Hugging Face
5 12 (4.11%) JWT
5 12 (4.11%) NumPy
5 12 (4.11%) OpenAPI
5 12 (4.11%) Pandas
5 12 (4.11%) pytest
5 12 (4.11%) PyTorch
5 12 (4.11%) scikit-learn
5 12 (4.11%) Swagger
5 12 (4.11%) TensorFlow
5 12 (4.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.85%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (6.51%) Low-Code
3 18 (6.16%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.45%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.74%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.74%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.71%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.37%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.03%) Clustering
9 3 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.03%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.68%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.68%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (56.51%) Analytics
2 155 (53.08%) Business Intelligence
3 149 (51.03%) ETL
4 143 (48.97%) Data Modelling
5 132 (45.21%) Data Pipeline
6 131 (44.86%) Data Engineering
7 102 (34.93%) CI/CD
8 88 (30.14%) AI
9 84 (28.77%) DevOps
10 80 (27.40%) Agile
11 79 (27.05%) Decision-Making
12 66 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
13 59 (20.21%) Data Governance
14 56 (19.18%) Visualisation
15 45 (15.41%) Data Architecture
16 44 (15.07%) Machine Learning
17 42 (14.38%) Stakeholder Management
18 35 (11.99%) Migration
19 33 (11.30%) Infrastructure as Code
20 32 (10.96%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 211 (72.26%) SQL
2 138 (47.26%) Python
3 29 (9.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 23 (7.88%) T-SQL
5 19 (6.51%) Scala
6 13 (4.45%) C#
7 9 (3.08%) Java
8 8 (2.74%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.40%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.40%) R
10 5 (1.71%) Bicep
11 3 (1.03%) C++
12 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.34%) PHP
12 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (9.93%) Degree
2 15 (5.14%) Azure Certification
3 13 (4.45%) Security Cleared
4 11 (3.77%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.74%) IIBA
5 8 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.74%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.74%) PMP
6 7 (2.40%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 6 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.03%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.34%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (31.85%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.16%) GDPR
3 7 (2.40%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.71%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.03%) QA
6 2 (0.68%) GRC
7 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.34%) COBIT
7 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (6.51%) Docker
2 6 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (9.25%) Terraform
2 26 (8.90%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 129 (44.18%) Databricks
2 111 (38.01%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.79%) OpenAI
4 12 (4.11%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (4.11%) UiPath
5 10 (3.42%) Alteryx
6 8 (2.74%) Anaplan
7 6 (2.05%) Talend
8 5 (1.71%) Informatica
9 3 (1.03%) Oracle
9 3 (1.03%) RedGate
10 2 (0.68%) Google
10 2 (0.68%) SAP
10 2 (0.68%) Trapeze
11 1 (0.34%) Foundry
11 1 (0.34%) Nintex
11 1 (0.34%) Palantir
11 1 (0.34%) Salesforce