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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 350 388
Rank change year-on-year -77 +38 -43
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 342 327 447
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.75% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 2.26% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 255 255 376
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,875 £52,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £91,875 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £98,125
UK median annual salary £78,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +20.77% - -

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 24,579 14,450 23,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.40% 32.96% 31.66%
Number of salaries quoted 16,933 10,162 16,588
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £43,997
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 August 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 August 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 -56 164 £80,000 - 76
North of England -3 66 £74,000 +28.70% 16
Yorkshire -4 40 £81,250 +35.42% 6
Midlands -36 32 £60,000 - 12
South East -59 30 £57,500 +4.55% 19
East of England -22 27 £90,000 +80.00% 1
West Midlands -39 26 £60,000 - 9
North West -4 20 £55,000 -2.22% 8
South West -59 18 £85,000 +13.33% 6
East Midlands -21 6 - - 3
North East -57 6 £47,500 -9.52% 2
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 (10.23%) Apache Spark
2 26 (7.60%) SharePoint
3 17 (4.97%) Apache
4 10 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.58%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.58%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.88%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.29%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 342 (100.00%) Azure
2 162 (47.37%) Power Platform
3 117 (34.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 73 (21.35%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (13.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 44 (12.87%) Microsoft Purview
7 26 (7.60%) PowerApps
8 25 (7.31%) Power Automate
9 23 (6.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 23 (6.73%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (6.73%) Serverless
9 23 (6.73%) Snowflake
10 21 (6.14%) Azure Functions
11 19 (5.56%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.56%) OneDrive
12 14 (4.09%) AWS
12 14 (4.09%) GCP
13 13 (3.80%) Azure Machine Learning
14 12 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (46.20%) Power BI
2 107 (31.29%) Data Warehouse
3 92 (26.90%) Data Lake
4 75 (21.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 57 (16.67%) Metadata
6 47 (13.74%) SQL Server
7 45 (13.16%) Delta Lake
8 29 (8.48%) Spark SQL
9 27 (7.89%) Star Schema
10 25 (7.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 24 (7.02%) Tableau
12 19 (5.56%) Data Vault
12 19 (5.56%) Relational Database
13 17 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
14 16 (4.68%) Big Data
15 15 (4.39%) Semantic Layer
16 13 (3.80%) NoSQL
17 12 (3.51%) BigQuery
17 12 (3.51%) Power Query
18 9 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 35 (10.23%) Git
2 7 (2.05%) MLflow
3 6 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.46%) GitLab
5 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.58%) JIRA
6 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.29%) ERwin
7 1 (0.29%) kappa
7 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.29%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 118 (34.50%) Social Skills
2 89 (26.02%) Finance
3 55 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (4.68%) Legal
5 13 (3.80%) Retail
6 12 (3.51%) Law
7 9 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.75%) Marketing
9 5 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.46%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.17%) Advertising
10 4 (1.17%) Banking
10 4 (1.17%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.88%) Games
11 3 (0.88%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.58%) Billing
12 2 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.58%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 159 (46.49%) Data Engineer
2 91 (26.61%) Senior
3 64 (18.71%) Lead
4 54 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
5 51 (14.91%) Architect
6 49 (14.33%) Senior Data Engineer
7 48 (14.04%) Data Architect
8 44 (12.87%) Developer
9 39 (11.40%) Azure Data Engineer
10 30 (8.77%) Lead Data Engineer
11 22 (6.43%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.56%) Senior Developer
13 16 (4.68%) Consultant
14 15 (4.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 10 (2.92%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 10 (2.92%) Operations Engineer
16 9 (2.63%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 9 (2.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 8 (2.34%) Kafka Engineer
17 8 (2.34%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (22.22%) PySpark
2 48 (14.04%) Terraform
3 25 (7.31%) Kafka
4 24 (7.02%) JSON
4 24 (7.02%) REST
5 22 (6.43%) .NET
6 20 (5.85%) .NET Core
6 20 (5.85%) CSS
6 20 (5.85%) HTML
7 19 (5.56%) HTML5 Canvas
7 19 (5.56%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (5.56%) SPFx
8 11 (3.22%) ARM Templates
9 8 (2.34%) Keycloak
10 6 (1.75%) SOAP
11 3 (0.88%) LangChain
11 3 (0.88%) XML
12 2 (0.58%) FastAPI
12 2 (0.58%) Middleware
12 2 (0.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.65%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.31%) Product Ownership
3 10 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.46%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.17%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.17%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.17%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.17%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.17%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.17%) Replication
9 2 (0.58%) Clustering
9 2 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.58%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (56.73%) Business Intelligence
2 190 (55.56%) Analytics
3 179 (52.34%) Data Modelling
4 163 (47.66%) ETL
5 161 (47.08%) Data Engineering
6 160 (46.78%) CI/CD
7 148 (43.27%) Data Pipeline
8 141 (41.23%) DevOps
9 98 (28.65%) AI
10 90 (26.32%) Data Governance
11 89 (26.02%) Machine Learning
12 79 (23.10%) Data Architecture
13 75 (21.93%) Decision-Making
14 73 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
15 71 (20.76%) Data Science
16 67 (19.59%) Technical Leadership
17 63 (18.42%) Agile
18 60 (17.54%) Data Integration
19 54 (15.79%) Data Strategy
20 50 (14.62%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 262 (76.61%) SQL
2 188 (54.97%) Python
3 37 (10.82%) Scala
4 34 (9.94%) PowerShell
5 29 (8.48%) C#
6 26 (7.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 22 (6.43%) JavaScript
8 21 (6.14%) Bicep
9 19 (5.56%) TypeScript
10 14 (4.09%) T-SQL
11 8 (2.34%) Go
11 8 (2.34%) Java
12 5 (1.46%) R
13 2 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.58%) VBA
14 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 49 (14.33%) Azure Certification
2 36 (10.53%) Degree
3 34 (9.94%) Security Cleared
4 29 (8.48%) SC Cleared
5 26 (7.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (4.39%) SnowPro
8 8 (2.34%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.05%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.88%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.29%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (35.38%) Data Quality
2 34 (9.94%) GDPR
3 15 (4.39%) QA
4 5 (1.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (1.46%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.88%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.58%) IFRS
6 2 (0.58%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.58%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 9 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (2.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 164 (47.95%) Microsoft
2 161 (47.08%) Databricks
3 19 (5.56%) Adobe
4 9 (2.63%) SAP
5 8 (2.34%) Foundry
5 8 (2.34%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.05%) Google
6 7 (2.05%) Informatica
6 7 (2.05%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.75%) Talend
8 1 (0.29%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.29%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.29%) Confluent
8 1 (0.29%) Infor
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle
8 1 (0.29%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.29%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.29%) Teradata