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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 343 396
Rank change year-on-year -95 +53 -48
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 327 346 442
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.79% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 2.40% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 246 260 372
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £84,063 £82,813
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 24,855 14,409 23,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.42% 33.00% 32.01%
Number of salaries quoted 16,821 10,262 17,228
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,388
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 11 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 11 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 -65 151 £80,000 - 69
North of England -6 66 £80,000 +33.33% 11
Yorkshire -2 41 £80,000 +33.33% 5
Midlands -58 31 £60,000 -4.00% 18
East of England -18 30 £90,000 +80.00% 3
West Midlands -45 25 £60,000 - 13
South East -79 23 £50,000 -14.89% 41
North West -8 20 £55,000 -4.35% 4
South West -58 18 £84,000 +8.39% 5
East Midlands -25 6 - - 5
North East -56 5 £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 34 (10.40%) Apache Spark
2 27 (8.26%) SharePoint
3 15 (4.59%) Apache
4 11 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.61%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.61%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.61%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.31%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 327 (100.00%) Azure
2 154 (47.09%) Power Platform
3 105 (32.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 63 (19.27%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (14.07%) Azure Logic Apps
6 41 (12.54%) Microsoft Purview
7 29 (8.87%) PowerApps
8 27 (8.26%) Power Automate
9 24 (7.34%) Snowflake
10 23 (7.03%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (7.03%) Serverless
11 22 (6.73%) Azure Functions
12 19 (5.81%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.81%) OneDrive
13 17 (5.20%) AWS
13 17 (5.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 16 (4.89%) GCP
15 12 (3.67%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (3.67%) dbt
15 12 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (45.57%) Power BI
2 103 (31.50%) Data Warehouse
3 92 (28.13%) Data Lake
4 73 (22.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 48 (14.68%) Metadata
6 44 (13.46%) SQL Server
7 41 (12.54%) Delta Lake
8 31 (9.48%) Spark SQL
9 28 (8.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (7.34%) Tableau
11 20 (6.12%) Relational Database
12 19 (5.81%) Star Schema
13 17 (5.20%) Big Data
13 17 (5.20%) Data Vault
14 15 (4.59%) Semantic Layer
15 14 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
16 13 (3.98%) BigQuery
17 11 (3.36%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 11 (3.36%) Power Query
18 10 (3.06%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 28 (8.56%) Git
2 7 (2.14%) MLflow
3 5 (1.53%) GitLab
3 5 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.22%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.61%) JIRA
5 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.31%) ERwin
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.31%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 109 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 87 (26.61%) Finance
3 57 (17.43%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (3.67%) Legal
4 12 (3.67%) Retail
5 11 (3.36%) Law
6 10 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.53%) Marketing
7 5 (1.53%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.22%) Advertising
8 4 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.92%) Games
9 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.92%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.61%) Banking
10 2 (0.61%) Billing
10 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.31%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 159 (48.62%) Data Engineer
2 83 (25.38%) Senior
3 60 (18.35%) Lead
4 49 (14.98%) Architect
5 47 (14.37%) Data Architect
6 46 (14.07%) Senior Data Engineer
7 45 (13.76%) Azure Engineer
8 39 (11.93%) Developer
9 33 (10.09%) Azure Data Engineer
10 28 (8.56%) Lead Data Engineer
11 23 (7.03%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.81%) Senior Developer
13 16 (4.89%) Consultant
14 11 (3.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 9 (2.75%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.75%) Microsoft Engineer
16 8 (2.45%) Senior Consultant
17 7 (2.14%) Lead Developer
17 7 (2.14%) Senior Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (22.02%) PySpark
2 22 (6.73%) .NET
2 22 (6.73%) JSON
3 21 (6.42%) Kafka
4 20 (6.12%) .NET Core
4 20 (6.12%) CSS
4 20 (6.12%) HTML
5 19 (5.81%) HTML5 Canvas
5 19 (5.81%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (5.81%) REST
5 19 (5.81%) SPFx
6 12 (3.67%) ARM Templates
7 6 (1.83%) Keycloak
7 6 (1.83%) SOAP
8 2 (0.61%) LangChain
8 2 (0.61%) Middleware
8 2 (0.61%) YAML
9 1 (0.31%) LangGraph
9 1 (0.31%) Model Context Protocol
9 1 (0.31%) Smarty
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.79%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.81%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.36%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.14%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.53%) Replication
6 4 (1.22%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.22%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.22%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.22%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.22%) Reinsurance
7 3 (0.92%) Algorithms
7 3 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.61%) Clustering
8 2 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.61%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.61%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (56.88%) Analytics
2 183 (55.96%) Business Intelligence
3 172 (52.60%) Data Modelling
4 150 (45.87%) Data Engineering
5 148 (45.26%) CI/CD
5 148 (45.26%) ETL
6 145 (44.34%) Data Pipeline
7 126 (38.53%) DevOps
8 102 (31.19%) AI
9 91 (27.83%) Data Governance
10 84 (25.69%) Machine Learning
11 73 (22.32%) Decision-Making
12 72 (22.02%) Data Architecture
13 70 (21.41%) Problem-Solving
14 66 (20.18%) Agile
15 64 (19.57%) Data Science
16 63 (19.27%) Technical Leadership
17 61 (18.65%) Data Integration
18 53 (16.21%) Data Strategy
19 50 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 248 (75.84%) SQL
2 172 (52.60%) Python
3 34 (10.40%) PowerShell
4 32 (9.79%) Scala
5 24 (7.34%) C#
6 22 (6.73%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.81%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.50%) Bicep
8 18 (5.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (3.36%) T-SQL
10 9 (2.75%) Java
11 6 (1.83%) Go
11 6 (1.83%) R
12 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.61%) VBA
13 1 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (13.15%) Azure Certification
2 32 (9.79%) Degree
3 31 (9.48%) Security Cleared
4 26 (7.95%) SC Cleared
5 21 (6.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.98%) SnowPro
8 6 (1.83%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.83%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.92%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.31%) ICAEW
11 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (32.11%) Data Quality
2 30 (9.17%) GDPR
3 15 (4.59%) QA
4 5 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.53%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.61%) GRC
5 2 (0.61%) IFRS
5 2 (0.61%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.61%) SLA
6 1 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 8 (2.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (14.07%) Terraform
2 9 (2.75%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.31%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 160 (48.93%) Databricks
2 147 (44.95%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.81%) Adobe
4 9 (2.75%) SAP
5 8 (2.45%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.14%) Foundry
6 7 (2.14%) Google
6 7 (2.14%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.22%) Informatica
8 2 (0.61%) Talend
8 2 (0.61%) Trapeze
9 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.31%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.31%) Confluent
9 1 (0.31%) Infor
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle
9 1 (0.31%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.31%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.31%) Teradata