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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 379 393
Rank change year-on-year -60 +14 -66
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 369 290 436
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.67% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.50% 2.07% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 266 240 345
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £43,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,313 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +3.59%

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 24,586 13,988 21,805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.85% 32.49% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 17,096 9,807 13,789
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +0.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £84,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 September 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 September 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 -24 188 £80,000 - 137
North of England -16 66 £60,500 +10.00% 38
South East -61 38 £62,500 +13.64% 54
Midlands -53 36 £85,000 +41.67% 35
Yorkshire -11 35 £81,250 +35.42% 10
West Midlands -51 28 £85,000 +41.67% 24
North West -9 25 £55,000 - 24
South West -61 23 £85,000 +17.24% 14
East of England -27 22 £90,000 +80.00% 9
East Midlands -25 8 - - 11
North East -62 8 £52,500 - 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 42 (11.38%) Apache Spark
2 20 (5.42%) Apache
3 19 (5.15%) SharePoint
4 13 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.54%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.54%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.27%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 369 (100.00%) Azure
2 173 (46.88%) Power Platform
3 131 (35.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 87 (23.58%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (17.07%) Azure Databricks
6 49 (13.28%) Microsoft Purview
7 44 (11.92%) Azure Logic Apps
8 27 (7.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 27 (7.32%) Snowflake
9 25 (6.78%) Serverless
10 22 (5.96%) PowerApps
11 20 (5.42%) AWS
11 20 (5.42%) Azure Functions
11 20 (5.42%) Power Automate
12 18 (4.88%) dbt
12 18 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (4.07%) Azure Machine Learning
14 14 (3.79%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 14 (3.79%) GCP
14 14 (3.79%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.81%) Firewall
2 2 (0.54%) DNS
3 1 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (46.34%) Power BI
2 126 (34.15%) Data Warehouse
3 95 (25.75%) Data Lake
4 92 (24.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 69 (18.70%) Metadata
6 51 (13.82%) SQL Server
7 47 (12.74%) Delta Lake
8 32 (8.67%) Star Schema
9 27 (7.32%) Tableau
10 24 (6.50%) Spark SQL
11 22 (5.96%) NoSQL
11 22 (5.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 20 (5.42%) Data Vault
12 20 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
13 19 (5.15%) Big Data
14 18 (4.88%) Relational Database
14 18 (4.88%) Semantic Layer
15 15 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (3.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 13 (3.52%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 45 (12.20%) Git
2 11 (2.98%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.90%) GitLab
3 7 (1.90%) MLflow
4 3 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.54%) JIRA
5 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.27%) ERwin
6 1 (0.27%) kappa
6 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.27%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 124 (33.60%) Social Skills
2 105 (28.46%) Finance
3 65 (17.62%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (5.69%) Legal
5 16 (4.34%) Retail
6 14 (3.79%) Law
7 11 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.17%) Banking
8 8 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.63%) Marketing
10 5 (1.36%) Billing
10 5 (1.36%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.36%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.08%) Advertising
11 4 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.08%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.81%) Games
13 2 (0.54%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 179 (48.51%) Data Engineer
2 105 (28.46%) Senior
3 66 (17.89%) Senior Data Engineer
4 65 (17.62%) Azure Engineer
5 61 (16.53%) Lead
6 52 (14.09%) Architect
7 47 (12.74%) Data Architect
8 46 (12.47%) Azure Data Engineer
9 42 (11.38%) Developer
10 28 (7.59%) Lead Data Engineer
11 23 (6.23%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 18 (4.88%) Databricks Engineer
13 17 (4.61%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 15 (4.07%) Consultant
15 14 (3.79%) Senior Developer
16 13 (3.52%) Analyst
16 13 (3.52%) Python Data Engineer
16 13 (3.52%) Python Engineer
17 12 (3.25%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (21.41%) PySpark
2 54 (14.63%) Terraform
3 35 (9.49%) Kafka
4 25 (6.78%) JSON
5 23 (6.23%) REST
6 15 (4.07%) .NET
7 14 (3.79%) .NET Core
7 14 (3.79%) CSS
7 14 (3.79%) HTML
7 14 (3.79%) HTML5 Canvas
7 14 (3.79%) Microsoft Graph
7 14 (3.79%) SPFx
8 12 (3.25%) Keycloak
9 9 (2.44%) ARM Templates
10 6 (1.63%) XML
11 5 (1.36%) SOAP
11 5 (1.36%) YAML
12 4 (1.08%) Apache Avro
13 3 (0.81%) LangChain
13 3 (0.81%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.03%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.59%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.63%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.36%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.08%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.08%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.08%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.81%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.54%) PKI
11 2 (0.54%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.25%) Windows
2 3 (0.81%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.54%) Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (56.37%) Business Intelligence
2 207 (56.10%) Analytics
3 192 (52.03%) Data Modelling
4 181 (49.05%) CI/CD
5 174 (47.15%) Data Engineering
6 171 (46.34%) ETL
7 165 (44.72%) Data Pipeline
8 163 (44.17%) DevOps
9 97 (26.29%) AI
10 91 (24.66%) Data Governance
11 89 (24.12%) Data Architecture
11 89 (24.12%) Lakehouse
12 82 (22.22%) Agile
12 82 (22.22%) Decision-Making
12 82 (22.22%) Machine Learning
13 81 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
14 75 (20.33%) Data Science
15 70 (18.97%) Data Integration
16 65 (17.62%) Technical Leadership
17 57 (15.45%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 284 (76.96%) SQL
2 206 (55.83%) Python
3 44 (11.92%) Scala
4 34 (9.21%) PowerShell
5 32 (8.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 26 (7.05%) C#
7 25 (6.78%) Bicep
8 19 (5.15%) JavaScript
9 15 (4.07%) T-SQL
10 14 (3.79%) TypeScript
11 12 (3.25%) Go
11 12 (3.25%) Java
12 8 (2.17%) R
13 3 (0.81%) Bash
14 2 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.54%) VBA
15 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 58 (15.72%) Azure Certification
2 41 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 39 (10.57%) SC Cleared
4 38 (10.30%) Degree
5 26 (7.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.34%) SnowPro
7 15 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (3.25%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.81%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.54%) CISSP
12 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.27%) ICAEW
13 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (39.02%) Data Quality
2 33 (8.94%) GDPR
3 17 (4.61%) QA
4 9 (2.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 8 (2.17%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.54%) IFRS
6 2 (0.54%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.54%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (5.15%) Docker
2 2 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (5.69%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.81%) Ansible
2 3 (0.81%) Grafana
2 3 (0.81%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 178 (48.24%) Microsoft
2 159 (43.09%) Databricks
3 14 (3.79%) Adobe
4 12 (3.25%) SAP
5 11 (2.98%) Informatica
6 9 (2.44%) Talend
7 6 (1.63%) Google
7 6 (1.63%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.36%) Foundry
8 5 (1.36%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.54%) Oracle
10 1 (0.27%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.27%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.27%) Confluent
10 1 (0.27%) Infor
10 1 (0.27%) Meraki
10 1 (0.27%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.27%) Teradata