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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 368 380
Rank change year-on-year -64 +12 -38
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 358 302 441
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.70% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.47% 2.15% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 259 247 351
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,900 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,875 £51,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £93,250 £84,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% - -

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 24,350 14,058 21,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.19% 32.57% 31.80%
Number of salaries quoted 16,922 9,812 14,213
10th Percentile £31,522 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,331 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,335 £60,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -4.76% -3.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
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 16 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 16 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 -31 180 £80,000 - 166
North of England -26 62 £62,500 +13.64% 50
South East -63 39 £62,500 +13.64% 56
Yorkshire -5 35 £82,500 +37.50% 18
Midlands -36 35 £85,000 +38.78% 24
West Midlands -46 27 £85,000 +41.67% 15
East of England -25 24 £90,000 +80.00% 9
North West -7 21 £55,000 - 27
South West -54 21 £85,000 +17.24% 17
East Midlands -30 8 - - 9
North East -62 6 £47,500 -9.52% 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 40 (11.17%) Apache Spark
2 22 (6.15%) SharePoint
3 19 (5.31%) Apache
4 12 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.56%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.56%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.84%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.28%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 358 (100.00%) Azure
2 168 (46.93%) Power Platform
3 125 (34.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 83 (23.18%) Azure DevOps
5 62 (17.32%) Azure Databricks
6 48 (13.41%) Microsoft Purview
7 46 (12.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 27 (7.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 26 (7.26%) Serverless
10 25 (6.98%) Snowflake
11 23 (6.42%) PowerApps
12 22 (6.15%) Azure Functions
12 22 (6.15%) Power Automate
13 20 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
14 18 (5.03%) AWS
15 16 (4.47%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 16 (4.47%) dbt
15 16 (4.47%) OneDrive
16 15 (4.19%) GCP
17 14 (3.91%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (46.37%) Power BI
2 121 (33.80%) Data Warehouse
3 95 (26.54%) Data Lake
4 85 (23.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 68 (18.99%) Metadata
6 48 (13.41%) SQL Server
7 47 (13.13%) Delta Lake
8 31 (8.66%) Star Schema
9 26 (7.26%) Spark SQL
9 26 (7.26%) Tableau
10 21 (5.87%) NoSQL
11 20 (5.59%) Data Vault
11 20 (5.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 19 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
13 17 (4.75%) Big Data
13 17 (4.75%) Relational Database
13 17 (4.75%) Semantic Layer
14 13 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (3.63%) BigQuery
15 12 (3.35%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 44 (12.29%) Git
2 10 (2.79%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.96%) MLflow
4 5 (1.40%) GitLab
5 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.56%) JIRA
6 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.28%) ERwin
7 1 (0.28%) kappa
7 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.28%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 121 (33.80%) Social Skills
2 98 (27.37%) Finance
3 61 (17.04%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.59%) Legal
5 14 (3.91%) Retail
6 13 (3.63%) Law
7 11 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.96%) Banking
9 6 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.68%) Marketing
10 4 (1.12%) Advertising
10 4 (1.12%) Billing
10 4 (1.12%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.12%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.12%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.12%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.84%) Games
11 3 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.28%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 172 (48.04%) Data Engineer
2 104 (29.05%) Senior
3 63 (17.60%) Lead
3 63 (17.60%) Senior Data Engineer
4 61 (17.04%) Azure Engineer
5 52 (14.53%) Architect
6 48 (13.41%) Data Architect
7 45 (12.57%) Azure Data Engineer
8 43 (12.01%) Developer
9 29 (8.10%) Lead Data Engineer
10 20 (5.59%) Databricks Engineer
11 19 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (5.03%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 16 (4.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 16 (4.47%) Senior Developer
14 14 (3.91%) Consultant
15 12 (3.35%) Analyst
16 11 (3.07%) Elasticsearch Engineer
16 11 (3.07%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 11 (3.07%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (22.07%) PySpark
2 47 (13.13%) Terraform
3 31 (8.66%) Kafka
4 26 (7.26%) JSON
5 23 (6.42%) REST
6 17 (4.75%) .NET
7 16 (4.47%) .NET Core
7 16 (4.47%) CSS
7 16 (4.47%) HTML
7 16 (4.47%) HTML5 Canvas
7 16 (4.47%) Microsoft Graph
7 16 (4.47%) SPFx
8 11 (3.07%) Keycloak
9 10 (2.79%) ARM Templates
10 5 (1.40%) SOAP
10 5 (1.40%) XML
11 4 (1.12%) Apache Avro
11 4 (1.12%) YAML
12 3 (0.84%) LangChain
13 2 (0.56%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.78%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.38%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (3.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.68%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.40%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.12%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.12%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.84%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.84%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.56%) Reference Data
12 2 (0.56%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.56%) Replication
12 2 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.79%) Windows
2 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (56.15%) Business Intelligence
2 198 (55.31%) Analytics
3 188 (52.51%) Data Modelling
4 173 (48.32%) CI/CD
5 169 (47.21%) Data Engineering
6 168 (46.93%) ETL
7 158 (44.13%) Data Pipeline
8 156 (43.58%) DevOps
9 98 (27.37%) AI
10 93 (25.98%) Data Governance
11 91 (25.42%) Lakehouse
12 86 (24.02%) Data Architecture
13 83 (23.18%) Machine Learning
14 79 (22.07%) Decision-Making
15 77 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
16 76 (21.23%) Agile
17 74 (20.67%) Data Science
18 68 (18.99%) Data Integration
18 68 (18.99%) Technical Leadership
19 57 (15.92%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 275 (76.82%) SQL
2 201 (56.15%) Python
3 42 (11.73%) Scala
4 30 (8.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 30 (8.38%) PowerShell
5 28 (7.82%) C#
6 22 (6.15%) Bicep
7 20 (5.59%) JavaScript
8 16 (4.47%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.63%) T-SQL
10 12 (3.35%) Java
11 11 (3.07%) Go
12 7 (1.96%) R
13 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.56%) VBA
14 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 54 (15.08%) Azure Certification
2 38 (10.61%) Degree
2 38 (10.61%) Security Cleared
3 36 (10.06%) SC Cleared
4 25 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (4.47%) SnowPro
6 11 (3.07%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.84%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.28%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (39.39%) Data Quality
2 35 (9.78%) GDPR
3 16 (4.47%) QA
4 9 (2.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 8 (2.23%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.84%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.56%) IFRS
7 2 (0.56%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (3.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (3.91%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 171 (47.77%) Microsoft
2 154 (43.02%) Databricks
3 16 (4.47%) Adobe
4 11 (3.07%) Informatica
4 11 (3.07%) SAP
5 10 (2.79%) Talend
6 7 (1.96%) Google
7 6 (1.68%) Foundry
7 6 (1.68%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.68%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.28%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.28%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.28%) Confluent
8 1 (0.28%) Infor
8 1 (0.28%) Meraki
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle
8 1 (0.28%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.28%) Teradata