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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 307 418
Rank change year-on-year -70 +111 -29
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 334 359 472
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.95% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 2.63% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 262 289 423
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £48,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £99,875 £98,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% -6.72%

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 24,980 13,648 29,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.19% 36.11% 35.56%
Number of salaries quoted 13,255 10,133 24,266
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,182 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.16% +6.40% -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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -19 149 £83,500 +4.38% 40
Midlands -28 53 £60,000 -7.69% 13
West Midlands -16 48 £60,000 +4.35% 7
North of England -55 40 £80,000 +23.08% 22
South East -64 33 £50,000 -28.57% 27
East of England -4 31 £90,000 +75.61% 5
Yorkshire -52 30 £80,000 +33.33% 10
South West -50 15 £56,250 -10.00% 7
North West -30 9 £63,750 -5.56% 12
East Midlands -43 5 £57,500 -11.54% 6
North East -38 1 - -
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 36 (10.78%) SharePoint
2 22 (6.59%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.59%) Appian
4 11 (3.29%) Apache
5 9 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.60%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.30%) Endur
3 1 (0.30%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 334 (100.00%) Azure
2 158 (47.31%) Power Platform
3 105 (31.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 67 (20.06%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (12.87%) Power Automate
6 37 (11.08%) Azure Logic Apps
7 34 (10.18%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (9.88%) PowerApps
9 21 (6.29%) Microsoft Purview
10 20 (5.99%) PaaS
10 20 (5.99%) Serverless
11 19 (5.69%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.69%) OneDrive
12 18 (5.39%) AWS
12 18 (5.39%) Azure Functions
12 18 (5.39%) GitHub
13 17 (5.09%) Azure AI
13 17 (5.09%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (4.79%) Anthropic Claude
14 16 (4.79%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.60%) DNS
2 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (44.31%) Power BI
2 109 (32.63%) Data Lake
3 96 (28.74%) Data Warehouse
4 83 (24.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 62 (18.56%) SQL Server
6 37 (11.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 30 (8.98%) Delta Lake
8 27 (8.08%) Spark SQL
9 20 (5.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 15 (4.49%) Metadata
10 15 (4.49%) Relational Database
11 12 (3.59%) Pinecone
12 11 (3.29%) Star Schema
12 11 (3.29%) Tableau
13 9 (2.69%) Big Data
14 7 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (2.10%) Power Query
14 7 (2.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (1.80%) BigQuery
15 6 (1.80%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 36 (10.78%) Git
2 14 (4.19%) MLflow
3 3 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.90%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.30%) JIRA
5 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 124 (37.13%) Social Skills
2 116 (34.73%) Finance
3 43 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (3.59%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (1.80%) Automotive
7 6 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.80%) Law
8 5 (1.50%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.50%) Retail
9 4 (1.20%) Advertising
10 3 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Banking
11 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.60%) Legal
11 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.30%) Local Government
12 1 (0.30%) Marketing
12 1 (0.30%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 157 (47.01%) Data Engineer
2 72 (21.56%) Senior
3 47 (14.07%) Azure Engineer
4 46 (13.77%) Lead
5 43 (12.87%) Developer
5 43 (12.87%) Senior Data Engineer
6 32 (9.58%) Azure Data Engineer
7 25 (7.49%) Platform Engineer
8 23 (6.89%) Lead Data Engineer
9 20 (5.99%) Consultant
10 19 (5.69%) Architect
11 17 (5.09%) Senior Developer
12 16 (4.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 16 (4.79%) Data Architect
13 15 (4.49%) Automation Engineer
14 12 (3.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 11 (3.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.29%) Microsoft Engineer
16 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (20.06%) PySpark
2 33 (9.88%) REST
3 32 (9.58%) .NET
4 25 (7.49%) JSON
5 23 (6.89%) .NET Core
6 21 (6.29%) CSS
6 21 (6.29%) HTML
7 20 (5.99%) HTML5 Canvas
8 19 (5.69%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (5.69%) SPFx
9 15 (4.49%) RESTful
10 13 (3.89%) NumPy
10 13 (3.89%) OAuth
10 13 (3.89%) Pandas
10 13 (3.89%) PyTorch
10 13 (3.89%) scikit-learn
10 13 (3.89%) TensorFlow
11 12 (3.59%) Flask
11 12 (3.59%) pytest
11 12 (3.59%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.99%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.69%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.19%) Low-Code
5 9 (2.69%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.69%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (2.40%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.10%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.50%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.50%) Replication
9 3 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.90%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.90%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.30%) Life Science
11 1 (0.30%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (50.00%) ETL
2 166 (49.70%) Analytics
3 163 (48.80%) Data Modelling
4 159 (47.60%) Business Intelligence
5 148 (44.31%) Data Engineering
6 147 (44.01%) Data Pipeline
7 135 (40.42%) CI/CD
8 112 (33.53%) DevOps
9 85 (25.45%) AI
10 76 (22.75%) Agile
11 69 (20.66%) Data Governance
11 69 (20.66%) Decision-Making
11 69 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
12 63 (18.86%) Machine Learning
13 57 (17.07%) Data Architecture
14 46 (13.77%) Infrastructure as Code
15 43 (12.87%) Data Integration
16 41 (12.28%) Visualisation
17 39 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
18 36 (10.78%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 254 (76.05%) SQL
2 158 (47.31%) Python
3 35 (10.48%) PowerShell
4 31 (9.28%) C#
5 26 (7.78%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.69%) Scala
6 19 (5.69%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 16 (4.79%) T-SQL
9 9 (2.69%) Java
10 8 (2.40%) Bicep
11 7 (2.10%) R
12 3 (0.90%) C++
13 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.60%) PHP
13 2 (0.60%) VBA
14 1 (0.30%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (10.48%) Degree
2 21 (6.29%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.09%) Azure Certification
4 16 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (4.79%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.40%) IIBA
5 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.40%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.40%) PMP
6 3 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (28.74%) Data Quality
2 23 (6.89%) GDPR
3 6 (1.80%) QA
4 5 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.50%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.60%) GRC
6 2 (0.60%) IFRS
6 2 (0.60%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.60%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) COBIT
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 19 (5.69%) Docker
2 4 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (11.38%) Terraform
2 23 (6.89%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.30%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 153 (45.81%) Databricks
2 133 (39.82%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.69%) Adobe
4 18 (5.39%) OpenAI
5 12 (3.59%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (3.59%) UiPath
6 10 (2.99%) Alteryx
7 8 (2.40%) Anaplan
8 5 (1.50%) Foundry
8 5 (1.50%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.20%) Google
10 3 (0.90%) SAP
10 3 (0.90%) Talend
11 2 (0.60%) Informatica
11 2 (0.60%) Oracle
11 2 (0.60%) Trapeze
12 1 (0.30%) Confluent
12 1 (0.30%) Nintex
12 1 (0.30%) Palantir
12 1 (0.30%) Refinitiv