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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 362 336
Rank change year-on-year +9 -26 +76
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 283 353 480
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 0.75% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.48% 2.03% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 218 291 424
10th Percentile £46,206 £46,500 £41,475
25th Percentile £59,063 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.31% +8.33% -13.60%
75th Percentile £87,188 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £74,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.85% +8.33% -11.11%

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 19,093 17,404 23,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.30% 36.84% 39.09%
Number of salaries quoted 10,621 10,308 19,978
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,474 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +45 150 £85,000 +19.30% 51
Midlands +23 45 £60,000 -4.00% 40
West Midlands +47 42 £60,000 -5.88% 29
South East -38 29 £63,750 -1.92% 60
North of England -11 28 £58,000 -10.77% 30
North West +8 11 £58,000 +5.45% 18
South West +2 11 £73,250 +33.18% 17
Yorkshire -27 9 £79,000 +22.01% 8
East of England +29 8 £50,500 -36.88% 17
North East -1 8 £51,000 -21.54% 4
East Midlands -13 3 £60,000 +36.36% 11
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 16 (5.65%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.89%) Appian
3 9 (3.18%) Apache
3 9 (3.18%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.77%) SAS
5 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Endur
2 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 283 (100.00%) Azure
2 151 (53.36%) Power Platform
3 115 (40.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 53 (18.73%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (10.95%) Microsoft Purview
6 19 (6.71%) GitHub
6 19 (6.71%) Power Automate
7 18 (6.36%) PaaS
8 15 (5.30%) Anthropic Claude
8 15 (5.30%) AWS
8 15 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (5.30%) SaaS
9 14 (4.95%) Microsoft Copilot
9 14 (4.95%) Snowflake
10 13 (4.59%) Azure Logic Apps
10 13 (4.59%) Azure Storage
10 13 (4.59%) GCP
11 12 (4.24%) Azure AI
11 12 (4.24%) dbt
11 12 (4.24%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.71%) DNS
2 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (48.41%) Power BI
2 111 (39.22%) Data Lake
3 100 (35.34%) SQL Server
4 87 (30.74%) Data Warehouse
5 75 (26.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 41 (14.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 32 (11.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 22 (7.77%) Delta Lake
9 19 (6.71%) Metadata
10 16 (5.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 13 (4.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 12 (4.24%) Tableau
13 11 (3.89%) MySQL
13 11 (3.89%) Pinecone
14 9 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (2.12%) Big Data
15 6 (2.12%) Data Mining
15 6 (2.12%) Qlik Sense
15 6 (2.12%) Star Schema
16 5 (1.77%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (12.01%) Git
2 11 (3.89%) MLflow
3 3 (1.06%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.71%) JIRA
5 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 116 (40.99%) Finance
2 108 (38.16%) Social Skills
3 48 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.01%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.95%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (4.59%) Law
7 11 (3.89%) Automotive
8 9 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.83%) Billing
10 7 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.77%) Banking
11 5 (1.77%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.77%) Retail
12 4 (1.41%) Advertising
12 4 (1.41%) Legal
12 4 (1.41%) Marketing
13 3 (1.06%) Local Government
14 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.35%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 126 (44.52%) Data Engineer
2 46 (16.25%) Senior
3 39 (13.78%) Senior Data Engineer
4 34 (12.01%) Azure Engineer
5 29 (10.25%) Developer
6 26 (9.19%) Architect
6 26 (9.19%) Azure Data Engineer
7 21 (7.42%) Data Architect
8 19 (6.71%) Lead
9 16 (5.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 15 (5.30%) Analyst
11 12 (4.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 12 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (3.89%) Automation Engineer
12 11 (3.89%) Data Manager
13 9 (3.18%) Azure Architect
13 9 (3.18%) Consultant
14 8 (2.83%) Azure Data Architect
14 8 (2.83%) Lead Developer
14 8 (2.83%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (16.25%) PySpark
2 22 (7.77%) REST
3 18 (6.36%) .NET
4 14 (4.95%) RESTful
5 12 (4.24%) OAuth
5 12 (4.24%) Pandas
6 11 (3.89%) Django
6 11 (3.89%) Faiss
6 11 (3.89%) FastAPI
6 11 (3.89%) Flask
6 11 (3.89%) Hugging Face
6 11 (3.89%) JWT
6 11 (3.89%) NumPy
6 11 (3.89%) OpenAPI
6 11 (3.89%) pytest
6 11 (3.89%) PyTorch
6 11 (3.89%) scikit-learn
6 11 (3.89%) Swagger
6 11 (3.89%) TensorFlow
6 11 (3.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.36%) Analytical Mindset
2 16 (5.65%) Low-Code
3 15 (5.30%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.59%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.83%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.83%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.77%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.41%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.06%) Clustering
9 3 (1.06%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.06%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.71%) Derivative
10 2 (0.71%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.71%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (55.12%) ETL
2 152 (53.71%) Analytics
3 148 (52.30%) Business Intelligence
4 133 (47.00%) Data Modelling
5 126 (44.52%) Data Pipeline
6 119 (42.05%) Data Engineering
7 104 (36.75%) CI/CD
8 83 (29.33%) AI
9 82 (28.98%) DevOps
10 79 (27.92%) Agile
11 71 (25.09%) Decision-Making
12 62 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
13 61 (21.55%) Data Governance
14 53 (18.73%) Visualisation
15 48 (16.96%) Data Architecture
16 44 (15.55%) Machine Learning
16 44 (15.55%) Stakeholder Management
17 34 (12.01%) Infrastructure as Code
17 34 (12.01%) Migration
18 31 (10.95%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 204 (72.08%) SQL
2 139 (49.12%) Python
3 31 (10.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 30 (10.60%) T-SQL
5 21 (7.42%) Scala
6 17 (6.01%) C#
7 12 (4.24%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.18%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.83%) Java
10 7 (2.47%) Bicep
11 5 (1.77%) R
12 2 (0.71%) C++
12 2 (0.71%) PHP
13 1 (0.35%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (11.31%) Degree
2 16 (5.65%) Azure Certification
3 14 (4.95%) Security Cleared
4 12 (4.24%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.83%) IIBA
6 8 (2.83%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.83%) PMP
6 8 (2.83%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.47%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 3 (1.06%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.71%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.35%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (32.51%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.77%) GDPR
3 7 (2.47%) Actionable Recommendations
3 7 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.06%) QA
5 2 (0.71%) SLA
6 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.35%) COBIT
6 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
System Software
1 19 (6.71%) Docker
2 6 (2.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (9.54%) Terraform
2 26 (9.19%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 128 (45.23%) Databricks
2 120 (42.40%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.59%) OpenAI
4 11 (3.89%) Automation Anywhere
4 11 (3.89%) UiPath
5 10 (3.53%) Alteryx
6 8 (2.83%) Anaplan
7 7 (2.47%) Talend
8 4 (1.41%) Informatica
9 3 (1.06%) Oracle
9 3 (1.06%) RedGate
10 2 (0.71%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.71%) SAP
11 1 (0.35%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.35%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.35%) Foundry
11 1 (0.35%) Google
11 1 (0.35%) Palantir
11 1 (0.35%) Palo Alto