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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 323 376
Rank change year-on-year -46 +53 +24
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 292 341 469
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.83% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 2.22% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 218 274 419
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £47,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,625 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +9.38% -13.60%
75th Percentile £89,688 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £114,125 £100,000 £92,100
UK median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -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 20,990 15,385 26,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.34% 37.55% 37.97%
Number of salaries quoted 11,551 9,910 22,242
10th Percentile £29,303 £33,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -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 4 March 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 4 March 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 +33 152 £81,250 +6.56% 53
Midlands +3 50 £60,000 - 22
West Midlands +27 47 £60,000 -4.00% 14
North of England -43 29 £59,000 -9.23% 21
South East -74 26 £63,750 -5.56% 37
South West -14 15 £77,500 +24.00% 11
Yorkshire -46 12 £79,000 +31.67% 6
East of England +9 11 £62,500 -30.56% 3
North West -16 10 £59,000 -9.23% 14
North East -11 7 £51,000 -21.54% 1
East Midlands -31 3 £60,000 +36.36% 8
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 18 (6.16%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.11%) Appian
3 11 (3.77%) SharePoint
4 9 (3.08%) Apache
5 7 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.71%) SAS
7 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 23 (7.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.68%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Endur
2 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 292 (100.00%) Azure
2 156 (53.42%) Power Platform
3 111 (38.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 53 (18.15%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (7.53%) Microsoft Purview
6 21 (7.19%) Power Automate
7 19 (6.51%) PaaS
7 19 (6.51%) Snowflake
8 16 (5.48%) Anthropic Claude
8 16 (5.48%) AWS
9 15 (5.14%) GitHub
9 15 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (5.14%) SaaS
10 14 (4.79%) Azure AI
10 14 (4.79%) Azure Storage
10 14 (4.79%) Microsoft Copilot
11 13 (4.45%) dbt
11 13 (4.45%) GCP
11 13 (4.45%) Matillion
12 12 (4.11%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.68%) DNS
2 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (49.32%) Power BI
2 108 (36.99%) Data Lake
3 91 (31.16%) Data Warehouse
4 89 (30.48%) SQL Server
5 79 (27.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 42 (14.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 31 (10.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 22 (7.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 21 (7.19%) Delta Lake
10 16 (5.48%) Metadata
11 14 (4.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 12 (4.11%) Pinecone
12 12 (4.11%) Tableau
13 11 (3.77%) Star Schema
14 8 (2.74%) Qlik Sense
14 8 (2.74%) Spark SQL
15 7 (2.40%) MySQL
15 7 (2.40%) Relational Database
16 6 (2.05%) Big Data
16 6 (2.05%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 31 (10.62%) Git
2 12 (4.11%) MLflow
3 3 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 124 (42.47%) Finance
2 107 (36.64%) Social Skills
3 48 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.14%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (4.79%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (3.08%) Automotive
7 9 (3.08%) Law
8 8 (2.74%) Billing
8 8 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.71%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.37%) Legal
11 4 (1.37%) Retail
12 3 (1.03%) Banking
12 3 (1.03%) Marketing
13 2 (0.68%) Advertising
13 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.34%) Back Office
14 1 (0.34%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 135 (46.23%) Data Engineer
2 46 (15.75%) Senior
3 40 (13.70%) Senior Data Engineer
4 33 (11.30%) Azure Engineer
5 26 (8.90%) Azure Data Engineer
6 25 (8.56%) Developer
7 24 (8.22%) Lead
8 21 (7.19%) Architect
9 16 (5.48%) Analyst
9 16 (5.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 16 (5.48%) Data Architect
10 14 (4.79%) Automation Engineer
11 13 (4.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.77%) Data Manager
14 9 (3.08%) Consultant
14 9 (3.08%) Lead Data Engineer
15 8 (2.74%) Project Manager
16 7 (2.40%) IT Manager
16 7 (2.40%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.44%) PySpark
2 21 (7.19%) REST
3 14 (4.79%) RESTful
4 13 (4.45%) .NET
4 13 (4.45%) OAuth
5 12 (4.11%) Django
5 12 (4.11%) Faiss
5 12 (4.11%) FastAPI
5 12 (4.11%) Flask
5 12 (4.11%) Hugging Face
5 12 (4.11%) JWT
5 12 (4.11%) NumPy
5 12 (4.11%) OpenAPI
5 12 (4.11%) Pandas
5 12 (4.11%) pytest
5 12 (4.11%) PyTorch
5 12 (4.11%) scikit-learn
5 12 (4.11%) Swagger
5 12 (4.11%) TensorFlow
5 12 (4.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.51%) Analytical Mindset
1 19 (6.51%) Low-Code
2 18 (6.16%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (4.79%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.74%) AI Agents
4 8 (2.74%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.71%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.37%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.03%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.68%) Clustering
9 2 (0.68%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.68%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (56.51%) Analytics
2 156 (53.42%) Business Intelligence
3 149 (51.03%) ETL
4 144 (49.32%) Data Modelling
5 134 (45.89%) Data Pipeline
6 133 (45.55%) Data Engineering
7 103 (35.27%) CI/CD
8 89 (30.48%) AI
9 85 (29.11%) DevOps
10 80 (27.40%) Agile
11 77 (26.37%) Decision-Making
12 65 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
13 56 (19.18%) Data Governance
14 55 (18.84%) Visualisation
15 43 (14.73%) Data Architecture
15 43 (14.73%) Machine Learning
15 43 (14.73%) Stakeholder Management
16 36 (12.33%) Migration
17 34 (11.64%) Infrastructure as Code
18 31 (10.62%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 212 (72.60%) SQL
2 140 (47.95%) Python
3 30 (10.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 22 (7.53%) T-SQL
5 20 (6.85%) Scala
6 12 (4.11%) C#
7 9 (3.08%) Java
7 9 (3.08%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.40%) R
9 6 (2.05%) Bicep
9 6 (2.05%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.03%) C++
11 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.34%) PHP
11 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (10.27%) Degree
2 16 (5.48%) Azure Certification
3 15 (5.14%) Security Cleared
4 13 (4.45%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.74%) IIBA
5 8 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.74%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.74%) PMP
6 7 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.40%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 3 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.68%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.34%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (32.19%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.48%) GDPR
3 7 (2.40%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.71%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.03%) QA
6 2 (0.68%) GRC
7 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.34%) COBIT
7 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (6.51%) Docker
2 5 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (9.59%) Terraform
2 26 (8.90%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 128 (43.84%) Databricks
2 110 (37.67%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.14%) OpenAI
4 12 (4.11%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (4.11%) UiPath
5 10 (3.42%) Alteryx
6 8 (2.74%) Anaplan
7 5 (1.71%) Talend
8 4 (1.37%) Informatica
9 3 (1.03%) Oracle
10 2 (0.68%) Foundry
10 2 (0.68%) Google
10 2 (0.68%) RedGate
10 2 (0.68%) SAP
10 2 (0.68%) Trapeze
11 1 (0.34%) Nintex
11 1 (0.34%) Palantir
11 1 (0.34%) Salesforce