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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 328 435
Rank change year-on-year -77 +107 -56
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 326 362 493
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.88% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 2.61% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 251 282 423
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,150 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +8.00% -6.72%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +18.52% +8.00% -3.85%

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 23,469 13,853 30,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.36% 33.62% 33.12%
Number of salaries quoted 15,699 9,892 24,339
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,900 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -60 146 £83,500 +4.38% 59
North of England -13 61 £80,000 +33.33% 15
Yorkshire -8 40 £80,000 +33.33% 6
Midlands -41 40 £57,500 -11.54% 20
West Midlands -32 34 £57,500 - 16
East of England -2 32 £90,000 +69.01% 3
North West -2 19 £61,250 +6.52% 8
South East -73 19 £50,000 -23.08% 31
South West -53 16 £57,500 -25.81% 7
East Midlands -26 6 £57,500 -11.54% 4
North East -54 2 - - 2
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 35 (10.74%) SharePoint
2 26 (7.98%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.07%) Apache
5 5 (1.53%) Appian
6 3 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.61%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.61%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.61%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.31%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 326 (100.00%) Azure
2 144 (44.17%) Power Platform
3 94 (28.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 66 (20.25%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (13.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 35 (10.74%) Power Automate
7 32 (9.82%) PowerApps
8 30 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (9.20%) Microsoft Purview
9 23 (7.06%) Serverless
10 22 (6.75%) Azure Functions
11 19 (5.83%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.83%) OneDrive
12 18 (5.52%) AWS
13 16 (4.91%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (4.91%) GCP
13 16 (4.91%) Snowflake
14 15 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
15 14 (4.29%) dbt
16 13 (3.99%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.31%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (42.33%) Power BI
2 93 (28.53%) Data Warehouse
3 89 (27.30%) Data Lake
4 79 (24.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 52 (15.95%) SQL Server
6 35 (10.74%) Delta Lake
7 34 (10.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 33 (10.12%) Spark SQL
9 29 (8.90%) Metadata
10 18 (5.52%) Relational Database
10 18 (5.52%) Tableau
11 17 (5.21%) Star Schema
12 13 (3.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 13 (3.99%) Big Data
12 13 (3.99%) Power Query
13 12 (3.68%) BigQuery
14 10 (3.07%) Data Vault
15 9 (2.76%) Semantic Layer
16 8 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (2.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (8.90%) Git
2 7 (2.15%) MLflow
3 5 (1.53%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.61%) JIRA
6 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.31%) ERwin
7 1 (0.31%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 114 (34.97%) Social Skills
2 99 (30.37%) Finance
3 53 (16.26%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.99%) Retail
5 11 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (3.07%) Law
7 8 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.45%) Legal
7 8 (2.45%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.23%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.92%) Advertising
9 3 (0.92%) Automotive
9 3 (0.92%) Games
9 3 (0.92%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.61%) Banking
10 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.61%) Marketing
11 1 (0.31%) Billing
11 1 (0.31%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 155 (47.55%) Data Engineer
2 77 (23.62%) Senior
3 59 (18.10%) Lead
4 47 (14.42%) Azure Engineer
5 41 (12.58%) Developer
5 41 (12.58%) Senior Data Engineer
6 36 (11.04%) Architect
7 33 (10.12%) Azure Data Engineer
8 32 (9.82%) Data Architect
9 30 (9.20%) Platform Engineer
10 28 (8.59%) Lead Data Engineer
11 18 (5.52%) Senior Developer
12 15 (4.60%) Consultant
13 14 (4.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 12 (3.68%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 12 (3.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.37%) Microsoft Engineer
16 8 (2.45%) Analyst
16 8 (2.45%) Automation Engineer
16 8 (2.45%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (21.78%) PySpark
2 24 (7.36%) .NET
2 24 (7.36%) REST
3 23 (7.06%) JSON
4 22 (6.75%) .NET Core
5 21 (6.44%) CSS
5 21 (6.44%) HTML
6 19 (5.83%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.83%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.83%) SPFx
7 12 (3.68%) ARM Templates
7 12 (3.68%) Kafka
8 8 (2.45%) RESTful
9 6 (1.84%) FastAPI
9 6 (1.84%) NumPy
9 6 (1.84%) Pandas
9 6 (1.84%) PyTorch
9 6 (1.84%) scikit-learn
9 6 (1.84%) SOAP
9 6 (1.84%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.98%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.91%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.07%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.15%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.15%) Low-Code
6 7 (2.15%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.84%) Replication
8 5 (1.53%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.23%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.23%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.92%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.92%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.61%) Clustering
11 2 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.61%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (51.84%) Analytics
2 160 (49.08%) Business Intelligence
3 159 (48.77%) Data Modelling
4 148 (45.40%) Data Engineering
5 147 (45.09%) ETL
6 142 (43.56%) CI/CD
7 136 (41.72%) Data Pipeline
8 119 (36.50%) DevOps
9 91 (27.91%) AI
10 84 (25.77%) Data Governance
11 74 (22.70%) Decision-Making
12 73 (22.39%) Machine Learning
13 68 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
14 66 (20.25%) Agile
15 61 (18.71%) Data Architecture
16 57 (17.48%) Data Integration
17 49 (15.03%) Infrastructure as Code
17 49 (15.03%) Technical Leadership
18 48 (14.72%) Data Science
19 45 (13.80%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 247 (75.77%) SQL
2 158 (48.47%) Python
3 37 (11.35%) PowerShell
4 25 (7.67%) C#
5 23 (7.06%) Scala
6 22 (6.75%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.83%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 13 (3.99%) T-SQL
10 12 (3.68%) Bicep
11 9 (2.76%) Java
12 8 (2.45%) R
13 2 (0.61%) Go
13 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.61%) PHP
13 2 (0.61%) VBA
14 1 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 36 (11.04%) Degree
2 30 (9.20%) Azure Certification
3 26 (7.98%) Security Cleared
4 21 (6.44%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.84%) SnowPro
8 4 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.92%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.92%) IIBA
9 3 (0.92%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.92%) PMP
10 2 (0.61%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (30.06%) Data Quality
2 28 (8.59%) GDPR
3 12 (3.68%) QA
4 5 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.53%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.61%) GRC
6 2 (0.61%) IFRS
6 2 (0.61%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.61%) SLA
7 1 (0.31%) COBIT
7 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 12 (3.68%) Docker
2 3 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (13.80%) Terraform
2 13 (3.99%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.31%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 148 (45.40%) Databricks
2 134 (41.10%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.83%) Adobe
4 14 (4.29%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.45%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.45%) SAP
6 6 (1.84%) Foundry
6 6 (1.84%) Google
7 5 (1.53%) Alteryx
7 5 (1.53%) Automation Anywhere
7 5 (1.53%) UiPath
8 3 (0.92%) Anaplan
8 3 (0.92%) Informatica
9 2 (0.61%) Talend
9 2 (0.61%) Trapeze
10 1 (0.31%) Confluent
10 1 (0.31%) Infor
10 1 (0.31%) Nintex
10 1 (0.31%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow