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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 360 340
Rank change year-on-year +12 -20 +58
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 284 344 496
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 0.74% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.48% 1.99% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 220 281 440
10th Percentile £46,104 £46,500 £41,925
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% -13.60%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,625
UK median annual salary £73,750 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.46% +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 19,215 17,254 24,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.21% 36.92% 39.13%
Number of salaries quoted 10,651 10,187 20,987
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £59,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.79% -8.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,549 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +10.17% -9.23%

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 February 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 February 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 +44 147 £85,000 +21.43% 55
Midlands +34 49 £60,000 -4.00% 34
West Midlands +52 46 £60,000 -5.88% 28
North of England -22 29 £56,617 -12.90% 21
South East -23 29 £63,750 -1.92% 40
South West 0 12 £69,000 +25.45% 10
Yorkshire -22 11 £79,000 +21.54% 2
North West +9 10 £59,000 +7.27% 15
East of England +26 8 £50,500 -43.89% 5
North East +1 8 £51,000 -15.00% 4
East Midlands -8 3 £60,000 +36.36% 6
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 15 (5.28%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.23%) Appian
3 11 (3.87%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.82%) Apache
5 5 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.76%) SAS
6 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 22 (7.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Endur
2 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 284 (100.00%) Azure
2 151 (53.17%) Power Platform
3 113 (39.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 52 (18.31%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (9.86%) Microsoft Purview
6 22 (7.75%) Power Automate
7 20 (7.04%) PaaS
8 18 (6.34%) GitHub
9 16 (5.63%) Anthropic Claude
10 15 (5.28%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (5.28%) SaaS
11 14 (4.93%) AWS
11 14 (4.93%) Microsoft Copilot
11 14 (4.93%) Snowflake
12 13 (4.58%) Azure AI
12 13 (4.58%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (4.58%) Azure Storage
13 12 (4.23%) dbt
13 12 (4.23%) GCP
13 12 (4.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.70%) DNS
2 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (48.24%) Power BI
2 109 (38.38%) Data Lake
3 100 (35.21%) SQL Server
4 88 (30.99%) Data Warehouse
5 74 (26.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 43 (15.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 34 (11.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 21 (7.39%) Delta Lake
9 17 (5.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 16 (5.63%) Metadata
11 13 (4.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 12 (4.23%) Pinecone
13 11 (3.87%) MySQL
13 11 (3.87%) Tableau
14 9 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
15 8 (2.82%) Star Schema
16 6 (2.11%) Data Mining
16 6 (2.11%) Qlik Sense
17 5 (1.76%) SAS EBI
17 5 (1.76%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 33 (11.62%) Git
2 12 (4.23%) MLflow
3 3 (1.06%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 118 (41.55%) Finance
2 107 (37.68%) Social Skills
3 46 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.99%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.93%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (4.58%) Law
7 12 (4.23%) Automotive
8 10 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.82%) Billing
9 8 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.11%) Retail
12 5 (1.76%) Legal
12 5 (1.76%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.41%) Advertising
13 4 (1.41%) Marketing
14 3 (1.06%) Banking
14 3 (1.06%) Local Government
15 1 (0.35%) Back Office
15 1 (0.35%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 123 (43.31%) Data Engineer
2 46 (16.20%) Senior
3 39 (13.73%) Senior Data Engineer
4 33 (11.62%) Azure Engineer
5 31 (10.92%) Developer
6 26 (9.15%) Architect
6 26 (9.15%) Azure Data Engineer
7 21 (7.39%) Data Architect
8 20 (7.04%) Lead
9 18 (6.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 15 (5.28%) Analyst
11 13 (4.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (4.23%) Automation Engineer
13 11 (3.87%) Data Manager
13 11 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
14 9 (3.17%) Azure Architect
15 8 (2.82%) Azure Data Architect
15 8 (2.82%) Consultant
15 8 (2.82%) Lead Developer
15 8 (2.82%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (15.85%) PySpark
2 23 (8.10%) REST
3 18 (6.34%) .NET
4 15 (5.28%) RESTful
5 13 (4.58%) OAuth
6 12 (4.23%) Django
6 12 (4.23%) Faiss
6 12 (4.23%) FastAPI
6 12 (4.23%) Flask
6 12 (4.23%) Hugging Face
6 12 (4.23%) JWT
6 12 (4.23%) NumPy
6 12 (4.23%) OpenAPI
6 12 (4.23%) Pandas
6 12 (4.23%) pytest
6 12 (4.23%) PyTorch
6 12 (4.23%) scikit-learn
6 12 (4.23%) Swagger
6 12 (4.23%) TensorFlow
6 12 (4.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.34%) Analytical Mindset
1 18 (6.34%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (5.99%) Low-Code
3 13 (4.58%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.82%) AI Agents
4 8 (2.82%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.76%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.76%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.41%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.06%) Clustering
8 3 (1.06%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.06%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.70%) Derivative
9 2 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (55.28%) ETL
2 153 (53.87%) Analytics
3 149 (52.46%) Business Intelligence
4 135 (47.54%) Data Modelling
5 127 (44.72%) Data Pipeline
6 121 (42.61%) Data Engineering
7 102 (35.92%) CI/CD
8 84 (29.58%) AI
9 80 (28.17%) DevOps
10 78 (27.46%) Agile
11 74 (26.06%) Decision-Making
12 61 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
13 59 (20.77%) Data Governance
14 54 (19.01%) Visualisation
15 47 (16.55%) Data Architecture
16 45 (15.85%) Stakeholder Management
17 44 (15.49%) Machine Learning
18 32 (11.27%) Infrastructure as Code
18 32 (11.27%) Migration
19 31 (10.92%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 206 (72.54%) SQL
2 138 (48.59%) Python
3 30 (10.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 30 (10.56%) T-SQL
4 20 (7.04%) Scala
5 17 (5.99%) C#
6 11 (3.87%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.17%) JavaScript
8 8 (2.82%) Java
9 7 (2.46%) Bicep
10 5 (1.76%) R
11 2 (0.70%) C++
11 2 (0.70%) PHP
12 1 (0.35%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (11.27%) Degree
2 15 (5.28%) Azure Certification
3 13 (4.58%) Security Cleared
4 11 (3.87%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.82%) IIBA
6 8 (2.82%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.82%) PMP
6 8 (2.82%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.46%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 3 (1.06%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.35%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (33.10%) Data Quality
2 21 (7.39%) GDPR
3 7 (2.46%) Actionable Recommendations
3 7 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.06%) QA
5 2 (0.70%) SLA
6 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.35%) COBIT
System Software
1 20 (7.04%) Docker
2 6 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (9.51%) Kubernetes
2 25 (8.80%) Terraform
3 5 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 128 (45.07%) Databricks
2 118 (41.55%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.93%) OpenAI
4 12 (4.23%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (4.23%) UiPath
5 10 (3.52%) Alteryx
6 8 (2.82%) Anaplan
7 7 (2.46%) Talend
8 4 (1.41%) Informatica
9 3 (1.06%) Oracle
9 3 (1.06%) RedGate
10 2 (0.70%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.70%) SAP
11 1 (0.35%) Foundry
11 1 (0.35%) Google
11 1 (0.35%) Palantir