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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 352 384
Rank change year-on-year -68 +32 -58
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 347 319 442
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.73% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 2.23% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 264 249 367
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,950 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £79,250 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.92% - -

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 24,456 14,299 22,748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.15% 32.77% 31.88%
Number of salaries quoted 16,927 10,031 15,888
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% -4.62%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.18%

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 September 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 September 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 -54 166 £80,000 - 125
North of England -9 65 £74,000 +34.26% 22
Yorkshire -14 39 £81,250 +35.42% 9
Midlands -47 34 £65,000 +6.12% 16
South East -61 34 £60,000 +9.09% 46
West Midlands -32 28 £65,000 +8.33% 10
East of England -13 26 £90,000 +80.00% 7
North West -5 20 £55,000 - 12
South West -57 18 £85,000 +17.24% 11
East Midlands -29 6 - - 6
North East -55 6 £47,500 -9.52% 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 35 (10.09%) Apache Spark
2 26 (7.49%) SharePoint
3 17 (4.90%) Apache
4 10 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.58%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.58%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.29%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 347 (100.00%) Azure
2 164 (47.26%) Power Platform
3 119 (34.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 71 (20.46%) Azure DevOps
5 57 (16.43%) Azure Databricks
6 46 (13.26%) Azure Logic Apps
7 45 (12.97%) Microsoft Purview
8 26 (7.49%) PowerApps
9 25 (7.20%) Power Automate
10 23 (6.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 23 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (6.63%) Serverless
10 23 (6.63%) Snowflake
11 21 (6.05%) Azure Functions
12 19 (5.48%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.48%) OneDrive
13 14 (4.03%) AWS
13 14 (4.03%) GCP
14 13 (3.75%) Azure Machine Learning
15 12 (3.46%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (46.11%) Power BI
2 110 (31.70%) Data Warehouse
3 92 (26.51%) Data Lake
4 75 (21.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 59 (17.00%) Metadata
6 46 (13.26%) SQL Server
7 45 (12.97%) Delta Lake
8 29 (8.36%) Spark SQL
9 26 (7.49%) Star Schema
10 24 (6.92%) Tableau
11 23 (6.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 20 (5.76%) Data Vault
13 18 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
14 17 (4.90%) Relational Database
15 16 (4.61%) Big Data
15 16 (4.61%) Semantic Layer
16 13 (3.75%) NoSQL
17 12 (3.46%) BigQuery
17 12 (3.46%) Power Query
18 9 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 34 (9.80%) Git
2 7 (2.02%) MLflow
3 6 (1.73%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.44%) GitLab
5 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.58%) JIRA
6 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.29%) ERwin
7 1 (0.29%) kappa
7 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.29%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 121 (34.87%) Social Skills
2 90 (25.94%) Finance
3 56 (16.14%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.48%) Legal
5 14 (4.03%) Law
6 13 (3.75%) Retail
7 10 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.73%) Banking
8 6 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.73%) Marketing
9 5 (1.44%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.15%) Advertising
10 4 (1.15%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.15%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.86%) Games
11 3 (0.86%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.58%) Billing
12 2 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 162 (46.69%) Data Engineer
2 95 (27.38%) Senior
3 65 (18.73%) Lead
4 55 (15.85%) Azure Engineer
5 52 (14.99%) Architect
5 52 (14.99%) Senior Data Engineer
6 49 (14.12%) Data Architect
7 45 (12.97%) Developer
8 40 (11.53%) Azure Data Engineer
9 31 (8.93%) Lead Data Engineer
10 23 (6.63%) Databricks Engineer
11 22 (6.34%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.48%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 19 (5.48%) Senior Developer
13 17 (4.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 15 (4.32%) Consultant
15 11 (3.17%) Analyst
16 10 (2.88%) Business Developer
16 10 (2.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 10 (2.88%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (21.61%) PySpark
2 48 (13.83%) Terraform
3 26 (7.49%) JSON
4 25 (7.20%) Kafka
4 25 (7.20%) REST
5 21 (6.05%) .NET
6 20 (5.76%) .NET Core
6 20 (5.76%) CSS
6 20 (5.76%) HTML
7 19 (5.48%) HTML5 Canvas
7 19 (5.48%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (5.48%) SPFx
8 11 (3.17%) ARM Templates
9 9 (2.59%) Keycloak
10 5 (1.44%) SOAP
10 5 (1.44%) XML
11 3 (0.86%) LangChain
12 2 (0.58%) FastAPI
12 2 (0.58%) Middleware
12 2 (0.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.51%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.78%) Product Ownership
3 10 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.02%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.44%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.15%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.15%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.15%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.15%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.15%) Replication
9 3 (0.86%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.58%) Clustering
10 2 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.73%) Windows
2 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (56.48%) Business Intelligence
2 191 (55.04%) Analytics
3 178 (51.30%) Data Modelling
4 165 (47.55%) ETL
5 163 (46.97%) CI/CD
6 161 (46.40%) Data Engineering
7 148 (42.65%) Data Pipeline
8 143 (41.21%) DevOps
9 101 (29.11%) Lakehouse
10 97 (27.95%) AI
11 91 (26.22%) Data Governance
12 89 (25.65%) Machine Learning
13 80 (23.05%) Data Architecture
14 77 (22.19%) Decision-Making
15 74 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
16 72 (20.75%) Data Science
17 69 (19.88%) Technical Leadership
18 63 (18.16%) Agile
19 61 (17.58%) Data Integration
20 55 (15.85%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 267 (76.95%) SQL
2 190 (54.76%) Python
3 37 (10.66%) Scala
4 34 (9.80%) PowerShell
5 29 (8.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 28 (8.07%) C#
7 22 (6.34%) JavaScript
8 21 (6.05%) Bicep
9 19 (5.48%) TypeScript
10 12 (3.46%) T-SQL
11 9 (2.59%) Go
12 8 (2.31%) Java
13 5 (1.44%) R
14 2 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.58%) VBA
15 1 (0.29%) PHP
15 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (14.12%) Azure Certification
2 35 (10.09%) Degree
3 32 (9.22%) Security Cleared
4 27 (7.78%) SC Cleared
5 26 (7.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.61%) SnowPro
7 9 (2.59%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.02%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.86%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.29%) ICAEW
11 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (35.16%) Data Quality
2 34 (9.80%) GDPR
3 16 (4.61%) QA
4 5 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (1.44%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.86%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.58%) IFRS
6 2 (0.58%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.58%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 9 (2.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 169 (48.70%) Microsoft
2 160 (46.11%) Databricks
3 19 (5.48%) Adobe
4 9 (2.59%) SAP
5 7 (2.02%) Foundry
5 7 (2.02%) Google
5 7 (2.02%) Informatica
5 7 (2.02%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.02%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.73%) Talend
7 1 (0.29%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.29%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.29%) Confluent
7 1 (0.29%) Infor
7 1 (0.29%) Meraki
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle
7 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.29%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.29%) Teradata