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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 316 416
Rank change year-on-year -84 +100 -32
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 332 342 467
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.90% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 2.62% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 259 273 418
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £48,906
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £79,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -7.06%

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 24,317 13,046 29,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.40% 34.25% 35.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14,063 9,124 24,152
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,216 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% +6.46% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -34 146 £83,500 +9.51% 43
North of England -39 51 £80,000 +30.61% 17
Midlands -28 46 £60,000 -7.69% 15
West Midlands -29 41 £60,000 -5.88% 12
Yorkshire -29 35 £80,000 +33.33% 8
East of England +8 34 £90,000 +71.43% 1
South East -58 28 £50,000 -23.08% 27
North West -7 15 £60,000 -4.00% 9
South West -50 15 £56,250 -15.09% 9
East Midlands -34 5 £57,500 -11.54% 3
North East -42 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 36 (10.84%) SharePoint
2 24 (7.23%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.01%) Apache
4 10 (3.01%) Appian
5 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.60%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.60%) Luigi
7 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.60%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.30%) Endur
3 1 (0.30%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 332 (100.00%) Azure
2 151 (45.48%) Power Platform
3 98 (29.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 66 (19.88%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (12.35%) Power Automate
6 39 (11.75%) Azure Logic Apps
7 33 (9.94%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (9.94%) PowerApps
8 22 (6.63%) Serverless
9 20 (6.02%) AWS
9 20 (6.02%) Azure Functions
10 19 (5.72%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 19 (5.72%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (5.72%) Microsoft Purview
10 19 (5.72%) OneDrive
11 18 (5.42%) GitHub
12 17 (5.12%) GCP
13 15 (4.52%) Azure AI
13 15 (4.52%) dbt
13 15 (4.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.30%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (43.07%) Power BI
2 99 (29.82%) Data Lake
3 98 (29.52%) Data Warehouse
4 82 (24.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 55 (16.57%) SQL Server
6 36 (10.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 34 (10.24%) Delta Lake
8 32 (9.64%) Spark SQL
9 18 (5.42%) Metadata
9 18 (5.42%) Relational Database
10 17 (5.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 15 (4.52%) Tableau
12 13 (3.92%) Star Schema
13 11 (3.31%) Big Data
13 11 (3.31%) Power Query
14 10 (3.01%) BigQuery
14 10 (3.01%) Pinecone
14 10 (3.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (2.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 6 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (9.64%) Git
2 12 (3.61%) MLflow
3 5 (1.51%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.51%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.30%) JIRA
5 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 117 (35.24%) Social Skills
2 114 (34.34%) Finance
3 48 (14.46%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (3.01%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (2.71%) Retail
7 5 (1.51%) Law
8 4 (1.20%) Advertising
8 4 (1.20%) Automotive
8 4 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.90%) Legal
9 3 (0.90%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.60%) Banking
10 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.30%) Billing
11 1 (0.30%) Local Government
11 1 (0.30%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 159 (47.89%) Data Engineer
2 69 (20.78%) Senior
3 52 (15.66%) Lead
4 50 (15.06%) Azure Engineer
5 43 (12.95%) Developer
6 41 (12.35%) Senior Data Engineer
7 34 (10.24%) Azure Data Engineer
8 29 (8.73%) Platform Engineer
9 26 (7.83%) Lead Data Engineer
10 21 (6.33%) Architect
11 20 (6.02%) Consultant
12 17 (5.12%) Data Architect
12 17 (5.12%) Senior Developer
13 16 (4.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 13 (3.92%) Automation Engineer
14 13 (3.92%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 13 (3.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 11 (3.31%) Microsoft Engineer
16 8 (2.41%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (21.69%) PySpark
2 32 (9.64%) REST
3 30 (9.04%) .NET
4 24 (7.23%) JSON
5 22 (6.63%) .NET Core
6 21 (6.33%) CSS
6 21 (6.33%) HTML
7 20 (6.02%) HTML5 Canvas
8 19 (5.72%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (5.72%) SPFx
9 13 (3.92%) ARM Templates
9 13 (3.92%) RESTful
10 11 (3.31%) FastAPI
10 11 (3.31%) Kafka
10 11 (3.31%) NumPy
10 11 (3.31%) Pandas
10 11 (3.31%) PyTorch
10 11 (3.31%) scikit-learn
10 11 (3.31%) TensorFlow
11 10 (3.01%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.33%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.52%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (4.52%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.61%) Low-Code
4 9 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.41%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.11%) AI Agents
6 7 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.81%) Replication
8 5 (1.51%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.20%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.90%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.60%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.60%) Clustering
11 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.30%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (50.30%) ETL
2 166 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 162 (48.80%) Analytics
4 156 (46.99%) Business Intelligence
5 147 (44.28%) Data Engineering
6 140 (42.17%) CI/CD
7 139 (41.87%) Data Pipeline
8 116 (34.94%) DevOps
9 79 (23.80%) AI
10 73 (21.99%) Data Governance
11 69 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
12 68 (20.48%) Agile
13 65 (19.58%) Decision-Making
14 62 (18.67%) Machine Learning
15 55 (16.57%) Data Architecture
16 50 (15.06%) Data Integration
17 47 (14.16%) Infrastructure as Code
18 40 (12.05%) Visualisation
19 38 (11.45%) Data Science
20 37 (11.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 253 (76.20%) SQL
2 162 (48.80%) Python
3 34 (10.24%) PowerShell
4 30 (9.04%) C#
5 27 (8.13%) JavaScript
6 24 (7.23%) Scala
7 19 (5.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (5.72%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.82%) T-SQL
9 11 (3.31%) Java
10 10 (3.01%) R
11 6 (1.81%) Bicep
12 2 (0.60%) C++
12 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.60%) PHP
12 2 (0.60%) VBA
13 1 (0.30%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (11.75%) Degree
2 25 (7.53%) Security Cleared
3 20 (6.02%) Azure Certification
4 19 (5.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (5.72%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.81%) IIBA
6 6 (1.81%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.81%) PMP
7 3 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (29.22%) Data Quality
2 24 (7.23%) GDPR
3 6 (1.81%) QA
4 5 (1.51%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.51%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.60%) GRC
5 2 (0.60%) IFRS
5 2 (0.60%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.60%) SLA
6 1 (0.30%) COBIT
6 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 18 (5.42%) Docker
2 4 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (11.75%) Terraform
2 21 (6.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.30%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 151 (45.48%) Databricks
2 130 (39.16%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.72%) Adobe
4 17 (5.12%) OpenAI
5 10 (3.01%) Automation Anywhere
5 10 (3.01%) UiPath
6 8 (2.41%) Alteryx
7 7 (2.11%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.11%) SAP
8 6 (1.81%) Anaplan
8 6 (1.81%) Foundry
8 6 (1.81%) Google
9 3 (0.90%) Talend
10 2 (0.60%) Informatica
10 2 (0.60%) Trapeze
11 1 (0.30%) Confluent
11 1 (0.30%) Infor
11 1 (0.30%) Nintex
11 1 (0.30%) Palantir
11 1 (0.30%) Refinitiv