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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 337 427
Rank change year-on-year -48 +90 -42
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 327 351 461
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.90% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 2.56% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 255 283 413
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £66,375 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.99% +6.20% -6.02%

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 23,920 13,726 29,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.55% 35.23% 35.26%
Number of salaries quoted 13,662 9,766 24,157
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £43,750 £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 £83,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 15 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 15 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 -48 141 £83,500 +4.38% 39
North of England -22 48 £80,000 +28.00% 17
Midlands -33 47 £60,000 -7.69% 9
West Midlands -28 42 £60,000 - 5
Yorkshire -40 35 £80,000 +33.33% 10
East of England +6 34 £90,000 +75.61% 3
South East -53 30 £50,000 -23.08% 25
South West -50 15 £56,250 -11.76% 8
North West -7 12 £62,500 - 7
East Midlands -22 5 £57,500 -11.54% 4
North East -36 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 (11.01%) SharePoint
2 21 (6.42%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (3.36%) Appian
5 10 (3.06%) Apache
6 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.61%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.61%) Luigi
8 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.61%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.31%) Endur
3 1 (0.31%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 327 (100.00%) Azure
2 149 (45.57%) Power Platform
3 97 (29.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 64 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (12.84%) Power Automate
6 38 (11.62%) Azure Logic Apps
7 33 (10.09%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (10.09%) PowerApps
8 22 (6.73%) Serverless
9 21 (6.42%) AWS
10 20 (6.12%) Azure Functions
11 19 (5.81%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.81%) Azure Monitor
11 19 (5.81%) GCP
11 19 (5.81%) OneDrive
12 18 (5.50%) GitHub
13 17 (5.20%) Microsoft Purview
13 17 (5.20%) PaaS
14 16 (4.89%) Azure AI
14 16 (4.89%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.31%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (42.81%) Power BI
2 98 (29.97%) Data Lake
3 95 (29.05%) Data Warehouse
4 79 (24.16%) Azure SQL Database
5 58 (17.74%) SQL Server
6 36 (11.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 32 (9.79%) Spark SQL
8 30 (9.17%) Delta Lake
9 17 (5.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 15 (4.59%) Metadata
10 15 (4.59%) Relational Database
11 12 (3.67%) Star Schema
11 12 (3.67%) Tableau
12 11 (3.36%) Pinecone
13 10 (3.06%) BigQuery
14 9 (2.75%) Big Data
14 9 (2.75%) Power Query
14 9 (2.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
16 6 (1.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 33 (10.09%) Git
2 13 (3.98%) MLflow
3 4 (1.22%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.61%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.31%) JIRA
6 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 118 (36.09%) Social Skills
2 113 (34.56%) Finance
3 46 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.28%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (2.75%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.14%) Law
6 7 (2.14%) Retail
7 6 (1.83%) Automotive
8 4 (1.22%) Advertising
8 4 (1.22%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.92%) Legal
9 3 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.92%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.61%) Banking
10 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.31%) Local Government
11 1 (0.31%) Marketing
11 1 (0.31%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 157 (48.01%) Data Engineer
2 70 (21.41%) Senior
3 51 (15.60%) Lead
4 47 (14.37%) Azure Engineer
5 43 (13.15%) Developer
5 43 (13.15%) Senior Data Engineer
6 31 (9.48%) Azure Data Engineer
7 28 (8.56%) Platform Engineer
8 26 (7.95%) Lead Data Engineer
9 20 (6.12%) Architect
9 20 (6.12%) Consultant
10 17 (5.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 17 (5.20%) Data Architect
10 17 (5.20%) Senior Developer
11 14 (4.28%) Automation Engineer
12 13 (3.98%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 13 (3.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 11 (3.36%) Microsoft Engineer
14 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (20.80%) PySpark
2 33 (10.09%) REST
3 30 (9.17%) .NET
4 24 (7.34%) JSON
5 22 (6.73%) .NET Core
6 21 (6.42%) CSS
6 21 (6.42%) HTML
7 20 (6.12%) HTML5 Canvas
8 19 (5.81%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (5.81%) SPFx
9 14 (4.28%) RESTful
10 13 (3.98%) ARM Templates
11 12 (3.67%) NumPy
11 12 (3.67%) Pandas
11 12 (3.67%) PyTorch
11 12 (3.67%) scikit-learn
11 12 (3.67%) TensorFlow
12 11 (3.36%) Flask
12 11 (3.36%) pytest
12 11 (3.36%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.89%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.98%) Low-Code
5 9 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.45%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.45%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (2.45%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.14%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.53%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.53%) Replication
9 3 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.92%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.92%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.31%) Life Science
11 1 (0.31%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.31%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (51.07%) ETL
2 162 (49.54%) Analytics
2 162 (49.54%) Data Modelling
3 152 (46.48%) Business Intelligence
4 144 (44.04%) Data Engineering
5 140 (42.81%) CI/CD
5 140 (42.81%) Data Pipeline
6 112 (34.25%) DevOps
7 80 (24.46%) AI
8 72 (22.02%) Data Governance
9 67 (20.49%) Agile
9 67 (20.49%) Decision-Making
10 65 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
11 62 (18.96%) Machine Learning
12 53 (16.21%) Data Architecture
13 49 (14.98%) Infrastructure as Code
14 46 (14.07%) Data Integration
15 39 (11.93%) Visualisation
16 37 (11.31%) Test Automation
17 35 (10.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 249 (76.15%) SQL
2 159 (48.62%) Python
3 34 (10.40%) PowerShell
4 29 (8.87%) C#
5 26 (7.95%) JavaScript
6 21 (6.42%) Scala
7 19 (5.81%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 15 (4.59%) T-SQL
10 11 (3.36%) Java
11 9 (2.75%) R
12 7 (2.14%) Bicep
13 2 (0.61%) C++
13 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.61%) PHP
13 2 (0.61%) VBA
14 1 (0.31%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (12.23%) Degree
2 21 (6.42%) Security Cleared
3 20 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (4.89%) Azure Certification
5 15 (4.59%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.14%) IIBA
7 7 (2.14%) PMI Certification
7 7 (2.14%) PMP
8 3 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (29.05%) Data Quality
2 24 (7.34%) GDPR
3 6 (1.83%) QA
4 5 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.53%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.22%) Accessibility
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 16 (4.89%) Docker
2 4 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (12.23%) Terraform
2 19 (5.81%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.31%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 148 (45.26%) Databricks
2 128 (39.14%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.81%) Adobe
4 18 (5.50%) OpenAI
5 11 (3.36%) Automation Anywhere
5 11 (3.36%) UiPath
6 9 (2.75%) Alteryx
7 7 (2.14%) Anaplan
8 6 (1.83%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.83%) SAP
9 5 (1.53%) Foundry
9 5 (1.53%) Google
10 3 (0.92%) Informatica
10 3 (0.92%) Talend
11 2 (0.61%) Trapeze
12 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.31%) Cognizant
12 1 (0.31%) Infor
12 1 (0.31%) Oracle
12 1 (0.31%) SolarWinds