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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 347 386
Rank change year-on-year -82 +39 -35
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 334 347 443
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.79% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 2.41% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 251 261 373
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £94,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% - -

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 24,729 14,400 23,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.25% 32.91% 31.92%
Number of salaries quoted 16,742 10,214 17,128
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £32,175
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -72 153 £80,000 - 70
North of England -3 66 £74,000 +28.70% 11
Yorkshire -4 41 £80,000 +33.33% 5
Midlands -33 33 £60,000 -5.88% 15
East of England -8 30 £90,000 +80.00% 3
West Midlands -31 27 £60,000 - 10
South East -72 26 £50,000 -9.09% 43
North West +2 20 £55,000 -2.22% 4
South West -47 19 £84,500 +12.67% 5
East Midlands -27 6 - - 5
North East -59 5 £47,500 -9.52% 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 33 (9.88%) Apache Spark
2 27 (8.08%) SharePoint
3 14 (4.19%) Apache
4 10 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.90%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.60%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.90%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.30%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 334 (100.00%) Azure
2 157 (47.01%) Power Platform
3 108 (32.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 66 (19.76%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (13.77%) Azure Logic Apps
6 42 (12.57%) Microsoft Purview
7 29 (8.68%) PowerApps
8 27 (8.08%) Power Automate
9 25 (7.49%) Snowflake
10 23 (6.89%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (6.89%) Serverless
11 22 (6.59%) Azure Functions
12 19 (5.69%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 19 (5.69%) OneDrive
13 16 (4.79%) AWS
14 15 (4.49%) GCP
15 12 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (3.29%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (45.51%) Power BI
2 103 (30.84%) Data Warehouse
3 91 (27.25%) Data Lake
4 73 (21.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 50 (14.97%) Metadata
6 47 (14.07%) SQL Server
7 42 (12.57%) Delta Lake
8 31 (9.28%) Spark SQL
9 28 (8.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 23 (6.89%) Tableau
11 20 (5.99%) Relational Database
11 20 (5.99%) Star Schema
12 18 (5.39%) Data Vault
13 17 (5.09%) Big Data
14 15 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
14 15 (4.49%) Semantic Layer
15 12 (3.59%) BigQuery
16 11 (3.29%) Power Query
17 10 (2.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
18 9 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 30 (8.98%) Git
2 7 (2.10%) MLflow
3 5 (1.50%) GitLab
3 5 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.20%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.60%) JIRA
5 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.30%) ERwin
6 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.30%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 110 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 87 (26.05%) Finance
3 58 (17.37%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.89%) Retail
5 12 (3.59%) Legal
6 11 (3.29%) Law
7 9 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.50%) Marketing
8 5 (1.50%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.20%) Advertising
9 4 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.90%) Games
10 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.90%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.60%) Banking
11 2 (0.60%) Billing
11 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 161 (48.20%) Data Engineer
2 87 (26.05%) Senior
3 59 (17.66%) Lead
4 50 (14.97%) Architect
5 48 (14.37%) Azure Engineer
5 48 (14.37%) Data Architect
5 48 (14.37%) Senior Data Engineer
6 40 (11.98%) Developer
7 35 (10.48%) Azure Data Engineer
8 27 (8.08%) Lead Data Engineer
9 23 (6.89%) Platform Engineer
10 19 (5.69%) Senior Developer
11 16 (4.79%) Consultant
12 11 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 9 (2.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 9 (2.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 9 (2.69%) Microsoft Engineer
14 8 (2.40%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 8 (2.40%) Operations Engineer
14 8 (2.40%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (21.86%) PySpark
2 22 (6.59%) .NET
2 22 (6.59%) JSON
2 22 (6.59%) Kafka
3 20 (5.99%) .NET Core
3 20 (5.99%) CSS
3 20 (5.99%) HTML
4 19 (5.69%) HTML5 Canvas
4 19 (5.69%) Microsoft Graph
4 19 (5.69%) REST
4 19 (5.69%) SPFx
5 12 (3.59%) ARM Templates
6 7 (2.10%) Keycloak
7 6 (1.80%) SOAP
8 3 (0.90%) LangChain
9 2 (0.60%) FastAPI
9 2 (0.60%) Middleware
9 2 (0.60%) YAML
10 1 (0.30%) PyTorch
10 1 (0.30%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.88%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.99%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.10%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.50%) Replication
9 4 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.20%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.20%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.20%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.20%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.60%) Clustering
10 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.60%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (56.89%) Analytics
2 187 (55.99%) Business Intelligence
3 175 (52.40%) Data Modelling
4 151 (45.21%) CI/CD
4 151 (45.21%) Data Engineering
4 151 (45.21%) ETL
5 147 (44.01%) Data Pipeline
6 130 (38.92%) DevOps
7 103 (30.84%) AI
8 90 (26.95%) Data Governance
9 87 (26.05%) Machine Learning
10 75 (22.46%) Decision-Making
11 74 (22.16%) Data Architecture
12 71 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
13 66 (19.76%) Agile
13 66 (19.76%) Data Science
14 64 (19.16%) Technical Leadership
15 60 (17.96%) Data Integration
16 54 (16.17%) Data Strategy
17 51 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 253 (75.75%) SQL
2 179 (53.59%) Python
3 34 (10.18%) PowerShell
4 33 (9.88%) Scala
5 26 (7.78%) C#
6 22 (6.59%) JavaScript
7 20 (5.99%) Bicep
8 19 (5.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 19 (5.69%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.89%) T-SQL
10 8 (2.40%) Java
11 7 (2.10%) Go
12 6 (1.80%) R
13 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.60%) VBA
14 1 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 45 (13.47%) Azure Certification
2 33 (9.88%) Degree
3 32 (9.58%) Security Cleared
4 27 (8.08%) SC Cleared
5 22 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (4.19%) SnowPro
8 7 (2.10%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.90%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.30%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (32.63%) Data Quality
2 31 (9.28%) GDPR
3 15 (4.49%) QA
4 5 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.50%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.60%) GRC
5 2 (0.60%) IFRS
5 2 (0.60%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.60%) SLA
6 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 8 (2.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (14.07%) Terraform
2 9 (2.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.30%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 162 (48.50%) Databricks
2 151 (45.21%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.69%) Adobe
4 9 (2.69%) SAP
5 8 (2.40%) Foundry
5 8 (2.40%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.10%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.80%) Google
8 5 (1.50%) Informatica
9 3 (0.90%) Talend
10 2 (0.60%) Trapeze
11 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.30%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.30%) Confluent
11 1 (0.30%) Infor
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle
11 1 (0.30%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.30%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.30%) Teradata