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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 311 408
Rank change year-on-year -51 +97 -23
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 348 358 473
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 0.96% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.40% 2.60% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 260 286 423
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £48,750
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 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% -6.72%

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 24,796 13,786 29,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.84% 36.90% 35.75%
Number of salaries quoted 13,063 10,239 24,149
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,549 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.84% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -11 154 £80,000 - 37
Midlands -25 55 £60,000 -4.00% 14
West Midlands -17 50 £60,000 +4.35% 9
North of England -48 50 £75,000 +15.38% 26
South East -84 34 £50,000 -28.57% 23
Yorkshire -49 29 £80,000 +33.33% 12
East of England -24 27 £90,000 +75.61% 7
South West -55 15 £57,500 -8.00% 9
North West -37 14 £65,000 -3.70% 14
North East -32 7 £51,000 -34.19% 2
East Midlands -57 5 £57,500 -11.54% 5
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 29 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 20 (5.75%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.45%) Appian
4 10 (2.87%) Apache
5 9 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (6.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.57%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.29%) Endur
2 1 (0.29%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 348 (100.00%) Azure
2 173 (49.71%) Power Platform
3 123 (35.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 61 (17.53%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (10.63%) Power Automate
6 29 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 29 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (7.47%) PowerApps
8 22 (6.32%) Microsoft Purview
9 19 (5.46%) PaaS
10 18 (5.17%) AWS
10 18 (5.17%) GitHub
11 17 (4.89%) Serverless
12 16 (4.60%) Anthropic Claude
12 16 (4.60%) Azure AI
12 16 (4.60%) GCP
13 15 (4.31%) Azure Functions
13 15 (4.31%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (4.31%) Microsoft Copilot
13 15 (4.31%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.57%) DNS
2 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (45.98%) Power BI
2 111 (31.90%) Data Lake
3 96 (27.59%) Data Warehouse
4 93 (26.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 79 (22.70%) SQL Server
6 41 (11.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 28 (8.05%) Delta Lake
8 25 (7.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 24 (6.90%) Spark SQL
10 21 (6.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 15 (4.31%) Relational Database
12 14 (4.02%) Metadata
13 13 (3.74%) Tableau
14 12 (3.45%) Pinecone
15 11 (3.16%) Star Schema
16 9 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
17 8 (2.30%) Big Data
17 8 (2.30%) MySQL
18 7 (2.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 6 (1.72%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 35 (10.06%) Git
2 13 (3.74%) MLflow
3 3 (0.86%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.29%) JIRA
General
1 130 (37.36%) Social Skills
2 128 (36.78%) Finance
3 56 (16.09%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (4.02%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.01%) Automotive
6 7 (2.01%) Billing
6 7 (2.01%) Law
6 7 (2.01%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.44%) Retail
9 4 (1.15%) Advertising
9 4 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.57%) Banking
10 2 (0.57%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.57%) Legal
10 2 (0.57%) Marketing
11 1 (0.29%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 160 (45.98%) Data Engineer
2 69 (19.83%) Senior
3 45 (12.93%) Azure Engineer
4 44 (12.64%) Senior Data Engineer
5 41 (11.78%) Lead
6 39 (11.21%) Developer
7 32 (9.20%) Azure Data Engineer
8 22 (6.32%) Platform Engineer
9 20 (5.75%) Lead Data Engineer
10 19 (5.46%) Architect
11 17 (4.89%) Consultant
12 16 (4.60%) Analyst
12 16 (4.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 15 (4.31%) Automation Engineer
13 15 (4.31%) Data Architect
14 14 (4.02%) Senior Developer
15 12 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 12 (3.45%) Microsoft Engineer
16 9 (2.59%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 9 (2.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (18.39%) PySpark
2 30 (8.62%) REST
3 27 (7.76%) .NET
4 20 (5.75%) JSON
5 18 (5.17%) .NET Core
6 16 (4.60%) CSS
6 16 (4.60%) HTML
7 15 (4.31%) HTML5 Canvas
7 15 (4.31%) RESTful
8 14 (4.02%) Microsoft Graph
8 14 (4.02%) SPFx
9 13 (3.74%) NumPy
9 13 (3.74%) OAuth
9 13 (3.74%) Pandas
9 13 (3.74%) PyTorch
9 13 (3.74%) scikit-learn
9 13 (3.74%) TensorFlow
10 12 (3.45%) Flask
10 12 (3.45%) pytest
10 12 (3.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.03%) Analytical Mindset
2 20 (5.75%) Cloud Native
3 17 (4.89%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (4.89%) Low-Code
4 15 (4.31%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.59%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.59%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (2.30%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.44%) Replication
10 3 (0.86%) Clustering
10 3 (0.86%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.86%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.86%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (54.60%) Analytics
2 172 (49.43%) Business Intelligence
2 172 (49.43%) ETL
3 169 (48.56%) Data Modelling
4 152 (43.68%) Data Engineering
4 152 (43.68%) Data Pipeline
5 130 (37.36%) CI/CD
6 105 (30.17%) DevOps
7 94 (27.01%) AI
8 85 (24.43%) Decision-Making
9 84 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
10 75 (21.55%) Agile
11 69 (19.83%) Data Governance
12 59 (16.95%) Machine Learning
12 59 (16.95%) Visualisation
13 56 (16.09%) Data Architecture
14 42 (12.07%) Data Integration
14 42 (12.07%) Infrastructure as Code
15 40 (11.49%) Stakeholder Management
16 39 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 266 (76.44%) SQL
2 162 (46.55%) Python
3 31 (8.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 30 (8.62%) PowerShell
5 26 (7.47%) C#
6 21 (6.03%) JavaScript
7 20 (5.75%) T-SQL
8 19 (5.46%) Scala
9 14 (4.02%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.59%) Java
11 7 (2.01%) Bicep
11 7 (2.01%) R
12 3 (0.86%) C++
13 2 (0.57%) PHP
14 1 (0.29%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (11.21%) Degree
2 22 (6.32%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.89%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.60%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.30%) IIBA
6 8 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.30%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.30%) PMP
7 7 (2.01%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 3 (0.86%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.57%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.29%) MCSE
10 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (30.46%) Data Quality
2 23 (6.61%) GDPR
3 7 (2.01%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.44%) QA
5 4 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.15%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.57%) GRC
6 2 (0.57%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.29%) COBIT
7 1 (0.29%) IFRS
7 1 (0.29%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 19 (5.46%) Docker
2 5 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (10.06%) Terraform
2 24 (6.90%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 150 (43.10%) Databricks
2 134 (38.51%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.17%) OpenAI
4 14 (4.02%) Adobe
5 12 (3.45%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (3.45%) UiPath
6 10 (2.87%) Alteryx
7 8 (2.30%) Anaplan
8 6 (1.72%) Talend
9 5 (1.44%) Foundry
9 5 (1.44%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.15%) Google
10 4 (1.15%) Informatica
10 4 (1.15%) SAP
11 3 (0.86%) Oracle
12 2 (0.57%) RedGate
12 2 (0.57%) Trapeze
13 1 (0.29%) Infor
13 1 (0.29%) Palantir
13 1 (0.29%) SolarWinds