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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 362 395
Rank change year-on-year -68 +33 -49
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 339 333 442
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.76% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 2.31% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 253 254 373
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,938 £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 £99,250
UK median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +19.23% - -

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 24,617 14,389 23,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.84% 32.93% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 16,831 10,149 16,733
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £101,250
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 21 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 21 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 -61 161 £80,000 - 54
North of England -3 66 £74,000 +28.70% 10
Yorkshire -8 40 £81,250 +35.42% 3
Midlands -47 31 £60,000 -4.00% 13
South East -70 29 £55,000 - 37
East of England -9 28 £90,000 +80.00% 1
West Midlands -41 25 £60,000 - 9
North West -13 20 £55,000 -2.22% 4
South West -56 17 £84,500 +12.67% 2
East Midlands -21 6 - - 4
North East -52 6 £47,500 -9.52% 3
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 34 (10.03%) Apache Spark
2 26 (7.67%) SharePoint
3 16 (4.72%) Apache
4 10 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.88%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.59%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.88%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.29%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 339 (100.00%) Azure
2 159 (46.90%) Power Platform
3 113 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 70 (20.65%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (13.57%) Azure Logic Apps
6 42 (12.39%) Microsoft Purview
7 27 (7.96%) PowerApps
8 26 (7.67%) Power Automate
9 23 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (6.78%) Serverless
9 23 (6.78%) Snowflake
10 22 (6.49%) Azure Functions
11 20 (5.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 19 (5.60%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.60%) OneDrive
13 14 (4.13%) AWS
13 14 (4.13%) GCP
14 12 (3.54%) Azure Machine Learning
14 12 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (45.72%) Power BI
2 106 (31.27%) Data Warehouse
3 92 (27.14%) Data Lake
4 74 (21.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 53 (15.63%) Metadata
6 46 (13.57%) SQL Server
7 43 (12.68%) Delta Lake
8 30 (8.85%) Spark SQL
9 26 (7.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (7.08%) Tableau
11 23 (6.78%) Star Schema
12 19 (5.60%) Relational Database
13 18 (5.31%) Data Vault
14 16 (4.72%) Big Data
15 15 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
15 15 (4.42%) Semantic Layer
16 12 (3.54%) BigQuery
16 12 (3.54%) Power Query
17 11 (3.24%) NoSQL
18 9 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 32 (9.44%) Git
2 7 (2.06%) MLflow
3 6 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.47%) GitLab
5 4 (1.18%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.59%) JIRA
6 2 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.29%) ERwin
7 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.29%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 115 (33.92%) Social Skills
2 88 (25.96%) Finance
3 57 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.42%) Legal
5 13 (3.83%) Retail
6 11 (3.24%) Law
7 9 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.47%) Marketing
9 4 (1.18%) Advertising
9 4 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.18%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.88%) Banking
10 3 (0.88%) Games
10 3 (0.88%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.88%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.59%) Billing
11 2 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 158 (46.61%) Data Engineer
2 88 (25.96%) Senior
3 62 (18.29%) Lead
4 51 (15.04%) Azure Engineer
5 49 (14.45%) Architect
6 47 (13.86%) Data Architect
6 47 (13.86%) Senior Data Engineer
7 43 (12.68%) Developer
8 37 (10.91%) Azure Data Engineer
9 28 (8.26%) Lead Data Engineer
10 22 (6.49%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (5.60%) Senior Developer
12 16 (4.72%) Consultant
13 14 (4.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 9 (2.65%) Analyst
14 9 (2.65%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 9 (2.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 9 (2.65%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 9 (2.65%) Microsoft Engineer
14 9 (2.65%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (22.12%) PySpark
2 47 (13.86%) Terraform
3 23 (6.78%) JSON
3 23 (6.78%) Kafka
4 22 (6.49%) .NET
4 22 (6.49%) REST
5 20 (5.90%) .NET Core
5 20 (5.90%) CSS
5 20 (5.90%) HTML
6 19 (5.60%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.60%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.60%) SPFx
7 11 (3.24%) ARM Templates
8 7 (2.06%) Keycloak
9 6 (1.77%) SOAP
10 3 (0.88%) LangChain
11 2 (0.59%) FastAPI
11 2 (0.59%) Middleware
11 2 (0.59%) XML
11 2 (0.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.14%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.49%) Product Ownership
3 10 (2.95%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.06%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.47%) Replication
8 4 (1.18%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.18%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.18%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.18%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.18%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.59%) Clustering
9 2 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.59%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.59%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (56.05%) Business Intelligence
2 187 (55.16%) Analytics
3 177 (52.21%) Data Modelling
4 159 (46.90%) ETL
5 156 (46.02%) CI/CD
5 156 (46.02%) Data Engineering
6 147 (43.36%) Data Pipeline
7 135 (39.82%) DevOps
8 98 (28.91%) AI
9 90 (26.55%) Data Governance
10 86 (25.37%) Machine Learning
11 77 (22.71%) Data Architecture
12 75 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
13 74 (21.83%) Decision-Making
14 68 (20.06%) Data Science
15 65 (19.17%) Technical Leadership
16 62 (18.29%) Agile
17 61 (17.99%) Data Integration
18 53 (15.63%) Data Strategy
19 50 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 260 (76.70%) SQL
2 183 (53.98%) Python
3 35 (10.32%) Scala
4 34 (10.03%) PowerShell
5 27 (7.96%) C#
6 24 (7.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 22 (6.49%) JavaScript
8 20 (5.90%) Bicep
9 19 (5.60%) TypeScript
10 15 (4.42%) T-SQL
11 8 (2.36%) Java
12 7 (2.06%) Go
13 5 (1.47%) R
14 2 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.59%) VBA
15 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 46 (13.57%) Azure Certification
2 34 (10.03%) Degree
3 32 (9.44%) Security Cleared
4 27 (7.96%) SC Cleared
5 24 (7.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (4.13%) SnowPro
8 7 (2.06%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.77%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.88%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.29%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (33.92%) Data Quality
2 32 (9.44%) GDPR
3 16 (4.72%) QA
4 5 (1.47%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.18%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.59%) IFRS
7 2 (0.59%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.59%) SLA
8 1 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 9 (2.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (2.95%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 160 (47.20%) Databricks
2 159 (46.90%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.60%) Adobe
4 9 (2.65%) SAP
5 8 (2.36%) Foundry
5 8 (2.36%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.77%) Google
8 5 (1.47%) Informatica
9 4 (1.18%) Talend
10 1 (0.29%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.29%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.29%) Confluent
10 1 (0.29%) Infor
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle
10 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.29%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.29%) Teradata
10 1 (0.29%) Trapeze