Azure Data Factory Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 357 487
Rank change year-on-year -27 +130 -50
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 204 188 251
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.65% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 2.10% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 146 162 226
10th Percentile £46,104 £44,000 £39,375
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +20.00% -8.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £66,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.21% +6.00% -6.37%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,041 8,937 22,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.57% 31.09% 33.00%
Number of salaries quoted 9,339 6,212 17,437
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,925 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure Data Factory relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Azure Data Factory job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Factory
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Data Factory.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Data Factory in the UK excluding London

Azure Data Factory
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Midlands -29 50 £60,000 -7.69% 10
North of England -26 46 £80,000 +28.00% 19
West Midlands -22 45 £60,000 +4.35% 5
East of England +3 34 £90,000 +75.61% 3
Yorkshire -42 33 £80,000 +33.33% 11
South East -44 30 £50,000 -23.08% 28
Scotland +24 29 £71,500 -26.67% 4
South West -45 15 £56,250 -10.00% 4
North West -12 12 £62,500 -3.85% 8
East Midlands -32 5 £57,500 -11.54% 5
Wales -26 2 £46,585 -9.98% 3
North East -36 1 - -
Azure Data Factory
UK

Azure Data Factory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (14.22%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.90%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.90%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.45%) Apache
4 2 (0.98%) Luigi
5 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.49%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.49%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 204 (100.00%) Azure
2 92 (45.10%) Power Platform
3 45 (22.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 40 (19.61%) Azure Logic Apps
5 39 (19.12%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (13.73%) Power Automate
7 25 (12.25%) PowerApps
8 23 (11.27%) Snowflake
9 22 (10.78%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (9.80%) dbt
11 19 (9.31%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (9.31%) OneDrive
12 18 (8.82%) GitHub
13 16 (7.84%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (5.88%) AWS
14 12 (5.88%) Azure Functions
14 12 (5.88%) Serverless
15 11 (5.39%) GCP
16 9 (4.41%) Azure Service Bus
16 9 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (43.14%) Power BI
2 67 (32.84%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (25.98%) Data Lake
4 46 (22.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (12.25%) SQL Server
6 21 (10.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 18 (8.82%) Spark SQL
8 15 (7.35%) Metadata
9 11 (5.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 9 (4.41%) Relational Database
11 8 (3.92%) BigQuery
11 8 (3.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (3.43%) Star Schema
12 7 (3.43%) Tableau
13 6 (2.94%) Delta Lake
14 5 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (2.45%) Data Mining
15 4 (1.96%) Big Data
15 4 (1.96%) Semantic Layer
16 3 (1.47%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 7 (3.43%) Git
2 3 (1.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.98%) MLflow
3 2 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.49%) GitLab
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 66 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 54 (26.47%) Finance
3 39 (19.12%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (2.94%) Automotive
4 6 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.96%) Law
6 4 (1.96%) Retail
7 3 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.47%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.98%) Advertising
8 2 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.98%) Legal
8 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.98%) Marketing
9 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.49%) Local Government
9 1 (0.49%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.49%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 98 (48.04%) Data Engineer
2 51 (25.00%) Senior
3 37 (18.14%) Azure Engineer
4 34 (16.67%) Developer
5 25 (12.25%) Lead
6 24 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
7 23 (11.27%) Lead Data Engineer
8 21 (10.29%) Azure Data Engineer
9 17 (8.33%) Senior Developer
10 14 (6.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 13 (6.37%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (5.39%) Architect
13 10 (4.90%) Consultant
13 10 (4.90%) Data Architect
14 8 (3.92%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 8 (3.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 8 (3.92%) Integration Engineer
14 8 (3.92%) Microsoft Developer
15 7 (3.43%) Microsoft 365 Developer
15 7 (3.43%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (16.18%) PySpark
2 29 (14.22%) JSON
3 25 (12.25%) .NET
4 20 (9.80%) .NET Core
4 20 (9.80%) CSS
4 20 (9.80%) HTML
4 20 (9.80%) HTML5 Canvas
5 19 (9.31%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (9.31%) SPFx
6 12 (5.88%) REST
7 11 (5.39%) ARM Templates
8 8 (3.92%) YAML
9 7 (3.43%) OAuth
9 7 (3.43%) OAuth2
9 7 (3.43%) RESTful
10 2 (0.98%) SOAP
11 1 (0.49%) Middleware
11 1 (0.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.31%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.43%) Data Structures
2 7 (3.43%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.96%) Low-Code
4 4 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.98%) Replication
7 1 (0.49%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.49%) Clustering
7 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.49%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.49%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (49.51%) Business Intelligence
2 100 (49.02%) ETL
3 95 (46.57%) Data Modelling
4 94 (46.08%) Analytics
5 88 (43.14%) Data Pipeline
6 84 (41.18%) CI/CD
7 78 (38.24%) DevOps
8 71 (34.80%) Data Engineering
9 50 (24.51%) Agile
10 48 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (22.55%) Data Governance
12 42 (20.59%) Data Integration
13 38 (18.63%) Machine Learning
14 34 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
15 32 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (15.69%) Test Automation
16 31 (15.20%) AI
16 31 (15.20%) Coaching
16 31 (15.20%) Data Architecture
17 30 (14.71%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 161 (78.92%) SQL
2 92 (45.10%) Python
3 34 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 25 (12.25%) C#
5 21 (10.29%) JavaScript
6 19 (9.31%) TypeScript
7 18 (8.82%) T-SQL
8 11 (5.39%) Bicep
9 8 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (3.43%) Java
11 6 (2.94%) R
11 6 (2.94%) Scala
12 2 (0.98%) C++
13 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (12.25%) Degree
2 14 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.45%) Azure Certification
4 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (1.96%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.47%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (22.06%) Data Quality
2 25 (12.25%) GDPR
3 8 (3.92%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.98%) IFRS
5 2 (0.98%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.98%) QA
5 2 (0.98%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.49%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 4 (1.96%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (16.18%) Terraform
2 1 (0.49%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.49%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 86 (42.16%) Microsoft
2 78 (38.24%) Databricks
3 19 (9.31%) Adobe
4 11 (5.39%) Ab Initio
5 4 (1.96%) IBM
5 4 (1.96%) SAP
6 3 (1.47%) Google
7 2 (0.98%) Informatica
7 2 (0.98%) Oracle
7 2 (0.98%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.49%) FIS
8 1 (0.49%) Foundry
8 1 (0.49%) Infor
8 1 (0.49%) Nintex
8 1 (0.49%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.49%) Palantir
8 1 (0.49%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.49%) Talend