Azure Data Factory Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 365 411
Rank change year-on-year -94 +46 -76
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 368 342 464
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.69% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 2.16% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 278 266 384
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,125 £44,125
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,250 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.92% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 27,530 15,848 25,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.02% 31.80% 31.70%
Number of salaries quoted 18,555 10,819 17,595
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.18%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Azure Data Factory job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Salary Trend

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

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

Azure Data Factory
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Data Factory in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 September 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
England -68 347 £80,000 +23.08% 206
UK excluding London -72 181 £62,500 +13.64% 111
London -54 166 £80,000 - 124
Work from Home -8 138 £80,000 +33.33% 98
North of England -9 65 £74,000 +34.26% 22
Yorkshire -14 39 £81,250 +35.42% 9
Midlands -47 34 £65,000 +6.12% 18
South East -61 34 £60,000 +9.09% 42
West Midlands -32 28 £65,000 +8.33% 10
East of England -13 26 £90,000 +80.00% 7
North West -5 20 £55,000 - 12
South West -57 18 £85,000 +17.24% 10
Wales -60 10 £52,835 -3.94% 3
East Midlands -29 6 - - 8
North East -55 6 £47,500 -9.52% 1
Scotland -5 3 £49,168 -0.67% 9

Azure Data Factory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (9.78%) Apache Spark
2 26 (7.07%) SharePoint
3 17 (4.62%) Apache
4 11 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.54%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.54%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 368 (100.00%) Azure
2 175 (47.55%) Power Platform
3 129 (35.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 83 (22.55%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (17.12%) Azure Databricks
6 47 (12.77%) Azure Logic Apps
7 46 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (7.34%) PowerApps
9 26 (7.07%) Power Automate
10 24 (6.52%) Snowflake
11 23 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 23 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (6.25%) Serverless
12 21 (5.71%) Azure Functions
13 19 (5.16%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 19 (5.16%) OneDrive
14 16 (4.35%) GCP
15 15 (4.08%) AWS
16 14 (3.80%) dbt
17 13 (3.53%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (46.20%) Power BI
2 116 (31.52%) Data Warehouse
3 95 (25.82%) Data Lake
4 76 (20.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 59 (16.03%) Metadata
6 50 (13.59%) Delta Lake
7 46 (12.50%) SQL Server
8 30 (8.15%) Spark SQL
9 29 (7.88%) Star Schema
10 28 (7.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 25 (6.79%) Tableau
12 20 (5.43%) Data Vault
13 19 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
14 18 (4.89%) Big Data
14 18 (4.89%) Relational Database
15 16 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
16 14 (3.80%) NoSQL
17 13 (3.53%) BigQuery
17 13 (3.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 12 (3.26%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 40 (10.87%) Git
2 7 (1.90%) Jenkins
2 7 (1.90%) MLflow
3 6 (1.63%) GitLab
4 3 (0.82%) JIRA
4 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.54%) ERwin
5 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.54%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.27%) kappa
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 128 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 97 (26.36%) Finance
3 58 (15.76%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.16%) Legal
5 14 (3.80%) Law
6 13 (3.53%) Retail
7 10 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.17%) Public Sector
9 7 (1.90%) Marketing
10 6 (1.63%) Banking
10 6 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.09%) Advertising
11 4 (1.09%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.09%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.82%) Games
12 3 (0.82%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.54%) Billing
13 2 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.27%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 176 (47.83%) Data Engineer
2 107 (29.08%) Senior
3 65 (17.66%) Lead
4 60 (16.30%) Senior Data Engineer
5 56 (15.22%) Azure Engineer
6 52 (14.13%) Architect
7 49 (13.32%) Data Architect
8 45 (12.23%) Developer
9 40 (10.87%) Azure Data Engineer
10 31 (8.42%) Lead Data Engineer
11 23 (6.25%) Databricks Engineer
11 23 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.16%) Consultant
12 19 (5.16%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 19 (5.16%) Senior Developer
13 17 (4.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 11 (2.99%) Analyst
14 11 (2.99%) Senior Consultant
15 10 (2.72%) Business Developer
15 10 (2.72%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (23.37%) PySpark
2 50 (13.59%) Terraform
3 27 (7.34%) JSON
4 26 (7.07%) Kafka
5 25 (6.79%) REST
6 21 (5.71%) .NET
7 20 (5.43%) .NET Core
7 20 (5.43%) CSS
7 20 (5.43%) HTML
8 19 (5.16%) HTML5 Canvas
8 19 (5.16%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (5.16%) SPFx
9 11 (2.99%) ARM Templates
10 9 (2.45%) Keycloak
11 5 (1.36%) SOAP
11 5 (1.36%) XML
12 4 (1.09%) MDX
13 3 (0.82%) LangChain
13 3 (0.82%) YAML
14 2 (0.54%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.97%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.34%) Product Ownership
3 10 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.09%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.09%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.09%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.09%) Reinsurance
7 4 (1.09%) Replication
8 3 (0.82%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.54%) Clustering
9 2 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.54%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.63%) Windows
2 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (57.07%) Business Intelligence
2 202 (54.89%) Analytics
3 187 (50.82%) Data Modelling
4 176 (47.83%) ETL
5 173 (47.01%) CI/CD
6 170 (46.20%) Data Engineering
7 159 (43.21%) Data Pipeline
8 155 (42.12%) DevOps
9 105 (28.53%) AI
10 103 (27.99%) Lakehouse
11 95 (25.82%) Data Governance
12 91 (24.73%) Machine Learning
13 88 (23.91%) Data Architecture
14 79 (21.47%) Decision-Making
15 77 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
16 76 (20.65%) Technical Leadership
17 73 (19.84%) Data Science
18 72 (19.57%) Agile
19 64 (17.39%) Data Integration
20 61 (16.58%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 278 (75.54%) SQL
2 204 (55.43%) Python
3 38 (10.33%) Scala
4 36 (9.78%) PowerShell
5 33 (8.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 28 (7.61%) C#
7 23 (6.25%) JavaScript
8 22 (5.98%) Bicep
9 19 (5.16%) TypeScript
10 12 (3.26%) T-SQL
11 9 (2.45%) Go
12 8 (2.17%) Java
13 5 (1.36%) R
14 2 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.54%) VBA
15 1 (0.27%) Bash
15 1 (0.27%) PHP
15 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (13.32%) Azure Certification
2 36 (9.78%) Degree
3 35 (9.51%) Security Cleared
4 27 (7.34%) SC Cleared
5 26 (7.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.35%) SnowPro
7 9 (2.45%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.82%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.27%) ICAEW
11 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (34.24%) Data Quality
2 35 (9.51%) GDPR
3 18 (4.89%) QA
4 5 (1.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (1.36%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.54%) IFRS
6 2 (0.54%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.54%) SLA
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 9 (2.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.27%) Ansible
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.27%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 178 (48.37%) Microsoft
2 177 (48.10%) Databricks
3 19 (5.16%) Adobe
4 9 (2.45%) SAP
5 8 (2.17%) Informatica
6 7 (1.90%) Foundry
6 7 (1.90%) Google
6 7 (1.90%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.90%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.90%) Talend
7 2 (0.54%) Oracle
8 1 (0.27%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.27%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.27%) Confluent
8 1 (0.27%) Infor
8 1 (0.27%) Meraki
8 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.27%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.27%) Teradata