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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 378 416
Rank change year-on-year -87 +38 -79
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 351 357 467
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.72% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 2.24% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 259 272 394
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.77% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,675 £98,875
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 27,792 15,944 26,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.85% 31.95% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 18,451 10,976 18,640
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £40,000 £43,528
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
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 20 August 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 20 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
England -93 334 £80,000 +23.08% 99
UK excluding London -79 174 £62,500 +13.64% 72
London -64 158 £80,000 - 55
Work from Home -3 132 £80,000 +33.33% 47
North of England +6 66 £74,000 +28.70% 11
Yorkshire -1 40 £81,250 +35.42% 4
Midlands -34 31 £60,000 -4.00% 14
East of England -12 28 £90,000 +80.00% 1
South East -70 26 £50,500 -8.18% 37
West Midlands -35 25 £60,000 - 10
North West -7 20 £55,000 -2.22% 4
South West -57 18 £85,000 +13.33% 3
Wales -55 9 £53,171 -3.33% 5
East Midlands -27 6 - - 4
North East -57 6 £47,500 -9.52% 3
Scotland -7 3 £49,168 -0.67% 1

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 (10.26%) Apache Spark
2 26 (7.41%) SharePoint
3 16 (4.56%) Apache
4 11 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.57%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 351 (100.00%) Azure
2 160 (45.58%) Power Platform
3 117 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 77 (21.94%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (13.39%) Azure Logic Apps
6 43 (12.25%) Microsoft Purview
7 28 (7.98%) PowerApps
8 27 (7.69%) Power Automate
9 24 (6.84%) Snowflake
10 23 (6.55%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (6.55%) Serverless
11 22 (6.27%) Azure Functions
12 19 (5.41%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 19 (5.41%) OneDrive
13 17 (4.84%) GCP
14 16 (4.56%) AWS
15 14 (3.99%) dbt
16 13 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
17 12 (3.42%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (44.16%) Power BI
2 102 (29.06%) Data Warehouse
3 95 (27.07%) Data Lake
4 75 (21.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 51 (14.53%) Metadata
6 47 (13.39%) Delta Lake
7 45 (12.82%) SQL Server
8 31 (8.83%) Spark SQL
9 27 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 25 (7.12%) Tableau
11 22 (6.27%) Star Schema
12 20 (5.70%) Relational Database
13 19 (5.41%) Big Data
14 18 (5.13%) Data Vault
15 16 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
16 15 (4.27%) Semantic Layer
17 13 (3.70%) BigQuery
18 11 (3.13%) NoSQL
19 10 (2.85%) Amazon Redshift
19 10 (2.85%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 37 (10.54%) Git
2 7 (1.99%) Jenkins
2 7 (1.99%) MLflow
3 6 (1.71%) GitLab
4 4 (1.14%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.85%) JIRA
6 2 (0.57%) ERwin
6 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.57%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 115 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 92 (26.21%) Finance
3 57 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.70%) Retail
5 12 (3.42%) Legal
6 10 (2.85%) Law
7 9 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.28%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.71%) Marketing
10 4 (1.14%) Advertising
10 4 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.85%) Games
11 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.85%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.57%) Banking
12 2 (0.57%) Billing
12 2 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.28%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 174 (49.57%) Data Engineer
2 95 (27.07%) Senior
3 62 (17.66%) Lead
4 55 (15.67%) Senior Data Engineer
5 51 (14.53%) Architect
5 51 (14.53%) Azure Engineer
6 49 (13.96%) Data Architect
7 40 (11.40%) Developer
8 37 (10.54%) Azure Data Engineer
9 29 (8.26%) Lead Data Engineer
10 24 (6.84%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (5.41%) Senior Developer
12 16 (4.56%) Consultant
13 11 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 10 (2.85%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 10 (2.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.56%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 9 (2.56%) Microsoft Engineer
15 9 (2.56%) Operations Engineer
16 8 (2.28%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (22.51%) PySpark
2 49 (13.96%) Terraform
3 24 (6.84%) Kafka
4 23 (6.55%) JSON
5 22 (6.27%) .NET
6 20 (5.70%) .NET Core
6 20 (5.70%) CSS
6 20 (5.70%) HTML
7 19 (5.41%) HTML5 Canvas
7 19 (5.41%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (5.41%) REST
7 19 (5.41%) SPFx
8 11 (3.13%) ARM Templates
9 7 (1.99%) Keycloak
10 6 (1.71%) SOAP
11 3 (0.85%) LangChain
11 3 (0.85%) YAML
12 2 (0.57%) FastAPI
12 2 (0.57%) Middleware
13 1 (0.28%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.12%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.98%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.28%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.99%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.42%) Replication
9 4 (1.14%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.14%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.14%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.14%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.57%) Clustering
10 2 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.57%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.57%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (55.27%) Analytics
1 194 (55.27%) Business Intelligence
2 181 (51.57%) Data Modelling
3 164 (46.72%) Data Engineering
4 162 (46.15%) CI/CD
5 161 (45.87%) ETL
6 159 (45.30%) Data Pipeline
7 139 (39.60%) DevOps
8 103 (29.34%) AI
9 95 (27.07%) Data Governance
10 88 (25.07%) Machine Learning
11 80 (22.79%) Data Architecture
12 77 (21.94%) Decision-Making
13 74 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
14 72 (20.51%) Agile
15 69 (19.66%) Data Science
15 69 (19.66%) Technical Leadership
16 62 (17.66%) Data Integration
17 56 (15.95%) Continuous Improvement
18 55 (15.67%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 266 (75.78%) SQL
2 196 (55.84%) Python
3 36 (10.26%) PowerShell
3 36 (10.26%) Scala
4 26 (7.41%) C#
5 23 (6.55%) JavaScript
6 21 (5.98%) Bicep
7 19 (5.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (5.41%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.70%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.28%) Java
10 7 (1.99%) Go
11 5 (1.42%) R
12 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.57%) VBA
13 1 (0.28%) Bash
13 1 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 46 (13.11%) Azure Certification
2 35 (9.97%) Security Cleared
3 34 (9.69%) Degree
4 27 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 22 (6.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.99%) SnowPro
8 7 (1.99%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.85%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.28%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (33.62%) Data Quality
2 32 (9.12%) GDPR
3 18 (5.13%) QA
4 5 (1.42%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.57%) IFRS
6 2 (0.57%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.57%) SLA
7 1 (0.28%) GRC
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 9 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.28%) Ansible
2 1 (0.28%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 175 (49.86%) Databricks
2 158 (45.01%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.41%) Adobe
4 9 (2.56%) SAP
5 8 (2.28%) Foundry
5 8 (2.28%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.99%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.71%) Google
8 5 (1.42%) Informatica
9 4 (1.14%) Talend
10 2 (0.57%) Oracle
11 1 (0.28%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.28%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.28%) Confluent
11 1 (0.28%) Infor
11 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.28%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.28%) Teradata
11 1 (0.28%) Trapeze