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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 330 446
Rank change year-on-year -32 +116 -56
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 412 374 510
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.89% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.49% 2.48% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 276 295 452
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £48,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% -6.72%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year -3.85% +23.22% -9.05%

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 27,647 15,082 34,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.08% 35.89% 35.98%
Number of salaries quoted 14,314 11,045 26,801
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 26 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Data Factory in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Top 17 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 26 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
England -58 346 £75,000 +11.11% 117
UK excluding London -45 228 £62,500 -3.85% 113
Work from Home +72 188 £78,750 +21.15% 55
London -27 150 £81,250 +1.56% 29
Midlands -35 55 £60,000 -4.00% 22
North of England -45 51 £71,250 +9.62% 27
West Midlands -22 50 £60,000 +4.35% 12
Scotland +13 39 £71,500 -26.67% 4
South East -75 33 £50,000 -28.57% 28
Yorkshire -46 31 £80,000 +33.33% 12
East of England -21 29 £90,000 +75.61% 14
South West -44 14 £57,500 -8.00% 17
North West -31 13 £63,750 -5.56% 13
North East -38 7 £51,000 -34.19% 3
East Midlands -58 5 £57,500 -11.54% 10
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 - 3
Wales -26 4 £46,585 -3.95% 3

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 32 (7.77%) SharePoint
2 20 (4.85%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.91%) Appian
4 10 (2.43%) Apache
4 10 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.24%) Confluence
6 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 33 (8.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Markit EDM
2 3 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.49%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.24%) Endur
4 1 (0.24%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.24%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 412 (100.00%) Azure
2 192 (46.60%) Power Platform
3 148 (35.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 89 (21.60%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (10.92%) Power Automate
6 44 (10.68%) Azure Logic Apps
7 40 (9.71%) GitHub
8 36 (8.74%) Snowflake
9 32 (7.77%) Microsoft 365
10 28 (6.80%) PowerApps
11 26 (6.31%) dbt
12 25 (6.07%) Azure Monitor
13 20 (4.85%) AWS
13 20 (4.85%) Microsoft Purview
13 20 (4.85%) PaaS
14 18 (4.37%) GCP
14 18 (4.37%) Serverless
15 17 (4.13%) Azure AI
16 16 (3.88%) Anthropic Claude
16 16 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.49%) DNS
2 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (43.45%) Power BI
2 114 (27.67%) Data Lake
3 113 (27.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 107 (25.97%) Data Warehouse
5 90 (21.84%) SQL Server
6 40 (9.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 32 (7.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 30 (7.28%) Delta Lake
9 26 (6.31%) Spark SQL
10 21 (5.10%) Metadata
11 20 (4.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 15 (3.64%) Relational Database
13 13 (3.16%) Tableau
14 12 (2.91%) Pinecone
15 11 (2.67%) Star Schema
16 9 (2.18%) MySQL
16 9 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
17 7 (1.70%) Big Data
18 6 (1.46%) BigQuery
19 5 (1.21%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 38 (9.22%) Git
2 13 (3.16%) MLflow
3 3 (0.73%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.73%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.49%) JIRA
4 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.24%) GitLab
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 186 (45.15%) Finance
2 150 (36.41%) Social Skills
3 76 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (3.40%) Public Sector
5 13 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (2.91%) Billing
7 8 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.46%) Automotive
8 6 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.46%) Law
9 5 (1.21%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.21%) Retail
10 4 (0.97%) Advertising
11 3 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.49%) Banking
12 2 (0.49%) Legal
12 2 (0.49%) Local Government
12 2 (0.49%) Marketing
12 2 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 175 (42.48%) Data Engineer
2 83 (20.15%) Senior
3 56 (13.59%) Azure Engineer
3 56 (13.59%) Lead
4 47 (11.41%) Senior Data Engineer
5 43 (10.44%) Developer
6 34 (8.25%) Azure Data Engineer
7 32 (7.77%) Lead Data Engineer
7 32 (7.77%) Platform Engineer
8 20 (4.85%) Analyst
8 20 (4.85%) Architect
9 18 (4.37%) Consultant
10 17 (4.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 16 (3.88%) Data Architect
11 16 (3.88%) Senior Developer
12 15 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
13 12 (2.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 12 (2.91%) Commercial Analyst
13 12 (2.91%) Insight Manager
13 12 (2.91%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (16.50%) PySpark
2 32 (7.77%) JSON
3 31 (7.52%) .NET
4 30 (7.28%) REST
5 24 (5.83%) RESTful
6 22 (5.34%) OAuth
7 20 (4.85%) .NET Core
8 19 (4.61%) CSS
8 19 (4.61%) HTML
9 17 (4.13%) HTML5 Canvas
10 16 (3.88%) Microsoft Graph
10 16 (3.88%) SPFx
11 13 (3.16%) NumPy
11 13 (3.16%) Pandas
11 13 (3.16%) PyTorch
11 13 (3.16%) scikit-learn
11 13 (3.16%) TensorFlow
12 12 (2.91%) Flask
12 12 (2.91%) pytest
12 12 (2.91%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.25%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 22 (5.34%) Low-Code
4 19 (4.61%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (3.88%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.18%) AI Agents
7 9 (2.18%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (1.94%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.70%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.46%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.21%) Replication
12 3 (0.73%) Clustering
12 3 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.73%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.73%) Reinsurance
13 2 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.97%) Windows
2 2 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (54.13%) Analytics
2 206 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 190 (46.12%) Business Intelligence
4 188 (45.63%) ETL
5 185 (44.90%) Data Pipeline
6 176 (42.72%) CI/CD
7 170 (41.26%) Data Engineering
8 148 (35.92%) DevOps
9 111 (26.94%) AI
10 107 (25.97%) Decision-Making
11 104 (25.24%) Problem-Solving
12 100 (24.27%) Agile
13 78 (18.93%) Data Governance
14 76 (18.45%) Visualisation
15 67 (16.26%) Data Architecture
16 65 (15.78%) Continuous Improvement
16 65 (15.78%) Data Integration
17 62 (15.05%) Infrastructure as Code
18 60 (14.56%) Machine Learning
19 56 (13.59%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 317 (76.94%) SQL
2 197 (47.82%) Python
3 45 (10.92%) PowerShell
4 39 (9.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 30 (7.28%) C#
6 25 (6.07%) T-SQL
7 23 (5.58%) JavaScript
8 19 (4.61%) Scala
9 16 (3.88%) Bicep
9 16 (3.88%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.18%) Java
11 8 (1.94%) R
12 3 (0.73%) C++
12 3 (0.73%) PHP
13 1 (0.24%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.24%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 49 (11.89%) Degree
2 23 (5.58%) Security Cleared
3 19 (4.61%) Azure Certification
4 17 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (4.13%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.91%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 8 (1.94%) IIBA
6 8 (1.94%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.94%) PMP
7 7 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.49%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.24%) CISM
9 1 (0.24%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (31.07%) Data Quality
2 31 (7.52%) GDPR
3 12 (2.91%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.91%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (1.46%) QA
5 5 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.97%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.49%) GRC
7 2 (0.49%) SLA
8 1 (0.24%) COBIT
8 1 (0.24%) IFRS
8 1 (0.24%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 19 (4.61%) Docker
2 8 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (12.86%) Terraform
2 23 (5.58%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.24%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 169 (41.02%) Databricks
2 154 (37.38%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.61%) OpenAI
4 16 (3.88%) Adobe
5 13 (3.16%) Ab Initio
6 12 (2.91%) Automation Anywhere
6 12 (2.91%) UiPath
7 10 (2.43%) Alteryx
8 8 (1.94%) Anaplan
9 6 (1.46%) Foundry
9 6 (1.46%) Talend
10 5 (1.21%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.97%) Google
11 4 (0.97%) IBM
11 4 (0.97%) Informatica
12 3 (0.73%) Oracle
12 3 (0.73%) RedGate
12 3 (0.73%) SAP
13 2 (0.49%) Trapeze
14 1 (0.24%) Infor