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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 340 460
Rank change year-on-year -96 +120 -90
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 349 384 519
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.81% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 2.48% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 265 296 440
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +14.29% -7.50%

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 26,355 15,462 35,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.26% 32.72% 33.25%
Number of salaries quoted 17,172 10,773 26,925
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,125
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.69% -7.05%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -72 328 £80,000 +18.52% 101
UK excluding London -64 172 £62,500 +4.17% 79
London -55 148 £83,500 +4.38% 51
Work from Home +11 132 £82,500 +26.92% 65
North of England -5 62 £80,000 +33.33% 16
Yorkshire -6 40 £80,000 +33.33% 8
Midlands -26 39 £57,500 -11.54% 18
West Midlands -25 33 £57,500 - 15
East of England +1 32 £90,000 +69.01% 3
North West -4 20 £60,000 +4.35% 7
South East -71 19 £50,000 -23.08% 32
South West -60 16 £57,500 -25.81% 6
East Midlands -15 6 £57,500 -11.54% 3
Scotland +12 4 £43,335 +23.81% 1
Wales -39 4 £53,171 -3.33% 4
North East -50 2 - - 2

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 (10.32%) SharePoint
2 28 (8.02%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (3.15%) Apache
5 5 (1.43%) Appian
6 3 (0.86%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.57%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.57%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.29%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.29%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 349 (100.00%) Azure
2 151 (43.27%) Power Platform
3 107 (30.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 69 (19.77%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (13.47%) Azure Logic Apps
6 36 (10.32%) Power Automate
7 33 (9.46%) Microsoft Purview
7 33 (9.46%) PowerApps
8 31 (8.88%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (6.59%) Serverless
10 22 (6.30%) Azure Functions
11 20 (5.73%) AWS
12 19 (5.44%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.44%) OneDrive
13 18 (5.16%) GCP
13 18 (5.16%) Snowflake
14 16 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (4.30%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (4.30%) dbt
16 13 (3.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (41.26%) Power BI
2 96 (27.51%) Data Warehouse
3 91 (26.07%) Data Lake
4 87 (24.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 52 (14.90%) SQL Server
6 36 (10.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 35 (10.03%) Delta Lake
8 34 (9.74%) Spark SQL
9 31 (8.88%) Metadata
10 21 (6.02%) Tableau
11 19 (5.44%) Relational Database
12 17 (4.87%) Star Schema
13 15 (4.30%) Big Data
14 13 (3.72%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 13 (3.72%) Power Query
15 12 (3.44%) BigQuery
16 11 (3.15%) Data Vault
17 9 (2.58%) Semantic Layer
18 8 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
18 8 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (9.17%) Git
2 7 (2.01%) MLflow
3 5 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.43%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.86%) JIRA
4 3 (0.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.57%) ERwin
5 2 (0.57%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.29%) GitLab
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
General
1 118 (33.81%) Social Skills
2 109 (31.23%) Finance
3 55 (15.76%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.72%) Retail
5 12 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (3.15%) Law
7 10 (2.87%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.58%) Legal
9 8 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.15%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.86%) Advertising
11 3 (0.86%) Automotive
11 3 (0.86%) Games
11 3 (0.86%) Marketing
11 3 (0.86%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.57%) Banking
12 2 (0.57%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.57%) Local Government
13 1 (0.29%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 170 (48.71%) Data Engineer
2 83 (23.78%) Senior
3 68 (19.48%) Lead
4 47 (13.47%) Azure Engineer
5 46 (13.18%) Senior Data Engineer
6 43 (12.32%) Developer
7 40 (11.46%) Architect
8 36 (10.32%) Lead Data Engineer
8 36 (10.32%) Platform Engineer
9 35 (10.03%) Data Architect
10 33 (9.46%) Azure Data Engineer
11 18 (5.16%) Senior Developer
12 16 (4.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 15 (4.30%) Consultant
14 12 (3.44%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 12 (3.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.15%) Microsoft Engineer
16 9 (2.58%) Data Manager
17 8 (2.29%) Analyst
17 8 (2.29%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (20.92%) PySpark
2 25 (7.16%) .NET
3 24 (6.88%) JSON
3 24 (6.88%) REST
4 22 (6.30%) .NET Core
4 22 (6.30%) CSS
4 22 (6.30%) HTML
5 19 (5.44%) HTML5 Canvas
5 19 (5.44%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (5.44%) SPFx
6 13 (3.72%) Kafka
7 12 (3.44%) ARM Templates
8 8 (2.29%) RESTful
9 6 (1.72%) FastAPI
9 6 (1.72%) NumPy
9 6 (1.72%) Pandas
9 6 (1.72%) PyTorch
9 6 (1.72%) scikit-learn
9 6 (1.72%) SOAP
9 6 (1.72%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.31%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.87%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.29%) Low-Code
6 7 (2.01%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.01%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.72%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.72%) Replication
8 5 (1.43%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.15%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.15%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.86%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.86%) Wiki
11 2 (0.57%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (52.44%) Analytics
2 174 (49.86%) Data Modelling
3 169 (48.42%) Business Intelligence
4 161 (46.13%) Data Engineering
5 156 (44.70%) CI/CD
6 152 (43.55%) ETL
7 148 (42.41%) Data Pipeline
8 126 (36.10%) DevOps
9 95 (27.22%) AI
10 89 (25.50%) Data Governance
11 84 (24.07%) Decision-Making
12 76 (21.78%) Machine Learning
13 72 (20.63%) Agile
14 70 (20.06%) Problem-Solving
15 66 (18.91%) Data Architecture
16 59 (16.91%) Data Integration
17 53 (15.19%) Technical Leadership
18 50 (14.33%) Data Science
19 49 (14.04%) Infrastructure as Code
20 47 (13.47%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 265 (75.93%) SQL
2 175 (50.14%) Python
3 39 (11.17%) PowerShell
4 26 (7.45%) C#
5 24 (6.88%) Scala
6 23 (6.59%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.44%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 13 (3.72%) Bicep
9 13 (3.72%) T-SQL
10 9 (2.58%) Java
10 9 (2.58%) R
11 2 (0.57%) Go
11 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.57%) PHP
11 2 (0.57%) VBA
12 1 (0.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 39 (11.17%) Degree
2 32 (9.17%) Azure Certification
3 28 (8.02%) Security Cleared
4 21 (6.02%) SC Cleared
5 20 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.01%) SnowPro
8 5 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.86%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.86%) IIBA
10 3 (0.86%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.86%) PMP
11 2 (0.57%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.29%) CISM
12 1 (0.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (31.52%) Data Quality
2 30 (8.60%) GDPR
3 13 (3.72%) QA
4 5 (1.43%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.43%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.57%) GRC
6 2 (0.57%) IFRS
6 2 (0.57%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.57%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) COBIT
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 12 (3.44%) Docker
2 3 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (13.18%) Terraform
2 14 (4.01%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) Ansible
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 161 (46.13%) Databricks
2 142 (40.69%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.44%) Adobe
4 15 (4.30%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.29%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.29%) SAP
6 7 (2.01%) Foundry
7 6 (1.72%) Google
8 5 (1.43%) Alteryx
8 5 (1.43%) Automation Anywhere
8 5 (1.43%) UiPath
9 4 (1.15%) Informatica
10 3 (0.86%) Anaplan
10 3 (0.86%) Talend
11 2 (0.57%) Oracle
11 2 (0.57%) Trapeze
12 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.29%) Infor
12 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.29%) SolarWinds