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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 358 426
Rank change year-on-year -101 +68 -82
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 343 368 464
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.74% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.23% 2.31% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 255 277 389
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £93,250 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £97,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -

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 27,968 15,935 26,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.35% 32.01% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 18,446 11,065 19,145
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,847 £40,000 £42,500
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 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%

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 11 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 11 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 -95 327 £80,000 +23.08% 126
UK excluding London -80 172 £62,500 +8.70% 88
London -65 151 £80,000 - 67
Work from Home -17 129 £82,500 +37.50% 73
North of England -6 66 £80,000 +33.33% 10
Yorkshire -2 41 £80,000 +33.33% 5
Midlands -58 31 £60,000 -4.00% 18
East of England -18 30 £90,000 +80.00% 2
West Midlands -45 25 £60,000 - 13
South East -79 23 £50,000 -14.89% 39
North West -8 20 £55,000 -4.35% 3
South West -58 18 £84,000 +8.39% 5
Wales -52 8 £53,171 -3.33% 8
East Midlands -25 6 - - 5
North East -56 5 £47,500 -9.52% 2
Scotland +3 2 £43,335 -12.45% 4

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 35 (10.20%) Apache Spark
2 27 (7.87%) SharePoint
3 15 (4.37%) Apache
4 11 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.87%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.58%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.58%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.29%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 343 (100.00%) Azure
2 159 (46.36%) Power Platform
3 111 (32.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 69 (20.12%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (13.70%) Azure Logic Apps
6 42 (12.24%) Microsoft Purview
7 30 (8.75%) PowerApps
8 28 (8.16%) Power Automate
9 25 (7.29%) Snowflake
10 23 (6.71%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (6.71%) Serverless
11 22 (6.41%) Azure Functions
12 19 (5.54%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.54%) OneDrive
13 18 (5.25%) AWS
14 17 (4.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 17 (4.96%) GCP
15 14 (4.08%) dbt
16 13 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
17 12 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (44.61%) Power BI
2 105 (30.61%) Data Warehouse
3 94 (27.41%) Data Lake
4 75 (21.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 48 (13.99%) Metadata
6 44 (12.83%) Delta Lake
6 44 (12.83%) SQL Server
7 32 (9.33%) Spark SQL
8 29 (8.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 25 (7.29%) Tableau
10 21 (6.12%) Relational Database
11 20 (5.83%) Star Schema
12 19 (5.54%) Big Data
13 17 (4.96%) Data Vault
14 15 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
14 15 (4.37%) Semantic Layer
15 13 (3.79%) BigQuery
16 11 (3.21%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 11 (3.21%) Power Query
17 10 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 33 (9.62%) Git
2 7 (2.04%) MLflow
3 6 (1.75%) GitLab
3 6 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.17%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.87%) JIRA
6 2 (0.58%) ERwin
6 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.58%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 110 (32.07%) Social Skills
2 93 (27.11%) Finance
3 58 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (3.50%) Legal
4 12 (3.50%) Retail
5 11 (3.21%) Law
6 10 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.04%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.75%) Marketing
9 4 (1.17%) Advertising
9 4 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.87%) Games
10 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.87%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.58%) Banking
11 2 (0.58%) Billing
11 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 173 (50.44%) Data Engineer
2 91 (26.53%) Senior
3 62 (18.08%) Lead
4 54 (15.74%) Senior Data Engineer
5 50 (14.58%) Architect
6 48 (13.99%) Data Architect
7 46 (13.41%) Azure Engineer
8 39 (11.37%) Developer
9 34 (9.91%) Azure Data Engineer
10 30 (8.75%) Lead Data Engineer
11 25 (7.29%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.54%) Senior Developer
13 16 (4.66%) Consultant
14 11 (3.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 9 (2.62%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.62%) Microsoft Engineer
16 8 (2.33%) Azure Architect
16 8 (2.33%) Senior Consultant
17 7 (2.04%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (22.45%) PySpark
2 23 (6.71%) JSON
3 22 (6.41%) .NET
3 22 (6.41%) Kafka
4 20 (5.83%) .NET Core
4 20 (5.83%) CSS
4 20 (5.83%) HTML
5 19 (5.54%) HTML5 Canvas
5 19 (5.54%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (5.54%) REST
5 19 (5.54%) SPFx
6 12 (3.50%) ARM Templates
7 6 (1.75%) Keycloak
7 6 (1.75%) SOAP
8 3 (0.87%) YAML
9 2 (0.58%) LangChain
9 2 (0.58%) Middleware
10 1 (0.29%) LangGraph
10 1 (0.29%) Model Context Protocol
10 1 (0.29%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.62%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.54%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.75%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.46%) Replication
8 4 (1.17%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.17%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.17%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.17%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.87%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.87%) Wiki
10 2 (0.58%) Clustering
10 2 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.58%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.58%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (56.27%) Analytics
2 191 (55.69%) Business Intelligence
3 179 (52.19%) Data Modelling
4 159 (46.36%) Data Engineering
5 156 (45.48%) CI/CD
6 155 (45.19%) Data Pipeline
6 155 (45.19%) ETL
7 133 (38.78%) DevOps
8 105 (30.61%) AI
9 94 (27.41%) Data Governance
10 86 (25.07%) Machine Learning
11 76 (22.16%) Data Architecture
12 75 (21.87%) Decision-Making
13 73 (21.28%) Agile
14 71 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
15 66 (19.24%) Technical Leadership
16 64 (18.66%) Data Integration
16 64 (18.66%) Data Science
17 55 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
17 55 (16.03%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 258 (75.22%) SQL
2 185 (53.94%) Python
3 35 (10.20%) PowerShell
4 33 (9.62%) Scala
5 24 (7.00%) C#
6 23 (6.71%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.54%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.25%) Bicep
8 18 (5.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (3.21%) T-SQL
10 9 (2.62%) Java
11 6 (1.75%) Go
11 6 (1.75%) R
12 2 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.58%) VBA
13 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (12.54%) Azure Certification
2 33 (9.62%) Degree
2 33 (9.62%) Security Cleared
3 26 (7.58%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.79%) SnowPro
7 6 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.87%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.29%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (32.36%) Data Quality
2 31 (9.04%) GDPR
3 16 (4.66%) QA
4 5 (1.46%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.46%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.58%) GRC
5 2 (0.58%) IFRS
5 2 (0.58%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.58%) SLA
6 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 8 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (13.70%) Terraform
2 10 (2.92%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) Ansible
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 172 (50.15%) Databricks
2 150 (43.73%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.54%) Adobe
4 9 (2.62%) SAP
5 8 (2.33%) Foundry
5 8 (2.33%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.04%) Google
6 7 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.46%) Informatica
8 3 (0.87%) Talend
9 2 (0.58%) Oracle
9 2 (0.58%) Trapeze
10 1 (0.29%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.29%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.29%) Confluent
10 1 (0.29%) Infor
10 1 (0.29%) Nintex
10 1 (0.29%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.29%) SolarWinds