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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 340 450
Rank change year-on-year -87 +110 -74
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 346 377 529
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.83% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 2.49% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 265 287 450
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £47,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £66,250 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +20.75% +3.92% -2.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £81,875
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% -7.78%

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 25,895 15,141 35,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.19% 33.24% 33.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,848 10,487 27,002
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% -9.20%
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 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -95 325 £80,000 +18.52% 67
UK excluding London -59 170 £62,500 +4.17% 61
London -56 146 £84,250 +8.71% 31
Work from Home +20 131 £82,500 +34.69% 44
North of England -1 60 £80,000 +33.33% 12
Yorkshire -10 40 £80,000 +33.33% 3
Midlands -32 39 £57,500 -6.12% 12
East of England -3 33 £90,000 +69.01% 5
West Midlands -16 33 £57,500 - 9
South East -71 19 £50,000 -23.08% 22
North West +4 18 £62,500 +13.64% 8
South West -50 15 £56,250 -27.42% 4
East Midlands -25 6 £57,500 -11.54% 3
Scotland +10 4 £43,335 +23.81% 3
Wales -48 3 £53,171 -3.33% 3
North East -43 2 - - 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 (10.40%) SharePoint
2 28 (8.09%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (3.18%) Apache
5 5 (1.45%) Appian
6 3 (0.87%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.58%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.58%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.29%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.29%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 346 (100.00%) Azure
2 148 (42.77%) Power Platform
3 107 (30.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 68 (19.65%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (13.29%) Azure Logic Apps
6 36 (10.40%) Power Automate
7 33 (9.54%) PowerApps
8 31 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
8 31 (8.96%) Microsoft Purview
9 23 (6.65%) Serverless
10 22 (6.36%) Azure Functions
11 20 (5.78%) AWS
12 19 (5.49%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.49%) OneDrive
13 18 (5.20%) GCP
14 17 (4.91%) Snowflake
15 15 (4.34%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (4.34%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (4.34%) GitHub
16 14 (4.05%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (40.75%) Power BI
2 95 (27.46%) Data Warehouse
3 90 (26.01%) Azure SQL Database
3 90 (26.01%) Data Lake
4 53 (15.32%) SQL Server
5 35 (10.12%) Delta Lake
5 35 (10.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 34 (9.83%) Spark SQL
7 29 (8.38%) Metadata
8 20 (5.78%) Tableau
9 19 (5.49%) Relational Database
10 17 (4.91%) Star Schema
11 15 (4.34%) Big Data
12 13 (3.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 13 (3.76%) Power Query
13 12 (3.47%) BigQuery
14 10 (2.89%) Data Vault
15 9 (2.60%) Semantic Layer
16 8 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (2.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 32 (9.25%) Git
2 7 (2.02%) MLflow
3 5 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.45%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.87%) JIRA
4 3 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.58%) ERwin
5 2 (0.58%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.29%) GitLab
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
General
1 115 (33.24%) Social Skills
2 111 (32.08%) Finance
3 55 (15.90%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.76%) Retail
5 11 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (2.89%) Law
7 9 (2.60%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.31%) Legal
9 4 (1.16%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.87%) Advertising
10 3 (0.87%) Automotive
10 3 (0.87%) Banking
10 3 (0.87%) Games
10 3 (0.87%) Marketing
10 3 (0.87%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.58%) Local Government
12 1 (0.29%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 170 (49.13%) Data Engineer
2 81 (23.41%) Senior
3 67 (19.36%) Lead
4 49 (14.16%) Azure Engineer
5 44 (12.72%) Senior Data Engineer
6 41 (11.85%) Developer
7 38 (10.98%) Architect
7 38 (10.98%) Platform Engineer
8 36 (10.40%) Lead Data Engineer
9 34 (9.83%) Azure Data Engineer
10 33 (9.54%) Data Architect
11 18 (5.20%) Senior Developer
12 15 (4.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 15 (4.34%) Consultant
13 12 (3.47%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 12 (3.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.18%) Microsoft Engineer
15 9 (2.60%) Data Manager
16 8 (2.31%) Analyst
16 8 (2.31%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (21.10%) PySpark
2 26 (7.51%) .NET
3 25 (7.23%) REST
4 24 (6.94%) JSON
5 22 (6.36%) .NET Core
5 22 (6.36%) CSS
5 22 (6.36%) HTML
6 19 (5.49%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.49%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.49%) SPFx
7 13 (3.76%) ARM Templates
8 12 (3.47%) Kafka
9 8 (2.31%) RESTful
10 6 (1.73%) FastAPI
10 6 (1.73%) NumPy
10 6 (1.73%) Pandas
10 6 (1.73%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.73%) scikit-learn
10 6 (1.73%) SOAP
10 6 (1.73%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.38%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.91%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.31%) Low-Code
7 7 (2.02%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (2.02%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.73%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.73%) Replication
9 5 (1.45%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.16%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.16%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.87%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.87%) Wiki
12 2 (0.58%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (51.73%) Analytics
2 172 (49.71%) Data Modelling
3 164 (47.40%) Business Intelligence
4 162 (46.82%) Data Engineering
5 156 (45.09%) CI/CD
6 151 (43.64%) ETL
7 148 (42.77%) Data Pipeline
8 124 (35.84%) DevOps
9 93 (26.88%) AI
10 86 (24.86%) Data Governance
11 82 (23.70%) Decision-Making
12 73 (21.10%) Machine Learning
13 70 (20.23%) Agile
13 70 (20.23%) Problem-Solving
14 65 (18.79%) Data Architecture
15 59 (17.05%) Data Integration
16 49 (14.16%) Data Science
16 49 (14.16%) Infrastructure as Code
16 49 (14.16%) Technical Leadership
17 45 (13.01%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 265 (76.59%) SQL
2 175 (50.58%) Python
3 39 (11.27%) PowerShell
4 27 (7.80%) C#
5 25 (7.23%) JavaScript
6 24 (6.94%) Scala
7 19 (5.49%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 13 (3.76%) T-SQL
10 12 (3.47%) Bicep
11 9 (2.60%) Java
11 9 (2.60%) R
12 2 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.58%) PHP
12 2 (0.58%) VBA
13 1 (0.29%) C++
13 1 (0.29%) Go
Qualifications
1 39 (11.27%) Degree
2 30 (8.67%) Azure Certification
3 27 (7.80%) Security Cleared
4 20 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (5.78%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.73%) SnowPro
7 4 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.87%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.87%) IIBA
8 3 (0.87%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.87%) PMP
9 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.29%) CISM
10 1 (0.29%) CISSP
10 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (31.21%) Data Quality
2 29 (8.38%) GDPR
3 12 (3.47%) QA
4 5 (1.45%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.45%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.58%) GRC
6 2 (0.58%) IFRS
6 2 (0.58%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.58%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) COBIT
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 12 (3.47%) Docker
2 3 (0.87%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (13.29%) Terraform
2 15 (4.34%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) Ansible
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 161 (46.53%) Databricks
2 142 (41.04%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.49%) Adobe
4 15 (4.34%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.31%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.31%) SAP
6 7 (2.02%) Foundry
7 6 (1.73%) Google
8 5 (1.45%) Alteryx
8 5 (1.45%) Automation Anywhere
8 5 (1.45%) UiPath
9 4 (1.16%) Informatica
10 3 (0.87%) Anaplan
10 3 (0.87%) Talend
11 2 (0.58%) Oracle
11 2 (0.58%) Trapeze
12 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.29%) Infor
12 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.29%) SolarWinds