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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 355 389
Rank change year-on-year +6 +34 +18
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 370 368 500
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.78% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.61% 2.09% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 241 285 445
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,050 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% +10.83% -11.11%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £100,000 £92,300
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £51,333
% change year-on-year -7.69% +26.62% -14.45%

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 23,027 17,629 29,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.02% 37.22% 38.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12,374 10,912 23,816
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -26 292 £75,000 +15.38% 59
UK excluding London -8 188 £60,000 -7.69% 46
Work from Home +93 173 £75,000 +15.38% 34
London +31 151 £82,500 +10.00% 22
Midlands +16 52 £60,000 -4.00% 12
Scotland +30 50 £79,500 +2.58% 4
West Midlands +32 49 £60,000 -4.00% 7
North of England -31 30 £58,000 -10.77% 12
South East -59 26 £63,750 -5.56% 10
South West -4 14 £77,500 +24.00% 5
Yorkshire -46 12 £79,000 +31.67% 2
East of England +12 10 £62,500 -37.50% 2
North West -18 10 £59,000 -9.23% 8
North East -1 8 £51,000 -21.54% 2
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 -
East Midlands -26 3 £60,000 +36.36% 5
Wales -6 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 17 (4.59%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.24%) Appian
2 12 (3.24%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.16%) Apache
4 7 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.35%) SAS
6 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.27%) Confluence
7 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 36 (9.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.54%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.27%) Endur
3 1 (0.27%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 370 (100.00%) Azure
2 183 (49.46%) Power Platform
3 141 (38.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 87 (23.51%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (12.43%) GitHub
6 42 (11.35%) Snowflake
7 29 (7.84%) Power Automate
8 27 (7.30%) dbt
9 24 (6.49%) Azure Monitor
9 24 (6.49%) Microsoft Purview
10 23 (6.22%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (5.14%) PaaS
12 18 (4.86%) AWS
13 17 (4.59%) Anthropic Claude
13 17 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (4.59%) SaaS
14 16 (4.32%) Azure Service Bus
14 16 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
15 15 (4.05%) Azure Storage
16 14 (3.78%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.08%) DNS
2 2 (0.54%) Firewall
2 2 (0.54%) VPN
3 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (46.22%) Power BI
2 115 (31.08%) Data Lake
3 109 (29.46%) Data Warehouse
4 105 (28.38%) SQL Server
5 101 (27.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 45 (12.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 43 (11.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 25 (6.76%) Metadata
9 23 (6.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 21 (5.68%) Delta Lake
11 14 (3.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 13 (3.51%) Tableau
13 12 (3.24%) Pinecone
14 9 (2.43%) MySQL
14 9 (2.43%) Star Schema
15 8 (2.16%) Qlik Sense
15 8 (2.16%) Spark SQL
16 6 (1.62%) Big Data
16 6 (1.62%) Power Query
16 6 (1.62%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (8.92%) Git
2 12 (3.24%) MLflow
3 3 (0.81%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.27%) JIRA
5 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 192 (51.89%) Finance
2 132 (35.68%) Social Skills
3 71 (19.19%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (4.59%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.51%) Billing
6 13 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.97%) Law
9 10 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.43%) Automotive
11 5 (1.35%) Legal
11 5 (1.35%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.08%) Retail
13 3 (0.81%) Advertising
13 3 (0.81%) Banking
13 3 (0.81%) Marketing
14 2 (0.54%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.54%) Local Government
15 1 (0.27%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 149 (40.27%) Data Engineer
2 61 (16.49%) Senior
3 44 (11.89%) Azure Engineer
4 42 (11.35%) Senior Data Engineer
5 38 (10.27%) Lead
6 29 (7.84%) Developer
7 27 (7.30%) Azure Data Engineer
8 26 (7.03%) Architect
9 21 (5.68%) Analyst
9 21 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (5.41%) Data Architect
10 20 (5.41%) Lead Data Engineer
11 18 (4.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 14 (3.78%) Automation Engineer
13 13 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 12 (3.24%) Business Manager
14 12 (3.24%) Commercial Analyst
14 12 (3.24%) Data Manager
14 12 (3.24%) Insight Analyst
14 12 (3.24%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.97%) PySpark
2 28 (7.57%) RESTful
3 27 (7.30%) OAuth
4 22 (5.95%) REST
5 20 (5.41%) JSON
6 16 (4.32%) .NET
7 14 (3.78%) OAuth2
8 12 (3.24%) Faiss
8 12 (3.24%) FastAPI
8 12 (3.24%) Flask
8 12 (3.24%) Hugging Face
8 12 (3.24%) JWT
8 12 (3.24%) OpenAPI
8 12 (3.24%) Pandas
8 12 (3.24%) pytest
8 12 (3.24%) PyTorch
8 12 (3.24%) scikit-learn
8 12 (3.24%) Swagger
8 12 (3.24%) TensorFlow
8 12 (3.24%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 27 (7.30%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.30%) Low-Code
3 19 (5.14%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (5.14%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.16%) AI Agents
4 8 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 7 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.35%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.81%) Clustering
7 3 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (0.81%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.54%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.54%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.54%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.08%) VMS
1 4 (1.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (58.38%) Analytics
2 187 (50.54%) Data Modelling
3 182 (49.19%) Business Intelligence
4 174 (47.03%) ETL
5 172 (46.49%) Data Pipeline
6 158 (42.70%) CI/CD
7 155 (41.89%) Data Engineering
8 134 (36.22%) DevOps
9 112 (30.27%) AI
10 111 (30.00%) Agile
11 106 (28.65%) Decision-Making
12 90 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
13 77 (20.81%) Visualisation
14 71 (19.19%) Data Governance
15 62 (16.76%) Data Integration
16 60 (16.22%) Data Architecture
17 59 (15.95%) Infrastructure as Code
18 57 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
19 55 (14.86%) Asset Management
19 55 (14.86%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 271 (73.24%) SQL
2 183 (49.46%) Python
3 39 (10.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 32 (8.65%) T-SQL
5 24 (6.49%) PowerShell
6 21 (5.68%) Bicep
7 19 (5.14%) Scala
8 15 (4.05%) C#
9 9 (2.43%) Java
10 8 (2.16%) R
11 7 (1.89%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.81%) C++
13 2 (0.54%) PHP
14 1 (0.27%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (10.00%) Degree
2 16 (4.32%) Azure Certification
3 14 (3.78%) Security Cleared
4 12 (3.24%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 11 (2.97%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.16%) IIBA
7 8 (2.16%) PMI Certification
7 8 (2.16%) PMP
8 5 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.81%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.27%) CISM
11 1 (0.27%) CISSP
11 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.27%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (32.97%) Data Quality
2 33 (8.92%) GDPR
3 13 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 12 (3.24%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.81%) QA
7 2 (0.54%) GRC
8 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.27%) COBIT
8 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (5.68%) Docker
2 10 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (13.78%) Terraform
2 28 (7.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 148 (40.00%) Databricks
2 136 (36.76%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.86%) Ab Initio
4 16 (4.32%) OpenAI
5 12 (3.24%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (3.24%) UiPath
6 10 (2.70%) Alteryx
7 8 (2.16%) Anaplan
8 6 (1.62%) Talend
9 5 (1.35%) Informatica
10 4 (1.08%) IBM
10 4 (1.08%) RedGate
11 3 (0.81%) Oracle
11 3 (0.81%) SAP
12 2 (0.54%) Foundry
12 2 (0.54%) Google
12 2 (0.54%) Trapeze
13 1 (0.27%) FIS
13 1 (0.27%) Nintex
13 1 (0.27%) Salesforce