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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 358 351
Rank change year-on-year +25 -7 +63
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 355 382 504
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.72% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 1.98% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 229 313 441
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.08% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +26.00% -16.67%

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 21,008 19,262 25,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.74% 36.23% 39.38%
Number of salaries quoted 11,455 11,321 20,754
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 +8 281 £72,500 +11.54% 211
UK excluding London +20 181 £60,000 -4.76% 202
Work from Home +105 171 £75,000 +15.38% 95
London +31 151 £85,000 +21.43% 38
Scotland +38 52 £71,250 +35.71% 5
Midlands +37 43 £60,000 -4.00% 43
West Midlands +39 41 £60,000 -7.69% 27
South East -34 31 £58,750 -9.62% 59
North of England -12 28 £57,500 -11.20% 38
South West +3 11 £73,250 +33.18% 24
North West -1 11 £57,500 +4.55% 21
Yorkshire -25 9 £79,000 +22.48% 12
East of England +28 8 £50,500 -36.88% 24
North East 0 8 £51,000 -21.54% 5
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 - 3
Wales +6 2 - - 9
East Midlands -6 2 £68,750 +56.25% 16

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 16 (4.51%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.82%) Appian
3 9 (2.54%) Apache
4 8 (2.25%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.41%) SAS
6 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 33 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.13%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) Endur
3 1 (0.28%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 355 (100.00%) Azure
2 175 (49.30%) Power Platform
3 141 (39.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 86 (24.23%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (14.08%) GitHub
6 38 (10.70%) Snowflake
7 33 (9.30%) Microsoft Purview
8 26 (7.32%) Azure Logic Apps
8 26 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
8 26 (7.32%) dbt
9 25 (7.04%) Power Automate
10 19 (5.35%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (4.79%) PaaS
12 16 (4.51%) AWS
12 16 (4.51%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (4.51%) SaaS
13 15 (4.23%) Anthropic Claude
13 15 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (3.94%) Azure Event Grid
14 14 (3.94%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.69%) DNS
2 4 (1.13%) Firewall
2 4 (1.13%) VPN
3 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (45.63%) Power BI
2 119 (33.52%) Data Lake
3 108 (30.42%) SQL Server
4 100 (28.17%) Data Warehouse
5 89 (25.07%) Azure SQL Database
6 46 (12.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 43 (12.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 30 (8.45%) Metadata
9 24 (6.76%) Delta Lake
10 16 (4.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 14 (3.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 13 (3.66%) Tableau
13 11 (3.10%) MySQL
14 10 (2.82%) Pinecone
15 8 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
16 6 (1.69%) Big Data
16 6 (1.69%) Data Mining
16 6 (1.69%) Qlik Sense
17 5 (1.41%) Relational Database
17 5 (1.41%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 37 (10.42%) Git
2 10 (2.82%) MLflow
3 5 (1.41%) JIRA
4 3 (0.85%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.85%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 184 (51.83%) Finance
2 132 (37.18%) Social Skills
3 69 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.35%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.66%) Billing
6 13 (3.66%) Law
6 13 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (3.38%) Automotive
7 12 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.25%) Retail
10 7 (1.97%) Banking
11 5 (1.41%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.13%) Advertising
12 4 (1.13%) Legal
12 4 (1.13%) Local Government
12 4 (1.13%) Marketing
13 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.28%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 140 (39.44%) Data Engineer
2 61 (17.18%) Senior
3 46 (12.96%) Azure Engineer
4 41 (11.55%) Senior Data Engineer
5 30 (8.45%) Developer
5 30 (8.45%) Lead
6 26 (7.32%) Architect
7 25 (7.04%) Azure Data Engineer
8 21 (5.92%) Data Architect
9 20 (5.63%) Analyst
10 17 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
11 16 (4.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 14 (3.94%) Lead Data Engineer
13 12 (3.38%) Business Manager
13 12 (3.38%) Commercial Analyst
13 12 (3.38%) Insight Analyst
13 12 (3.38%) Insight Manager
14 11 (3.10%) Applications Engineer
14 11 (3.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 11 (3.10%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (13.24%) PySpark
2 26 (7.32%) RESTful
3 25 (7.04%) OAuth
4 23 (6.48%) JSON
5 21 (5.92%) REST
6 17 (4.79%) .NET
7 14 (3.94%) OAuth2
8 11 (3.10%) Pandas
9 10 (2.82%) Faiss
9 10 (2.82%) FastAPI
9 10 (2.82%) Flask
9 10 (2.82%) Hugging Face
9 10 (2.82%) JWT
9 10 (2.82%) Kafka
9 10 (2.82%) OpenAPI
9 10 (2.82%) pytest
9 10 (2.82%) PyTorch
9 10 (2.82%) scikit-learn
9 10 (2.82%) Swagger
9 10 (2.82%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 24 (6.76%) Cloud Native
3 22 (6.20%) Low-Code
4 19 (5.35%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.25%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (1.97%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.41%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.13%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.13%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.85%) Clustering
10 3 (0.85%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.85%) Market Risk
10 3 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.56%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.69%) VMS
2 4 (1.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (54.65%) Analytics
2 179 (50.42%) ETL
3 172 (48.45%) Business Intelligence
4 165 (46.48%) Data Modelling
5 160 (45.07%) Data Pipeline
6 152 (42.82%) CI/CD
7 138 (38.87%) Data Engineering
8 126 (35.49%) DevOps
9 109 (30.70%) Agile
10 104 (29.30%) AI
11 89 (25.07%) Decision-Making
12 85 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
13 73 (20.56%) Data Governance
13 73 (20.56%) Visualisation
14 63 (17.75%) Data Architecture
15 60 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
16 59 (16.62%) Coaching
17 52 (14.65%) Data Integration
18 51 (14.37%) Continuous Improvement
19 50 (14.08%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 259 (72.96%) SQL
2 179 (50.42%) Python
3 39 (10.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 39 (10.99%) T-SQL
4 29 (8.17%) PowerShell
5 24 (6.76%) Bicep
6 20 (5.63%) Scala
7 16 (4.51%) C#
8 8 (2.25%) Java
8 8 (2.25%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.69%) R
10 2 (0.56%) C++
10 2 (0.56%) PHP
11 1 (0.28%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (10.42%) Degree
2 16 (4.51%) Azure Certification
2 16 (4.51%) Security Cleared
3 13 (3.66%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 11 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.25%) IIBA
6 8 (2.25%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.25%) PMP
6 8 (2.25%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.13%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.85%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (31.83%) Data Quality
2 36 (10.14%) GDPR
3 12 (3.38%) Actionable Recommendations
4 11 (3.10%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.85%) QA
7 2 (0.56%) SLA
8 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.28%) COBIT
8 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 22 (6.20%) Docker
2 10 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (14.93%) Terraform
2 29 (8.17%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 143 (40.28%) Microsoft
2 141 (39.72%) Databricks
3 18 (5.07%) Ab Initio
4 13 (3.66%) OpenAI
5 10 (2.82%) Automation Anywhere
5 10 (2.82%) UiPath
6 9 (2.54%) Alteryx
7 8 (2.25%) Anaplan
8 6 (1.69%) Talend
9 4 (1.13%) IBM
9 4 (1.13%) Informatica
9 4 (1.13%) RedGate
9 4 (1.13%) SAP
10 3 (0.85%) Oracle
11 1 (0.28%) FIS
11 1 (0.28%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.28%) Foundry
11 1 (0.28%) Google
11 1 (0.28%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.28%) Salesforce