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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 335 459
Rank change year-on-year -87 +124 -91
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 345 378 527
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.85% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 2.53% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 264 291 459
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,438 £52,500 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £66,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.75% +6.00% -4.58%
75th Percentile £91,250 £81,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +19.05% -8.23%

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 25,150 14,944 35,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.90% 33.53% 33.00%
Number of salaries quoted 16,275 10,305 27,369
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,498 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -9.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% -7.85%

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 17 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 17 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 -89 319 £80,000 +18.52% 153
UK excluding London -70 177 £62,500 - 164
London -61 138 £85,000 +9.68% 38
Work from Home +28 135 £82,500 +34.69% 154
North of England -15 57 £80,000 +33.33% 33
Midlands -20 41 £58,750 -9.62% 19
Yorkshire -21 39 £80,000 +33.33% 11
West Midlands -16 35 £58,750 +2.17% 10
East of England +1 34 £90,000 +69.01% 26
South East -58 19 £50,000 -23.08% 44
North West -5 16 £61,250 +4.26% 15
South West -49 16 £57,500 -25.81% 9
Scotland +9 9 £57,418 -13.33% 14
East Midlands -30 6 £57,500 -11.54% 9
Wales -40 3 £53,171 -3.33% 12
North East -49 2 - - 7

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 (10.43%) SharePoint
2 23 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.90%) Apache
5 7 (2.03%) Appian
6 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.87%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.58%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (1.74%) 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
3 1 (0.29%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 345 (100.00%) Azure
2 147 (42.61%) Power Platform
3 103 (29.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 69 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (13.04%) Azure Logic Apps
6 39 (11.30%) Power Automate
7 34 (9.86%) PowerApps
8 31 (8.99%) Microsoft 365
9 27 (7.83%) Microsoft Purview
10 21 (6.09%) Serverless
11 20 (5.80%) Azure Functions
12 19 (5.51%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.51%) AWS
12 19 (5.51%) OneDrive
13 18 (5.22%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (5.22%) dbt
13 18 (5.22%) Snowflake
14 17 (4.93%) GCP
14 17 (4.93%) GitHub
15 14 (4.06%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (40.58%) Power BI
2 91 (26.38%) Data Lake
2 91 (26.38%) Data Warehouse
3 90 (26.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 50 (14.49%) SQL Server
5 35 (10.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 34 (9.86%) Delta Lake
7 33 (9.57%) Spark SQL
8 25 (7.25%) Metadata
9 19 (5.51%) Relational Database
10 18 (5.22%) Tableau
11 15 (4.35%) Star Schema
12 14 (4.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 14 (4.06%) Big Data
13 12 (3.48%) Power Query
14 11 (3.19%) BigQuery
15 9 (2.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 8 (2.32%) Data Vault
17 7 (2.03%) Pinecone
17 7 (2.03%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 34 (9.86%) Git
2 9 (2.61%) MLflow
3 5 (1.45%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.16%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.87%) JIRA
5 3 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.58%) ERwin
6 2 (0.58%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.29%) GitLab
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
General
1 120 (34.78%) Finance
2 116 (33.62%) Social Skills
3 52 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
4 9 (2.61%) Public Sector
4 9 (2.61%) Retail
5 5 (1.45%) Law
5 5 (1.45%) Legal
6 4 (1.16%) Automotive
6 4 (1.16%) Manufacturing
6 4 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (0.87%) Advertising
7 3 (0.87%) Banking
7 3 (0.87%) Marketing
7 3 (0.87%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.58%) Local Government
9 1 (0.29%) Billing
9 1 (0.29%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 169 (48.99%) Data Engineer
2 76 (22.03%) Senior
3 67 (19.42%) Lead
4 49 (14.20%) Azure Engineer
5 44 (12.75%) Senior Data Engineer
6 42 (12.17%) Developer
7 39 (11.30%) Platform Engineer
8 37 (10.72%) Lead Data Engineer
9 32 (9.28%) Architect
9 32 (9.28%) Azure Data Engineer
10 27 (7.83%) Data Architect
11 18 (5.22%) Senior Developer
12 16 (4.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 15 (4.35%) Consultant
14 13 (3.77%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 13 (3.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.19%) Microsoft Engineer
16 10 (2.90%) Automation Engineer
17 9 (2.61%) Data Manager
18 8 (2.32%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (21.45%) PySpark
2 28 (8.12%) .NET
3 27 (7.83%) REST
4 24 (6.96%) JSON
5 22 (6.38%) .NET Core
5 22 (6.38%) CSS
5 22 (6.38%) HTML
6 19 (5.51%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.51%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.51%) SPFx
7 13 (3.77%) ARM Templates
8 11 (3.19%) Kafka
8 11 (3.19%) RESTful
9 8 (2.32%) FastAPI
9 8 (2.32%) NumPy
9 8 (2.32%) OAuth
9 8 (2.32%) Pandas
9 8 (2.32%) PyTorch
9 8 (2.32%) scikit-learn
9 8 (2.32%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.06%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.90%) Low-Code
5 9 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.03%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.74%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.74%) Replication
8 5 (1.45%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.16%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.16%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.87%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.87%) Wiki
11 2 (0.58%) Clustering
11 2 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (51.30%) Analytics
2 174 (50.43%) Data Modelling
3 161 (46.67%) Data Engineering
4 159 (46.09%) Business Intelligence
5 158 (45.80%) CI/CD
6 153 (44.35%) ETL
7 145 (42.03%) Data Pipeline
8 124 (35.94%) DevOps
9 87 (25.22%) AI
10 80 (23.19%) Data Governance
11 77 (22.32%) Decision-Making
12 72 (20.87%) Agile
13 68 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
14 66 (19.13%) Data Architecture
14 66 (19.13%) Machine Learning
15 59 (17.10%) Data Integration
16 51 (14.78%) Infrastructure as Code
17 44 (12.75%) Data Science
18 43 (12.46%) Technical Leadership
19 42 (12.17%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 262 (75.94%) SQL
2 174 (50.43%) Python
3 38 (11.01%) PowerShell
4 29 (8.41%) C#
5 26 (7.54%) JavaScript
6 23 (6.67%) Scala
7 19 (5.51%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (4.06%) T-SQL
10 11 (3.19%) Bicep
11 9 (2.61%) Java
11 9 (2.61%) R
12 2 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.58%) PHP
12 2 (0.58%) VBA
13 1 (0.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 40 (11.59%) Degree
2 26 (7.54%) Azure Certification
3 25 (7.25%) Security Cleared
4 20 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (5.51%) SC Cleared
6 12 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.16%) IIBA
7 4 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.16%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.16%) PMP
7 4 (1.16%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.29%) CISM
9 1 (0.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (32.17%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.83%) GDPR
3 10 (2.90%) QA
4 6 (1.74%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.45%) Solvency II
6 4 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.58%) GRC
7 2 (0.58%) IFRS
7 2 (0.58%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.58%) SLA
8 1 (0.29%) COBIT
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 14 (4.06%) Docker
2 5 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (12.75%) Terraform
2 18 (5.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 157 (45.51%) Databricks
2 138 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.51%) Adobe
4 15 (4.35%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.03%) Automation Anywhere
5 7 (2.03%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.03%) SAP
5 7 (2.03%) UiPath
6 6 (1.74%) Alteryx
6 6 (1.74%) Foundry
6 6 (1.74%) Google
7 4 (1.16%) Anaplan
8 2 (0.58%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.58%) Informatica
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle
8 2 (0.58%) Talend
8 2 (0.58%) Trapeze
9 1 (0.29%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.29%) IBM
9 1 (0.29%) Teradata