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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 383 395
Rank change year-on-year -66 +12 -39
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 393 326 459
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.66% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.41% 2.08% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 279 263 365
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,800 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -

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 27,851 15,675 24,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.99% 31.71% 31.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,800 10,624 15,726
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,375 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -68 370 £72,500 +11.54% 262
UK excluding London -90 190 £62,500 +13.64% 146
London -42 186 £80,000 - 138
Work from Home -19 137 £80,000 +33.33% 104
North of England -25 66 £62,500 +13.64% 36
South East -55 40 £62,500 +13.64% 52
Yorkshire -13 36 £82,500 +37.50% 10
Midlands -51 36 £85,000 +38.78% 27
West Midlands -50 28 £85,000 +41.67% 17
North West -4 24 £55,000 - 21
East of England -20 23 £90,000 +80.00% 9
South West -58 22 £85,000 +20.14% 12
Wales -65 10 £53,171 -3.33% 3
East Midlands -35 8 - - 10
North East -65 8 £52,500 - 5
Scotland -3 4 £49,168 -0.67% 9

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 44 (11.20%) Apache Spark
2 21 (5.34%) SharePoint
3 20 (5.09%) Apache
4 14 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.51%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.51%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.76%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.25%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 393 (100.00%) Azure
2 184 (46.82%) Power Platform
3 145 (36.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 99 (25.19%) Azure DevOps
5 71 (18.07%) Azure Databricks
6 50 (12.72%) Microsoft Purview
7 48 (12.21%) Azure Logic Apps
8 28 (7.12%) Serverless
9 27 (6.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 27 (6.87%) Snowflake
10 24 (6.11%) AWS
10 24 (6.11%) Azure Functions
11 23 (5.85%) PowerApps
12 22 (5.60%) Power Automate
13 21 (5.34%) dbt
14 19 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
15 18 (4.58%) GCP
16 15 (3.82%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 15 (3.82%) OneDrive
17 14 (3.56%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.76%) Firewall
2 2 (0.51%) DNS
3 1 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (46.06%) Power BI
2 133 (33.84%) Data Warehouse
3 105 (26.72%) Data Lake
4 92 (23.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 69 (17.56%) Metadata
6 54 (13.74%) Delta Lake
7 48 (12.21%) SQL Server
8 35 (8.91%) Star Schema
9 29 (7.38%) Tableau
10 28 (7.12%) Spark SQL
11 26 (6.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 24 (6.11%) NoSQL
13 22 (5.60%) Big Data
14 21 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
15 20 (5.09%) Data Vault
16 19 (4.83%) Relational Database
17 18 (4.58%) Semantic Layer
18 16 (4.07%) Amazon Redshift
19 14 (3.56%) BigQuery
19 14 (3.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 53 (13.49%) Git
2 13 (3.31%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.78%) GitLab
3 7 (1.78%) MLflow
4 3 (0.76%) JIRA
4 3 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.51%) ERwin
5 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.51%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (0.25%) kappa
6 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 133 (33.84%) Social Skills
2 111 (28.24%) Finance
3 69 (17.56%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.09%) Legal
5 15 (3.82%) Retail
6 13 (3.31%) Law
7 11 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.04%) Public Sector
9 7 (1.78%) Banking
9 7 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.53%) Marketing
11 5 (1.27%) Billing
12 4 (1.02%) Advertising
12 4 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.76%) Games
14 2 (0.51%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 195 (49.62%) Data Engineer
2 117 (29.77%) Senior
3 73 (18.58%) Senior Data Engineer
4 67 (17.05%) Azure Engineer
5 63 (16.03%) Lead
6 53 (13.49%) Architect
7 48 (12.21%) Data Architect
8 46 (11.70%) Azure Data Engineer
9 43 (10.94%) Developer
10 29 (7.38%) Lead Data Engineer
11 24 (6.11%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (5.09%) Databricks Engineer
13 19 (4.83%) Consultant
14 18 (4.58%) Databricks Data Engineer
15 17 (4.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 15 (3.82%) Senior Developer
17 14 (3.56%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 14 (3.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 13 (3.31%) Analyst
19 12 (3.05%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (24.17%) PySpark
2 57 (14.50%) Terraform
3 36 (9.16%) Kafka
4 27 (6.87%) JSON
5 23 (5.85%) REST
6 16 (4.07%) .NET
7 15 (3.82%) .NET Core
7 15 (3.82%) CSS
7 15 (3.82%) HTML
7 15 (3.82%) HTML5 Canvas
7 15 (3.82%) Microsoft Graph
7 15 (3.82%) SPFx
8 11 (2.80%) Keycloak
9 10 (2.54%) ARM Templates
10 6 (1.53%) Apache Avro
11 5 (1.27%) SOAP
11 5 (1.27%) XML
11 5 (1.27%) YAML
12 4 (1.02%) MDX
13 3 (0.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.92%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.63%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.27%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.02%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.02%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.02%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.76%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.51%) PKI
12 2 (0.51%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.51%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.05%) Windows
2 3 (0.76%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.51%) Linux
4 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (56.74%) Business Intelligence
2 220 (55.98%) Analytics
3 206 (52.42%) Data Modelling
4 195 (49.62%) CI/CD
5 187 (47.58%) ETL
6 186 (47.33%) Data Engineering
7 181 (46.06%) Data Pipeline
8 178 (45.29%) DevOps
9 105 (26.72%) AI
10 99 (25.19%) Data Governance
11 97 (24.68%) Data Architecture
12 96 (24.43%) Agile
12 96 (24.43%) Lakehouse
13 90 (22.90%) Problem-Solving
14 84 (21.37%) Machine Learning
15 83 (21.12%) Decision-Making
16 75 (19.08%) Data Integration
16 75 (19.08%) Data Science
17 74 (18.83%) Technical Leadership
18 63 (16.03%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 298 (75.83%) SQL
2 225 (57.25%) Python
3 46 (11.70%) Scala
4 37 (9.41%) PowerShell
5 35 (8.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 27 (6.87%) C#
7 26 (6.62%) Bicep
8 22 (5.60%) JavaScript
9 15 (3.82%) TypeScript
10 14 (3.56%) Java
10 14 (3.56%) T-SQL
11 11 (2.80%) Go
12 8 (2.04%) R
13 4 (1.02%) Bash
14 2 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.51%) VBA
15 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 57 (14.50%) Azure Certification
2 46 (11.70%) Security Cleared
3 40 (10.18%) Degree
3 40 (10.18%) SC Cleared
4 26 (6.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (4.07%) SnowPro
6 11 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.78%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.76%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.51%) CISSP
10 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.25%) ICAEW
11 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (37.91%) Data Quality
2 35 (8.91%) GDPR
3 18 (4.58%) QA
4 10 (2.54%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.76%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.51%) IFRS
7 2 (0.51%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (4.83%) Docker
2 2 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (5.85%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.27%) Ansible
3 3 (0.76%) Grafana
3 3 (0.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 187 (47.58%) Microsoft
2 181 (46.06%) Databricks
3 15 (3.82%) Adobe
4 13 (3.31%) Informatica
5 12 (3.05%) Talend
6 11 (2.80%) SAP
7 7 (1.78%) Google
8 6 (1.53%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.27%) Foundry
9 5 (1.27%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.25%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.25%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.25%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.25%) Confluent
10 1 (0.25%) Infor
10 1 (0.25%) Meraki
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle
10 1 (0.25%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.25%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.25%) Teradata