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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 349 473
Rank change year-on-year -84 +124 -102
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 341 370 518
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.82% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 2.46% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 263 283 445
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,125 £52,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +4.00% -4.58%
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,600 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £61,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.04% +16.67% -8.70%

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 25,444 15,013 35,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.03% 33.45% 32.91%
Number of salaries quoted 16,496 10,369 27,538
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,466 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.95%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
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 20 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 20 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 -98 319 £80,000 +18.52% 55
UK excluding London -54 168 £62,500 +2.04% 50
London -47 142 £85,000 +9.68% 30
Work from Home +20 131 £82,500 +32.00% 33
North of England -4 56 £80,000 +33.33% 9
Yorkshire -16 39 £80,000 +33.33% 2
Midlands -28 39 £57,500 -11.54% 9
East of England +2 34 £90,000 +69.01% 3
West Midlands -19 33 £57,500 - 7
South East -66 19 £50,000 -23.08% 20
North West +2 15 £62,500 +13.64% 6
South West -58 15 £56,250 -27.42% 2
East Midlands -33 6 £57,500 -11.54% 2
Scotland +9 4 £43,335 +23.81% 3
Wales -43 3 £53,171 -3.33% 3
North East -51 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 (10.56%) SharePoint
2 25 (7.33%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (3.23%) Apache
5 6 (1.76%) Appian
6 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.88%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.59%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.59%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.29%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.29%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 341 (100.00%) Azure
2 148 (43.40%) Power Platform
3 105 (30.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 67 (19.65%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (13.49%) Azure Logic Apps
6 38 (11.14%) Power Automate
7 34 (9.97%) PowerApps
8 32 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (8.21%) Microsoft Purview
10 22 (6.45%) Serverless
11 21 (6.16%) Azure Functions
12 20 (5.87%) AWS
13 19 (5.57%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 19 (5.57%) OneDrive
14 18 (5.28%) GCP
15 16 (4.69%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (4.40%) dbt
16 15 (4.40%) GitHub
16 15 (4.40%) Microsoft Copilot
16 15 (4.40%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (41.35%) Power BI
2 93 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
3 92 (26.98%) Data Lake
4 89 (26.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 49 (14.37%) SQL Server
6 35 (10.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 34 (9.97%) Spark SQL
8 33 (9.68%) Delta Lake
9 25 (7.33%) Metadata
10 20 (5.87%) Tableau
11 19 (5.57%) Relational Database
12 16 (4.69%) Star Schema
13 15 (4.40%) Big Data
14 14 (4.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 12 (3.52%) Power Query
16 11 (3.23%) BigQuery
17 9 (2.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 8 (2.35%) Data Vault
18 8 (2.35%) Semantic Layer
19 7 (2.05%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (9.68%) Git
2 8 (2.35%) MLflow
3 5 (1.47%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.47%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.88%) JIRA
4 3 (0.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.59%) ERwin
5 2 (0.59%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.29%) GitLab
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
General
1 116 (34.02%) Finance
2 115 (33.72%) Social Skills
3 52 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (2.64%) Public Sector
5 9 (2.64%) Retail
6 8 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.05%) Legal
8 6 (1.76%) Law
9 4 (1.17%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.88%) Advertising
10 3 (0.88%) Automotive
10 3 (0.88%) Banking
10 3 (0.88%) Marketing
10 3 (0.88%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.59%) Local Government
12 1 (0.29%) Billing
12 1 (0.29%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 169 (49.56%) Data Engineer
2 76 (22.29%) Senior
3 66 (19.35%) Lead
4 48 (14.08%) Azure Engineer
5 43 (12.61%) Senior Data Engineer
6 41 (12.02%) Developer
7 39 (11.44%) Platform Engineer
8 36 (10.56%) Lead Data Engineer
9 34 (9.97%) Architect
10 32 (9.38%) Azure Data Engineer
11 29 (8.50%) Data Architect
12 18 (5.28%) Senior Developer
13 15 (4.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 15 (4.40%) Consultant
14 13 (3.81%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 13 (3.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.23%) Microsoft Engineer
16 10 (2.93%) Data Manager
17 9 (2.64%) Automation Engineer
18 8 (2.35%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (21.11%) PySpark
2 27 (7.92%) .NET
3 26 (7.62%) REST
4 23 (6.74%) JSON
5 22 (6.45%) .NET Core
5 22 (6.45%) CSS
5 22 (6.45%) HTML
6 19 (5.57%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.57%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.57%) SPFx
7 13 (3.81%) ARM Templates
8 12 (3.52%) Kafka
9 9 (2.64%) RESTful
10 7 (2.05%) FastAPI
10 7 (2.05%) NumPy
10 7 (2.05%) Pandas
10 7 (2.05%) PyTorch
10 7 (2.05%) scikit-learn
10 7 (2.05%) TensorFlow
11 6 (1.76%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.21%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.69%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (2.64%) Low-Code
5 7 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (2.05%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.76%) AI Agents
6 6 (1.76%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.76%) Replication
7 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.17%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.17%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.88%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.88%) Wiki
10 2 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (51.32%) Analytics
2 170 (49.85%) Data Modelling
3 161 (47.21%) Business Intelligence
4 160 (46.92%) Data Engineering
5 152 (44.57%) CI/CD
6 148 (43.40%) ETL
7 144 (42.23%) Data Pipeline
8 120 (35.19%) DevOps
9 90 (26.39%) AI
10 83 (24.34%) Data Governance
11 78 (22.87%) Decision-Making
12 70 (20.53%) Agile
13 68 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
14 67 (19.65%) Machine Learning
15 64 (18.77%) Data Architecture
16 58 (17.01%) Data Integration
17 48 (14.08%) Infrastructure as Code
18 45 (13.20%) Data Science
18 45 (13.20%) Technical Leadership
19 44 (12.90%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 259 (75.95%) SQL
2 171 (50.15%) Python
3 38 (11.14%) PowerShell
4 28 (8.21%) C#
5 26 (7.62%) JavaScript
6 23 (6.74%) Scala
7 19 (5.57%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 13 (3.81%) T-SQL
10 10 (2.93%) Bicep
11 9 (2.64%) Java
11 9 (2.64%) R
12 2 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.59%) PHP
12 2 (0.59%) VBA
13 1 (0.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 40 (11.73%) Degree
2 27 (7.92%) Azure Certification
3 26 (7.62%) Security Cleared
4 20 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (5.57%) SC Cleared
6 12 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.17%) IIBA
7 4 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.17%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.17%) PMP
7 4 (1.17%) SnowPro
8 3 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.29%) CISM
10 1 (0.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (31.67%) Data Quality
2 28 (8.21%) GDPR
3 9 (2.64%) QA
4 5 (1.47%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.47%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.59%) GRC
6 2 (0.59%) IFRS
6 2 (0.59%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.59%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) COBIT
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 13 (3.81%) Docker
2 4 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (12.61%) Terraform
2 17 (4.99%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) Ansible
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 159 (46.63%) Databricks
2 139 (40.76%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.57%) Adobe
4 15 (4.40%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.35%) SAP
6 7 (2.05%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.76%) Alteryx
7 6 (1.76%) Automation Anywhere
7 6 (1.76%) Foundry
7 6 (1.76%) Google
7 6 (1.76%) UiPath
8 4 (1.17%) Anaplan
8 4 (1.17%) Informatica
9 3 (0.88%) Talend
10 2 (0.59%) Oracle
10 2 (0.59%) Trapeze
11 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.29%) Infor
11 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.29%) SolarWinds