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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 380 419
Rank change year-on-year -88 +39 -81
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 363 349 471
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.70% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 2.19% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 269 271 395
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,750 £44,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.77% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £83,125 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £98,500
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 27,640 15,966 26,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.26% 31.94% 31.55%
Number of salaries quoted 18,542 10,900 18,355
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,936 £39,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -76 344 £80,000 +23.08% 196
UK excluding London -72 180 £62,500 +13.64% 105
London -46 164 £80,000 - 129
Work from Home -10 139 £80,000 +33.33% 86
North of England -5 66 £74,000 +33.98% 21
Yorkshire -9 40 £81,250 +35.42% 7
Midlands -35 33 £60,000 -2.04% 16
South East -73 31 £57,500 +4.55% 47
East of England -16 27 £90,000 +80.00% 4
West Midlands -33 27 £60,000 - 10
North West -13 20 £55,000 - 9
South West -60 18 £85,000 +13.33% 6
Wales -64 10 £52,835 -3.94% 5
East Midlands -29 6 - - 6
North East -52 6 £47,500 -9.52% 5
Scotland +1 3 £49,168 -0.67% 6

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 (9.92%) Apache Spark
2 26 (7.16%) SharePoint
3 17 (4.68%) Apache
4 11 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.55%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.55%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 363 (100.00%) Azure
2 171 (47.11%) Power Platform
3 124 (34.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 83 (22.87%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (12.95%) Azure Logic Apps
6 45 (12.40%) Microsoft Purview
7 27 (7.44%) PowerApps
8 26 (7.16%) Power Automate
9 24 (6.61%) Snowflake
10 23 (6.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 23 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (6.34%) Serverless
11 21 (5.79%) Azure Functions
12 19 (5.23%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.23%) OneDrive
13 16 (4.41%) GCP
14 15 (4.13%) AWS
15 14 (3.86%) dbt
16 13 (3.58%) Azure Machine Learning
16 13 (3.58%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (45.73%) Power BI
2 112 (30.85%) Data Warehouse
3 94 (25.90%) Data Lake
4 76 (20.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 57 (15.70%) Metadata
6 50 (13.77%) Delta Lake
7 47 (12.95%) SQL Server
8 30 (8.26%) Spark SQL
9 29 (7.99%) Star Schema
10 28 (7.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 25 (6.89%) Tableau
12 20 (5.51%) Relational Database
13 19 (5.23%) Data Vault
14 18 (4.96%) Big Data
14 18 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
15 15 (4.13%) Semantic Layer
16 14 (3.86%) NoSQL
17 13 (3.58%) BigQuery
18 11 (3.03%) Power Query
18 11 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 41 (11.29%) Git
2 7 (1.93%) Jenkins
2 7 (1.93%) MLflow
3 6 (1.65%) GitLab
4 3 (0.83%) JIRA
4 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.55%) ERwin
5 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.55%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.28%) kappa
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 123 (33.88%) Social Skills
2 96 (26.45%) Finance
3 57 (15.70%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (4.68%) Legal
5 13 (3.58%) Retail
6 12 (3.31%) Law
7 9 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.20%) Public Sector
9 7 (1.93%) Marketing
10 4 (1.10%) Advertising
10 4 (1.10%) Banking
10 4 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.83%) Games
11 3 (0.83%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.55%) Billing
12 2 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.55%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 175 (48.21%) Data Engineer
2 102 (28.10%) Senior
3 64 (17.63%) Lead
4 58 (15.98%) Senior Data Engineer
5 55 (15.15%) Azure Engineer
6 51 (14.05%) Architect
7 48 (13.22%) Data Architect
8 44 (12.12%) Developer
9 39 (10.74%) Azure Data Engineer
10 30 (8.26%) Lead Data Engineer
11 23 (6.34%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.23%) Senior Developer
13 18 (4.96%) Consultant
14 15 (4.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 10 (2.75%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 10 (2.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 10 (2.75%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 10 (2.75%) Operations Engineer
15 10 (2.75%) Senior Consultant
16 9 (2.48%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (23.42%) PySpark
2 50 (13.77%) Terraform
3 26 (7.16%) Kafka
4 25 (6.89%) JSON
4 25 (6.89%) REST
5 22 (6.06%) .NET
6 20 (5.51%) .NET Core
6 20 (5.51%) CSS
6 20 (5.51%) HTML
7 19 (5.23%) HTML5 Canvas
7 19 (5.23%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (5.23%) SPFx
8 11 (3.03%) ARM Templates
9 8 (2.20%) Keycloak
10 6 (1.65%) SOAP
11 3 (0.83%) LangChain
11 3 (0.83%) XML
11 3 (0.83%) YAML
12 2 (0.55%) FastAPI
12 2 (0.55%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.89%) Product Ownership
3 10 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.20%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.93%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.10%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.10%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.10%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.10%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.10%) Reinsurance
7 4 (1.10%) Replication
8 2 (0.55%) Clustering
8 2 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.55%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.55%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.65%) Windows
2 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (56.75%) Business Intelligence
2 198 (54.55%) Analytics
3 185 (50.96%) Data Modelling
4 172 (47.38%) ETL
5 171 (47.11%) CI/CD
6 170 (46.83%) Data Engineering
7 159 (43.80%) Data Pipeline
8 152 (41.87%) DevOps
9 104 (28.65%) AI
10 94 (25.90%) Data Governance
11 91 (25.07%) Machine Learning
12 85 (23.42%) Data Architecture
13 77 (21.21%) Decision-Making
13 77 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
14 72 (19.83%) Agile
14 72 (19.83%) Data Science
14 72 (19.83%) Technical Leadership
15 63 (17.36%) Data Integration
16 58 (15.98%) Data Strategy
17 56 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 274 (75.48%) SQL
2 202 (55.65%) Python
3 38 (10.47%) Scala
4 37 (10.19%) PowerShell
5 29 (7.99%) C#
6 28 (7.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 23 (6.34%) JavaScript
8 22 (6.06%) Bicep
9 19 (5.23%) TypeScript
10 14 (3.86%) T-SQL
11 8 (2.20%) Go
11 8 (2.20%) Java
12 5 (1.38%) R
13 2 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.55%) VBA
14 1 (0.28%) Bash
14 1 (0.28%) PHP
14 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (13.50%) Azure Certification
2 37 (10.19%) Degree
3 36 (9.92%) Security Cleared
4 28 (7.71%) SC Cleared
5 26 (7.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (4.13%) SnowPro
8 8 (2.20%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.93%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.83%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.28%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (34.44%) Data Quality
2 35 (9.64%) GDPR
3 17 (4.68%) QA
4 5 (1.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (1.38%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.55%) IFRS
6 2 (0.55%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.55%) SLA
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 9 (2.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.28%) Ansible
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.28%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 176 (48.48%) Databricks
2 173 (47.66%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.23%) Adobe
4 9 (2.48%) SAP
5 8 (2.20%) Foundry
5 8 (2.20%) Informatica
5 8 (2.20%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.93%) Google
6 7 (1.93%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.93%) Talend
7 2 (0.55%) Oracle
8 1 (0.28%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.28%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.28%) Confluent
8 1 (0.28%) Infor
8 1 (0.28%) Meraki
8 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.28%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.28%) Teradata