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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 363 327
Rank change year-on-year +18 -36 +88
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 336 406 469
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.73% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.64% 2.03% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 216 334 406
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,063 £80,000 £80,938
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -8.33%

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 20,541 19,986 21,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.64% 36.17% 41.54%
Number of salaries quoted 11,223 11,856 17,554
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +4.57% -7.31%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £101,250 £100,000
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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025. 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 -19 266 £70,000 +7.69% 525
UK excluding London +31 176 £60,000 -4.00% 454
Work from Home +90 163 £70,596 +8.61% 276
London +16 141 £83,500 +15.17% 111
Scotland +59 52 £71,250 +35.71% 16
Midlands +33 36 £60,000 -4.00% 97
West Midlands +35 35 £60,000 -7.69% 61
South East -25 34 £55,000 -15.38% 114
North of England -4 29 £55,233 -1.81% 102
North West +7 11 £57,500 +4.55% 55
South West +15 10 £77,500 +40.91% 43
North East +8 9 £51,750 -13.75% 8
Yorkshire -7 9 £79,000 +40.44% 39
East of England +26 7 £52,750 -34.06% 68
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 - 7
Wales +1 2 - - 13
East Midlands -16 1 £82,500 +65.00% 29

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 15 (4.46%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.38%) Apache
3 7 (2.08%) Appian
4 5 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.49%) SAS
5 3 (0.89%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.30%) Confluence
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 33 (9.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.19%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Endur
3 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 336 (100.00%) Azure
2 176 (52.38%) Power Platform
3 135 (40.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 82 (24.40%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (14.29%) GitHub
6 39 (11.61%) Snowflake
7 28 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 28 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (8.04%) dbt
9 22 (6.55%) Azure Monitor
9 22 (6.55%) Power Automate
10 20 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (4.76%) AWS
11 16 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
12 14 (4.17%) Azure Event Grid
12 14 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
12 14 (4.17%) SaaS
13 13 (3.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 11 (3.27%) Matillion
14 11 (3.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.49%) DNS
1 5 (1.49%) Firewall
2 4 (1.19%) VPN
3 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (48.21%) Power BI
2 108 (32.14%) Data Lake
3 105 (31.25%) SQL Server
4 98 (29.17%) Data Warehouse
5 81 (24.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 49 (14.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 45 (13.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 29 (8.63%) Metadata
9 18 (5.36%) Delta Lake
10 16 (4.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 15 (4.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 12 (3.57%) MySQL
12 12 (3.57%) Tableau
13 9 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (2.08%) Pinecone
14 7 (2.08%) Relational Database
15 6 (1.79%) Big Data
15 6 (1.79%) Data Mining
15 6 (1.79%) Qlik Sense
15 6 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (9.82%) Git
2 7 (2.08%) MLflow
3 5 (1.49%) JIRA
4 4 (1.19%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.89%) Jenkins
General
1 164 (48.81%) Finance
2 126 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 69 (20.54%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.36%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.87%) Billing
6 13 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (3.57%) Law
8 10 (2.98%) Automotive
8 10 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.08%) Retail
11 6 (1.79%) Banking
12 5 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.19%) Advertising
13 4 (1.19%) Legal
13 4 (1.19%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.19%) Marketing
14 2 (0.60%) Local Government
15 1 (0.30%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 130 (38.69%) Data Engineer
2 59 (17.56%) Senior
3 41 (12.20%) Azure Engineer
4 38 (11.31%) Senior Data Engineer
5 27 (8.04%) Developer
6 25 (7.44%) Lead
7 22 (6.55%) Architect
7 22 (6.55%) Azure Data Engineer
8 20 (5.95%) Analyst
9 19 (5.65%) Data Architect
10 12 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 12 (3.57%) Business Manager
10 12 (3.57%) Commercial Analyst
10 12 (3.57%) Consultant
10 12 (3.57%) Insight Analyst
10 12 (3.57%) Insight Manager
11 11 (3.27%) Applications Engineer
11 11 (3.27%) Data Manager
11 11 (3.27%) Lead Data Engineer
12 10 (2.98%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (13.10%) PySpark
2 24 (7.14%) JSON
3 22 (6.55%) OAuth
3 22 (6.55%) RESTful
4 21 (6.25%) .NET
5 20 (5.95%) REST
6 14 (4.17%) OAuth2
7 11 (3.27%) Pandas
8 9 (2.68%) Kafka
8 9 (2.68%) XML
9 8 (2.38%) YAML
10 7 (2.08%) .NET Framework
10 7 (2.08%) Django
10 7 (2.08%) Flask
10 7 (2.08%) NumPy
10 7 (2.08%) pytest
10 7 (2.08%) scikit-learn
10 7 (2.08%) Swagger
10 7 (2.08%) TensorFlow
10 7 (2.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.04%) Analytical Mindset
2 24 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 19 (5.65%) Low-Code
3 19 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.49%) AI Agents
6 5 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.49%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.19%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.19%) Clustering
7 4 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.19%) Reference Data
8 3 (0.89%) Credit Risk
8 3 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.89%) Market Risk
8 3 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.60%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.79%) VMS
2 4 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (54.46%) Analytics
2 170 (50.60%) ETL
3 169 (50.30%) Business Intelligence
4 152 (45.24%) Data Modelling
5 143 (42.56%) Data Pipeline
6 133 (39.58%) CI/CD
7 127 (37.80%) Data Engineering
8 118 (35.12%) DevOps
9 109 (32.44%) Agile
10 93 (27.68%) AI
11 89 (26.49%) Problem-Solving
12 83 (24.70%) Decision-Making
13 70 (20.83%) Visualisation
14 66 (19.64%) Data Governance
15 61 (18.15%) Coaching
16 55 (16.37%) Data Architecture
17 52 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
18 51 (15.18%) Data Integration
19 50 (14.88%) Infrastructure as Code
20 49 (14.58%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 250 (74.40%) SQL
2 170 (50.60%) Python
3 44 (13.10%) T-SQL
4 40 (11.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 28 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 26 (7.74%) Bicep
7 20 (5.95%) C#
8 19 (5.65%) Scala
9 8 (2.38%) Java
9 8 (2.38%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.49%) R
11 2 (0.60%) C++
11 2 (0.60%) PHP
12 1 (0.30%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.30%) Bash
12 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (8.93%) Degree
2 15 (4.46%) Azure Certification
3 13 (3.87%) Security Cleared
4 12 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 11 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.49%) IIBA
7 5 (1.49%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.49%) PMP
8 4 (1.19%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.19%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.30%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (27.98%) Data Quality
2 36 (10.71%) GDPR
3 12 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
4 11 (3.27%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.89%) QA
7 2 (0.60%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
System Software
1 20 (5.95%) Docker
2 8 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (13.99%) Terraform
2 26 (7.74%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 143 (42.56%) Microsoft
2 133 (39.58%) Databricks
3 18 (5.36%) Ab Initio
4 8 (2.38%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.08%) Alteryx
5 7 (2.08%) Automation Anywhere
5 7 (2.08%) Talend
5 7 (2.08%) UiPath
6 5 (1.49%) Anaplan
6 5 (1.49%) Informatica
6 5 (1.49%) RedGate
7 4 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (1.19%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.19%) IBM
7 4 (1.19%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.19%) SAP
8 3 (0.89%) Oracle
9 1 (0.30%) Google
9 1 (0.30%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.30%) VMware