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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 355 398
Rank change year-on-year +7 +43 +13
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 372 349 532
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.80% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 2.13% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 237 281 465
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £102,000 £100,000 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.77% +23.81% -12.50%

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 23,614 16,386 31,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.35% 37.37% 37.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,625 11,035 25,668
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 11 March 2026.

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 11 March 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 -46 298 £75,000 +11.11% 114
UK excluding London -14 190 £61,250 -5.77% 86
Work from Home +87 174 £75,000 +11.11% 65
London +19 152 £82,500 +6.45% 40
Midlands +1 51 £60,000 -4.00% 21
West Midlands +12 48 £60,000 -4.00% 14
Scotland +25 47 £79,500 +2.58% 3
North of England -41 31 £60,000 -7.69% 20
South East -60 27 £55,000 -21.43% 29
South West -15 15 £77,500 +21.57% 9
Yorkshire -47 14 £79,000 +31.67% 8
East of England +4 13 £68,750 -23.61% 3
North West -18 10 £59,000 -10.94% 11
North East -13 7 £51,000 -21.54% 1
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 -
East Midlands -34 3 £60,000 +19.40% 7
Wales -7 2 - - 4

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 17 (4.57%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.03%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.23%) Appian
4 8 (2.15%) Apache
5 7 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.08%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) Confluence
7 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 36 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.54%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.27%) Endur
3 1 (0.27%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 372 (100.00%) Azure
2 184 (49.46%) Power Platform
3 143 (38.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 86 (23.12%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (11.29%) GitHub
5 42 (11.29%) Snowflake
6 31 (8.33%) Power Automate
7 26 (6.99%) dbt
8 23 (6.18%) Azure Monitor
9 22 (5.91%) Azure Logic Apps
9 22 (5.91%) Microsoft Purview
10 19 (5.11%) PaaS
11 18 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
12 17 (4.57%) Anthropic Claude
12 17 (4.57%) AWS
13 16 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (4.30%) SaaS
14 15 (4.03%) Azure AI
14 15 (4.03%) Azure Service Bus
14 15 (4.03%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.54%) DNS
2 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (46.77%) Power BI
2 111 (29.84%) Data Lake
3 103 (27.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 103 (27.69%) Data Warehouse
4 99 (26.61%) SQL Server
5 44 (11.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 41 (11.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (6.72%) Metadata
8 22 (5.91%) Delta Lake
9 21 (5.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 15 (4.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 13 (3.49%) Tableau
12 12 (3.23%) Pinecone
13 11 (2.96%) Star Schema
14 10 (2.69%) Spark SQL
15 8 (2.15%) MySQL
15 8 (2.15%) Relational Database
16 7 (1.88%) Power Query
16 7 (1.88%) Qlik Sense
17 6 (1.61%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 34 (9.14%) Git
2 12 (3.23%) MLflow
3 3 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.27%) JIRA
5 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 187 (50.27%) Finance
2 128 (34.41%) Social Skills
3 67 (18.01%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (4.30%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.49%) Billing
6 13 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.15%) Automotive
9 8 (2.15%) Law
10 5 (1.34%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.08%) Retail
12 3 (0.81%) Banking
12 3 (0.81%) Legal
13 2 (0.54%) Advertising
13 2 (0.54%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.54%) Local Government
13 2 (0.54%) Marketing
14 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 154 (41.40%) Data Engineer
2 60 (16.13%) Senior
3 42 (11.29%) Azure Engineer
4 41 (11.02%) Senior Data Engineer
5 40 (10.75%) Lead
6 31 (8.33%) Developer
7 27 (7.26%) Azure Data Engineer
8 23 (6.18%) Platform Engineer
9 22 (5.91%) Architect
9 22 (5.91%) Lead Data Engineer
10 21 (5.65%) Analyst
11 18 (4.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 16 (4.30%) Data Architect
13 14 (3.76%) Automation Engineer
14 13 (3.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 12 (3.23%) Business Manager
15 12 (3.23%) Commercial Analyst
15 12 (3.23%) Insight Analyst
15 12 (3.23%) Insight Manager
16 11 (2.96%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (13.44%) PySpark
2 27 (7.26%) RESTful
3 26 (6.99%) OAuth
4 23 (6.18%) REST
5 20 (5.38%) JSON
6 18 (4.84%) .NET
7 13 (3.49%) OAuth2
8 12 (3.23%) Faiss
8 12 (3.23%) FastAPI
8 12 (3.23%) Flask
8 12 (3.23%) Hugging Face
8 12 (3.23%) JWT
8 12 (3.23%) OpenAPI
8 12 (3.23%) Pandas
8 12 (3.23%) pytest
8 12 (3.23%) PyTorch
8 12 (3.23%) scikit-learn
8 12 (3.23%) Swagger
8 12 (3.23%) TensorFlow
8 12 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.53%) Analytical Mindset
2 27 (7.26%) Cloud Native
3 26 (6.99%) Low-Code
4 19 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.15%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.15%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.88%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.61%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (0.81%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.54%) Clustering
9 2 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.54%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.54%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.08%) Windows
2 2 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (58.06%) Analytics
2 188 (50.54%) Data Modelling
3 183 (49.19%) Business Intelligence
4 173 (46.51%) Data Pipeline
5 172 (46.24%) ETL
6 162 (43.55%) CI/CD
7 157 (42.20%) Data Engineering
8 136 (36.56%) DevOps
9 113 (30.38%) AI
10 106 (28.49%) Agile
11 103 (27.69%) Decision-Making
12 90 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
13 75 (20.16%) Visualisation
14 67 (18.01%) Data Governance
15 59 (15.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 58 (15.59%) Data Architecture
16 58 (15.59%) Data Integration
17 57 (15.32%) Infrastructure as Code
18 53 (14.25%) Asset Management
19 51 (13.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 277 (74.46%) SQL
2 184 (49.46%) Python
3 40 (10.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 30 (8.06%) T-SQL
5 25 (6.72%) PowerShell
6 19 (5.11%) Bicep
6 19 (5.11%) Scala
7 17 (4.57%) C#
8 8 (2.15%) Java
8 8 (2.15%) JavaScript
8 8 (2.15%) R
9 3 (0.81%) C++
10 2 (0.54%) PHP
10 2 (0.54%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.27%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 38 (10.22%) Degree
2 18 (4.84%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.57%) Azure Certification
4 15 (4.03%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.23%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 9 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.15%) IIBA
7 8 (2.15%) PMI Certification
7 8 (2.15%) PMP
8 2 (0.54%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.27%) CISM
9 1 (0.27%) CISSP
9 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.27%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 29 (7.80%) GDPR
3 13 (3.49%) Accessibility
4 12 (3.23%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.81%) QA
7 2 (0.54%) GRC
8 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.27%) COBIT
8 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (5.11%) Docker
2 9 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (13.17%) Terraform
2 26 (6.99%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 147 (39.52%) Databricks
2 136 (36.56%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.84%) OpenAI
4 17 (4.57%) Ab Initio
5 12 (3.23%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (3.23%) UiPath
6 10 (2.69%) Alteryx
7 8 (2.15%) Anaplan
8 5 (1.34%) Talend
9 4 (1.08%) Foundry
9 4 (1.08%) IBM
9 4 (1.08%) Informatica
10 3 (0.81%) Oracle
10 3 (0.81%) RedGate
11 2 (0.54%) Adobe
11 2 (0.54%) Google
11 2 (0.54%) SAP
11 2 (0.54%) Trapeze
12 1 (0.27%) Palantir
12 1 (0.27%) Salesforce