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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 337 460
Rank change year-on-year -61 +123 -84
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 365 381 503
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.87% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 2.58% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 276 300 443
10th Percentile £47,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +20.00% -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 27,273 14,764 35,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.24% 33.64% 34.44%
Number of salaries quoted 15,708 10,157 26,958
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 1 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 1 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 -60 331 £75,000 +11.11% 110
UK excluding London -34 195 £62,500 -0.79% 75
Work from Home +68 152 £80,000 +28.00% 67
London -43 140 £83,500 +11.33% 54
North of England -18 55 £80,000 +33.33% 17
Midlands -30 45 £58,750 -9.62% 19
West Midlands -23 40 £58,750 -2.08% 14
Yorkshire -35 38 £80,000 +33.33% 5
East of England -4 34 £90,000 +71.43% 1
South East -51 29 £50,000 -23.08% 23
Scotland +8 16 £71,500 +58.89% 1
North West -11 16 £61,250 -2.00% 9
South West -50 16 £55,000 -29.03% 9
East Midlands -38 5 £57,500 -11.54% 5
Wales -36 2 £46,585 -15.30% 5
North East -45 1 - - 3

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 (9.86%) SharePoint
2 22 (6.03%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.74%) Apache
5 9 (2.47%) Appian
6 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.82%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.55%) Luigi
9 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.82%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.55%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.27%) Endur
4 1 (0.27%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.27%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 365 (100.00%) Azure
2 148 (40.55%) Power Platform
3 112 (30.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 74 (20.27%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (12.88%) Azure Logic Apps
6 41 (11.23%) Power Automate
7 34 (9.32%) PowerApps
8 33 (9.04%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (6.85%) GitHub
10 23 (6.30%) Azure Monitor
11 22 (6.03%) Serverless
11 22 (6.03%) Snowflake
12 21 (5.75%) AWS
12 21 (5.75%) dbt
13 20 (5.48%) Azure Functions
14 19 (5.21%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (5.21%) OneDrive
15 18 (4.93%) GCP
15 18 (4.93%) Microsoft Purview
16 15 (4.11%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (38.63%) Power BI
2 101 (27.67%) Data Warehouse
3 100 (27.40%) Data Lake
4 93 (25.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 52 (14.25%) SQL Server
6 35 (9.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 34 (9.32%) Delta Lake
8 33 (9.04%) Spark SQL
9 22 (6.03%) Metadata
10 18 (4.93%) Relational Database
11 17 (4.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 15 (4.11%) Tableau
13 13 (3.56%) Star Schema
14 11 (3.01%) Big Data
14 11 (3.01%) BigQuery
14 11 (3.01%) Power Query
15 9 (2.47%) Pinecone
15 9 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 7 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
17 6 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (9.59%) Git
2 11 (3.01%) MLflow
3 5 (1.37%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.10%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.27%) GitLab
6 1 (0.27%) JIRA
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
General
1 137 (37.53%) Finance
2 121 (33.15%) Social Skills
3 53 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.01%) Public Sector
5 10 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (2.74%) Retail
6 9 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.37%) Law
8 4 (1.10%) Automotive
8 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.82%) Advertising
9 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.82%) Legal
9 3 (0.82%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.55%) Banking
10 2 (0.55%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.55%) Local Government
10 2 (0.55%) Marketing
11 1 (0.27%) Billing
Job Titles
1 178 (48.77%) Data Engineer
2 78 (21.37%) Senior
3 67 (18.36%) Lead
4 53 (14.52%) Azure Engineer
5 45 (12.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 44 (12.05%) Developer
7 39 (10.68%) Platform Engineer
8 37 (10.14%) Lead Data Engineer
9 34 (9.32%) Azure Data Engineer
10 23 (6.30%) Architect
11 18 (4.93%) Consultant
11 18 (4.93%) Data Architect
11 18 (4.93%) Senior Developer
12 16 (4.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 13 (3.56%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 13 (3.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 12 (3.29%) Automation Engineer
15 11 (3.01%) Microsoft Engineer
16 10 (2.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 9 (2.47%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (20.27%) PySpark
2 31 (8.49%) .NET
3 30 (8.22%) REST
4 26 (7.12%) JSON
5 22 (6.03%) .NET Core
5 22 (6.03%) CSS
5 22 (6.03%) HTML
6 19 (5.21%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.21%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.21%) SPFx
7 15 (4.11%) RESTful
8 14 (3.84%) ARM Templates
9 12 (3.29%) OAuth
10 10 (2.74%) FastAPI
10 10 (2.74%) Kafka
10 10 (2.74%) NumPy
10 10 (2.74%) Pandas
10 10 (2.74%) PyTorch
10 10 (2.74%) scikit-learn
10 10 (2.74%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.22%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.29%) Low-Code
5 9 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.19%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (1.92%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.92%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.64%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.64%) Replication
9 4 (1.10%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.10%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.82%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.55%) Clustering
11 2 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (50.96%) Data Modelling
2 184 (50.41%) Analytics
3 172 (47.12%) ETL
4 167 (45.75%) CI/CD
5 165 (45.21%) Data Engineering
6 161 (44.11%) Data Pipeline
7 155 (42.47%) Business Intelligence
8 134 (36.71%) DevOps
9 82 (22.47%) AI
10 81 (22.19%) Agile
11 79 (21.64%) Data Governance
12 77 (21.10%) Decision-Making
13 72 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
14 64 (17.53%) Data Architecture
15 61 (16.71%) Machine Learning
16 57 (15.62%) Data Integration
17 55 (15.07%) Infrastructure as Code
18 45 (12.33%) Platform Engineering
19 42 (11.51%) Test Automation
20 41 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 279 (76.44%) SQL
2 186 (50.96%) Python
3 41 (11.23%) PowerShell
4 31 (8.49%) C#
5 26 (7.12%) JavaScript
6 23 (6.30%) Scala
7 19 (5.21%) T-SQL
7 19 (5.21%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (3.01%) Java
9 11 (3.01%) R
10 10 (2.74%) Bicep
11 3 (0.82%) VBA
12 2 (0.55%) C++
12 2 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (10.96%) Degree
2 24 (6.58%) Security Cleared
3 21 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (5.48%) Azure Certification
5 17 (4.66%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.37%) IIBA
7 5 (1.37%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.37%) PMP
8 4 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.55%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.27%) CISM
10 1 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (30.96%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.40%) GDPR
3 9 (2.47%) QA
4 8 (2.19%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.37%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.55%) GRC
6 2 (0.55%) IFRS
6 2 (0.55%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.55%) SLA
7 1 (0.27%) COBIT
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 16 (4.38%) Docker
2 7 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (12.88%) Terraform
2 20 (5.48%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.27%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 161 (44.11%) Databricks
2 145 (39.73%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.21%) Adobe
4 17 (4.66%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.47%) Automation Anywhere
5 9 (2.47%) UiPath
6 7 (1.92%) Alteryx
6 7 (1.92%) Foundry
6 7 (1.92%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.92%) SAP
7 6 (1.64%) Ab Initio
7 6 (1.64%) Google
8 5 (1.37%) Anaplan
9 3 (0.82%) IBM
10 2 (0.55%) Informatica
10 2 (0.55%) Oracle
10 2 (0.55%) Talend
10 2 (0.55%) Trapeze
11 1 (0.27%) Palantir
11 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow