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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 349 397
Rank change year-on-year -12 +48 +13
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 366 351 533
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.80% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 2.14% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 230 283 466
10th Percentile £46,235 £46,900 £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 £88,438 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £101,375 £100,000 £93,125
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 23,560 16,416 31,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.36% 37.38% 37.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,567 11,036 25,658
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,906 £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 10 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 10 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 -24 291 £75,000 +11.11% 120
UK excluding London -18 187 £61,250 -5.77% 97
Work from Home +99 172 £75,000 +12.78% 76
London +21 149 £81,250 +4.84% 38
Midlands 0 50 £60,000 -4.00% 23
Scotland +24 48 £79,500 +2.58% 5
West Midlands +16 47 £60,000 -4.00% 15
North of England -45 30 £59,000 -9.23% 20
South East -68 26 £60,000 -14.29% 34
South West -25 15 £77,500 +21.57% 10
Yorkshire -56 13 £79,000 +31.67% 8
East of England +8 12 £62,500 -30.56% 3
North West -20 10 £59,000 -10.94% 11
North East -18 7 £51,000 -21.54% 1
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 -
East Midlands -27 3 £60,000 +57.89% 8
Wales -8 2 - - 5

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 (4.64%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.83%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.28%) Appian
4 8 (2.19%) Apache
5 7 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.09%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) Confluence
7 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 36 (9.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.09%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.55%) 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
1 366 (100.00%) Azure
2 181 (49.45%) Power Platform
3 140 (38.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 86 (23.50%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (11.75%) GitHub
6 42 (11.48%) Snowflake
7 30 (8.20%) Power Automate
8 26 (7.10%) dbt
9 24 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
10 22 (6.01%) Azure Logic Apps
11 21 (5.74%) Microsoft Purview
12 19 (5.19%) PaaS
13 17 (4.64%) Anthropic Claude
13 17 (4.64%) AWS
13 17 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (4.37%) Azure Service Bus
14 16 (4.37%) SaaS
15 15 (4.10%) Azure Storage
16 14 (3.83%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.55%) DNS
2 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (46.72%) Power BI
2 110 (30.05%) Data Lake
3 103 (28.14%) Data Warehouse
4 101 (27.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 99 (27.05%) SQL Server
6 44 (12.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 41 (11.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 25 (6.83%) Metadata
9 22 (6.01%) Delta Lake
10 21 (5.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 15 (4.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 13 (3.55%) Tableau
13 12 (3.28%) Pinecone
14 11 (3.01%) Star Schema
15 8 (2.19%) MySQL
15 8 (2.19%) Relational Database
15 8 (2.19%) Spark SQL
16 7 (1.91%) Power Query
16 7 (1.91%) Qlik Sense
17 6 (1.64%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 33 (9.02%) Git
2 12 (3.28%) MLflow
3 3 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.55%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.27%) JIRA
5 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 188 (51.37%) Finance
2 125 (34.15%) Social Skills
3 67 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (4.37%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.55%) Billing
6 13 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.19%) Automotive
9 8 (2.19%) Law
10 5 (1.37%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.09%) Retail
12 3 (0.82%) Banking
12 3 (0.82%) Legal
13 2 (0.55%) Advertising
13 2 (0.55%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.55%) Local Government
13 2 (0.55%) Marketing
14 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 150 (40.98%) Data Engineer
2 57 (15.57%) Senior
3 41 (11.20%) Azure Engineer
4 40 (10.93%) Senior Data Engineer
5 38 (10.38%) Lead
6 30 (8.20%) Developer
7 26 (7.10%) Azure Data Engineer
8 22 (6.01%) Architect
9 21 (5.74%) Analyst
9 21 (5.74%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (5.46%) Lead Data Engineer
11 18 (4.92%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 16 (4.37%) Data Architect
13 14 (3.83%) Automation Engineer
14 13 (3.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 12 (3.28%) Business Manager
15 12 (3.28%) Commercial Analyst
15 12 (3.28%) Insight Analyst
15 12 (3.28%) Insight Manager
16 11 (3.01%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (13.11%) PySpark
2 28 (7.65%) RESTful
3 27 (7.38%) OAuth
4 23 (6.28%) REST
5 20 (5.46%) JSON
6 17 (4.64%) .NET
7 14 (3.83%) OAuth2
8 12 (3.28%) Django
8 12 (3.28%) FastAPI
8 12 (3.28%) Flask
8 12 (3.28%) JWT
8 12 (3.28%) NumPy
8 12 (3.28%) OpenAPI
8 12 (3.28%) Pandas
8 12 (3.28%) pytest
8 12 (3.28%) PyTorch
8 12 (3.28%) scikit-learn
8 12 (3.28%) Swagger
8 12 (3.28%) TensorFlow
8 12 (3.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.65%) Analytical Mindset
2 27 (7.38%) Cloud Native
3 26 (7.10%) Low-Code
4 19 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.19%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.91%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.64%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (0.82%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.55%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.55%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.55%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.09%) Windows
2 2 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (58.47%) Analytics
2 187 (51.09%) Data Modelling
3 180 (49.18%) Business Intelligence
4 171 (46.72%) Data Pipeline
4 171 (46.72%) ETL
5 158 (43.17%) CI/CD
6 154 (42.08%) Data Engineering
7 133 (36.34%) DevOps
8 111 (30.33%) AI
9 106 (28.96%) Agile
10 102 (27.87%) Decision-Making
11 89 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
12 75 (20.49%) Visualisation
13 65 (17.76%) Data Governance
14 59 (16.12%) Data Integration
15 57 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 57 (15.57%) Infrastructure as Code
16 56 (15.30%) Data Architecture
17 54 (14.75%) Asset Management
18 50 (13.66%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 270 (73.77%) SQL
2 181 (49.45%) Python
3 40 (10.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 30 (8.20%) T-SQL
5 23 (6.28%) PowerShell
6 20 (5.46%) Bicep
7 19 (5.19%) Scala
8 16 (4.37%) C#
9 8 (2.19%) Java
9 8 (2.19%) R
10 7 (1.91%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.82%) C++
12 2 (0.55%) PHP
13 1 (0.27%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 38 (10.38%) Degree
2 18 (4.92%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.37%) Azure Certification
4 15 (4.10%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 9 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.19%) IIBA
7 8 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.19%) PMI Certification
7 8 (2.19%) PMP
8 2 (0.55%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.55%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.55%) 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
1 123 (33.61%) Data Quality
2 30 (8.20%) GDPR
3 13 (3.55%) Accessibility
4 12 (3.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.82%) QA
7 2 (0.55%) GRC
8 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.27%) COBIT
System Software
1 19 (5.19%) Docker
2 9 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (13.39%) Terraform
2 26 (7.10%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 144 (39.34%) Databricks
2 132 (36.07%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.92%) Ab Initio
4 17 (4.64%) OpenAI
5 12 (3.28%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (3.28%) UiPath
6 10 (2.73%) Alteryx
7 8 (2.19%) Anaplan
8 5 (1.37%) Talend
9 4 (1.09%) IBM
9 4 (1.09%) Informatica
10 3 (0.82%) Foundry
10 3 (0.82%) Oracle
10 3 (0.82%) RedGate
11 2 (0.55%) Google
11 2 (0.55%) SAP
11 2 (0.55%) Trapeze
12 1 (0.27%) Adobe
12 1 (0.27%) Palantir
12 1 (0.27%) Salesforce