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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 360 298
Rank change year-on-year +26 -62 +111
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 342 423 486
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.75% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 2.08% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 222 348 414
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,058 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,350
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -8.33%

All Cloud 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 20,575 20,376 20,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.83% 36.19% 43.18%
Number of salaries quoted 11,292 12,208 17,308
10th Percentile £28,750 £34,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% -3.85%
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 21 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 21 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 -9 273 £70,000 +7.69% 114
UK excluding London +34 182 £60,000 -4.00% 85
Work from Home +69 164 £70,000 +7.69% 80
London +10 142 £82,500 +13.79% 54
Scotland +48 53 £55,000 - 4
Midlands +23 39 £60,000 -4.00% 22
West Midlands +43 38 £60,000 -7.69% 18
South East -14 38 £55,000 -15.38% 33
North of England -10 30 £56,367 -1.97% 15
North West +16 12 £57,500 +4.55% 8
South West +10 9 £75,000 +20.00% 7
North East +9 9 £51,750 -13.75% 2
Yorkshire -16 9 £79,000 +21.54% 5
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 -
East of England +21 5 £50,500 -36.88% 5
Wales 0 2 - -
East Midlands -14 1 £82,500 +65.00% 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 15 (4.39%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.34%) Apache
3 6 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.75%) Appian
4 5 (1.46%) SAS
5 3 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.29%) Confluence
6 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
Applications
1 34 (9.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.29%) Endur
3 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.29%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 342 (100.00%) Azure
2 178 (52.05%) Power Platform
3 138 (40.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 83 (24.27%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (14.04%) GitHub
6 40 (11.70%) Snowflake
7 28 (8.19%) Azure Logic Apps
7 28 (8.19%) dbt
7 28 (8.19%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (6.73%) Azure Monitor
9 22 (6.43%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (5.85%) Power Automate
11 16 (4.68%) AWS
11 16 (4.68%) Azure Service Bus
12 14 (4.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 14 (4.09%) Azure Event Grid
12 14 (4.09%) GitHub Copilot
12 14 (4.09%) SaaS
13 11 (3.22%) GCP
13 11 (3.22%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.75%) Firewall
2 5 (1.46%) DNS
3 4 (1.17%) VPN
4 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (47.95%) Power BI
2 106 (30.99%) SQL Server
3 105 (30.70%) Data Lake
4 100 (29.24%) Data Warehouse
5 80 (23.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 51 (14.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 50 (14.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 29 (8.48%) Metadata
9 17 (4.97%) Delta Lake
9 17 (4.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 15 (4.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 13 (3.80%) Tableau
12 12 (3.51%) MySQL
13 9 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (2.05%) Relational Database
15 6 (1.75%) Big Data
15 6 (1.75%) Data Mining
15 6 (1.75%) Pinecone
15 6 (1.75%) Qlik Sense
15 6 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (9.36%) Git
2 6 (1.75%) MLflow
3 5 (1.46%) JIRA
4 4 (1.17%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.88%) Jenkins
General
1 160 (46.78%) Finance
2 134 (39.18%) Social Skills
3 70 (20.47%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.09%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (3.80%) Billing
6 13 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.51%) Law
8 11 (3.22%) Retail
9 10 (2.92%) Automotive
10 9 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.46%) Banking
11 5 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.17%) Advertising
12 4 (1.17%) Legal
12 4 (1.17%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.17%) Marketing
13 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 134 (39.18%) Data Engineer
2 61 (17.84%) Senior
3 40 (11.70%) Senior Data Engineer
4 39 (11.40%) Azure Engineer
5 30 (8.77%) Developer
6 26 (7.60%) Lead
7 24 (7.02%) Architect
8 22 (6.43%) Analyst
8 22 (6.43%) Azure Data Engineer
9 21 (6.14%) Data Architect
10 14 (4.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 12 (3.51%) Business Manager
11 12 (3.51%) Commercial Analyst
11 12 (3.51%) Consultant
11 12 (3.51%) Insight Analyst
11 12 (3.51%) Insight Manager
12 11 (3.22%) Applications Engineer
12 11 (3.22%) Data Manager
13 10 (2.92%) Integration Engineer
14 9 (2.63%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (13.45%) PySpark
2 24 (7.02%) JSON
3 21 (6.14%) .NET
3 21 (6.14%) OAuth
3 21 (6.14%) RESTful
4 18 (5.26%) REST
5 14 (4.09%) OAuth2
6 10 (2.92%) Pandas
7 9 (2.63%) Kafka
7 9 (2.63%) XML
8 8 (2.34%) YAML
9 6 (1.75%) .NET Framework
9 6 (1.75%) Faiss
9 6 (1.75%) FastAPI
9 6 (1.75%) Hugging Face
9 6 (1.75%) JWT
9 6 (1.75%) OpenAPI
9 6 (1.75%) pytest
9 6 (1.75%) PyTorch
9 6 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 23 (6.73%) Cloud Native
3 19 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (5.26%) Low-Code
5 12 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.75%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.17%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.17%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.17%) Clustering
8 4 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.17%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.17%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.88%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.88%) Market Risk
9 3 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.75%) VMS
2 5 (1.46%) Windows
3 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (54.39%) Analytics
2 174 (50.88%) ETL
3 170 (49.71%) Business Intelligence
4 152 (44.44%) Data Modelling
5 144 (42.11%) Data Pipeline
6 132 (38.60%) Data Engineering
7 130 (38.01%) CI/CD
8 122 (35.67%) DevOps
9 112 (32.75%) Agile
10 95 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
11 91 (26.61%) AI
12 86 (25.15%) Decision-Making
13 73 (21.35%) Visualisation
14 68 (19.88%) Data Governance
15 62 (18.13%) Coaching
16 56 (16.37%) Continuous Improvement
17 54 (15.79%) Data Integration
18 53 (15.50%) Data Architecture
19 49 (14.33%) Asset Management
19 49 (14.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 257 (75.15%) SQL
2 171 (50.00%) Python
3 45 (13.16%) T-SQL
4 41 (11.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 27 (7.89%) PowerShell
6 26 (7.60%) Bicep
7 20 (5.85%) C#
7 20 (5.85%) Scala
8 9 (2.63%) Java
9 6 (1.75%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.46%) R
11 2 (0.58%) C++
11 2 (0.58%) PHP
12 1 (0.29%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.29%) Bash
12 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (8.77%) Degree
2 17 (4.97%) Azure Certification
3 14 (4.09%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.80%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 11 (3.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.34%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.46%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.17%) IIBA
10 4 (1.17%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.17%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.17%) PMP
11 3 (0.88%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.29%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.29%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (25.73%) Data Quality
2 36 (10.53%) GDPR
3 12 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.51%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (1.75%) QA
5 5 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.58%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 19 (5.56%) Docker
2 7 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (13.45%) Terraform
2 24 (7.02%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.29%) Grafana
4 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 146 (42.69%) Microsoft
2 138 (40.35%) Databricks
3 18 (5.26%) Ab Initio
4 7 (2.05%) Alteryx
4 7 (2.05%) Informatica
4 7 (2.05%) OpenAI
4 7 (2.05%) Talend
5 6 (1.75%) Automation Anywhere
5 6 (1.75%) UiPath
6 5 (1.46%) RedGate
6 5 (1.46%) SAP
7 4 (1.17%) Anaplan
7 4 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (1.17%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.17%) IBM
7 4 (1.17%) Oracle
7 4 (1.17%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.58%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.29%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.29%) SolarWinds