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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 364 316
Rank change year-on-year +23 -48 +99
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 337 386 491
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.72% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 1.99% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 216 316 431
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £47,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,375 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +26.00% -16.67%

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 20,473 19,423 21,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.27% 36.16% 40.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,206 11,407 18,059
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,250
90th Percentile £98,000 £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 9 January 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 9 January 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 -13 267 £72,500 +11.54% 186
UK excluding London +35 173 £60,000 -4.76% 166
Work from Home +93 161 £75,000 +15.38% 62
London +28 145 £85,000 +17.24% 36
Scotland +50 51 £87,500 +66.67% 6
Midlands +34 37 £60,000 -4.00% 36
West Midlands +36 36 £60,000 -7.69% 20
South East -30 33 £55,000 -15.38% 49
North of England -11 28 £56,367 -6.06% 37
North West +5 11 £57,500 +4.55% 17
South West +5 10 £77,500 +31.91% 16
Yorkshire -18 9 £79,000 +32.22% 14
North East +10 8 £51,000 -15.00% 6
East of England +23 6 £50,500 -36.88% 16
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 - 2
Wales +3 2 - - 6
East Midlands -9 1 £82,500 +65.00% 15

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 16 (4.75%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.67%) Apache
3 8 (2.37%) Appian
4 5 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.48%) SAS
5 4 (1.19%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 32 (9.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.19%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Endur
3 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 337 (100.00%) Azure
2 173 (51.34%) Power Platform
3 138 (40.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 81 (24.04%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (14.54%) GitHub
6 38 (11.28%) Snowflake
7 29 (8.61%) Microsoft Purview
8 26 (7.72%) Azure Logic Apps
8 26 (7.72%) dbt
9 24 (7.12%) Azure Monitor
10 23 (6.82%) Power Automate
11 20 (5.93%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (4.45%) AWS
12 15 (4.45%) Azure Service Bus
13 14 (4.15%) Azure Event Grid
13 14 (4.15%) GitHub Copilot
13 14 (4.15%) SaaS
14 13 (3.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 12 (3.56%) PaaS
16 11 (3.26%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.48%) DNS
2 4 (1.19%) Firewall
2 4 (1.19%) VPN
3 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (47.48%) Power BI
2 111 (32.94%) Data Lake
3 106 (31.45%) SQL Server
4 99 (29.38%) Data Warehouse
5 80 (23.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 48 (14.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 43 (12.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 29 (8.61%) Metadata
9 22 (6.53%) Delta Lake
10 15 (4.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 15 (4.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 12 (3.56%) Tableau
12 11 (3.26%) MySQL
13 8 (2.37%) Pinecone
13 8 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (1.78%) Big Data
14 6 (1.78%) Data Mining
14 6 (1.78%) Qlik Sense
15 5 (1.48%) Relational Database
15 5 (1.48%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 34 (10.09%) Git
2 8 (2.37%) MLflow
3 5 (1.48%) JIRA
4 3 (0.89%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.89%) Jenkins
General
1 171 (50.74%) Finance
2 125 (37.09%) Social Skills
3 69 (20.47%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.04%) Public Sector
5 13 (3.86%) Billing
5 13 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (3.56%) Law
7 11 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.97%) Automotive
9 9 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.37%) Retail
11 7 (2.08%) Banking
12 5 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.19%) Legal
13 4 (1.19%) Marketing
13 4 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.89%) Advertising
15 2 (0.59%) Local Government
16 1 (0.30%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 133 (39.47%) Data Engineer
2 57 (16.91%) Senior
3 43 (12.76%) Azure Engineer
4 38 (11.28%) Senior Data Engineer
5 27 (8.01%) Developer
6 26 (7.72%) Lead
7 24 (7.12%) Azure Data Engineer
8 22 (6.53%) Architect
9 19 (5.64%) Analyst
9 19 (5.64%) Data Architect
10 12 (3.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 12 (3.56%) Business Manager
10 12 (3.56%) Commercial Analyst
10 12 (3.56%) Insight Analyst
10 12 (3.56%) Insight Manager
10 12 (3.56%) Lead Data Engineer
10 12 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (3.26%) Applications Engineer
11 11 (3.26%) Consultant
11 11 (3.26%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (13.65%) PySpark
2 24 (7.12%) JSON
3 23 (6.82%) OAuth
3 23 (6.82%) RESTful
4 20 (5.93%) REST
5 19 (5.64%) .NET
6 14 (4.15%) OAuth2
7 11 (3.26%) Pandas
8 9 (2.67%) Kafka
8 9 (2.67%) XML
9 8 (2.37%) Django
9 8 (2.37%) Flask
9 8 (2.37%) NumPy
9 8 (2.37%) pytest
9 8 (2.37%) PyTorch
9 8 (2.37%) scikit-learn
9 8 (2.37%) Swagger
9 8 (2.37%) TensorFlow
9 8 (2.37%) Web Services
9 8 (2.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.01%) Analytical Mindset
2 23 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 20 (5.93%) Low-Code
4 19 (5.64%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.78%) AI Agents
6 6 (1.78%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.78%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (1.78%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.19%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.19%) Reference Data
8 3 (0.89%) Clustering
8 3 (0.89%) Credit Risk
8 3 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.89%) Market Risk
8 3 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.59%) Derivative
9 2 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.78%) VMS
2 4 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (54.30%) Analytics
2 171 (50.74%) ETL
3 166 (49.26%) Business Intelligence
4 153 (45.40%) Data Modelling
5 148 (43.92%) Data Pipeline
6 136 (40.36%) CI/CD
7 133 (39.47%) Data Engineering
8 119 (35.31%) DevOps
9 109 (32.34%) Agile
10 96 (28.49%) AI
11 89 (26.41%) Problem-Solving
12 84 (24.93%) Decision-Making
13 69 (20.47%) Data Governance
14 68 (20.18%) Visualisation
15 61 (18.10%) Coaching
16 56 (16.62%) Data Architecture
17 52 (15.43%) Data Integration
17 52 (15.43%) Infrastructure as Code
18 50 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
19 49 (14.54%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 251 (74.48%) SQL
2 173 (51.34%) Python
3 41 (12.17%) T-SQL
4 39 (11.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 27 (8.01%) PowerShell
6 24 (7.12%) Bicep
7 20 (5.93%) Scala
8 18 (5.34%) C#
9 9 (2.67%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.37%) Java
11 6 (1.78%) R
12 2 (0.59%) C++
12 2 (0.59%) PHP
13 1 (0.30%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (9.50%) Degree
2 15 (4.45%) Azure Certification
3 13 (3.86%) Security Cleared
4 12 (3.56%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 10 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.37%) TOGAF Certification
7 6 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.78%) IIBA
7 6 (1.78%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.78%) PMP
8 4 (1.19%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.89%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.30%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (29.67%) Data Quality
2 34 (10.09%) GDPR
3 12 (3.56%) Actionable Recommendations
4 11 (3.26%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.89%) QA
7 2 (0.59%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
System Software
1 19 (5.64%) Docker
2 9 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (14.24%) Terraform
2 26 (7.72%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 143 (42.43%) Microsoft
2 135 (40.06%) Databricks
3 18 (5.34%) Ab Initio
4 9 (2.67%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.37%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (2.37%) UiPath
6 7 (2.08%) Alteryx
7 6 (1.78%) Anaplan
7 6 (1.78%) Talend
8 4 (1.19%) IBM
8 4 (1.19%) Informatica
8 4 (1.19%) RedGate
8 4 (1.19%) SAP
9 3 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.89%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.89%) Oracle
9 3 (0.89%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.30%) Foundry
10 1 (0.30%) Palantir
10 1 (0.30%) Salesforce