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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 370 418
Rank change year-on-year -95 +48 -76
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 366 346 464
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.69% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 2.17% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 275 269 384
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,500 £44,125
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.77% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -

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 27,511 15,930 25,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.04% 31.86% 31.71%
Number of salaries quoted 18,545 10,882 17,592
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 1 September 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 September 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 -90 346 £80,000 +23.08% 206
UK excluding London -74 181 £62,500 +13.64% 109
London -52 165 £80,000 - 130
Work from Home -1 138 £80,000 +33.33% 98
North of England -4 66 £74,000 +33.98% 21
Yorkshire -6 40 £81,250 +35.42% 8
South East -65 34 £60,000 +9.09% 48
Midlands -50 33 £60,000 -2.04% 16
West Midlands -29 27 £60,000 - 10
East of England -12 26 £90,000 +80.00% 5
North West -9 20 £55,000 - 12
South West -61 17 £85,000 +17.24% 8
Wales -58 10 £52,835 -3.94% 2
East Midlands -21 6 - - 6
North East -59 6 £47,500 -9.52% 1
Scotland -9 3 £49,168 -0.67% 8

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 (9.84%) Apache Spark
2 26 (7.10%) SharePoint
3 17 (4.64%) Apache
4 11 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.55%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.55%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 366 (100.00%) Azure
2 172 (46.99%) Power Platform
3 127 (34.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 83 (22.68%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (17.21%) Azure Databricks
6 47 (12.84%) Azure Logic Apps
7 46 (12.57%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (7.38%) PowerApps
9 26 (7.10%) Power Automate
10 24 (6.56%) Snowflake
11 23 (6.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 23 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (6.28%) Serverless
12 21 (5.74%) Azure Functions
13 19 (5.19%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 19 (5.19%) OneDrive
14 16 (4.37%) GCP
15 15 (4.10%) AWS
16 14 (3.83%) dbt
17 13 (3.55%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (45.63%) Power BI
2 114 (31.15%) Data Warehouse
3 95 (25.96%) Data Lake
4 76 (20.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 59 (16.12%) Metadata
6 50 (13.66%) Delta Lake
7 47 (12.84%) SQL Server
8 30 (8.20%) Spark SQL
9 28 (7.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 28 (7.65%) Star Schema
10 25 (6.83%) Tableau
11 20 (5.46%) Data Vault
12 18 (4.92%) Big Data
12 18 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (4.92%) Relational Database
13 15 (4.10%) Semantic Layer
14 14 (3.83%) NoSQL
15 13 (3.55%) BigQuery
16 12 (3.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 11 (3.01%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 40 (10.93%) Git
2 7 (1.91%) Jenkins
2 7 (1.91%) MLflow
3 6 (1.64%) GitLab
4 3 (0.82%) JIRA
4 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.55%) ERwin
5 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.55%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.27%) kappa
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 126 (34.43%) Social Skills
2 96 (26.23%) Finance
3 57 (15.57%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (4.92%) Legal
5 13 (3.55%) Law
5 13 (3.55%) Retail
6 10 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.19%) Public Sector
8 7 (1.91%) Marketing
9 5 (1.37%) Banking
9 5 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.09%) Advertising
10 4 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.82%) Games
11 3 (0.82%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.82%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.55%) Billing
12 2 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.27%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 175 (47.81%) Data Engineer
2 104 (28.42%) Senior
3 65 (17.76%) Lead
4 59 (16.12%) Senior Data Engineer
5 55 (15.03%) Azure Engineer
6 52 (14.21%) Architect
7 49 (13.39%) Data Architect
8 45 (12.30%) Developer
9 39 (10.66%) Azure Data Engineer
10 31 (8.47%) Lead Data Engineer
11 23 (6.28%) Databricks Engineer
11 23 (6.28%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.19%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 19 (5.19%) Senior Developer
13 18 (4.92%) Consultant
14 16 (4.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 10 (2.73%) Analyst
15 10 (2.73%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 10 (2.73%) Operations Engineer
15 10 (2.73%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (23.22%) PySpark
2 50 (13.66%) Terraform
3 26 (7.10%) JSON
4 25 (6.83%) Kafka
4 25 (6.83%) REST
5 22 (6.01%) .NET
6 20 (5.46%) .NET Core
6 20 (5.46%) CSS
6 20 (5.46%) HTML
7 19 (5.19%) HTML5 Canvas
7 19 (5.19%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (5.19%) SPFx
8 11 (3.01%) ARM Templates
9 8 (2.19%) Keycloak
10 6 (1.64%) SOAP
11 4 (1.09%) XML
12 3 (0.82%) LangChain
12 3 (0.82%) MDX
12 3 (0.82%) YAML
13 2 (0.55%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.02%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.38%) Product Ownership
3 10 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.19%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.91%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.09%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.09%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.09%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.09%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.09%) Reinsurance
7 4 (1.09%) Replication
8 2 (0.55%) Clustering
8 2 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.55%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.55%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.64%) Windows
2 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (56.56%) Business Intelligence
2 199 (54.37%) Analytics
3 185 (50.55%) Data Modelling
4 174 (47.54%) ETL
5 173 (47.27%) CI/CD
6 169 (46.17%) Data Engineering
7 158 (43.17%) Data Pipeline
8 153 (41.80%) DevOps
9 103 (28.14%) AI
9 103 (28.14%) Lakehouse
10 95 (25.96%) Data Governance
11 91 (24.86%) Machine Learning
12 87 (23.77%) Data Architecture
13 78 (21.31%) Decision-Making
14 77 (21.04%) Problem-Solving
15 75 (20.49%) Technical Leadership
16 73 (19.95%) Data Science
17 72 (19.67%) Agile
18 64 (17.49%) Data Integration
19 60 (16.39%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 277 (75.68%) SQL
2 202 (55.19%) Python
3 38 (10.38%) Scala
4 36 (9.84%) PowerShell
5 30 (8.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 29 (7.92%) C#
7 23 (6.28%) JavaScript
8 22 (6.01%) Bicep
9 19 (5.19%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.55%) T-SQL
11 8 (2.19%) Go
11 8 (2.19%) Java
12 5 (1.37%) R
13 2 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.55%) VBA
14 1 (0.27%) Bash
14 1 (0.27%) PHP
14 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (13.11%) Azure Certification
2 36 (9.84%) Degree
3 35 (9.56%) Security Cleared
4 27 (7.38%) SC Cleared
5 26 (7.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.37%) SnowPro
7 8 (2.19%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.91%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.82%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.27%) ICAEW
11 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (34.70%) Data Quality
2 35 (9.56%) GDPR
3 18 (4.92%) QA
4 5 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (1.37%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.55%) IFRS
6 2 (0.55%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.55%) SLA
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 9 (2.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (3.01%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.27%) Ansible
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.27%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 176 (48.09%) Databricks
1 176 (48.09%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.19%) Adobe
3 9 (2.46%) SAP
4 8 (2.19%) Informatica
5 7 (1.91%) Foundry
5 7 (1.91%) Google
5 7 (1.91%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.91%) Salesforce
5 7 (1.91%) Talend
6 2 (0.55%) Oracle
7 1 (0.27%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.27%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.27%) Infor
7 1 (0.27%) Meraki
7 1 (0.27%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.27%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.27%) Teradata