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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 324 460
Rank change year-on-year -92 +136 -75
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 368 375 502
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.87% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 2.61% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 279 295 445
10th Percentile £47,050 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +6.00% -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 27,315 14,369 34,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.31% 33.51% 34.80%
Number of salaries quoted 15,661 9,890 26,881
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,450 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.90% +6.90% -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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -76 334 £75,000 +11.11% 50
UK excluding London -55 195 £62,500 -0.79% 45
Work from Home +64 151 £80,000 +28.00% 32
London -40 143 £83,500 +9.51% 26
North of England -33 55 £80,000 +33.33% 9
Midlands -28 45 £58,750 -9.62% 7
West Midlands -30 40 £58,750 -7.84% 3
Yorkshire -38 38 £80,000 +33.33% 3
East of England -4 34 £90,000 +67.44% 1
South East -64 29 £50,000 -23.08% 21
Scotland +5 16 £71,500 +58.89% 1
North West -8 16 £61,250 -2.00% 6
South West -52 16 £55,000 -29.03% 2
East Midlands -36 5 £57,500 -11.54% 4
Wales -34 2 £46,585 -15.30% 4
North East -38 1 - -

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 (9.78%) SharePoint
2 23 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.72%) Apache
5 9 (2.45%) Appian
6 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.82%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.54%) Luigi
9 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.82%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.54%) 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
1 368 (100.00%) Azure
2 151 (41.03%) Power Platform
3 116 (31.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 73 (19.84%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (12.77%) Azure Logic Apps
6 41 (11.14%) Power Automate
7 34 (9.24%) PowerApps
8 33 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (6.79%) GitHub
10 23 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
10 23 (6.25%) Serverless
10 23 (6.25%) Snowflake
11 21 (5.71%) AWS
11 21 (5.71%) Azure Functions
11 21 (5.71%) dbt
12 19 (5.16%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.16%) Microsoft Purview
12 19 (5.16%) OneDrive
13 18 (4.89%) GCP
14 15 (4.08%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (38.59%) Power BI
2 104 (28.26%) Data Lake
2 104 (28.26%) Data Warehouse
3 93 (25.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 54 (14.67%) SQL Server
5 35 (9.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 34 (9.24%) Delta Lake
7 33 (8.97%) Spark SQL
8 22 (5.98%) Metadata
9 18 (4.89%) Relational Database
10 17 (4.62%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 15 (4.08%) Tableau
12 13 (3.53%) Star Schema
13 11 (2.99%) Big Data
13 11 (2.99%) BigQuery
13 11 (2.99%) Power Query
14 9 (2.45%) Pinecone
14 9 (2.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
16 6 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (9.51%) Git
2 11 (2.99%) MLflow
3 5 (1.36%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.09%) 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 (37.23%) Finance
2 121 (32.88%) Social Skills
3 53 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (2.99%) Public Sector
5 10 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (2.72%) Retail
6 9 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.36%) Law
8 4 (1.09%) Advertising
8 4 (1.09%) Automotive
8 4 (1.09%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.82%) Legal
9 3 (0.82%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.54%) Banking
10 2 (0.54%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.54%) Local Government
10 2 (0.54%) Marketing
11 1 (0.27%) Billing
Job Titles
1 177 (48.10%) Data Engineer
2 79 (21.47%) Senior
3 67 (18.21%) Lead
4 53 (14.40%) Azure Engineer
5 45 (12.23%) Senior Data Engineer
6 44 (11.96%) Developer
7 38 (10.33%) Platform Engineer
8 37 (10.05%) Lead Data Engineer
9 34 (9.24%) Azure Data Engineer
10 24 (6.52%) Architect
11 20 (5.43%) Consultant
12 19 (5.16%) Data Architect
13 18 (4.89%) Senior Developer
14 16 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 13 (3.53%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 13 (3.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 12 (3.26%) Automation Engineer
17 11 (2.99%) Microsoft Engineer
18 10 (2.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 9 (2.45%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (20.11%) PySpark
2 31 (8.42%) .NET
3 30 (8.15%) REST
4 26 (7.07%) JSON
5 22 (5.98%) .NET Core
5 22 (5.98%) CSS
5 22 (5.98%) HTML
6 19 (5.16%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.16%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.16%) SPFx
7 15 (4.08%) RESTful
8 14 (3.80%) ARM Templates
9 12 (3.26%) OAuth
10 10 (2.72%) FastAPI
10 10 (2.72%) Kafka
10 10 (2.72%) NumPy
10 10 (2.72%) Pandas
10 10 (2.72%) PyTorch
10 10 (2.72%) scikit-learn
10 10 (2.72%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.15%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.26%) Low-Code
5 9 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.63%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.63%) Replication
9 4 (1.09%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.09%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.82%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.54%) Clustering
11 2 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (50.82%) Data Modelling
2 185 (50.27%) Analytics
3 175 (47.55%) ETL
4 167 (45.38%) CI/CD
4 167 (45.38%) Data Engineering
5 161 (43.75%) Data Pipeline
6 158 (42.93%) Business Intelligence
7 134 (36.41%) DevOps
8 85 (23.10%) AI
9 82 (22.28%) Agile
10 80 (21.74%) Data Governance
11 77 (20.92%) Decision-Making
12 72 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
13 64 (17.39%) Data Architecture
14 62 (16.85%) Machine Learning
15 58 (15.76%) Data Integration
16 55 (14.95%) Infrastructure as Code
17 44 (11.96%) Platform Engineering
18 42 (11.41%) Mentoring
18 42 (11.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 282 (76.63%) SQL
2 190 (51.63%) Python
3 40 (10.87%) PowerShell
4 31 (8.42%) C#
5 26 (7.07%) JavaScript
6 24 (6.52%) Scala
7 19 (5.16%) T-SQL
7 19 (5.16%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (3.26%) Java
10 11 (2.99%) R
11 10 (2.72%) Bicep
12 3 (0.82%) VBA
13 2 (0.54%) C++
13 2 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.54%) PHP
14 1 (0.27%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (10.87%) Degree
2 24 (6.52%) Security Cleared
3 21 (5.71%) Azure Certification
3 21 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (4.62%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.36%) IIBA
6 5 (1.36%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.36%) PMP
7 4 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.27%) CISM
9 1 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (30.98%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.34%) GDPR
3 9 (2.45%) QA
4 8 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.36%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.54%) GRC
6 2 (0.54%) IFRS
6 2 (0.54%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.54%) SLA
7 1 (0.27%) COBIT
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 16 (4.35%) Docker
2 7 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (12.50%) Terraform
2 20 (5.43%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.27%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 165 (44.84%) Databricks
2 148 (40.22%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.16%) Adobe
4 17 (4.62%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.45%) Automation Anywhere
5 9 (2.45%) UiPath
6 7 (1.90%) Alteryx
6 7 (1.90%) Foundry
6 7 (1.90%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.90%) SAP
7 6 (1.63%) Ab Initio
7 6 (1.63%) Google
8 5 (1.36%) Anaplan
9 3 (0.82%) IBM
10 2 (0.54%) Informatica
10 2 (0.54%) Oracle
10 2 (0.54%) Talend
10 2 (0.54%) Trapeze
11 1 (0.27%) Nintex
11 1 (0.27%) Palantir