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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 347 393
Rank change year-on-year -6 +46 +15
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 386 352 530
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.83% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 2.24% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 252 280 465
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,350 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.91% +15.83% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,813 £85,500 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year -7.69% +23.22% -10.21%

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 24,261 15,718 32,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.19% 37.15% 37.65%
Number of salaries quoted 12,981 10,985 25,829
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £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 20 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 20 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 -28 312 £75,000 +11.11% 119
UK excluding London -21 197 £60,000 -7.69% 90
Work from Home +85 182 £75,000 +11.11% 65
London +6 155 £83,000 +3.75% 48
Midlands -11 51 £60,000 -4.00% 24
West Midlands +23 49 £60,000 -4.00% 18
Scotland +20 47 £79,500 +2.58%
North of England -47 35 £67,500 +3.85% 24
South East -71 28 £50,000 -28.57% 31
East of England -4 16 £75,000 -6.25% 5
Yorkshire -50 16 £79,000 +31.67% 11
South West -29 13 £80,000 +25.49% 7
North West -26 12 £62,500 -3.85% 13
North East -20 7 £51,000 -17.07%
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 -
Wales -18 3 £40,000 -17.53% 4
East Midlands -53 2 £57,500 +11.65% 6

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 18 (4.66%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.40%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.11%) Appian
4 8 (2.07%) Apache
5 7 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.78%) SAS
8 1 (0.26%) Confluence
8 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 35 (9.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.04%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.52%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.26%) Endur
3 1 (0.26%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 386 (100.00%) Azure
2 187 (48.45%) Power Platform
3 146 (37.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 89 (23.06%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (10.88%) GitHub
6 41 (10.62%) Snowflake
7 34 (8.81%) Power Automate
8 26 (6.74%) Azure Logic Apps
9 25 (6.48%) dbt
10 23 (5.96%) Azure Monitor
11 22 (5.70%) Microsoft Purview
12 20 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (5.18%) PaaS
13 17 (4.40%) Anthropic Claude
13 17 (4.40%) AWS
14 16 (4.15%) Azure AI
14 16 (4.15%) PowerApps
14 16 (4.15%) SaaS
15 15 (3.89%) Azure Storage
15 15 (3.89%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.52%) DNS
2 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (45.34%) Power BI
2 112 (29.02%) Data Lake
3 107 (27.72%) Data Warehouse
4 104 (26.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 103 (26.68%) SQL Server
6 43 (11.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 40 (10.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 24 (6.22%) Delta Lake
8 24 (6.22%) Metadata
9 20 (5.18%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 15 (3.89%) Tableau
11 14 (3.63%) Spark SQL
11 14 (3.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 12 (3.11%) Pinecone
13 11 (2.85%) Star Schema
14 9 (2.33%) MySQL
14 9 (2.33%) Relational Database
15 7 (1.81%) Big Data
15 7 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
16 6 (1.55%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 36 (9.33%) Git
2 12 (3.11%) MLflow
3 3 (0.78%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.26%) GitLab
5 1 (0.26%) JIRA
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 187 (48.45%) Finance
2 134 (34.72%) Social Skills
3 69 (17.88%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (3.63%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (3.11%) Billing
8 10 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.33%) Law
10 8 (2.07%) Automotive
11 7 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.30%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.04%) Retail
14 3 (0.78%) Banking
14 3 (0.78%) Legal
14 3 (0.78%) Marketing
15 2 (0.52%) Advertising
15 2 (0.52%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.52%) Local Government
16 1 (0.26%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 161 (41.71%) Data Engineer
2 66 (17.10%) Senior
3 47 (12.18%) Lead
4 46 (11.92%) Azure Engineer
5 43 (11.14%) Senior Data Engineer
6 33 (8.55%) Developer
7 30 (7.77%) Azure Data Engineer
8 25 (6.48%) Platform Engineer
9 24 (6.22%) Lead Data Engineer
10 21 (5.44%) Analyst
10 21 (5.44%) Architect
11 17 (4.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 15 (3.89%) Data Architect
13 14 (3.63%) Automation Engineer
14 13 (3.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 13 (3.37%) Consultant
15 12 (3.11%) Business Manager
15 12 (3.11%) Commercial Analyst
15 12 (3.11%) Insight Analyst
15 12 (3.11%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (14.51%) PySpark
2 27 (6.99%) RESTful
3 25 (6.48%) OAuth
3 25 (6.48%) REST
4 23 (5.96%) JSON
5 21 (5.44%) .NET
6 12 (3.11%) Django
6 12 (3.11%) FastAPI
6 12 (3.11%) Flask
6 12 (3.11%) JWT
6 12 (3.11%) NumPy
6 12 (3.11%) OAuth2
6 12 (3.11%) OpenAPI
6 12 (3.11%) Pandas
6 12 (3.11%) pytest
6 12 (3.11%) PyTorch
6 12 (3.11%) scikit-learn
6 12 (3.11%) Swagger
6 12 (3.11%) TensorFlow
6 12 (3.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.51%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 25 (6.48%) Low-Code
4 19 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.33%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (2.07%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.55%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.55%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.04%) Replication
9 3 (0.78%) Clustering
9 3 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.52%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.04%) Windows
2 2 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (58.03%) Analytics
2 196 (50.78%) Data Modelling
3 184 (47.67%) Business Intelligence
4 181 (46.89%) ETL
5 178 (46.11%) Data Pipeline
6 168 (43.52%) CI/CD
7 164 (42.49%) Data Engineering
8 139 (36.01%) DevOps
9 115 (29.79%) AI
10 105 (27.20%) Decision-Making
11 104 (26.94%) Agile
12 96 (24.87%) Problem-Solving
13 78 (20.21%) Visualisation
14 70 (18.13%) Data Governance
15 62 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
16 61 (15.80%) Data Integration
17 58 (15.03%) Data Architecture
18 57 (14.77%) Infrastructure as Code
19 54 (13.99%) Test Automation
20 52 (13.47%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 292 (75.65%) SQL
2 196 (50.78%) Python
3 39 (10.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 30 (7.77%) PowerShell
5 29 (7.51%) T-SQL
6 20 (5.18%) C#
7 18 (4.66%) Scala
8 17 (4.40%) Bicep
9 11 (2.85%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.07%) Java
10 8 (2.07%) R
11 4 (1.04%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.78%) C++
12 3 (0.78%) PHP
13 1 (0.26%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.26%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (10.10%) Degree
2 20 (5.18%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.15%) Azure Certification
4 14 (3.63%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 10 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.07%) IIBA
8 8 (2.07%) PMI Certification
8 8 (2.07%) PMP
9 3 (0.78%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.26%) CISM
11 1 (0.26%) CISSP
11 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.26%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (32.90%) Data Quality
2 31 (8.03%) GDPR
3 12 (3.11%) Actionable Recommendations
4 11 (2.85%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.30%) QA
6 4 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.52%) GRC
7 2 (0.52%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.26%) COBIT
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (4.92%) Docker
2 9 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (12.44%) Terraform
2 25 (6.48%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.26%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 157 (40.67%) Databricks
2 147 (38.08%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.92%) OpenAI
4 16 (4.15%) Ab Initio
5 12 (3.11%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (3.11%) UiPath
6 10 (2.59%) Alteryx
7 8 (2.07%) Anaplan
8 6 (1.55%) Talend
9 5 (1.30%) Foundry
10 4 (1.04%) Adobe
10 4 (1.04%) IBM
10 4 (1.04%) Informatica
10 4 (1.04%) Oracle
11 3 (0.78%) RedGate
12 2 (0.52%) Google
12 2 (0.52%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.52%) SAP
12 2 (0.52%) Trapeze
13 1 (0.26%) Palantir