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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 370 316
Rank change year-on-year +10 -54 +118
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 325 447 497
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.71% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 2.04% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 218 352 429
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,044 £42,700
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £48,000
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 £97,875 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £53,250
% change year-on-year - +12.68% -11.25%

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 18,600 21,954 21,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.45% 34.70% 42.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11,265 13,355 17,966
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,264 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +1.22% -2.34%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 5 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 5 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 -10 269 £70,000 +7.69% 139
UK excluding London +31 163 £60,000 - 106
London +3 145 £85,000 +15.25% 77
Work from Home +50 142 £70,000 +7.69% 90
Scotland +47 40 £52,500 - 6
Midlands +54 35 £60,000 +9.09% 17
West Midlands +45 34 £60,000 -4.00% 13
South East -19 33 £55,000 -12.70% 58
North of England +10 32 £55,117 +0.21% 18
North West +16 13 £57,500 +4.55% 12
North East +14 10 £51,000 -15.00% 1
Yorkshire -11 9 £79,000 +22.01% 5
East of England +35 7 £54,000 - 5
South West +13 7 £75,000 +27.66% 3
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 -
Wales +8 3 £55,000 +28.65%
East Midlands +4 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 14 (4.31%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.38%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.46%) Apache
4 5 (1.54%) SAS
5 4 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.23%) Appian
6 1 (0.31%) Confluence
6 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
Applications
1 34 (10.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.31%) Endur
3 1 (0.31%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.31%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 325 (100.00%) Azure
2 179 (55.08%) Power Platform
3 124 (38.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 82 (25.23%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (12.31%) GitHub
6 31 (9.54%) Snowflake
7 29 (8.92%) Azure Logic Apps
7 29 (8.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 20 (6.15%) dbt
8 20 (6.15%) Power Automate
9 19 (5.85%) Azure Monitor
9 19 (5.85%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (4.62%) AWS
11 14 (4.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 14 (4.31%) SaaS
12 13 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (3.38%) Azure Event Grid
13 11 (3.38%) GitHub Copilot
13 11 (3.38%) Matillion
13 11 (3.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.15%) Firewall
2 5 (1.54%) DNS
3 4 (1.23%) VPN
4 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (50.15%) Power BI
2 106 (32.62%) SQL Server
3 93 (28.62%) Data Lake
4 90 (27.69%) Data Warehouse
5 81 (24.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 54 (16.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 51 (15.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 25 (7.69%) Metadata
9 17 (5.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 15 (4.62%) Delta Lake
11 14 (4.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 12 (3.69%) Tableau
13 11 (3.38%) MySQL
14 10 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (1.85%) Big Data
15 6 (1.85%) Qlik Sense
15 6 (1.85%) Relational Database
16 5 (1.54%) SAS EBI
16 5 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
16 5 (1.54%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (9.54%) Git
2 5 (1.54%) JIRA
3 4 (1.23%) Bitbucket
3 4 (1.23%) MLflow
4 2 (0.62%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.31%) JUnit
5 1 (0.31%) Selenium
5 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.31%) TestComplete
General
1 146 (44.92%) Finance
2 132 (40.62%) Social Skills
3 67 (20.62%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.23%) Presentation Skills
4 17 (5.23%) Public Sector
5 13 (4.00%) Billing
5 13 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (3.69%) Law
7 10 (3.08%) Retail
8 9 (2.77%) Automotive
8 9 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.85%) Marketing
11 5 (1.54%) Banking
12 4 (1.23%) Advertising
12 4 (1.23%) Legal
13 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.62%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.62%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 124 (38.15%) Data Engineer
2 57 (17.54%) Senior
3 37 (11.38%) Senior Data Engineer
4 34 (10.46%) Azure Engineer
5 30 (9.23%) Developer
6 26 (8.00%) Architect
6 26 (8.00%) Lead
7 25 (7.69%) Analyst
8 23 (7.08%) Data Architect
9 20 (6.15%) Azure Data Engineer
10 14 (4.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 12 (3.69%) Business Manager
11 12 (3.69%) Commercial Analyst
11 12 (3.69%) Data Manager
11 12 (3.69%) Insight Analyst
11 12 (3.69%) Insight Manager
12 10 (3.08%) Azure Architect
13 9 (2.77%) Azure Data Architect
14 8 (2.46%) Applications Engineer
14 8 (2.46%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (13.23%) PySpark
2 21 (6.46%) JSON
3 19 (5.85%) .NET
4 16 (4.92%) OAuth
4 16 (4.92%) REST
4 16 (4.92%) RESTful
5 11 (3.38%) OAuth2
6 9 (2.77%) XML
7 8 (2.46%) Pandas
8 7 (2.15%) Kafka
9 6 (1.85%) .NET Framework
10 5 (1.54%) .NET Core
10 5 (1.54%) YAML
11 4 (1.23%) Faiss
11 4 (1.23%) FastAPI
11 4 (1.23%) Hugging Face
11 4 (1.23%) JWT
11 4 (1.23%) OpenAPI
11 4 (1.23%) Polars
11 4 (1.23%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.92%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (5.85%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (4.92%) Low-Code
4 15 (4.62%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.15%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.15%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.54%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.23%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.23%) Clustering
8 4 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.23%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.92%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.92%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.92%) Market Risk
9 3 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.85%) VMS
2 3 (0.92%) Windows
3 2 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (53.23%) Analytics
2 168 (51.69%) Business Intelligence
3 149 (45.85%) ETL
4 125 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
5 121 (37.23%) Data Modelling
6 118 (36.31%) Data Engineering
7 113 (34.77%) CI/CD
8 112 (34.46%) DevOps
9 100 (30.77%) Agile
10 90 (27.69%) Problem-Solving
11 87 (26.77%) AI
12 86 (26.46%) Decision-Making
13 68 (20.92%) Visualisation
14 65 (20.00%) Data Governance
15 52 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
16 51 (15.69%) Data Integration
17 50 (15.38%) Coaching
18 48 (14.77%) Data Architecture
19 42 (12.92%) Infrastructure as Code
19 42 (12.92%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 241 (74.15%) SQL
2 153 (47.08%) Python
3 45 (13.85%) T-SQL
4 41 (12.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 22 (6.77%) Bicep
5 22 (6.77%) PowerShell
6 21 (6.46%) C#
7 16 (4.92%) Scala
8 7 (2.15%) Java
8 7 (2.15%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.54%) R
10 2 (0.62%) Bash
10 2 (0.62%) C++
10 2 (0.62%) PHP
11 1 (0.31%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 32 (9.85%) Degree
2 18 (5.54%) Azure Certification
3 15 (4.62%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.00%) Security Cleared
5 12 (3.69%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 8 (2.46%) TOGAF Certification
7 6 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.54%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.54%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.54%) PMP
9 4 (1.23%) IIBA
9 4 (1.23%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.31%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.31%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (24.31%) Data Quality
2 32 (9.85%) GDPR
3 12 (3.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 9 (2.77%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.85%) QA
6 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.62%) SLA
8 1 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
System Software
1 17 (5.23%) Docker
2 4 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (11.38%) Terraform
2 21 (6.46%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.62%) Grafana
4 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 143 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 130 (40.00%) Databricks
3 12 (3.69%) Ab Initio
4 7 (2.15%) Alteryx
4 7 (2.15%) Informatica
4 7 (2.15%) SAP
4 7 (2.15%) Talend
5 6 (1.85%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.54%) Oracle
6 5 (1.54%) RedGate
7 4 (1.23%) Anaplan
7 4 (1.23%) Automation Anywhere
7 4 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (1.23%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.23%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.23%) UiPath
8 2 (0.62%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.62%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.31%) IBM
9 1 (0.31%) JD Edwards