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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 372 406
Rank change year-on-year -90 +34 -70
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 378 329 446
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.67% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 2.12% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 271 260 360
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £80,000
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 27,488 15,514 24,422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.13% 31.57% 31.49%
Number of salaries quoted 18,567 10,441 15,780
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,965 £39,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
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 15 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 15 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 -76 355 £80,000 +23.08% 306
UK excluding London -72 182 £62,500 +13.64% 166
London -27 178 £80,000 - 165
Work from Home -18 134 £80,000 +33.33% 120
North of England -15 63 £65,250 +18.64% 48
South East -59 37 £62,500 +13.64% 54
Yorkshire -15 36 £82,500 +37.50% 17
Midlands -53 34 £85,000 +41.67% 26
West Midlands -45 26 £85,000 +41.67% 16
East of England -21 24 £90,000 +80.00% 9
North West -9 21 £55,000 - 26
South West -64 20 £85,000 +17.24% 14
Wales -64 10 £53,171 -3.33% 4
East Midlands -26 8 - - 10
North East -60 6 £47,500 -9.52% 5
Scotland -4 4 £49,168 -0.67% 10

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 42 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 22 (5.82%) SharePoint
3 19 (5.03%) Apache
4 13 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.53%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.79%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.26%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 378 (100.00%) Azure
2 174 (46.03%) Power Platform
3 135 (35.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 92 (24.34%) Azure DevOps
5 69 (18.25%) Azure Databricks
6 49 (12.96%) Azure Logic Apps
6 49 (12.96%) Microsoft Purview
7 28 (7.41%) Serverless
8 25 (6.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 25 (6.61%) Azure Functions
8 25 (6.61%) Snowflake
9 23 (6.08%) PowerApps
10 22 (5.82%) AWS
10 22 (5.82%) Power Automate
11 20 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (4.76%) dbt
12 18 (4.76%) GCP
13 16 (4.23%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 16 (4.23%) OneDrive
14 14 (3.70%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (45.50%) Power BI
2 124 (32.80%) Data Warehouse
3 102 (26.98%) Data Lake
4 81 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 66 (17.46%) Metadata
6 53 (14.02%) Delta Lake
7 45 (11.90%) SQL Server
8 31 (8.20%) Star Schema
9 29 (7.67%) Spark SQL
10 28 (7.41%) Tableau
11 25 (6.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 21 (5.56%) NoSQL
13 20 (5.29%) Big Data
13 20 (5.29%) Data Vault
13 20 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
14 19 (5.03%) Relational Database
15 16 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
15 16 (4.23%) Semantic Layer
16 14 (3.70%) BigQuery
17 12 (3.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 50 (13.23%) Git
2 12 (3.17%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.85%) MLflow
4 5 (1.32%) GitLab
5 3 (0.79%) JIRA
5 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.53%) ERwin
6 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.53%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.26%) kappa
7 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 129 (34.13%) Social Skills
2 106 (28.04%) Finance
3 65 (17.20%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.03%) Legal
5 14 (3.70%) Law
5 14 (3.70%) Retail
6 11 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (1.85%) Banking
7 7 (1.85%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.59%) Marketing
9 4 (1.06%) Advertising
9 4 (1.06%) Billing
9 4 (1.06%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.06%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.06%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.79%) Games
10 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.26%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 188 (49.74%) Data Engineer
2 114 (30.16%) Senior
3 70 (18.52%) Senior Data Engineer
4 64 (16.93%) Lead
5 59 (15.61%) Azure Engineer
6 52 (13.76%) Architect
7 48 (12.70%) Data Architect
8 43 (11.38%) Developer
9 42 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
10 29 (7.67%) Lead Data Engineer
11 21 (5.56%) Databricks Engineer
11 21 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.03%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 17 (4.50%) Consultant
14 16 (4.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 16 (4.23%) Senior Developer
15 12 (3.17%) Analyst
16 11 (2.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 11 (2.91%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 11 (2.91%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (24.60%) PySpark
2 51 (13.49%) Terraform
3 32 (8.47%) Kafka
4 28 (7.41%) JSON
5 24 (6.35%) REST
6 17 (4.50%) .NET
7 16 (4.23%) .NET Core
7 16 (4.23%) CSS
7 16 (4.23%) HTML
7 16 (4.23%) HTML5 Canvas
7 16 (4.23%) Microsoft Graph
7 16 (4.23%) SPFx
8 11 (2.91%) ARM Templates
9 10 (2.65%) Keycloak
10 6 (1.59%) Apache Avro
11 5 (1.32%) SOAP
11 5 (1.32%) XML
12 4 (1.06%) MDX
12 4 (1.06%) YAML
13 3 (0.79%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.79%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.67%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.59%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.32%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.06%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.06%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.79%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.79%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.53%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.53%) Replication
10 2 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.53%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.12%) Windows
2 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (56.08%) Business Intelligence
2 208 (55.03%) Analytics
3 196 (51.85%) Data Modelling
4 183 (48.41%) CI/CD
5 181 (47.88%) Data Engineering
5 181 (47.88%) ETL
6 171 (45.24%) Data Pipeline
7 167 (44.18%) DevOps
8 105 (27.78%) AI
9 97 (25.66%) Data Governance
10 96 (25.40%) Lakehouse
11 92 (24.34%) Data Architecture
12 88 (23.28%) Agile
13 85 (22.49%) Machine Learning
14 81 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
15 80 (21.16%) Decision-Making
16 75 (19.84%) Data Science
17 74 (19.58%) Technical Leadership
18 73 (19.31%) Data Integration
19 62 (16.40%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 286 (75.66%) SQL
2 218 (57.67%) Python
3 44 (11.64%) Scala
4 33 (8.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 33 (8.73%) PowerShell
5 26 (6.88%) C#
6 23 (6.08%) Bicep
7 22 (5.82%) JavaScript
8 16 (4.23%) TypeScript
9 14 (3.70%) Java
10 12 (3.17%) T-SQL
11 10 (2.65%) Go
12 7 (1.85%) R
13 2 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.53%) VBA
14 1 (0.26%) Bash
14 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 53 (14.02%) Azure Certification
2 44 (11.64%) Security Cleared
3 38 (10.05%) Degree
4 37 (9.79%) SC Cleared
5 25 (6.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.23%) SnowPro
8 10 (2.65%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.79%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.26%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (38.36%) Data Quality
2 35 (9.26%) GDPR
3 18 (4.76%) QA
4 10 (2.65%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.79%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.53%) IFRS
7 2 (0.53%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (3.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (4.23%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.53%) Ansible
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 177 (46.83%) Databricks
2 176 (46.56%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.23%) Adobe
4 11 (2.91%) Informatica
5 10 (2.65%) SAP
5 10 (2.65%) Talend
6 7 (1.85%) Google
7 6 (1.59%) Foundry
7 6 (1.59%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.59%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.26%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.26%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.26%) Confluent
8 1 (0.26%) Infor
8 1 (0.26%) Meraki
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle
8 1 (0.26%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.26%) Teradata