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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 346 464
Rank change year-on-year -72 +118 -91
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 346 375 529
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.84% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 2.51% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 265 288 460
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £49,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,625 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.90% +5.00% -4.58%
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +19.05% -8.23%

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 25,187 14,954 35,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.89% 33.43% 33.01%
Number of salaries quoted 16,324 10,320 27,528
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,368
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -9.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -87 320 £80,000 +18.52% 53
UK excluding London -65 175 £62,500 - 49
London -49 141 £84,250 +8.71% 29
Work from Home +21 133 £82,500 +37.50% 31
North of England -20 56 £80,000 +33.33% 8
Midlands -26 40 £58,750 -4.08% 8
Yorkshire -15 39 £80,000 +33.33% 2
East of England -2 34 £90,000 +69.01% 3
West Midlands -17 34 £58,750 +2.17% 5
South East -59 19 £50,000 -23.08% 21
South West -56 16 £57,500 -25.81% 2
North West +6 15 £62,500 - 5
Scotland +14 9 £57,418 -13.33% 3
East Midlands -25 6 £57,500 -11.54% 3
Wales -43 3 £53,171 -3.33% 3
North East -49 2 - - 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 (10.40%) SharePoint
2 23 (6.65%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.89%) Apache
5 7 (2.02%) Appian
6 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.87%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.58%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.58%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.29%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.29%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.29%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 346 (100.00%) Azure
2 150 (43.35%) Power Platform
3 104 (30.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 69 (19.94%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (13.29%) Azure Logic Apps
6 39 (11.27%) Power Automate
7 34 (9.83%) PowerApps
8 31 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
9 27 (7.80%) Microsoft Purview
10 22 (6.36%) Serverless
11 21 (6.07%) Azure Functions
12 19 (5.49%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.49%) AWS
12 19 (5.49%) OneDrive
13 18 (5.20%) Snowflake
14 17 (4.91%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (4.91%) dbt
14 17 (4.91%) GCP
15 16 (4.62%) GitHub
16 15 (4.34%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (41.33%) Power BI
2 92 (26.59%) Data Warehouse
3 91 (26.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 91 (26.30%) Data Lake
4 51 (14.74%) SQL Server
5 35 (10.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 33 (9.54%) Delta Lake
6 33 (9.54%) Spark SQL
7 25 (7.23%) Metadata
8 19 (5.49%) Relational Database
8 19 (5.49%) Tableau
9 16 (4.62%) Star Schema
10 14 (4.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 14 (4.05%) Big Data
11 12 (3.47%) Power Query
12 11 (3.18%) BigQuery
13 9 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (2.31%) Data Vault
14 8 (2.31%) Semantic Layer
15 7 (2.02%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 33 (9.54%) Git
2 9 (2.60%) MLflow
3 5 (1.45%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.16%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.87%) JIRA
5 3 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.58%) ERwin
6 2 (0.58%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.29%) GitLab
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
General
1 120 (34.68%) Finance
2 116 (33.53%) Social Skills
3 54 (15.61%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
4 9 (2.60%) Public Sector
4 9 (2.60%) Retail
5 6 (1.73%) Legal
6 5 (1.45%) Law
7 4 (1.16%) Automotive
7 4 (1.16%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.87%) Advertising
8 3 (0.87%) Banking
8 3 (0.87%) Marketing
8 3 (0.87%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.58%) Local Government
10 1 (0.29%) Billing
10 1 (0.29%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 169 (48.84%) Data Engineer
2 77 (22.25%) Senior
3 67 (19.36%) Lead
4 49 (14.16%) Azure Engineer
5 44 (12.72%) Senior Data Engineer
6 41 (11.85%) Developer
7 39 (11.27%) Platform Engineer
8 37 (10.69%) Lead Data Engineer
9 33 (9.54%) Architect
10 32 (9.25%) Azure Data Engineer
11 28 (8.09%) Data Architect
12 18 (5.20%) Senior Developer
13 15 (4.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 15 (4.34%) Consultant
14 13 (3.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 13 (3.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.18%) Microsoft Engineer
16 10 (2.89%) Automation Engineer
17 9 (2.60%) Data Manager
18 8 (2.31%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (21.10%) PySpark
2 28 (8.09%) .NET
3 27 (7.80%) REST
4 24 (6.94%) JSON
5 22 (6.36%) .NET Core
5 22 (6.36%) CSS
5 22 (6.36%) HTML
6 19 (5.49%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.49%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.49%) SPFx
7 13 (3.76%) ARM Templates
8 11 (3.18%) Kafka
8 11 (3.18%) RESTful
9 8 (2.31%) FastAPI
9 8 (2.31%) NumPy
9 8 (2.31%) OAuth
9 8 (2.31%) Pandas
9 8 (2.31%) PyTorch
9 8 (2.31%) scikit-learn
9 8 (2.31%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.67%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.34%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.89%) Low-Code
5 9 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.02%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.02%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.73%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.73%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.73%) Replication
8 5 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.16%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.16%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.87%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.87%) Wiki
11 2 (0.58%) Clustering
11 2 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (51.45%) Analytics
2 174 (50.29%) Data Modelling
3 163 (47.11%) Data Engineering
4 162 (46.82%) Business Intelligence
5 158 (45.66%) CI/CD
6 152 (43.93%) ETL
7 146 (42.20%) Data Pipeline
8 124 (35.84%) DevOps
9 90 (26.01%) AI
10 81 (23.41%) Data Governance
11 77 (22.25%) Decision-Making
12 72 (20.81%) Agile
13 69 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
14 67 (19.36%) Data Architecture
14 67 (19.36%) Machine Learning
15 60 (17.34%) Data Integration
16 50 (14.45%) Infrastructure as Code
17 44 (12.72%) Data Science
17 44 (12.72%) Technical Leadership
18 42 (12.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 264 (76.30%) SQL
2 174 (50.29%) Python
3 39 (11.27%) PowerShell
4 29 (8.38%) C#
5 26 (7.51%) JavaScript
6 22 (6.36%) Scala
7 19 (5.49%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (4.05%) T-SQL
10 11 (3.18%) Bicep
11 9 (2.60%) Java
11 9 (2.60%) R
12 2 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.58%) PHP
12 2 (0.58%) VBA
13 1 (0.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 40 (11.56%) Degree
2 27 (7.80%) Azure Certification
3 25 (7.23%) Security Cleared
4 20 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (5.49%) SC Cleared
6 12 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.16%) IIBA
7 4 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.16%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.16%) PMP
7 4 (1.16%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.29%) CISM
9 1 (0.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (32.08%) Data Quality
2 28 (8.09%) GDPR
3 9 (2.60%) QA
4 6 (1.73%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.45%) Solvency II
6 4 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.58%) GRC
7 2 (0.58%) IFRS
7 2 (0.58%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.58%) SLA
8 1 (0.29%) COBIT
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 14 (4.05%) Docker
2 5 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (12.72%) Terraform
2 18 (5.20%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 158 (45.66%) Databricks
2 140 (40.46%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.49%) Adobe
4 16 (4.62%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.31%) SAP
6 7 (2.02%) Automation Anywhere
6 7 (2.02%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.02%) UiPath
7 6 (1.73%) Alteryx
7 6 (1.73%) Foundry
7 6 (1.73%) Google
8 4 (1.16%) Anaplan
9 3 (0.87%) Informatica
10 2 (0.58%) Ab Initio
10 2 (0.58%) Oracle
10 2 (0.58%) Talend
10 2 (0.58%) Trapeze
11 1 (0.29%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.29%) IBM
11 1 (0.29%) Teradata