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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 403 396
Rank change year-on-year -61 -7 -59
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 388 304 454
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.62% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 1.96% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 275 245 357
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +3.17%
75th Percentile £88,375 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £91,800 £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 27,320 15,472 24,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.26% 31.37% 31.87%
Number of salaries quoted 18,572 10,431 14,953
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £46,250
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 28 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 28 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 -55 364 £70,000 +7.69% 223
London -10 189 £80,000 - 102
UK excluding London -98 181 £62,500 +13.64% 117
Work from Home -5 131 £80,000 +33.33% 104
North of England -18 66 £60,000 +9.09% 33
South East -62 36 £62,500 +13.64% 29
Yorkshire 0 35 £81,250 +35.42% 8
Midlands -52 34 £85,000 +41.67% 31
West Midlands -41 27 £85,000 +41.67% 20
North West -19 26 £55,000 - 20
South West -65 23 £85,000 +17.24% 8
East of England -21 20 £90,000 +80.00% 8
Wales -52 10 £53,171 -3.33% 2
North East -61 9 £53,750 +2.38% 5
East Midlands -35 7 - - 11
Scotland -4 4 £49,168 -0.67% 7

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 44 (11.34%) Apache Spark
2 20 (5.15%) Apache
3 17 (4.38%) SharePoint
4 14 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.52%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.52%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.77%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.26%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 388 (100.00%) Azure
2 181 (46.65%) Power Platform
3 144 (37.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 101 (26.03%) Azure DevOps
5 70 (18.04%) Azure Databricks
6 50 (12.89%) Microsoft Purview
7 44 (11.34%) Azure Logic Apps
8 29 (7.47%) Snowflake
9 27 (6.96%) AWS
9 27 (6.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 27 (6.96%) Serverless
10 22 (5.67%) Azure Functions
11 21 (5.41%) dbt
12 20 (5.15%) PowerApps
13 18 (4.64%) GCP
13 18 (4.64%) Power Automate
14 16 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
15 15 (3.87%) Azure Machine Learning
16 13 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
17 12 (3.09%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.29%) Firewall
2 4 (1.03%) DNS
3 1 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (46.13%) Power BI
2 133 (34.28%) Data Warehouse
3 102 (26.29%) Data Lake
4 92 (23.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 69 (17.78%) Metadata
6 53 (13.66%) Delta Lake
7 49 (12.63%) SQL Server
8 35 (9.02%) Star Schema
9 29 (7.47%) Tableau
10 26 (6.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 25 (6.44%) Spark SQL
12 24 (6.19%) NoSQL
13 22 (5.67%) Big Data
13 22 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
14 20 (5.15%) Data Vault
15 18 (4.64%) Semantic Layer
16 17 (4.38%) Relational Database
17 16 (4.12%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (3.87%) Elasticsearch
19 14 (3.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 50 (12.89%) Git
2 13 (3.35%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.06%) GitLab
4 7 (1.80%) MLflow
5 3 (0.77%) JIRA
5 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.52%) ERwin
6 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.52%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.26%) kappa
7 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 128 (32.99%) Social Skills
2 115 (29.64%) Finance
3 68 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.67%) Legal
5 16 (4.12%) Retail
6 14 (3.61%) Law
7 11 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (2.58%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.06%) Banking
11 5 (1.29%) Billing
11 5 (1.29%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.29%) Marketing
12 4 (1.03%) Advertising
12 4 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.03%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.77%) Games
14 2 (0.52%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 193 (49.74%) Data Engineer
2 116 (29.90%) Senior
3 75 (19.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 67 (17.27%) Azure Engineer
5 61 (15.72%) Lead
6 53 (13.66%) Architect
7 47 (12.11%) Azure Data Engineer
7 47 (12.11%) Data Architect
8 39 (10.05%) Developer
9 27 (6.96%) Lead Data Engineer
10 23 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
11 20 (5.15%) Consultant
12 18 (4.64%) Databricks Engineer
13 17 (4.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 17 (4.38%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 13 (3.35%) Analyst
14 13 (3.35%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 13 (3.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 13 (3.35%) Python Data Engineer
14 13 (3.35%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (23.45%) PySpark
2 61 (15.72%) Terraform
3 38 (9.79%) Kafka
4 25 (6.44%) JSON
5 24 (6.19%) REST
6 13 (3.35%) .NET
7 12 (3.09%) .NET Core
7 12 (3.09%) CSS
7 12 (3.09%) HTML
7 12 (3.09%) HTML5 Canvas
7 12 (3.09%) Keycloak
7 12 (3.09%) Microsoft Graph
7 12 (3.09%) SPFx
8 9 (2.32%) ARM Templates
9 6 (1.55%) Apache Avro
9 6 (1.55%) XML
10 5 (1.29%) SOAP
10 5 (1.29%) YAML
11 4 (1.03%) MDX
12 3 (0.77%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.05%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.22%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.80%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.29%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.03%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.03%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.03%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.03%) PKI
11 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.77%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.52%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.52%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.61%) Windows
2 5 (1.29%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.03%) Linux
4 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (56.96%) Business Intelligence
2 216 (55.67%) Analytics
3 199 (51.29%) Data Modelling
4 195 (50.26%) CI/CD
5 184 (47.42%) Data Engineering
6 182 (46.91%) ETL
7 178 (45.88%) DevOps
8 176 (45.36%) Data Pipeline
9 102 (26.29%) AI
10 97 (25.00%) Agile
11 96 (24.74%) Data Architecture
12 92 (23.71%) Data Governance
13 90 (23.20%) Lakehouse
14 88 (22.68%) Problem-Solving
15 83 (21.39%) Decision-Making
16 80 (20.62%) Machine Learning
17 75 (19.33%) Data Science
18 74 (19.07%) Data Integration
19 69 (17.78%) Technical Leadership
20 62 (15.98%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 291 (75.00%) SQL
2 220 (56.70%) Python
3 47 (12.11%) Scala
4 37 (9.54%) PowerShell
5 36 (9.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 29 (7.47%) Bicep
7 24 (6.19%) C#
8 19 (4.90%) JavaScript
9 14 (3.61%) Java
9 14 (3.61%) T-SQL
10 12 (3.09%) Go
10 12 (3.09%) TypeScript
11 8 (2.06%) R
12 5 (1.29%) Bash
13 2 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.52%) VBA
14 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 57 (14.69%) Azure Certification
2 50 (12.89%) Security Cleared
3 43 (11.08%) SC Cleared
4 39 (10.05%) Degree
5 25 (6.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.12%) SnowPro
7 15 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (3.09%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.03%) CISSP
10 4 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.77%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.26%) ICAEW
13 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (38.14%) Data Quality
2 35 (9.02%) GDPR
3 19 (4.90%) QA
4 10 (2.58%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.52%) IFRS
6 2 (0.52%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.52%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (5.41%) Docker
2 4 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (6.44%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.29%) Ansible
3 3 (0.77%) Grafana
3 3 (0.77%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 184 (47.42%) Microsoft
2 177 (45.62%) Databricks
3 13 (3.35%) Informatica
4 12 (3.09%) Adobe
4 12 (3.09%) SAP
5 11 (2.84%) Talend
6 7 (1.80%) Google
7 6 (1.55%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.03%) Foundry
8 4 (1.03%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.52%) Oracle
10 1 (0.26%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.26%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.26%) Confluent
10 1 (0.26%) Infor
10 1 (0.26%) Meraki
10 1 (0.26%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.26%) Teradata