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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 354 429
Rank change year-on-year -115 +75 -82
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 344 373 469
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.75% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.23% 2.34% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 256 281 395
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £91,563 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -

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 28,003 15,962 26,853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.67% 32.18% 32.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,457 11,075 19,356
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,001 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,124 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.73% -7.18% -1.82%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -95 328 £80,000 +18.52% 120
UK excluding London -72 174 £62,500 +4.17% 81
London -61 150 £80,000 - 67
Work from Home -10 128 £82,500 +32.00% 65
North of England -12 66 £80,000 +33.33% 12
Yorkshire +7 41 £80,000 +33.33% 6
Midlands -43 33 £60,000 -5.88% 17
East of England -16 31 £90,000 +69.01% 2
West Midlands -40 27 £60,000 - 13
South East -67 22 £50,000 -20.00% 36
North West -3 20 £55,000 -4.35% 3
South West -51 18 £84,000 +8.39% 2
Wales -54 8 £53,171 -3.33% 8
East Midlands -28 6 - - 4
North East -51 5 £47,500 -9.52% 3
Scotland +10 2 £43,335 +2.57% 2

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 35 (10.17%) Apache Spark
2 27 (7.85%) SharePoint
3 15 (4.36%) Apache
4 11 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.87%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.58%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.58%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.29%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 344 (100.00%) Azure
2 161 (46.80%) Power Platform
3 110 (31.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 70 (20.35%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (13.66%) Azure Logic Apps
6 41 (11.92%) Microsoft Purview
7 30 (8.72%) PowerApps
8 28 (8.14%) Power Automate
9 24 (6.98%) Snowflake
10 23 (6.69%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (6.69%) Serverless
11 22 (6.40%) Azure Functions
12 19 (5.52%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.52%) OneDrive
13 18 (5.23%) AWS
14 17 (4.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 17 (4.94%) GCP
15 15 (4.36%) dbt
16 13 (3.78%) Dynamics 365
17 12 (3.49%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (45.06%) Power BI
2 104 (30.23%) Data Warehouse
3 93 (27.03%) Data Lake
4 76 (22.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 47 (13.66%) Metadata
6 46 (13.37%) SQL Server
7 45 (13.08%) Delta Lake
8 32 (9.30%) Spark SQL
9 29 (8.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 25 (7.27%) Tableau
11 21 (6.10%) Relational Database
12 20 (5.81%) Star Schema
13 19 (5.52%) Big Data
14 17 (4.94%) Data Vault
15 14 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
15 14 (4.07%) Semantic Layer
16 13 (3.78%) BigQuery
17 11 (3.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 11 (3.20%) Power Query
18 10 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 33 (9.59%) Git
2 7 (2.03%) MLflow
3 6 (1.74%) GitLab
3 6 (1.74%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.16%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.87%) JIRA
6 2 (0.58%) ERwin
6 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.58%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 111 (32.27%) Social Skills
2 92 (26.74%) Finance
3 56 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (3.49%) Legal
4 12 (3.49%) Retail
5 11 (3.20%) Law
6 10 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.03%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.74%) Marketing
9 4 (1.16%) Advertising
9 4 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.87%) Games
10 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.87%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.58%) Banking
11 2 (0.58%) Billing
11 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.29%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 174 (50.58%) Data Engineer
2 91 (26.45%) Senior
3 61 (17.73%) Lead
4 54 (15.70%) Senior Data Engineer
5 49 (14.24%) Architect
6 47 (13.66%) Azure Engineer
6 47 (13.66%) Data Architect
7 38 (11.05%) Developer
8 35 (10.17%) Azure Data Engineer
9 30 (8.72%) Lead Data Engineer
10 25 (7.27%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (5.52%) Senior Developer
12 16 (4.65%) Consultant
13 11 (3.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 9 (2.62%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 9 (2.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 9 (2.62%) Microsoft Engineer
15 8 (2.33%) Azure Architect
15 8 (2.33%) Senior Consultant
16 7 (2.03%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (22.97%) PySpark
2 23 (6.69%) JSON
3 22 (6.40%) .NET
3 22 (6.40%) Kafka
4 20 (5.81%) .NET Core
4 20 (5.81%) CSS
4 20 (5.81%) HTML
5 19 (5.52%) HTML5 Canvas
5 19 (5.52%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (5.52%) REST
5 19 (5.52%) SPFx
6 12 (3.49%) ARM Templates
7 6 (1.74%) Keycloak
7 6 (1.74%) SOAP
8 3 (0.87%) YAML
9 2 (0.58%) LangChain
9 2 (0.58%) Middleware
10 1 (0.29%) LangGraph
10 1 (0.29%) Symfony
10 1 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.59%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.23%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (3.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.03%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.45%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.45%) Replication
8 4 (1.16%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.16%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.16%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.87%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.87%) Wiki
10 2 (0.58%) Clustering
10 2 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.58%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (56.10%) Analytics
2 191 (55.52%) Business Intelligence
3 178 (51.74%) Data Modelling
4 158 (45.93%) Data Engineering
5 156 (45.35%) ETL
6 155 (45.06%) CI/CD
7 154 (44.77%) Data Pipeline
8 134 (38.95%) DevOps
9 104 (30.23%) AI
10 94 (27.33%) Data Governance
11 87 (25.29%) Machine Learning
12 75 (21.80%) Data Architecture
13 74 (21.51%) Agile
13 74 (21.51%) Decision-Making
14 71 (20.64%) Problem-Solving
15 65 (18.90%) Data Science
16 64 (18.60%) Technical Leadership
17 63 (18.31%) Data Integration
18 55 (15.99%) Continuous Improvement
19 54 (15.70%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 259 (75.29%) SQL
2 185 (53.78%) Python
3 35 (10.17%) PowerShell
4 33 (9.59%) Scala
5 24 (6.98%) C#
6 23 (6.69%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.52%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.23%) Bicep
8 18 (5.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (3.49%) T-SQL
10 9 (2.62%) Java
11 6 (1.74%) Go
11 6 (1.74%) R
12 2 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.58%) VBA
13 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 34 (9.88%) Security Cleared
3 32 (9.30%) Degree
4 27 (7.85%) SC Cleared
5 21 (6.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.78%) SnowPro
8 6 (1.74%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.87%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.29%) ICAEW
11 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (31.98%) Data Quality
2 32 (9.30%) GDPR
3 16 (4.65%) QA
4 5 (1.45%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.45%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.58%) GRC
5 2 (0.58%) IFRS
5 2 (0.58%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.58%) SLA
6 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 8 (2.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (13.95%) Terraform
2 10 (2.91%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) Ansible
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 172 (50.00%) Databricks
2 150 (43.60%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.52%) Adobe
4 9 (2.62%) SAP
5 8 (2.33%) Foundry
5 8 (2.33%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.03%) Google
6 7 (2.03%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.45%) Informatica
8 3 (0.87%) Talend
9 2 (0.58%) Oracle
9 2 (0.58%) Trapeze
10 1 (0.29%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.29%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.29%) Confluent
10 1 (0.29%) Infor
10 1 (0.29%) Nintex
10 1 (0.29%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.29%) SolarWinds