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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 369 411
Rank change year-on-year -88 +42 -67
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 368 351 463
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.70% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 2.19% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 273 273 385
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,800 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.77% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £83,750 £82,500
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 27,641 16,009 25,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.25% 31.97% 31.65%
Number of salaries quoted 18,552 10,947 17,670
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £39,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
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 29 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 29 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 -71 349 £80,000 +23.08% 197
UK excluding London -79 182 £62,500 +13.64% 106
London -49 167 £81,250 +1.56% 127
Work from Home -14 140 £80,000 +33.33% 85
North of England -11 66 £74,000 +33.98% 22
Yorkshire -8 40 £81,250 +35.42% 9
Midlands -42 33 £60,000 -2.04% 15
South East -65 33 £58,750 +6.82% 48
East of England -4 27 £90,000 +80.00% 5
West Midlands -27 27 £60,000 - 9
North West -5 20 £55,000 - 9
South West -53 18 £85,000 +13.33% 6
Wales -58 10 £52,835 -3.94% 4
East Midlands -27 6 - - 6
North East -60 6 £47,500 -9.52% 4
Scotland -9 3 £49,168 -0.67% 6

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 37 (10.05%) Apache Spark
2 26 (7.07%) SharePoint
3 18 (4.89%) Apache
4 11 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.54%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.54%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 368 (100.00%) Azure
2 172 (46.74%) Power Platform
3 126 (34.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 83 (22.55%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (12.77%) Azure Logic Apps
6 46 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 27 (7.34%) PowerApps
8 26 (7.07%) Power Automate
9 25 (6.79%) Snowflake
10 23 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 23 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (6.25%) Serverless
11 21 (5.71%) Azure Functions
12 19 (5.16%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.16%) OneDrive
13 16 (4.35%) GCP
14 15 (4.08%) AWS
15 14 (3.80%) dbt
16 13 (3.53%) Azure Machine Learning
16 13 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (45.38%) Power BI
2 114 (30.98%) Data Warehouse
3 95 (25.82%) Data Lake
4 76 (20.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 59 (16.03%) Metadata
6 51 (13.86%) Delta Lake
7 47 (12.77%) SQL Server
8 30 (8.15%) Spark SQL
9 29 (7.88%) Star Schema
10 28 (7.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 25 (6.79%) Tableau
12 20 (5.43%) Data Vault
12 20 (5.43%) Relational Database
13 18 (4.89%) Big Data
13 18 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
14 15 (4.08%) Semantic Layer
15 14 (3.80%) NoSQL
16 13 (3.53%) BigQuery
17 11 (2.99%) Power Query
17 11 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 41 (11.14%) Git
2 7 (1.90%) Jenkins
2 7 (1.90%) MLflow
3 6 (1.63%) GitLab
4 3 (0.82%) JIRA
4 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.54%) ERwin
5 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.54%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.27%) kappa
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 125 (33.97%) Social Skills
2 97 (26.36%) Finance
3 57 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (4.89%) Legal
5 13 (3.53%) Law
5 13 (3.53%) Retail
6 10 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.17%) Public Sector
8 7 (1.90%) Marketing
9 5 (1.36%) Banking
9 5 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.09%) Advertising
10 4 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.82%) Games
11 3 (0.82%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.82%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.54%) Billing
12 2 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.27%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 177 (48.10%) Data Engineer
2 104 (28.26%) Senior
3 65 (17.66%) Lead
4 59 (16.03%) Senior Data Engineer
5 55 (14.95%) Azure Engineer
6 52 (14.13%) Architect
7 49 (13.32%) Data Architect
8 45 (12.23%) Developer
9 39 (10.60%) Azure Data Engineer
10 31 (8.42%) Lead Data Engineer
11 23 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.16%) Senior Developer
13 18 (4.89%) Consultant
14 16 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 10 (2.72%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 10 (2.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 10 (2.72%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 10 (2.72%) Operations Engineer
15 10 (2.72%) Senior Consultant
16 9 (2.45%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (23.37%) PySpark
2 51 (13.86%) Terraform
3 26 (7.07%) JSON
3 26 (7.07%) Kafka
3 26 (7.07%) REST
4 22 (5.98%) .NET
5 20 (5.43%) .NET Core
5 20 (5.43%) CSS
5 20 (5.43%) HTML
6 19 (5.16%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.16%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.16%) SPFx
7 11 (2.99%) ARM Templates
8 8 (2.17%) Keycloak
9 6 (1.63%) SOAP
10 4 (1.09%) XML
11 3 (0.82%) LangChain
11 3 (0.82%) YAML
12 2 (0.54%) FastAPI
12 2 (0.54%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.24%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.07%) Product Ownership
3 10 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.09%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.09%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.09%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.09%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.09%) Reinsurance
7 4 (1.09%) Replication
8 2 (0.54%) Clustering
8 2 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.54%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.54%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.63%) Windows
2 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (56.52%) Business Intelligence
2 200 (54.35%) Analytics
3 187 (50.82%) Data Modelling
4 174 (47.28%) CI/CD
4 174 (47.28%) ETL
5 172 (46.74%) Data Engineering
6 160 (43.48%) Data Pipeline
7 154 (41.85%) DevOps
8 105 (28.53%) AI
9 95 (25.82%) Data Governance
10 92 (25.00%) Machine Learning
11 86 (23.37%) Data Architecture
12 78 (21.20%) Decision-Making
13 77 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
14 74 (20.11%) Data Science
14 74 (20.11%) Technical Leadership
15 72 (19.57%) Agile
16 63 (17.12%) Data Integration
17 59 (16.03%) Data Strategy
18 56 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 279 (75.82%) SQL
2 204 (55.43%) Python
3 39 (10.60%) Scala
4 37 (10.05%) PowerShell
5 29 (7.88%) C#
5 29 (7.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (6.25%) Bicep
6 23 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.16%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.80%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.17%) Go
9 8 (2.17%) Java
10 5 (1.36%) R
11 2 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.54%) VBA
12 1 (0.27%) Bash
12 1 (0.27%) PHP
12 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (13.59%) Azure Certification
2 37 (10.05%) Degree
3 36 (9.78%) Security Cleared
4 28 (7.61%) SC Cleared
5 27 (7.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.35%) SnowPro
8 8 (2.17%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.82%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.27%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (34.51%) Data Quality
2 35 (9.51%) GDPR
3 17 (4.62%) QA
4 5 (1.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (1.36%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.54%) IFRS
6 2 (0.54%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.54%) SLA
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 9 (2.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.27%) Ansible
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.27%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 177 (48.10%) Databricks
2 176 (47.83%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.16%) Adobe
4 9 (2.45%) SAP
5 8 (2.17%) Foundry
5 8 (2.17%) Informatica
5 8 (2.17%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.90%) Google
6 7 (1.90%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.90%) Talend
7 2 (0.54%) Oracle
8 1 (0.27%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.27%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.27%) Confluent
8 1 (0.27%) Infor
8 1 (0.27%) Meraki
8 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.27%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.27%) Teradata