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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 340 448
Rank change year-on-year -86 +108 -78
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 345 380 526
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.85% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 2.54% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 264 294 459
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,438 £52,500 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £66,375 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.53% +6.20% -4.58%
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,188 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,525 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +19.05% -8.70%

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 25,087 14,945 35,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.89% 33.53% 33.02%
Number of salaries quoted 16,217 10,308 27,353
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,497 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% -7.85%

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 16 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 16 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 -100 319 £80,000 +18.52% 81
UK excluding London -59 177 £62,500 - 59
London -53 138 £85,000 +9.68% 41
Work from Home +21 136 £82,500 +34.69% 54
North of England -15 56 £80,000 +33.33% 16
Midlands -12 42 £58,750 -9.62% 10
Yorkshire -18 39 £80,000 +33.33% 5
West Midlands -20 36 £58,750 +2.17% 8
East of England -2 34 £90,000 +71.43% 3
South East -59 19 £50,000 -23.08% 17
North West -1 16 £61,250 +11.36% 7
South West -51 16 £57,500 -25.81% 6
Scotland +4 9 £57,418 -13.33% 4
East Midlands -23 6 £57,500 -11.54% 2
Wales -42 3 £53,171 -3.33% 3
North East -47 1 - - 4

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 (10.43%) SharePoint
2 23 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.90%) Apache
5 7 (2.03%) Appian
6 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.87%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.58%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (1.74%) 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
3 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 345 (100.00%) Azure
2 147 (42.61%) Power Platform
3 103 (29.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 69 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (13.04%) Azure Logic Apps
6 39 (11.30%) Power Automate
7 34 (9.86%) PowerApps
8 31 (8.99%) Microsoft 365
9 27 (7.83%) Microsoft Purview
10 21 (6.09%) Serverless
11 20 (5.80%) Azure Functions
12 19 (5.51%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.51%) AWS
12 19 (5.51%) OneDrive
13 18 (5.22%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (5.22%) dbt
13 18 (5.22%) Snowflake
14 17 (4.93%) GCP
14 17 (4.93%) GitHub
15 14 (4.06%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (40.58%) Power BI
2 92 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
3 91 (26.38%) Data Lake
4 89 (25.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 50 (14.49%) SQL Server
6 35 (10.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 34 (9.86%) Delta Lake
8 33 (9.57%) Spark SQL
9 25 (7.25%) Metadata
10 19 (5.51%) Relational Database
11 18 (5.22%) Tableau
12 15 (4.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 15 (4.35%) Star Schema
13 14 (4.06%) Big Data
14 12 (3.48%) Power Query
15 11 (3.19%) BigQuery
16 9 (2.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 8 (2.32%) Data Vault
18 7 (2.03%) Pinecone
18 7 (2.03%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 34 (9.86%) Git
2 9 (2.61%) 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
1 119 (34.49%) Finance
2 115 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 52 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
4 9 (2.61%) Public Sector
4 9 (2.61%) Retail
5 5 (1.45%) Law
5 5 (1.45%) Legal
6 4 (1.16%) Automotive
6 4 (1.16%) Manufacturing
6 4 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (0.87%) Advertising
7 3 (0.87%) Banking
7 3 (0.87%) Marketing
7 3 (0.87%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.58%) Local Government
9 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 169 (48.99%) Data Engineer
2 76 (22.03%) Senior
3 67 (19.42%) Lead
4 49 (14.20%) Azure Engineer
5 44 (12.75%) Senior Data Engineer
6 42 (12.17%) Developer
7 39 (11.30%) Platform Engineer
8 37 (10.72%) Lead Data Engineer
9 32 (9.28%) Azure Data Engineer
10 31 (8.99%) Architect
11 26 (7.54%) Data Architect
12 18 (5.22%) Senior Developer
13 16 (4.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 15 (4.35%) Consultant
15 13 (3.77%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 13 (3.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 11 (3.19%) Microsoft Engineer
17 10 (2.90%) Automation Engineer
18 9 (2.61%) Data Manager
19 8 (2.32%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (21.45%) PySpark
2 28 (8.12%) .NET
3 27 (7.83%) REST
4 24 (6.96%) JSON
5 22 (6.38%) .NET Core
5 22 (6.38%) CSS
5 22 (6.38%) HTML
6 19 (5.51%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.51%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.51%) SPFx
7 13 (3.77%) ARM Templates
8 11 (3.19%) Kafka
8 11 (3.19%) RESTful
9 8 (2.32%) FastAPI
9 8 (2.32%) NumPy
9 8 (2.32%) OAuth
9 8 (2.32%) Pandas
9 8 (2.32%) PyTorch
9 8 (2.32%) scikit-learn
9 8 (2.32%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.06%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.90%) Low-Code
5 9 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.03%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.74%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.74%) Replication
8 5 (1.45%) AI Agents
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
1 177 (51.30%) Analytics
2 173 (50.14%) Data Modelling
3 161 (46.67%) Data Engineering
4 159 (46.09%) Business Intelligence
5 157 (45.51%) CI/CD
6 153 (44.35%) ETL
7 145 (42.03%) Data Pipeline
8 124 (35.94%) DevOps
9 86 (24.93%) AI
10 79 (22.90%) Data Governance
11 77 (22.32%) Decision-Making
12 73 (21.16%) Agile
13 68 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
14 66 (19.13%) Machine Learning
15 65 (18.84%) Data Architecture
16 59 (17.10%) Data Integration
17 51 (14.78%) Infrastructure as Code
18 43 (12.46%) Data Science
19 42 (12.17%) Mentoring
19 42 (12.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 262 (75.94%) SQL
2 174 (50.43%) Python
3 38 (11.01%) PowerShell
4 29 (8.41%) C#
5 26 (7.54%) JavaScript
6 23 (6.67%) Scala
7 19 (5.51%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (4.06%) T-SQL
10 11 (3.19%) Bicep
11 9 (2.61%) Java
11 9 (2.61%) 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 39 (11.30%) Degree
2 25 (7.25%) Azure Certification
2 25 (7.25%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (5.51%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.16%) IIBA
6 4 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.16%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.16%) PMP
6 4 (1.16%) SnowPro
7 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.29%) CISM
8 1 (0.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (32.17%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.83%) GDPR
3 10 (2.90%) QA
4 6 (1.74%) 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 (4.06%) Docker
2 5 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (12.75%) Terraform
2 18 (5.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 158 (45.80%) Databricks
2 139 (40.29%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.51%) Adobe
4 15 (4.35%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.03%) Automation Anywhere
5 7 (2.03%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.03%) SAP
5 7 (2.03%) UiPath
6 6 (1.74%) Alteryx
6 6 (1.74%) Foundry
6 6 (1.74%) Google
7 4 (1.16%) Anaplan
8 2 (0.58%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.58%) Informatica
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle
8 2 (0.58%) Talend
8 2 (0.58%) Trapeze
9 1 (0.29%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.29%) IBM
9 1 (0.29%) Teradata