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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 372 362
Rank change year-on-year +25 -10 +47
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 362 358 526
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.72% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 1.94% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 237 289 462
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,700 £41,325
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -13.60%
75th Percentile £88,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £92,450
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +23.81% -12.50%

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 22,255 18,439 28,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.38% 37.05% 38.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,038 11,019 23,621
10th Percentile £28,925 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Data Factory in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Top 17 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 13 February 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 +1 284 £75,000 +15.38% 117
UK excluding London -3 182 £60,000 -7.69% 104
Work from Home +115 176 £75,000 +15.38% 79
London +49 150 £85,000 +15.25% 37
Scotland +29 52 £79,500 +44.55% 5
Midlands +26 50 £60,000 - 28
West Midlands +34 47 £60,000 -4.00% 20
North of England -17 29 £59,000 -9.23% 24
South East -29 25 £68,750 +5.77% 31
South West -12 12 £69,000 +17.45% 9
Yorkshire -41 11 £79,000 +22.48% 6
North West -6 10 £59,000 +7.27% 14
East of England +17 8 £55,000 -45.00% 5
North East 0 8 £51,000 -21.54% 4
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 -
East Midlands -14 3 £60,000 +36.36% 8
Wales +1 2 - - 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 16 (4.42%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.31%) Appian
2 12 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.49%) Apache
4 7 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.38%) SAS
6 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.28%) Confluence
7 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 35 (9.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) Endur
3 1 (0.28%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 362 (100.00%) Azure
2 179 (49.45%) Power Platform
3 139 (38.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 89 (24.59%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (13.54%) GitHub
6 38 (10.50%) Snowflake
7 29 (8.01%) dbt
7 29 (8.01%) Power Automate
8 27 (7.46%) Microsoft Purview
9 25 (6.91%) Azure Logic Apps
10 24 (6.63%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (5.52%) PaaS
12 18 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (4.70%) Anthropic Claude
13 17 (4.70%) AWS
13 17 (4.70%) SaaS
14 16 (4.42%) Azure Service Bus
14 16 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
15 15 (4.14%) Azure Storage
16 14 (3.87%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.66%) DNS
2 4 (1.10%) Firewall
2 4 (1.10%) VPN
3 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (46.13%) Power BI
2 116 (32.04%) Data Lake
3 107 (29.56%) SQL Server
4 105 (29.01%) Data Warehouse
5 94 (25.97%) Azure SQL Database
6 44 (12.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 43 (11.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 25 (6.91%) Metadata
9 21 (5.80%) Delta Lake
10 20 (5.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 14 (3.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 13 (3.59%) Tableau
13 12 (3.31%) Pinecone
14 10 (2.76%) MySQL
15 9 (2.49%) Star Schema
16 7 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
17 6 (1.66%) Data Mining
17 6 (1.66%) Power Query
17 6 (1.66%) Qlik Sense
17 6 (1.66%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 33 (9.12%) Git
2 12 (3.31%) MLflow
3 3 (0.83%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.28%) JIRA
5 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 189 (52.21%) Finance
2 132 (36.46%) Social Skills
3 70 (19.34%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (4.97%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.59%) Billing
6 13 (3.59%) Law
6 13 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.49%) Automotive
10 5 (1.38%) Legal
10 5 (1.38%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.10%) Marketing
11 4 (1.10%) Retail
12 3 (0.83%) Advertising
12 3 (0.83%) Banking
12 3 (0.83%) Local Government
13 1 (0.28%) Back Office
13 1 (0.28%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 139 (38.40%) Data Engineer
2 64 (17.68%) Senior
3 45 (12.43%) Azure Engineer
4 43 (11.88%) Senior Data Engineer
5 36 (9.94%) Lead
6 30 (8.29%) Developer
7 26 (7.18%) Architect
7 26 (7.18%) Azure Data Engineer
8 20 (5.52%) Analyst
8 20 (5.52%) Data Architect
9 18 (4.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 18 (4.97%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (4.70%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (3.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 13 (3.59%) Automation Engineer
11 13 (3.59%) Data Manager
12 12 (3.31%) Business Manager
12 12 (3.31%) Commercial Analyst
12 12 (3.31%) Insight Analyst
12 12 (3.31%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (12.71%) PySpark
2 29 (8.01%) RESTful
3 27 (7.46%) OAuth
4 23 (6.35%) REST
5 22 (6.08%) JSON
6 18 (4.97%) .NET
7 14 (3.87%) OAuth2
8 12 (3.31%) Django
8 12 (3.31%) FastAPI
8 12 (3.31%) Flask
8 12 (3.31%) JWT
8 12 (3.31%) NumPy
8 12 (3.31%) OpenAPI
8 12 (3.31%) Pandas
8 12 (3.31%) pytest
8 12 (3.31%) PyTorch
8 12 (3.31%) scikit-learn
8 12 (3.31%) Swagger
8 12 (3.31%) TensorFlow
8 12 (3.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.73%) Analytical Mindset
2 26 (7.18%) Cloud Native
3 25 (6.91%) Low-Code
4 19 (5.25%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (4.97%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.21%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.21%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (1.93%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.38%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.83%) Clustering
9 3 (0.83%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.83%) Market Risk
9 3 (0.83%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.66%) VMS
2 4 (1.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (57.73%) Analytics
2 182 (50.28%) Data Modelling
3 179 (49.45%) Business Intelligence
4 176 (48.62%) ETL
5 167 (46.13%) Data Pipeline
6 156 (43.09%) CI/CD
7 150 (41.44%) Data Engineering
8 131 (36.19%) DevOps
9 110 (30.39%) AI
10 107 (29.56%) Agile
11 103 (28.45%) Decision-Making
12 86 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
13 77 (21.27%) Visualisation
14 71 (19.61%) Data Governance
15 61 (16.85%) Infrastructure as Code
16 60 (16.57%) Data Architecture
17 58 (16.02%) Data Integration
18 57 (15.75%) Coaching
19 54 (14.92%) Asset Management
20 53 (14.64%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 264 (72.93%) SQL
2 182 (50.28%) Python
3 40 (11.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 35 (9.67%) T-SQL
5 28 (7.73%) PowerShell
6 24 (6.63%) Bicep
7 20 (5.52%) Scala
8 17 (4.70%) C#
9 10 (2.76%) Java
10 8 (2.21%) JavaScript
11 7 (1.93%) R
12 3 (0.83%) C++
12 3 (0.83%) PHP
13 1 (0.28%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 38 (10.50%) Degree
2 16 (4.42%) Azure Certification
3 14 (3.87%) Security Cleared
4 12 (3.31%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 11 (3.04%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.21%) IIBA
7 8 (2.21%) PMI Certification
7 8 (2.21%) PMP
7 8 (2.21%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.83%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.83%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.28%) CISM
9 1 (0.28%) CISSP
9 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (33.15%) Data Quality
2 37 (10.22%) GDPR
3 12 (3.31%) Actionable Recommendations
4 11 (3.04%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.55%) QA
7 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.28%) COBIT
7 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (6.35%) Docker
2 10 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (14.36%) Terraform
2 30 (8.29%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 144 (39.78%) Databricks
2 141 (38.95%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.97%) Ab Initio
4 16 (4.42%) OpenAI
5 12 (3.31%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (3.31%) UiPath
6 10 (2.76%) Alteryx
7 8 (2.21%) Anaplan
8 7 (1.93%) Talend
9 4 (1.10%) IBM
9 4 (1.10%) Informatica
9 4 (1.10%) RedGate
9 4 (1.10%) SAP
10 3 (0.83%) Oracle
11 2 (0.55%) Google
11 2 (0.55%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.28%) Cribl.io
12 1 (0.28%) FIS
12 1 (0.28%) Foundry
12 1 (0.28%) Palantir