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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 359 418
Rank change year-on-year -109 +59 -87
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 356 356 466
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.71% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 2.23% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 263 271 392
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £43,875
25th Percentile £56,125 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £80,625
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £99,625
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 27,713 15,936 26,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.75% 31.95% 31.67%
Number of salaries quoted 18,448 10,949 18,574
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%
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 21 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 21 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 -68 339 £80,000 +23.08% 96
UK excluding London -99 176 £62,500 +13.64% 70
London -61 161 £80,000 - 53
Work from Home -11 135 £80,000 +33.33% 47
North of England -3 66 £74,000 +28.70% 11
Yorkshire -8 40 £81,250 +35.42% 4
Midlands -47 31 £60,000 -4.00% 13
South East -70 29 £55,000 - 37
East of England -9 28 £90,000 +80.00% 1
West Midlands -41 25 £60,000 - 9
North West -13 20 £55,000 -2.22% 4
South West -56 17 £84,500 +12.67% 2
Wales -48 9 £53,171 -3.33% 5
East Midlands -21 6 - - 4
North East -52 6 £47,500 -9.52% 3
Scotland +6 3 £49,168 -0.67% 1

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 (9.83%) Apache Spark
2 26 (7.30%) SharePoint
3 16 (4.49%) Apache
4 11 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.84%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.56%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 356 (100.00%) Azure
2 165 (46.35%) Power Platform
3 119 (33.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 78 (21.91%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (13.20%) Azure Logic Apps
6 43 (12.08%) Microsoft Purview
7 28 (7.87%) PowerApps
8 27 (7.58%) Power Automate
9 24 (6.74%) Snowflake
10 23 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (6.46%) Serverless
11 22 (6.18%) Azure Functions
12 20 (5.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 19 (5.34%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 19 (5.34%) OneDrive
14 16 (4.49%) GCP
15 15 (4.21%) AWS
16 14 (3.93%) dbt
17 13 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
18 12 (3.37%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (44.94%) Power BI
2 108 (30.34%) Data Warehouse
3 95 (26.69%) Data Lake
4 76 (21.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 53 (14.89%) Metadata
6 47 (13.20%) Delta Lake
7 46 (12.92%) SQL Server
8 31 (8.71%) Spark SQL
9 27 (7.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 25 (7.02%) Star Schema
10 25 (7.02%) Tableau
11 20 (5.62%) Relational Database
12 18 (5.06%) Big Data
12 18 (5.06%) Data Vault
13 16 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
14 15 (4.21%) Semantic Layer
15 13 (3.65%) BigQuery
16 12 (3.37%) NoSQL
16 12 (3.37%) Power Query
17 10 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 38 (10.67%) Git
2 7 (1.97%) Jenkins
2 7 (1.97%) MLflow
3 6 (1.69%) GitLab
4 4 (1.12%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.84%) JIRA
6 2 (0.56%) ERwin
6 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.56%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 118 (33.15%) Social Skills
2 95 (26.69%) Finance
3 59 (16.57%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.21%) Legal
5 13 (3.65%) Retail
6 11 (3.09%) Law
7 9 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.97%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.69%) Marketing
10 4 (1.12%) Advertising
10 4 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.84%) Banking
11 3 (0.84%) Games
11 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.84%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.56%) Billing
12 2 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.28%) Social Housing
13 1 (0.28%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 172 (48.31%) Data Engineer
2 96 (26.97%) Senior
3 63 (17.70%) Lead
4 55 (15.45%) Senior Data Engineer
5 52 (14.61%) Azure Engineer
6 49 (13.76%) Architect
7 47 (13.20%) Data Architect
8 43 (12.08%) Developer
9 37 (10.39%) Azure Data Engineer
10 29 (8.15%) Lead Data Engineer
11 24 (6.74%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.34%) Senior Developer
13 16 (4.49%) Consultant
14 14 (3.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 10 (2.81%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 10 (2.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 9 (2.53%) Analyst
16 9 (2.53%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 9 (2.53%) Microsoft Engineer
16 9 (2.53%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (22.75%) PySpark
2 49 (13.76%) Terraform
3 24 (6.74%) JSON
3 24 (6.74%) Kafka
4 22 (6.18%) .NET
4 22 (6.18%) REST
5 20 (5.62%) .NET Core
5 20 (5.62%) CSS
5 20 (5.62%) HTML
6 19 (5.34%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.34%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.34%) SPFx
7 11 (3.09%) ARM Templates
8 7 (1.97%) Keycloak
9 6 (1.69%) SOAP
10 3 (0.84%) LangChain
10 3 (0.84%) YAML
11 2 (0.56%) FastAPI
11 2 (0.56%) Middleware
11 2 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.71%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.18%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.25%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.97%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.40%) Replication
9 4 (1.12%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.12%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.12%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.12%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.12%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.56%) Clustering
10 2 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.56%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (55.90%) Business Intelligence
2 194 (54.49%) Analytics
3 183 (51.40%) Data Modelling
4 166 (46.63%) CI/CD
4 166 (46.63%) Data Engineering
4 166 (46.63%) ETL
5 158 (44.38%) Data Pipeline
6 143 (40.17%) DevOps
7 102 (28.65%) AI
8 94 (26.40%) Data Governance
9 88 (24.72%) Machine Learning
10 81 (22.75%) Data Architecture
11 78 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
12 77 (21.63%) Decision-Making
13 71 (19.94%) Agile
14 69 (19.38%) Data Science
15 68 (19.10%) Technical Leadership
16 64 (17.98%) Data Integration
17 56 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
18 55 (15.45%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 271 (76.12%) SQL
2 197 (55.34%) Python
3 36 (10.11%) PowerShell
3 36 (10.11%) Scala
4 27 (7.58%) C#
5 24 (6.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (6.46%) JavaScript
7 21 (5.90%) Bicep
8 19 (5.34%) TypeScript
9 15 (4.21%) T-SQL
10 8 (2.25%) Java
11 7 (1.97%) Go
12 5 (1.40%) R
13 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.56%) VBA
14 1 (0.28%) Bash
14 1 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 46 (12.92%) Azure Certification
2 35 (9.83%) Degree
2 35 (9.83%) Security Cleared
3 27 (7.58%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.93%) SnowPro
7 7 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.84%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.28%) ICAEW
11 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (33.71%) Data Quality
2 33 (9.27%) GDPR
3 18 (5.06%) QA
4 5 (1.40%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.56%) IFRS
7 2 (0.56%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.56%) SLA
8 1 (0.28%) GRC
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 9 (2.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.28%) Ansible
2 1 (0.28%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 173 (48.60%) Databricks
2 164 (46.07%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.34%) Adobe
4 9 (2.53%) SAP
5 8 (2.25%) Foundry
5 8 (2.25%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.97%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.69%) Google
7 6 (1.69%) Informatica
8 5 (1.40%) Talend
9 2 (0.56%) Oracle
10 1 (0.28%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.28%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.28%) Confluent
10 1 (0.28%) Infor
10 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.28%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.28%) Teradata
10 1 (0.28%) Trapeze