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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 337 443
Rank change year-on-year -70 +106 -66
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 371 365 500
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.86% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 2.56% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 276 284 442
10th Percentile £46,750 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,375 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.99% +6.20% -7.41%
75th Percentile £90,000 £81,563 £79,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £99,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +20.00% -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 27,048 14,241 34,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.14% 33.46% 34.96%
Number of salaries quoted 15,424 9,798 26,792
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,738 £77,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% -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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -67 330 £75,000 +11.11% 95
UK excluding London -36 198 £62,500 -0.79% 74
Work from Home +56 153 £80,000 +25.49% 51
London -35 143 £83,500 +7.74% 41
North of England -21 53 £80,000 +28.00% 18
Midlands -37 45 £60,000 -7.69% 14
West Midlands -40 40 £60,000 -5.88% 10
Yorkshire -35 36 £80,000 +33.33% 7
East of England -7 34 £90,000 +71.43% 1
South East -47 28 £50,000 -23.08% 26
Scotland +14 23 £71,500 +0.35% 3
North West -10 16 £61,250 -2.00% 8
South West -58 15 £56,250 -15.09% 7
East Midlands -33 5 £57,500 -11.54% 4
Wales -32 2 £46,585 -9.98% 5
North East -42 1 - - 3

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 (9.70%) SharePoint
2 22 (5.93%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.70%) Apache
5 9 (2.43%) Appian
6 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.54%) Luigi
8 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.08%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.54%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.27%) Endur
3 1 (0.27%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.27%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 371 (100.00%) Azure
2 154 (41.51%) Power Platform
3 116 (31.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 79 (21.29%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (12.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 41 (11.05%) Power Automate
7 33 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (8.89%) PowerApps
8 29 (7.82%) GitHub
9 27 (7.28%) Snowflake
10 25 (6.74%) Azure Monitor
11 24 (6.47%) dbt
12 23 (6.20%) Serverless
13 21 (5.66%) AWS
13 21 (5.66%) Azure Functions
14 19 (5.12%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (5.12%) Microsoft Purview
14 19 (5.12%) OneDrive
15 18 (4.85%) GCP
16 15 (4.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (39.08%) Power BI
2 106 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 103 (27.76%) Data Lake
4 94 (25.34%) Azure SQL Database
5 56 (15.09%) SQL Server
6 36 (9.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 35 (9.43%) Delta Lake
8 33 (8.89%) Spark SQL
9 23 (6.20%) Metadata
10 18 (4.85%) Relational Database
11 17 (4.58%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 15 (4.04%) Tableau
13 13 (3.50%) Star Schema
14 11 (2.96%) Power Query
15 10 (2.70%) Big Data
15 10 (2.70%) BigQuery
16 9 (2.43%) Pinecone
16 9 (2.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 6 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
17 6 (1.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 33 (8.89%) Git
2 11 (2.96%) MLflow
3 5 (1.35%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.08%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.27%) GitLab
7 1 (0.27%) JIRA
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
General
1 144 (38.81%) Finance
2 121 (32.61%) Social Skills
3 54 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (2.96%) Public Sector
5 9 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (2.43%) Retail
6 5 (1.35%) Law
7 4 (1.08%) Advertising
7 4 (1.08%) Automotive
7 4 (1.08%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.81%) Legal
8 3 (0.81%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.54%) Banking
9 2 (0.54%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.54%) Local Government
9 2 (0.54%) Marketing
10 1 (0.27%) Billing
Job Titles
1 175 (47.17%) Data Engineer
2 81 (21.83%) Senior
3 64 (17.25%) Lead
4 56 (15.09%) Azure Engineer
5 46 (12.40%) Senior Data Engineer
6 43 (11.59%) Developer
7 38 (10.24%) Platform Engineer
8 36 (9.70%) Lead Data Engineer
9 35 (9.43%) Azure Data Engineer
10 24 (6.47%) Architect
11 20 (5.39%) Consultant
12 19 (5.12%) Data Architect
13 18 (4.85%) Senior Developer
14 16 (4.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 13 (3.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 13 (3.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 12 (3.23%) Automation Engineer
17 11 (2.96%) Microsoft Engineer
18 10 (2.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 8 (2.16%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (19.68%) PySpark
2 31 (8.36%) .NET
3 30 (8.09%) REST
4 29 (7.82%) JSON
5 22 (5.93%) .NET Core
5 22 (5.93%) CSS
5 22 (5.93%) HTML
6 19 (5.12%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.12%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.12%) SPFx
7 17 (4.58%) RESTful
8 14 (3.77%) ARM Templates
8 14 (3.77%) OAuth
9 10 (2.70%) FastAPI
9 10 (2.70%) Kafka
9 10 (2.70%) NumPy
9 10 (2.70%) Pandas
9 10 (2.70%) PyTorch
9 10 (2.70%) scikit-learn
9 10 (2.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.63%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (4.04%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.50%) Low-Code
4 9 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.16%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.89%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.62%) Replication
8 4 (1.08%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.08%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.54%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.54%) Clustering
10 2 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (51.21%) Data Modelling
2 187 (50.40%) Analytics
3 178 (47.98%) ETL
4 172 (46.36%) CI/CD
5 165 (44.47%) Data Engineering
6 162 (43.67%) Data Pipeline
7 158 (42.59%) Business Intelligence
8 140 (37.74%) DevOps
9 87 (23.45%) AI
10 86 (23.18%) Agile
11 78 (21.02%) Data Governance
12 77 (20.75%) Decision-Making
13 73 (19.68%) Problem-Solving
14 65 (17.52%) Data Architecture
15 62 (16.71%) Data Integration
15 62 (16.71%) Machine Learning
16 58 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
17 46 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
17 46 (12.40%) Platform Engineering
17 46 (12.40%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 284 (76.55%) SQL
2 191 (51.48%) Python
3 44 (11.86%) PowerShell
4 31 (8.36%) C#
5 26 (7.01%) JavaScript
6 23 (6.20%) Scala
7 20 (5.39%) T-SQL
8 19 (5.12%) TypeScript
9 17 (4.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (3.23%) Bicep
11 11 (2.96%) Java
11 11 (2.96%) R
12 2 (0.54%) C++
12 2 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.54%) PHP
12 2 (0.54%) VBA
13 1 (0.27%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (11.05%) Degree
2 24 (6.47%) Security Cleared
3 21 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (5.39%) Azure Certification
5 17 (4.58%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.62%) IIBA
7 6 (1.62%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.62%) PMP
8 3 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.27%) CISM
10 1 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (30.73%) Data Quality
2 29 (7.82%) GDPR
3 10 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.16%) QA
5 5 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.35%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.54%) GRC
6 2 (0.54%) IFRS
6 2 (0.54%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.54%) SLA
7 1 (0.27%) COBIT
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 16 (4.31%) Docker
2 8 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (13.21%) Terraform
2 19 (5.12%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.27%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 164 (44.20%) Databricks
2 150 (40.43%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.12%) Adobe
4 17 (4.58%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.43%) Ab Initio
5 9 (2.43%) Automation Anywhere
5 9 (2.43%) UiPath
6 8 (2.16%) Alteryx
7 7 (1.89%) Foundry
7 7 (1.89%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.89%) SAP
8 6 (1.62%) Anaplan
8 6 (1.62%) Google
9 4 (1.08%) IBM
10 3 (0.81%) Talend
11 2 (0.54%) Informatica
11 2 (0.54%) Oracle
11 2 (0.54%) Trapeze
12 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.27%) Infor