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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 345 457
Rank change year-on-year -88 +112 -97
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 356 384 499
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.78% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 2.43% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 270 296 418
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,625 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.90% +0.96% -0.76%
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £83,438
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -

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 26,886 15,833 33,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.46% 32.35% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 17,488 11,041 25,867
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,842
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.26% -7.56%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -84 335 £80,000 +18.52% 74
UK excluding London -67 181 £62,500 +4.17% 51
London -52 147 £83,500 +4.38% 43
Work from Home +15 134 £82,500 +29.41% 44
North of England -3 65 £73,750 +22.92% 7
Yorkshire -2 41 £80,000 +33.33% 5
Midlands -34 40 £60,000 - 13
West Midlands -17 34 £60,000 +4.35% 12
East of England +2 33 £90,000 +66.67% 2
North West +6 21 £57,500 -4.17% 2
South East -84 21 £50,000 -23.08% 24
South West -50 18 £60,000 -22.58% 4
East Midlands -23 6 £57,500 -11.54% 1
Wales -44 5 £53,171 -3.33% 2
Scotland +11 4 £43,335 +2.57%
North East -48 3 £47,500 -9.52% 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%) SharePoint
2 30 (8.43%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.37%) Apache
3 12 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.84%) Appian
4 3 (0.84%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.56%) Luigi
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.28%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.28%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 356 (100.00%) Azure
2 158 (44.38%) Power Platform
3 109 (30.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 70 (19.66%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (13.76%) Azure Logic Apps
6 34 (9.55%) Power Automate
7 33 (9.27%) PowerApps
8 32 (8.99%) Microsoft Purview
9 28 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (6.18%) Azure Functions
10 22 (6.18%) Serverless
11 21 (5.90%) AWS
12 19 (5.34%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.34%) GCP
12 19 (5.34%) OneDrive
12 19 (5.34%) Snowflake
13 16 (4.49%) dbt
14 15 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
15 14 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (3.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.28%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (42.42%) Power BI
2 98 (27.53%) Data Warehouse
3 91 (25.56%) Data Lake
4 88 (24.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 51 (14.33%) SQL Server
6 36 (10.11%) Delta Lake
7 35 (9.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 34 (9.55%) Spark SQL
9 33 (9.27%) Metadata
10 22 (6.18%) Tableau
11 19 (5.34%) Relational Database
11 19 (5.34%) Star Schema
12 16 (4.49%) Big Data
13 13 (3.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 13 (3.65%) BigQuery
13 13 (3.65%) Power Query
14 12 (3.37%) Data Vault
15 10 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
16 9 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (2.53%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 33 (9.27%) Git
2 6 (1.69%) MLflow
3 5 (1.40%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.40%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.84%) JIRA
4 3 (0.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.56%) ERwin
5 2 (0.56%) GitLab
5 2 (0.56%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
General
1 118 (33.15%) Social Skills
2 104 (29.21%) Finance
3 57 (16.01%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (3.37%) Retail
6 11 (3.09%) Law
6 11 (3.09%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.53%) Legal
8 6 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.12%) Advertising
9 4 (1.12%) Marketing
9 4 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.84%) Automotive
10 3 (0.84%) Games
10 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.84%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.56%) Local Government
12 1 (0.28%) Banking
12 1 (0.28%) Billing
Job Titles
1 177 (49.72%) Data Engineer
2 85 (23.88%) Senior
3 69 (19.38%) Lead
4 48 (13.48%) Senior Data Engineer
5 47 (13.20%) Azure Engineer
6 44 (12.36%) Developer
7 41 (11.52%) Architect
8 36 (10.11%) Data Architect
8 36 (10.11%) Lead Data Engineer
9 34 (9.55%) Azure Data Engineer
10 33 (9.27%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (5.06%) Senior Developer
12 17 (4.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 15 (4.21%) Consultant
14 11 (3.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 10 (2.81%) Microsoft Engineer
16 9 (2.53%) Data Manager
16 9 (2.53%) Power BI Developer
17 8 (2.25%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (21.35%) PySpark
2 25 (7.02%) .NET
3 24 (6.74%) JSON
4 23 (6.46%) REST
5 22 (6.18%) .NET Core
5 22 (6.18%) CSS
5 22 (6.18%) HTML
6 19 (5.34%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.34%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.34%) SPFx
7 16 (4.49%) Kafka
8 12 (3.37%) ARM Templates
9 6 (1.69%) RESTful
9 6 (1.69%) SOAP
10 4 (1.12%) FastAPI
10 4 (1.12%) NumPy
10 4 (1.12%) Pandas
10 4 (1.12%) PyTorch
10 4 (1.12%) scikit-learn
10 4 (1.12%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.43%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.78%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (1.97%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (1.97%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.69%) Low-Code
6 6 (1.69%) Replication
7 5 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.12%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.12%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.12%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.84%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.84%) Wiki
10 2 (0.56%) Clustering
10 2 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (53.09%) Analytics
2 177 (49.72%) Business Intelligence
2 177 (49.72%) Data Modelling
3 161 (45.22%) Data Engineering
4 158 (44.38%) CI/CD
4 158 (44.38%) ETL
5 152 (42.70%) Data Pipeline
6 130 (36.52%) DevOps
7 96 (26.97%) AI
8 93 (26.12%) Data Governance
9 84 (23.60%) Decision-Making
10 80 (22.47%) Machine Learning
11 74 (20.79%) Agile
12 71 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
13 66 (18.54%) Data Architecture
14 60 (16.85%) Data Integration
15 57 (16.01%) Technical Leadership
16 54 (15.17%) Data Science
17 49 (13.76%) Data Strategy
17 49 (13.76%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 271 (76.12%) SQL
2 180 (50.56%) Python
3 38 (10.67%) PowerShell
4 26 (7.30%) C#
4 26 (7.30%) Scala
5 23 (6.46%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 19 (5.34%) TypeScript
7 14 (3.93%) Bicep
8 13 (3.65%) T-SQL
9 10 (2.81%) Java
10 8 (2.25%) R
11 3 (0.84%) Go
12 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.56%) PHP
12 2 (0.56%) VBA
13 1 (0.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 36 (10.11%) Degree
2 35 (9.83%) Azure Certification
3 29 (8.15%) Security Cleared
4 22 (6.18%) SC Cleared
5 19 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.25%) SnowPro
8 5 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.84%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.84%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.28%) CISM
12 1 (0.28%) CISSP
12 1 (0.28%) IIBA
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (32.02%) Data Quality
2 31 (8.71%) GDPR
3 15 (4.21%) QA
4 5 (1.40%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.40%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.56%) GRC
6 2 (0.56%) IFRS
6 2 (0.56%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.56%) SLA
7 1 (0.28%) COBIT
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 11 (3.09%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (13.20%) Terraform
2 13 (3.65%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) Ansible
3 1 (0.28%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 165 (46.35%) Databricks
2 143 (40.17%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.34%) Adobe
4 13 (3.65%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.25%) Foundry
5 8 (2.25%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.25%) SAP
6 7 (1.97%) Google
7 4 (1.12%) Informatica
8 3 (0.84%) Alteryx
8 3 (0.84%) Automation Anywhere
8 3 (0.84%) Talend
8 3 (0.84%) UiPath
9 2 (0.56%) Oracle
9 2 (0.56%) Trapeze
10 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.28%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.28%) Infor
10 1 (0.28%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.28%) Teradata