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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 378 327
Rank change year-on-year -36 -51 +117
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 280 450 534
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.64% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 2.00% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 226 352 452
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +3.59% -10.36%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £94,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - +2.80% -10.83%

All Cloud 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 15,492 22,548 24,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.71% 32.30% 42.71%
Number of salaries quoted 10,426 13,753 20,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,128 £45,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 17 October 2025.

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 17 October 2025. 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 -40 254 £70,000 +7.69% 191
London -13 147 £83,750 +11.67% 74
UK excluding London -13 119 £55,000 - 172
Work from Home -29 97 £62,500 -3.85% 126
South East -9 37 £55,000 -8.33% 60
Midlands +44 30 £60,000 +4.35% 32
West Midlands +44 25 £60,000 +4.35% 24
North of England -42 22 £55,000 - 41
Scotland +3 15 £49,500 -5.71% 17
North West -38 10 £55,000 +0.92% 22
East of England - 8 £54,500 - 14
Yorkshire +3 7 £62,500 -3.10% 13
East Midlands +17 5 £65,000 +15.56% 8
North East +11 5 £52,500 -12.50% 7
South West +45 4 £75,000 +36.36% 6
Wales +14 2 £55,000 +28.65% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 20 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.93%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.86%) Apache
4 4 (1.43%) SAS
5 3 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.07%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.71%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.36%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 280 (100.00%) Azure
2 156 (55.71%) Power Platform
3 91 (32.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 70 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (11.43%) Azure Logic Apps
6 21 (7.50%) GitHub
6 21 (7.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 17 (6.07%) Power Automate
8 16 (5.71%) PowerApps
9 15 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (4.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 13 (4.64%) Azure Functions
10 13 (4.64%) Entra ID
10 13 (4.64%) Serverless
10 13 (4.64%) Snowflake
11 12 (4.29%) dbt
11 12 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (3.93%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.29%) Firewall
2 4 (1.43%) DNS
2 4 (1.43%) VPN
3 1 (0.36%) Network Security
3 1 (0.36%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (50.00%) Power BI
2 80 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 72 (25.71%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (21.43%) Data Lake
5 51 (18.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 48 (17.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 30 (10.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (6.07%) Metadata
9 13 (4.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 11 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (3.57%) Delta Lake
11 10 (3.57%) Relational Database
12 9 (3.21%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 9 (3.21%) Tableau
13 8 (2.86%) MySQL
14 7 (2.50%) Star Schema
15 6 (2.14%) Power Query
16 5 (1.79%) Big Data
17 4 (1.43%) Looker
17 4 (1.43%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 22 (7.86%) Git
2 5 (1.79%) JIRA
3 4 (1.43%) Bitbucket
3 4 (1.43%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.71%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.71%) MLflow
6 1 (0.36%) JUnit
6 1 (0.36%) Selenium
6 1 (0.36%) TestComplete
General
1 101 (36.07%) Social Skills
2 90 (32.14%) Finance
3 45 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.07%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.71%) Retail
6 15 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (4.29%) Banking
8 12 (4.29%) Law
9 10 (3.57%) Marketing
9 10 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.50%) Automotive
12 7 (2.50%) Legal
13 6 (2.14%) Advertising
14 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.71%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.71%) Local Government
14 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 114 (40.71%) Data Engineer
2 50 (17.86%) Senior
3 39 (13.93%) Developer
4 32 (11.43%) Azure Engineer
5 29 (10.36%) Senior Data Engineer
6 28 (10.00%) Architect
7 26 (9.29%) Data Architect
8 24 (8.57%) Azure Data Engineer
9 22 (7.86%) Lead
10 21 (7.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 19 (6.79%) Analyst
12 13 (4.64%) Data Manager
13 11 (3.93%) Power BI Developer
14 10 (3.57%) Python Data Engineer
14 10 (3.57%) Python Engineer
14 10 (3.57%) SQL Developer
15 9 (3.21%) Azure Architect
15 9 (3.21%) Azure Data Architect
16 8 (2.86%) Infrastructure Analyst
16 8 (2.86%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (15.36%) PySpark
2 25 (8.93%) .NET
3 16 (5.71%) JSON
3 16 (5.71%) XML
4 12 (4.29%) .NET Framework
4 12 (4.29%) REST
5 7 (2.50%) .NET Core
6 6 (2.14%) Entity Framework
6 6 (2.14%) RESTful
7 4 (1.43%) Kafka
7 4 (1.43%) ML.NET
7 4 (1.43%) OAuth
7 4 (1.43%) OAuth2
7 4 (1.43%) Pandas
7 4 (1.43%) Polars
8 3 (1.07%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.07%) HTML
8 3 (1.07%) SOAP
9 2 (0.71%) CSS
9 2 (0.71%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
1 10 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.21%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.86%) Algorithms
3 8 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (2.14%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.79%) Replication
7 4 (1.43%) Clustering
7 4 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.43%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.43%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.07%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.07%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.07%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.07%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.71%) Derivative
9 2 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.50%) Windows
1 7 (2.50%) Windows Server
2 4 (1.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (50.36%) Business Intelligence
2 129 (46.07%) ETL
3 120 (42.86%) Analytics
4 96 (34.29%) DevOps
5 87 (31.07%) Data Pipeline
6 86 (30.71%) Data Engineering
7 82 (29.29%) CI/CD
7 82 (29.29%) Data Modelling
8 65 (23.21%) Agile
9 57 (20.36%) Decision-Making
10 56 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 51 (18.21%) Data Governance
12 46 (16.43%) AI
13 44 (15.71%) Machine Learning
14 42 (15.00%) Visualisation
15 39 (13.93%) Mentoring
16 37 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
17 36 (12.86%) Data Architecture
17 36 (12.86%) Data Integration
18 31 (11.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 196 (70.00%) SQL
2 123 (43.93%) Python
3 48 (17.14%) T-SQL
4 26 (9.29%) C#
5 17 (6.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 17 (6.07%) PowerShell
6 13 (4.64%) Bicep
6 13 (4.64%) Scala
7 11 (3.93%) JavaScript
8 8 (2.86%) R
9 5 (1.79%) Java
10 4 (1.43%) Bash
11 2 (0.71%) PHP
12 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (10.36%) Microsoft Certification
2 27 (9.64%) Azure Certification
3 26 (9.29%) Degree
4 20 (7.14%) Security Cleared
5 18 (6.43%) SC Cleared
6 17 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.21%) Master's Degree
8 7 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (2.14%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.43%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.36%) MCSE
12 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (16.79%) Data Quality
2 26 (9.29%) GDPR
3 13 (4.64%) QA
4 6 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.71%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (5.00%) Docker
2 4 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (9.64%) Terraform
2 16 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.50%) Grafana
3 7 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 130 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 105 (37.50%) Databricks
3 7 (2.50%) Informatica
3 7 (2.50%) SolarWinds
4 6 (2.14%) OpenAI
4 6 (2.14%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.14%) SAP
5 5 (1.79%) Google
5 5 (1.79%) Oracle
5 5 (1.79%) Talend
6 4 (1.43%) Ab Initio
6 4 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.43%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.43%) Palo Alto
6 4 (1.43%) RedGate
7 3 (1.07%) Intapp
7 3 (1.07%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.71%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.71%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud