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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 317 435
Rank change year-on-year -36 +118 -37
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 415 377 509
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.91% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 2.50% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 275 298 452
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £88,125 £84,375 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year -3.85% +23.22% -8.26%

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 26,832 15,077 33,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.64% 36.58% 36.45%
Number of salaries quoted 14,063 11,093 26,688
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 April 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 April 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 -73 342 £73,750 +9.26% 135
UK excluding London -48 225 £62,500 -3.85% 115
Work from Home +66 193 £75,000 +15.38% 81
London -5 155 £81,750 +5.48% 37
Midlands -23 59 £60,000 +4.35% 24
West Midlands +8 54 £60,000 +4.35% 16
Scotland +28 45 £79,500 -18.46% 4
North of England -59 43 £75,000 +15.38% 40
South East -80 33 £50,000 -28.57% 28
East of England -20 23 £86,250 +64.29% 12
Yorkshire -57 23 £79,500 +32.50% 15
South West -42 15 £57,500 -9.80% 5
North West -37 13 £70,000 +5.66% 22
North East -25 7 £51,000 -34.19% 5
East Midlands -47 5 £57,500 -11.54% 8
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 - 1
Wales -23 4 £46,585 -3.95% 4

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 26 (6.27%) SharePoint
2 18 (4.34%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.89%) Appian
4 8 (1.93%) Apache
5 7 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.24%) Confluence
7 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 34 (8.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Markit EDM
2 3 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.24%) Endur
4 1 (0.24%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.24%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 415 (100.00%) Azure
2 197 (47.47%) Power Platform
3 151 (36.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 89 (21.45%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (9.88%) GitHub
5 41 (9.88%) Power Automate
6 40 (9.64%) Snowflake
7 37 (8.92%) Azure Logic Apps
8 26 (6.27%) dbt
8 26 (6.27%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (5.78%) Azure Monitor
10 23 (5.54%) PowerApps
11 22 (5.30%) Microsoft Purview
12 20 (4.82%) PaaS
13 17 (4.10%) AWS
14 16 (3.86%) Anthropic Claude
14 16 (3.86%) Azure AI
14 16 (3.86%) SaaS
14 16 (3.86%) Serverless
15 15 (3.61%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.48%) DNS
2 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (44.10%) Power BI
2 116 (27.95%) Data Lake
3 110 (26.51%) Data Warehouse
4 109 (26.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 97 (23.37%) SQL Server
6 45 (10.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 38 (9.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 27 (6.51%) Delta Lake
9 23 (5.54%) Metadata
10 20 (4.82%) Spark SQL
11 19 (4.58%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 15 (3.61%) Tableau
13 14 (3.37%) Relational Database
14 12 (2.89%) Pinecone
15 10 (2.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 10 (2.41%) Star Schema
16 9 (2.17%) MySQL
17 8 (1.93%) Big Data
17 8 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
18 6 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 40 (9.64%) Git
2 12 (2.89%) MLflow
3 3 (0.72%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.72%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.48%) JIRA
4 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.24%) GitLab
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 184 (44.34%) Finance
2 147 (35.42%) Social Skills
3 77 (18.55%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (3.86%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (2.89%) Billing
8 8 (1.93%) Automotive
8 8 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.93%) Law
9 7 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.45%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.96%) Retail
12 3 (0.72%) Advertising
12 3 (0.72%) Marketing
13 2 (0.48%) Banking
13 2 (0.48%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.48%) Legal
13 2 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 176 (42.41%) Data Engineer
2 78 (18.80%) Senior
3 51 (12.29%) Azure Engineer
3 51 (12.29%) Lead
4 47 (11.33%) Senior Data Engineer
5 39 (9.40%) Developer
6 32 (7.71%) Azure Data Engineer
7 29 (6.99%) Lead Data Engineer
7 29 (6.99%) Platform Engineer
8 23 (5.54%) Architect
9 21 (5.06%) Analyst
10 17 (4.10%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 17 (4.10%) Data Architect
11 15 (3.61%) Automation Engineer
12 14 (3.37%) Consultant
13 12 (2.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 12 (2.89%) Business Manager
13 12 (2.89%) Commercial Analyst
13 12 (2.89%) Insight Manager
13 12 (2.89%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (15.18%) PySpark
2 29 (6.99%) REST
3 27 (6.51%) JSON
4 25 (6.02%) .NET
4 25 (6.02%) RESTful
5 23 (5.54%) OAuth
6 14 (3.37%) .NET Core
7 13 (3.13%) CSS
7 13 (3.13%) HTML
7 13 (3.13%) NumPy
7 13 (3.13%) Pandas
7 13 (3.13%) PyTorch
7 13 (3.13%) scikit-learn
7 13 (3.13%) TensorFlow
8 12 (2.89%) Django
8 12 (2.89%) FastAPI
8 12 (2.89%) JWT
8 12 (2.89%) pytest
8 12 (2.89%) Swagger
8 12 (2.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.23%) Analytical Mindset
1 30 (7.23%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.02%) Low-Code
3 20 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (4.34%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.17%) AI Agents
6 9 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (1.93%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.93%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (0.96%) Replication
11 3 (0.72%) Clustering
11 3 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.72%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.72%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.48%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.96%) Windows
2 2 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (57.11%) Analytics
2 209 (50.36%) Data Modelling
3 195 (46.99%) Business Intelligence
4 190 (45.78%) ETL
5 187 (45.06%) Data Pipeline
6 178 (42.89%) Data Engineering
7 172 (41.45%) CI/CD
8 145 (34.94%) DevOps
9 121 (29.16%) AI
10 113 (27.23%) Decision-Making
11 106 (25.54%) Agile
12 105 (25.30%) Problem-Solving
13 82 (19.76%) Visualisation
14 77 (18.55%) Data Governance
15 68 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 68 (16.39%) Data Architecture
15 68 (16.39%) Data Integration
16 59 (14.22%) Machine Learning
17 57 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
18 55 (13.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 315 (75.90%) SQL
2 205 (49.40%) Python
3 40 (9.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 37 (8.92%) PowerShell
5 29 (6.99%) T-SQL
6 24 (5.78%) C#
7 18 (4.34%) Scala
8 17 (4.10%) JavaScript
9 15 (3.61%) Bicep
10 10 (2.41%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.93%) Java
11 8 (1.93%) R
12 3 (0.72%) C++
12 3 (0.72%) PHP
13 1 (0.24%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.24%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 46 (11.08%) Degree
2 22 (5.30%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.86%) Azure Certification
3 16 (3.86%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.89%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 8 (1.93%) IIBA
6 8 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.93%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.93%) PMP
7 3 (0.72%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.24%) CISM
9 1 (0.24%) CISSP
9 1 (0.24%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (31.81%) Data Quality
2 32 (7.71%) GDPR
3 12 (2.89%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.89%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (1.45%) QA
5 5 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.72%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.48%) GRC
8 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.24%) COBIT
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (4.34%) Docker
2 9 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (11.81%) Terraform
2 24 (5.78%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.24%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 169 (40.72%) Databricks
2 159 (38.31%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.58%) OpenAI
4 14 (3.37%) Ab Initio
5 12 (2.89%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (2.89%) UiPath
6 10 (2.41%) Adobe
6 10 (2.41%) Alteryx
7 8 (1.93%) Anaplan
8 6 (1.45%) Foundry
8 6 (1.45%) Talend
9 5 (1.20%) Oracle
10 4 (0.96%) Google
10 4 (0.96%) IBM
10 4 (0.96%) Informatica
10 4 (0.96%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.96%) SAP
11 3 (0.72%) RedGate
12 2 (0.48%) Trapeze
13 1 (0.24%) Infor