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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 332 449
Rank change year-on-year -50 +117 -65
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 387 379 510
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.90% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 2.53% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 280 300 453
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% -6.72%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +21.50% -9.32%

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 27,762 15,004 34,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.86% 35.47% 35.94%
Number of salaries quoted 14,436 10,994 26,803
10th Percentile £30,625 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,257 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +6.96% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,747 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 1 May 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 1 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 -58 335 £75,000 +11.11% 89
UK excluding London -54 207 £62,500 -3.85% 70
Work from Home +49 167 £80,000 +23.08% 51
London -38 149 £83,500 +4.38% 33
Midlands -34 53 £60,000 -7.69% 13
West Midlands -24 48 £60,000 +4.35% 8
North of England -56 41 £77,500 +19.23% 20
Scotland 0 33 £71,500 -26.67% 1
South East -66 33 £50,000 -28.57% 24
East of England -9 31 £90,000 +75.61% 5
Yorkshire -49 30 £80,000 +33.33% 9
South West -53 15 £56,250 -10.00% 7
North West -36 9 £63,750 -5.56% 11
East Midlands -46 5 £57,500 -11.54% 5
Wales -27 2 £46,585 -3.95% 3
North East -35 2 £51,000 -34.19%
Northern Ireland - 1 £50,000 -

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 37 (9.56%) SharePoint
2 22 (5.68%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.10%) Appian
4 11 (2.84%) Apache
5 9 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.52%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.26%) Confluence
8 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.03%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.52%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.26%) Endur
3 1 (0.26%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.26%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 387 (100.00%) Azure
2 168 (43.41%) Power Platform
3 124 (32.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 91 (23.51%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (12.40%) Azure Logic Apps
5 48 (12.40%) Power Automate
6 37 (9.56%) GitHub
7 35 (9.04%) Microsoft 365
8 34 (8.79%) PowerApps
9 32 (8.27%) Snowflake
10 25 (6.46%) Azure Monitor
11 24 (6.20%) dbt
12 21 (5.43%) Microsoft Purview
13 20 (5.17%) PaaS
13 20 (5.17%) Serverless
14 19 (4.91%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (4.91%) AWS
14 19 (4.91%) OneDrive
15 18 (4.65%) Azure Functions
16 17 (4.39%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.52%) DNS
2 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (40.57%) Power BI
2 114 (29.46%) Data Lake
3 109 (28.17%) Data Warehouse
4 95 (24.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 65 (16.80%) SQL Server
6 40 (10.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 31 (8.01%) Delta Lake
8 27 (6.98%) Spark SQL
9 20 (5.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 20 (5.17%) Metadata
10 15 (3.88%) Relational Database
11 12 (3.10%) Pinecone
11 12 (3.10%) Tableau
12 11 (2.84%) Star Schema
13 9 (2.33%) Big Data
14 8 (2.07%) MySQL
14 8 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
14 8 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (1.81%) Power Query
16 6 (1.55%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 40 (10.34%) Git
2 14 (3.62%) MLflow
3 3 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.52%) JIRA
4 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.26%) GitLab
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
General
1 157 (40.57%) Finance
2 131 (33.85%) Social Skills
3 52 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (3.36%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (1.55%) Automotive
7 6 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.55%) Law
8 5 (1.29%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.29%) Retail
9 4 (1.03%) Advertising
10 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.52%) Banking
11 2 (0.52%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.52%) Legal
11 2 (0.52%) Local Government
11 2 (0.52%) Marketing
11 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.26%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 173 (44.70%) Data Engineer
2 85 (21.96%) Senior
3 58 (14.99%) Lead
4 56 (14.47%) Azure Engineer
5 47 (12.14%) Senior Data Engineer
6 45 (11.63%) Developer
7 34 (8.79%) Platform Engineer
8 33 (8.53%) Azure Data Engineer
8 33 (8.53%) Lead Data Engineer
9 21 (5.43%) Architect
10 20 (5.17%) Consultant
11 17 (4.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 17 (4.39%) Data Architect
11 17 (4.39%) Senior Developer
12 15 (3.88%) Automation Engineer
13 12 (3.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 11 (2.84%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.84%) Microsoft Engineer
15 9 (2.33%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (17.83%) PySpark
2 34 (8.79%) .NET
2 34 (8.79%) JSON
3 33 (8.53%) REST
4 23 (5.94%) .NET Core
4 23 (5.94%) RESTful
5 22 (5.68%) CSS
5 22 (5.68%) HTML
6 21 (5.43%) OAuth
7 20 (5.17%) HTML5 Canvas
8 19 (4.91%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (4.91%) SPFx
9 13 (3.36%) NumPy
9 13 (3.36%) Pandas
9 13 (3.36%) PyTorch
9 13 (3.36%) scikit-learn
9 13 (3.36%) TensorFlow
10 12 (3.10%) Django
10 12 (3.10%) pytest
10 12 (3.10%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.01%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (4.91%) Low-Code
4 15 (3.88%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.33%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.33%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (2.07%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.81%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.29%) Replication
8 5 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.78%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.78%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.52%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.03%) Windows
2 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (50.39%) Analytics
1 195 (50.39%) Data Modelling
2 185 (47.80%) ETL
3 180 (46.51%) Data Pipeline
4 177 (45.74%) CI/CD
5 169 (43.67%) Data Engineering
6 168 (43.41%) Business Intelligence
7 149 (38.50%) DevOps
8 102 (26.36%) Agile
9 97 (25.06%) AI
10 84 (21.71%) Decision-Making
11 81 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
12 76 (19.64%) Data Governance
13 67 (17.31%) Data Architecture
14 64 (16.54%) Machine Learning
15 63 (16.28%) Data Integration
15 63 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
16 54 (13.95%) Test Automation
17 52 (13.44%) Continuous Improvement
18 47 (12.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 296 (76.49%) SQL
2 194 (50.13%) Python
3 48 (12.40%) PowerShell
4 33 (8.53%) C#
5 26 (6.72%) JavaScript
6 23 (5.94%) T-SQL
7 19 (4.91%) Scala
7 19 (4.91%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (4.13%) Bicep
10 9 (2.33%) Java
11 8 (2.07%) R
12 3 (0.78%) C++
12 3 (0.78%) PHP
13 2 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.52%) VBA
14 1 (0.26%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 38 (9.82%) Degree
2 22 (5.68%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.65%) Azure Certification
3 18 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (4.13%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.07%) IIBA
5 8 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.07%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.07%) PMP
6 3 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.26%) CISM
8 1 (0.26%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (29.72%) Data Quality
2 31 (8.01%) GDPR
3 12 (3.10%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.81%) QA
5 5 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.29%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.52%) GRC
6 2 (0.52%) IFRS
6 2 (0.52%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.52%) SLA
7 1 (0.26%) COBIT
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 19 (4.91%) Docker
2 8 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (13.95%) Terraform
2 23 (5.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.26%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 171 (44.19%) Databricks
2 155 (40.05%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.91%) Adobe
3 19 (4.91%) OpenAI
4 12 (3.10%) Ab Initio
4 12 (3.10%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (3.10%) UiPath
5 10 (2.58%) Alteryx
6 8 (2.07%) Anaplan
7 6 (1.55%) Foundry
8 5 (1.29%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.03%) Google
9 4 (1.03%) IBM
9 4 (1.03%) Talend
10 3 (0.78%) Informatica
10 3 (0.78%) Oracle
10 3 (0.78%) SAP
11 2 (0.52%) RedGate
11 2 (0.52%) Trapeze
12 1 (0.26%) Infor