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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 401 389
Rank change year-on-year -56 -12 -58
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 395 301 454
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.61% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 1.94% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 282 242 357
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,875 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,250 £90,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - +2.80%

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 27,237 15,508 23,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.10% 31.34% 31.83%
Number of salaries quoted 18,678 10,421 14,664
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% 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 October 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 1 October 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 -44 371 £70,000 +7.69% 224
London -17 193 £80,000 - 106
UK excluding London -81 184 £62,500 +13.64% 115
Work from Home -14 134 £80,000 +33.33% 111
North of England -29 66 £60,000 +9.09% 32
Midlands -46 36 £85,000 +38.78% 32
South East -67 36 £62,500 +13.64% 28
Yorkshire -7 34 £80,000 +33.33% 9
West Midlands -48 29 £85,000 +41.67% 20
North West -13 26 £55,000 - 19
South West -58 24 £85,000 +17.24% 8
East of England -20 21 £90,000 +80.00% 7
North East -61 10 £55,000 +4.76% 4
Wales -64 10 £53,171 -3.33% 4
East Midlands -33 7 - - 12
Scotland +4 4 £49,168 -0.67% 5

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 44 (11.14%) Apache Spark
2 20 (5.06%) Apache
3 18 (4.56%) SharePoint
4 14 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.51%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.51%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.76%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.25%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 395 (100.00%) Azure
2 188 (47.59%) Power Platform
3 146 (36.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 105 (26.58%) Azure DevOps
5 70 (17.72%) Azure Databricks
6 50 (12.66%) Microsoft Purview
7 44 (11.14%) Azure Logic Apps
8 29 (7.34%) Snowflake
9 28 (7.09%) Serverless
10 27 (6.84%) AWS
10 27 (6.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 22 (5.57%) Azure Functions
11 22 (5.57%) dbt
11 22 (5.57%) PowerApps
12 20 (5.06%) Power Automate
13 18 (4.56%) GCP
14 16 (4.05%) Azure Machine Learning
14 16 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
15 14 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
16 12 (3.04%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.27%) Firewall
2 4 (1.01%) DNS
3 1 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (46.58%) Power BI
2 136 (34.43%) Data Warehouse
3 103 (26.08%) Data Lake
4 94 (23.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 69 (17.47%) Metadata
6 52 (13.16%) Delta Lake
7 51 (12.91%) SQL Server
8 35 (8.86%) Star Schema
9 29 (7.34%) Tableau
10 26 (6.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 24 (6.08%) NoSQL
11 24 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
11 24 (6.08%) Spark SQL
12 22 (5.57%) Big Data
13 20 (5.06%) Data Vault
14 18 (4.56%) Relational Database
14 18 (4.56%) Semantic Layer
15 16 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
15 16 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
16 15 (3.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 51 (12.91%) Git
2 13 (3.29%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.03%) GitLab
4 7 (1.77%) MLflow
5 3 (0.76%) JIRA
5 3 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.51%) ERwin
6 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.51%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.25%) kappa
7 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 131 (33.16%) Social Skills
2 116 (29.37%) Finance
3 70 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.82%) Legal
5 17 (4.30%) Retail
6 14 (3.54%) Law
7 11 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (2.78%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.03%) Banking
10 5 (1.27%) Billing
10 5 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.27%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.27%) Marketing
11 4 (1.01%) Advertising
11 4 (1.01%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.01%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.76%) Games
13 2 (0.51%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 197 (49.87%) Data Engineer
2 118 (29.87%) Senior
3 77 (19.49%) Senior Data Engineer
4 68 (17.22%) Azure Engineer
5 62 (15.70%) Lead
6 53 (13.42%) Architect
7 49 (12.41%) Azure Data Engineer
8 47 (11.90%) Data Architect
9 39 (9.87%) Developer
10 28 (7.09%) Lead Data Engineer
11 22 (5.57%) Platform Engineer
12 21 (5.32%) Consultant
13 17 (4.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 17 (4.30%) Databricks Engineer
14 16 (4.05%) Databricks Data Engineer
15 14 (3.54%) Python Data Engineer
15 14 (3.54%) Python Engineer
16 13 (3.29%) Elasticsearch Engineer
16 13 (3.29%) Kafka Engineer
16 13 (3.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (22.78%) PySpark
2 61 (15.44%) Terraform
3 39 (9.87%) Kafka
4 25 (6.33%) JSON
4 25 (6.33%) REST
5 13 (3.29%) .NET
5 13 (3.29%) Keycloak
6 12 (3.04%) .NET Core
6 12 (3.04%) CSS
6 12 (3.04%) HTML
6 12 (3.04%) HTML5 Canvas
6 12 (3.04%) Microsoft Graph
6 12 (3.04%) SPFx
7 9 (2.28%) ARM Templates
8 6 (1.52%) Apache Avro
8 6 (1.52%) XML
8 6 (1.52%) YAML
9 5 (1.27%) SOAP
10 4 (1.01%) MDX
11 3 (0.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.87%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.34%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.03%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.27%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.01%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.01%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.01%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.01%) PKI
10 3 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.76%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.51%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.51%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.51%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.54%) Windows
2 5 (1.27%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.01%) Linux
4 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (57.22%) Business Intelligence
2 221 (55.95%) Analytics
3 202 (51.14%) Data Modelling
4 199 (50.38%) CI/CD
5 184 (46.58%) Data Engineering
5 184 (46.58%) DevOps
5 184 (46.58%) ETL
6 181 (45.82%) Data Pipeline
7 104 (26.33%) AI
8 100 (25.32%) Agile
9 95 (24.05%) Data Architecture
10 92 (23.29%) Data Governance
11 90 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
12 89 (22.53%) Lakehouse
13 87 (22.03%) Decision-Making
14 81 (20.51%) Machine Learning
15 76 (19.24%) Data Science
16 74 (18.73%) Data Integration
17 70 (17.72%) Technical Leadership
18 63 (15.95%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 296 (74.94%) SQL
2 223 (56.46%) Python
3 47 (11.90%) Scala
4 38 (9.62%) PowerShell
5 37 (9.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 29 (7.34%) Bicep
7 24 (6.08%) C#
8 19 (4.81%) JavaScript
9 15 (3.80%) Java
9 15 (3.80%) T-SQL
10 13 (3.29%) Go
11 12 (3.04%) TypeScript
12 8 (2.03%) R
13 5 (1.27%) Bash
14 2 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.51%) VBA
15 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 59 (14.94%) Azure Certification
2 52 (13.16%) Security Cleared
3 45 (11.39%) SC Cleared
4 38 (9.62%) Degree
5 25 (6.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.05%) SnowPro
7 14 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (3.29%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.77%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.01%) CISSP
10 4 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.76%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.51%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.25%) ICAEW
13 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (38.23%) Data Quality
2 35 (8.86%) GDPR
3 19 (4.81%) QA
4 9 (2.28%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.51%) IFRS
6 2 (0.51%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.51%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (5.32%) Docker
2 4 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (6.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.27%) Ansible
3 3 (0.76%) Grafana
3 3 (0.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 189 (47.85%) Microsoft
2 177 (44.81%) Databricks
3 13 (3.29%) Informatica
3 13 (3.29%) SAP
4 12 (3.04%) Adobe
5 11 (2.78%) Talend
6 7 (1.77%) Google
7 5 (1.27%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.01%) Foundry
8 4 (1.01%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.51%) Oracle
10 1 (0.25%) Actian
10 1 (0.25%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.25%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.25%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.25%) Confluent
10 1 (0.25%) Infor
10 1 (0.25%) Meraki
10 1 (0.25%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.25%) Teradata