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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 378 412
Rank change year-on-year -87 +34 -70
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 382 338 448
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.68% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 2.15% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 280 264 364
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,825 £42,875
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £98,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -

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 27,734 15,741 24,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.43% 31.69% 31.66%
Number of salaries quoted 18,772 10,635 16,170
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,250 £45,000
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 £100,649 £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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -74 358 £80,000 +23.08% 154
UK excluding London -81 186 £62,500 +13.64% 94
London -48 174 £80,000 - 80
Work from Home -9 140 £80,000 +33.33% 55
North of England +3 66 £68,000 +23.38% 17
Yorkshire -15 38 £82,500 +37.50% 5
South East -63 36 £62,500 +13.64% 38
Midlands -51 34 £85,000 +41.67% 18
West Midlands -36 27 £85,000 +41.67% 11
East of England -22 25 £90,000 +80.00% 8
North West -11 22 £55,000 - 11
South West -60 20 £85,000 +17.24% 7
Wales -59 11 £53,171 -3.33% 2
East Midlands -32 7 - - 7
North East -55 6 £47,500 -9.52% 1
Scotland +1 4 £49,168 -0.67% 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 40 (10.47%) Apache Spark
2 23 (6.02%) SharePoint
3 18 (4.71%) Apache
4 12 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.52%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.52%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.26%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 382 (100.00%) Azure
2 181 (47.38%) Power Platform
3 136 (35.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 90 (23.56%) Azure DevOps
5 68 (17.80%) Azure Databricks
6 50 (13.09%) Azure Logic Apps
7 47 (12.30%) Microsoft Purview
8 29 (7.59%) Serverless
9 26 (6.81%) Azure Functions
10 25 (6.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 25 (6.54%) PowerApps
10 25 (6.54%) Snowflake
11 24 (6.28%) Power Automate
12 21 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
13 20 (5.24%) AWS
14 17 (4.45%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 17 (4.45%) dbt
14 17 (4.45%) GCP
14 17 (4.45%) OneDrive
15 13 (3.40%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (46.07%) Power BI
2 125 (32.72%) Data Warehouse
3 104 (27.23%) Data Lake
4 80 (20.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 64 (16.75%) Metadata
6 53 (13.87%) Delta Lake
7 49 (12.83%) SQL Server
8 31 (8.12%) Star Schema
9 30 (7.85%) Spark SQL
10 28 (7.33%) Tableau
11 27 (7.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 22 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
13 21 (5.50%) Big Data
14 20 (5.24%) Data Vault
15 19 (4.97%) NoSQL
16 18 (4.71%) Relational Database
17 16 (4.19%) Semantic Layer
18 14 (3.66%) Amazon Redshift
19 13 (3.40%) BigQuery
19 13 (3.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (12.57%) Git
2 10 (2.62%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.83%) MLflow
4 6 (1.57%) GitLab
5 3 (0.79%) JIRA
5 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.52%) ERwin
6 2 (0.52%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.26%) kappa
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 131 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 104 (27.23%) Finance
3 64 (16.75%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (4.97%) Legal
5 14 (3.66%) Law
5 14 (3.66%) Retail
6 11 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (1.83%) Banking
7 7 (1.83%) Marketing
7 7 (1.83%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.05%) Advertising
9 4 (1.05%) Billing
9 4 (1.05%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.05%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.79%) Games
10 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.79%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.26%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 186 (48.69%) Data Engineer
2 113 (29.58%) Senior
3 68 (17.80%) Lead
4 67 (17.54%) Senior Data Engineer
5 59 (15.45%) Azure Engineer
6 53 (13.87%) Architect
7 49 (12.83%) Data Architect
8 44 (11.52%) Developer
9 42 (10.99%) Azure Data Engineer
10 31 (8.12%) Lead Data Engineer
11 23 (6.02%) Databricks Engineer
12 21 (5.50%) Platform Engineer
13 19 (4.97%) Consultant
13 19 (4.97%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 17 (4.45%) Senior Developer
15 16 (4.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 12 (3.14%) Analyst
17 10 (2.62%) Business Developer
17 10 (2.62%) Operations Engineer
17 10 (2.62%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (24.08%) PySpark
2 51 (13.35%) Terraform
3 30 (7.85%) Kafka
4 29 (7.59%) JSON
5 25 (6.54%) REST
6 19 (4.97%) .NET
7 18 (4.71%) .NET Core
7 18 (4.71%) CSS
7 18 (4.71%) HTML
8 17 (4.45%) HTML5 Canvas
8 17 (4.45%) Microsoft Graph
8 17 (4.45%) SPFx
9 11 (2.88%) ARM Templates
10 10 (2.62%) Keycloak
11 5 (1.31%) SOAP
11 5 (1.31%) XML
12 4 (1.05%) Apache Avro
12 4 (1.05%) MDX
12 4 (1.05%) YAML
13 3 (0.79%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.69%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.12%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.09%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.31%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.05%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.05%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.05%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.05%) Replication
11 3 (0.79%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.79%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.52%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.09%) Windows
2 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (56.81%) Business Intelligence
2 211 (55.24%) Analytics
3 198 (51.83%) Data Modelling
4 185 (48.43%) ETL
5 182 (47.64%) CI/CD
6 181 (47.38%) Data Engineering
7 169 (44.24%) Data Pipeline
8 165 (43.19%) DevOps
9 107 (28.01%) AI
10 101 (26.44%) Lakehouse
11 97 (25.39%) Data Governance
12 92 (24.08%) Data Architecture
13 87 (22.77%) Machine Learning
14 84 (21.99%) Agile
14 84 (21.99%) Decision-Making
15 83 (21.73%) Problem-Solving
16 77 (20.16%) Technical Leadership
17 75 (19.63%) Data Science
18 73 (19.11%) Data Integration
19 62 (16.23%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 288 (75.39%) SQL
2 218 (57.07%) Python
3 42 (10.99%) Scala
4 35 (9.16%) PowerShell
5 33 (8.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 28 (7.33%) C#
7 23 (6.02%) JavaScript
8 22 (5.76%) Bicep
9 17 (4.45%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.40%) T-SQL
11 12 (3.14%) Java
12 10 (2.62%) Go
13 6 (1.57%) R
14 2 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.52%) VBA
15 1 (0.26%) Bash
15 1 (0.26%) PHP
15 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 51 (13.35%) Azure Certification
2 42 (10.99%) Security Cleared
3 39 (10.21%) Degree
4 33 (8.64%) SC Cleared
5 25 (6.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.19%) SnowPro
8 10 (2.62%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.83%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.79%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.26%) ICAEW
13 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (36.39%) Data Quality
2 37 (9.69%) GDPR
3 19 (4.97%) QA
4 8 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.31%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.52%) IFRS
7 2 (0.52%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (2.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (3.66%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.52%) Ansible
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.26%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 184 (48.17%) Microsoft
2 180 (47.12%) Databricks
3 17 (4.45%) Adobe
4 11 (2.88%) Informatica
5 10 (2.62%) SAP
5 10 (2.62%) Talend
6 7 (1.83%) Google
6 7 (1.83%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.57%) Foundry
7 6 (1.57%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.52%) Oracle
9 1 (0.26%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.26%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.26%) Confluent
9 1 (0.26%) Infor
9 1 (0.26%) Meraki
9 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.26%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.26%) Teradata