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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 443 350 450
Rank change year-on-year -93 +100 -102
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 350 382 500
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.78% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 2.40% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 262 292 419
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -0.76%
75th Percentile £90,938 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £97,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -3.10%

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 26,973 15,896 32,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.26% 32.36% 33.08%
Number of salaries quoted 17,609 11,064 24,581
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

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 July 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 17 July 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 -91 330 £80,000 +18.52% 58
UK excluding London -68 179 £62,500 +4.17% 41
London -51 145 £80,000 - 25
Work from Home -11 129 £82,500 +34.69% 33
North of England +9 66 £67,500 +12.50% 6
Yorkshire -7 41 £80,000 +33.33% 3
Midlands -37 37 £57,500 -4.17% 14
East of England 0 33 £90,000 +66.67% 2
West Midlands -24 32 £57,500 - 11
North West +3 21 £57,500 - 1
South East -69 20 £50,000 -23.08% 14
South West -41 19 £70,000 -9.68% 3
Wales -47 6 £53,171 -3.33% 2
East Midlands -15 5 £60,000 -7.69% 3
Scotland +2 4 £43,335 +2.57%
North East -57 4 £47,500 -9.52% 2

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 34 (9.71%) SharePoint
2 30 (8.57%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.71%) Apache
4 12 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.86%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.57%) Appian
6 2 (0.57%) Luigi
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.57%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.29%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.29%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 350 (100.00%) Azure
2 158 (45.14%) Power Platform
3 104 (29.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 71 (20.29%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (13.71%) Azure Logic Apps
6 34 (9.71%) Microsoft Purview
7 33 (9.43%) Power Automate
7 33 (9.43%) PowerApps
8 26 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (6.57%) Azure Functions
9 23 (6.57%) Serverless
10 20 (5.71%) AWS
10 20 (5.71%) Snowflake
11 19 (5.43%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.43%) GCP
11 19 (5.43%) OneDrive
12 16 (4.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 15 (4.29%) dbt
13 15 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (3.71%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (43.14%) Power BI
2 100 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 94 (26.86%) Data Lake
4 85 (24.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 47 (13.43%) SQL Server
6 37 (10.57%) Delta Lake
7 36 (10.29%) Metadata
8 33 (9.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 32 (9.14%) Spark SQL
10 21 (6.00%) Tableau
11 20 (5.71%) Star Schema
12 19 (5.43%) Relational Database
13 16 (4.57%) Big Data
14 13 (3.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 13 (3.71%) Power Query
15 12 (3.43%) BigQuery
15 12 (3.43%) Data Vault
16 11 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
16 11 (3.14%) Semantic Layer
17 9 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 33 (9.43%) Git
2 7 (2.00%) MLflow
3 5 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.43%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.14%) GitLab
5 3 (0.86%) JIRA
5 3 (0.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.57%) ERwin
6 2 (0.57%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
General
1 114 (32.57%) Social Skills
2 98 (28.00%) Finance
3 57 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.71%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (3.43%) Legal
5 12 (3.43%) Retail
6 11 (3.14%) Law
7 9 (2.57%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.14%) Marketing
8 4 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.86%) Advertising
9 3 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.86%) Games
9 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.86%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.57%) Billing
10 2 (0.57%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.29%) Automotive
11 1 (0.29%) Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 173 (49.43%) Data Engineer
2 83 (23.71%) Senior
3 66 (18.86%) Lead
4 47 (13.43%) Azure Engineer
4 47 (13.43%) Senior Data Engineer
5 42 (12.00%) Architect
6 41 (11.71%) Developer
7 39 (11.14%) Data Architect
8 35 (10.00%) Azure Data Engineer
9 34 (9.71%) Lead Data Engineer
10 30 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
11 17 (4.86%) Senior Developer
12 15 (4.29%) Consultant
13 14 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 10 (2.86%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 10 (2.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.57%) Azure Architect
15 9 (2.57%) Data Manager
15 9 (2.57%) Microsoft Engineer
16 8 (2.29%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (20.57%) PySpark
2 25 (7.14%) .NET
3 24 (6.86%) JSON
4 22 (6.29%) .NET Core
4 22 (6.29%) CSS
4 22 (6.29%) HTML
4 22 (6.29%) REST
5 19 (5.43%) HTML5 Canvas
5 19 (5.43%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (5.43%) SPFx
6 17 (4.86%) Kafka
7 12 (3.43%) ARM Templates
8 6 (1.71%) SOAP
9 4 (1.14%) Keycloak
9 4 (1.14%) RESTful
10 3 (0.86%) FastAPI
10 3 (0.86%) Middleware
10 3 (0.86%) Pandas
10 3 (0.86%) PyTorch
10 3 (0.86%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.29%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.86%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (3.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.71%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.71%) Replication
8 5 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.43%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.14%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.14%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.86%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.86%) Wiki
11 2 (0.57%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (54.00%) Analytics
2 180 (51.43%) Business Intelligence
3 178 (50.86%) Data Modelling
4 161 (46.00%) Data Engineering
5 155 (44.29%) CI/CD
6 154 (44.00%) ETL
7 150 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
8 132 (37.71%) DevOps
9 99 (28.29%) AI
10 93 (26.57%) Data Governance
11 83 (23.71%) Decision-Making
12 82 (23.43%) Machine Learning
13 74 (21.14%) Agile
14 72 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
15 65 (18.57%) Data Architecture
16 62 (17.71%) Data Integration
17 58 (16.57%) Technical Leadership
18 56 (16.00%) Data Science
19 52 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
20 51 (14.57%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 266 (76.00%) SQL
2 175 (50.00%) Python
3 38 (10.86%) PowerShell
4 26 (7.43%) C#
5 25 (7.14%) Scala
6 23 (6.57%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (5.43%) TypeScript
8 14 (4.00%) Bicep
9 12 (3.43%) T-SQL
10 9 (2.57%) Java
11 6 (1.71%) R
12 4 (1.14%) Go
13 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.57%) PHP
13 2 (0.57%) VBA
14 1 (0.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 37 (10.57%) Degree
2 36 (10.29%) Azure Certification
3 29 (8.29%) Security Cleared
4 23 (6.57%) SC Cleared
5 19 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.29%) SnowPro
8 6 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.14%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.86%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.29%) CISM
12 1 (0.29%) CISSP
12 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (32.00%) Data Quality
2 33 (9.43%) GDPR
3 15 (4.29%) QA
4 5 (1.43%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.43%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.57%) GRC
6 2 (0.57%) IFRS
6 2 (0.57%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.57%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 10 (2.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (13.14%) Terraform
2 12 (3.43%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) Ansible
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 165 (47.14%) Databricks
2 145 (41.43%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.43%) Adobe
4 11 (3.14%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.29%) Foundry
5 8 (2.29%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.29%) SAP
6 7 (2.00%) Google
7 4 (1.14%) Informatica
8 3 (0.86%) Talend
9 2 (0.57%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.57%) Automation Anywhere
9 2 (0.57%) Oracle
9 2 (0.57%) Trapeze
9 2 (0.57%) UiPath
10 1 (0.29%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.29%) Confluent
10 1 (0.29%) Cribl.io
10 1 (0.29%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow