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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 338 452
Rank change year-on-year -69 +114 -71
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 374 381 496
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.87% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 2.56% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 270 300 440
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £47,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,625 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% -6.72%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £79,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +20.00% -8.70%

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 26,917 14,896 34,418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.18% 33.92% 35.40%
Number of salaries quoted 15,192 10,448 26,660
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,125 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,686 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.45% +7.37% -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 21 May 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 21 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 -62 330 £75,000 +11.11% 81
UK excluding London -47 200 £62,500 -0.79% 72
Work from Home +72 154 £80,000 +28.00% 52
London -43 144 £83,500 +7.74% 31
North of England -22 51 £80,000 +30.61% 13
Midlands -28 45 £60,000 -7.69% 13
West Midlands -39 40 £60,000 -5.88% 10
Yorkshire -27 35 £80,000 +33.33% 6
East of England +5 34 £90,000 +71.43% 1
South East -58 29 £50,000 -23.08% 23
Scotland +17 26 £71,500 +0.35% 7
North West +3 15 £60,000 -4.00% 6
South West -53 15 £56,250 -13.46% 9
East Midlands -24 5 £57,500 -11.54% 3
Wales -31 2 £46,585 -9.98% 4
North East -40 1 - - 1

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 (9.89%) SharePoint
2 24 (6.42%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.67%) Apache
4 10 (2.67%) Appian
5 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.53%) Luigi
7 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.07%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.53%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.27%) Endur
3 1 (0.27%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.27%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 374 (100.00%) Azure
2 160 (42.78%) Power Platform
3 116 (31.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 83 (22.19%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (12.57%) Azure Logic Apps
6 44 (11.76%) Power Automate
7 34 (9.09%) PowerApps
8 33 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
9 31 (8.29%) GitHub
10 28 (7.49%) Snowflake
11 25 (6.68%) Azure Monitor
11 25 (6.68%) dbt
12 22 (5.88%) AWS
12 22 (5.88%) Serverless
13 20 (5.35%) Azure Functions
14 19 (5.08%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (5.08%) GCP
14 19 (5.08%) Microsoft Purview
14 19 (5.08%) OneDrive
15 16 (4.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (40.11%) Power BI
2 112 (29.95%) Data Warehouse
3 102 (27.27%) Data Lake
4 94 (25.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 57 (15.24%) SQL Server
6 39 (10.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 34 (9.09%) Delta Lake
8 32 (8.56%) Spark SQL
9 22 (5.88%) Metadata
10 19 (5.08%) Relational Database
11 17 (4.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 17 (4.55%) Tableau
12 13 (3.48%) Star Schema
13 11 (2.94%) Big Data
13 11 (2.94%) Power Query
14 10 (2.67%) BigQuery
14 10 (2.67%) Pinecone
14 10 (2.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
15 7 (1.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 37 (9.89%) Git
2 12 (3.21%) MLflow
3 5 (1.34%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.34%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.27%) GitLab
6 1 (0.27%) JIRA
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
General
1 146 (39.04%) Finance
2 120 (32.09%) Social Skills
3 55 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 9 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.14%) Retail
7 5 (1.34%) Law
8 4 (1.07%) Advertising
8 4 (1.07%) Automotive
8 4 (1.07%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.80%) Legal
9 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.80%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.53%) Banking
10 2 (0.53%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.53%) Local Government
10 2 (0.53%) Marketing
11 1 (0.27%) Billing
Job Titles
1 175 (46.79%) Data Engineer
2 80 (21.39%) Senior
3 63 (16.84%) Lead
4 57 (15.24%) Azure Engineer
5 45 (12.03%) Developer
5 45 (12.03%) Senior Data Engineer
6 37 (9.89%) Platform Engineer
7 36 (9.63%) Lead Data Engineer
8 35 (9.36%) Azure Data Engineer
9 22 (5.88%) Architect
10 20 (5.35%) Consultant
11 18 (4.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 18 (4.81%) Data Architect
12 17 (4.55%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.48%) Automation Engineer
13 13 (3.48%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 13 (3.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 11 (2.94%) Microsoft Engineer
15 8 (2.14%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (19.52%) PySpark
2 32 (8.56%) REST
3 31 (8.29%) .NET
3 31 (8.29%) JSON
4 22 (5.88%) .NET Core
4 22 (5.88%) CSS
4 22 (5.88%) HTML
5 20 (5.35%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.08%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.08%) RESTful
6 19 (5.08%) SPFx
7 16 (4.28%) OAuth
8 13 (3.48%) ARM Templates
9 11 (2.94%) FastAPI
9 11 (2.94%) Kafka
9 11 (2.94%) NumPy
9 11 (2.94%) Pandas
9 11 (2.94%) PyTorch
9 11 (2.94%) scikit-learn
9 11 (2.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.02%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.28%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (4.01%) Low-Code
3 15 (4.01%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.41%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.14%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.87%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.87%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (1.87%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.60%) Replication
8 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.80%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.80%) Reinsurance
8 3 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.53%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.07%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (51.87%) Data Modelling
2 189 (50.53%) Analytics
3 182 (48.66%) ETL
4 175 (46.79%) CI/CD
5 167 (44.65%) Data Pipeline
6 165 (44.12%) Data Engineering
7 162 (43.32%) Business Intelligence
8 144 (38.50%) DevOps
9 90 (24.06%) AI
10 88 (23.53%) Agile
11 79 (21.12%) Data Governance
11 79 (21.12%) Decision-Making
12 77 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
13 63 (16.84%) Data Architecture
13 63 (16.84%) Data Integration
13 63 (16.84%) Machine Learning
14 60 (16.04%) Infrastructure as Code
15 49 (13.10%) Test Automation
16 46 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
16 46 (12.30%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 288 (77.01%) SQL
2 193 (51.60%) Python
3 45 (12.03%) PowerShell
4 31 (8.29%) C#
5 27 (7.22%) JavaScript
6 24 (6.42%) Scala
7 20 (5.35%) T-SQL
8 19 (5.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 19 (5.08%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.21%) Bicep
9 12 (3.21%) R
10 11 (2.94%) Java
11 2 (0.53%) C++
11 2 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.53%) PHP
11 2 (0.53%) VBA
12 1 (0.27%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (11.23%) Degree
2 26 (6.95%) Security Cleared
3 22 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (5.61%) Azure Certification
5 19 (5.08%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.60%) IIBA
7 6 (1.60%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.60%) PMP
8 3 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.53%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.27%) CISM
10 1 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (31.02%) Data Quality
2 30 (8.02%) GDPR
3 10 (2.67%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.87%) QA
5 5 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.34%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.53%) GRC
6 2 (0.53%) IFRS
6 2 (0.53%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.53%) SLA
7 1 (0.27%) COBIT
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 18 (4.81%) Docker
2 8 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (13.37%) Terraform
2 21 (5.61%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.27%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 165 (44.12%) Databricks
2 148 (39.57%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.08%) Adobe
4 18 (4.81%) OpenAI
5 10 (2.67%) Ab Initio
5 10 (2.67%) Automation Anywhere
5 10 (2.67%) UiPath
6 8 (2.14%) Alteryx
7 7 (1.87%) Foundry
7 7 (1.87%) SAP
8 6 (1.60%) Anaplan
8 6 (1.60%) Google
8 6 (1.60%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.07%) IBM
10 3 (0.80%) Informatica
10 3 (0.80%) Talend
11 2 (0.53%) Oracle
11 2 (0.53%) Trapeze
12 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.27%) Cognizant