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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 352 392
Rank change year-on-year -2 +40 +19
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 381 351 538
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.80% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 2.16% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 246 278 471
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,275 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £79,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +23.81% -12.50%

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 23,896 16,277 31,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.41% 37.28% 37.79%
Number of salaries quoted 12,850 10,991 25,685
10th Percentile £29,203 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,960 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -23 306 £75,000 +11.11% 122
UK excluding London -16 196 £62,500 -3.85% 89
Work from Home +83 178 £75,000 +11.11% 72
London +23 153 £83,000 +3.75% 56
Midlands -5 52 £60,000 -4.00% 20
West Midlands +12 49 £60,000 -4.00% 16
Scotland +23 47 £79,500 +2.58% 3
North of England -47 34 £71,250 +9.62% 23
South East -69 27 £50,000 -28.57% 29
Yorkshire -58 16 £79,000 +31.67% 11
South West -18 15 £77,500 +21.57% 10
East of England +3 14 £72,500 -9.38% 4
North West -25 11 £60,000 -7.69% 11
North East -19 7 £51,000 -21.54% 1
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 -
Wales -9 3 £40,000 -17.53% 4
East Midlands -33 3 £60,000 +19.40% 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 17 (4.46%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.20%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.15%) Appian
4 8 (2.10%) Apache
5 7 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.05%) SAS
7 1 (0.26%) Confluence
7 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 36 (9.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.52%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.26%) Endur
3 1 (0.26%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 381 (100.00%) Azure
2 191 (50.13%) Power Platform
3 144 (37.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 90 (23.62%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (11.29%) GitHub
6 42 (11.02%) Snowflake
7 33 (8.66%) Power Automate
8 26 (6.82%) dbt
9 24 (6.30%) Azure Logic Apps
9 24 (6.30%) Azure Monitor
10 22 (5.77%) Microsoft Purview
11 20 (5.25%) PaaS
12 18 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (4.46%) Anthropic Claude
13 17 (4.46%) AWS
13 17 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (4.20%) SaaS
15 15 (3.94%) Azure AI
15 15 (3.94%) Azure Service Bus
15 15 (3.94%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.52%) DNS
2 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (46.72%) Power BI
2 113 (29.66%) Data Lake
3 104 (27.30%) Data Warehouse
4 103 (27.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 102 (26.77%) SQL Server
6 45 (11.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 41 (10.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 25 (6.56%) Metadata
9 23 (6.04%) Delta Lake
10 21 (5.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 15 (3.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 13 (3.41%) Tableau
13 12 (3.15%) Pinecone
13 12 (3.15%) Spark SQL
14 11 (2.89%) Star Schema
15 9 (2.36%) MySQL
16 8 (2.10%) Relational Database
17 7 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
17 7 (1.84%) Power Query
17 7 (1.84%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 34 (8.92%) Git
2 12 (3.15%) MLflow
3 3 (0.79%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.26%) JIRA
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 189 (49.61%) Finance
2 131 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 70 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (4.20%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.41%) Billing
6 13 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.10%) Automotive
8 8 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.10%) Law
9 5 (1.31%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.05%) Retail
11 3 (0.79%) Banking
11 3 (0.79%) Legal
11 3 (0.79%) Marketing
12 2 (0.52%) Advertising
12 2 (0.52%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.52%) Local Government
13 1 (0.26%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 158 (41.47%) Data Engineer
2 62 (16.27%) Senior
3 44 (11.55%) Azure Engineer
3 44 (11.55%) Lead
4 42 (11.02%) Senior Data Engineer
5 31 (8.14%) Developer
6 28 (7.35%) Azure Data Engineer
7 24 (6.30%) Lead Data Engineer
7 24 (6.30%) Platform Engineer
8 23 (6.04%) Architect
9 21 (5.51%) Analyst
10 18 (4.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 17 (4.46%) Data Architect
12 14 (3.67%) Automation Engineer
13 13 (3.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 12 (3.15%) Business Manager
14 12 (3.15%) Commercial Analyst
14 12 (3.15%) Insight Analyst
14 12 (3.15%) Insight Manager
15 11 (2.89%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (14.17%) PySpark
2 28 (7.35%) RESTful
3 26 (6.82%) OAuth
4 24 (6.30%) REST
5 21 (5.51%) JSON
6 19 (4.99%) .NET
7 13 (3.41%) OAuth2
8 12 (3.15%) Django
8 12 (3.15%) Flask
8 12 (3.15%) Hugging Face
8 12 (3.15%) JWT
8 12 (3.15%) NumPy
8 12 (3.15%) OpenAPI
8 12 (3.15%) Pandas
8 12 (3.15%) pytest
8 12 (3.15%) PyTorch
8 12 (3.15%) scikit-learn
8 12 (3.15%) Swagger
8 12 (3.15%) TensorFlow
8 12 (3.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.61%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 26 (6.82%) Low-Code
4 19 (4.99%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (4.99%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.36%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (2.10%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.10%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.57%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.31%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.05%) Replication
10 3 (0.79%) Clustering
10 3 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.52%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.05%) Windows
2 2 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (58.53%) Analytics
2 192 (50.39%) Data Modelling
3 187 (49.08%) Business Intelligence
4 178 (46.72%) Data Pipeline
5 176 (46.19%) ETL
6 167 (43.83%) CI/CD
7 160 (41.99%) Data Engineering
8 141 (37.01%) DevOps
9 114 (29.92%) AI
10 106 (27.82%) Decision-Making
11 104 (27.30%) Agile
12 93 (24.41%) Problem-Solving
13 77 (20.21%) Visualisation
14 68 (17.85%) Data Governance
15 61 (16.01%) Continuous Improvement
16 60 (15.75%) Data Integration
17 59 (15.49%) Data Architecture
18 58 (15.22%) Infrastructure as Code
19 53 (13.91%) Asset Management
19 53 (13.91%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 285 (74.80%) SQL
2 187 (49.08%) Python
3 39 (10.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 31 (8.14%) T-SQL
5 27 (7.09%) PowerShell
6 19 (4.99%) Bicep
7 18 (4.72%) C#
7 18 (4.72%) Scala
8 9 (2.36%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.10%) Java
9 8 (2.10%) R
10 3 (0.79%) C++
10 3 (0.79%) PHP
11 2 (0.52%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.26%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.26%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (10.24%) Degree
2 18 (4.72%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.20%) Azure Certification
4 15 (3.94%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.15%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 10 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.10%) IIBA
7 8 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.10%) PMI Certification
7 8 (2.10%) PMP
8 3 (0.79%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CISM
10 1 (0.26%) CISSP
10 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.26%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (32.81%) Data Quality
2 31 (8.14%) GDPR
3 13 (3.41%) Accessibility
4 12 (3.15%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.79%) QA
7 2 (0.52%) GRC
7 2 (0.52%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.26%) COBIT
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (4.99%) Docker
2 9 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (12.86%) Terraform
2 26 (6.82%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.26%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 151 (39.63%) Databricks
2 141 (37.01%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.72%) OpenAI
4 17 (4.46%) Ab Initio
5 12 (3.15%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (3.15%) UiPath
6 10 (2.62%) Alteryx
7 8 (2.10%) Anaplan
8 5 (1.31%) Talend
9 4 (1.05%) Foundry
9 4 (1.05%) IBM
9 4 (1.05%) Informatica
9 4 (1.05%) Oracle
10 3 (0.79%) RedGate
11 2 (0.52%) Adobe
11 2 (0.52%) Google
11 2 (0.52%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.52%) SAP
11 2 (0.52%) Trapeze
12 1 (0.26%) SolarWinds