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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 364 393
Rank change year-on-year +13 +29 +12
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 365 366 511
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.76% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 2.03% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 239 285 455
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,600 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £88,125 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £102,750 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.77% +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 22,787 18,010 29,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.04% 37.19% 38.52%
Number of salaries quoted 12,310 10,972 23,902
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -15 287 £75,000 +15.38% 115
UK excluding London -14 185 £61,250 -5.77% 97
Work from Home +100 172 £75,000 +15.38% 75
London +47 150 £82,500 +10.00% 47
Midlands +18 51 £60,000 - 25
Scotland +45 50 £79,500 +2.58% 6
West Midlands +33 48 £60,000 -4.00% 17
North of England -32 30 £58,000 -10.77% 22
South East -56 25 £65,000 - 31
South West -17 14 £77,500 +24.00% 9
Yorkshire -38 12 £79,000 +31.67% 4
North West -17 10 £59,000 -9.23% 14
East of England +21 9 £62,500 -37.50% 1
North East -8 8 £51,000 -21.54% 4
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 -
East Midlands -23 3 £60,000 +36.36% 8
Wales -2 2 - - 3

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 (4.66%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.29%) Appian
2 12 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.19%) Apache
4 7 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.37%) SAS
6 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.27%) Confluence
7 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 36 (9.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.55%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.27%) Endur
3 1 (0.27%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 365 (100.00%) Azure
2 182 (49.86%) Power Platform
3 138 (37.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 87 (23.84%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (12.60%) GitHub
6 42 (11.51%) Snowflake
7 29 (7.95%) Power Automate
8 28 (7.67%) dbt
9 24 (6.58%) Azure Logic Apps
9 24 (6.58%) Azure Monitor
9 24 (6.58%) Microsoft Purview
10 19 (5.21%) PaaS
11 18 (4.93%) AWS
12 17 (4.66%) Anthropic Claude
12 17 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (4.66%) SaaS
13 16 (4.38%) Azure Service Bus
13 16 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
14 15 (4.11%) Azure Storage
15 14 (3.84%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.10%) DNS
2 2 (0.55%) Firewall
2 2 (0.55%) VPN
3 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (46.58%) Power BI
2 114 (31.23%) Data Lake
3 108 (29.59%) Data Warehouse
4 104 (28.49%) SQL Server
5 98 (26.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 44 (12.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 43 (11.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 25 (6.85%) Metadata
9 22 (6.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 20 (5.48%) Delta Lake
11 14 (3.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 13 (3.56%) Tableau
13 12 (3.29%) Pinecone
14 9 (2.47%) MySQL
14 9 (2.47%) Star Schema
15 8 (2.19%) Qlik Sense
16 7 (1.92%) Spark SQL
17 6 (1.64%) Big Data
17 6 (1.64%) Data Mining
17 6 (1.64%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 33 (9.04%) Git
2 12 (3.29%) MLflow
3 3 (0.82%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.27%) JIRA
5 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 190 (52.05%) Finance
2 133 (36.44%) Social Skills
3 71 (19.45%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (4.93%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.84%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.56%) Billing
6 13 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.01%) Law
9 9 (2.47%) Automotive
10 5 (1.37%) Legal
10 5 (1.37%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.10%) Retail
12 3 (0.82%) Advertising
12 3 (0.82%) Banking
12 3 (0.82%) Marketing
13 2 (0.55%) Local Government
14 1 (0.27%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.27%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 146 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 62 (16.99%) Senior
3 43 (11.78%) Azure Engineer
3 43 (11.78%) Senior Data Engineer
4 37 (10.14%) Lead
5 29 (7.95%) Developer
6 26 (7.12%) Architect
6 26 (7.12%) Azure Data Engineer
7 20 (5.48%) Analyst
7 20 (5.48%) Data Architect
7 20 (5.48%) Platform Engineer
8 19 (5.21%) Lead Data Engineer
9 18 (4.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 14 (3.84%) Automation Engineer
11 13 (3.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (3.29%) Business Manager
12 12 (3.29%) Commercial Analyst
12 12 (3.29%) Data Manager
12 12 (3.29%) Insight Analyst
12 12 (3.29%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (12.88%) PySpark
2 28 (7.67%) RESTful
3 27 (7.40%) OAuth
4 22 (6.03%) REST
5 21 (5.75%) JSON
6 16 (4.38%) .NET
7 14 (3.84%) OAuth2
8 12 (3.29%) Django
8 12 (3.29%) FastAPI
8 12 (3.29%) Flask
8 12 (3.29%) Hugging Face
8 12 (3.29%) NumPy
8 12 (3.29%) OpenAPI
8 12 (3.29%) Pandas
8 12 (3.29%) pytest
8 12 (3.29%) PyTorch
8 12 (3.29%) scikit-learn
8 12 (3.29%) Swagger
8 12 (3.29%) TensorFlow
8 12 (3.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.22%) Analytical Mindset
2 27 (7.40%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.40%) Low-Code
3 19 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.19%) AI Agents
4 8 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (1.92%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.37%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.82%) Clustering
8 3 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (0.82%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.55%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.55%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.10%) VMS
1 4 (1.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (58.36%) Analytics
2 185 (50.68%) Data Modelling
3 181 (49.59%) Business Intelligence
4 174 (47.67%) ETL
5 170 (46.58%) Data Pipeline
6 156 (42.74%) CI/CD
7 155 (42.47%) Data Engineering
8 133 (36.44%) DevOps
9 112 (30.68%) Agile
10 111 (30.41%) AI
11 104 (28.49%) Decision-Making
12 88 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
13 77 (21.10%) Visualisation
14 70 (19.18%) Data Governance
15 62 (16.99%) Data Integration
16 59 (16.16%) Data Architecture
16 59 (16.16%) Infrastructure as Code
17 57 (15.62%) Continuous Improvement
18 56 (15.34%) Coaching
19 54 (14.79%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 268 (73.42%) SQL
2 182 (49.86%) Python
3 39 (10.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 33 (9.04%) T-SQL
5 25 (6.85%) PowerShell
6 21 (5.75%) Bicep
7 19 (5.21%) Scala
8 15 (4.11%) C#
9 9 (2.47%) Java
10 8 (2.19%) R
11 7 (1.92%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.82%) C++
13 2 (0.55%) PHP
14 1 (0.27%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (10.14%) Degree
2 16 (4.38%) Azure Certification
3 14 (3.84%) Security Cleared
4 12 (3.29%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 11 (3.01%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.19%) IIBA
7 8 (2.19%) PMI Certification
7 8 (2.19%) PMP
8 5 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.82%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.55%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.27%) CISM
11 1 (0.27%) CISSP
11 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.27%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (33.15%) Data Quality
2 33 (9.04%) GDPR
3 13 (3.56%) Accessibility
4 12 (3.29%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.55%) GRC
6 2 (0.55%) QA
7 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.27%) COBIT
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (5.75%) Docker
2 10 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (13.97%) Terraform
2 28 (7.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 146 (40.00%) Databricks
2 135 (36.99%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.93%) Ab Initio
4 16 (4.38%) OpenAI
5 12 (3.29%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (3.29%) UiPath
6 10 (2.74%) Alteryx
7 8 (2.19%) Anaplan
8 6 (1.64%) Talend
9 5 (1.37%) Informatica
10 4 (1.10%) IBM
10 4 (1.10%) RedGate
10 4 (1.10%) SAP
11 3 (0.82%) Oracle
12 2 (0.55%) Foundry
12 2 (0.55%) Google
12 2 (0.55%) Trapeze
13 1 (0.27%) FIS
13 1 (0.27%) Nintex
13 1 (0.27%) Salesforce