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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 329 423
Rank change year-on-year -21 +94 -28
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 400 359 524
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.88% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 2.37% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 262 287 460
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £49,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £61,084
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +10.50% -9.51%
75th Percentile £88,438 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £54,198
% change year-on-year -3.85% +19.93% -5.74%

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 25,167 15,153 32,972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.23% 37.13% 37.20%
Number of salaries quoted 13,378 10,998 26,221
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,625 £45,000 £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 £81,606 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.36% +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 28 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 28 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 -31 326 £75,000 +11.11% 121
UK excluding London -30 209 £62,500 -3.85% 91
Work from Home +71 185 £75,000 +11.11% 71
London +4 156 £85,000 +13.33% 51
Midlands -11 54 £60,000 - 20
West Midlands +10 51 £60,000 - 14
Scotland +15 46 £79,500 +2.58%
North of England -55 37 £75,000 +15.38% 27
South East -80 33 £50,000 -28.57% 31
East of England -21 19 £78,750 +26.00% 6
Yorkshire -61 18 £80,000 +33.33% 11
South West -38 13 £80,000 +25.49% 6
North West -30 12 £62,500 -3.85% 14
North East -19 7 £51,000 -34.19% 2
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 -
Wales -20 3 £40,000 -17.53% 6
East Midlands -46 3 £57,500 +11.65% 6

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 22 (5.50%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.25%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.00%) Appian
4 8 (2.00%) Apache
5 7 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.50%) SAS
8 1 (0.25%) Confluence
8 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 35 (8.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.50%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.25%) Endur
3 1 (0.25%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 400 (100.00%) Azure
2 193 (48.25%) Power Platform
3 149 (37.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 89 (22.25%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (10.25%) GitHub
5 41 (10.25%) Snowflake
6 38 (9.50%) Power Automate
7 29 (7.25%) Azure Logic Apps
8 26 (6.50%) dbt
9 23 (5.75%) Azure Monitor
9 23 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (5.50%) Microsoft Purview
11 20 (5.00%) PaaS
12 19 (4.75%) PowerApps
13 17 (4.25%) Anthropic Claude
13 17 (4.25%) AWS
13 17 (4.25%) Azure AI
14 16 (4.00%) SaaS
15 15 (3.75%) Azure Storage
16 14 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.50%) DNS
2 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (45.00%) Power BI
2 114 (28.50%) Data Lake
3 110 (27.50%) Data Warehouse
4 106 (26.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 103 (25.75%) SQL Server
6 42 (10.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 39 (9.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 25 (6.25%) Delta Lake
9 24 (6.00%) Metadata
10 20 (5.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 17 (4.25%) Spark SQL
12 15 (3.75%) Tableau
13 13 (3.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 12 (3.00%) Pinecone
15 11 (2.75%) Relational Database
16 10 (2.50%) Star Schema
17 9 (2.25%) MySQL
18 7 (1.75%) Big Data
18 7 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
19 6 (1.50%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 38 (9.50%) Git
2 12 (3.00%) MLflow
3 3 (0.75%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.75%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.25%) GitLab
5 1 (0.25%) JIRA
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 186 (46.50%) Finance
2 142 (35.50%) Social Skills
3 73 (18.25%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (3.50%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (3.00%) Billing
8 10 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.25%) Law
10 8 (2.00%) Automotive
11 7 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.25%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.00%) Marketing
13 4 (1.00%) Retail
14 3 (0.75%) Banking
14 3 (0.75%) Legal
15 2 (0.50%) Advertising
15 2 (0.50%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.50%) Local Government
16 1 (0.25%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 169 (42.25%) Data Engineer
2 71 (17.75%) Senior
3 48 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
3 48 (12.00%) Lead
4 45 (11.25%) Senior Data Engineer
5 36 (9.00%) Developer
6 31 (7.75%) Azure Data Engineer
7 27 (6.75%) Platform Engineer
8 26 (6.50%) Lead Data Engineer
9 22 (5.50%) Architect
10 21 (5.25%) Analyst
11 17 (4.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 16 (4.00%) Data Architect
13 15 (3.75%) Automation Engineer
14 14 (3.50%) Consultant
15 13 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 12 (3.00%) Business Manager
16 12 (3.00%) Commercial Analyst
16 12 (3.00%) Insight Analyst
16 12 (3.00%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (15.00%) PySpark
2 26 (6.50%) REST
2 26 (6.50%) RESTful
3 25 (6.25%) JSON
4 24 (6.00%) OAuth
5 23 (5.75%) .NET
6 12 (3.00%) .NET Core
6 12 (3.00%) Django
6 12 (3.00%) FastAPI
6 12 (3.00%) Flask
6 12 (3.00%) JWT
6 12 (3.00%) NumPy
6 12 (3.00%) OpenAPI
6 12 (3.00%) Pandas
6 12 (3.00%) pytest
6 12 (3.00%) PyTorch
6 12 (3.00%) scikit-learn
6 12 (3.00%) Swagger
6 12 (3.00%) TensorFlow
6 12 (3.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.50%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 25 (6.25%) Low-Code
4 19 (4.75%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (4.75%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.25%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
5 9 (2.25%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.00%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.50%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.00%) Replication
10 3 (0.75%) Clustering
10 3 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.75%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.50%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.00%) Windows
2 2 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (58.25%) Analytics
2 204 (51.00%) Data Modelling
3 189 (47.25%) Business Intelligence
4 186 (46.50%) Data Pipeline
4 186 (46.50%) ETL
5 171 (42.75%) Data Engineering
6 170 (42.50%) CI/CD
7 143 (35.75%) DevOps
8 120 (30.00%) AI
9 109 (27.25%) Decision-Making
10 106 (26.50%) Agile
11 101 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
12 80 (20.00%) Visualisation
13 76 (19.00%) Data Governance
14 65 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
15 63 (15.75%) Data Integration
16 60 (15.00%) Data Architecture
17 57 (14.25%) Infrastructure as Code
18 55 (13.75%) Machine Learning
18 55 (13.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 307 (76.75%) SQL
2 203 (50.75%) Python
3 40 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 34 (8.50%) PowerShell
5 30 (7.50%) T-SQL
6 22 (5.50%) C#
7 18 (4.50%) Scala
8 16 (4.00%) Bicep
9 14 (3.50%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.00%) Java
10 8 (2.00%) R
11 7 (1.75%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.75%) C++
12 3 (0.75%) PHP
13 1 (0.25%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.25%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (10.00%) Degree
2 20 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.25%) Azure Certification
4 14 (3.50%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 11 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.00%) IIBA
8 8 (2.00%) PMI Certification
8 8 (2.00%) PMP
9 3 (0.75%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.50%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.25%) CISM
11 1 (0.25%) CISSP
11 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.25%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (32.00%) Data Quality
2 31 (7.75%) GDPR
3 12 (3.00%) Actionable Recommendations
4 11 (2.75%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.25%) QA
6 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.75%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.50%) GRC
9 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.25%) COBIT
9 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (4.50%) Docker
2 9 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (12.00%) Terraform
2 24 (6.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.25%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 165 (41.25%) Databricks
2 158 (39.50%) Microsoft
3 20 (5.00%) OpenAI
4 15 (3.75%) Ab Initio
5 12 (3.00%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (3.00%) UiPath
6 10 (2.50%) Alteryx
7 8 (2.00%) Anaplan
8 7 (1.75%) Adobe
9 6 (1.50%) Foundry
9 6 (1.50%) Talend
10 4 (1.00%) IBM
10 4 (1.00%) Informatica
10 4 (1.00%) Oracle
11 3 (0.75%) Google
11 3 (0.75%) RedGate
12 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.50%) SAP
12 2 (0.50%) Trapeze
13 1 (0.25%) Palantir