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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 345 457
Rank change year-on-year -84 +112 -97
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 351 385 503
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.78% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 2.42% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 264 297 421
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £90,313 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,000
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 27,041 15,883 33,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.37% 32.32% 33.11%
Number of salaries quoted 17,570 11,064 25,443
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
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 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

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 15 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 15 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 -80 332 £80,000 +18.52% 117
UK excluding London -66 178 £62,500 +4.17% 110
London -68 147 £80,000 - 41
Work from Home -13 129 £82,500 +32.00% 112
North of England +2 65 £67,500 +12.50% 23
Yorkshire -4 40 £80,000 +33.33% 9
Midlands -36 37 £57,500 -4.17% 21
East of England -8 33 £90,000 +66.67% 9
West Midlands -32 32 £57,500 - 14
North West 0 21 £57,500 -4.17% 10
South East -66 21 £50,000 -23.08% 27
South West -57 18 £60,000 -22.58% 6
East Midlands -26 5 £60,000 -7.69% 7
Wales -50 5 £53,171 -3.33% 5
Scotland +13 4 £43,335 +2.57% 15
North East -58 4 £47,500 -9.52% 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 34 (9.69%) SharePoint
2 30 (8.55%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.70%) Apache
4 12 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.85%) Appian
5 3 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.57%) Luigi
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.57%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.28%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.28%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 351 (100.00%) Azure
2 157 (44.73%) Power Platform
3 107 (30.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 70 (19.94%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (13.68%) Azure Logic Apps
6 34 (9.69%) Power Automate
7 33 (9.40%) Microsoft Purview
7 33 (9.40%) PowerApps
8 27 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (6.55%) Azure Functions
9 23 (6.55%) Serverless
10 21 (5.98%) AWS
11 20 (5.70%) Snowflake
12 19 (5.41%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.41%) GCP
12 19 (5.41%) OneDrive
13 16 (4.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 15 (4.27%) dbt
14 15 (4.27%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.28%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (42.74%) Power BI
2 100 (28.49%) Data Warehouse
3 93 (26.50%) Data Lake
4 86 (24.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 49 (13.96%) SQL Server
6 35 (9.97%) Delta Lake
7 34 (9.69%) Metadata
7 34 (9.69%) Spark SQL
8 33 (9.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 21 (5.98%) Tableau
10 20 (5.70%) Star Schema
11 19 (5.41%) Relational Database
12 16 (4.56%) Big Data
13 13 (3.70%) Power Query
14 12 (3.42%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 12 (3.42%) BigQuery
14 12 (3.42%) Data Vault
15 10 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
16 9 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (2.56%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 33 (9.40%) Git
2 6 (1.71%) MLflow
3 5 (1.42%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.42%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.85%) JIRA
4 3 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.57%) ERwin
5 2 (0.57%) GitLab
5 2 (0.57%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
General
1 117 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 103 (29.34%) Finance
3 57 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (3.42%) Law
5 12 (3.42%) Retail
6 10 (2.85%) Legal
7 9 (2.56%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.14%) Marketing
8 4 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.85%) Advertising
9 3 (0.85%) Games
9 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.85%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.57%) Billing
10 2 (0.57%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.28%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.28%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 174 (49.57%) Data Engineer
2 81 (23.08%) Senior
3 66 (18.80%) Lead
4 47 (13.39%) Azure Engineer
5 45 (12.82%) Senior Data Engineer
6 41 (11.68%) Architect
6 41 (11.68%) Developer
7 38 (10.83%) Data Architect
8 35 (9.97%) Azure Data Engineer
8 35 (9.97%) Lead Data Engineer
9 30 (8.55%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (4.84%) Senior Developer
11 15 (4.27%) Consultant
12 14 (3.99%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 10 (2.85%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 10 (2.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 9 (2.56%) Azure Architect
14 9 (2.56%) Data Manager
14 9 (2.56%) Microsoft Engineer
15 8 (2.28%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (20.80%) PySpark
2 25 (7.12%) .NET
3 24 (6.84%) JSON
4 23 (6.55%) REST
5 22 (6.27%) .NET Core
5 22 (6.27%) CSS
5 22 (6.27%) HTML
6 19 (5.41%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.41%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.41%) SPFx
7 16 (4.56%) Kafka
8 12 (3.42%) ARM Templates
9 6 (1.71%) SOAP
10 5 (1.42%) RESTful
11 4 (1.14%) FastAPI
11 4 (1.14%) NumPy
11 4 (1.14%) Pandas
11 4 (1.14%) PyTorch
11 4 (1.14%) scikit-learn
11 4 (1.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.55%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.84%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (1.99%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (1.99%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.71%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.71%) Low-Code
6 6 (1.71%) Replication
7 5 (1.42%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.14%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.14%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.85%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.85%) Wiki
10 2 (0.57%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (53.28%) Analytics
2 179 (51.00%) Business Intelligence
3 177 (50.43%) Data Modelling
4 162 (46.15%) Data Engineering
5 157 (44.73%) CI/CD
6 154 (43.87%) ETL
7 151 (43.02%) Data Pipeline
8 130 (37.04%) DevOps
9 98 (27.92%) AI
10 94 (26.78%) Data Governance
11 83 (23.65%) Machine Learning
12 82 (23.36%) Decision-Making
13 74 (21.08%) Agile
14 72 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
15 65 (18.52%) Data Architecture
16 61 (17.38%) Data Integration
17 58 (16.52%) Technical Leadership
18 56 (15.95%) Data Science
19 50 (14.25%) Continuous Improvement
19 50 (14.25%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 270 (76.92%) SQL
2 176 (50.14%) Python
3 38 (10.83%) PowerShell
4 26 (7.41%) C#
5 25 (7.12%) Scala
6 23 (6.55%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (5.41%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.99%) Bicep
9 13 (3.70%) T-SQL
10 9 (2.56%) Java
11 6 (1.71%) R
12 3 (0.85%) Go
13 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.57%) PHP
13 2 (0.57%) VBA
14 1 (0.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 38 (10.83%) Degree
2 35 (9.97%) Azure Certification
3 29 (8.26%) Security Cleared
4 22 (6.27%) SC Cleared
5 19 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.28%) SnowPro
8 6 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.85%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.85%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.28%) CISM
12 1 (0.28%) CISSP
12 1 (0.28%) IIBA
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (31.62%) Data Quality
2 34 (9.69%) GDPR
3 15 (4.27%) QA
4 5 (1.42%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.42%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.14%) 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 (0.28%) COBIT
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 11 (3.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (13.39%) Terraform
2 13 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) Ansible
3 1 (0.28%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 163 (46.44%) Databricks
2 144 (41.03%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.41%) Adobe
4 12 (3.42%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.28%) Foundry
5 8 (2.28%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.28%) SAP
6 7 (1.99%) Google
7 4 (1.14%) Informatica
8 3 (0.85%) Alteryx
8 3 (0.85%) Automation Anywhere
8 3 (0.85%) Talend
8 3 (0.85%) UiPath
9 2 (0.57%) Oracle
9 2 (0.57%) Trapeze
10 1 (0.28%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.28%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.28%) FIS
10 1 (0.28%) Nintex
10 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow