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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 325 453
Rank change year-on-year -74 +128 -74
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 374 371 500
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.87% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 2.60% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 277 291 443
10th Percentile £46,850 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +6.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £90,000 £81,875 £79,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £99,000
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 27,325 14,286 34,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.32% 33.45% 34.82%
Number of salaries quoted 15,651 9,840 26,812
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £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 £82,563 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -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 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 28 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 -77 333 £75,000 +11.11% 90
UK excluding London -45 200 £62,500 -0.79% 70
Work from Home +55 156 £80,000 +28.00% 54
London -50 144 £83,500 +7.74% 41
North of England -26 55 £80,000 +33.33% 18
Midlands -32 44 £60,000 -7.69% 13
West Midlands -29 39 £60,000 -5.88% 9
Yorkshire -34 38 £80,000 +33.33% 7
East of England -12 34 £90,000 +67.44% 1
South East -53 29 £50,000 -23.08% 24
Scotland +15 23 £71,500 +58.89% 3
North West -10 16 £61,250 -2.00% 8
South West -53 15 £56,250 -15.09% 6
East Midlands -29 5 £57,500 -11.54% 4
Wales -39 2 £46,585 -9.98% 5
North East -46 1 - - 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 36 (9.63%) SharePoint
2 22 (5.88%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.67%) Apache
5 9 (2.41%) Appian
6 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.53%) Luigi
8 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (1.87%) 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 5 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.07%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.53%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.27%) Endur
4 1 (0.27%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.27%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 374 (100.00%) Azure
2 153 (40.91%) Power Platform
3 117 (31.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 79 (21.12%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (12.83%) Azure Logic Apps
6 42 (11.23%) Power Automate
7 34 (9.09%) PowerApps
8 32 (8.56%) Microsoft 365
9 29 (7.75%) GitHub
10 27 (7.22%) Snowflake
11 25 (6.68%) Azure Monitor
12 24 (6.42%) dbt
13 23 (6.15%) Serverless
14 21 (5.61%) AWS
14 21 (5.61%) Azure Functions
15 19 (5.08%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 19 (5.08%) Microsoft Purview
15 19 (5.08%) OneDrive
16 18 (4.81%) GCP
17 15 (4.01%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (38.50%) Power BI
2 108 (28.88%) Data Warehouse
3 104 (27.81%) Data Lake
4 94 (25.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 55 (14.71%) SQL Server
6 36 (9.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 34 (9.09%) Delta Lake
8 33 (8.82%) Spark SQL
9 23 (6.15%) Metadata
10 18 (4.81%) Relational Database
11 17 (4.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 15 (4.01%) Tableau
13 13 (3.48%) Star Schema
14 11 (2.94%) BigQuery
14 11 (2.94%) Power Query
15 10 (2.67%) Big Data
16 9 (2.41%) Pinecone
16 9 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 7 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
18 6 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (9.36%) Git
2 11 (2.94%) MLflow
3 5 (1.34%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.27%) GitLab
7 1 (0.27%) JIRA
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
General
1 144 (38.50%) Finance
2 122 (32.62%) Social Skills
3 55 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 10 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (2.67%) Retail
6 9 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.34%) Law
8 4 (1.07%) Advertising
8 4 (1.07%) Automotive
8 4 (1.07%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.80%) Legal
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%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 178 (47.59%) Data Engineer
2 81 (21.66%) Senior
3 67 (17.91%) Lead
4 55 (14.71%) Azure Engineer
5 46 (12.30%) Senior Data Engineer
6 44 (11.76%) Developer
7 38 (10.16%) Platform Engineer
8 37 (9.89%) Lead Data Engineer
9 34 (9.09%) Azure Data Engineer
10 24 (6.42%) Architect
11 20 (5.35%) Consultant
12 19 (5.08%) Data Architect
13 18 (4.81%) Senior Developer
14 16 (4.28%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 13 (3.48%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 13 (3.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 12 (3.21%) Automation Engineer
17 11 (2.94%) Microsoft Engineer
18 10 (2.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 9 (2.41%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (19.52%) PySpark
2 31 (8.29%) .NET
3 30 (8.02%) REST
4 28 (7.49%) JSON
5 22 (5.88%) .NET Core
5 22 (5.88%) CSS
5 22 (5.88%) HTML
6 19 (5.08%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.08%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.08%) SPFx
7 17 (4.55%) RESTful
8 14 (3.74%) ARM Templates
8 14 (3.74%) OAuth
9 10 (2.67%) FastAPI
9 10 (2.67%) Kafka
9 10 (2.67%) NumPy
9 10 (2.67%) Pandas
9 10 (2.67%) PyTorch
9 10 (2.67%) scikit-learn
9 10 (2.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.56%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.01%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (4.01%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.48%) Low-Code
4 9 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.14%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.87%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (1.87%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.60%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (1.60%) Replication
8 4 (1.07%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.07%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.53%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.53%) Clustering
10 2 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.07%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (51.07%) Data Modelling
2 187 (50.00%) Analytics
3 179 (47.86%) ETL
4 174 (46.52%) CI/CD
5 168 (44.92%) Data Engineering
6 166 (44.39%) Data Pipeline
7 159 (42.51%) Business Intelligence
8 142 (37.97%) DevOps
9 87 (23.26%) Agile
9 87 (23.26%) AI
10 81 (21.66%) Data Governance
11 77 (20.59%) Decision-Making
12 74 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
13 65 (17.38%) Data Architecture
14 62 (16.58%) Data Integration
14 62 (16.58%) Machine Learning
15 59 (15.78%) Infrastructure as Code
16 46 (12.30%) Platform Engineering
16 46 (12.30%) Test Automation
17 45 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 287 (76.74%) SQL
2 194 (51.87%) Python
3 44 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 31 (8.29%) C#
5 26 (6.95%) JavaScript
6 24 (6.42%) Scala
7 20 (5.35%) T-SQL
8 19 (5.08%) TypeScript
9 17 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (3.21%) Bicep
10 12 (3.21%) Java
11 11 (2.94%) R
12 2 (0.53%) C++
12 2 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.53%) PHP
12 2 (0.53%) VBA
13 1 (0.27%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (10.70%) Degree
2 24 (6.42%) Security Cleared
3 21 (5.61%) Azure Certification
3 21 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.34%) IIBA
6 5 (1.34%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.34%) PMP
7 4 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.53%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.27%) CISM
9 1 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (30.75%) Data Quality
2 29 (7.75%) GDPR
3 10 (2.67%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.41%) 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 16 (4.28%) Docker
2 8 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (13.37%) Terraform
2 20 (5.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.27%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 165 (44.12%) Databricks
2 151 (40.37%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.08%) Adobe
4 17 (4.55%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.41%) Ab Initio
5 9 (2.41%) Automation Anywhere
5 9 (2.41%) UiPath
6 7 (1.87%) Alteryx
6 7 (1.87%) Foundry
6 7 (1.87%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.87%) SAP
7 6 (1.60%) Google
8 5 (1.34%) Anaplan
9 4 (1.07%) IBM
10 2 (0.53%) Informatica
10 2 (0.53%) Oracle
10 2 (0.53%) Talend
10 2 (0.53%) Trapeze
11 1 (0.27%) Nintex
11 1 (0.27%) Palantir