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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 353 421
Rank change year-on-year -99 +68 -70
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 343 375 471
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.76% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.24% 2.35% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 257 282 396
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -

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 27,731 15,939 28,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.95% 32.25% 32.32%
Number of salaries quoted 18,198 11,095 20,714
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,497 £40,903 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £84,079 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,550 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.69% -1.81% -4.55%

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 31 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 31 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 -90 326 £80,000 +18.52% 84
UK excluding London -71 172 £62,500 +8.70% 61
London -68 150 £80,000 - 40
Work from Home -10 126 £82,500 +37.50% 50
North of England +10 66 £80,000 +33.33% 11
Yorkshire -3 41 £80,000 +33.33% 5
East of England -8 31 £90,000 +69.01% 3
Midlands -53 31 £60,000 -4.00% 17
West Midlands -31 26 £60,000 +4.35% 14
South East -79 22 £50,000 -23.08% 22
North West +10 20 £55,000 -4.35% 3
South West -52 17 £84,000 +8.39% 3
Wales -53 7 £53,171 -3.33% 5
East Midlands -25 5 - - 3
North East -48 5 £47,500 -9.52% 3
Scotland +4 3 £57,418 +35.90%

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 (9.91%) Apache Spark
2 27 (7.87%) SharePoint
3 14 (4.08%) Apache
4 12 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.87%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.58%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.58%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.29%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 343 (100.00%) Azure
2 158 (46.06%) Power Platform
3 106 (30.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 69 (20.12%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (13.99%) Azure Logic Apps
6 39 (11.37%) Microsoft Purview
7 30 (8.75%) PowerApps
8 28 (8.16%) Power Automate
9 23 (6.71%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (6.71%) Serverless
9 23 (6.71%) Snowflake
10 22 (6.41%) Azure Functions
11 19 (5.54%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.54%) OneDrive
12 18 (5.25%) AWS
13 17 (4.96%) GCP
14 16 (4.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 16 (4.66%) dbt
15 13 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
16 12 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (44.31%) Power BI
2 103 (30.03%) Data Warehouse
3 91 (26.53%) Data Lake
4 79 (23.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 46 (13.41%) SQL Server
6 44 (12.83%) Metadata
7 42 (12.24%) Delta Lake
8 33 (9.62%) Spark SQL
9 29 (8.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (7.00%) Tableau
11 21 (6.12%) Relational Database
12 19 (5.54%) Big Data
13 18 (5.25%) Star Schema
14 15 (4.37%) Data Vault
15 14 (4.08%) Semantic Layer
16 13 (3.79%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 13 (3.79%) BigQuery
16 13 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
17 11 (3.21%) Power Query
18 10 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 32 (9.33%) Git
2 7 (2.04%) MLflow
3 6 (1.75%) GitLab
3 6 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.17%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.87%) JIRA
6 2 (0.58%) ERwin
6 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.58%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 111 (32.36%) Social Skills
2 95 (27.70%) Finance
3 56 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
4 12 (3.50%) Legal
4 12 (3.50%) Retail
5 11 (3.21%) Law
6 7 (2.04%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.46%) Marketing
8 4 (1.17%) Advertising
8 4 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.87%) Games
9 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.87%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.58%) Banking
10 2 (0.58%) Billing
10 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.29%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 173 (50.44%) Data Engineer
2 89 (25.95%) Senior
3 64 (18.66%) Lead
4 53 (15.45%) Senior Data Engineer
5 47 (13.70%) Architect
6 46 (13.41%) Azure Engineer
7 45 (13.12%) Data Architect
8 37 (10.79%) Developer
9 35 (10.20%) Azure Data Engineer
10 32 (9.33%) Lead Data Engineer
11 26 (7.58%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (5.25%) Senior Developer
13 16 (4.66%) Consultant
14 10 (2.92%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 9 (2.62%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.62%) Data Manager
15 9 (2.62%) Microsoft Engineer
16 8 (2.33%) Azure Architect
16 8 (2.33%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (22.45%) PySpark
2 23 (6.71%) .NET
2 23 (6.71%) JSON
3 21 (6.12%) Kafka
4 20 (5.83%) .NET Core
4 20 (5.83%) CSS
4 20 (5.83%) HTML
5 19 (5.54%) HTML5 Canvas
5 19 (5.54%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (5.54%) REST
5 19 (5.54%) SPFx
6 12 (3.50%) ARM Templates
7 6 (1.75%) SOAP
8 5 (1.46%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.87%) YAML
10 2 (0.58%) LangChain
10 2 (0.58%) Middleware
11 1 (0.29%) LangGraph
11 1 (0.29%) Model Context Protocol
11 1 (0.29%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.33%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.96%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.46%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.46%) Replication
8 4 (1.17%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.17%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.17%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.87%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.87%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.87%) Wiki
10 2 (0.58%) Clustering
10 2 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (55.10%) Analytics
2 184 (53.64%) Business Intelligence
3 178 (51.90%) Data Modelling
4 162 (47.23%) Data Engineering
5 154 (44.90%) CI/CD
6 151 (44.02%) Data Pipeline
6 151 (44.02%) ETL
7 134 (39.07%) DevOps
8 103 (30.03%) AI
9 96 (27.99%) Data Governance
10 85 (24.78%) Machine Learning
11 77 (22.45%) Decision-Making
12 76 (22.16%) Agile
13 72 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
14 71 (20.70%) Data Architecture
15 64 (18.66%) Data Integration
16 62 (18.08%) Technical Leadership
17 61 (17.78%) Data Science
18 56 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
19 54 (15.74%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 255 (74.34%) SQL
2 180 (52.48%) Python
3 36 (10.50%) PowerShell
4 30 (8.75%) Scala
5 24 (7.00%) C#
6 23 (6.71%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.54%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (4.66%) Bicep
10 12 (3.50%) T-SQL
11 10 (2.92%) Java
12 7 (2.04%) R
13 5 (1.46%) Go
14 2 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.58%) VBA
15 1 (0.29%) C++
15 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (11.66%) Azure Certification
2 33 (9.62%) Security Cleared
3 31 (9.04%) Degree
4 26 (7.58%) SC Cleared
5 19 (5.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.21%) SnowPro
8 6 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.46%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.87%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.29%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (31.49%) Data Quality
2 32 (9.33%) GDPR
3 16 (4.66%) QA
4 5 (1.46%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.46%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.58%) GRC
5 2 (0.58%) IFRS
5 2 (0.58%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.58%) SLA
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 8 (2.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (13.70%) Terraform
2 10 (2.92%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) Ansible
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 169 (49.27%) Databricks
2 149 (43.44%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.54%) Adobe
4 9 (2.62%) SAP
5 8 (2.33%) Foundry
5 8 (2.33%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.04%) Google
6 7 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.17%) Informatica
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle
8 2 (0.58%) Talend
8 2 (0.58%) Trapeze
9 1 (0.29%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.29%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.29%) Infor
9 1 (0.29%) Nintex
9 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.29%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.29%) Teradata