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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 373 410
Rank change year-on-year -89 +37 -73
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 385 340 443
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.68% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 2.16% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 285 267 359
10th Percentile £48,950 £43,900 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £83,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -

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 27,740 15,737 24,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.55% 31.68% 31.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,793 10,656 16,102
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -85 361 £80,000 +23.08% 131
UK excluding London -79 189 £62,500 +13.64% 86
London -53 174 £80,000 - 65
Work from Home -17 142 £80,000 +33.33% 51
North of England -11 66 £74,000 +34.26% 15
Yorkshire -13 39 £81,250 +35.42% 5
South East -41 37 £62,500 +13.64% 33
Midlands -49 35 £77,500 +29.17% 18
West Midlands -33 28 £77,500 +29.17% 11
East of England -20 26 £90,000 +80.00% 7
North West -3 21 £55,000 - 9
South West -64 20 £85,000 +17.24% 5
Wales -66 11 £53,171 -3.33% 2
East Midlands -24 7 - - 7
North East -58 6 £47,500 -9.52% 1
Scotland 0 4 £49,168 -0.67% 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 40 (10.39%) Apache Spark
2 24 (6.23%) SharePoint
3 18 (4.68%) Apache
4 12 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.52%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.52%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.26%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 385 (100.00%) Azure
2 181 (47.01%) Power Platform
3 137 (35.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 90 (23.38%) Azure DevOps
5 68 (17.66%) Azure Databricks
6 50 (12.99%) Azure Logic Apps
7 48 (12.47%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (7.01%) Serverless
9 26 (6.75%) PowerApps
10 25 (6.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 25 (6.49%) Azure Functions
10 25 (6.49%) Power Automate
10 25 (6.49%) Snowflake
11 22 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (4.94%) AWS
13 18 (4.68%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 18 (4.68%) OneDrive
14 17 (4.42%) GCP
15 15 (3.90%) dbt
16 13 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (45.71%) Power BI
2 124 (32.21%) Data Warehouse
3 104 (27.01%) Data Lake
4 81 (21.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 64 (16.62%) Metadata
6 53 (13.77%) Delta Lake
7 48 (12.47%) SQL Server
8 32 (8.31%) Spark SQL
9 31 (8.05%) Star Schema
10 28 (7.27%) Tableau
11 27 (7.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 21 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
13 20 (5.19%) Big Data
13 20 (5.19%) Data Vault
14 19 (4.94%) NoSQL
15 18 (4.68%) Relational Database
16 16 (4.16%) Semantic Layer
17 13 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (3.38%) BigQuery
17 13 (3.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (12.47%) Git
2 10 (2.60%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.82%) MLflow
4 6 (1.56%) GitLab
5 3 (0.78%) JIRA
5 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.52%) ERwin
6 2 (0.52%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.26%) kappa
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 133 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 101 (26.23%) Finance
3 62 (16.10%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (4.94%) Legal
5 14 (3.64%) Law
6 13 (3.38%) Retail
7 11 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.82%) Banking
8 7 (1.82%) Marketing
8 7 (1.82%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.04%) Advertising
10 4 (1.04%) Billing
10 4 (1.04%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.04%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.78%) Games
11 3 (0.78%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.26%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 188 (48.83%) Data Engineer
2 115 (29.87%) Senior
3 69 (17.92%) Lead
4 67 (17.40%) Senior Data Engineer
5 59 (15.32%) Azure Engineer
6 53 (13.77%) Architect
7 49 (12.73%) Data Architect
8 44 (11.43%) Developer
9 42 (10.91%) Azure Data Engineer
10 33 (8.57%) Lead Data Engineer
11 23 (5.97%) Databricks Engineer
11 23 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (5.19%) Consultant
13 19 (4.94%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 18 (4.68%) Senior Developer
15 16 (4.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 12 (3.12%) Analyst
17 11 (2.86%) Senior Consultant
18 10 (2.60%) Business Developer
18 10 (2.60%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (24.16%) PySpark
2 52 (13.51%) Terraform
3 30 (7.79%) Kafka
4 29 (7.53%) JSON
5 25 (6.49%) REST
6 20 (5.19%) .NET
7 19 (4.94%) .NET Core
7 19 (4.94%) CSS
7 19 (4.94%) HTML
8 18 (4.68%) HTML5 Canvas
8 18 (4.68%) Microsoft Graph
8 18 (4.68%) SPFx
9 11 (2.86%) ARM Templates
10 10 (2.60%) Keycloak
11 5 (1.30%) SOAP
11 5 (1.30%) XML
12 4 (1.04%) MDX
12 4 (1.04%) YAML
13 3 (0.78%) Apache Avro
13 3 (0.78%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.35%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.05%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.08%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.30%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.04%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.04%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.04%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.04%) Replication
11 3 (0.78%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.78%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.52%) Reference Data
12 2 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.52%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.08%) Windows
2 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (56.36%) Business Intelligence
2 211 (54.81%) Analytics
3 197 (51.17%) Data Modelling
4 185 (48.05%) CI/CD
4 185 (48.05%) ETL
5 181 (47.01%) Data Engineering
6 169 (43.90%) Data Pipeline
7 167 (43.38%) DevOps
8 107 (27.79%) AI
9 104 (27.01%) Lakehouse
10 99 (25.71%) Data Governance
11 94 (24.42%) Data Architecture
12 90 (23.38%) Machine Learning
13 84 (21.82%) Decision-Making
14 83 (21.56%) Agile
15 82 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
16 77 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
17 75 (19.48%) Data Science
18 72 (18.70%) Data Integration
19 63 (16.36%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 292 (75.84%) SQL
2 218 (56.62%) Python
3 42 (10.91%) Scala
4 37 (9.61%) PowerShell
5 33 (8.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 29 (7.53%) C#
7 24 (6.23%) JavaScript
8 22 (5.71%) Bicep
9 18 (4.68%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.38%) T-SQL
11 11 (2.86%) Java
12 10 (2.60%) Go
13 6 (1.56%) R
14 2 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.52%) VBA
15 1 (0.26%) Bash
15 1 (0.26%) PHP
15 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 52 (13.51%) Azure Certification
2 41 (10.65%) Security Cleared
3 38 (9.87%) Degree
4 32 (8.31%) SC Cleared
5 26 (6.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.16%) SnowPro
8 10 (2.60%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.78%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.26%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (36.10%) Data Quality
2 37 (9.61%) GDPR
3 19 (4.94%) QA
4 7 (1.82%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.30%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.52%) IFRS
6 2 (0.52%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.52%) SLA
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 11 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.52%) Ansible
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.26%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 186 (48.31%) Microsoft
2 182 (47.27%) Databricks
3 18 (4.68%) Adobe
4 11 (2.86%) Informatica
5 10 (2.60%) Talend
6 9 (2.34%) SAP
7 7 (1.82%) Foundry
7 7 (1.82%) Google
7 7 (1.82%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.82%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.52%) Oracle
9 1 (0.26%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.26%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.26%) Confluent
9 1 (0.26%) Infor
9 1 (0.26%) Meraki
9 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.26%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.26%) Teradata