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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 345 466
Rank change year-on-year -105 +121 -96
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 346 385 508
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.81% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 2.47% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 264 297 428
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,212
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £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% -1.57%

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 26,375 15,565 34,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.28% 32.68% 33.11%
Number of salaries quoted 17,191 10,859 26,654
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £30,500
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% -8.73%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
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 4 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 4 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 -76 325 £80,000 +18.52% 101
UK excluding London -74 172 £62,500 +4.17% 79
London -58 145 £83,500 +4.38% 51
Work from Home +6 132 £82,500 +26.92% 65
North of England 0 62 £80,000 +33.33% 16
Yorkshire 0 40 £80,000 +33.33% 8
Midlands -31 39 £57,500 -9.80% 18
West Midlands -29 33 £57,500 - 15
East of England -6 32 £90,000 +69.01% 3
North West -8 20 £60,000 +4.35% 7
South East -76 19 £50,000 -23.08% 32
South West -62 16 £57,500 -25.81% 6
East Midlands -20 6 £57,500 -11.54% 3
Scotland +11 4 £43,335 +23.81% 1
Wales -43 4 £53,171 -3.33% 4
North East -46 2 - - 2

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 35 (10.12%) SharePoint
2 28 (8.09%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (3.18%) Apache
5 4 (1.16%) Appian
6 3 (0.87%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.58%) Luigi
7 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.58%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.29%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.29%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 346 (100.00%) Azure
2 149 (43.06%) Power Platform
3 106 (30.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 68 (19.65%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (13.58%) Azure Logic Apps
6 35 (10.12%) Power Automate
7 33 (9.54%) PowerApps
8 32 (9.25%) Microsoft Purview
9 29 (8.38%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (6.65%) Serverless
11 22 (6.36%) Azure Functions
12 20 (5.78%) AWS
13 19 (5.49%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 19 (5.49%) OneDrive
14 18 (5.20%) GCP
14 18 (5.20%) Snowflake
15 16 (4.62%) Dynamics 365
16 15 (4.34%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (4.34%) dbt
17 13 (3.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (41.04%) Power BI
2 96 (27.75%) Data Warehouse
3 89 (25.72%) Data Lake
4 87 (25.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 51 (14.74%) SQL Server
6 36 (10.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 35 (10.12%) Delta Lake
8 34 (9.83%) Spark SQL
9 31 (8.96%) Metadata
10 21 (6.07%) Tableau
11 19 (5.49%) Relational Database
12 17 (4.91%) Star Schema
13 15 (4.34%) Big Data
14 13 (3.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 13 (3.76%) Power Query
15 12 (3.47%) BigQuery
16 11 (3.18%) Data Vault
17 9 (2.60%) Semantic Layer
18 8 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
18 8 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (9.25%) Git
2 6 (1.73%) MLflow
3 5 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.45%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.87%) JIRA
4 3 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.58%) ERwin
5 2 (0.58%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.29%) GitLab
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
General
1 116 (33.53%) Social Skills
2 106 (30.64%) Finance
3 55 (15.90%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.76%) Retail
5 12 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (3.18%) Law
7 10 (2.89%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.60%) Legal
9 7 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.16%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.87%) Advertising
11 3 (0.87%) Automotive
11 3 (0.87%) Games
11 3 (0.87%) Marketing
11 3 (0.87%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.58%) Banking
12 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.58%) Local Government
13 1 (0.29%) Billing
Job Titles
1 170 (49.13%) Data Engineer
2 83 (23.99%) Senior
3 68 (19.65%) Lead
4 46 (13.29%) Azure Engineer
4 46 (13.29%) Senior Data Engineer
5 43 (12.43%) Developer
6 40 (11.56%) Architect
7 36 (10.40%) Lead Data Engineer
8 35 (10.12%) Data Architect
8 35 (10.12%) Platform Engineer
9 33 (9.54%) Azure Data Engineer
10 18 (5.20%) Senior Developer
11 16 (4.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 15 (4.34%) Consultant
13 11 (3.18%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 10 (2.89%) Microsoft Engineer
15 9 (2.60%) Data Manager
16 8 (2.31%) Analyst
16 8 (2.31%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (21.10%) PySpark
2 25 (7.23%) .NET
3 24 (6.94%) JSON
4 23 (6.65%) REST
5 22 (6.36%) .NET Core
5 22 (6.36%) CSS
5 22 (6.36%) HTML
6 19 (5.49%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.49%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.49%) SPFx
7 13 (3.76%) Kafka
8 12 (3.47%) ARM Templates
9 7 (2.02%) RESTful
10 6 (1.73%) SOAP
11 5 (1.45%) FastAPI
11 5 (1.45%) NumPy
11 5 (1.45%) Pandas
11 5 (1.45%) PyTorch
11 5 (1.45%) scikit-learn
11 5 (1.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.38%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.91%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.02%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (2.02%) Low-Code
5 7 (2.02%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.73%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.73%) Replication
7 4 (1.16%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.16%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.16%) Reinsurance
8 3 (0.87%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (0.87%) Wiki
9 2 (0.58%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (52.31%) Analytics
2 173 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 167 (48.27%) Business Intelligence
4 159 (45.95%) Data Engineering
5 154 (44.51%) CI/CD
6 151 (43.64%) ETL
7 147 (42.49%) Data Pipeline
8 125 (36.13%) DevOps
9 92 (26.59%) AI
10 89 (25.72%) Data Governance
11 83 (23.99%) Decision-Making
12 75 (21.68%) Machine Learning
13 71 (20.52%) Agile
14 70 (20.23%) Problem-Solving
15 65 (18.79%) Data Architecture
16 59 (17.05%) Data Integration
17 53 (15.32%) Technical Leadership
18 50 (14.45%) Data Science
19 48 (13.87%) Infrastructure as Code
20 47 (13.58%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 264 (76.30%) SQL
2 173 (50.00%) Python
3 38 (10.98%) PowerShell
4 26 (7.51%) C#
5 24 (6.94%) Scala
6 23 (6.65%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.49%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 13 (3.76%) Bicep
9 13 (3.76%) T-SQL
10 9 (2.60%) Java
10 9 (2.60%) R
11 2 (0.58%) Go
11 2 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.58%) PHP
11 2 (0.58%) VBA
12 1 (0.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 38 (10.98%) Degree
2 32 (9.25%) Azure Certification
3 28 (8.09%) Security Cleared
4 21 (6.07%) SC Cleared
5 20 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.02%) SnowPro
8 5 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.87%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.58%) IIBA
11 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.58%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.58%) PMP
12 1 (0.29%) CISM
12 1 (0.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (31.21%) Data Quality
2 30 (8.67%) GDPR
3 13 (3.76%) QA
4 5 (1.45%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.45%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.58%) GRC
6 2 (0.58%) IFRS
6 2 (0.58%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.58%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) COBIT
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 11 (3.18%) Docker
2 2 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (13.29%) Terraform
2 13 (3.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) Ansible
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 161 (46.53%) Databricks
2 140 (40.46%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.49%) Adobe
4 14 (4.05%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.31%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.31%) SAP
6 7 (2.02%) Foundry
7 6 (1.73%) Google
8 4 (1.16%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.16%) Automation Anywhere
8 4 (1.16%) Informatica
8 4 (1.16%) UiPath
9 3 (0.87%) Talend
10 2 (0.58%) Anaplan
10 2 (0.58%) Oracle
10 2 (0.58%) Trapeze
11 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.29%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.29%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.29%) Teradata