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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 391 394
Rank change year-on-year -74 +3 -70
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 378 291 453
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.59% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.41% 1.87% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 270 235 355
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £91,800 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - +2.80%

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 26,716 15,535 23,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.69% 31.28% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 18,334 10,393 14,373
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,354 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -5.51% +1.60%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -51 355 £70,000 +3.70% 244
London -28 189 £80,000 -1.54% 126
UK excluding London -70 171 £62,500 +13.64% 130
Work from Home -18 123 £80,000 +30.61% 114
North of England -26 62 £60,000 +9.09% 37
South East -52 38 £62,500 +13.64% 45
Yorkshire -9 32 £80,000 +33.33% 11
Midlands -43 32 £85,000 +33.33% 24
West Midlands -41 27 £85,000 +41.67% 18
North West -7 25 £55,000 - 20
South West -53 22 £85,000 +17.24% 8
East of England -25 17 £90,000 +80.00% 7
North East -54 11 £57,500 +9.52% 6
Wales -68 9 £53,171 -3.33% 1
East Midlands -32 5 - - 6
Scotland -11 4 £49,168 -0.67% 8

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 43 (11.38%) Apache Spark
2 20 (5.29%) Apache
3 14 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (3.70%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.53%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (2.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 378 (100.00%) Azure
2 181 (47.88%) Power Platform
3 146 (38.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 105 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
5 71 (18.78%) Azure Databricks
6 50 (13.23%) Microsoft Purview
7 37 (9.79%) Azure Logic Apps
8 29 (7.67%) Snowflake
9 27 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 27 (7.14%) Serverless
10 26 (6.88%) AWS
11 22 (5.82%) dbt
12 20 (5.29%) Azure Functions
13 18 (4.76%) PowerApps
14 17 (4.50%) Azure Machine Learning
14 17 (4.50%) GCP
15 16 (4.23%) Power Automate
16 13 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
17 12 (3.17%) SaaS
18 11 (2.91%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.32%) Firewall
2 4 (1.06%) DNS
3 1 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (47.09%) Power BI
2 138 (36.51%) Data Warehouse
3 99 (26.19%) Data Lake
4 90 (23.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 70 (18.52%) Metadata
6 51 (13.49%) Delta Lake
7 50 (13.23%) SQL Server
8 35 (9.26%) Star Schema
9 29 (7.67%) Tableau
10 24 (6.35%) NoSQL
11 23 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
12 22 (5.82%) Spark SQL
13 21 (5.56%) Big Data
14 20 (5.29%) Data Vault
14 20 (5.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (5.03%) Semantic Layer
16 16 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
16 16 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
16 16 (4.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 15 (3.97%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 48 (12.70%) Git
2 13 (3.44%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.38%) GitLab
4 7 (1.85%) MLflow
5 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.53%) ERwin
6 2 (0.53%) JIRA
6 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.53%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.26%) kappa
7 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 126 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 113 (29.89%) Finance
3 67 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (6.08%) Legal
5 17 (4.50%) Retail
6 14 (3.70%) Law
7 11 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (2.65%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.12%) Banking
11 5 (1.32%) Billing
11 5 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.32%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.32%) Marketing
12 4 (1.06%) Advertising
12 4 (1.06%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.06%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.79%) Games
14 2 (0.53%) Back Office
15 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 189 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 113 (29.89%) Senior
3 76 (20.11%) Senior Data Engineer
4 67 (17.72%) Azure Engineer
5 59 (15.61%) Lead
6 51 (13.49%) Architect
7 49 (12.96%) Azure Data Engineer
8 45 (11.90%) Data Architect
9 33 (8.73%) Developer
10 26 (6.88%) Lead Data Engineer
11 21 (5.56%) Consultant
11 21 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
12 16 (4.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 16 (4.23%) Databricks Engineer
13 15 (3.97%) Analyst
13 15 (3.97%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 14 (3.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 14 (3.70%) Operations Engineer
14 14 (3.70%) Python Data Engineer
14 14 (3.70%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (23.28%) PySpark
2 61 (16.14%) Terraform
3 40 (10.58%) Kafka
4 22 (5.82%) REST
5 21 (5.56%) JSON
6 13 (3.44%) Keycloak
7 10 (2.65%) .NET
8 9 (2.38%) .NET Core
8 9 (2.38%) CSS
8 9 (2.38%) HTML
8 9 (2.38%) HTML5 Canvas
8 9 (2.38%) Microsoft Graph
8 9 (2.38%) SPFx
9 8 (2.12%) ARM Templates
10 6 (1.59%) Apache Avro
10 6 (1.59%) YAML
11 5 (1.32%) XML
12 4 (1.06%) MDX
13 3 (0.79%) SAML
13 3 (0.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.05%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.61%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.12%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.06%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.06%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.06%) PKI
10 3 (0.79%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.79%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.53%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.53%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.53%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.53%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.70%) Windows
2 5 (1.32%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.06%) Linux
4 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (57.41%) Business Intelligence
2 216 (57.14%) Analytics
3 197 (52.12%) Data Modelling
4 195 (51.59%) CI/CD
5 182 (48.15%) DevOps
6 180 (47.62%) Data Engineering
7 178 (47.09%) Data Pipeline
8 175 (46.30%) ETL
9 102 (26.98%) AI
10 95 (25.13%) Agile
11 89 (23.54%) Data Governance
11 89 (23.54%) Problem-Solving
12 88 (23.28%) Data Architecture
13 87 (23.02%) Lakehouse
14 83 (21.96%) Decision-Making
15 77 (20.37%) Machine Learning
16 75 (19.84%) Data Science
17 70 (18.52%) Data Integration
18 67 (17.72%) Technical Leadership
19 59 (15.61%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 287 (75.93%) SQL
2 218 (57.67%) Python
3 48 (12.70%) Scala
4 38 (10.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 36 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 29 (7.67%) Bicep
7 21 (5.56%) C#
8 16 (4.23%) JavaScript
9 15 (3.97%) Java
10 14 (3.70%) T-SQL
11 13 (3.44%) Go
12 9 (2.38%) TypeScript
13 8 (2.12%) R
14 5 (1.32%) Bash
15 2 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.53%) VBA
16 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 59 (15.61%) Azure Certification
2 52 (13.76%) Security Cleared
3 45 (11.90%) SC Cleared
4 33 (8.73%) Degree
5 26 (6.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.23%) SnowPro
7 13 (3.44%) DV Cleared
8 12 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.06%) CISSP
11 3 (0.79%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.53%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.53%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.26%) ICAEW
13 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (38.89%) Data Quality
2 32 (8.47%) GDPR
3 18 (4.76%) QA
4 9 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.53%) IFRS
5 2 (0.53%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.53%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (5.56%) Docker
2 4 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (6.61%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.32%) Ansible
3 3 (0.79%) Grafana
3 3 (0.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 186 (49.21%) Microsoft
2 173 (45.77%) Databricks
3 13 (3.44%) Informatica
3 13 (3.44%) SAP
4 11 (2.91%) Talend
5 9 (2.38%) Adobe
6 6 (1.59%) Google
7 5 (1.32%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.06%) Foundry
8 4 (1.06%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.26%) Actian
9 1 (0.26%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.26%) Confluent
9 1 (0.26%) Meraki
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle
9 1 (0.26%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.26%) Teradata