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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 362 308
Rank change year-on-year +18 -54 +119
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 335 425 492
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.73% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.64% 2.04% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 222 340 417
10th Percentile £46,375 £45,397 £42,750
25th Percentile £55,058 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £52,750
% change year-on-year -4.00% +18.48% -12.08%

All Cloud 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 20,486 20,852 21,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.25% 35.75% 42.94%
Number of salaries quoted 11,280 12,649 17,598
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -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 14 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Data Factory in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Top 17 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 14 December 2025. 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 -18 270 £70,000 +7.69% 190
UK excluding London +34 174 £60,000 -4.00% 152
Work from Home +69 156 £71,193 +9.53% 131
London +14 143 £82,500 +13.79% 83
Scotland +54 48 £52,500 +2.44% 11
South East -13 38 £55,000 -15.38% 62
Midlands +38 36 £60,000 -4.00% 32
West Midlands +43 35 £60,000 -5.88% 22
North of England -3 29 £57,500 +1.77% 26
North West +11 11 £57,500 +4.55% 17
North East +5 9 £51,750 -13.75% 4
Yorkshire -9 9 £79,000 +21.54% 5
South West +8 8 £72,500 +16.00% 9
East of England +29 6 £52,250 -34.69% 9
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 - 3
Wales +4 3 £55,000 +28.65%
East Midlands -4 1 £82,500 +65.00% 10

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 14 (4.18%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.09%) Apache
3 6 (1.79%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.49%) Appian
4 5 (1.49%) SAS
5 1 (0.30%) Confluence
5 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
Applications
1 33 (9.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.90%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.30%) Endur
3 1 (0.30%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 335 (100.00%) Azure
2 179 (53.43%) Power Platform
3 134 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 84 (25.07%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (13.43%) GitHub
6 38 (11.34%) Snowflake
7 28 (8.36%) Azure Logic Apps
7 28 (8.36%) Microsoft Purview
8 24 (7.16%) dbt
9 22 (6.57%) Azure Monitor
10 21 (6.27%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (5.97%) Power Automate
12 15 (4.48%) AWS
12 15 (4.48%) Azure Service Bus
13 14 (4.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 14 (4.18%) SaaS
14 13 (3.88%) Azure Event Grid
14 13 (3.88%) GitHub Copilot
15 11 (3.28%) Matillion
16 10 (2.99%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.09%) Firewall
2 5 (1.49%) DNS
3 4 (1.19%) VPN
4 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (48.96%) Power BI
2 104 (31.04%) SQL Server
3 99 (29.55%) Data Lake
4 96 (28.66%) Data Warehouse
5 78 (23.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 52 (15.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 49 (14.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 28 (8.36%) Metadata
9 17 (5.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 16 (4.78%) Delta Lake
11 15 (4.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 13 (3.88%) Tableau
13 12 (3.58%) MySQL
14 9 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
15 7 (2.09%) Relational Database
16 6 (1.79%) Big Data
16 6 (1.79%) Qlik Sense
17 5 (1.49%) Pinecone
17 5 (1.49%) SAS EBI
17 5 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (9.25%) Git
2 5 (1.49%) JIRA
2 5 (1.49%) MLflow
3 4 (1.19%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.90%) Jenkins
General
1 153 (45.67%) Finance
2 132 (39.40%) Social Skills
3 69 (20.60%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.37%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.18%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (3.88%) Billing
6 13 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.58%) Law
8 11 (3.28%) Retail
9 10 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.69%) Automotive
10 9 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.49%) Banking
11 5 (1.49%) Marketing
11 5 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.19%) Advertising
12 4 (1.19%) Legal
12 4 (1.19%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 130 (38.81%) Data Engineer
2 59 (17.61%) Senior
3 39 (11.64%) Senior Data Engineer
4 38 (11.34%) Azure Engineer
5 29 (8.66%) Developer
6 25 (7.46%) Lead
7 24 (7.16%) Architect
8 23 (6.87%) Analyst
9 22 (6.57%) Azure Data Engineer
10 21 (6.27%) Data Architect
11 13 (3.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 12 (3.58%) Business Manager
12 12 (3.58%) Commercial Analyst
12 12 (3.58%) Consultant
12 12 (3.58%) Data Manager
12 12 (3.58%) Insight Analyst
12 12 (3.58%) Insight Manager
13 10 (2.99%) Applications Engineer
14 9 (2.69%) Azure Architect
14 9 (2.69%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (13.43%) PySpark
2 23 (6.87%) JSON
3 19 (5.67%) .NET
3 19 (5.67%) OAuth
3 19 (5.67%) RESTful
4 17 (5.07%) REST
5 13 (3.88%) OAuth2
6 9 (2.69%) Pandas
6 9 (2.69%) XML
7 8 (2.39%) Kafka
8 7 (2.09%) YAML
9 5 (1.49%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.49%) Django
9 5 (1.49%) Flask
9 5 (1.49%) NumPy
9 5 (1.49%) pytest
9 5 (1.49%) scikit-learn
9 5 (1.49%) Swagger
9 5 (1.49%) TensorFlow
9 5 (1.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.36%) Analytical Mindset
2 20 (5.97%) Cloud Native
3 19 (5.67%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (5.07%) Low-Code
5 11 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.09%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.49%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.19%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.19%) Clustering
8 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.19%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.19%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.90%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.90%) Market Risk
9 3 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.79%) VMS
2 5 (1.49%) Windows
3 2 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (53.73%) Analytics
2 170 (50.75%) Business Intelligence
3 163 (48.66%) ETL
4 140 (41.79%) Data Modelling
5 139 (41.49%) Data Pipeline
6 127 (37.91%) Data Engineering
7 122 (36.42%) CI/CD
8 120 (35.82%) DevOps
9 109 (32.54%) Agile
10 95 (28.36%) Problem-Solving
11 89 (26.57%) AI
12 87 (25.97%) Decision-Making
13 68 (20.30%) Data Governance
14 67 (20.00%) Visualisation
15 58 (17.31%) Coaching
16 55 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
17 52 (15.52%) Data Integration
18 51 (15.22%) Data Architecture
19 47 (14.03%) Infrastructure as Code
20 45 (13.43%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 249 (74.33%) SQL
2 164 (48.96%) Python
3 46 (13.73%) T-SQL
4 40 (11.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 25 (7.46%) Bicep
5 25 (7.46%) PowerShell
6 20 (5.97%) C#
7 18 (5.37%) Scala
8 7 (2.09%) Java
9 6 (1.79%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.49%) R
11 2 (0.60%) C++
11 2 (0.60%) PHP
12 1 (0.30%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.30%) Bash
12 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (9.25%) Degree
2 18 (5.37%) Azure Certification
3 14 (4.18%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.88%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (3.58%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 8 (2.39%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.49%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.49%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.49%) PMP
9 4 (1.19%) IIBA
9 4 (1.19%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.30%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (24.48%) Data Quality
2 35 (10.45%) GDPR
3 12 (3.58%) Actionable Recommendations
4 11 (3.28%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.79%) QA
6 5 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.60%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
System Software
1 18 (5.37%) Docker
2 6 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (12.84%) Terraform
2 22 (6.57%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.60%) Grafana
4 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 144 (42.99%) Microsoft
2 136 (40.60%) Databricks
3 16 (4.78%) Ab Initio
4 7 (2.09%) Alteryx
4 7 (2.09%) Informatica
4 7 (2.09%) OpenAI
4 7 (2.09%) Talend
5 5 (1.49%) Automation Anywhere
5 5 (1.49%) RedGate
5 5 (1.49%) SAP
5 5 (1.49%) UiPath
6 4 (1.19%) Anaplan
6 4 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.19%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.19%) Oracle
6 4 (1.19%) Palo Alto
7 3 (0.90%) IBM
8 2 (0.60%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.60%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.30%) Foundry