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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 349 434
Rank change year-on-year -105 +85 -87
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 347 374 481
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.76% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 2.35% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 259 285 400
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -

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 27,128 15,899 30,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.11% 32.32% 32.75%
Number of salaries quoted 17,761 11,058 23,014
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,598 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +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 21 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 21 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 -61 328 £80,000 +18.52% 81
UK excluding London -73 173 £62,500 +4.17% 56
London -40 148 £80,000 - 35
Work from Home -13 129 £82,500 +34.69% 46
North of England +12 66 £67,500 +12.50% 12
Yorkshire -8 41 £80,000 +33.33% 6
Midlands -40 36 £57,500 -8.00% 19
East of England 0 31 £90,000 +66.67% 1
West Midlands -25 31 £57,500 - 16
North West +4 21 £57,500 - 3
South East -77 20 £50,000 -23.08% 18
South West -48 17 £82,000 +5.81% 3
Wales -52 6 £53,171 -3.33% 3
East Midlands -24 5 £60,000 -7.69% 3
North East -47 4 £47,500 -9.52% 3
Scotland +9 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 33 (9.51%) Apache Spark
2 32 (9.22%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.75%) Apache
4 12 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.86%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.58%) Appian
6 2 (0.58%) Luigi
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) 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%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 347 (100.00%) Azure
2 157 (45.24%) Power Platform
3 104 (29.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 72 (20.75%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (14.12%) Azure Logic Apps
6 34 (9.80%) Microsoft Purview
7 33 (9.51%) Power Automate
7 33 (9.51%) PowerApps
8 25 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (6.63%) Azure Functions
9 23 (6.63%) Serverless
10 20 (5.76%) Snowflake
11 19 (5.48%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.48%) AWS
11 19 (5.48%) OneDrive
12 18 (5.19%) GCP
13 16 (4.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 15 (4.32%) dbt
15 14 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
16 13 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (43.23%) Power BI
2 103 (29.68%) Data Warehouse
3 91 (26.22%) Data Lake
4 85 (24.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 49 (14.12%) SQL Server
6 38 (10.95%) Delta Lake
7 37 (10.66%) Metadata
8 33 (9.51%) Spark SQL
9 32 (9.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 21 (6.05%) Tableau
11 20 (5.76%) Relational Database
12 19 (5.48%) Star Schema
13 18 (5.19%) Big Data
14 13 (3.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 13 (3.75%) Power Query
15 12 (3.46%) BigQuery
15 12 (3.46%) Data Vault
15 12 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
16 11 (3.17%) Semantic Layer
17 9 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 34 (9.80%) Git
2 7 (2.02%) MLflow
3 6 (1.73%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.44%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.15%) GitLab
6 3 (0.86%) JIRA
6 3 (0.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.58%) ERwin
7 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.58%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
General
1 112 (32.28%) Social Skills
2 99 (28.53%) Finance
3 57 (16.43%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (3.46%) Legal
5 12 (3.46%) Retail
6 11 (3.17%) Law
7 8 (2.31%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.15%) Marketing
8 4 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.86%) Advertising
9 3 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.86%) Games
9 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.86%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.58%) Banking
10 2 (0.58%) Billing
10 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.29%) Automotive
11 1 (0.29%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 172 (49.57%) Data Engineer
2 84 (24.21%) Senior
3 66 (19.02%) Lead
4 48 (13.83%) Senior Data Engineer
5 46 (13.26%) Azure Engineer
6 42 (12.10%) Architect
7 40 (11.53%) Developer
8 39 (11.24%) Data Architect
9 34 (9.80%) Azure Data Engineer
9 34 (9.80%) Lead Data Engineer
10 30 (8.65%) Platform Engineer
11 17 (4.90%) Senior Developer
12 15 (4.32%) Consultant
13 13 (3.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 10 (2.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 10 (2.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.59%) Azure Architect
15 9 (2.59%) Data Manager
15 9 (2.59%) Microsoft Engineer
16 8 (2.31%) Azure Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (21.33%) PySpark
2 25 (7.20%) .NET
3 24 (6.92%) JSON
4 22 (6.34%) .NET Core
4 22 (6.34%) REST
5 21 (6.05%) CSS
5 21 (6.05%) HTML
6 19 (5.48%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.48%) Kafka
6 19 (5.48%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.48%) SPFx
7 12 (3.46%) ARM Templates
8 6 (1.73%) SOAP
9 4 (1.15%) Keycloak
9 4 (1.15%) RESTful
10 3 (0.86%) FastAPI
10 3 (0.86%) Middleware
10 3 (0.86%) Pandas
10 3 (0.86%) PyTorch
10 3 (0.86%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.65%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.90%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.46%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.02%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.73%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.73%) Replication
8 5 (1.44%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.44%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.15%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.15%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.15%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.86%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.86%) Wiki
11 2 (0.58%) Clustering
11 2 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (54.18%) Analytics
2 178 (51.30%) Business Intelligence
2 178 (51.30%) Data Modelling
3 163 (46.97%) Data Engineering
4 157 (45.24%) CI/CD
5 154 (44.38%) ETL
6 152 (43.80%) Data Pipeline
7 134 (38.62%) DevOps
8 99 (28.53%) AI
9 94 (27.09%) Data Governance
10 82 (23.63%) Machine Learning
11 81 (23.34%) Decision-Making
12 75 (21.61%) Agile
13 72 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
14 65 (18.73%) Data Architecture
15 63 (18.16%) Data Integration
16 58 (16.71%) Technical Leadership
17 56 (16.14%) Data Science
18 55 (15.85%) Continuous Improvement
19 51 (14.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 263 (75.79%) SQL
2 176 (50.72%) Python
3 38 (10.95%) PowerShell
4 28 (8.07%) Scala
5 26 (7.49%) C#
6 24 (6.92%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (5.48%) TypeScript
8 14 (4.03%) Bicep
9 12 (3.46%) T-SQL
10 9 (2.59%) Java
11 7 (2.02%) R
12 4 (1.15%) Go
13 2 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.58%) PHP
13 2 (0.58%) VBA
14 1 (0.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 37 (10.66%) Azure Certification
2 34 (9.80%) Degree
3 31 (8.93%) Security Cleared
4 25 (7.20%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.31%) SnowPro
8 6 (1.73%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.15%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.86%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.29%) CISM
12 1 (0.29%) CISSP
12 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (32.28%) Data Quality
2 33 (9.51%) GDPR
3 16 (4.61%) QA
4 5 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.44%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.86%) 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%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 11 (3.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (13.26%) Terraform
2 13 (3.75%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) Ansible
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 164 (47.26%) Databricks
2 145 (41.79%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.48%) Adobe
4 11 (3.17%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.31%) Foundry
5 8 (2.31%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.31%) SAP
6 7 (2.02%) Google
7 4 (1.15%) Informatica
8 3 (0.86%) Talend
9 2 (0.58%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.58%) Automation Anywhere
9 2 (0.58%) Oracle
9 2 (0.58%) Trapeze
9 2 (0.58%) UiPath
10 1 (0.29%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.29%) Confluent
10 1 (0.29%) Cribl.io
10 1 (0.29%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow