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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 377 355
Rank change year-on-year +45 -22 +53
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 358 376 518
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.72% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 1.96% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 233 307 451
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £79,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +28.71% -15.83%

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 21,204 19,150 26,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.51% 36.52% 39.02%
Number of salaries quoted 11,542 11,236 21,935
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,623 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.80% -6.36%

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 29 January 2026.

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 29 January 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 +9 283 £73,000 +12.31% 193
UK excluding London +12 181 £60,000 -7.69% 177
Work from Home +97 172 £75,000 +15.38% 102
London +45 150 £85,000 +19.30% 50
Scotland +40 52 £71,250 +35.71% 6
Midlands +23 45 £60,000 -4.00% 41
West Midlands +47 42 £60,000 -5.88% 29
South East -38 29 £63,750 -1.92% 60
North of England -11 28 £58,000 -10.77% 29
North West +8 11 £58,000 +5.45% 17
South West +2 11 £73,250 +33.18% 17
Yorkshire -27 9 £79,000 +22.01% 8
East of England +29 8 £50,500 -36.88% 17
North East -1 8 £51,000 -21.54% 4
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 - 2
East Midlands -13 3 £60,000 +36.36% 12
Wales +8 2 - - 7

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 16 (4.47%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.07%) Appian
3 10 (2.79%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.51%) Apache
5 5 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.40%) SAS
6 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 33 (9.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.12%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) Endur
3 1 (0.28%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 358 (100.00%) Azure
2 180 (50.28%) Power Platform
3 140 (39.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 90 (25.14%) Azure DevOps
5 51 (14.25%) GitHub
6 37 (10.34%) Snowflake
7 31 (8.66%) Microsoft Purview
8 28 (7.82%) Azure Logic Apps
9 27 (7.54%) Power Automate
10 26 (7.26%) dbt
11 25 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
12 20 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (5.03%) PaaS
14 17 (4.75%) AWS
15 16 (4.47%) Anthropic Claude
15 16 (4.47%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
15 16 (4.47%) SaaS
16 14 (3.91%) GitHub Copilot
16 14 (3.91%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.68%) DNS
2 4 (1.12%) Firewall
2 4 (1.12%) VPN
3 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (46.37%) Power BI
2 118 (32.96%) Data Lake
3 111 (31.01%) SQL Server
4 101 (28.21%) Data Warehouse
5 92 (25.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 44 (12.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 44 (12.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 28 (7.82%) Metadata
8 23 (6.42%) Delta Lake
9 16 (4.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 14 (3.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 13 (3.63%) Tableau
12 12 (3.35%) MySQL
13 11 (3.07%) Pinecone
14 9 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (1.68%) Big Data
15 6 (1.68%) Data Mining
15 6 (1.68%) Power Query
15 6 (1.68%) Qlik Sense
15 6 (1.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (10.34%) Git
2 11 (3.07%) MLflow
3 3 (0.84%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.84%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.84%) JIRA
4 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 183 (51.12%) Finance
2 130 (36.31%) Social Skills
3 70 (19.55%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.59%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.63%) Billing
6 13 (3.63%) Law
7 12 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (3.07%) Automotive
9 9 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.40%) Banking
10 5 (1.40%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.40%) Retail
11 4 (1.12%) Advertising
11 4 (1.12%) Legal
11 4 (1.12%) Local Government
11 4 (1.12%) Marketing
12 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.28%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 138 (38.55%) Data Engineer
2 62 (17.32%) Senior
3 46 (12.85%) Azure Engineer
4 42 (11.73%) Senior Data Engineer
5 32 (8.94%) Developer
6 30 (8.38%) Lead
7 26 (7.26%) Architect
7 26 (7.26%) Azure Data Engineer
8 21 (5.87%) Data Architect
9 20 (5.59%) Analyst
10 18 (5.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 17 (4.75%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (3.91%) Lead Data Engineer
13 12 (3.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 12 (3.35%) Business Manager
13 12 (3.35%) Commercial Analyst
13 12 (3.35%) Insight Analyst
13 12 (3.35%) Insight Manager
14 11 (3.07%) Applications Engineer
14 11 (3.07%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (12.85%) PySpark
2 28 (7.82%) RESTful
3 26 (7.26%) OAuth
4 24 (6.70%) JSON
5 23 (6.42%) REST
6 19 (5.31%) .NET
7 14 (3.91%) OAuth2
8 12 (3.35%) Pandas
9 11 (3.07%) Django
9 11 (3.07%) FastAPI
9 11 (3.07%) Flask
9 11 (3.07%) JWT
9 11 (3.07%) NumPy
9 11 (3.07%) OpenAPI
9 11 (3.07%) pytest
9 11 (3.07%) PyTorch
9 11 (3.07%) scikit-learn
9 11 (3.07%) Swagger
9 11 (3.07%) TensorFlow
9 11 (3.07%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.82%) Analytical Mindset
2 25 (6.98%) Cloud Native
3 23 (6.42%) Low-Code
4 19 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.23%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.23%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (1.96%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.40%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.84%) Clustering
9 3 (0.84%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.84%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.84%) Market Risk
9 3 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.56%) Derivative
10 2 (0.56%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.56%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.68%) VMS
2 4 (1.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (55.03%) Analytics
2 182 (50.84%) ETL
3 177 (49.44%) Business Intelligence
4 173 (48.32%) Data Modelling
5 163 (45.53%) Data Pipeline
6 156 (43.58%) CI/CD
7 139 (38.83%) Data Engineering
8 131 (36.59%) DevOps
9 109 (30.45%) Agile
10 107 (29.89%) AI
11 94 (26.26%) Decision-Making
12 86 (24.02%) Problem-Solving
13 75 (20.95%) Visualisation
14 72 (20.11%) Data Governance
15 62 (17.32%) Data Architecture
15 62 (17.32%) Infrastructure as Code
16 58 (16.20%) Coaching
17 54 (15.08%) Data Integration
18 53 (14.80%) Continuous Improvement
19 51 (14.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 262 (73.18%) SQL
2 181 (50.56%) Python
3 42 (11.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 39 (10.89%) T-SQL
5 30 (8.38%) PowerShell
6 25 (6.98%) Bicep
7 21 (5.87%) Scala
8 18 (5.03%) C#
9 9 (2.51%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.23%) Java
11 6 (1.68%) R
12 3 (0.84%) PHP
13 2 (0.56%) C++
14 1 (0.28%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (10.89%) Degree
2 16 (4.47%) Azure Certification
3 15 (4.19%) Security Cleared
4 12 (3.35%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.35%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 11 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.23%) IIBA
6 8 (2.23%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.23%) PMP
6 8 (2.23%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (0.84%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.56%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (32.40%) Data Quality
2 37 (10.34%) GDPR
3 12 (3.35%) Actionable Recommendations
4 11 (3.07%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.84%) QA
7 2 (0.56%) SLA
8 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.28%) COBIT
8 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 23 (6.42%) Docker
2 10 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (14.80%) Terraform
2 30 (8.38%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 143 (39.94%) Microsoft
2 142 (39.66%) Databricks
3 18 (5.03%) Ab Initio
4 15 (4.19%) OpenAI
5 11 (3.07%) Automation Anywhere
5 11 (3.07%) UiPath
6 10 (2.79%) Alteryx
7 8 (2.23%) Anaplan
8 7 (1.96%) Talend
9 4 (1.12%) IBM
9 4 (1.12%) Informatica
9 4 (1.12%) RedGate
9 4 (1.12%) SAP
10 3 (0.84%) Oracle
11 2 (0.56%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.28%) FIS
12 1 (0.28%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.28%) Foundry
12 1 (0.28%) Google
12 1 (0.28%) Palo Alto