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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 336 464
Rank change year-on-year -80 +128 -91
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 352 380 503
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.87% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 2.58% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 268 298 444
10th Percentile £47,425 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £48,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -6.72%
75th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +19.05% -8.70%

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 26,349 14,711 35,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.43% 33.58% 34.04%
Number of salaries quoted 15,694 10,086 26,982
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.12%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -69 322 £75,000 +12.99% 91
UK excluding London -56 187 £62,500 - 66
Work from Home +43 145 £80,000 +28.00% 64
London -44 136 £83,500 +11.33% 43
North of England -39 55 £80,000 +33.33% 17
Midlands -33 44 £60,000 -7.69% 15
West Midlands -33 39 £60,000 +4.35% 12
Yorkshire -25 38 £80,000 +33.33% 5
East of England -7 33 £90,000 +67.44% 1
South East -72 26 £50,000 -23.08% 19
North West -11 16 £61,250 +4.26% 9
South West -46 16 £55,000 -29.03% 9
Scotland +11 12 £71,500 +58.89% 1
East Midlands -28 5 £57,500 -11.54% 3
Wales -38 3 £53,171 -3.33% 5
North East -49 1 - - 3

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 36 (10.23%) SharePoint
2 23 (6.53%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.69%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.84%) Apache
5 8 (2.27%) Appian
6 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.85%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.57%) Luigi
9 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.57%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.57%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.28%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.28%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 352 (100.00%) Azure
2 145 (41.19%) Power Platform
3 105 (29.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 70 (19.89%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (13.07%) Azure Logic Apps
6 40 (11.36%) Power Automate
7 34 (9.66%) PowerApps
8 32 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (6.25%) Serverless
10 20 (5.68%) AWS
10 20 (5.68%) Azure Functions
10 20 (5.68%) Azure Monitor
10 20 (5.68%) GitHub
11 19 (5.40%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.40%) dbt
11 19 (5.40%) OneDrive
11 19 (5.40%) Snowflake
12 18 (5.11%) GCP
12 18 (5.11%) Microsoft Purview
13 14 (3.98%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.28%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (39.20%) Power BI
2 98 (27.84%) Data Warehouse
3 94 (26.70%) Data Lake
4 91 (25.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 49 (13.92%) SQL Server
6 34 (9.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 33 (9.38%) Spark SQL
8 32 (9.09%) Delta Lake
9 22 (6.25%) Metadata
10 18 (5.11%) Relational Database
11 17 (4.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 16 (4.55%) Tableau
13 13 (3.69%) Star Schema
14 11 (3.13%) Big Data
14 11 (3.13%) BigQuery
14 11 (3.13%) Power Query
15 9 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 8 (2.27%) Pinecone
17 7 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
18 5 (1.42%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 33 (9.38%) Git
2 10 (2.84%) MLflow
3 5 (1.42%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.42%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.28%) GitLab
5 1 (0.28%) JIRA
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
General
1 126 (35.80%) Finance
2 119 (33.81%) Social Skills
3 50 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (2.84%) Public Sector
4 10 (2.84%) Retail
5 9 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (1.42%) Law
7 4 (1.14%) Automotive
7 4 (1.14%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.85%) Advertising
8 3 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.85%) Legal
8 3 (0.85%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.57%) Banking
9 2 (0.57%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.57%) Local Government
9 2 (0.57%) Marketing
10 1 (0.28%) Billing
Job Titles
1 174 (49.43%) Data Engineer
2 79 (22.44%) Senior
3 66 (18.75%) Lead
4 52 (14.77%) Azure Engineer
5 47 (13.35%) Senior Data Engineer
6 43 (12.22%) Developer
7 38 (10.80%) Platform Engineer
8 37 (10.51%) Lead Data Engineer
9 34 (9.66%) Azure Data Engineer
10 24 (6.82%) Architect
11 19 (5.40%) Data Architect
12 18 (5.11%) Consultant
12 18 (5.11%) Senior Developer
13 16 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 13 (3.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 13 (3.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
15 11 (3.13%) Microsoft Engineer
16 9 (2.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 8 (2.27%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (21.02%) PySpark
2 30 (8.52%) .NET
3 28 (7.95%) REST
4 25 (7.10%) JSON
5 22 (6.25%) .NET Core
5 22 (6.25%) CSS
5 22 (6.25%) HTML
6 19 (5.40%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.40%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.40%) SPFx
7 14 (3.98%) ARM Templates
8 13 (3.69%) RESTful
9 10 (2.84%) Kafka
9 10 (2.84%) OAuth
10 9 (2.56%) FastAPI
10 9 (2.56%) NumPy
10 9 (2.56%) Pandas
10 9 (2.56%) PyTorch
10 9 (2.56%) scikit-learn
10 9 (2.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.24%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.13%) Low-Code
4 9 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (1.99%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.99%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.70%) Replication
8 5 (1.42%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.14%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.85%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.57%) Clustering
11 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (50.57%) Data Modelling
2 175 (49.72%) Analytics
3 164 (46.59%) ETL
4 163 (46.31%) Data Engineering
5 159 (45.17%) CI/CD
6 155 (44.03%) Business Intelligence
6 155 (44.03%) Data Pipeline
7 127 (36.08%) DevOps
8 80 (22.73%) AI
9 77 (21.88%) Agile
9 77 (21.88%) Data Governance
10 75 (21.31%) Decision-Making
11 71 (20.17%) Problem-Solving
12 63 (17.90%) Data Architecture
13 61 (17.33%) Machine Learning
14 56 (15.91%) Data Integration
15 51 (14.49%) Infrastructure as Code
16 42 (11.93%) Platform Engineering
17 41 (11.65%) Mentoring
18 39 (11.08%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 268 (76.14%) SQL
2 182 (51.70%) Python
3 39 (11.08%) PowerShell
4 30 (8.52%) C#
5 26 (7.39%) JavaScript
6 23 (6.53%) Scala
7 19 (5.40%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.83%) T-SQL
9 16 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (2.84%) Bicep
10 10 (2.84%) Java
10 10 (2.84%) R
11 3 (0.85%) VBA
12 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.57%) PHP
13 1 (0.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 39 (11.08%) Degree
2 24 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 22 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 21 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (4.83%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.14%) IIBA
7 4 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.14%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.14%) PMP
8 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.28%) CISM
9 1 (0.28%) CISSP
9 1 (0.28%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (31.25%) Data Quality
2 26 (7.39%) GDPR
3 9 (2.56%) QA
4 7 (1.99%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.42%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.57%) GRC
6 2 (0.57%) IFRS
6 2 (0.57%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.57%) SLA
7 1 (0.28%) COBIT
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 15 (4.26%) Docker
2 6 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (12.50%) Terraform
2 19 (5.40%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 161 (45.74%) Databricks
2 139 (39.49%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.40%) Adobe
4 16 (4.55%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.27%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (2.27%) UiPath
6 7 (1.99%) Foundry
6 7 (1.99%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.99%) SAP
7 6 (1.70%) Alteryx
7 6 (1.70%) Google
8 4 (1.14%) Ab Initio
8 4 (1.14%) Anaplan
9 2 (0.57%) IBM
9 2 (0.57%) Informatica
9 2 (0.57%) Oracle
9 2 (0.57%) Talend
9 2 (0.57%) Trapeze
10 1 (0.28%) Nintex
10 1 (0.28%) Palantir