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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 368 321
Rank change year-on-year -6 -47 +126
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 328 447 528
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.66% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 2.02% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 231 347 448
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +6.12% -12.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,233 £57,500 £53,250
% change year-on-year -3.94% +7.98% -11.25%

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 17,768 22,140 22,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.54% 32.57% 42.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11,332 13,359 19,033
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 -8 279 £70,000 +7.69% 206
UK excluding London +44 167 £55,233 -3.94% 119
London -2 144 £82,500 +13.79% 111
Work from Home +24 138 £70,000 +7.69% 108
North of England +6 37 £55,000 - 21
South East -20 37 £55,000 -12.00% 44
Midlands +62 34 £63,750 +22.60% 37
Scotland +28 33 £50,000 -4.76% 8
West Midlands +52 31 £62,500 +14.16% 32
North West +10 16 £56,250 +2.27% 10
North East +14 12 £52,500 -12.50% 4
East of England +35 9 £54,000 - 5
Yorkshire +1 9 £79,000 +22.48% 7
South West +26 8 £77,500 +40.91% 5
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 - 1
East Midlands +23 3 £65,000 +30.00% 5
Wales +11 3 £55,000 +28.65%

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 17 (5.18%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.35%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.44%) Apache
4 5 (1.52%) SAS
5 4 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.30%) Appian
6 1 (0.30%) Confluence
6 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 33 (10.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.30%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 328 (100.00%) Azure
2 187 (57.01%) Power Platform
3 125 (38.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 76 (23.17%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (10.67%) GitHub
6 34 (10.37%) Azure Logic Apps
7 25 (7.62%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (7.01%) Snowflake
9 18 (5.49%) Power Automate
10 17 (5.18%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (4.57%) dbt
13 14 (4.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 14 (4.27%) SaaS
14 13 (3.96%) Entra ID
15 12 (3.66%) AWS
15 12 (3.66%) Azure Functions
15 12 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
15 12 (3.66%) PowerApps
15 12 (3.66%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.05%) Firewall
2 5 (1.52%) DNS
3 4 (1.22%) VPN
4 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.30%) Network Security
4 1 (0.30%) SSL
4 1 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (50.91%) Power BI
2 101 (30.79%) SQL Server
3 82 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 82 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 80 (24.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 56 (17.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 53 (16.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 23 (7.01%) Metadata
8 17 (5.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 14 (4.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 13 (3.96%) Tableau
11 12 (3.66%) MySQL
12 11 (3.35%) Delta Lake
12 11 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (2.13%) Relational Database
14 6 (1.83%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.83%) Power Query
14 6 (1.83%) Snowflake Schema
15 5 (1.52%) SAS EBI
15 5 (1.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (7.32%) Git
2 6 (1.83%) Bitbucket
3 5 (1.52%) JIRA
4 2 (0.61%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.30%) JUnit
5 1 (0.30%) MLflow
5 1 (0.30%) Selenium
5 1 (0.30%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 136 (41.46%) Finance
2 132 (40.24%) Social Skills
3 69 (21.04%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.10%) Presentation Skills
5 17 (5.18%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.88%) Retail
7 14 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (3.96%) Billing
9 12 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (3.35%) Banking
10 11 (3.35%) Marketing
10 11 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (3.05%) Law
12 9 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (2.44%) Automotive
14 6 (1.83%) Advertising
15 4 (1.22%) Legal
15 4 (1.22%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.61%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 121 (36.89%) Data Engineer
2 55 (16.77%) Senior
3 34 (10.37%) Senior Data Engineer
4 33 (10.06%) Architect
5 32 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
6 30 (9.15%) Analyst
7 29 (8.84%) Data Architect
7 29 (8.84%) Developer
8 26 (7.93%) Lead
9 21 (6.40%) Azure Data Engineer
10 13 (3.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 13 (3.96%) Insight Analyst
11 12 (3.66%) Business Manager
11 12 (3.66%) Commercial Analyst
11 12 (3.66%) Data Manager
11 12 (3.66%) Insight Manager
12 10 (3.05%) Azure Architect
13 9 (2.74%) Azure Data Architect
14 8 (2.44%) Python Data Engineer
14 8 (2.44%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (12.20%) PySpark
2 21 (6.40%) .NET
3 19 (5.79%) JSON
4 13 (3.96%) REST
5 11 (3.35%) RESTful
5 11 (3.35%) XML
6 10 (3.05%) OAuth
7 8 (2.44%) .NET Framework
7 8 (2.44%) OAuth2
8 6 (1.83%) .NET Core
8 6 (1.83%) Entity Framework
9 5 (1.52%) Kafka
9 5 (1.52%) Pandas
10 4 (1.22%) Polars
10 4 (1.22%) SOAP
11 3 (0.91%) ARM Templates
12 2 (0.61%) D3.js
12 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
12 2 (0.61%) Middleware
12 2 (0.61%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (4.57%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.66%) Low-Code
5 10 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (3.05%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.13%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.83%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.83%) Clustering
8 5 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.22%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.91%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.91%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.91%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.61%) Derivative
11 2 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.61%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.83%) VMS
2 5 (1.52%) Windows
2 5 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (52.44%) Analytics
1 172 (52.44%) Business Intelligence
2 140 (42.68%) ETL
3 108 (32.93%) Data Engineering
4 106 (32.32%) Data Modelling
5 105 (32.01%) Data Pipeline
5 105 (32.01%) DevOps
6 101 (30.79%) CI/CD
7 90 (27.44%) Problem-Solving
8 87 (26.52%) Agile
9 83 (25.30%) Decision-Making
10 75 (22.87%) AI
11 66 (20.12%) Visualisation
12 59 (17.99%) Data Governance
13 50 (15.24%) Data Architecture
14 46 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
15 45 (13.72%) Data Integration
16 42 (12.80%) Coaching
16 42 (12.80%) Machine Learning
17 41 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 236 (71.95%) SQL
2 137 (41.77%) Python
3 49 (14.94%) T-SQL
4 43 (13.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 25 (7.62%) C#
6 20 (6.10%) PowerShell
7 18 (5.49%) Bicep
8 12 (3.66%) Scala
9 10 (3.05%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.83%) Java
11 5 (1.52%) R
12 4 (1.22%) Bash
13 3 (0.91%) PHP
14 1 (0.30%) C++
14 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 36 (10.98%) Degree
2 25 (7.62%) Microsoft Certification
3 23 (7.01%) Azure Certification
4 14 (4.27%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.27%) Security Cleared
5 12 (3.66%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 11 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.44%) DBS Check
7 8 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.22%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.61%) MCSE
9 2 (0.61%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.61%) PMP
10 1 (0.30%) IIBA
10 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (21.95%) Data Quality
2 34 (10.37%) GDPR
3 12 (3.66%) Actionable Recommendations
4 10 (3.05%) QA
5 6 (1.83%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.61%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (4.27%) Docker
2 4 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (9.15%) Terraform
2 18 (5.49%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.52%) Grafana
3 5 (1.52%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 150 (45.73%) Microsoft
2 122 (37.20%) Databricks
3 8 (2.44%) Ab Initio
3 8 (2.44%) Informatica
3 8 (2.44%) Talend
4 7 (2.13%) RedGate
4 7 (2.13%) SAP
5 6 (1.83%) Oracle
6 5 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.52%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (1.22%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.22%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.91%) Alteryx
8 3 (0.91%) Google
8 3 (0.91%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.91%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.61%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.30%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud