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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 363 316
Rank change year-on-year -17 -47 +137
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 315 451 520
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.67% 0.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.92% 2.05% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 223 351 439
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,441 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,100
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 16,370 21,963 23,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.02% 32.47% 43.01%
Number of salaries quoted 11,123 13,226 19,267
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £33,000
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 £54,145
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.58% -1.55%

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 8 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 8 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 -30 267 £70,000 +7.69% 355
UK excluding London +32 158 £55,000 -4.35% 275
London +12 142 £82,500 +13.79% 161
Work from Home +6 130 £65,000 - 163
North of England -20 36 £55,000 - 48
South East -11 35 £55,000 -12.00% 150
Scotland +23 31 £49,750 -5.24% 12
Midlands +65 30 £61,250 +4.26% 40
West Midlands +45 27 £60,000 -2.04% 33
North West -15 17 £55,000 - 30
North East +20 12 £52,500 -12.50% 7
East of England +34 9 £54,000 - 16
South West +26 8 £77,500 +40.91% 10
Yorkshire -3 7 £79,000 +22.48% 12
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 - 1
East Midlands +20 3 £65,000 +30.00% 7
Wales +14 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 18 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.54%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.90%) Apache
4 5 (1.59%) SAS
5 3 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.32%) Confluence
6 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 32 (10.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.32%) Carpe Diem
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.32%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 315 (100.00%) Azure
2 184 (58.41%) Power Platform
3 121 (38.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 69 (21.90%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (10.48%) GitHub
6 32 (10.16%) Azure Logic Apps
7 22 (6.98%) Snowflake
8 21 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
9 17 (5.40%) Azure Monitor
9 17 (5.40%) Power Automate
10 15 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (4.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 14 (4.44%) dbt
12 13 (4.13%) Entra ID
12 13 (4.13%) PowerApps
13 12 (3.81%) Azure Functions
13 12 (3.81%) SaaS
13 12 (3.81%) Serverless
14 11 (3.49%) AWS
14 11 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.49%) Firewall
2 4 (1.27%) DNS
2 4 (1.27%) VPN
3 1 (0.32%) Network Security
3 1 (0.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (52.06%) Power BI
2 99 (31.43%) SQL Server
3 75 (23.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 74 (23.49%) Data Lake
5 72 (22.86%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (17.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 50 (15.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 21 (6.67%) Metadata
9 17 (5.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 12 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (3.49%) MySQL
11 11 (3.49%) Tableau
12 10 (3.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 10 (3.17%) Delta Lake
13 8 (2.54%) Relational Database
14 7 (2.22%) Power Query
15 6 (1.90%) MongoDB
15 6 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
16 5 (1.59%) SAS EBI
16 5 (1.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (6.35%) Git
2 6 (1.90%) Bitbucket
3 5 (1.59%) JIRA
4 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.32%) JUnit
5 1 (0.32%) MLflow
5 1 (0.32%) Selenium
5 1 (0.32%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 129 (40.95%) Finance
2 123 (39.05%) Social Skills
3 66 (20.95%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.35%) Presentation Skills
5 17 (5.40%) Retail
6 16 (5.08%) Public Sector
7 13 (4.13%) Billing
7 13 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.49%) Banking
8 11 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (3.49%) Law
8 11 (3.49%) Marketing
8 11 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.54%) Automotive
11 6 (1.90%) Advertising
12 5 (1.59%) Legal
13 4 (1.27%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 117 (37.14%) Data Engineer
2 53 (16.83%) Senior
3 33 (10.48%) Architect
3 33 (10.48%) Senior Data Engineer
4 31 (9.84%) Analyst
5 29 (9.21%) Azure Engineer
5 29 (9.21%) Data Architect
5 29 (9.21%) Developer
6 24 (7.62%) Lead
7 20 (6.35%) Azure Data Engineer
8 14 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 14 (4.44%) Data Manager
8 14 (4.44%) Insight Analyst
9 12 (3.81%) Business Manager
9 12 (3.81%) Commercial Analyst
9 12 (3.81%) Insight Manager
10 10 (3.17%) Azure Architect
11 9 (2.86%) Azure Data Architect
11 9 (2.86%) Python Data Engineer
11 9 (2.86%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (11.75%) PySpark
2 22 (6.98%) .NET
3 17 (5.40%) JSON
4 11 (3.49%) REST
5 10 (3.17%) XML
6 9 (2.86%) .NET Framework
6 9 (2.86%) RESTful
7 7 (2.22%) .NET Core
7 7 (2.22%) OAuth
7 7 (2.22%) OAuth2
8 6 (1.90%) Entity Framework
9 4 (1.27%) Pandas
9 4 (1.27%) Polars
10 3 (0.95%) ARM Templates
10 3 (0.95%) Kafka
11 2 (0.63%) Blazor
11 2 (0.63%) D3.js
11 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Graph
11 2 (0.63%) Node.js
11 2 (0.63%) Smarty
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.84%) Analytical Mindset
2 16 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.17%) Low-Code
4 10 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.22%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.90%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.90%) Clustering
7 6 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.27%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.95%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.95%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.95%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.63%) Derivative
11 2 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.90%) VMS
1 6 (1.90%) Windows
1 6 (1.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (53.33%) Analytics
1 168 (53.33%) Business Intelligence
2 130 (41.27%) ETL
3 99 (31.43%) Data Engineering
4 98 (31.11%) Data Pipeline
5 97 (30.79%) Data Modelling
5 97 (30.79%) DevOps
6 93 (29.52%) CI/CD
7 81 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
8 79 (25.08%) Decision-Making
9 76 (24.13%) Agile
10 70 (22.22%) AI
11 63 (20.00%) Visualisation
12 56 (17.78%) Data Governance
13 45 (14.29%) Data Architecture
14 43 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 42 (13.33%) Data Integration
16 41 (13.02%) Machine Learning
17 40 (12.70%) Actionable Insight
18 39 (12.38%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 224 (71.11%) SQL
2 131 (41.59%) Python
3 48 (15.24%) T-SQL
4 43 (13.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 25 (7.94%) C#
6 18 (5.71%) PowerShell
7 16 (5.08%) Bicep
8 10 (3.17%) JavaScript
8 10 (3.17%) Scala
9 6 (1.90%) Java
10 5 (1.59%) R
11 4 (1.27%) Bash
12 3 (0.95%) PHP
13 1 (0.32%) C++
13 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 35 (11.11%) Degree
2 24 (7.62%) Microsoft Certification
3 21 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 13 (4.13%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.13%) Security Cleared
5 12 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.81%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 9 (2.86%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.54%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (1.90%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.27%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.63%) MCSE
11 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (20.63%) Data Quality
2 32 (10.16%) GDPR
3 12 (3.81%) Actionable Recommendations
4 11 (3.49%) QA
5 6 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.63%) SLA
8 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (3.49%) Docker
2 4 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (8.57%) Terraform
2 14 (4.44%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.90%) Grafana
3 6 (1.90%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 140 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 110 (34.92%) Databricks
3 8 (2.54%) Informatica
3 8 (2.54%) Talend
4 7 (2.22%) Ab Initio
4 7 (2.22%) RedGate
4 7 (2.22%) SAP
5 6 (1.90%) SolarWinds
6 5 (1.59%) Oracle
6 5 (1.59%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (1.27%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.27%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.95%) Google
8 3 (0.95%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.95%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.63%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.63%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.32%) eFront
10 1 (0.32%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud