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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 318 441
Rank change year-on-year -43 +123 -54
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 417 378 508
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.90% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.51% 2.49% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 279 299 451
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% -6.02%
75th Percentile £89,375 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £99,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year -3.85% +23.22% -8.26%

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 27,603 15,173 34,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.44% 36.18% 36.10%
Number of salaries quoted 14,250 11,138 26,661
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -61 351 £75,000 +11.11% 102
UK excluding London -49 230 £62,500 -3.85% 81
Work from Home +73 191 £75,500 +16.15% 54
London +3 154 £80,000 - 37
Midlands -41 55 £60,000 - 14
North of England -36 53 £75,000 +15.38% 26
West Midlands -17 50 £60,000 +4.35% 9
Scotland +17 39 £71,500 -26.67% 2
South East -84 33 £50,000 -28.57% 23
Yorkshire -49 31 £80,000 +33.33% 12
East of England -17 28 £90,000 +75.61% 6
South West -53 15 £57,500 -8.00% 8
North West -32 14 £65,000 -3.70% 14
North East -35 8 £51,000 -34.19% 2
East Midlands -48 5 £57,500 -11.54% 5
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 - 3
Wales -17 4 £46,585 -3.95% 2

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 31 (7.43%) SharePoint
2 20 (4.80%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.88%) Appian
4 10 (2.40%) Apache
5 9 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.24%) Confluence
7 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 34 (8.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Markit EDM
2 3 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.24%) Endur
4 1 (0.24%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.24%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 417 (100.00%) Azure
2 196 (47.00%) Power Platform
3 153 (36.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 89 (21.34%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (10.55%) Power Automate
6 43 (10.31%) Azure Logic Apps
7 39 (9.35%) GitHub
8 35 (8.39%) Snowflake
9 31 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
10 28 (6.71%) PowerApps
11 26 (6.24%) dbt
12 25 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
13 22 (5.28%) Microsoft Purview
14 20 (4.80%) PaaS
15 19 (4.56%) AWS
16 18 (4.32%) Serverless
17 17 (4.08%) Azure AI
17 17 (4.08%) GCP
18 16 (3.84%) Anthropic Claude
18 16 (3.84%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.48%) DNS
2 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (43.88%) Power BI
2 117 (28.06%) Azure SQL Database
2 117 (28.06%) Data Lake
3 111 (26.62%) Data Warehouse
4 91 (21.82%) SQL Server
5 42 (10.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 35 (8.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 29 (6.95%) Delta Lake
8 25 (6.00%) Spark SQL
9 21 (5.04%) Metadata
10 20 (4.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 15 (3.60%) Relational Database
12 14 (3.36%) Tableau
13 12 (2.88%) Pinecone
14 11 (2.64%) Star Schema
15 9 (2.16%) MySQL
15 9 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
16 8 (1.92%) Big Data
16 8 (1.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 6 (1.44%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 39 (9.35%) Git
2 13 (3.12%) MLflow
3 3 (0.72%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.72%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.48%) JIRA
4 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.24%) GitLab
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 184 (44.12%) Finance
2 151 (36.21%) Social Skills
3 76 (18.23%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (3.60%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (2.88%) Billing
8 8 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.68%) Automotive
9 7 (1.68%) Law
9 7 (1.68%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.20%) Retail
12 4 (0.96%) Advertising
12 4 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.72%) Marketing
14 2 (0.48%) Banking
14 2 (0.48%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.48%) Legal
14 2 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 179 (42.93%) Data Engineer
2 84 (20.14%) Senior
3 56 (13.43%) Azure Engineer
4 54 (12.95%) Lead
5 49 (11.75%) Senior Data Engineer
6 42 (10.07%) Developer
7 34 (8.15%) Azure Data Engineer
8 32 (7.67%) Platform Engineer
9 31 (7.43%) Lead Data Engineer
10 22 (5.28%) Architect
11 21 (5.04%) Analyst
12 17 (4.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 17 (4.08%) Consultant
12 17 (4.08%) Data Architect
13 15 (3.60%) Automation Engineer
13 15 (3.60%) Senior Developer
14 12 (2.88%) Business Manager
14 12 (2.88%) Commercial Analyst
14 12 (2.88%) Insight Manager
14 12 (2.88%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (16.07%) PySpark
2 31 (7.43%) JSON
2 31 (7.43%) REST
3 30 (7.19%) .NET
4 24 (5.76%) RESTful
5 22 (5.28%) OAuth
6 19 (4.56%) .NET Core
7 18 (4.32%) CSS
7 18 (4.32%) HTML
8 16 (3.84%) HTML5 Canvas
9 15 (3.60%) Microsoft Graph
9 15 (3.60%) SPFx
10 13 (3.12%) NumPy
10 13 (3.12%) Pandas
10 13 (3.12%) PyTorch
10 13 (3.12%) scikit-learn
10 13 (3.12%) TensorFlow
11 12 (2.88%) pytest
11 12 (2.88%) Swagger
11 12 (2.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.67%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.43%) Analytical Mindset
3 22 (5.28%) Low-Code
4 18 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
4 18 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (3.60%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.16%) AI Agents
6 9 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (1.92%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.92%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.20%) Replication
11 3 (0.72%) Clustering
11 3 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.72%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.72%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.96%) Windows
2 2 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (55.40%) Analytics
2 211 (50.60%) Data Modelling
3 195 (46.76%) Business Intelligence
4 191 (45.80%) ETL
5 189 (45.32%) Data Pipeline
6 178 (42.69%) CI/CD
7 174 (41.73%) Data Engineering
8 148 (35.49%) DevOps
9 114 (27.34%) AI
10 111 (26.62%) Decision-Making
11 106 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
12 101 (24.22%) Agile
13 79 (18.94%) Data Governance
14 76 (18.23%) Visualisation
15 69 (16.55%) Data Architecture
16 66 (15.83%) Continuous Improvement
17 65 (15.59%) Data Integration
18 61 (14.63%) Infrastructure as Code
18 61 (14.63%) Machine Learning
19 55 (13.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 322 (77.22%) SQL
2 201 (48.20%) Python
3 44 (10.55%) PowerShell
4 41 (9.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 29 (6.95%) C#
6 27 (6.47%) T-SQL
7 22 (5.28%) JavaScript
8 19 (4.56%) Scala
9 16 (3.84%) Bicep
10 15 (3.60%) TypeScript
11 9 (2.16%) Java
12 8 (1.92%) R
13 3 (0.72%) C++
13 3 (0.72%) PHP
14 1 (0.24%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.24%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 49 (11.75%) Degree
2 23 (5.52%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.32%) Azure Certification
4 17 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (4.08%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.88%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 8 (1.92%) IIBA
6 8 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.92%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.92%) PMP
7 3 (0.72%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.24%) CISM
9 1 (0.24%) CISSP
9 1 (0.24%) MCSE
9 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (31.65%) Data Quality
2 33 (7.91%) GDPR
3 12 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.88%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (1.44%) QA
5 5 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.96%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.48%) GRC
7 2 (0.48%) SLA
8 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.24%) COBIT
8 1 (0.24%) IFRS
8 1 (0.24%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 19 (4.56%) Docker
2 9 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (12.71%) Terraform
2 24 (5.76%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.24%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 169 (40.53%) Databricks
2 157 (37.65%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.56%) OpenAI
4 15 (3.60%) Adobe
5 13 (3.12%) Ab Initio
6 12 (2.88%) Automation Anywhere
6 12 (2.88%) UiPath
7 10 (2.40%) Alteryx
8 8 (1.92%) Anaplan
9 6 (1.44%) Foundry
9 6 (1.44%) Talend
10 5 (1.20%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.96%) Google
11 4 (0.96%) IBM
11 4 (0.96%) Informatica
11 4 (0.96%) Oracle
11 4 (0.96%) SAP
12 3 (0.72%) RedGate
13 2 (0.48%) Trapeze
14 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg