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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 332 444
Rank change year-on-year -74 +112 -68
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 370 372 496
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.87% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 2.58% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 272 292 440
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,625 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% -6.72%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £97,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +20.00% -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 26,956 14,399 34,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.17% 33.54% 35.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15,246 9,913 26,655
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,125 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.38% +8.50% -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 May 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 22 May 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 -68 329 £75,000 +11.11% 96
UK excluding London -29 196 £62,500 -0.79% 78
Work from Home +63 152 £80,000 +28.00% 57
London -47 144 £83,500 +6.03% 38
North of England -23 51 £80,000 +30.61% 17
Midlands -34 46 £60,000 -7.69% 15
West Midlands -21 41 £60,000 -5.88% 12
Yorkshire -31 35 £80,000 +33.33% 8
East of England +2 34 £90,000 +71.43% 1
South East -72 27 £50,000 -23.08% 26
Scotland +11 23 £71,500 +0.35% 5
North West -7 15 £60,000 -4.00% 9
South West -54 15 £56,250 -15.09% 8
East Midlands -38 5 £57,500 -11.54% 3
Wales -36 2 £46,585 -9.98% 4
North East -36 1 - -

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 37 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 24 (6.49%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.70%) Apache
4 10 (2.70%) Appian
5 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.54%) Luigi
7 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.08%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.54%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.27%) Endur
3 1 (0.27%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.27%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 370 (100.00%) Azure
2 156 (42.16%) Power Platform
3 115 (31.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 79 (21.35%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (12.70%) Azure Logic Apps
6 43 (11.62%) Power Automate
7 34 (9.19%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (9.19%) PowerApps
8 29 (7.84%) GitHub
9 27 (7.30%) Snowflake
10 24 (6.49%) Azure Monitor
11 23 (6.22%) dbt
12 22 (5.95%) Serverless
13 21 (5.68%) AWS
14 20 (5.41%) Azure Functions
15 19 (5.14%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 19 (5.14%) Microsoft Purview
15 19 (5.14%) OneDrive
16 18 (4.86%) GCP
17 15 (4.05%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (39.73%) Power BI
2 108 (29.19%) Data Warehouse
3 101 (27.30%) Data Lake
4 92 (24.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 55 (14.86%) SQL Server
6 37 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 35 (9.46%) Delta Lake
8 32 (8.65%) Spark SQL
9 21 (5.68%) Metadata
10 18 (4.86%) Relational Database
11 17 (4.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 16 (4.32%) Tableau
13 13 (3.51%) Star Schema
14 11 (2.97%) Big Data
14 11 (2.97%) Power Query
15 10 (2.70%) BigQuery
15 10 (2.70%) Pinecone
15 10 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 7 (1.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 6 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (9.19%) Git
2 12 (3.24%) MLflow
3 5 (1.35%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.35%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.27%) GitLab
6 1 (0.27%) JIRA
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
General
1 144 (38.92%) Finance
2 119 (32.16%) Social Skills
3 53 (14.32%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (2.97%) Public Sector
5 9 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.16%) Retail
7 5 (1.35%) Law
8 4 (1.08%) Advertising
8 4 (1.08%) Automotive
8 4 (1.08%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.81%) Legal
9 3 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.81%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.54%) Banking
10 2 (0.54%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.54%) Local Government
10 2 (0.54%) Marketing
11 1 (0.27%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 173 (46.76%) Data Engineer
2 78 (21.08%) Senior
3 64 (17.30%) Lead
4 56 (15.14%) Azure Engineer
5 44 (11.89%) Developer
5 44 (11.89%) Senior Data Engineer
6 37 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
7 36 (9.73%) Lead Data Engineer
8 35 (9.46%) Azure Data Engineer
9 22 (5.95%) Architect
10 20 (5.41%) Consultant
11 18 (4.86%) Data Architect
12 17 (4.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 17 (4.59%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.51%) Automation Engineer
13 13 (3.51%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 13 (3.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 11 (2.97%) Microsoft Engineer
15 8 (2.16%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (19.46%) PySpark
2 32 (8.65%) REST
3 31 (8.38%) .NET
4 30 (8.11%) JSON
5 22 (5.95%) .NET Core
5 22 (5.95%) CSS
5 22 (5.95%) HTML
6 20 (5.41%) HTML5 Canvas
7 19 (5.14%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (5.14%) SPFx
8 18 (4.86%) RESTful
9 15 (4.05%) OAuth
10 13 (3.51%) ARM Templates
11 11 (2.97%) FastAPI
11 11 (2.97%) Kafka
11 11 (2.97%) NumPy
11 11 (2.97%) Pandas
11 11 (2.97%) PyTorch
11 11 (2.97%) scikit-learn
11 11 (2.97%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (4.05%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.78%) Low-Code
5 9 (2.43%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.16%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.89%) AI Agents
7 7 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (1.89%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.62%) Replication
9 3 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.81%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.81%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.54%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (51.89%) Data Modelling
2 186 (50.27%) Analytics
3 179 (48.38%) ETL
4 170 (45.95%) CI/CD
5 165 (44.59%) Data Engineering
6 163 (44.05%) Data Pipeline
7 160 (43.24%) Business Intelligence
8 140 (37.84%) DevOps
9 87 (23.51%) AI
10 84 (22.70%) Agile
11 79 (21.35%) Decision-Making
12 78 (21.08%) Data Governance
13 76 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
14 63 (17.03%) Data Architecture
15 62 (16.76%) Data Integration
15 62 (16.76%) Machine Learning
16 58 (15.68%) Infrastructure as Code
17 47 (12.70%) Test Automation
18 45 (12.16%) Platform Engineering
19 44 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 284 (76.76%) SQL
2 189 (51.08%) Python
3 43 (11.62%) PowerShell
4 31 (8.38%) C#
5 27 (7.30%) JavaScript
6 24 (6.49%) Scala
7 20 (5.41%) T-SQL
8 19 (5.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 19 (5.14%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.97%) Bicep
9 11 (2.97%) Java
9 11 (2.97%) R
10 2 (0.54%) C++
10 2 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.54%) PHP
10 2 (0.54%) VBA
11 1 (0.27%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (11.08%) Degree
2 26 (7.03%) Security Cleared
3 21 (5.68%) Azure Certification
3 21 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (5.14%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.62%) IIBA
6 6 (1.62%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.62%) PMP
7 3 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.27%) CISM
9 1 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (30.81%) Data Quality
2 29 (7.84%) GDPR
3 10 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.89%) QA
5 5 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.35%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.54%) GRC
6 2 (0.54%) IFRS
6 2 (0.54%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.54%) SLA
7 1 (0.27%) COBIT
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 18 (4.86%) Docker
2 8 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (12.97%) Terraform
2 21 (5.68%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.27%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 165 (44.59%) Databricks
2 147 (39.73%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.14%) Adobe
4 18 (4.86%) OpenAI
5 10 (2.70%) Automation Anywhere
5 10 (2.70%) UiPath
6 9 (2.43%) Ab Initio
7 8 (2.16%) Alteryx
8 7 (1.89%) Foundry
8 7 (1.89%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.89%) SAP
9 6 (1.62%) Anaplan
9 6 (1.62%) Google
10 4 (1.08%) IBM
11 3 (0.81%) Talend
12 2 (0.54%) Informatica
12 2 (0.54%) Oracle
12 2 (0.54%) Trapeze
13 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg
13 1 (0.27%) Infor