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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 374 417
Rank change year-on-year -86 +43 -81
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 382 331 444
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.67% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 2.10% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 278 261 360
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £52,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -

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 27,559 15,732 24,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.30% 31.71% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 18,622 10,630 16,115
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -71 357 £80,000 +23.08% 175
UK excluding London -90 185 £62,500 +13.64% 105
London -32 175 £80,000 - 93
Work from Home -7 139 £80,000 +33.33% 120
North of England -10 66 £68,000 +23.64% 24
Yorkshire -19 37 £82,500 +37.50% 6
South East -53 36 £62,500 +13.64% 40
Midlands -43 33 £85,000 +41.67% 18
West Midlands -46 26 £85,000 +41.67% 11
East of England -20 24 £90,000 +80.00% 8
North West -6 23 £55,000 - 14
South West -64 20 £85,000 +17.24% 7
Wales -61 11 £53,171 -3.33% 2
East Midlands -34 7 - - 7
North East -61 6 £47,500 -9.52% 4
Scotland +2 5 £49,168 -0.67% 6

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 41 (10.73%) Apache Spark
2 23 (6.02%) SharePoint
3 18 (4.71%) Apache
4 12 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.52%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.52%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.26%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 382 (100.00%) Azure
2 179 (46.86%) Power Platform
3 136 (35.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 91 (23.82%) Azure DevOps
5 69 (18.06%) Azure Databricks
6 51 (13.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 49 (12.83%) Microsoft Purview
8 30 (7.85%) Serverless
9 27 (7.07%) Azure Functions
10 25 (6.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 25 (6.54%) PowerApps
10 25 (6.54%) Snowflake
11 24 (6.28%) Power Automate
12 21 (5.50%) AWS
12 21 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (4.45%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 17 (4.45%) dbt
13 17 (4.45%) GCP
13 17 (4.45%) OneDrive
14 13 (3.40%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (45.55%) Power BI
2 125 (32.72%) Data Warehouse
3 104 (27.23%) Data Lake
4 80 (20.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 65 (17.02%) Metadata
6 54 (14.14%) Delta Lake
7 48 (12.57%) SQL Server
8 31 (8.12%) Spark SQL
8 31 (8.12%) Star Schema
9 29 (7.59%) Tableau
10 27 (7.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 22 (5.76%) Big Data
12 21 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
13 20 (5.24%) Data Vault
13 20 (5.24%) NoSQL
14 19 (4.97%) Relational Database
15 16 (4.19%) Semantic Layer
16 15 (3.93%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (3.40%) BigQuery
17 13 (3.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 49 (12.83%) Git
2 11 (2.88%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.83%) MLflow
4 6 (1.57%) GitLab
5 3 (0.79%) JIRA
5 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.52%) ERwin
6 2 (0.52%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.26%) kappa
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 131 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 105 (27.49%) Finance
3 65 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (4.97%) Legal
5 14 (3.66%) Law
5 14 (3.66%) Retail
6 11 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (1.83%) Banking
7 7 (1.83%) Marketing
7 7 (1.83%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.05%) Advertising
9 4 (1.05%) Billing
9 4 (1.05%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.05%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.79%) Games
10 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.79%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.26%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 186 (48.69%) Data Engineer
2 113 (29.58%) Senior
3 68 (17.80%) Senior Data Engineer
4 67 (17.54%) Lead
5 60 (15.71%) Azure Engineer
6 53 (13.87%) Architect
7 49 (12.83%) Data Architect
8 44 (11.52%) Developer
9 42 (10.99%) Azure Data Engineer
10 30 (7.85%) Lead Data Engineer
11 23 (6.02%) Databricks Engineer
12 22 (5.76%) Platform Engineer
13 19 (4.97%) Consultant
13 19 (4.97%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 17 (4.45%) Senior Developer
15 16 (4.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 12 (3.14%) Analyst
17 11 (2.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 11 (2.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 10 (2.62%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (24.35%) PySpark
2 51 (13.35%) Terraform
3 31 (8.12%) Kafka
4 30 (7.85%) JSON
5 25 (6.54%) REST
6 19 (4.97%) .NET
7 18 (4.71%) .NET Core
7 18 (4.71%) CSS
7 18 (4.71%) HTML
8 17 (4.45%) HTML5 Canvas
8 17 (4.45%) Microsoft Graph
8 17 (4.45%) SPFx
9 11 (2.88%) ARM Templates
10 10 (2.62%) Keycloak
11 5 (1.31%) Apache Avro
11 5 (1.31%) SOAP
11 5 (1.31%) XML
11 5 (1.31%) YAML
12 4 (1.05%) MDX
13 3 (0.79%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.95%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.12%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.09%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.31%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.05%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.05%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.05%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.79%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.79%) Replication
10 3 (0.79%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.52%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.09%) Windows
2 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (56.28%) Business Intelligence
2 209 (54.71%) Analytics
3 198 (51.83%) Data Modelling
4 184 (48.17%) CI/CD
4 184 (48.17%) ETL
5 182 (47.64%) Data Engineering
6 169 (44.24%) Data Pipeline
7 167 (43.72%) DevOps
8 106 (27.75%) AI
9 101 (26.44%) Lakehouse
10 98 (25.65%) Data Governance
11 92 (24.08%) Data Architecture
12 87 (22.77%) Machine Learning
13 86 (22.51%) Agile
14 84 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
15 83 (21.73%) Decision-Making
16 77 (20.16%) Technical Leadership
17 76 (19.90%) Data Science
18 75 (19.63%) Data Integration
19 62 (16.23%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 288 (75.39%) SQL
2 219 (57.33%) Python
3 43 (11.26%) Scala
4 35 (9.16%) PowerShell
5 33 (8.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 28 (7.33%) C#
7 24 (6.28%) JavaScript
8 23 (6.02%) Bicep
9 17 (4.45%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.40%) Java
11 12 (3.14%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.62%) Go
13 7 (1.83%) R
14 2 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.52%) VBA
15 1 (0.26%) Bash
15 1 (0.26%) PHP
15 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 52 (13.61%) Azure Certification
2 44 (11.52%) Security Cleared
3 39 (10.21%) Degree
4 35 (9.16%) SC Cleared
5 25 (6.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.19%) SnowPro
8 10 (2.62%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.83%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.79%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.26%) ICAEW
13 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (36.91%) Data Quality
2 36 (9.42%) GDPR
3 19 (4.97%) QA
4 9 (2.36%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.31%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.52%) IFRS
7 2 (0.52%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (3.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.52%) Ansible
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 183 (47.91%) Microsoft
2 179 (46.86%) Databricks
3 17 (4.45%) Adobe
4 11 (2.88%) Informatica
5 10 (2.62%) SAP
5 10 (2.62%) Talend
6 7 (1.83%) Google
6 7 (1.83%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.57%) Foundry
7 6 (1.57%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.52%) Oracle
9 1 (0.26%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.26%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.26%) Confluent
9 1 (0.26%) Infor
9 1 (0.26%) Meraki
9 1 (0.26%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.26%) Teradata