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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 363 416
Rank change year-on-year -104 +53 -76
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 352 370 465
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.74% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 2.32% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 261 278 390
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £96,625
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 27,830 15,929 26,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.17% 31.91% 31.95%
Number of salaries quoted 18,357 11,011 19,014
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £42,532
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -82 334 £80,000 +23.08% 132
UK excluding London -85 178 £62,500 +13.64% 91
London -72 153 £80,000 - 72
Work from Home -7 134 £80,000 +33.33% 68
North of England -3 66 £74,000 +28.70% 11
Yorkshire -4 41 £80,000 +33.33% 5
Midlands -33 33 £60,000 -5.88% 15
East of England -8 30 £90,000 +80.00% 3
West Midlands -31 27 £60,000 - 10
South East -72 26 £50,000 -9.09% 46
North West +2 20 £55,000 -2.22% 4
South West -47 19 £84,500 +12.67% 5
Wales -54 9 £53,171 -3.33% 6
East Midlands -27 6 - - 5
North East -59 5 £47,500 -9.52% 2
Scotland -3 2 £43,335 -12.45% 3

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 34 (9.66%) Apache Spark
2 27 (7.67%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.98%) Apache
4 10 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.57%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.57%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.28%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 352 (100.00%) Azure
2 163 (46.31%) Power Platform
3 115 (32.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 73 (20.74%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (13.35%) Azure Logic Apps
6 43 (12.22%) Microsoft Purview
7 30 (8.52%) PowerApps
8 28 (7.95%) Power Automate
9 26 (7.39%) Snowflake
10 23 (6.53%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (6.53%) Serverless
11 22 (6.25%) Azure Functions
12 19 (5.40%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 19 (5.40%) OneDrive
13 17 (4.83%) AWS
14 16 (4.55%) GCP
15 13 (3.69%) dbt
15 13 (3.69%) Dynamics 365
16 12 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (44.60%) Power BI
2 105 (29.83%) Data Warehouse
3 93 (26.42%) Data Lake
4 75 (21.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 50 (14.20%) Metadata
6 47 (13.35%) SQL Server
7 46 (13.07%) Delta Lake
8 32 (9.09%) Spark SQL
9 29 (8.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (6.82%) Tableau
11 22 (6.25%) Star Schema
12 21 (5.97%) Relational Database
13 19 (5.40%) Big Data
14 18 (5.11%) Data Vault
15 16 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
16 15 (4.26%) Semantic Layer
17 12 (3.41%) BigQuery
18 11 (3.13%) Power Query
19 10 (2.84%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
19 10 (2.84%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (9.94%) Git
2 7 (1.99%) MLflow
3 6 (1.70%) GitLab
3 6 (1.70%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.14%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.85%) JIRA
6 2 (0.57%) ERwin
6 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.57%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 112 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 95 (26.99%) Finance
3 59 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.69%) Retail
5 12 (3.41%) Legal
6 11 (3.13%) Law
7 9 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.27%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.70%) Marketing
10 4 (1.14%) Advertising
10 4 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.85%) Games
11 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.85%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.57%) Banking
12 2 (0.57%) Billing
12 2 (0.57%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.28%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 176 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 95 (26.99%) Senior
3 61 (17.33%) Lead
4 56 (15.91%) Senior Data Engineer
5 51 (14.49%) Architect
6 50 (14.20%) Azure Engineer
7 49 (13.92%) Data Architect
8 40 (11.36%) Developer
9 36 (10.23%) Azure Data Engineer
10 29 (8.24%) Lead Data Engineer
11 26 (7.39%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.40%) Senior Developer
13 16 (4.55%) Consultant
14 11 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 10 (2.84%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 10 (2.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 9 (2.56%) Microsoft Engineer
17 8 (2.27%) Azure Architect
17 8 (2.27%) Machine Learning Engineer
17 8 (2.27%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (22.44%) PySpark
2 23 (6.53%) JSON
2 23 (6.53%) Kafka
3 22 (6.25%) .NET
4 20 (5.68%) .NET Core
4 20 (5.68%) CSS
4 20 (5.68%) HTML
5 19 (5.40%) HTML5 Canvas
5 19 (5.40%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (5.40%) REST
5 19 (5.40%) SPFx
6 12 (3.41%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.99%) Keycloak
8 6 (1.70%) SOAP
9 3 (0.85%) LangChain
9 3 (0.85%) YAML
10 2 (0.57%) FastAPI
10 2 (0.57%) Middleware
11 1 (0.28%) RESTful
11 1 (0.28%) Smarty
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.66%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.68%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.99%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.70%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.42%) Replication
9 4 (1.14%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.14%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.14%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.14%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.85%) Wiki
11 2 (0.57%) Clustering
11 2 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.57%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.57%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (56.25%) Analytics
2 196 (55.68%) Business Intelligence
3 182 (51.70%) Data Modelling
4 161 (45.74%) CI/CD
4 161 (45.74%) Data Engineering
5 158 (44.89%) Data Pipeline
5 158 (44.89%) ETL
6 138 (39.20%) DevOps
7 107 (30.40%) AI
8 93 (26.42%) Data Governance
9 89 (25.28%) Machine Learning
10 78 (22.16%) Data Architecture
10 78 (22.16%) Decision-Making
11 74 (21.02%) Agile
12 73 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
13 67 (19.03%) Technical Leadership
14 66 (18.75%) Data Science
15 63 (17.90%) Data Integration
16 57 (16.19%) Continuous Improvement
17 56 (15.91%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 264 (75.00%) SQL
2 194 (55.11%) Python
3 36 (10.23%) PowerShell
4 34 (9.66%) Scala
5 26 (7.39%) C#
6 23 (6.53%) JavaScript
7 21 (5.97%) Bicep
8 19 (5.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 19 (5.40%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.69%) T-SQL
10 8 (2.27%) Java
11 7 (1.99%) Go
12 6 (1.70%) R
13 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.57%) VBA
14 1 (0.28%) Bash
14 1 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 45 (12.78%) Azure Certification
2 35 (9.94%) Security Cleared
3 34 (9.66%) Degree
4 27 (7.67%) SC Cleared
5 22 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.98%) SnowPro
8 7 (1.99%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.70%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.85%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.28%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (32.67%) Data Quality
2 32 (9.09%) GDPR
3 17 (4.83%) QA
4 5 (1.42%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.42%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.57%) GRC
5 2 (0.57%) IFRS
5 2 (0.57%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.57%) SLA
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 8 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (13.92%) Terraform
2 10 (2.84%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) Ansible
3 1 (0.28%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 176 (50.00%) Databricks
2 155 (44.03%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.40%) Adobe
4 9 (2.56%) Foundry
4 9 (2.56%) SAP
5 8 (2.27%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.99%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.70%) Google
7 6 (1.70%) Informatica
8 4 (1.14%) Talend
9 2 (0.57%) Oracle
9 2 (0.57%) Trapeze
10 1 (0.28%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.28%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.28%) Confluent
10 1 (0.28%) Infor
10 1 (0.28%) Nintex
10 1 (0.28%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.28%) SolarWinds