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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 372 302
Rank change year-on-year +15 -70 +141
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 317 435 527
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.65% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 1.98% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 224 336 449
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,430
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,750 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,250 £53,500
% change year-on-year -7.17% +10.75% -10.83%

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 17,783 21,945 22,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.78% 32.77% 42.92%
Number of salaries quoted 11,246 13,161 18,911
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,750
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 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 18 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 18 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 -14 269 £70,000 +7.69% 239
UK excluding London +48 159 £55,000 -7.17% 131
London -17 141 £82,500 +13.79% 138
Work from Home +39 135 £67,500 +3.85% 141
North of England +17 36 £55,000 - 25
South East -9 33 £55,000 -12.00% 49
Midlands +54 32 £61,250 +11.36% 35
Scotland +24 32 £50,000 -4.76% 11
West Midlands +61 30 £61,250 +6.52% 30
North West +12 15 £56,250 +2.27% 12
North East +12 12 £52,500 -12.50% 5
East of England +26 9 £54,000 - 6
Yorkshire +6 9 £79,000 +21.54% 8
South West +31 8 £77,500 +40.91% 5
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 - 1
Wales +12 3 £55,000 +28.65%
East Midlands +23 2 £61,250 +22.50% 5

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 17 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.47%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.52%) Apache
4 5 (1.58%) SAS
5 4 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.32%) Appian
6 1 (0.32%) Confluence
6 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 32 (10.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 317 (100.00%) Azure
2 182 (57.41%) Power Platform
3 120 (37.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 74 (23.34%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (11.04%) GitHub
6 33 (10.41%) Azure Logic Apps
7 25 (7.89%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (7.26%) Snowflake
9 18 (5.68%) Power Automate
10 17 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (5.05%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (4.73%) dbt
13 14 (4.42%) SaaS
14 13 (4.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 13 (4.10%) Entra ID
15 12 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
15 12 (3.79%) PowerApps
16 11 (3.47%) AWS
16 11 (3.47%) Azure Functions
16 11 (3.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.15%) Firewall
2 5 (1.58%) DNS
3 4 (1.26%) VPN
4 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.32%) Network Security
4 1 (0.32%) SSL
4 1 (0.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (51.10%) Power BI
2 99 (31.23%) SQL Server
3 81 (25.55%) Data Lake
3 81 (25.55%) Data Warehouse
4 78 (24.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 55 (17.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 49 (15.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 23 (7.26%) Metadata
8 17 (5.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 14 (4.42%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 13 (4.10%) Tableau
11 12 (3.79%) MySQL
12 11 (3.47%) Delta Lake
12 11 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (2.21%) Relational Database
14 6 (1.89%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.89%) Power Query
14 6 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
15 5 (1.58%) SAS EBI
15 5 (1.58%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (7.26%) Git
2 6 (1.89%) Bitbucket
3 5 (1.58%) 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
General
1 133 (41.96%) Finance
2 129 (40.69%) Social Skills
3 67 (21.14%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.31%) Presentation Skills
5 17 (5.36%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (4.10%) Billing
7 13 (4.10%) Retail
8 12 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (3.15%) Law
10 10 (3.15%) Marketing
11 9 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.52%) Automotive
12 8 (2.52%) Banking
13 5 (1.58%) Advertising
14 4 (1.26%) Legal
14 4 (1.26%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 117 (36.91%) Data Engineer
2 51 (16.09%) Senior
3 32 (10.09%) Azure Engineer
3 32 (10.09%) Senior Data Engineer
4 30 (9.46%) Developer
5 29 (9.15%) Analyst
5 29 (9.15%) Architect
6 26 (8.20%) Lead
7 25 (7.89%) Data Architect
8 21 (6.62%) Azure Data Engineer
9 14 (4.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 13 (4.10%) Insight Analyst
11 12 (3.79%) Business Manager
11 12 (3.79%) Commercial Analyst
11 12 (3.79%) Insight Manager
12 11 (3.47%) Data Manager
13 10 (3.15%) Azure Architect
14 9 (2.84%) Azure Data Architect
15 8 (2.52%) Python Data Engineer
15 8 (2.52%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (12.30%) PySpark
2 20 (6.31%) .NET
3 18 (5.68%) JSON
4 13 (4.10%) REST
5 11 (3.47%) RESTful
6 10 (3.15%) OAuth
6 10 (3.15%) XML
7 8 (2.52%) OAuth2
8 7 (2.21%) .NET Framework
9 6 (1.89%) .NET Core
10 5 (1.58%) Entity Framework
10 5 (1.58%) Kafka
10 5 (1.58%) Pandas
11 4 (1.26%) Polars
11 4 (1.26%) SOAP
12 3 (0.95%) ARM Templates
13 2 (0.63%) Blazor
13 2 (0.63%) D3.js
13 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Graph
13 2 (0.63%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.78%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (4.73%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.79%) Low-Code
5 10 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (3.15%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.21%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.89%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.89%) Clustering
8 5 (1.58%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.26%) 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%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.63%) IoT
11 2 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.89%) VMS
2 5 (1.58%) Windows
2 5 (1.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (52.68%) Business Intelligence
2 165 (52.05%) Analytics
3 137 (43.22%) ETL
4 108 (34.07%) Data Engineering
5 105 (33.12%) Data Modelling
6 103 (32.49%) Data Pipeline
6 103 (32.49%) DevOps
7 99 (31.23%) CI/CD
8 89 (28.08%) Problem-Solving
9 84 (26.50%) Agile
10 82 (25.87%) Decision-Making
11 74 (23.34%) AI
12 63 (19.87%) Visualisation
13 60 (18.93%) Data Governance
14 46 (14.51%) Continuous Improvement
14 46 (14.51%) Data Architecture
15 43 (13.56%) Data Integration
16 41 (12.93%) Coaching
16 41 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
17 39 (12.30%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 228 (71.92%) SQL
2 133 (41.96%) Python
3 49 (15.46%) T-SQL
4 43 (13.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 24 (7.57%) C#
6 19 (5.99%) PowerShell
7 18 (5.68%) Bicep
8 12 (3.79%) Scala
9 10 (3.15%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.58%) Java
10 5 (1.58%) R
11 3 (0.95%) Bash
11 3 (0.95%) PHP
12 1 (0.32%) C++
12 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 36 (11.36%) Degree
2 22 (6.94%) Azure Certification
3 21 (6.62%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (3.79%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 11 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.47%) SC Cleared
5 11 (3.47%) Security Cleared
6 8 (2.52%) DBS Check
6 8 (2.52%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.52%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (1.26%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.63%) MCSE
8 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.63%) PMP
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.32%) IIBA
9 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (22.40%) Data Quality
2 33 (10.41%) GDPR
3 12 (3.79%) Actionable Recommendations
4 10 (3.15%) QA
5 6 (1.89%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.63%) SLA
8 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (4.10%) Docker
2 4 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (9.15%) Terraform
2 17 (5.36%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.58%) Grafana
3 5 (1.58%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 145 (45.74%) Microsoft
2 121 (38.17%) Databricks
3 8 (2.52%) Ab Initio
3 8 (2.52%) Informatica
3 8 (2.52%) Talend
4 7 (2.21%) RedGate
4 7 (2.21%) SAP
5 6 (1.89%) Oracle
6 5 (1.58%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.26%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (1.26%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.26%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.26%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.95%) Alteryx
8 3 (0.95%) Google
8 3 (0.95%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.63%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.63%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.32%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.32%) VMware