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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 340 440
Rank change year-on-year -39 +100 -47
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 382 376 503
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.87% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 2.48% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 278 299 448
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £48,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +6.00% -6.02%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £78,938
90th Percentile £97,875 £95,500 £94,125
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 27,680 15,182 34,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.54% 34.96% 35.77%
Number of salaries quoted 14,644 10,852 26,766
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £82,813 £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 8 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 8 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 -48 335 £75,000 +11.11% 87
UK excluding London -42 206 £62,500 -0.79% 75
Work from Home +61 162 £80,000 +28.00% 56
London -27 144 £83,500 +6.03% 29
Midlands -22 51 £60,000 -7.69% 11
West Midlands -20 46 £60,000 +4.35% 5
North of England -45 45 £80,000 +23.08% 22
East of England +3 33 £90,000 +75.61% 3
Yorkshire -39 33 £80,000 +33.33% 13
South East -65 33 £50,000 -23.08% 28
Scotland +18 29 £71,500 -26.67% 4
South West -50 15 £56,250 -10.00% 6
North West -28 11 £62,500 -7.41% 9
East Midlands -30 5 £57,500 -11.54% 6
Wales -29 2 £46,585 -9.98% 3
North East -34 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 (9.69%) SharePoint
2 23 (6.02%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.14%) Appian
4 11 (2.88%) Apache
4 11 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.52%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.26%) Luigi
7 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.05%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.52%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.26%) Endur
4 1 (0.26%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.26%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 382 (100.00%) Azure
2 163 (42.67%) Power Platform
3 120 (31.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 88 (23.04%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (12.83%) Azure Logic Apps
6 48 (12.57%) Power Automate
7 35 (9.16%) Microsoft 365
7 35 (9.16%) PowerApps
8 33 (8.64%) GitHub
9 30 (7.85%) Snowflake
10 25 (6.54%) Azure Monitor
11 24 (6.28%) dbt
12 21 (5.50%) AWS
12 21 (5.50%) Serverless
13 20 (5.24%) Microsoft Purview
13 20 (5.24%) PaaS
14 19 (4.97%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (4.97%) Azure Functions
14 19 (4.97%) GCP
14 19 (4.97%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.52%) DNS
2 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (40.05%) Power BI
2 111 (29.06%) Data Warehouse
3 110 (28.80%) Data Lake
4 92 (24.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 62 (16.23%) SQL Server
6 39 (10.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 31 (8.12%) Delta Lake
8 29 (7.59%) Spark SQL
9 20 (5.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 20 (5.24%) Metadata
10 15 (3.93%) Relational Database
11 12 (3.14%) Pinecone
11 12 (3.14%) Tableau
12 11 (2.88%) Star Schema
13 10 (2.62%) Big Data
14 8 (2.09%) BigQuery
14 8 (2.09%) Power Query
14 8 (2.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
16 6 (1.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 40 (10.47%) Git
2 14 (3.66%) MLflow
3 3 (0.79%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.26%) GitLab
5 1 (0.26%) JIRA
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
General
1 151 (39.53%) Finance
2 130 (34.03%) Social Skills
3 53 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (3.14%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (1.57%) Automotive
7 6 (1.57%) Law
7 6 (1.57%) Retail
8 5 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.05%) Advertising
9 4 (1.05%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.79%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.52%) Banking
11 2 (0.52%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.52%) Legal
11 2 (0.52%) Local Government
11 2 (0.52%) Marketing
12 1 (0.26%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 173 (45.29%) Data Engineer
2 81 (21.20%) Senior
3 60 (15.71%) Lead
4 57 (14.92%) Azure Engineer
5 46 (12.04%) Developer
6 45 (11.78%) Senior Data Engineer
7 35 (9.16%) Lead Data Engineer
7 35 (9.16%) Platform Engineer
8 34 (8.90%) Azure Data Engineer
9 22 (5.76%) Consultant
10 21 (5.50%) Architect
11 18 (4.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 17 (4.45%) Data Architect
12 17 (4.45%) Senior Developer
13 15 (3.93%) Automation Engineer
14 12 (3.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 12 (3.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 12 (3.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (2.88%) Microsoft Engineer
16 8 (2.09%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (18.59%) PySpark
2 35 (9.16%) REST
3 33 (8.64%) JSON
4 32 (8.38%) .NET
5 22 (5.76%) .NET Core
5 22 (5.76%) CSS
5 22 (5.76%) HTML
5 22 (5.76%) RESTful
6 20 (5.24%) HTML5 Canvas
6 20 (5.24%) OAuth
7 19 (4.97%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (4.97%) SPFx
8 13 (3.40%) NumPy
8 13 (3.40%) Pandas
8 13 (3.40%) PyTorch
8 13 (3.40%) scikit-learn
8 13 (3.40%) TensorFlow
9 12 (3.14%) Django
9 12 (3.14%) pytest
9 12 (3.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.12%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.97%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (4.71%) Low-Code
4 15 (3.93%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.36%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.36%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.36%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.09%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.83%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.31%) Replication
9 4 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.79%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.79%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.26%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (51.05%) Data Modelling
2 192 (50.26%) Analytics
3 185 (48.43%) ETL
4 178 (46.60%) CI/CD
5 174 (45.55%) Data Pipeline
6 166 (43.46%) Data Engineering
7 164 (42.93%) Business Intelligence
8 149 (39.01%) DevOps
9 97 (25.39%) Agile
10 96 (25.13%) AI
11 84 (21.99%) Decision-Making
12 79 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
13 78 (20.42%) Data Governance
14 67 (17.54%) Machine Learning
15 64 (16.75%) Data Architecture
15 64 (16.75%) Infrastructure as Code
16 61 (15.97%) Data Integration
17 52 (13.61%) Test Automation
18 49 (12.83%) Continuous Improvement
19 47 (12.30%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 291 (76.18%) SQL
2 193 (50.52%) Python
3 47 (12.30%) PowerShell
4 31 (8.12%) C#
5 26 (6.81%) JavaScript
6 21 (5.50%) Scala
6 21 (5.50%) T-SQL
7 19 (4.97%) TypeScript
8 18 (4.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 15 (3.93%) Bicep
10 9 (2.36%) Java
10 9 (2.36%) R
11 2 (0.52%) C++
11 2 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.52%) PHP
11 2 (0.52%) VBA
12 1 (0.26%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (10.73%) Degree
2 23 (6.02%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (4.97%) Azure Certification
5 16 (4.19%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.09%) IIBA
7 8 (2.09%) PMI Certification
7 8 (2.09%) PMP
8 4 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.26%) CISM
10 1 (0.26%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (29.84%) Data Quality
2 30 (7.85%) GDPR
3 11 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.09%) QA
5 5 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.31%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.52%) GRC
6 2 (0.52%) IFRS
6 2 (0.52%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.52%) SLA
7 1 (0.26%) COBIT
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 19 (4.97%) Docker
2 8 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (14.14%) Terraform
2 23 (6.02%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.26%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 170 (44.50%) Databricks
2 155 (40.58%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.97%) Adobe
3 19 (4.97%) OpenAI
4 12 (3.14%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (3.14%) UiPath
5 11 (2.88%) Ab Initio
6 10 (2.62%) Alteryx
7 8 (2.09%) Anaplan
8 6 (1.57%) Foundry
9 5 (1.31%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.05%) Google
10 4 (1.05%) IBM
10 4 (1.05%) SAP
11 3 (0.79%) Oracle
11 3 (0.79%) Talend
12 2 (0.52%) Informatica
12 2 (0.52%) Trapeze
13 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg
13 1 (0.26%) Infor