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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 365 394
Rank change year-on-year +9 +29 +18
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 385 349 537
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.80% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 2.15% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 250 277 470
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,200 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £79,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +23.81% -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 24,032 16,252 31,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.42% 37.26% 37.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12,945 10,996 25,693
10th Percentile £29,212 £32,500 £30,009
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 14 March 2026.

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 14 March 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 -32 310 £75,000 +11.11% 121
UK excluding London -3 199 £62,500 -3.85% 86
Work from Home +97 181 £75,000 +11.11% 70
London +19 153 £83,000 +5.40% 58
Midlands -3 52 £60,000 -4.00% 19
West Midlands +23 49 £60,000 -4.00% 14
Scotland +32 48 £79,500 +2.58% 2
North of England -52 35 £67,500 +3.85% 21
South East -58 27 £50,000 -28.57% 31
Yorkshire -46 16 £79,000 +31.67% 11
East of England +13 15 £73,750 -7.81% 4
South West -28 15 £77,500 +21.57% 10
North West -19 12 £62,500 -3.85% 9
North East -16 7 £51,000 -21.54% 1
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 -
Wales -5 3 £40,000 -17.53% 3
East Midlands -33 3 £60,000 +19.40% 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 (4.42%) Apache Spark
1 17 (4.42%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.12%) Appian
3 8 (2.08%) Apache
4 7 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.04%) SAS
6 1 (0.26%) Confluence
6 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 35 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.04%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.52%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.26%) Endur
3 1 (0.26%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 385 (100.00%) Azure
2 193 (50.13%) Power Platform
3 145 (37.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 90 (23.38%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (11.43%) GitHub
6 42 (10.91%) Snowflake
7 33 (8.57%) Power Automate
8 26 (6.75%) dbt
9 25 (6.49%) Azure Logic Apps
10 24 (6.23%) Azure Monitor
11 22 (5.71%) Microsoft Purview
12 20 (5.19%) PaaS
13 19 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
14 17 (4.42%) Anthropic Claude
14 17 (4.42%) AWS
14 17 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (4.16%) SaaS
16 15 (3.90%) Azure AI
16 15 (3.90%) Azure Service Bus
16 15 (3.90%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.52%) DNS
2 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (46.75%) Power BI
2 114 (29.61%) Data Lake
3 106 (27.53%) Data Warehouse
4 104 (27.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 104 (27.01%) SQL Server
5 46 (11.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 42 (10.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (6.49%) Metadata
8 23 (5.97%) Delta Lake
9 21 (5.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 16 (4.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 15 (3.90%) Tableau
12 12 (3.12%) Pinecone
12 12 (3.12%) Spark SQL
13 11 (2.86%) Star Schema
14 9 (2.34%) MySQL
15 8 (2.08%) Relational Database
16 7 (1.82%) Big Data
16 7 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
16 7 (1.82%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 35 (9.09%) Git
2 12 (3.12%) MLflow
3 3 (0.78%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.26%) GitLab
5 1 (0.26%) JIRA
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 189 (49.09%) Finance
2 133 (34.55%) Social Skills
3 70 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (4.16%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.38%) Billing
6 13 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.08%) Automotive
8 8 (2.08%) Law
9 7 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.30%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.04%) Retail
12 3 (0.78%) Banking
12 3 (0.78%) Legal
12 3 (0.78%) Marketing
13 2 (0.52%) Advertising
13 2 (0.52%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.52%) Local Government
14 1 (0.26%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 158 (41.04%) Data Engineer
2 63 (16.36%) Senior
3 46 (11.95%) Lead
4 44 (11.43%) Azure Engineer
5 42 (10.91%) Senior Data Engineer
6 32 (8.31%) Developer
7 28 (7.27%) Azure Data Engineer
8 24 (6.23%) Lead Data Engineer
8 24 (6.23%) Platform Engineer
9 23 (5.97%) Architect
10 21 (5.45%) Analyst
11 18 (4.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 17 (4.42%) Data Architect
13 14 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
14 13 (3.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 12 (3.12%) Business Manager
15 12 (3.12%) Commercial Analyst
15 12 (3.12%) Consultant
15 12 (3.12%) Insight Analyst
15 12 (3.12%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (14.03%) PySpark
2 28 (7.27%) RESTful
3 26 (6.75%) OAuth
4 24 (6.23%) REST
5 23 (5.97%) JSON
6 20 (5.19%) .NET
7 13 (3.38%) OAuth2
8 12 (3.12%) Django
8 12 (3.12%) Faiss
8 12 (3.12%) FastAPI
8 12 (3.12%) Flask
8 12 (3.12%) Hugging Face
8 12 (3.12%) JWT
8 12 (3.12%) OpenAPI
8 12 (3.12%) Pandas
8 12 (3.12%) pytest
8 12 (3.12%) PyTorch
8 12 (3.12%) scikit-learn
8 12 (3.12%) Swagger
8 12 (3.12%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.53%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 26 (6.75%) Low-Code
4 19 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.34%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.34%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (2.08%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.30%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.04%) Replication
10 3 (0.78%) Clustering
10 3 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.52%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.52%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.52%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.04%) Windows
2 2 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (58.44%) Analytics
2 194 (50.39%) Data Modelling
3 190 (49.35%) Business Intelligence
4 179 (46.49%) ETL
5 178 (46.23%) Data Pipeline
6 167 (43.38%) CI/CD
7 163 (42.34%) Data Engineering
8 141 (36.62%) DevOps
9 116 (30.13%) AI
10 107 (27.79%) Decision-Making
11 105 (27.27%) Agile
12 95 (24.68%) Problem-Solving
13 78 (20.26%) Visualisation
14 68 (17.66%) Data Governance
15 62 (16.10%) Data Integration
16 61 (15.84%) Continuous Improvement
17 59 (15.32%) Data Architecture
18 58 (15.06%) Infrastructure as Code
19 54 (14.03%) Test Automation
20 53 (13.77%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 289 (75.06%) SQL
2 191 (49.61%) Python
3 39 (10.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 31 (8.05%) T-SQL
5 28 (7.27%) PowerShell
6 19 (4.94%) Bicep
6 19 (4.94%) C#
7 18 (4.68%) Scala
8 10 (2.60%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.08%) Java
9 8 (2.08%) R
10 3 (0.78%) C++
10 3 (0.78%) PHP
10 3 (0.78%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.26%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.26%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (10.13%) Degree
2 20 (5.19%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.16%) Azure Certification
4 15 (3.90%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.12%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 10 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.08%) IIBA
7 8 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.08%) PMI Certification
7 8 (2.08%) PMP
8 3 (0.78%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CISM
10 1 (0.26%) CISSP
10 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.26%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (32.47%) Data Quality
2 30 (7.79%) GDPR
3 13 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 12 (3.12%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.04%) QA
6 2 (0.52%) GRC
6 2 (0.52%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.26%) COBIT
7 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (4.94%) Docker
2 9 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (12.73%) Terraform
2 26 (6.75%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.26%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 154 (40.00%) Databricks
2 145 (37.66%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.68%) OpenAI
4 17 (4.42%) Ab Initio
5 12 (3.12%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (3.12%) UiPath
6 10 (2.60%) Alteryx
7 8 (2.08%) Anaplan
8 5 (1.30%) Talend
9 4 (1.04%) Foundry
9 4 (1.04%) IBM
9 4 (1.04%) Informatica
9 4 (1.04%) Oracle
10 3 (0.78%) Adobe
10 3 (0.78%) RedGate
11 2 (0.52%) Google
11 2 (0.52%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.52%) SAP
11 2 (0.52%) Trapeze
12 1 (0.26%) Palantir