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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 463 368 422
Rank change year-on-year -95 +54 -86
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 349 356 470
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.71% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 2.23% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 258 271 397
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £92,188 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £96,250
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 27,803 15,957 26,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.88% 31.97% 31.70%
Number of salaries quoted 18,453 10,988 18,721
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £40,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%
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 £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 19 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 19 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 -77 333 £80,000 +23.08% 139
UK excluding London -70 173 £62,500 +13.64% 88
London -58 157 £80,000 - 87
Work from Home +1 133 £80,000 +33.33% 65
North of England +3 66 £74,000 +28.70% 17
Yorkshire +7 40 £81,250 +35.42% 7
Midlands -46 31 £60,000 -4.00% 13
East of England -18 28 £90,000 +80.00% 2
South East -68 26 £50,500 -8.18% 39
West Midlands -34 25 £60,000 - 10
North West -4 20 £55,000 -2.22% 6
South West -49 18 £85,000 +13.33% 5
Wales -51 9 £53,171 -3.33% 6
East Midlands -20 6 - - 3
North East -54 6 £47,500 -9.52% 4
Scotland -10 2 £43,335 -12.45% 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 35 (10.03%) Apache Spark
2 26 (7.45%) SharePoint
3 16 (4.58%) Apache
4 10 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.86%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.57%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.29%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 349 (100.00%) Azure
2 158 (45.27%) Power Platform
3 116 (33.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 74 (21.20%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (13.47%) Azure Logic Apps
6 43 (12.32%) Microsoft Purview
7 28 (8.02%) PowerApps
8 27 (7.74%) Power Automate
9 23 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (6.59%) Serverless
9 23 (6.59%) Snowflake
10 22 (6.30%) Azure Functions
11 19 (5.44%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 19 (5.44%) OneDrive
12 16 (4.58%) AWS
12 16 (4.58%) GCP
13 13 (3.72%) dbt
13 13 (3.72%) Dynamics 365
14 12 (3.44%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (43.84%) Power BI
2 101 (28.94%) Data Warehouse
3 94 (26.93%) Data Lake
4 73 (20.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 51 (14.61%) Metadata
6 47 (13.47%) Delta Lake
7 45 (12.89%) SQL Server
8 31 (8.88%) Spark SQL
9 27 (7.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (6.88%) Tableau
11 22 (6.30%) Star Schema
12 20 (5.73%) Relational Database
13 19 (5.44%) Big Data
14 18 (5.16%) Data Vault
15 16 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
16 15 (4.30%) Semantic Layer
17 12 (3.44%) BigQuery
18 10 (2.87%) NoSQL
18 10 (2.87%) Power Query
19 9 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 35 (10.03%) Git
2 7 (2.01%) MLflow
3 6 (1.72%) GitLab
3 6 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.15%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.86%) JIRA
6 2 (0.57%) ERwin
6 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.57%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 112 (32.09%) Social Skills
2 91 (26.07%) Finance
3 56 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.72%) Retail
5 12 (3.44%) Legal
6 10 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (2.87%) Law
7 8 (2.29%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.72%) Marketing
9 4 (1.15%) Advertising
9 4 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.86%) Games
10 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.86%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.57%) Banking
11 2 (0.57%) Billing
11 2 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.29%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 172 (49.28%) Data Engineer
2 95 (27.22%) Senior
3 63 (18.05%) Lead
4 55 (15.76%) Senior Data Engineer
5 51 (14.61%) Architect
5 51 (14.61%) Azure Engineer
6 49 (14.04%) Data Architect
7 40 (11.46%) Developer
8 37 (10.60%) Azure Data Engineer
9 29 (8.31%) Lead Data Engineer
10 24 (6.88%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (5.44%) Senior Developer
12 16 (4.58%) Consultant
13 11 (3.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 10 (2.87%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 10 (2.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.58%) Microsoft Engineer
16 8 (2.29%) Azure Architect
16 8 (2.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 8 (2.29%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (22.06%) PySpark
2 23 (6.59%) JSON
2 23 (6.59%) Kafka
3 22 (6.30%) .NET
4 20 (5.73%) .NET Core
4 20 (5.73%) CSS
4 20 (5.73%) HTML
5 19 (5.44%) HTML5 Canvas
5 19 (5.44%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (5.44%) REST
5 19 (5.44%) SPFx
6 11 (3.15%) ARM Templates
7 7 (2.01%) Keycloak
8 6 (1.72%) SOAP
9 3 (0.86%) LangChain
9 3 (0.86%) YAML
10 2 (0.57%) FastAPI
10 2 (0.57%) Middleware
11 1 (0.29%) PyTorch
11 1 (0.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.17%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.02%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.01%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.01%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.43%) Replication
9 4 (1.15%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.15%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.15%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.15%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.15%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.57%) Clustering
10 2 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.57%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.57%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (55.30%) Analytics
2 192 (55.01%) Business Intelligence
3 180 (51.58%) Data Modelling
4 162 (46.42%) Data Engineering
5 161 (46.13%) ETL
6 160 (45.85%) CI/CD
7 156 (44.70%) Data Pipeline
8 136 (38.97%) DevOps
9 104 (29.80%) AI
10 93 (26.65%) Data Governance
11 87 (24.93%) Machine Learning
12 78 (22.35%) Data Architecture
13 77 (22.06%) Decision-Making
14 72 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
15 70 (20.06%) Agile
16 69 (19.77%) Technical Leadership
17 67 (19.20%) Data Science
18 61 (17.48%) Data Integration
19 55 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
19 55 (15.76%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 263 (75.36%) SQL
2 193 (55.30%) Python
3 36 (10.32%) PowerShell
4 35 (10.03%) Scala
5 26 (7.45%) C#
6 23 (6.59%) JavaScript
7 21 (6.02%) Bicep
8 19 (5.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 19 (5.44%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.72%) T-SQL
10 8 (2.29%) Java
11 7 (2.01%) Go
12 5 (1.43%) R
13 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.57%) VBA
14 1 (0.29%) Bash
14 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 45 (12.89%) Azure Certification
2 35 (10.03%) Security Cleared
3 34 (9.74%) Degree
4 27 (7.74%) SC Cleared
5 22 (6.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (4.01%) SnowPro
8 7 (2.01%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.86%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.29%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (32.95%) Data Quality
2 32 (9.17%) GDPR
3 18 (5.16%) QA
4 5 (1.43%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.57%) IFRS
6 2 (0.57%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.57%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) GRC
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 8 (2.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (14.04%) Terraform
2 10 (2.87%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) Ansible
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 173 (49.57%) Databricks
2 157 (44.99%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.44%) Adobe
4 9 (2.58%) SAP
5 8 (2.29%) Foundry
5 8 (2.29%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.01%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.72%) Google
8 5 (1.43%) Informatica
9 4 (1.15%) Talend
10 2 (0.57%) Oracle
11 1 (0.29%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.29%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.29%) Confluent
11 1 (0.29%) Infor
11 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.29%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.29%) Teradata
11 1 (0.29%) Trapeze