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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 334 456
Rank change year-on-year -61 +122 -75
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 375 382 500
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.86% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.40% 2.53% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 273 302 445
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,375 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.99% +6.20% -6.72%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £99,500 £93,125 £95,000
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 26,728 15,096 34,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.14% 34.15% 35.42%
Number of salaries quoted 15,074 10,617 26,681
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £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 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -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 18 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 18 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 -64 331 £75,000 +11.11% 86
UK excluding London -30 203 £62,500 -3.85% 69
Work from Home +89 156 £80,000 +28.00% 53
London -33 142 £83,500 +4.38% 36
North of England -26 51 £80,000 +28.00% 18
Midlands -30 47 £60,000 -7.69% 8
West Midlands -18 42 £60,000 -4.00% 5
Yorkshire -29 35 £80,000 +33.33% 10
East of England 0 34 £90,000 +75.61% 3
South East -51 30 £50,000 -23.08% 26
Scotland +16 26 £71,500 +0.35% 3
North West +5 15 £60,000 -4.00% 8
South West -58 15 £56,250 -11.76% 8
East Midlands -34 5 £57,500 -11.54% 3
Wales -28 2 £46,585 -9.98% 4
North East -36 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 (9.87%) SharePoint
2 21 (5.60%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (2.93%) Appian
5 10 (2.67%) Apache
6 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.53%) Luigi
8 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.07%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.53%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.27%) Endur
3 1 (0.27%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.27%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 375 (100.00%) Azure
2 158 (42.13%) Power Platform
3 116 (30.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 81 (21.60%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (12.53%) Azure Logic Apps
6 45 (12.00%) Power Automate
7 34 (9.07%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (9.07%) PowerApps
8 31 (8.27%) GitHub
9 29 (7.73%) Snowflake
10 25 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
10 25 (6.67%) dbt
11 23 (6.13%) AWS
12 22 (5.87%) Serverless
13 20 (5.33%) Azure Functions
13 20 (5.33%) GCP
14 19 (5.07%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (5.07%) OneDrive
15 17 (4.53%) Microsoft Purview
15 17 (4.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (39.47%) Power BI
2 108 (28.80%) Data Warehouse
3 104 (27.73%) Data Lake
4 91 (24.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 59 (15.73%) SQL Server
6 38 (10.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 32 (8.53%) Delta Lake
7 32 (8.53%) Spark SQL
8 19 (5.07%) Metadata
9 17 (4.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 16 (4.27%) Relational Database
11 14 (3.73%) Tableau
12 12 (3.20%) Star Schema
13 11 (2.93%) Pinecone
14 10 (2.67%) Big Data
14 10 (2.67%) BigQuery
14 10 (2.67%) Power Query
14 10 (2.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
15 7 (1.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 36 (9.60%) Git
2 13 (3.47%) MLflow
3 4 (1.07%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.27%) GitLab
6 1 (0.27%) JIRA
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
General
1 145 (38.67%) Finance
2 123 (32.80%) Social Skills
3 54 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (2.93%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.13%) Retail
8 7 (1.87%) Law
9 6 (1.60%) Automotive
10 4 (1.07%) Advertising
10 4 (1.07%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.80%) Legal
11 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.80%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.53%) Banking
12 2 (0.53%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.53%) Local Government
12 2 (0.53%) Marketing
13 1 (0.27%) Billing
Job Titles
1 176 (46.93%) Data Engineer
2 82 (21.87%) Senior
3 63 (16.80%) Lead
4 54 (14.40%) Azure Engineer
5 48 (12.80%) Senior Data Engineer
6 44 (11.73%) Developer
7 37 (9.87%) Platform Engineer
8 36 (9.60%) Lead Data Engineer
9 32 (8.53%) Azure Data Engineer
10 22 (5.87%) Architect
11 20 (5.33%) Consultant
12 18 (4.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 18 (4.80%) Data Architect
13 17 (4.53%) Senior Developer
14 14 (3.73%) Automation Engineer
15 13 (3.47%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 13 (3.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 11 (2.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 11 (2.93%) Microsoft Engineer
17 8 (2.13%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (19.20%) PySpark
2 33 (8.80%) REST
3 31 (8.27%) .NET
3 31 (8.27%) JSON
4 22 (5.87%) .NET Core
4 22 (5.87%) CSS
4 22 (5.87%) HTML
5 20 (5.33%) HTML5 Canvas
5 20 (5.33%) RESTful
6 19 (5.07%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.07%) SPFx
7 17 (4.53%) OAuth
8 13 (3.47%) ARM Templates
9 12 (3.20%) NumPy
9 12 (3.20%) Pandas
9 12 (3.20%) PyTorch
9 12 (3.20%) scikit-learn
9 12 (3.20%) TensorFlow
10 11 (2.93%) Django
10 11 (2.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.53%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (4.27%) Low-Code
4 15 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.40%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.13%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.87%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.33%) Replication
9 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.80%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.80%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.27%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.07%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (51.73%) Data Modelling
2 191 (50.93%) Analytics
3 184 (49.07%) ETL
4 177 (47.20%) CI/CD
5 169 (45.07%) Data Pipeline
6 166 (44.27%) Data Engineering
7 160 (42.67%) Business Intelligence
8 142 (37.87%) DevOps
9 90 (24.00%) AI
10 88 (23.47%) Agile
11 81 (21.60%) Decision-Making
12 77 (20.53%) Data Governance
13 75 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
14 64 (17.07%) Data Architecture
15 63 (16.80%) Machine Learning
16 62 (16.53%) Infrastructure as Code
17 60 (16.00%) Data Integration
18 50 (13.33%) Test Automation
19 47 (12.53%) Continuous Improvement
20 46 (12.27%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 287 (76.53%) SQL
2 194 (51.73%) Python
3 45 (12.00%) PowerShell
4 30 (8.00%) C#
5 26 (6.93%) JavaScript
6 21 (5.60%) Scala
7 20 (5.33%) T-SQL
8 19 (5.07%) TypeScript
9 18 (4.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (3.47%) Bicep
11 11 (2.93%) Java
11 11 (2.93%) R
12 2 (0.53%) C++
12 2 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.53%) PHP
12 2 (0.53%) VBA
13 1 (0.27%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (11.47%) Degree
2 24 (6.40%) Security Cleared
3 22 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (4.80%) Azure Certification
5 17 (4.53%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.87%) IIBA
7 7 (1.87%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.87%) PMP
8 3 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.53%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.27%) CISM
10 1 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (30.40%) Data Quality
2 30 (8.00%) GDPR
3 10 (2.67%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.87%) QA
5 5 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.33%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.53%) GRC
6 2 (0.53%) IFRS
6 2 (0.53%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.53%) SLA
7 1 (0.27%) COBIT
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 16 (4.27%) Docker
2 8 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (13.87%) Terraform
2 19 (5.07%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.27%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 166 (44.27%) Databricks
2 149 (39.73%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.07%) Adobe
3 19 (5.07%) OpenAI
4 11 (2.93%) Automation Anywhere
4 11 (2.93%) UiPath
5 10 (2.67%) Ab Initio
6 9 (2.40%) Alteryx
7 7 (1.87%) Anaplan
7 7 (1.87%) SAP
8 6 (1.60%) Foundry
8 6 (1.60%) Google
8 6 (1.60%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.07%) IBM
10 3 (0.80%) Informatica
10 3 (0.80%) Talend
11 2 (0.53%) Oracle
11 2 (0.53%) Trapeze
12 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.27%) Cognizant