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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 358 313
Rank change year-on-year +16 -45 +107
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 337 421 480
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.74% 0.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.64% 2.06% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 223 344 408
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £43,377
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,313
90th Percentile £98,500 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +16.82% -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 20,517 20,485 21,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.08% 36.06% 43.17%
Number of salaries quoted 11,271 12,306 17,435
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 December 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 December 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 -2 272 £70,000 +7.69% 199
UK excluding London +55 176 £60,000 -4.00% 168
Work from Home +70 160 £70,000 +3.70% 115
London +10 143 £82,500 +13.79% 70
Scotland +46 48 £52,500 -4.55% 10
Midlands +28 38 £60,000 -4.00% 33
South East -14 38 £55,000 -15.38% 53
West Midlands +49 37 £60,000 -7.69% 25
North of England +5 30 £56,367 +2.48% 35
North West +10 12 £57,500 +7.73% 19
North East +7 9 £51,750 -13.75% 2
Yorkshire -18 9 £79,000 +22.48% 14
South West +18 8 £72,500 +16.00% 18
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 - 2
East of England +33 5 £50,500 -36.88% 16
Wales 0 3 £55,000 +28.65% 2
East Midlands -12 1 £82,500 +65.00% 8

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 14 (4.15%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.08%) Apache
3 6 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.48%) Appian
4 5 (1.48%) SAS
5 3 (0.89%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.30%) Confluence
6 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
Applications
1 34 (10.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.30%) Endur
3 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.30%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 337 (100.00%) Azure
2 179 (53.12%) Power Platform
3 136 (40.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 84 (24.93%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (13.65%) GitHub
6 37 (10.98%) Snowflake
7 28 (8.31%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (8.01%) Azure Logic Apps
9 25 (7.42%) dbt
10 22 (6.53%) Azure Monitor
11 21 (6.23%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (5.64%) Power Automate
13 15 (4.45%) AWS
13 15 (4.45%) Azure Service Bus
14 14 (4.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 14 (4.15%) SaaS
15 13 (3.86%) Azure Event Grid
15 13 (3.86%) GitHub Copilot
16 11 (3.26%) Matillion
17 10 (2.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.78%) Firewall
2 5 (1.48%) DNS
3 4 (1.19%) VPN
4 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (48.96%) Power BI
2 104 (30.86%) SQL Server
3 103 (30.56%) Data Lake
4 97 (28.78%) Data Warehouse
5 78 (23.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 52 (15.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 50 (14.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 28 (8.31%) Metadata
9 17 (5.04%) Delta Lake
9 17 (5.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 16 (4.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 13 (3.86%) Tableau
12 12 (3.56%) MySQL
13 9 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (2.08%) Relational Database
15 6 (1.78%) Big Data
15 6 (1.78%) Data Mining
15 6 (1.78%) Qlik Sense
15 6 (1.78%) Snowflake Schema
16 5 (1.48%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 32 (9.50%) Git
2 5 (1.48%) JIRA
2 5 (1.48%) MLflow
3 4 (1.19%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.89%) Jenkins
General
1 155 (45.99%) Finance
2 131 (38.87%) Social Skills
3 69 (20.47%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.34%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (3.86%) Billing
7 12 (3.56%) Law
8 11 (3.26%) Retail
9 9 (2.67%) Automotive
9 9 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.48%) Banking
10 5 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.19%) Advertising
11 4 (1.19%) Legal
11 4 (1.19%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.19%) Marketing
12 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 133 (39.47%) Data Engineer
2 59 (17.51%) Senior
3 39 (11.57%) Senior Data Engineer
4 38 (11.28%) Azure Engineer
5 30 (8.90%) Developer
6 25 (7.42%) Lead
7 24 (7.12%) Architect
8 22 (6.53%) Analyst
8 22 (6.53%) Azure Data Engineer
9 21 (6.23%) Data Architect
10 14 (4.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 12 (3.56%) Business Manager
11 12 (3.56%) Commercial Analyst
11 12 (3.56%) Consultant
11 12 (3.56%) Insight Analyst
11 12 (3.56%) Insight Manager
12 11 (3.26%) Data Manager
13 10 (2.97%) Applications Engineer
14 9 (2.67%) Azure Architect
14 9 (2.67%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (13.65%) PySpark
2 23 (6.82%) JSON
3 20 (5.93%) .NET
4 19 (5.64%) OAuth
4 19 (5.64%) RESTful
5 17 (5.04%) REST
6 13 (3.86%) OAuth2
7 9 (2.67%) Pandas
7 9 (2.67%) XML
8 8 (2.37%) Kafka
9 7 (2.08%) YAML
10 5 (1.48%) .NET Core
10 5 (1.48%) FastAPI
10 5 (1.48%) JWT
10 5 (1.48%) OpenAPI
10 5 (1.48%) pytest
10 5 (1.48%) PyTorch
10 5 (1.48%) scikit-learn
10 5 (1.48%) Swagger
10 5 (1.48%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.01%) Analytical Mindset
2 20 (5.93%) Cloud Native
3 19 (5.64%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (5.04%) Low-Code
5 11 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.78%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.48%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.19%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.19%) Clustering
8 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.19%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.19%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.89%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.89%) Market Risk
9 3 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.78%) VMS
2 4 (1.19%) Windows
3 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (54.30%) Analytics
2 171 (50.74%) Business Intelligence
3 168 (49.85%) ETL
4 144 (42.73%) Data Modelling
5 140 (41.54%) Data Pipeline
6 127 (37.69%) Data Engineering
7 123 (36.50%) CI/CD
8 120 (35.61%) DevOps
9 109 (32.34%) Agile
10 94 (27.89%) Problem-Solving
11 89 (26.41%) AI
12 87 (25.82%) Decision-Making
13 69 (20.47%) Visualisation
14 68 (20.18%) Data Governance
15 58 (17.21%) Coaching
16 54 (16.02%) Continuous Improvement
17 53 (15.73%) Data Integration
18 51 (15.13%) Data Architecture
19 47 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
20 45 (13.35%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 252 (74.78%) SQL
2 167 (49.55%) Python
3 46 (13.65%) T-SQL
4 40 (11.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 25 (7.42%) Bicep
5 25 (7.42%) PowerShell
6 19 (5.64%) C#
6 19 (5.64%) Scala
7 8 (2.37%) Java
8 5 (1.48%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.48%) R
9 2 (0.59%) C++
9 2 (0.59%) PHP
10 1 (0.30%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.30%) Bash
10 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (8.90%) Degree
2 17 (5.04%) Azure Certification
3 14 (4.15%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.86%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 11 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.37%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.48%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.19%) IIBA
10 4 (1.19%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.19%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.19%) PMP
11 3 (0.89%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.30%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (24.63%) Data Quality
2 35 (10.39%) GDPR
3 12 (3.56%) Actionable Recommendations
4 11 (3.26%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.78%) QA
6 5 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.59%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
System Software
1 18 (5.34%) Docker
2 6 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (13.06%) Terraform
2 22 (6.53%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.30%) Grafana
4 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 143 (42.43%) Microsoft
2 138 (40.95%) Databricks
3 16 (4.75%) Ab Initio
4 7 (2.08%) Alteryx
4 7 (2.08%) Informatica
4 7 (2.08%) OpenAI
4 7 (2.08%) Talend
5 5 (1.48%) Automation Anywhere
5 5 (1.48%) RedGate
5 5 (1.48%) SAP
5 5 (1.48%) UiPath
6 4 (1.19%) Anaplan
6 4 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.19%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.19%) Oracle
6 4 (1.19%) Palo Alto
7 3 (0.89%) IBM
8 2 (0.59%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.30%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.30%) SolarWinds