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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 409 381
Rank change year-on-year -52 -28 -62
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 387 279 449
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.57% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 1.81% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 277 225 351
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,950 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - +2.80%

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 26,638 15,454 22,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.51% 31.50% 32.09%
Number of salaries quoted 18,339 10,402 13,888
10th Percentile £31,470 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,497 £37,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -10.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -54 363 £70,000 - 230
London -12 195 £80,000 -3.03% 131
UK excluding London -97 173 £62,500 +13.64% 99
Work from Home -24 126 £80,000 +23.08% 92
North of England -23 62 £60,000 +9.09% 36
South East -42 39 £62,500 +13.64% 25
Midlands -51 33 £85,000 +36.00% 18
Yorkshire -8 32 £80,000 +33.33% 13
West Midlands -39 28 £85,000 +41.67% 14
North West -18 25 £55,000 - 16
South West -56 22 £85,000 +17.24% 5
East of England -28 17 £90,000 +66.67% 7
North East -63 11 £57,500 +9.52% 7
Wales -65 9 £53,171 -3.33%
East Midlands -32 5 - - 4
Scotland -7 4 £49,168 -0.67% 6

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 43 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 20 (5.17%) Apache
3 14 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (3.62%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.52%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.52%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.78%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 387 (100.00%) Azure
2 185 (47.80%) Power Platform
3 151 (39.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 106 (27.39%) Azure DevOps
5 73 (18.86%) Azure Databricks
6 50 (12.92%) Microsoft Purview
7 38 (9.82%) Azure Logic Apps
8 31 (8.01%) Snowflake
9 28 (7.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 27 (6.98%) AWS
10 27 (6.98%) Serverless
11 22 (5.68%) dbt
12 20 (5.17%) Azure Functions
13 19 (4.91%) PowerApps
14 17 (4.39%) Azure Machine Learning
14 17 (4.39%) GCP
14 17 (4.39%) Power Automate
15 14 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
16 13 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
17 12 (3.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.29%) Firewall
2 4 (1.03%) DNS
3 1 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (46.77%) Power BI
2 141 (36.43%) Data Warehouse
3 100 (25.84%) Data Lake
4 92 (23.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 70 (18.09%) Metadata
6 54 (13.95%) SQL Server
7 51 (13.18%) Delta Lake
8 37 (9.56%) Star Schema
9 29 (7.49%) Tableau
10 24 (6.20%) NoSQL
10 24 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
11 22 (5.68%) Spark SQL
12 21 (5.43%) Big Data
12 21 (5.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 20 (5.17%) Data Vault
14 19 (4.91%) Semantic Layer
15 17 (4.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 16 (4.13%) Amazon Redshift
16 16 (4.13%) Elasticsearch
16 16 (4.13%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 48 (12.40%) Git
2 13 (3.36%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.33%) GitLab
4 7 (1.81%) MLflow
5 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.52%) ERwin
6 2 (0.52%) JIRA
6 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.52%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.26%) kappa
7 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 128 (33.07%) Social Skills
2 117 (30.23%) Finance
3 68 (17.57%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.94%) Legal
5 18 (4.65%) Retail
6 14 (3.62%) Law
7 11 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (2.58%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.07%) Banking
11 6 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.29%) Billing
12 5 (1.29%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.29%) Marketing
13 4 (1.03%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.78%) Advertising
14 3 (0.78%) Games
14 3 (0.78%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.52%) Back Office
16 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 191 (49.35%) Data Engineer
2 113 (29.20%) Senior
3 75 (19.38%) Senior Data Engineer
4 67 (17.31%) Azure Engineer
5 60 (15.50%) Lead
6 51 (13.18%) Architect
7 49 (12.66%) Azure Data Engineer
8 45 (11.63%) Data Architect
9 37 (9.56%) Developer
10 26 (6.72%) Lead Data Engineer
11 22 (5.68%) Consultant
12 21 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (4.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 16 (4.13%) Analyst
14 16 (4.13%) Databricks Engineer
15 15 (3.88%) Databricks Data Engineer
16 14 (3.62%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 14 (3.62%) Operations Engineer
16 14 (3.62%) Python Data Engineer
16 14 (3.62%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (23.00%) PySpark
2 61 (15.76%) Terraform
3 40 (10.34%) Kafka
4 23 (5.94%) REST
5 21 (5.43%) JSON
6 13 (3.36%) Keycloak
7 10 (2.58%) .NET
8 9 (2.33%) .NET Core
8 9 (2.33%) CSS
8 9 (2.33%) HTML
8 9 (2.33%) HTML5 Canvas
8 9 (2.33%) Microsoft Graph
8 9 (2.33%) SPFx
9 8 (2.07%) ARM Templates
10 6 (1.55%) Apache Avro
10 6 (1.55%) YAML
11 5 (1.29%) XML
12 4 (1.03%) LangChain
12 4 (1.03%) MDX
13 3 (0.78%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.82%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.46%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.07%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.29%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.03%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.03%) PKI
11 3 (0.78%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.78%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.52%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.52%) Reference Data
12 2 (0.52%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.62%) Windows
2 5 (1.29%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.03%) Linux
4 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (57.11%) Business Intelligence
2 219 (56.59%) Analytics
3 201 (51.94%) Data Modelling
4 196 (50.65%) CI/CD
5 184 (47.55%) Data Engineering
6 183 (47.29%) DevOps
7 182 (47.03%) Data Pipeline
8 180 (46.51%) ETL
9 106 (27.39%) AI
10 97 (25.06%) Agile
11 94 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
12 90 (23.26%) Data Governance
13 89 (23.00%) Lakehouse
14 87 (22.48%) Data Architecture
15 85 (21.96%) Decision-Making
16 78 (20.16%) Machine Learning
17 75 (19.38%) Data Science
18 73 (18.86%) Data Integration
19 68 (17.57%) Technical Leadership
20 59 (15.25%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 292 (75.45%) SQL
2 223 (57.62%) Python
3 49 (12.66%) Scala
4 39 (10.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 36 (9.30%) PowerShell
6 29 (7.49%) Bicep
7 22 (5.68%) C#
8 16 (4.13%) JavaScript
8 16 (4.13%) T-SQL
9 15 (3.88%) Java
10 13 (3.36%) Go
11 9 (2.33%) TypeScript
12 8 (2.07%) R
13 5 (1.29%) Bash
14 2 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.52%) VBA
15 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 59 (15.25%) Azure Certification
2 53 (13.70%) Security Cleared
3 45 (11.63%) SC Cleared
4 33 (8.53%) Degree
5 26 (6.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.13%) SnowPro
7 13 (3.36%) DV Cleared
8 12 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.81%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.03%) CISSP
11 3 (0.78%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.26%) ICAEW
13 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (38.76%) Data Quality
2 32 (8.27%) GDPR
3 18 (4.65%) QA
4 10 (2.58%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.52%) IFRS
6 2 (0.52%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.52%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (5.43%) Docker
2 4 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (6.46%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.29%) Ansible
3 3 (0.78%) Grafana
3 3 (0.78%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 196 (50.65%) Microsoft
2 177 (45.74%) Databricks
3 14 (3.62%) Informatica
4 12 (3.10%) SAP
5 11 (2.84%) Talend
6 9 (2.33%) Adobe
7 7 (1.81%) Google
8 5 (1.29%) Foundry
9 4 (1.03%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.03%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.26%) Actian
10 1 (0.26%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.26%) Confluent
10 1 (0.26%) Meraki
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle
10 1 (0.26%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.26%) Teradata