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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 353 468
Rank change year-on-year -83 +115 -106
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 359 385 498
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.79% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 2.43% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 272 298 417
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,625 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.90% +0.96% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -

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 27,007 15,871 33,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.46% 32.37% 33.26%
Number of salaries quoted 17,602 11,053 25,645
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,262
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -76 338 £80,000 +18.52% 70
UK excluding London -55 182 £62,500 +4.17% 49
London -49 149 £83,500 +4.38% 40
Work from Home -5 136 £80,000 +28.00% 41
North of England +2 65 £73,750 +22.92% 6
Yorkshire +3 41 £80,000 +33.33% 5
Midlands -35 41 £58,750 -2.08% 14
West Midlands -20 35 £58,750 +2.17% 13
East of England -2 33 £90,000 +66.67% 2
North West +2 21 £57,500 -4.17% 1
South East -74 21 £50,000 -23.08% 22
South West -54 18 £60,000 -22.58% 4
East Midlands -30 6 £57,500 -11.54% 1
Wales -43 5 £53,171 -3.33% 2
Scotland +3 4 £43,335 +2.57%
North East -51 3 £47,500 -9.52% 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 35 (9.75%) SharePoint
2 30 (8.36%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.62%) Apache
3 13 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.84%) Appian
4 3 (0.84%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.56%) Luigi
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.28%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.28%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 359 (100.00%) Azure
2 159 (44.29%) Power Platform
3 111 (30.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 71 (19.78%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (13.65%) Azure Logic Apps
6 34 (9.47%) Power Automate
7 33 (9.19%) Microsoft Purview
7 33 (9.19%) PowerApps
8 28 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (6.13%) AWS
9 22 (6.13%) Azure Functions
9 22 (6.13%) Serverless
10 20 (5.57%) GCP
10 20 (5.57%) Snowflake
11 19 (5.29%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.29%) OneDrive
12 16 (4.46%) dbt
13 15 (4.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 15 (4.18%) Dynamics 365
14 14 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.28%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (42.34%) Power BI
2 100 (27.86%) Data Warehouse
3 93 (25.91%) Data Lake
4 89 (24.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 52 (14.48%) SQL Server
6 36 (10.03%) Delta Lake
7 35 (9.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 34 (9.47%) Metadata
8 34 (9.47%) Spark SQL
9 22 (6.13%) Tableau
10 19 (5.29%) Relational Database
10 19 (5.29%) Star Schema
11 16 (4.46%) Big Data
12 13 (3.62%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 13 (3.62%) BigQuery
12 13 (3.62%) Power Query
13 12 (3.34%) Data Vault
14 10 (2.79%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
15 9 (2.51%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 34 (9.47%) Git
2 6 (1.67%) MLflow
3 5 (1.39%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.39%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.84%) JIRA
4 3 (0.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.56%) ERwin
5 2 (0.56%) GitLab
5 2 (0.56%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
General
1 119 (33.15%) Social Skills
2 105 (29.25%) Finance
3 58 (16.16%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (3.34%) Law
5 12 (3.34%) Retail
6 11 (3.06%) Public Sector
7 10 (2.79%) Legal
8 6 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.11%) Advertising
9 4 (1.11%) Marketing
9 4 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.84%) Automotive
10 3 (0.84%) Games
10 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.84%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.56%) Billing
11 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.56%) Local Government
12 1 (0.28%) Banking
Job Titles
1 178 (49.58%) Data Engineer
2 85 (23.68%) Senior
3 69 (19.22%) Lead
4 48 (13.37%) Senior Data Engineer
5 47 (13.09%) Azure Engineer
6 44 (12.26%) Developer
7 42 (11.70%) Architect
8 37 (10.31%) Data Architect
9 36 (10.03%) Lead Data Engineer
10 34 (9.47%) Azure Data Engineer
11 33 (9.19%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (5.01%) Senior Developer
13 17 (4.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 15 (4.18%) Consultant
15 11 (3.06%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 10 (2.79%) Microsoft Engineer
17 9 (2.51%) Data Manager
17 9 (2.51%) Power BI Developer
18 8 (2.23%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (21.17%) PySpark
2 25 (6.96%) .NET
3 24 (6.69%) JSON
4 23 (6.41%) REST
5 22 (6.13%) .NET Core
5 22 (6.13%) CSS
5 22 (6.13%) HTML
6 19 (5.29%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.29%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.29%) SPFx
7 17 (4.74%) Kafka
8 12 (3.34%) ARM Templates
9 6 (1.67%) RESTful
9 6 (1.67%) SOAP
10 4 (1.11%) FastAPI
10 4 (1.11%) NumPy
10 4 (1.11%) Pandas
10 4 (1.11%) PyTorch
10 4 (1.11%) scikit-learn
10 4 (1.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.36%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.74%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.34%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.95%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (1.95%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.67%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.67%) Replication
8 5 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.11%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.11%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.11%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.84%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.84%) Wiki
11 2 (0.56%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (53.20%) Analytics
2 180 (50.14%) Business Intelligence
3 179 (49.86%) Data Modelling
4 163 (45.40%) Data Engineering
5 160 (44.57%) CI/CD
6 159 (44.29%) ETL
7 154 (42.90%) Data Pipeline
8 132 (36.77%) DevOps
9 97 (27.02%) AI
10 95 (26.46%) Data Governance
11 86 (23.96%) Decision-Making
12 81 (22.56%) Machine Learning
13 75 (20.89%) Agile
14 72 (20.06%) Problem-Solving
15 66 (18.38%) Data Architecture
16 61 (16.99%) Data Integration
17 57 (15.88%) Technical Leadership
18 54 (15.04%) Data Science
19 50 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
19 50 (13.93%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 273 (76.04%) SQL
2 181 (50.42%) Python
3 39 (10.86%) PowerShell
4 26 (7.24%) C#
4 26 (7.24%) Scala
5 23 (6.41%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 19 (5.29%) TypeScript
7 14 (3.90%) Bicep
8 13 (3.62%) T-SQL
9 10 (2.79%) Java
10 8 (2.23%) R
11 3 (0.84%) Go
12 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.56%) PHP
12 2 (0.56%) VBA
13 1 (0.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 37 (10.31%) Degree
2 35 (9.75%) Azure Certification
3 29 (8.08%) Security Cleared
4 22 (6.13%) SC Cleared
5 19 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.23%) SnowPro
8 6 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.84%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.84%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.28%) CISM
12 1 (0.28%) CISSP
12 1 (0.28%) IIBA
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (32.03%) Data Quality
2 33 (9.19%) GDPR
3 15 (4.18%) QA
4 5 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.39%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.56%) GRC
6 2 (0.56%) IFRS
6 2 (0.56%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.56%) SLA
7 1 (0.28%) COBIT
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 11 (3.06%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (13.65%) Terraform
2 13 (3.62%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) Ansible
3 1 (0.28%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 166 (46.24%) Databricks
2 145 (40.39%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.29%) Adobe
4 13 (3.62%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.23%) Foundry
5 8 (2.23%) Google
5 8 (2.23%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.23%) SAP
6 4 (1.11%) Informatica
7 3 (0.84%) Alteryx
7 3 (0.84%) Automation Anywhere
7 3 (0.84%) Talend
7 3 (0.84%) UiPath
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle
8 2 (0.56%) Trapeze
9 1 (0.28%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.28%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.28%) FIS
9 1 (0.28%) Nintex
9 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow