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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 404 343
Rank change year-on-year +28 -61 +123
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 331 454 555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.58% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.13% 1.85% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 261 361 477
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £50,984
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £82,000
90th Percentile £90,750 £100,000 £93,200
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 15,559 24,551 26,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.58% 31.57% 42.34%
Number of salaries quoted 10,490 15,625 21,704
10th Percentile £29,750 £34,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Data Factory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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 +20 305 £65,000 - 133
London +8 162 £80,000 +6.67% 61
UK excluding London +37 150 £55,000 - 103
Work from Home -22 112 £60,000 -7.69% 84
South East +42 55 £55,000 -4.35% 50
Midlands +52 38 £60,000 +4.35% 14
West Midlands +45 32 £60,000 +4.35% 12
North of England -1 22 £55,000 - 24
East of England - 17 £50,000 - 6
Scotland +63 12 £49,500 -5.71% 3
North West -44 10 £55,000 - 12
Yorkshire +11 7 £60,000 +9.09% 7
East Midlands +18 6 £65,000 +36.84% 2
North East +19 5 £52,500 -19.23% 5
South West +58 4 £72,500 +30.63% 5
Wales +19 2 £55,000 +28.65% 1

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 29 (8.76%) SharePoint
2 21 (6.34%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.63%) Apache
4 4 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.91%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.60%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.30%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 331 (100.00%) Azure
2 170 (51.36%) Power Platform
3 117 (35.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 86 (25.98%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (10.57%) Power Automate
6 32 (9.67%) Azure Logic Apps
7 28 (8.46%) PowerApps
8 22 (6.65%) Microsoft Purview
9 21 (6.34%) GitHub
10 19 (5.74%) Serverless
10 19 (5.74%) Snowflake
11 17 (5.14%) Azure Functions
11 17 (5.14%) Entra ID
12 16 (4.83%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (4.83%) Dynamics 365
12 16 (4.83%) GCP
12 16 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (3.63%) AWS
13 12 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (3.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.23%) Firewall
2 5 (1.51%) VPN
3 4 (1.21%) DNS
4 1 (0.30%) NAS
4 1 (0.30%) Network Security
4 1 (0.30%) SAN
4 1 (0.30%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.30%) VLAN
4 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (45.62%) Power BI
2 101 (30.51%) Data Warehouse
3 78 (23.56%) SQL Server
4 58 (17.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 55 (16.62%) Data Lake
6 47 (14.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 33 (9.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (4.83%) Delta Lake
8 16 (4.83%) Metadata
9 14 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (3.93%) Big Data
11 12 (3.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 12 (3.63%) Relational Database
12 11 (3.32%) Power Query
13 10 (3.02%) MySQL
13 10 (3.02%) Star Schema
14 9 (2.72%) Tableau
15 7 (2.11%) Data Mining
16 6 (1.81%) Data Hub
17 5 (1.51%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 29 (8.76%) Git
2 9 (2.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 7 (2.11%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.81%) Selenium
5 5 (1.51%) JIRA
5 5 (1.51%) JMeter
5 5 (1.51%) Locust
5 5 (1.51%) Postman
5 5 (1.51%) Robot Framework
6 4 (1.21%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.91%) MLflow
8 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.30%) JUnit
9 1 (0.30%) TestComplete
General
1 120 (36.25%) Social Skills
2 91 (27.49%) Finance
3 62 (18.73%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.85%) Retail
5 20 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (6.04%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.74%) Law
7 17 (5.14%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (4.23%) Marketing
9 12 (3.63%) Banking
10 10 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.72%) Legal
12 8 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.81%) Advertising
13 6 (1.81%) Automotive
14 5 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.51%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.91%) Health Technology
16 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 131 (39.58%) Data Engineer
2 61 (18.43%) Senior
3 49 (14.80%) Developer
4 39 (11.78%) Azure Engineer
5 32 (9.67%) Senior Data Engineer
6 29 (8.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 28 (8.46%) Azure Data Engineer
7 28 (8.46%) Lead
8 23 (6.95%) Analyst
9 22 (6.65%) Power BI Developer
10 20 (6.04%) Architect
11 19 (5.74%) Data Architect
12 18 (5.44%) SQL Developer
13 12 (3.63%) Data Manager
14 10 (3.02%) Python Data Engineer
14 10 (3.02%) Python Engineer
14 10 (3.02%) Software Engineer
14 10 (3.02%) Test Engineer
15 9 (2.72%) Business Developer
15 9 (2.72%) SQL BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (18.43%) PySpark
2 28 (8.46%) .NET
3 20 (6.04%) XML
4 17 (5.14%) REST
5 13 (3.93%) JSON
6 11 (3.32%) .NET Framework
7 8 (2.42%) pytest
7 8 (2.42%) YAML
8 7 (2.11%) Pandas
8 7 (2.11%) SOAP
9 6 (1.81%) .NET Core
9 6 (1.81%) HTML
10 5 (1.51%) Entity Framework
11 4 (1.21%) ASP.NET
11 4 (1.21%) Kafka
11 4 (1.21%) ML.NET
11 4 (1.21%) Polars
12 3 (0.91%) ARM Templates
12 3 (0.91%) FastAPI
12 3 (0.91%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.23%) Algorithms
1 14 (4.23%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (3.93%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.32%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.72%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.42%) Distributed Architecture
5 8 (2.42%) Replication
6 7 (2.11%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.51%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.21%) Clustering
9 4 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.21%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.21%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.60%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.60%) Social Media
12 1 (0.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 1 (0.30%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.02%) Windows
2 9 (2.72%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.21%) VMS
4 1 (0.30%) Linux
4 1 (0.30%) Unix
4 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (48.04%) Business Intelligence
2 152 (45.92%) ETL
3 149 (45.02%) Analytics
4 123 (37.16%) DevOps
5 111 (33.53%) Data Engineering
6 106 (32.02%) Problem-Solving
7 98 (29.61%) Data Pipeline
8 92 (27.79%) Data Modelling
9 91 (27.49%) CI/CD
10 78 (23.56%) Agile
11 71 (21.45%) Decision-Making
12 64 (19.34%) Visualisation
13 56 (16.92%) Artificial Intelligence
13 56 (16.92%) Machine Learning
14 54 (16.31%) Data Governance
15 46 (13.90%) Data Science
16 39 (11.78%) Data Integration
16 39 (11.78%) Data Transformation
16 39 (11.78%) Mentoring
17 38 (11.48%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 235 (71.00%) SQL
2 143 (43.20%) Python
3 49 (14.80%) T-SQL
4 33 (9.97%) C#
5 24 (7.25%) PowerShell
6 23 (6.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 16 (4.83%) Scala
8 14 (4.23%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.32%) Bicep
10 8 (2.42%) Java
10 8 (2.42%) R
11 7 (2.11%) Bash
12 2 (0.60%) PHP
12 2 (0.60%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (10.27%) Azure Certification
1 34 (10.27%) Degree
1 34 (10.27%) Security Cleared
2 33 (9.97%) Microsoft Certification
3 32 (9.67%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.02%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.72%) DBS Check
7 8 (2.42%) ISTQB
8 6 (1.81%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.30%) MCSE
9 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (15.71%) Data Quality
2 33 (9.97%) GDPR
3 18 (5.44%) QA
4 7 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.21%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.60%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.30%) NIST
7 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (6.95%) Docker
2 7 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 40 (12.08%) Terraform
2 23 (6.95%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.42%) Grafana
3 8 (2.42%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 156 (47.13%) Microsoft
2 126 (38.07%) Databricks
3 11 (3.32%) Informatica
4 9 (2.72%) Oracle
5 8 (2.42%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.42%) SolarWinds
6 6 (1.81%) Google
7 5 (1.51%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.51%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.51%) SAP
7 5 (1.51%) Talend
8 4 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.21%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.21%) RedGate
9 3 (0.91%) Alteryx
9 3 (0.91%) Intapp
9 3 (0.91%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.60%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.60%) VMware