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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 317 438
Rank change year-on-year -34 +121 -50
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 420 379 508
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.91% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.52% 2.51% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 278 298 451
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% -6.72%
75th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £99,125 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year -3.85% +23.22% -8.66%

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 27,607 15,119 34,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.47% 36.14% 36.08%
Number of salaries quoted 14,229 11,102 26,651
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,925 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,738 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 21 April 2026.

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 21 April 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 -51 348 £75,000 +11.11% 107
UK excluding London -38 232 £62,500 -3.85% 87
Work from Home +74 196 £75,500 +16.15% 55
London -11 154 £80,000 - 37
Midlands -25 55 £60,000 -4.00% 14
West Midlands -17 50 £60,000 +4.35% 9
North of England -48 50 £75,000 +15.38% 29
Scotland +18 44 £71,500 -26.67% 2
South East -84 34 £50,000 -28.57% 25
Yorkshire -49 29 £80,000 +33.33% 13
East of England -24 27 £90,000 +75.61% 7
South West -55 15 £57,500 -8.00% 8
North West -37 14 £65,000 -3.70% 16
North East -32 7 £51,000 -34.19% 2
East Midlands -57 5 £57,500 -11.54% 5
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 - 3
Wales -26 4 £46,585 -3.95% 2

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 30 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 20 (4.76%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.86%) Appian
4 10 (2.38%) Apache
5 9 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.24%) Confluence
7 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 34 (8.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.95%) Markit EDM
2 3 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.24%) Endur
4 1 (0.24%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.24%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 420 (100.00%) Azure
2 198 (47.14%) Power Platform
3 154 (36.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 91 (21.67%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (10.71%) Power Automate
6 43 (10.24%) GitHub
7 42 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 39 (9.29%) Snowflake
9 30 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
10 27 (6.43%) dbt
10 27 (6.43%) PowerApps
11 25 (5.95%) Azure Monitor
12 22 (5.24%) Microsoft Purview
13 19 (4.52%) AWS
13 19 (4.52%) PaaS
14 17 (4.05%) GCP
14 17 (4.05%) Serverless
15 16 (3.81%) Anthropic Claude
15 16 (3.81%) Azure AI
15 16 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.48%) DNS
2 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (43.81%) Power BI
2 118 (28.10%) Data Lake
3 115 (27.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 111 (26.43%) Data Warehouse
5 91 (21.67%) SQL Server
6 43 (10.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 36 (8.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 29 (6.90%) Delta Lake
9 24 (5.71%) Spark SQL
10 23 (5.48%) Metadata
11 21 (5.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 15 (3.57%) Relational Database
13 14 (3.33%) Tableau
14 12 (2.86%) Pinecone
15 11 (2.62%) Star Schema
16 9 (2.14%) MySQL
16 9 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
17 8 (1.90%) Big Data
17 8 (1.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 6 (1.43%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 39 (9.29%) Git
2 13 (3.10%) MLflow
3 3 (0.71%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.71%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.71%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.48%) JIRA
4 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.24%) GitLab
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 189 (45.00%) Finance
2 152 (36.19%) Social Skills
3 78 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (2.86%) Billing
8 8 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.67%) Automotive
9 7 (1.67%) Law
9 7 (1.67%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.19%) Retail
12 4 (0.95%) Advertising
12 4 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.71%) Marketing
14 2 (0.48%) Banking
14 2 (0.48%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.48%) Legal
14 2 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 177 (42.14%) Data Engineer
2 83 (19.76%) Senior
3 54 (12.86%) Azure Engineer
4 53 (12.62%) Lead
5 49 (11.67%) Senior Data Engineer
6 41 (9.76%) Developer
7 33 (7.86%) Azure Data Engineer
8 31 (7.38%) Platform Engineer
9 30 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
10 21 (5.00%) Analyst
10 21 (5.00%) Architect
11 17 (4.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 17 (4.05%) Consultant
12 16 (3.81%) Data Architect
13 15 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
14 14 (3.33%) Senior Developer
15 12 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 12 (2.86%) Business Manager
15 12 (2.86%) Insight Manager
15 12 (2.86%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (15.71%) PySpark
2 31 (7.38%) JSON
3 30 (7.14%) REST
4 29 (6.90%) .NET
5 25 (5.95%) RESTful
6 23 (5.48%) OAuth
7 18 (4.29%) .NET Core
8 17 (4.05%) CSS
8 17 (4.05%) HTML
9 15 (3.57%) HTML5 Canvas
10 14 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
10 14 (3.33%) SPFx
11 13 (3.10%) NumPy
11 13 (3.10%) Pandas
11 13 (3.10%) PyTorch
11 13 (3.10%) scikit-learn
11 13 (3.10%) TensorFlow
12 12 (2.86%) pytest
12 12 (2.86%) Swagger
12 12 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.86%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.38%) Analytical Mindset
3 25 (5.95%) Low-Code
4 20 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (3.57%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.14%) AI Agents
7 9 (2.14%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.90%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.19%) Replication
12 3 (0.71%) Clustering
12 3 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.71%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.71%) Reinsurance
13 2 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.95%) Windows
2 2 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (55.95%) Analytics
2 210 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 196 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
4 192 (45.71%) ETL
5 189 (45.00%) Data Pipeline
6 179 (42.62%) CI/CD
7 176 (41.90%) Data Engineering
8 150 (35.71%) DevOps
9 117 (27.86%) AI
10 112 (26.67%) Decision-Making
11 108 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
12 107 (25.48%) Agile
13 80 (19.05%) Data Governance
14 78 (18.57%) Visualisation
15 70 (16.67%) Data Architecture
16 69 (16.43%) Continuous Improvement
17 68 (16.19%) Data Integration
18 61 (14.52%) Infrastructure as Code
19 60 (14.29%) Machine Learning
20 58 (13.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 323 (76.90%) SQL
2 204 (48.57%) Python
3 43 (10.24%) PowerShell
4 41 (9.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 28 (6.67%) C#
5 28 (6.67%) T-SQL
6 21 (5.00%) JavaScript
7 19 (4.52%) Scala
8 17 (4.05%) Bicep
9 14 (3.33%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.14%) Java
11 8 (1.90%) R
12 3 (0.71%) C++
12 3 (0.71%) PHP
13 1 (0.24%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.24%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 47 (11.19%) Degree
2 23 (5.48%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.05%) Azure Certification
3 17 (4.05%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.86%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 8 (1.90%) IIBA
6 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.90%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.90%) PMP
7 3 (0.71%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.24%) CISM
9 1 (0.24%) CISSP
9 1 (0.24%) MCSE
9 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (31.90%) Data Quality
2 33 (7.86%) GDPR
3 12 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.86%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (1.43%) QA
5 5 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.95%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.48%) GRC
7 2 (0.48%) SLA
8 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.24%) COBIT
8 1 (0.24%) IFRS
8 1 (0.24%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 19 (4.52%) Docker
2 9 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (12.62%) Terraform
2 24 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.24%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 170 (40.48%) Databricks
2 159 (37.86%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.52%) OpenAI
4 14 (3.33%) Ab Initio
4 14 (3.33%) Adobe
5 12 (2.86%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (2.86%) UiPath
6 10 (2.38%) Alteryx
7 8 (1.90%) Anaplan
8 6 (1.43%) Foundry
8 6 (1.43%) Talend
9 5 (1.19%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.95%) Google
10 4 (0.95%) IBM
10 4 (0.95%) Informatica
10 4 (0.95%) Oracle
10 4 (0.95%) SAP
11 3 (0.71%) RedGate
12 2 (0.48%) Trapeze
13 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg