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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 444 352 446
Rank change year-on-year -92 +94 -87
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 346 377 486
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.76% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 2.36% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 258 288 405
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £96,250
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 27,094 15,957 31,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.13% 32.35% 32.99%
Number of salaries quoted 17,745 11,119 23,949
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +2.56% -6.40%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,482 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +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 20 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 20 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 -84 327 £80,000 +18.52% 74
UK excluding London -83 173 £62,500 +4.17% 50
London -53 147 £80,000 - 35
Work from Home -3 128 £82,500 +34.69% 41
North of England +14 66 £67,500 +12.50% 10
Yorkshire +5 41 £80,000 +33.33% 4
Midlands -35 36 £57,500 -8.00% 14
East of England -7 31 £90,000 +66.67% 1
West Midlands -23 31 £57,500 - 12
North West +2 21 £57,500 - 3
South East -67 20 £50,000 -23.08% 19
South West -51 17 £82,000 +5.81% 3
Wales -50 6 £53,171 -3.33% 3
East Midlands -22 5 £60,000 -7.69% 2
North East -45 4 £47,500 -9.52% 3
Scotland +9 3 £57,418 +35.90%

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 32 (9.25%) SharePoint
2 31 (8.96%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.76%) Apache
4 12 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.87%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.58%) Appian
6 2 (0.58%) Luigi
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.58%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.29%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 346 (100.00%) Azure
2 157 (45.38%) Power Platform
3 104 (30.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 72 (20.81%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (14.16%) Azure Logic Apps
6 33 (9.54%) Microsoft Purview
6 33 (9.54%) Power Automate
6 33 (9.54%) PowerApps
7 25 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (6.65%) Azure Functions
8 23 (6.65%) Serverless
9 20 (5.78%) Snowflake
10 19 (5.49%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 19 (5.49%) AWS
10 19 (5.49%) OneDrive
11 18 (5.20%) GCP
12 16 (4.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 15 (4.34%) dbt
14 14 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (43.35%) Power BI
2 101 (29.19%) Data Warehouse
3 91 (26.30%) Data Lake
4 83 (23.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 49 (14.16%) SQL Server
6 37 (10.69%) Delta Lake
7 36 (10.40%) Metadata
8 32 (9.25%) Spark SQL
8 32 (9.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (5.78%) Star Schema
9 20 (5.78%) Tableau
10 19 (5.49%) Relational Database
11 17 (4.91%) Big Data
12 13 (3.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 13 (3.76%) Power Query
13 12 (3.47%) BigQuery
13 12 (3.47%) Data Vault
13 12 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (3.18%) Semantic Layer
15 9 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 33 (9.54%) Git
2 7 (2.02%) MLflow
3 5 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.45%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.16%) GitLab
5 3 (0.87%) JIRA
5 3 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.58%) ERwin
6 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.58%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
General
1 113 (32.66%) Social Skills
2 98 (28.32%) Finance
3 57 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (3.47%) Legal
5 12 (3.47%) Retail
6 11 (3.18%) Law
7 8 (2.31%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.16%) Marketing
8 4 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.87%) Advertising
9 3 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.87%) Games
9 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.87%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.58%) Billing
10 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.29%) Automotive
11 1 (0.29%) Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 171 (49.42%) Data Engineer
2 84 (24.28%) Senior
3 66 (19.08%) Lead
4 48 (13.87%) Senior Data Engineer
5 47 (13.58%) Azure Engineer
6 42 (12.14%) Architect
7 40 (11.56%) Developer
8 39 (11.27%) Data Architect
9 35 (10.12%) Azure Data Engineer
10 34 (9.83%) Lead Data Engineer
11 30 (8.67%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (4.91%) Senior Developer
13 15 (4.34%) Consultant
14 13 (3.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 10 (2.89%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 10 (2.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 9 (2.60%) Azure Architect
16 9 (2.60%) Data Manager
16 9 (2.60%) Microsoft Engineer
17 8 (2.31%) Azure Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (20.81%) PySpark
2 25 (7.23%) .NET
3 24 (6.94%) JSON
4 22 (6.36%) .NET Core
4 22 (6.36%) REST
5 21 (6.07%) CSS
5 21 (6.07%) HTML
6 19 (5.49%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (5.49%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (5.49%) SPFx
7 18 (5.20%) Kafka
8 12 (3.47%) ARM Templates
9 6 (1.73%) SOAP
10 4 (1.16%) Keycloak
10 4 (1.16%) RESTful
11 3 (0.87%) Middleware
11 3 (0.87%) NumPy
11 3 (0.87%) Pandas
11 3 (0.87%) PyTorch
11 3 (0.87%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.38%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.91%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (3.18%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.02%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.73%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.73%) Replication
8 5 (1.45%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.45%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.16%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.16%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.16%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.87%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.87%) Wiki
11 2 (0.58%) Clustering
11 2 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (54.62%) Analytics
2 178 (51.45%) Business Intelligence
3 177 (51.16%) Data Modelling
4 162 (46.82%) Data Engineering
5 157 (45.38%) CI/CD
6 153 (44.22%) ETL
7 151 (43.64%) Data Pipeline
8 134 (38.73%) DevOps
9 99 (28.61%) AI
10 93 (26.88%) Data Governance
11 83 (23.99%) Machine Learning
12 82 (23.70%) Decision-Making
13 75 (21.68%) Agile
14 71 (20.52%) Problem-Solving
15 64 (18.50%) Data Architecture
16 61 (17.63%) Data Integration
17 58 (16.76%) Technical Leadership
18 56 (16.18%) Data Science
19 54 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
20 51 (14.74%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 262 (75.72%) SQL
2 175 (50.58%) Python
3 38 (10.98%) PowerShell
4 26 (7.51%) C#
4 26 (7.51%) Scala
5 23 (6.65%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 19 (5.49%) TypeScript
7 14 (4.05%) Bicep
8 12 (3.47%) T-SQL
9 9 (2.60%) Java
10 6 (1.73%) R
11 4 (1.16%) Go
12 2 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.58%) PHP
12 2 (0.58%) VBA
13 1 (0.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 36 (10.40%) Azure Certification
2 34 (9.83%) Degree
3 29 (8.38%) Security Cleared
4 23 (6.65%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.31%) SnowPro
8 6 (1.73%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.87%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.29%) CISM
12 1 (0.29%) CISSP
12 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (32.08%) Data Quality
2 33 (9.54%) GDPR
3 16 (4.62%) QA
4 5 (1.45%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.45%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.58%) GRC
6 2 (0.58%) IFRS
6 2 (0.58%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.58%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 10 (2.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (13.29%) Terraform
2 12 (3.47%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) Ansible
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 163 (47.11%) Databricks
2 144 (41.62%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.49%) Adobe
4 11 (3.18%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.31%) Foundry
5 8 (2.31%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.31%) SAP
6 7 (2.02%) Google
7 4 (1.16%) Informatica
8 3 (0.87%) Talend
9 2 (0.58%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.58%) Automation Anywhere
9 2 (0.58%) Oracle
9 2 (0.58%) Trapeze
9 2 (0.58%) UiPath
10 1 (0.29%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.29%) Confluent
10 1 (0.29%) Cribl.io
10 1 (0.29%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow