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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 376 374
Rank change year-on-year +38 -2 +40
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 361 366 536
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.71% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 1.93% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 236 296 468
10th Percentile £46,104 £45,000 £41,775
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,313 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +23.81% -12.50%

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 21,358 18,979 27,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.47% 36.59% 39.08%
Number of salaries quoted 11,580 11,101 23,038
10th Percentile £28,745 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,619 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +10.17% -9.23%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,711
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,499
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.80% -6.37%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +12 284 £72,500 +11.54% 143
UK excluding London +9 185 £60,000 -7.69% 115
Work from Home +99 173 £75,000 +15.38% 87
London +44 147 £85,000 +21.43% 55
Scotland +41 52 £71,250 +35.71% 3
Midlands +34 49 £60,000 -4.00% 32
West Midlands +52 46 £60,000 -5.88% 27
North of England -22 29 £56,617 -12.90% 21
South East -23 29 £63,750 -1.92% 41
South West 0 12 £69,000 +25.45% 10
Yorkshire -22 11 £79,000 +21.54% 2
North West +9 10 £59,000 +7.27% 15
East of England +26 8 £50,500 -43.89% 5
North East +1 8 £51,000 -15.00% 4
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 -
East Midlands -8 3 £60,000 +36.36% 5
Wales +2 2 - - 3

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 15 (4.16%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.32%) Appian
2 12 (3.32%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.22%) Apache
4 5 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.39%) SAS
5 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.28%) Confluence
6 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 35 (9.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.11%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) Endur
3 1 (0.28%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 361 (100.00%) Azure
2 180 (49.86%) Power Platform
3 139 (38.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 89 (24.65%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (13.85%) GitHub
6 37 (10.25%) Snowflake
7 30 (8.31%) Power Automate
8 28 (7.76%) Azure Logic Apps
8 28 (7.76%) Microsoft Purview
9 26 (7.20%) dbt
10 24 (6.65%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (5.54%) PaaS
12 19 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (4.71%) Anthropic Claude
14 16 (4.43%) AWS
14 16 (4.43%) Azure Service Bus
14 16 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (4.43%) SaaS
15 14 (3.88%) Azure Storage
15 14 (3.88%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.66%) DNS
2 4 (1.11%) Firewall
2 4 (1.11%) VPN
3 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (45.98%) Power BI
2 116 (32.13%) Data Lake
3 111 (30.75%) SQL Server
4 102 (28.25%) Data Warehouse
5 92 (25.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 46 (12.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 46 (12.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (6.93%) Metadata
8 22 (6.09%) Delta Lake
9 17 (4.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 14 (3.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 12 (3.32%) MySQL
11 12 (3.32%) Pinecone
11 12 (3.32%) Tableau
12 9 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (2.22%) Star Schema
14 6 (1.66%) Data Mining
14 6 (1.66%) Power Query
14 6 (1.66%) Qlik Sense
15 5 (1.39%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 36 (9.97%) Git
2 12 (3.32%) MLflow
3 3 (0.83%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.28%) JIRA
5 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 186 (51.52%) Finance
2 130 (36.01%) Social Skills
3 68 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.54%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.60%) Billing
6 13 (3.60%) Law
6 13 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (3.32%) Automotive
8 11 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.66%) Retail
11 5 (1.39%) Legal
11 5 (1.39%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.11%) Advertising
12 4 (1.11%) Local Government
12 4 (1.11%) Marketing
13 3 (0.83%) Banking
14 1 (0.28%) Back Office
14 1 (0.28%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 136 (37.67%) Data Engineer
2 63 (17.45%) Senior
3 45 (12.47%) Azure Engineer
4 42 (11.63%) Senior Data Engineer
5 34 (9.42%) Developer
6 32 (8.86%) Lead
7 27 (7.48%) Architect
8 26 (7.20%) Azure Data Engineer
9 21 (5.82%) Data Architect
10 20 (5.54%) Analyst
10 20 (5.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 17 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
12 15 (4.16%) Lead Data Engineer
13 13 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 12 (3.32%) Automation Engineer
14 12 (3.32%) Business Manager
14 12 (3.32%) Commercial Analyst
14 12 (3.32%) Insight Analyst
14 12 (3.32%) Insight Manager
15 11 (3.05%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (12.47%) PySpark
2 29 (8.03%) RESTful
3 27 (7.48%) OAuth
4 24 (6.65%) JSON
4 24 (6.65%) REST
5 19 (5.26%) .NET
6 14 (3.88%) OAuth2
7 12 (3.32%) Django
7 12 (3.32%) FastAPI
7 12 (3.32%) Flask
7 12 (3.32%) JWT
7 12 (3.32%) NumPy
7 12 (3.32%) OpenAPI
7 12 (3.32%) Pandas
7 12 (3.32%) pytest
7 12 (3.32%) PyTorch
7 12 (3.32%) scikit-learn
7 12 (3.32%) Swagger
7 12 (3.32%) TensorFlow
7 12 (3.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 26 (7.20%) Cloud Native
3 24 (6.65%) Low-Code
4 19 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (4.99%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.22%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (1.94%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.39%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.39%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.83%) Clustering
9 3 (0.83%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.83%) Market Risk
9 3 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.66%) VMS
2 4 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (55.40%) Analytics
2 183 (50.69%) ETL
3 178 (49.31%) Business Intelligence
4 176 (48.75%) Data Modelling
5 165 (45.71%) Data Pipeline
6 156 (43.21%) CI/CD
7 142 (39.34%) Data Engineering
8 130 (36.01%) DevOps
9 108 (29.92%) Agile
9 108 (29.92%) AI
10 98 (27.15%) Decision-Making
11 85 (23.55%) Problem-Solving
12 76 (21.05%) Visualisation
13 70 (19.39%) Data Governance
14 61 (16.90%) Data Architecture
15 60 (16.62%) Coaching
15 60 (16.62%) Infrastructure as Code
16 55 (15.24%) Data Integration
17 52 (14.40%) Test Automation
18 51 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 266 (73.68%) SQL
2 181 (50.14%) Python
3 41 (11.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 39 (10.80%) T-SQL
5 29 (8.03%) PowerShell
6 25 (6.93%) Bicep
7 20 (5.54%) Scala
8 18 (4.99%) C#
9 9 (2.49%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.22%) Java
11 6 (1.66%) R
12 3 (0.83%) PHP
13 2 (0.55%) C++
14 1 (0.28%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (11.08%) Degree
2 16 (4.43%) Azure Certification
3 14 (3.88%) Security Cleared
4 12 (3.32%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 11 (3.05%) SC Cleared
6 10 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.22%) IIBA
8 8 (2.22%) PMI Certification
8 8 (2.22%) PMP
8 8 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.83%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.83%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.28%) CISM
10 1 (0.28%) CISSP
10 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (32.96%) Data Quality
2 36 (9.97%) GDPR
3 12 (3.32%) Actionable Recommendations
4 11 (3.05%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.83%) QA
7 2 (0.55%) SLA
8 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.28%) COBIT
System Software
1 24 (6.65%) Docker
2 10 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (14.13%) Terraform
2 31 (8.59%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 143 (39.61%) Databricks
2 142 (39.34%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.99%) Ab Initio
4 16 (4.43%) OpenAI
5 12 (3.32%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (3.32%) UiPath
6 10 (2.77%) Alteryx
7 8 (2.22%) Anaplan
8 7 (1.94%) Talend
9 4 (1.11%) IBM
9 4 (1.11%) Informatica
9 4 (1.11%) RedGate
9 4 (1.11%) SAP
10 3 (0.83%) Oracle
11 2 (0.55%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.28%) Cribl.io
12 1 (0.28%) FIS
12 1 (0.28%) Foundry
12 1 (0.28%) Google
12 1 (0.28%) Palantir