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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 353 417
Rank change year-on-year -108 +64 -75
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 361 352 471
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.70% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 2.20% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 266 274 396
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £44,375
25th Percentile £56,063 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £83,438 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £98,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -

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 27,688 15,968 26,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.41% 31.95% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 18,509 10,948 18,460
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,847 £39,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -78 342 £80,000 +23.08% 94
UK excluding London -74 177 £62,500 +13.64% 52
London -55 165 £80,000 - 52
Work from Home +13 138 £80,000 +33.33% 40
North of England -7 66 £74,000 +28.70% 11
Yorkshire -5 40 £81,250 +35.42% 5
Midlands -42 32 £60,000 - 12
South East -66 29 £55,000 - 18
East of England -17 27 £90,000 +80.00% 1
West Midlands -35 26 £60,000 - 9
North West 0 20 £55,000 -2.22% 4
South West -59 18 £85,000 +13.33% 4
Wales -51 10 £52,835 -3.94% 4
East Midlands -21 6 - - 3
North East -60 6 £47,500 -9.52% 2
Scotland -1 3 £49,168 -0.67% 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 36 (9.97%) Apache Spark
2 26 (7.20%) SharePoint
3 17 (4.71%) Apache
4 11 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.55%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.55%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 361 (100.00%) Azure
2 168 (46.54%) Power Platform
3 124 (34.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 80 (22.16%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (13.02%) Azure Logic Apps
6 45 (12.47%) Microsoft Purview
7 27 (7.48%) PowerApps
8 26 (7.20%) Power Automate
9 24 (6.65%) Snowflake
10 23 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (6.37%) Serverless
11 21 (5.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 21 (5.82%) Azure Functions
12 19 (5.26%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.26%) OneDrive
13 16 (4.43%) GCP
14 15 (4.16%) AWS
15 14 (3.88%) dbt
16 13 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
17 12 (3.32%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (45.15%) Power BI
2 110 (30.47%) Data Warehouse
3 96 (26.59%) Data Lake
4 74 (20.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 55 (15.24%) Metadata
6 50 (13.85%) Delta Lake
7 45 (12.47%) SQL Server
8 30 (8.31%) Spark SQL
9 28 (7.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 28 (7.76%) Star Schema
10 25 (6.93%) Tableau
11 21 (5.82%) Relational Database
12 19 (5.26%) Data Vault
13 18 (4.99%) Big Data
13 18 (4.99%) PostgreSQL
14 15 (4.16%) Semantic Layer
15 13 (3.60%) BigQuery
16 12 (3.32%) NoSQL
16 12 (3.32%) Power Query
17 11 (3.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 39 (10.80%) Git
2 7 (1.94%) Jenkins
2 7 (1.94%) MLflow
3 6 (1.66%) GitLab
4 3 (0.83%) JIRA
4 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.55%) ERwin
5 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.55%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.28%) kappa
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 123 (34.07%) Social Skills
2 96 (26.59%) Finance
3 57 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (4.43%) Legal
5 13 (3.60%) Retail
6 12 (3.32%) Law
7 10 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.22%) Public Sector
9 7 (1.94%) Marketing
10 5 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.11%) Advertising
11 4 (1.11%) Banking
11 4 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.83%) Games
12 3 (0.83%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.55%) Billing
13 2 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.55%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.28%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 174 (48.20%) Data Engineer
2 99 (27.42%) Senior
3 65 (18.01%) Lead
4 56 (15.51%) Senior Data Engineer
5 54 (14.96%) Azure Engineer
6 51 (14.13%) Architect
7 48 (13.30%) Data Architect
8 44 (12.19%) Developer
9 39 (10.80%) Azure Data Engineer
10 30 (8.31%) Lead Data Engineer
11 23 (6.37%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.26%) Senior Developer
13 18 (4.99%) Consultant
14 15 (4.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 10 (2.77%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 10 (2.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 10 (2.77%) Senior Consultant
16 9 (2.49%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 9 (2.49%) Microsoft Engineer
16 9 (2.49%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (23.55%) PySpark
2 50 (13.85%) Terraform
3 26 (7.20%) Kafka
4 25 (6.93%) JSON
5 24 (6.65%) REST
6 22 (6.09%) .NET
7 20 (5.54%) .NET Core
7 20 (5.54%) CSS
7 20 (5.54%) HTML
8 19 (5.26%) HTML5 Canvas
8 19 (5.26%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (5.26%) SPFx
9 11 (3.05%) ARM Templates
10 8 (2.22%) Keycloak
11 6 (1.66%) SOAP
12 3 (0.83%) LangChain
12 3 (0.83%) XML
12 3 (0.83%) YAML
13 2 (0.55%) FastAPI
13 2 (0.55%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.14%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.37%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.22%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.11%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.11%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.11%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.11%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.11%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.11%) Replication
9 2 (0.55%) Clustering
9 2 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.55%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.55%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (56.23%) Business Intelligence
2 199 (55.12%) Analytics
3 187 (51.80%) Data Modelling
4 172 (47.65%) ETL
5 170 (47.09%) Data Engineering
6 168 (46.54%) CI/CD
7 160 (44.32%) Data Pipeline
8 149 (41.27%) DevOps
9 105 (29.09%) AI
10 95 (26.32%) Data Governance
11 90 (24.93%) Machine Learning
12 83 (22.99%) Data Architecture
13 78 (21.61%) Decision-Making
14 77 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
15 72 (19.94%) Technical Leadership
16 71 (19.67%) Data Science
17 70 (19.39%) Agile
18 63 (17.45%) Data Integration
19 58 (16.07%) Data Strategy
20 55 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 272 (75.35%) SQL
2 201 (55.68%) Python
3 38 (10.53%) Scala
4 36 (9.97%) PowerShell
5 28 (7.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 27 (7.48%) C#
7 23 (6.37%) JavaScript
8 22 (6.09%) Bicep
9 19 (5.26%) TypeScript
10 14 (3.88%) T-SQL
11 8 (2.22%) Go
11 8 (2.22%) Java
12 5 (1.39%) R
13 2 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.55%) VBA
14 1 (0.28%) Bash
14 1 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 49 (13.57%) Azure Certification
2 37 (10.25%) Security Cleared
3 35 (9.70%) Degree
4 29 (8.03%) SC Cleared
5 26 (7.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (4.16%) SnowPro
8 8 (2.22%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.94%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.83%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.28%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (33.80%) Data Quality
2 33 (9.14%) GDPR
3 17 (4.71%) QA
4 5 (1.39%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.55%) IFRS
6 2 (0.55%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.55%) SLA
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 9 (2.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.28%) Ansible
2 1 (0.28%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 177 (49.03%) Databricks
2 171 (47.37%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.26%) Adobe
4 9 (2.49%) SAP
5 8 (2.22%) Foundry
5 8 (2.22%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.94%) Google
6 7 (1.94%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.66%) Informatica
8 5 (1.39%) Talend
9 2 (0.55%) Oracle
10 1 (0.28%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.28%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.28%) Confluent
10 1 (0.28%) Infor
10 1 (0.28%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.28%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.28%) Teradata