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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 374 417
Rank change year-on-year -91 +43 -75
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 357 362 468
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.73% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 2.27% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 263 275 393
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £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 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,450 £96,250
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 27,882 15,935 26,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.16% 31.95% 31.86%
Number of salaries quoted 18,435 11,017 18,921
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £42,750
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 £54,784
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.73% -0.39%

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 15 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 15 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 -70 339 £80,000 +23.08% 171
UK excluding London -75 179 £62,500 +13.64% 97
London -69 157 £80,000 - 104
Work from Home -10 135 £80,000 +33.33% 79
North of England +1 67 £68,000 +18.26% 12
Yorkshire +2 41 £80,000 +33.33% 6
Midlands -38 33 £60,000 -5.88% 15
East of England -8 30 £90,000 +80.00% 5
West Midlands -33 27 £60,000 - 11
South East -67 26 £50,000 -9.09% 47
North West +1 20 £55,000 -2.22% 4
South West -60 19 £84,500 +12.67% 6
Wales -48 9 £53,171 -3.33% 6
East Midlands -24 6 - - 4
North East -57 6 £47,500 -9.52% 2
Scotland -3 2 £43,335 -12.45% 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 36 (10.08%) Apache Spark
2 27 (7.56%) SharePoint
3 16 (4.48%) Apache
4 10 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.84%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.56%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.84%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.28%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 357 (100.00%) Azure
2 163 (45.66%) Power Platform
3 119 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 73 (20.45%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (13.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 43 (12.04%) Microsoft Purview
7 30 (8.40%) PowerApps
8 28 (7.84%) Power Automate
9 26 (7.28%) Snowflake
10 23 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (6.44%) Serverless
11 22 (6.16%) Azure Functions
12 19 (5.32%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 19 (5.32%) OneDrive
13 17 (4.76%) AWS
14 16 (4.48%) GCP
15 13 (3.64%) dbt
15 13 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
16 12 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (43.98%) Power BI
2 106 (29.69%) Data Warehouse
3 97 (27.17%) Data Lake
4 76 (21.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 51 (14.29%) Metadata
6 47 (13.17%) Delta Lake
6 47 (13.17%) SQL Server
7 32 (8.96%) Spark SQL
8 29 (8.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 24 (6.72%) Tableau
10 22 (6.16%) Star Schema
11 21 (5.88%) Relational Database
12 19 (5.32%) Big Data
13 18 (5.04%) Data Vault
14 16 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
15 15 (4.20%) Semantic Layer
16 12 (3.36%) BigQuery
17 11 (3.08%) Power Query
18 10 (2.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
18 10 (2.80%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (9.80%) Git
2 7 (1.96%) MLflow
3 6 (1.68%) GitLab
3 6 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.12%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.84%) JIRA
6 2 (0.56%) ERwin
6 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.56%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 115 (32.21%) Social Skills
2 95 (26.61%) Finance
3 59 (16.53%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.64%) Retail
5 12 (3.36%) Legal
6 11 (3.08%) Law
7 10 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.24%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.68%) Marketing
10 4 (1.12%) Advertising
10 4 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.84%) Games
11 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.84%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.56%) Banking
12 2 (0.56%) Billing
12 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.28%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 180 (50.42%) Data Engineer
2 96 (26.89%) Senior
3 64 (17.93%) Lead
4 57 (15.97%) Senior Data Engineer
5 52 (14.57%) Architect
5 52 (14.57%) Azure Engineer
6 50 (14.01%) Data Architect
7 40 (11.20%) Developer
8 38 (10.64%) Azure Data Engineer
9 31 (8.68%) Lead Data Engineer
10 26 (7.28%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (5.32%) Senior Developer
12 16 (4.48%) Consultant
13 11 (3.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 10 (2.80%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 10 (2.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.52%) Azure Architect
15 9 (2.52%) Microsoft Engineer
16 8 (2.24%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 8 (2.24%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (22.41%) PySpark
2 23 (6.44%) JSON
2 23 (6.44%) Kafka
3 22 (6.16%) .NET
4 20 (5.60%) .NET Core
4 20 (5.60%) CSS
4 20 (5.60%) HTML
5 19 (5.32%) HTML5 Canvas
5 19 (5.32%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (5.32%) REST
5 19 (5.32%) SPFx
6 12 (3.36%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.96%) Keycloak
8 6 (1.68%) SOAP
9 3 (0.84%) LangChain
9 3 (0.84%) YAML
10 2 (0.56%) FastAPI
10 2 (0.56%) Middleware
11 1 (0.28%) Pandas
11 1 (0.28%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.68%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.40%) Replication
9 4 (1.12%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.12%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.12%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.12%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.12%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.84%) Wiki
11 2 (0.56%) Clustering
11 2 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.56%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (56.02%) Analytics
2 197 (55.18%) Business Intelligence
3 185 (51.82%) Data Modelling
4 166 (46.50%) Data Engineering
5 163 (45.66%) CI/CD
6 162 (45.38%) ETL
7 161 (45.10%) Data Pipeline
8 139 (38.94%) DevOps
9 107 (29.97%) AI
10 94 (26.33%) Data Governance
11 89 (24.93%) Machine Learning
12 80 (22.41%) Decision-Making
13 79 (22.13%) Data Architecture
14 74 (20.73%) Agile
14 74 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
15 69 (19.33%) Technical Leadership
16 67 (18.77%) Data Science
17 64 (17.93%) Data Integration
18 57 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
19 56 (15.69%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 268 (75.07%) SQL
2 198 (55.46%) Python
3 36 (10.08%) PowerShell
4 35 (9.80%) Scala
5 26 (7.28%) C#
6 23 (6.44%) JavaScript
7 21 (5.88%) Bicep
8 19 (5.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 19 (5.32%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.64%) T-SQL
10 8 (2.24%) Java
11 7 (1.96%) Go
12 6 (1.68%) R
13 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.56%) VBA
14 1 (0.28%) Bash
14 1 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 45 (12.61%) Azure Certification
2 35 (9.80%) Security Cleared
3 34 (9.52%) Degree
4 27 (7.56%) SC Cleared
5 22 (6.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.92%) SnowPro
8 7 (1.96%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.84%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.28%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (32.77%) Data Quality
2 32 (8.96%) GDPR
3 17 (4.76%) QA
4 5 (1.40%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.40%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.56%) GRC
5 2 (0.56%) IFRS
5 2 (0.56%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.56%) SLA
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 8 (2.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 50 (14.01%) Terraform
2 10 (2.80%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) Ansible
3 1 (0.28%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 179 (50.14%) Databricks
2 158 (44.26%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.32%) Adobe
4 9 (2.52%) Foundry
4 9 (2.52%) SAP
5 8 (2.24%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.96%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.68%) Google
7 6 (1.68%) Informatica
8 4 (1.12%) Talend
9 2 (0.56%) Oracle
9 2 (0.56%) Trapeze
10 1 (0.28%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.28%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.28%) Confluent
10 1 (0.28%) Infor
10 1 (0.28%) Nintex
10 1 (0.28%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.28%) SolarWinds