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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 374 303
Rank change year-on-year +30 -71 +137
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 325 446 525
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.65% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.82% 1.96% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 226 347 451
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £42,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,117 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.14% +12.15% -10.83%

All Cloud 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 17,845 22,707 22,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.48% 33.14% 42.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,345 13,866 18,740
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 -2 274 £70,000 +7.69% 212
UK excluding London +33 164 £55,117 -8.14% 127
London +8 143 £82,500 +13.79% 124
Work from Home +60 140 £65,000 - 110
Scotland +38 35 £50,000 -4.76% 11
North of England +8 35 £55,000 - 21
South East -13 35 £55,000 -15.38% 52
Midlands +70 34 £60,000 +9.09% 31
West Midlands +62 32 £60,000 +6.67% 28
North West +14 15 £56,250 +2.27% 16
North East +23 11 £51,750 -13.75% 1
Yorkshire +4 9 £79,000 +21.54% 4
East of England +29 8 £52,250 - 6
South West +27 8 £77,500 +31.91% 6
Northern Ireland - 6 £50,000 - 1
Wales +12 3 £55,000 +28.65%
East Midlands +27 2 £61,250 +22.50% 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 16 (4.92%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.38%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.46%) Apache
4 5 (1.54%) SAS
5 4 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.62%) Appian
7 1 (0.31%) Confluence
7 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 33 (10.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.31%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 325 (100.00%) Azure
2 186 (57.23%) Power Platform
3 121 (37.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 78 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (11.08%) GitHub
6 33 (10.15%) Azure Logic Apps
7 26 (8.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 25 (7.69%) Snowflake
9 20 (6.15%) Power Automate
10 17 (5.23%) Azure Monitor
10 17 (5.23%) dbt
10 17 (5.23%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (4.92%) SaaS
12 14 (4.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 13 (4.00%) AWS
14 12 (3.69%) Dynamics 365
14 12 (3.69%) Entra ID
14 12 (3.69%) PowerApps
15 11 (3.38%) GCP
15 11 (3.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.77%) Firewall
2 5 (1.54%) DNS
3 4 (1.23%) VPN
4 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.31%) Network Security
4 1 (0.31%) SSL
4 1 (0.31%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (50.77%) Power BI
2 103 (31.69%) SQL Server
3 85 (26.15%) Data Warehouse
4 84 (25.85%) Data Lake
5 79 (24.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 55 (16.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 50 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 24 (7.38%) Metadata
9 17 (5.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 14 (4.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 14 (4.31%) Tableau
11 12 (3.69%) MySQL
12 11 (3.38%) Delta Lake
12 11 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (2.15%) Relational Database
14 6 (1.85%) Power Query
14 6 (1.85%) Qlik Sense
14 6 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
15 5 (1.54%) SAS EBI
15 5 (1.54%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (8.31%) Git
2 5 (1.54%) Bitbucket
2 5 (1.54%) JIRA
3 2 (0.62%) MLflow
3 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.31%) JUnit
4 1 (0.31%) Selenium
4 1 (0.31%) TestComplete
General
1 138 (42.46%) Finance
2 134 (41.23%) Social Skills
3 70 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.85%) Presentation Skills
5 17 (5.23%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (4.00%) Billing
7 13 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (4.00%) Retail
8 12 (3.69%) Law
9 10 (3.08%) Automotive
9 10 (3.08%) Marketing
9 10 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (2.46%) Banking
12 4 (1.23%) Advertising
12 4 (1.23%) Legal
12 4 (1.23%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.62%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.62%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 122 (37.54%) Data Engineer
2 57 (17.54%) Senior
3 37 (11.38%) Senior Data Engineer
4 33 (10.15%) Azure Engineer
5 31 (9.54%) Developer
6 29 (8.92%) Analyst
7 28 (8.62%) Architect
8 26 (8.00%) Lead
9 25 (7.69%) Data Architect
10 21 (6.46%) Azure Data Engineer
11 15 (4.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 13 (4.00%) Insight Analyst
13 12 (3.69%) Business Manager
13 12 (3.69%) Commercial Analyst
13 12 (3.69%) Insight Manager
14 11 (3.38%) Data Manager
15 10 (3.08%) Azure Architect
16 9 (2.77%) Azure Data Architect
17 8 (2.46%) Lead Developer
18 7 (2.15%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (12.62%) PySpark
2 20 (6.15%) .NET
3 19 (5.85%) JSON
4 14 (4.31%) REST
5 13 (4.00%) RESTful
6 12 (3.69%) OAuth
7 10 (3.08%) XML
8 9 (2.77%) OAuth2
9 7 (2.15%) .NET Framework
10 6 (1.85%) .NET Core
10 6 (1.85%) Pandas
11 5 (1.54%) Entity Framework
11 5 (1.54%) Kafka
12 4 (1.23%) Polars
12 4 (1.23%) SOAP
13 3 (0.92%) ARM Templates
13 3 (0.92%) YAML
14 2 (0.62%) FastAPI
14 2 (0.62%) Hugging Face
14 2 (0.62%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.85%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (5.54%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (4.62%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.31%) Low-Code
5 11 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.77%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.15%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.85%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.54%) Clustering
9 5 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.23%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.92%) Credit Risk
11 3 (0.92%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.92%) Market Risk
12 2 (0.62%) Derivative
12 2 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.62%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.85%) VMS
2 4 (1.23%) Windows
2 4 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (52.31%) Business Intelligence
2 169 (52.00%) Analytics
3 143 (44.00%) ETL
4 113 (34.77%) Data Pipeline
5 112 (34.46%) Data Engineering
6 111 (34.15%) Data Modelling
7 108 (33.23%) CI/CD
8 106 (32.62%) DevOps
9 91 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
10 89 (27.38%) Agile
11 86 (26.46%) Decision-Making
12 79 (24.31%) AI
13 67 (20.62%) Visualisation
14 62 (19.08%) Data Governance
15 49 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 49 (15.08%) Data Architecture
16 45 (13.85%) Data Integration
17 43 (13.23%) Coaching
18 42 (12.92%) Stakeholder Management
19 41 (12.62%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 233 (71.69%) SQL
2 142 (43.69%) Python
3 47 (14.46%) T-SQL
4 43 (13.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 24 (7.38%) C#
6 21 (6.46%) PowerShell
7 20 (6.15%) Bicep
8 12 (3.69%) Scala
9 10 (3.08%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.85%) R
11 5 (1.54%) Java
12 3 (0.92%) Bash
12 3 (0.92%) PHP
13 1 (0.31%) C++
13 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 37 (11.38%) Degree
2 21 (6.46%) Azure Certification
2 21 (6.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (3.69%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 11 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.38%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.38%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.46%) TOGAF Certification
6 7 (2.15%) DBS Check
6 7 (2.15%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.23%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.92%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.92%) PMP
9 2 (0.62%) IIBA
9 2 (0.62%) MCSE
10 1 (0.31%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (22.77%) Data Quality
2 34 (10.46%) GDPR
3 12 (3.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 9 (2.77%) QA
5 7 (2.15%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.62%) SLA
8 1 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (4.31%) Docker
2 4 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (10.15%) Terraform
2 18 (5.54%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.23%) Grafana
3 4 (1.23%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 147 (45.23%) Microsoft
2 124 (38.15%) Databricks
3 9 (2.77%) Ab Initio
4 8 (2.46%) Informatica
5 7 (2.15%) SAP
5 7 (2.15%) Talend
6 6 (1.85%) Oracle
6 6 (1.85%) RedGate
7 4 (1.23%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (1.23%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.23%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.23%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.23%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.23%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.92%) Google
9 2 (0.62%) Anaplan
9 2 (0.62%) Automation Anywhere
9 2 (0.62%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.62%) ServiceNow