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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 377 410
Rank change year-on-year -84 +33 -69
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 381 328 455
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.66% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 2.10% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 273 264 361
10th Percentile £48,850 £43,825 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £100,000
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 27,462 15,625 24,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.07% 31.65% 31.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,587 10,573 15,690
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,983 £39,375 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,400 £102,500
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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -64 358 £80,000 +23.08% 313
UK excluding London -79 184 £62,500 +13.64% 174
London -31 180 £80,000 - 164
Work from Home -5 137 £80,000 +33.33% 124
North of England -26 62 £62,500 +13.64% 53
South East -63 39 £62,500 +13.64% 56
Yorkshire -5 35 £82,500 +37.50% 20
Midlands -36 35 £85,000 +38.78% 25
West Midlands -46 27 £85,000 +41.67% 15
East of England -25 24 £90,000 +80.00% 9
North West -7 21 £55,000 - 28
South West -54 21 £85,000 +17.24% 17
Wales -68 10 £53,171 -3.33% 4
East Midlands -30 8 - - 10
North East -62 6 £47,500 -9.52% 5
Scotland -1 4 £49,168 -0.67% 11

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 42 (11.02%) Apache Spark
2 22 (5.77%) SharePoint
3 19 (4.99%) Apache
4 13 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.52%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.52%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.79%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.26%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 381 (100.00%) Azure
2 179 (46.98%) Power Platform
3 138 (36.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 96 (25.20%) Azure DevOps
5 69 (18.11%) Azure Databricks
6 49 (12.86%) Microsoft Purview
7 48 (12.60%) Azure Logic Apps
8 28 (7.35%) Serverless
9 27 (7.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 26 (6.82%) Snowflake
11 24 (6.30%) Azure Functions
12 23 (6.04%) PowerApps
13 22 (5.77%) AWS
13 22 (5.77%) Power Automate
14 20 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (4.99%) dbt
16 18 (4.72%) GCP
17 16 (4.20%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 16 (4.20%) OneDrive
18 14 (3.67%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (46.46%) Power BI
2 129 (33.86%) Data Warehouse
3 101 (26.51%) Data Lake
4 86 (22.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 68 (17.85%) Metadata
6 53 (13.91%) Delta Lake
7 48 (12.60%) SQL Server
8 34 (8.92%) Star Schema
9 28 (7.35%) Spark SQL
9 28 (7.35%) Tableau
10 25 (6.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 23 (6.04%) NoSQL
12 21 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
13 20 (5.25%) Big Data
13 20 (5.25%) Data Vault
14 18 (4.72%) Relational Database
15 17 (4.46%) Semantic Layer
16 16 (4.20%) Amazon Redshift
17 14 (3.67%) BigQuery
18 12 (3.15%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 51 (13.39%) Git
2 12 (3.15%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.84%) MLflow
4 5 (1.31%) GitLab
5 3 (0.79%) JIRA
5 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.52%) ERwin
6 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.52%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.26%) kappa
7 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 128 (33.60%) Social Skills
2 106 (27.82%) Finance
3 65 (17.06%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.25%) Legal
5 14 (3.67%) Retail
6 13 (3.41%) Law
7 11 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.84%) Banking
8 7 (1.84%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.57%) Marketing
10 4 (1.05%) Advertising
10 4 (1.05%) Billing
10 4 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.05%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.05%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.79%) Games
11 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.26%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 190 (49.87%) Data Engineer
2 118 (30.97%) Senior
3 73 (19.16%) Senior Data Engineer
4 63 (16.54%) Lead
5 62 (16.27%) Azure Engineer
6 52 (13.65%) Architect
7 48 (12.60%) Data Architect
8 45 (11.81%) Azure Data Engineer
9 43 (11.29%) Developer
10 29 (7.61%) Lead Data Engineer
11 20 (5.25%) Databricks Engineer
11 20 (5.25%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (4.72%) Consultant
12 18 (4.72%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 16 (4.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 16 (4.20%) Senior Developer
14 12 (3.15%) Analyst
15 11 (2.89%) Elasticsearch Engineer
15 11 (2.89%) Operations Engineer
15 11 (2.89%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (24.41%) PySpark
2 50 (13.12%) Terraform
3 33 (8.66%) Kafka
4 28 (7.35%) JSON
5 23 (6.04%) REST
6 17 (4.46%) .NET
7 16 (4.20%) .NET Core
7 16 (4.20%) CSS
7 16 (4.20%) HTML
7 16 (4.20%) HTML5 Canvas
7 16 (4.20%) Microsoft Graph
7 16 (4.20%) SPFx
8 11 (2.89%) Keycloak
9 10 (2.62%) ARM Templates
10 6 (1.57%) Apache Avro
11 5 (1.31%) SOAP
11 5 (1.31%) XML
12 4 (1.05%) MDX
12 4 (1.05%) YAML
13 3 (0.79%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.71%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.87%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.84%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.31%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.31%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.05%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.05%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.79%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.79%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.52%) Reference Data
12 2 (0.52%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.52%) Replication
12 2 (0.52%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.62%) Windows
2 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (56.96%) Business Intelligence
2 212 (55.64%) Analytics
3 199 (52.23%) Data Modelling
4 187 (49.08%) CI/CD
5 182 (47.77%) ETL
6 180 (47.24%) Data Engineering
7 173 (45.41%) Data Pipeline
8 171 (44.88%) DevOps
9 106 (27.82%) AI
10 97 (25.46%) Data Governance
11 94 (24.67%) Data Architecture
11 94 (24.67%) Lakehouse
12 89 (23.36%) Agile
13 85 (22.31%) Machine Learning
14 82 (21.52%) Decision-Making
14 82 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
15 75 (19.69%) Data Science
16 74 (19.42%) Technical Leadership
17 73 (19.16%) Data Integration
18 63 (16.54%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 288 (75.59%) SQL
2 218 (57.22%) Python
3 44 (11.55%) Scala
4 34 (8.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 33 (8.66%) PowerShell
6 28 (7.35%) C#
7 23 (6.04%) Bicep
8 22 (5.77%) JavaScript
9 16 (4.20%) TypeScript
10 14 (3.67%) Java
11 13 (3.41%) T-SQL
12 11 (2.89%) Go
13 7 (1.84%) R
14 2 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.52%) VBA
15 1 (0.26%) Bash
15 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 54 (14.17%) Azure Certification
2 44 (11.55%) Security Cleared
3 39 (10.24%) Degree
4 38 (9.97%) SC Cleared
5 25 (6.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.20%) SnowPro
7 11 (2.89%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.84%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.79%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.26%) ICAEW
11 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (38.58%) Data Quality
2 36 (9.45%) GDPR
3 17 (4.46%) QA
4 10 (2.62%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.79%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.52%) IFRS
7 2 (0.52%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (3.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (4.20%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.52%) Ansible
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 179 (46.98%) Microsoft
2 173 (45.41%) Databricks
3 16 (4.20%) Adobe
4 13 (3.41%) Informatica
5 12 (3.15%) Talend
6 11 (2.89%) SAP
7 7 (1.84%) Google
8 6 (1.57%) Foundry
8 6 (1.57%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.57%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.26%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.26%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.26%) Confluent
9 1 (0.26%) Infor
9 1 (0.26%) Meraki
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle
9 1 (0.26%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.26%) Teradata