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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 360 433
Rank change year-on-year -78 +73 -79
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 346 376 480
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.76% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 2.36% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 260 286 400
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -

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 27,181 15,908 30,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.13% 32.35% 32.76%
Number of salaries quoted 17,798 11,057 22,992
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

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 July 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 22 July 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 -81 327 £80,000 +18.52% 76
UK excluding London -80 174 £62,500 +4.17% 50
London -59 147 £80,000 - 38
Work from Home -2 128 £82,500 +34.69% 44
North of England +8 66 £67,500 +12.50% 10
Yorkshire -10 41 £80,000 +33.33% 6
Midlands -29 37 £58,750 -6.00% 17
West Midlands -19 32 £57,500 - 14
East of England +4 31 £90,000 +66.67% 1
North West +3 21 £57,500 - 2
South East -73 20 £50,000 -23.08% 17
South West -55 18 £84,000 +8.39% 2
Wales -53 6 £53,171 -3.33% 3
East Midlands -27 5 £60,000 -7.69% 3
North East -51 4 £47,500 -9.52% 2
Scotland +11 3 £57,418 +35.90%

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 33 (9.54%) Apache Spark
2 31 (8.96%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.76%) Apache
4 12 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.87%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.58%) Appian
6 2 (0.58%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.58%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.29%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 346 (100.00%) Azure
2 158 (45.66%) Power Platform
3 103 (29.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 69 (19.94%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (14.16%) Azure Logic Apps
6 34 (9.83%) Microsoft Purview
7 33 (9.54%) Power Automate
7 33 (9.54%) PowerApps
8 24 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (6.65%) Azure Functions
9 23 (6.65%) Serverless
10 21 (6.07%) Snowflake
11 19 (5.49%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.49%) OneDrive
12 18 (5.20%) AWS
13 17 (4.91%) GCP
14 16 (4.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 15 (4.34%) dbt
16 14 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
17 12 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (43.64%) Power BI
2 103 (29.77%) Data Warehouse
3 88 (25.43%) Data Lake
4 82 (23.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 50 (14.45%) SQL Server
6 38 (10.98%) Delta Lake
6 38 (10.98%) Metadata
7 33 (9.54%) Spark SQL
8 32 (9.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 21 (6.07%) Tableau
10 20 (5.78%) Relational Database
11 19 (5.49%) Star Schema
12 18 (5.20%) Big Data
13 13 (3.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 13 (3.76%) Data Vault
13 13 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
13 13 (3.76%) Power Query
14 12 (3.47%) BigQuery
15 11 (3.18%) Semantic Layer
16 9 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 33 (9.54%) Git
2 7 (2.02%) MLflow
3 6 (1.73%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.45%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.16%) GitLab
6 3 (0.87%) JIRA
6 3 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.58%) ERwin
7 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.58%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
General
1 113 (32.66%) Social Skills
2 97 (28.03%) Finance
3 57 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (3.47%) Legal
5 12 (3.47%) Retail
6 11 (3.18%) Law
7 8 (2.31%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.16%) Marketing
8 4 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.87%) Advertising
9 3 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.87%) Games
9 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.87%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.58%) Banking
10 2 (0.58%) Billing
10 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 171 (49.42%) Data Engineer
2 85 (24.57%) Senior
3 65 (18.79%) Lead
4 49 (14.16%) Senior Data Engineer
5 46 (13.29%) Azure Engineer
6 43 (12.43%) Architect
7 40 (11.56%) Data Architect
7 40 (11.56%) Developer
8 35 (10.12%) Azure Data Engineer
9 34 (9.83%) Lead Data Engineer
10 28 (8.09%) Platform Engineer
11 17 (4.91%) Senior Developer
12 15 (4.34%) Consultant
13 13 (3.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 9 (2.60%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 9 (2.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 9 (2.60%) Data Manager
15 8 (2.31%) Azure Architect
15 8 (2.31%) Microsoft Engineer
16 7 (2.02%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (21.39%) PySpark
2 25 (7.23%) .NET
3 24 (6.94%) JSON
4 22 (6.36%) .NET Core
4 22 (6.36%) REST
5 21 (6.07%) CSS
5 21 (6.07%) HTML
6 20 (5.78%) Kafka
7 19 (5.49%) HTML5 Canvas
7 19 (5.49%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (5.49%) SPFx
8 12 (3.47%) ARM Templates
9 6 (1.73%) SOAP
10 5 (1.45%) Keycloak
11 4 (1.16%) RESTful
12 3 (0.87%) Middleware
12 3 (0.87%) NumPy
12 3 (0.87%) Pandas
12 3 (0.87%) PyTorch
12 3 (0.87%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.96%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.91%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (3.18%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.02%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.73%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.73%) Replication
8 5 (1.45%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.45%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.16%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.16%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.16%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.87%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.87%) Wiki
11 2 (0.58%) Clustering
11 2 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (54.34%) Analytics
2 180 (52.02%) Business Intelligence
3 178 (51.45%) Data Modelling
4 162 (46.82%) Data Engineering
5 155 (44.80%) CI/CD
6 154 (44.51%) ETL
7 152 (43.93%) Data Pipeline
8 132 (38.15%) DevOps
9 98 (28.32%) AI
10 94 (27.17%) Data Governance
11 84 (24.28%) Machine Learning
12 81 (23.41%) Decision-Making
13 75 (21.68%) Agile
14 72 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
15 65 (18.79%) Data Architecture
16 62 (17.92%) Data Integration
17 59 (17.05%) Technical Leadership
18 57 (16.47%) Data Science
19 55 (15.90%) Continuous Improvement
20 51 (14.74%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 262 (75.72%) SQL
2 177 (51.16%) Python
3 37 (10.69%) PowerShell
4 28 (8.09%) Scala
5 26 (7.51%) C#
6 24 (6.94%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (5.49%) TypeScript
8 15 (4.34%) Bicep
9 12 (3.47%) T-SQL
10 9 (2.60%) Java
11 7 (2.02%) R
12 5 (1.45%) Go
13 2 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.58%) PHP
13 2 (0.58%) VBA
14 1 (0.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 38 (10.98%) Azure Certification
2 34 (9.83%) Degree
3 31 (8.96%) Security Cleared
4 25 (7.23%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (4.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.60%) SnowPro
8 6 (1.73%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.45%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.87%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.29%) CISM
13 1 (0.29%) CISSP
13 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (32.37%) Data Quality
2 33 (9.54%) GDPR
3 16 (4.62%) QA
4 5 (1.45%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.45%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.58%) GRC
6 2 (0.58%) IFRS
6 2 (0.58%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.58%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 10 (2.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (13.01%) Terraform
2 12 (3.47%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) Ansible
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 164 (47.40%) Databricks
2 146 (42.20%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.49%) Adobe
4 11 (3.18%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.31%) Foundry
5 8 (2.31%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.31%) SAP
6 7 (2.02%) Google
7 4 (1.16%) Informatica
8 3 (0.87%) Talend
9 2 (0.58%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.58%) Automation Anywhere
9 2 (0.58%) Oracle
9 2 (0.58%) Trapeze
9 2 (0.58%) UiPath
10 1 (0.29%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.29%) Confluent
10 1 (0.29%) Cribl.io
10 1 (0.29%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow