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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 357 430
Rank change year-on-year -94 +73 -76
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 351 378 472
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.77% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 2.37% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 264 285 398
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -
75th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £81,875
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 27,505 15,969 29,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.20% 32.39% 32.62%
Number of salaries quoted 17,952 11,131 21,564
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,356 £41,250 £42,500
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 £79,700
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £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 26 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 26 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 -88 332 £80,000 +18.52% 73
UK excluding London -77 177 £62,500 +4.17% 50
London -61 149 £80,000 - 35
Work from Home -11 130 £81,250 +32.65% 42
North of England +1 66 £80,000 +33.33% 11
Yorkshire -7 42 £80,000 +33.33% 7
Midlands -41 38 £58,750 -4.08% 15
West Midlands -25 32 £57,500 - 13
East of England -7 31 £90,000 +66.67% 1
South East -74 21 £50,000 -23.08% 19
North West +7 20 £55,000 -4.35% 2
South West -53 18 £84,000 +8.39% 1
Wales -51 7 £53,171 -3.33% 3
East Midlands -33 6 £60,000 -7.69% 2
North East -49 4 £47,500 -9.52% 3
Scotland +15 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 34 (9.69%) Apache Spark
2 31 (8.83%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.99%) Apache
4 12 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.57%) Luigi
7 1 (0.28%) Appian
Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.57%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.28%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 351 (100.00%) Azure
2 161 (45.87%) Power Platform
3 105 (29.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 69 (19.66%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (13.68%) Azure Logic Apps
6 36 (10.26%) Microsoft Purview
7 33 (9.40%) PowerApps
8 32 (9.12%) Power Automate
9 24 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (6.27%) Azure Functions
10 22 (6.27%) Serverless
10 22 (6.27%) Snowflake
11 19 (5.41%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.41%) AWS
11 19 (5.41%) OneDrive
12 18 (5.13%) GCP
13 16 (4.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 15 (4.27%) dbt
15 14 (3.99%) Dynamics 365
16 12 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (43.87%) Power BI
2 106 (30.20%) Data Warehouse
3 89 (25.36%) Data Lake
4 80 (22.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 50 (14.25%) SQL Server
6 40 (11.40%) Metadata
7 39 (11.11%) Delta Lake
8 34 (9.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 33 (9.40%) Spark SQL
10 23 (6.55%) Tableau
11 21 (5.98%) Relational Database
11 21 (5.98%) Star Schema
12 19 (5.41%) Big Data
13 14 (3.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 14 (3.99%) Data Vault
14 13 (3.70%) BigQuery
14 13 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
14 13 (3.70%) Power Query
15 11 (3.13%) Semantic Layer
16 10 (2.85%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 33 (9.40%) Git
2 6 (1.71%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.71%) MLflow
3 5 (1.42%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.14%) GitLab
5 3 (0.85%) JIRA
5 3 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.57%) ERwin
6 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.57%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
General
1 115 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 98 (27.92%) Finance
3 58 (16.52%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
4 13 (3.70%) Retail
5 12 (3.42%) Legal
6 11 (3.13%) Law
7 8 (2.28%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.42%) Marketing
9 4 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.85%) Advertising
10 3 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.85%) Games
10 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.85%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.57%) Banking
11 2 (0.57%) Billing
11 2 (0.57%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.28%) Automotive
12 1 (0.28%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 176 (50.14%) Data Engineer
2 90 (25.64%) Senior
3 65 (18.52%) Lead
4 53 (15.10%) Senior Data Engineer
5 46 (13.11%) Azure Engineer
6 44 (12.54%) Architect
7 41 (11.68%) Data Architect
8 40 (11.40%) Developer
9 35 (9.97%) Azure Data Engineer
10 33 (9.40%) Lead Data Engineer
11 27 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (5.13%) Senior Developer
13 16 (4.56%) Consultant
14 14 (3.99%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 9 (2.56%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.56%) Data Manager
16 8 (2.28%) Azure Architect
16 8 (2.28%) Microsoft Engineer
16 8 (2.28%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (21.65%) PySpark
2 24 (6.84%) .NET
2 24 (6.84%) JSON
3 21 (5.98%) .NET Core
3 21 (5.98%) CSS
3 21 (5.98%) HTML
3 21 (5.98%) Kafka
3 21 (5.98%) REST
4 19 (5.41%) HTML5 Canvas
4 19 (5.41%) Microsoft Graph
4 19 (5.41%) SPFx
5 12 (3.42%) ARM Templates
6 6 (1.71%) SOAP
7 5 (1.42%) Keycloak
8 3 (0.85%) Middleware
8 3 (0.85%) RESTful
8 3 (0.85%) YAML
9 2 (0.57%) Node.js
9 2 (0.57%) NumPy
9 2 (0.57%) Smarty
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.40%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.84%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.99%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.71%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.71%) Replication
8 5 (1.42%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.14%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.14%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.14%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.85%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.85%) Wiki
11 2 (0.57%) Clustering
11 2 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (55.27%) Analytics
2 185 (52.71%) Business Intelligence
3 182 (51.85%) Data Modelling
4 164 (46.72%) Data Engineering
5 158 (45.01%) ETL
6 155 (44.16%) CI/CD
7 154 (43.87%) Data Pipeline
8 134 (38.18%) DevOps
9 102 (29.06%) AI
10 94 (26.78%) Data Governance
11 87 (24.79%) Machine Learning
12 84 (23.93%) Decision-Making
13 77 (21.94%) Agile
14 75 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
15 69 (19.66%) Data Architecture
16 66 (18.80%) Data Integration
17 60 (17.09%) Data Science
17 60 (17.09%) Technical Leadership
18 55 (15.67%) Continuous Improvement
19 53 (15.10%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 264 (75.21%) SQL
2 182 (51.85%) Python
3 37 (10.54%) PowerShell
4 30 (8.55%) Scala
5 25 (7.12%) C#
6 24 (6.84%) JavaScript
7 20 (5.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 19 (5.41%) TypeScript
9 16 (4.56%) Bicep
10 12 (3.42%) T-SQL
11 10 (2.85%) Java
12 7 (1.99%) R
13 5 (1.42%) Go
14 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.57%) PHP
14 2 (0.57%) VBA
15 1 (0.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 40 (11.40%) Azure Certification
2 34 (9.69%) Degree
3 32 (9.12%) Security Cleared
4 25 (7.12%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (2.85%) SnowPro
7 6 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.42%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.85%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.28%) CISM
12 1 (0.28%) CISSP
12 1 (0.28%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (31.91%) Data Quality
2 33 (9.40%) GDPR
3 16 (4.56%) QA
4 5 (1.42%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.42%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.57%) GRC
6 2 (0.57%) IFRS
6 2 (0.57%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.57%) SLA
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 9 (2.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (13.11%) Terraform
2 11 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) Ansible
3 1 (0.28%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 170 (48.43%) Databricks
2 148 (42.17%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.41%) Adobe
4 10 (2.85%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.28%) Foundry
5 8 (2.28%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.28%) SAP
6 7 (1.99%) Google
7 4 (1.14%) Informatica
8 3 (0.85%) Talend
9 2 (0.57%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.57%) Oracle
9 2 (0.57%) Trapeze
10 1 (0.28%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.28%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.28%) Confluent
10 1 (0.28%) Cribl.io
10 1 (0.28%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.28%) UiPath