Hybrid/Remote Azure Data Factory Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 302 295
Rank change year-on-year +88 -7 +118
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 167 147 188
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.09% 0.85% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.97% 1.86% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 82 124 163
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,538
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,193 £66,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.46% +10.42% -13.60%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,250 £100,000 £96,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,614 7,915 9,582
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.56% 45.97% 46.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,045 5,142 8,211
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,249
% change year-on-year -4.00% +3.74% -7.31%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure Data Factory and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Azure Data Factory job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Azure Data Factory
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Data Factory.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Data Factory over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Azure Data Factory salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Azure Data Factory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 9 (5.39%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.99%) Apache
2 5 (2.99%) SAS
3 2 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
Applications
1 29 (17.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.60%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 167 (100.00%) Azure
2 83 (49.70%) Power Platform
3 71 (42.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 50 (29.94%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (23.95%) GitHub
6 25 (14.97%) Snowflake
7 21 (12.57%) dbt
8 20 (11.98%) Azure Logic Apps
9 19 (11.38%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (8.98%) Azure Service Bus
10 15 (8.98%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (8.38%) Azure Event Grid
11 14 (8.38%) GitHub Copilot
12 10 (5.99%) Power Automate
13 9 (5.39%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (4.79%) Microsoft Purview
15 5 (2.99%) Serverless
16 4 (2.40%) Azure App Service
16 4 (2.40%) Azure Functions
17 3 (1.80%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.99%) Firewall
2 4 (2.40%) DNS
2 4 (2.40%) VPN
3 1 (0.60%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.60%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (48.50%) Power BI
2 53 (31.74%) Data Lake
3 52 (31.14%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (29.34%) Azure SQL Database
5 48 (28.74%) SQL Server
6 37 (22.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 19 (11.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 18 (10.78%) Metadata
9 12 (7.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 10 (5.99%) Delta Lake
11 6 (3.59%) Data Mining
11 6 (3.59%) MySQL
12 5 (2.99%) SAS EBI
13 4 (2.40%) Relational Database
13 4 (2.40%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (2.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 3 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
14 3 (1.80%) Power Query
14 3 (1.80%) Tableau
15 2 (1.20%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 13 (7.78%) Git
2 4 (2.40%) JIRA
3 3 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
General
1 100 (59.88%) Finance
2 70 (41.92%) Social Skills
3 52 (31.14%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.19%) Billing
4 12 (7.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (7.19%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (4.79%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.99%) Banking
7 4 (2.40%) Automotive
7 4 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.40%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.80%) Advertising
9 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.20%) Law
9 2 (1.20%) Local Government
9 2 (1.20%) Marketing
9 2 (1.20%) Retail
10 1 (0.60%) Front Office
10 1 (0.60%) International Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (26.35%) Data Engineer
2 31 (18.56%) Senior
3 21 (12.57%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (8.98%) Senior Data Engineer
5 14 (8.38%) Analyst
6 12 (7.19%) Business Manager
6 12 (7.19%) Commercial Analyst
6 12 (7.19%) Insight Analyst
6 12 (7.19%) Insight Manager
7 11 (6.59%) Applications Engineer
7 11 (6.59%) Developer
7 11 (6.59%) Lead
8 10 (5.99%) Integration Engineer
9 9 (5.39%) Data Manager
10 8 (4.79%) Azure Data Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Architect
11 6 (3.59%) Consultant
11 6 (3.59%) Service Manager
12 5 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (2.99%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.57%) PySpark
2 18 (10.78%) JSON
3 15 (8.98%) OAuth
3 15 (8.98%) RESTful
4 14 (8.38%) OAuth2
5 8 (4.79%) .NET
5 8 (4.79%) YAML
6 6 (3.59%) Kafka
7 5 (2.99%) REST
7 5 (2.99%) XML
8 4 (2.40%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.20%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.20%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.20%) Blazor
9 2 (1.20%) D3.js
9 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.60%) Node.js
10 1 (0.60%) Smarty
10 1 (0.60%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (11.38%) Cloud Native
2 19 (11.38%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (4.19%) Low-Code
4 4 (2.40%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.40%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.80%) Credit Risk
5 3 (1.80%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.20%) Clustering
6 2 (1.20%) Derivative
6 2 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.60%) EPoS
7 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) IoT
7 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.40%) VMS
1 4 (2.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (58.68%) Analytics
2 87 (52.10%) Business Intelligence
3 83 (49.70%) Data Modelling
4 76 (45.51%) ETL
5 75 (44.91%) CI/CD
6 72 (43.11%) DevOps
7 71 (42.51%) Data Pipeline
8 58 (34.73%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (34.13%) Agile
10 56 (33.53%) Data Engineering
11 51 (30.54%) Coaching
11 51 (30.54%) Visualisation
12 49 (29.34%) Asset Management
13 45 (26.95%) Decision-Making
14 39 (23.35%) Data Integration
15 38 (22.75%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (22.16%) AI
17 36 (21.56%) Infrastructure as Code
18 35 (20.96%) Data Governance
19 34 (20.36%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 120 (71.86%) SQL
2 70 (41.92%) Python
3 32 (19.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 22 (13.17%) Bicep
5 21 (12.57%) PowerShell
6 15 (8.98%) Scala
7 14 (8.38%) T-SQL
8 8 (4.79%) C#
9 3 (1.80%) Java
9 3 (1.80%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.60%) Bash
10 1 (0.60%) PHP
10 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (10.18%) Degree
2 12 (7.19%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 9 (5.39%) Azure Certification
4 7 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.59%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.59%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.99%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.40%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (32.34%) Data Quality
2 22 (13.17%) GDPR
3 12 (7.19%) Actionable Recommendations
4 8 (4.79%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 8 (4.79%) Docker
2 6 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (21.56%) Terraform
2 8 (4.79%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (35.93%) Databricks
2 56 (33.53%) Microsoft
3 18 (10.78%) Ab Initio
4 4 (2.40%) IBM
5 3 (1.80%) SAP
5 3 (1.80%) Talend
6 2 (1.20%) Informatica
6 2 (1.20%) Oracle
6 2 (1.20%) RedGate
6 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.60%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.60%) eFront
7 1 (0.60%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.60%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.60%) VMware