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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 306 319
Rank change year-on-year +97 +13 +45
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 181 110 236
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.08% 0.80% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.86% 1.68% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 97 84 201
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,750 £42,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +17.39% -11.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -11.11%

All Cloud Computing 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 6,334 6,560 13,565
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.66% 47.42% 45.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,297 4,726 11,815
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £64,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.18% +7.92% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 14 March 2026.

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 10 (5.52%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.97%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.21%) Apache
3 4 (2.21%) SAS
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 28 (15.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.21%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.55%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 181 (100.00%) Azure
2 86 (47.51%) Power Platform
3 81 (44.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 50 (27.62%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (21.55%) GitHub
6 24 (13.26%) Snowflake
7 23 (12.71%) Azure Monitor
8 22 (12.15%) Azure Logic Apps
9 17 (9.39%) dbt
10 15 (8.29%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (7.73%) GitHub Copilot
11 14 (7.73%) Power Automate
12 13 (7.18%) Azure Event Grid
12 13 (7.18%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (4.42%) Azure Key Vault
13 8 (4.42%) PowerApps
14 5 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (2.76%) PaaS
15 4 (2.21%) Serverless
16 3 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.55%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (46.41%) Power BI
2 60 (33.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 58 (32.04%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (27.62%) Data Lake
5 46 (25.41%) SQL Server
6 35 (19.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 18 (9.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 17 (9.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 14 (7.73%) Delta Lake
10 13 (7.18%) Metadata
11 6 (3.31%) Data Mining
12 5 (2.76%) MySQL
12 5 (2.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (2.21%) SAS EBI
13 4 (2.21%) Spark SQL
13 4 (2.21%) Star Schema
13 4 (2.21%) Tableau
14 3 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
14 3 (1.66%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.66%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (10.50%) Git
2 3 (1.66%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.55%) GitLab
General
1 112 (61.88%) Finance
2 61 (33.70%) Social Skills
3 48 (26.52%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.63%) Billing
4 12 (6.63%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (3.87%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (3.31%) Automotive
6 6 (3.31%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.76%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.10%) Law
8 2 (1.10%) Legal
8 2 (1.10%) Local Government
8 2 (1.10%) Retail
9 1 (0.55%) Banking
9 1 (0.55%) International Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Marketing
9 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (31.49%) Data Engineer
2 31 (17.13%) Senior
3 29 (16.02%) Lead
4 19 (10.50%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (9.39%) Developer
5 17 (9.39%) Senior Data Engineer
6 16 (8.84%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (7.73%) Lead Data Engineer
8 13 (7.18%) Analyst
9 12 (6.63%) Business Manager
9 12 (6.63%) Commercial Analyst
9 12 (6.63%) Insight Analyst
9 12 (6.63%) Insight Manager
10 11 (6.08%) Applications Engineer
10 11 (6.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 10 (5.52%) Integration Engineer
12 8 (4.42%) Azure Data Engineer
13 7 (3.87%) Business Developer
13 7 (3.87%) Consultant
14 6 (3.31%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.02%) PySpark
2 20 (11.05%) JSON
3 15 (8.29%) RESTful
4 14 (7.73%) OAuth
5 13 (7.18%) OAuth2
6 9 (4.97%) .NET
6 9 (4.97%) YAML
7 7 (3.87%) .NET Core
8 5 (2.76%) CSS
8 5 (2.76%) HTML
8 5 (2.76%) Kafka
9 4 (2.21%) REST
10 3 (1.66%) HTML5 Canvas
10 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (1.66%) SPFx
11 2 (1.10%) ARM Templates
11 2 (1.10%) Middleware
11 2 (1.10%) Node.js
11 2 (1.10%) Smarty
11 2 (1.10%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.36%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (10.50%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (9.94%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.42%) Low-Code
5 7 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.31%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.10%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.10%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.10%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.55%) Clustering
9 1 (0.55%) Derivative
9 1 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.55%) EPoS
9 1 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (64.64%) Analytics
2 104 (57.46%) Data Modelling
3 90 (49.72%) Business Intelligence
4 86 (47.51%) CI/CD
5 84 (46.41%) Data Pipeline
6 78 (43.09%) ETL
7 74 (40.88%) DevOps
8 72 (39.78%) Data Engineering
9 65 (35.91%) Decision-Making
10 57 (31.49%) Problem-Solving
11 53 (29.28%) Visualisation
12 52 (28.73%) Asset Management
13 51 (28.18%) Agile
14 46 (25.41%) AI
15 45 (24.86%) Coaching
16 39 (21.55%) Continuous Improvement
17 38 (20.99%) Data Analysis
17 38 (20.99%) Data Integration
18 36 (19.89%) Infrastructure as Code
19 35 (19.34%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 133 (73.48%) SQL
2 77 (42.54%) Python
3 29 (16.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 19 (10.50%) PowerShell
5 16 (8.84%) Bicep
6 15 (8.29%) Scala
7 12 (6.63%) T-SQL
8 9 (4.97%) C#
9 5 (2.76%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.21%) R
11 3 (1.66%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.10%) PHP
13 1 (0.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 23 (12.71%) Degree
2 12 (6.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 9 (4.97%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.87%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.31%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.66%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.10%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (37.57%) Data Quality
2 19 (10.50%) GDPR
3 12 (6.63%) Actionable Recommendations
4 8 (4.42%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.10%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.21%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (19.34%) Terraform
2 3 (1.66%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.55%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 83 (45.86%) Databricks
2 50 (27.62%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.39%) Ab Initio
4 4 (2.21%) IBM
5 3 (1.66%) Adobe
5 3 (1.66%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.10%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.55%) Foundry
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle
7 1 (0.55%) SolarWinds