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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 321 308
Rank change year-on-year +117 -13 +64
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 175 114 235
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.08% 0.73% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.91% 1.55% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 92 93 205
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,200
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £45,026
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% -14.81%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -13.60%

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 6,005 7,336 12,663
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.06% 46.81% 45.85%
Number of salaries quoted 4,134 4,741 11,071
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 11 February 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 9 (5.14%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.43%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.86%) Apache
3 5 (2.86%) SAS
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 29 (16.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.71%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.29%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.57%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 175 (100.00%) Azure
2 83 (47.43%) Power Platform
3 79 (45.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 52 (29.71%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (25.14%) GitHub
6 23 (13.14%) Azure Monitor
6 23 (13.14%) Snowflake
7 21 (12.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 19 (10.86%) dbt
9 16 (9.14%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (8.00%) Azure Event Grid
10 14 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
10 14 (8.00%) GitHub Copilot
11 13 (7.43%) Power Automate
12 8 (4.57%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (2.86%) PaaS
13 5 (2.86%) PowerApps
13 5 (2.86%) Serverless
14 4 (2.29%) Azure App Service
15 3 (1.71%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.29%) DNS
1 4 (2.29%) Firewall
1 4 (2.29%) VPN
2 1 (0.57%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (46.29%) Power BI
2 56 (32.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 55 (31.43%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (29.71%) Data Lake
5 50 (28.57%) SQL Server
6 37 (21.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 20 (11.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 15 (8.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 14 (8.00%) Delta Lake
9 14 (8.00%) Metadata
10 6 (3.43%) Data Mining
10 6 (3.43%) MySQL
11 5 (2.86%) SAS EBI
12 4 (2.29%) Power Query
12 4 (2.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (1.71%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.71%) Tableau
14 2 (1.14%) Data Vault
14 2 (1.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (9.14%) Git
2 3 (1.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
General
1 112 (64.00%) Finance
2 65 (37.14%) Social Skills
3 50 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.86%) Billing
4 12 (6.86%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.14%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.43%) Automotive
7 6 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.71%) Local Government
10 2 (1.14%) Law
10 2 (1.14%) Legal
10 2 (1.14%) Marketing
10 2 (1.14%) Retail
11 1 (0.57%) Advertising
11 1 (0.57%) Banking
11 1 (0.57%) International Banking
11 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (28.00%) Data Engineer
2 33 (18.86%) Senior
3 21 (12.00%) Lead
4 20 (11.43%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (9.14%) Developer
5 16 (9.14%) Senior Data Engineer
6 14 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
7 13 (7.43%) Analyst
8 12 (6.86%) Business Manager
8 12 (6.86%) Commercial Analyst
8 12 (6.86%) Insight Analyst
8 12 (6.86%) Insight Manager
9 11 (6.29%) Applications Engineer
9 11 (6.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 10 (5.71%) Data Manager
10 10 (5.71%) Integration Engineer
11 8 (4.57%) Azure Data Engineer
11 8 (4.57%) Lead Data Engineer
12 6 (3.43%) Business Developer
12 6 (3.43%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.86%) PySpark
2 19 (10.86%) JSON
3 16 (9.14%) RESTful
4 15 (8.57%) OAuth
5 14 (8.00%) OAuth2
6 8 (4.57%) .NET
6 8 (4.57%) YAML
7 6 (3.43%) Kafka
8 5 (2.86%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.29%) REST
9 4 (2.29%) XML
10 2 (1.14%) CSS
10 2 (1.14%) HTML
10 2 (1.14%) Middleware
10 2 (1.14%) Node.js
10 2 (1.14%) Smarty
10 2 (1.14%) Symfony
11 1 (0.57%) D3.js
11 1 (0.57%) RabbitMQ
11 1 (0.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (10.86%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (10.29%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.57%) Low-Code
5 5 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.71%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.71%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.14%) Derivative
7 2 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.57%) Clustering
8 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.57%) EPoS
8 1 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.29%) VMS
1 4 (2.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (64.00%) Analytics
2 97 (55.43%) Data Modelling
3 86 (49.14%) Business Intelligence
4 84 (48.00%) CI/CD
5 82 (46.86%) ETL
6 81 (46.29%) Data Pipeline
7 75 (42.86%) DevOps
8 65 (37.14%) Data Engineering
9 60 (34.29%) Decision-Making
10 57 (32.57%) Problem-Solving
11 56 (32.00%) Agile
12 54 (30.86%) Visualisation
13 53 (30.29%) Asset Management
13 53 (30.29%) Coaching
14 42 (24.00%) AI
15 40 (22.86%) Data Governance
15 40 (22.86%) Data Integration
16 39 (22.29%) Infrastructure as Code
17 38 (21.71%) Data Analysis
18 37 (21.14%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 128 (73.14%) SQL
2 79 (45.14%) Python
3 30 (17.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 21 (12.00%) PowerShell
5 20 (11.43%) Bicep
6 17 (9.71%) Scala
7 12 (6.86%) T-SQL
8 8 (4.57%) C#
9 4 (2.29%) R
10 3 (1.71%) Java
10 3 (1.71%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (12.00%) Degree
2 12 (6.86%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 8 (4.57%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.29%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.71%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.71%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.71%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (38.29%) Data Quality
2 21 (12.00%) GDPR
3 12 (6.86%) Actionable Recommendations
4 8 (4.57%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 7 (4.00%) Docker
2 5 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (21.71%) Terraform
2 7 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 75 (42.86%) Databricks
2 49 (28.00%) Microsoft
3 18 (10.29%) Ab Initio
4 4 (2.29%) IBM
5 3 (1.71%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.14%) SAP
6 2 (1.14%) Talend
7 1 (0.57%) Informatica
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle
7 1 (0.57%) RedGate