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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 305 317
Rank change year-on-year +89 +12 +71
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 170 130 219
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.08% 0.80% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.94% 1.71% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 85 107 190
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,100 £41,925
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £45,644
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +18.18% -18.52%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -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 5,783 7,607 11,887
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.82% 46.68% 46.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4,026 4,825 10,360
10th Percentile £32,125 £35,750 £36,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,498 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 28 January 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 (5.29%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.94%) Apache
2 5 (2.94%) SAS
3 3 (1.76%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 27 (15.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.76%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.35%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.59%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 170 (100.00%) Azure
2 80 (47.06%) Power Platform
3 79 (46.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 52 (30.59%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (25.29%) GitHub
6 23 (13.53%) Azure Monitor
6 23 (13.53%) Snowflake
7 19 (11.18%) Azure Logic Apps
7 19 (11.18%) dbt
8 15 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (8.24%) Azure Event Grid
9 14 (8.24%) Azure Service Bus
9 14 (8.24%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (5.88%) Power Automate
11 8 (4.71%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (2.35%) Azure App Service
13 4 (2.35%) Serverless
14 3 (1.76%) AWS
14 3 (1.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.35%) DNS
1 4 (2.35%) Firewall
1 4 (2.35%) VPN
2 1 (0.59%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (46.47%) Power BI
2 54 (31.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 54 (31.76%) Data Lake
3 51 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (27.65%) SQL Server
5 35 (20.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 18 (10.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (9.41%) Metadata
8 15 (8.82%) Delta Lake
9 12 (7.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 6 (3.53%) Data Mining
11 5 (2.94%) MySQL
11 5 (2.94%) SAS EBI
12 4 (2.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (1.76%) Power Query
13 3 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.76%) Tableau
14 2 (1.18%) Data Vault
14 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
14 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (10.00%) Git
2 3 (1.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.18%) JIRA
4 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
General
1 107 (62.94%) Finance
2 65 (38.24%) Social Skills
3 51 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.06%) Billing
4 12 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (7.06%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.53%) Automotive
6 6 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.94%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.35%) Local Government
9 3 (1.76%) Banking
10 2 (1.18%) Advertising
10 2 (1.18%) Law
10 2 (1.18%) Marketing
10 2 (1.18%) Retail
11 1 (0.59%) International Banking
11 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (28.82%) Data Engineer
2 33 (19.41%) Senior
3 19 (11.18%) Azure Engineer
4 16 (9.41%) Lead
4 16 (9.41%) Senior Data Engineer
5 13 (7.65%) Analyst
5 13 (7.65%) Developer
6 12 (7.06%) Business Manager
6 12 (7.06%) Commercial Analyst
6 12 (7.06%) Insight Analyst
6 12 (7.06%) Insight Manager
6 12 (7.06%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (6.47%) Applications Engineer
8 10 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
9 9 (5.29%) Data Manager
10 8 (4.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (4.12%) Azure Data Engineer
12 6 (3.53%) Consultant
12 6 (3.53%) Service Manager
13 5 (2.94%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.29%) PySpark
2 18 (10.59%) JSON
3 15 (8.82%) OAuth
3 15 (8.82%) RESTful
4 14 (8.24%) OAuth2
5 8 (4.71%) YAML
6 6 (3.53%) .NET
6 6 (3.53%) Kafka
7 5 (2.94%) XML
8 4 (2.35%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.76%) REST
10 1 (0.59%) CSS
10 1 (0.59%) D3.js
10 1 (0.59%) HTML
10 1 (0.59%) Middleware
10 1 (0.59%) Node.js
10 1 (0.59%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.59%) Smarty
10 1 (0.59%) SOAP
10 1 (0.59%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.47%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (11.18%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (10.59%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.12%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.76%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.76%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.76%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.18%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.18%) Derivative
7 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.18%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.59%) Clustering
8 1 (0.59%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.59%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.59%) EPoS
8 1 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.35%) VMS
1 4 (2.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (62.35%) Analytics
2 92 (54.12%) Data Modelling
3 85 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 83 (48.82%) CI/CD
5 80 (47.06%) Data Pipeline
5 80 (47.06%) ETL
6 75 (44.12%) DevOps
7 59 (34.71%) Data Engineering
8 56 (32.94%) Agile
8 56 (32.94%) Problem-Solving
9 53 (31.18%) Visualisation
10 51 (30.00%) Coaching
10 51 (30.00%) Decision-Making
11 50 (29.41%) Asset Management
12 41 (24.12%) Data Governance
13 40 (23.53%) AI
14 39 (22.94%) Infrastructure as Code
15 38 (22.35%) Data Integration
16 36 (21.18%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (21.18%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 125 (73.53%) SQL
2 78 (45.88%) Python
3 30 (17.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 20 (11.76%) Bicep
5 19 (11.18%) PowerShell
6 18 (10.59%) Scala
7 12 (7.06%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.53%) C#
9 4 (2.35%) R
10 3 (1.76%) Java
11 2 (1.18%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.59%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (11.76%) Degree
2 12 (7.06%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 9 (5.29%) Azure Certification
4 7 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.94%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.35%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.76%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.18%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (38.24%) Data Quality
2 21 (12.35%) GDPR
3 12 (7.06%) Actionable Recommendations
4 8 (4.71%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.59%) QA
System Software
1 8 (4.71%) Docker
2 5 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (22.94%) Terraform
2 8 (4.71%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (42.35%) Databricks
2 49 (28.82%) Microsoft
3 18 (10.59%) Ab Initio
4 4 (2.35%) IBM
5 2 (1.18%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.18%) SAP
5 2 (1.18%) Talend
6 1 (0.59%) Informatica
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle
6 1 (0.59%) RedGate
6 1 (0.59%) Salesforce