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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 319 340
Rank change year-on-year +68 +21 -22
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 155 107 263
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 0.72% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.19% 1.75% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 111 90 227
10th Percentile £46,104 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £45,638
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £61,250 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.61% -4.30% +2.40%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £90,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £67,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.94% +7.20% -6.02%

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 7,068 6,099 13,953
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.97% 41.17% 42.97%
Number of salaries quoted 4,840 4,447 11,915
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £78,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,700 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 16 May 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 29 (18.71%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.45%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.58%) Apache
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.58%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.65%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 155 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (41.29%) Power Platform
3 52 (33.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 38 (24.52%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (19.35%) Azure Logic Apps
6 26 (16.77%) GitHub
6 26 (16.77%) Power Automate
7 24 (15.48%) PowerApps
8 21 (13.55%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (12.26%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 19 (12.26%) OneDrive
10 16 (10.32%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (10.32%) Snowflake
11 12 (7.74%) dbt
12 10 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (3.87%) Azure Event Grid
13 6 (3.87%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (3.87%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (3.87%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (3.87%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (39.35%) Power BI
2 49 (31.61%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (30.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 38 (24.52%) Data Lake
5 15 (9.68%) Delta Lake
6 14 (9.03%) SQL Server
7 12 (7.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 10 (6.45%) Metadata
8 10 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (4.52%) Big Data
10 6 (3.87%) Spark SQL
10 6 (3.87%) Star Schema
11 5 (3.23%) Data Mining
12 4 (2.58%) MySQL
12 4 (2.58%) Power Query
12 4 (2.58%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (2.58%) Tableau
13 3 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
14 2 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (12.90%) Git
2 3 (1.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (1.29%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.29%) MLflow
4 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.65%) GitLab
4 1 (0.65%) JIRA
4 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 67 (43.23%) Finance
2 48 (30.97%) Social Skills
3 20 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.81%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.87%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.23%) Automotive
7 4 (2.58%) Law
8 3 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.94%) Retail
9 2 (1.29%) Legal
9 2 (1.29%) Local Government
9 2 (1.29%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.65%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 60 (38.71%) Data Engineer
2 41 (26.45%) Senior
3 32 (20.65%) Lead
4 28 (18.06%) Developer
5 23 (14.84%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (11.61%) Lead Data Engineer
7 16 (10.32%) Senior Developer
8 15 (9.68%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (8.39%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (7.10%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 10 (6.45%) Consultant
12 8 (5.16%) Business Developer
13 7 (4.52%) Azure Data Engineer
13 7 (4.52%) Microsoft 365 Developer
13 7 (4.52%) Microsoft Developer
13 7 (4.52%) Senior Microsoft Developer
14 6 (3.87%) Applications Engineer
14 6 (3.87%) Architect
14 6 (3.87%) Data Architect
14 6 (3.87%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (20.65%) PySpark
2 28 (18.06%) JSON
3 23 (14.84%) .NET
4 21 (13.55%) .NET Core
4 21 (13.55%) CSS
4 21 (13.55%) HTML
5 19 (12.26%) HTML5 Canvas
5 19 (12.26%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (12.26%) SPFx
6 8 (5.16%) RESTful
7 7 (4.52%) YAML
8 6 (3.87%) OAuth
8 6 (3.87%) OAuth2
9 5 (3.23%) Kafka
10 3 (1.94%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.94%) REST
11 2 (1.29%) Middleware
11 2 (1.29%) Node.js
11 2 (1.29%) Smarty
11 2 (1.29%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.52%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.87%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.58%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.94%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.29%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.65%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.65%) Clustering
8 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.65%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.65%) Life Science
8 1 (0.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (56.77%) Data Modelling
2 82 (52.90%) Analytics
3 75 (48.39%) CI/CD
4 74 (47.74%) Data Pipeline
5 72 (46.45%) ETL
6 66 (42.58%) Business Intelligence
7 65 (41.94%) Data Engineering
8 61 (39.35%) DevOps
9 41 (26.45%) Decision-Making
10 34 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
12 30 (19.35%) Agile
12 30 (19.35%) AI
12 30 (19.35%) Asset Management
12 30 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
12 30 (19.35%) Machine Learning
13 26 (16.77%) Data Governance
14 25 (16.13%) Coaching
14 25 (16.13%) Data Integration
15 22 (14.19%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 109 (70.32%) SQL
2 69 (44.52%) Python
3 33 (21.29%) PowerShell
4 23 (14.84%) C#
5 21 (13.55%) JavaScript
6 19 (12.26%) TypeScript
7 14 (9.03%) Scala
8 11 (7.10%) Bicep
8 11 (7.10%) T-SQL
9 5 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (2.58%) R
11 2 (1.29%) PHP
12 1 (0.65%) Java
12 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (7.74%) Degree
1 12 (7.74%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.16%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.23%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.29%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (32.26%) Data Quality
2 15 (9.68%) GDPR
3 6 (3.87%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.94%) QA
6 2 (1.29%) IFRS
6 2 (1.29%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.29%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (2.58%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (18.06%) Terraform
2 2 (1.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.65%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 76 (49.03%) Databricks
2 62 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 19 (12.26%) Adobe
4 10 (6.45%) Ab Initio
5 4 (2.58%) IBM
6 3 (1.94%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.29%) Google
7 2 (1.29%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.65%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.65%) Foundry
8 1 (0.65%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.65%) Talend