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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 321 317
Rank change year-on-year +102 -4 +57
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 177 114 228
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.08% 0.73% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.87% 1.56% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 94 91 199
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £41,850
25th Percentile £54,250 £52,500 £45,013
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% -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 6,170 7,298 12,673
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.70% 46.84% 45.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,240 4,721 11,090
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £35,219
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 £97,500
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 18 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 10 (5.65%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.82%) Apache
3 5 (2.82%) SAS
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 29 (16.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 177 (100.00%) Azure
2 83 (46.89%) Power Platform
3 81 (45.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 51 (28.81%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (24.29%) GitHub
6 24 (13.56%) Snowflake
7 23 (12.99%) Azure Monitor
8 21 (11.86%) Azure Logic Apps
9 19 (10.73%) dbt
10 16 (9.04%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (7.91%) Azure Event Grid
11 14 (7.91%) Azure Service Bus
11 14 (7.91%) GitHub Copilot
12 13 (7.34%) Power Automate
13 8 (4.52%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (2.82%) PaaS
14 5 (2.82%) PowerApps
14 5 (2.82%) Serverless
15 3 (1.69%) AWS
15 3 (1.69%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.69%) DNS
1 3 (1.69%) Firewall
1 3 (1.69%) VPN
2 1 (0.56%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (45.76%) Power BI
2 57 (32.20%) Azure SQL Database
2 57 (32.20%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (29.38%) Data Lake
4 50 (28.25%) SQL Server
5 37 (20.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 20 (11.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (9.04%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 14 (7.91%) Delta Lake
8 14 (7.91%) Metadata
9 6 (3.39%) Data Mining
9 6 (3.39%) MySQL
10 5 (2.82%) SAS EBI
11 4 (2.26%) Power Query
11 4 (2.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.69%) Tableau
13 2 (1.13%) MariaDB
13 2 (1.13%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 16 (9.04%) Git
2 3 (1.69%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 113 (63.84%) Finance
2 66 (37.29%) Social Skills
3 50 (28.25%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.78%) Billing
4 12 (6.78%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.52%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.39%) Automotive
7 6 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.82%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.69%) Law
11 2 (1.13%) Legal
11 2 (1.13%) Local Government
11 2 (1.13%) Marketing
11 2 (1.13%) Retail
12 1 (0.56%) Advertising
12 1 (0.56%) Banking
12 1 (0.56%) International Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (29.38%) Data Engineer
2 32 (18.08%) Senior
3 24 (13.56%) Lead
4 20 (11.30%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (9.04%) Developer
5 16 (9.04%) Platform Engineer
5 16 (9.04%) Senior Data Engineer
6 13 (7.34%) Analyst
7 12 (6.78%) Business Manager
7 12 (6.78%) Commercial Analyst
7 12 (6.78%) Insight Analyst
7 12 (6.78%) Insight Manager
8 11 (6.21%) Applications Engineer
8 11 (6.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 10 (5.65%) Data Manager
9 10 (5.65%) Integration Engineer
9 10 (5.65%) Lead Data Engineer
10 9 (5.08%) Azure Data Engineer
11 6 (3.39%) Business Developer
11 6 (3.39%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.82%) PySpark
2 19 (10.73%) JSON
3 16 (9.04%) RESTful
4 15 (8.47%) OAuth
5 14 (7.91%) OAuth2
6 8 (4.52%) .NET
6 8 (4.52%) YAML
7 6 (3.39%) Kafka
8 5 (2.82%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.26%) REST
9 4 (2.26%) XML
10 2 (1.13%) ARM Templates
10 2 (1.13%) CSS
10 2 (1.13%) HTML
10 2 (1.13%) Middleware
10 2 (1.13%) Node.js
10 2 (1.13%) Smarty
10 2 (1.13%) Symfony
11 1 (0.56%) Blazor
11 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.82%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (10.73%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.73%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.52%) Low-Code
4 6 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.82%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.69%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.69%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.13%) Derivative
8 2 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.56%) Clustering
9 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.56%) EPoS
9 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.26%) Windows
2 3 (1.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (64.97%) Analytics
2 100 (56.50%) Data Modelling
3 86 (48.59%) Business Intelligence
4 85 (48.02%) CI/CD
5 82 (46.33%) Data Pipeline
6 81 (45.76%) ETL
7 76 (42.94%) DevOps
8 68 (38.42%) Data Engineering
9 62 (35.03%) Decision-Making
10 57 (32.20%) Problem-Solving
11 56 (31.64%) Agile
12 54 (30.51%) Visualisation
13 53 (29.94%) Asset Management
14 52 (29.38%) Coaching
15 42 (23.73%) AI
16 40 (22.60%) Data Governance
16 40 (22.60%) Data Integration
17 39 (22.03%) Infrastructure as Code
18 38 (21.47%) Data Analysis
19 37 (20.90%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 129 (72.88%) SQL
2 81 (45.76%) Python
3 30 (16.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 20 (11.30%) PowerShell
5 19 (10.73%) Bicep
6 17 (9.60%) Scala
7 12 (6.78%) T-SQL
8 8 (4.52%) C#
9 4 (2.26%) R
10 3 (1.69%) Java
10 3 (1.69%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (11.86%) Degree
2 12 (6.78%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 8 (4.52%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.26%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.69%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.69%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.69%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (38.98%) Data Quality
2 21 (11.86%) GDPR
3 12 (6.78%) Actionable Recommendations
4 8 (4.52%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 6 (3.39%) Docker
2 5 (2.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (21.47%) Terraform
2 6 (3.39%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 79 (44.63%) Databricks
2 48 (27.12%) Microsoft
3 18 (10.17%) Ab Initio
4 4 (2.26%) IBM
5 3 (1.69%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.13%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.13%) SAP
6 2 (1.13%) Talend
7 1 (0.56%) Foundry
7 1 (0.56%) Informatica
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle
7 1 (0.56%) RedGate