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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 308 303
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 -23
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 140 116 220
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.60% 0.71% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.61% 1.97% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 125 101 180
10th Percentile £50,468 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £52,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £80,625
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +19.23% - -

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 8,671 5,881 9,863
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.11% 35.98% 40.75%
Number of salaries quoted 6,345 4,297 7,268
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

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 3 September 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 24 (17.14%) SharePoint
2 10 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.86%) Apache
4 2 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 140 (100.00%) Azure
2 73 (52.14%) Power Platform
3 57 (40.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 38 (27.14%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (22.14%) Azure Databricks
6 24 (17.14%) Microsoft Purview
7 22 (15.71%) Azure Logic Apps
7 22 (15.71%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (14.29%) Power Automate
8 20 (14.29%) PowerApps
9 18 (12.86%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 18 (12.86%) OneDrive
9 18 (12.86%) Snowflake
10 16 (11.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (4.29%) GitHub
12 5 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (2.86%) AWS
14 3 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (2.14%) GCP
14 3 (2.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (50.71%) Power BI
2 39 (27.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 39 (27.86%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (24.29%) Metadata
4 29 (20.71%) Delta Lake
5 26 (18.57%) Data Lake
6 19 (13.57%) SQL Server
7 16 (11.43%) Data Vault
8 15 (10.71%) Star Schema
9 11 (7.86%) NoSQL
10 9 (6.43%) Big Data
11 8 (5.71%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (5.71%) Spark SQL
12 7 (5.00%) Amazon QuickSight
12 7 (5.00%) DynamoDB
12 7 (5.00%) MongoDB
12 7 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (5.00%) Tableau
13 5 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (2.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 22 (15.71%) Git
2 2 (1.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.43%) MLflow
2 2 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.71%) GitLab
3 1 (0.71%) JIRA
3 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (26.43%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.71%) Finance
3 12 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.57%) Retail
5 4 (2.86%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.14%) Legal
7 2 (1.43%) Banking
7 2 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.43%) Law
8 1 (0.71%) Billing
8 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Marketing
8 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.71%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 60 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 45 (32.14%) Senior
3 26 (18.57%) Architect
3 26 (18.57%) Data Architect
4 21 (15.00%) Developer
5 17 (12.14%) Senior Data Engineer
6 16 (11.43%) Lead
7 14 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 13 (9.29%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (7.86%) Lead Data Engineer
9 11 (7.86%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (6.43%) Consultant
11 8 (5.71%) Azure Data Engineer
12 7 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Developer
12 7 (5.00%) Senior Microsoft Developer
13 5 (3.57%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 5 (3.57%) Databricks Engineer
13 5 (3.57%) Senior Consultant
14 4 (2.86%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (30.00%) PySpark
2 30 (21.43%) Terraform
3 21 (15.00%) JSON
4 20 (14.29%) .NET
5 19 (13.57%) .NET Core
5 19 (13.57%) CSS
5 19 (13.57%) HTML
6 18 (12.86%) HTML5 Canvas
6 18 (12.86%) Microsoft Graph
6 18 (12.86%) SPFx
7 6 (4.29%) Kafka
8 5 (3.57%) REST
9 3 (2.14%) MDX
10 2 (1.43%) FastAPI
10 2 (1.43%) LangChain
10 2 (1.43%) YAML
11 1 (0.71%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.71%) Middleware
11 1 (0.71%) PyTorch
11 1 (0.71%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.71%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (6.43%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.86%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.43%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.43%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.71%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.71%) Clustering
7 1 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.71%) FMCG
7 1 (0.71%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.71%) Life Science
7 1 (0.71%) Replication
7 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (70.71%) Business Intelligence
2 73 (52.14%) Analytics
3 68 (48.57%) Data Modelling
4 67 (47.86%) CI/CD
5 55 (39.29%) ETL
6 53 (37.86%) DevOps
7 51 (36.43%) Data Pipeline
8 50 (35.71%) Data Engineering
9 48 (34.29%) Machine Learning
10 45 (32.14%) AI
10 45 (32.14%) Data Architecture
11 43 (30.71%) Technical Leadership
12 39 (27.86%) Lakehouse
13 35 (25.00%) Data Strategy
14 28 (20.00%) Data Science
14 28 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (19.29%) Decision-Making
15 27 (19.29%) Roadmaps
16 25 (17.86%) Agile
17 24 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 107 (76.43%) SQL
2 73 (52.14%) Python
3 29 (20.71%) C#
4 27 (19.29%) PowerShell
5 21 (15.00%) JavaScript
6 19 (13.57%) Bicep
7 18 (12.86%) Scala
7 18 (12.86%) TypeScript
8 10 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (3.57%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.43%) VBA
11 1 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.71%) PHP
11 1 (0.71%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 17 (12.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (11.43%) SnowPro
4 15 (10.71%) Degree
5 13 (9.29%) Security Cleared
6 8 (5.71%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.71%) ICAEW
7 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (37.14%) Data Quality
2 14 (10.00%) GDPR
3 7 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (2.86%) QA
5 2 (1.43%) IFRS
5 2 (1.43%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.43%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.71%) Ansible
2 1 (0.71%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 88 (62.86%) Microsoft
2 64 (45.71%) Databricks
3 18 (12.86%) Adobe
4 9 (6.43%) Talend
5 8 (5.71%) Informatica
6 4 (2.86%) Google
7 3 (2.14%) Foundry
8 2 (1.43%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.71%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.71%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.71%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.71%) SolarWinds