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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 314 290
Rank change year-on-year -7 -24 -16
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 139 111 210
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.58% 0.68% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 1.91% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 119 97 174
10th Percentile £50,468 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £51,250 £50,875
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £91,450 £94,625
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% - -

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 8,718 5,811 9,559
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.46% 35.80% 40.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6,388 4,198 6,746
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 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 12 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 22 (15.83%) SharePoint
2 11 (7.91%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.88%) Apache
4 2 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 139 (100.00%) Azure
2 68 (48.92%) Power Platform
3 61 (43.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 37 (26.62%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (21.58%) Azure Databricks
6 26 (18.71%) Azure Logic Apps
7 25 (17.99%) Microsoft Purview
8 21 (15.11%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (13.67%) Power Automate
9 19 (13.67%) PowerApps
10 18 (12.95%) Snowflake
11 17 (12.23%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 17 (12.23%) OneDrive
12 16 (11.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (7.19%) AWS
14 8 (5.76%) Azure Functions
14 8 (5.76%) Serverless
15 7 (5.04%) GitHub
16 5 (3.60%) Amazon S3
16 5 (3.60%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (47.48%) Power BI
2 39 (28.06%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (26.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 34 (24.46%) Metadata
5 30 (21.58%) Data Lake
6 29 (20.86%) Delta Lake
7 18 (12.95%) SQL Server
8 16 (11.51%) Data Vault
9 15 (10.79%) Star Schema
10 12 (8.63%) NoSQL
11 10 (7.19%) Big Data
12 8 (5.76%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (5.76%) Spark SQL
12 8 (5.76%) Tableau
13 7 (5.04%) Amazon QuickSight
13 7 (5.04%) DynamoDB
13 7 (5.04%) MongoDB
14 6 (4.32%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (4.32%) Parquet
14 6 (4.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (17.99%) Git
2 3 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.44%) MLflow
3 2 (1.44%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.72%) GitLab
4 1 (0.72%) JIRA
4 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (25.18%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.83%) Finance
3 17 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.60%) Retail
5 3 (2.16%) Legal
5 3 (2.16%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.44%) Banking
6 2 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.44%) Law
7 1 (0.72%) Billing
7 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.72%) Marketing
7 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.72%) Social Housing
7 1 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 62 (44.60%) Data Engineer
2 44 (31.65%) Senior
3 26 (18.71%) Architect
3 26 (18.71%) Data Architect
4 19 (13.67%) Developer
5 18 (12.95%) Senior Data Engineer
6 14 (10.07%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (10.07%) Lead
7 13 (9.35%) Senior Developer
8 11 (7.91%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.47%) Consultant
9 9 (6.47%) Lead Data Engineer
10 8 (5.76%) Azure Data Engineer
11 6 (4.32%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 6 (4.32%) Microsoft Developer
11 6 (4.32%) Senior Microsoft Developer
12 5 (3.60%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 5 (3.60%) Databricks Engineer
12 5 (3.60%) Senior Consultant
13 4 (2.88%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (32.37%) PySpark
2 31 (22.30%) Terraform
3 25 (17.99%) JSON
4 19 (13.67%) .NET
5 18 (12.95%) .NET Core
5 18 (12.95%) CSS
5 18 (12.95%) HTML
6 17 (12.23%) HTML5 Canvas
6 17 (12.23%) Microsoft Graph
6 17 (12.23%) SPFx
7 7 (5.04%) Kafka
8 5 (3.60%) Apache Avro
8 5 (3.60%) REST
9 3 (2.16%) MDX
10 2 (1.44%) FastAPI
10 2 (1.44%) LangChain
10 2 (1.44%) YAML
11 1 (0.72%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.72%) PyTorch
11 1 (0.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.42%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.19%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (6.47%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.76%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.88%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.88%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.44%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.72%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.72%) FMCG
7 1 (0.72%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.72%) Life Science
7 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (67.63%) Business Intelligence
2 73 (52.52%) Analytics
3 71 (51.08%) CI/CD
4 67 (48.20%) Data Modelling
5 56 (40.29%) DevOps
5 56 (40.29%) ETL
6 53 (38.13%) Data Engineering
6 53 (38.13%) Data Pipeline
7 47 (33.81%) Machine Learning
8 44 (31.65%) AI
9 43 (30.94%) Data Architecture
10 42 (30.22%) Technical Leadership
11 38 (27.34%) Lakehouse
12 35 (25.18%) Data Strategy
13 31 (22.30%) Agile
13 31 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (20.14%) Data Science
15 27 (19.42%) Roadmaps
16 25 (17.99%) Decision-Making
16 25 (17.99%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 107 (76.98%) SQL
2 78 (56.12%) Python
3 28 (20.14%) C#
4 27 (19.42%) PowerShell
5 21 (15.11%) JavaScript
6 20 (14.39%) Bicep
7 19 (13.67%) Scala
8 17 (12.23%) TypeScript
9 10 (7.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (3.60%) Java
11 4 (2.88%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.44%) VBA
13 1 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.72%) PHP
13 1 (0.72%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (14.39%) Azure Certification
2 18 (12.95%) Security Cleared
3 17 (12.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (11.51%) SnowPro
5 14 (10.07%) Degree
6 12 (8.63%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.72%) ICAEW
7 1 (0.72%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (40.29%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.35%) GDPR
3 7 (5.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (3.60%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.88%) QA
6 2 (1.44%) IFRS
6 2 (1.44%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.44%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 86 (61.87%) Microsoft
2 62 (44.60%) Databricks
3 17 (12.23%) Adobe
4 10 (7.19%) Talend
5 9 (6.47%) Informatica
6 4 (2.88%) Google
7 3 (2.16%) Foundry
8 2 (1.44%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.72%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.72%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.72%) OpenAI