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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 325 343
Rank change year-on-year +64 +18 -24
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 151 105 265
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.79% 0.72% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.06% 1.82% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 117 92 227
10th Percentile £46,104 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,625 £45,026
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £90,675 £93,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £66,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.21% +6.00% -7.41%

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 7,313 5,760 14,197
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.15% 39.34% 42.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,030 4,148 12,046
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £109,125 £100,000
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 29 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 (19.21%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.62%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.65%) Apache
4 2 (1.32%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.32%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.66%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.99%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.66%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 151 (100.00%) Azure
2 61 (40.40%) Power Platform
3 53 (35.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 29 (19.21%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (19.21%) Azure Logic Apps
5 24 (15.89%) Power Automate
5 24 (15.89%) PowerApps
6 23 (15.23%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (13.25%) GitHub
8 19 (12.58%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 19 (12.58%) OneDrive
9 13 (8.61%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (7.28%) Snowflake
11 8 (5.30%) dbt
12 7 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (2.65%) PaaS
14 4 (2.65%) Serverless
15 3 (1.99%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (38.41%) Power BI
2 48 (31.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 47 (31.13%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (26.49%) Data Lake
5 15 (9.93%) Delta Lake
6 13 (8.61%) SQL Server
7 12 (7.95%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 10 (6.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (5.96%) Metadata
10 8 (5.30%) Big Data
11 6 (3.97%) Spark SQL
11 6 (3.97%) Star Schema
12 5 (3.31%) Data Mining
13 4 (2.65%) Power Query
13 4 (2.65%) Relational Database
13 4 (2.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (1.99%) MySQL
14 3 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
14 3 (1.99%) Tableau
15 2 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (13.25%) Git
2 3 (1.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (1.32%) MLflow
3 2 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.66%) GitLab
4 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.66%) JIRA
4 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (39.07%) Finance
2 44 (29.14%) Social Skills
3 16 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.96%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (3.97%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.31%) Retail
7 4 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.99%) Automotive
8 3 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.99%) Law
9 2 (1.32%) Legal
9 2 (1.32%) Local Government
9 2 (1.32%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 62 (41.06%) Data Engineer
2 37 (24.50%) Senior
3 33 (21.85%) Lead
4 29 (19.21%) Developer
5 24 (15.89%) Platform Engineer
6 19 (12.58%) Lead Data Engineer
7 16 (10.60%) Senior Developer
8 13 (8.61%) Senior Data Engineer
9 11 (7.28%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 10 (6.62%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (6.62%) Consultant
11 8 (5.30%) Business Developer
12 7 (4.64%) Architect
12 7 (4.64%) Azure Data Engineer
12 7 (4.64%) Data Architect
12 7 (4.64%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 7 (4.64%) Microsoft Developer
12 7 (4.64%) Senior Microsoft Developer
13 5 (3.31%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
13 5 (3.31%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (19.87%) PySpark
2 25 (16.56%) JSON
3 23 (15.23%) .NET
4 21 (13.91%) .NET Core
4 21 (13.91%) CSS
4 21 (13.91%) HTML
5 19 (12.58%) HTML5 Canvas
5 19 (12.58%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (12.58%) SPFx
6 5 (3.31%) RESTful
7 4 (2.65%) Kafka
7 4 (2.65%) YAML
8 3 (1.99%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.99%) OAuth
8 3 (1.99%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.99%) REST
9 2 (1.32%) Middleware
9 2 (1.32%) Node.js
9 2 (1.32%) Smarty
9 2 (1.32%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.27%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.64%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.97%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.31%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (1.99%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.66%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.66%) Clustering
7 1 (0.66%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.66%) FMCG
7 1 (0.66%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.66%) Life Science
7 1 (0.66%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.66%) Replication
7 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (55.63%) Data Modelling
2 81 (53.64%) Analytics
3 69 (45.70%) ETL
4 67 (44.37%) Data Pipeline
5 66 (43.71%) Data Engineering
6 65 (43.05%) Business Intelligence
7 64 (42.38%) CI/CD
8 52 (34.44%) DevOps
9 44 (29.14%) Decision-Making
10 32 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (20.53%) Machine Learning
12 30 (19.87%) AI
13 29 (19.21%) Platform Engineering
14 26 (17.22%) Data Governance
15 24 (15.89%) Infrastructure as Code
16 23 (15.23%) Agile
17 22 (14.57%) Technical Leadership
18 20 (13.25%) Asset Management
18 20 (13.25%) Data Architecture
18 20 (13.25%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 107 (70.86%) SQL
2 66 (43.71%) Python
3 30 (19.87%) PowerShell
4 24 (15.89%) C#
5 21 (13.91%) JavaScript
6 19 (12.58%) TypeScript
7 13 (8.61%) Scala
8 10 (6.62%) T-SQL
9 7 (4.64%) Bicep
10 5 (3.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (2.65%) R
12 2 (1.32%) PHP
12 2 (1.32%) VBA
13 1 (0.66%) Java
13 1 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (8.61%) Degree
2 11 (7.28%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.64%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.31%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (32.45%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.95%) GDPR
3 4 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.99%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.99%) QA
5 2 (1.32%) IFRS
5 2 (1.32%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (1.99%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (14.57%) Terraform
2 1 (0.66%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.66%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 74 (49.01%) Databricks
2 63 (41.72%) Microsoft
3 19 (12.58%) Adobe
4 6 (3.97%) Ab Initio
5 3 (1.99%) IBM
5 3 (1.99%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.32%) Foundry
6 2 (1.32%) Google
6 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.66%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.66%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.66%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.66%) Talend