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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 318 291
Rank change year-on-year -5 -27 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 135 113 227
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.59% 0.68% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.89% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 114 97 187
10th Percentile £50,468 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £52,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% - -

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 8,681 5,966 10,099
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.01% 35.97% 40.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6,293 4,382 7,871
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,500 £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 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 August 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 25 (18.52%) SharePoint
2 12 (8.89%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.70%) Apache
4 2 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.48%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 135 (100.00%) Azure
2 63 (46.67%) Power Platform
3 49 (36.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 28 (20.74%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (17.04%) Azure Logic Apps
5 23 (17.04%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (16.30%) Microsoft Purview
7 21 (15.56%) Power Automate
7 21 (15.56%) PowerApps
8 19 (14.07%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 19 (14.07%) OneDrive
9 17 (12.59%) Snowflake
10 11 (8.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (5.19%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (4.44%) GitHub
13 4 (2.96%) AWS
13 4 (2.96%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (2.22%) Azure Functions
14 3 (2.22%) GCP
14 3 (2.22%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (45.19%) Power BI
2 37 (27.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 31 (22.96%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 27 (20.00%) Metadata
5 25 (18.52%) Delta Lake
6 14 (10.37%) Data Vault
6 14 (10.37%) SQL Server
7 10 (7.41%) Star Schema
8 9 (6.67%) Big Data
8 9 (6.67%) Spark SQL
9 7 (5.19%) Tableau
10 6 (4.44%) NoSQL
11 5 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (2.96%) Relational Database
13 3 (2.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (2.22%) Semantic Layer
13 3 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (1.48%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 17 (12.59%) Git
2 2 (1.48%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.48%) MLflow
2 2 (1.48%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.74%) GitLab
3 1 (0.74%) JIRA
3 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (25.19%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.52%) Finance
3 12 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (3.70%) Retail
5 4 (2.96%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.22%) Law
7 2 (1.48%) Banking
7 2 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Billing
8 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 59 (43.70%) Data Engineer
2 37 (27.41%) Senior
3 25 (18.52%) Architect
3 25 (18.52%) Data Architect
4 22 (16.30%) Developer
5 20 (14.81%) Lead
6 15 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 14 (10.37%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (10.37%) Senior Data Engineer
8 12 (8.89%) Lead Data Engineer
9 9 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Azure Data Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 7 (5.19%) Microsoft Developer
10 7 (5.19%) Senior Microsoft Developer
11 6 (4.44%) Consultant
12 5 (3.70%) Data Migration Specialist
12 5 (3.70%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
12 5 (3.70%) Migration Specialist
13 4 (2.96%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (27.41%) PySpark
2 22 (16.30%) JSON
3 21 (15.56%) .NET
4 20 (14.81%) .NET Core
4 20 (14.81%) CSS
4 20 (14.81%) HTML
5 19 (14.07%) HTML5 Canvas
5 19 (14.07%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (14.07%) SPFx
6 7 (5.19%) Kafka
7 2 (1.48%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.48%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.48%) LangChain
7 2 (1.48%) REST
7 2 (1.48%) YAML
8 1 (0.74%) Middleware
8 1 (0.74%) Node.js
8 1 (0.74%) NumPy
8 1 (0.74%) RESTful
8 1 (0.74%) Smarty
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.30%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.96%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.96%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.96%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.48%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.74%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.74%) Clustering
7 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.74%) FMCG
7 1 (0.74%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.74%) Life Science
7 1 (0.74%) Replication
7 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (64.44%) Business Intelligence
2 68 (50.37%) Analytics
3 63 (46.67%) Data Modelling
4 58 (42.96%) CI/CD
5 56 (41.48%) Data Engineering
6 52 (38.52%) Data Pipeline
7 49 (36.30%) Machine Learning
8 45 (33.33%) ETL
9 44 (32.59%) AI
10 42 (31.11%) DevOps
11 39 (28.89%) Technical Leadership
12 36 (26.67%) Data Architecture
13 30 (22.22%) Data Strategy
14 29 (21.48%) Decision-Making
15 27 (20.00%) Data Science
16 25 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
17 24 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
18 20 (14.81%) Roadmaps
19 19 (14.07%) Document Management
19 19 (14.07%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 99 (73.33%) SQL
2 68 (50.37%) Python
3 28 (20.74%) PowerShell
4 25 (18.52%) C#
5 22 (16.30%) JavaScript
6 19 (14.07%) TypeScript
7 18 (13.33%) Bicep
8 17 (12.59%) Scala
9 5 (3.70%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.48%) VBA
12 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.74%) PHP
12 1 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (14.07%) Azure Certification
2 16 (11.85%) Security Cleared
3 15 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (10.37%) SnowPro
5 11 (8.15%) Degree
5 11 (8.15%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.74%) ICAEW
7 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (34.81%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.67%) GDPR
3 3 (2.22%) QA
4 2 (1.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.48%) IFRS
4 2 (1.48%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.48%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (22.22%) Terraform
2 3 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.74%) Ansible
3 1 (0.74%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 74 (54.81%) Microsoft
2 65 (48.15%) Databricks
3 19 (14.07%) Adobe
4 4 (2.96%) Foundry
4 4 (2.96%) Talend
5 3 (2.22%) Google
5 3 (2.22%) Informatica
6 2 (1.48%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.74%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.74%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.74%) SolarWinds