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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 304 279
Rank change year-on-year -13 -25 +202
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 113 214 258
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.70% 0.92% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.96% 2.25% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 98 176 230
10th Percentile £44,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,156 £50,984
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.12% -9.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,750 £93,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

All Cloud 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 5,778 9,504 11,931
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.57% 40.72% 48.02%
Number of salaries quoted 4,172 6,575 10,321
10th Percentile £31,614 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £83,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

Azure Data Factory
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Data Factory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Data Factory trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure Data Factory
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Azure Data Factory.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Azure Data Factory over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Azure Data Factory salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (15.93%) SharePoint
2 8 (7.08%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.65%) Apache
4 2 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.77%) SAS
5 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (7.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.77%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (7.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.88%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.88%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 113 (100.00%) Azure
2 70 (61.95%) Power Platform
3 35 (30.97%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (21.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 19 (16.81%) PowerApps
6 14 (12.39%) Power Automate
7 13 (11.50%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (10.62%) GitHub
9 10 (8.85%) PaaS
10 9 (7.96%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (7.96%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (7.08%) IaaS
11 8 (7.08%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (6.19%) AWS
12 7 (6.19%) Azure Machine Learning
12 7 (6.19%) Serverless
13 6 (5.31%) dbt
13 6 (5.31%) SaaS
14 5 (4.42%) Azure Functions
15 4 (3.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.42%) Firewall
2 4 (3.54%) DNS
2 4 (3.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (52.21%) Power BI
2 45 (39.82%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (30.09%) SQL Server
4 29 (25.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (16.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 18 (15.93%) Data Lake
7 13 (11.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (11.50%) Metadata
8 9 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (7.08%) MySQL
9 8 (7.08%) Star Schema
10 7 (6.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 5 (4.42%) Big Data
11 5 (4.42%) Data Hub
11 5 (4.42%) Relational Database
12 4 (3.54%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (3.54%) MongoDB
12 4 (3.54%) Power Query
12 4 (3.54%) RDBMS
13 3 (2.65%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 8 (7.08%) Git
1 8 (7.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 5 (4.42%) JIRA
3 4 (3.54%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.77%) JMeter
4 2 (1.77%) Locust
4 2 (1.77%) Postman
4 2 (1.77%) Robot Framework
4 2 (1.77%) Selenium
4 2 (1.77%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
General
1 52 (46.02%) Social Skills
2 41 (36.28%) Finance
3 27 (23.89%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.50%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (7.08%) Marketing
7 6 (5.31%) Advertising
8 4 (3.54%) Banking
8 4 (3.54%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.77%) Local Government
10 1 (0.88%) Front Office
10 1 (0.88%) Law
10 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (29.20%) Data Engineer
2 27 (23.89%) Senior
3 22 (19.47%) Developer
4 16 (14.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 15 (13.27%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (13.27%) Power BI Developer
6 13 (11.50%) Senior Data Engineer
7 11 (9.73%) Analyst
8 10 (8.85%) Lead
9 9 (7.96%) Azure Data Engineer
9 9 (7.96%) ETL Developer
9 9 (7.96%) SQL Developer
10 8 (7.08%) Business Developer
10 8 (7.08%) SQL BI Developer
11 6 (5.31%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
11 6 (5.31%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
11 6 (5.31%) Senior Developer
11 6 (5.31%) SSIS Developer
11 6 (5.31%) Test Engineer
12 5 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.27%) PySpark
2 10 (8.85%) .NET
3 8 (7.08%) REST
4 6 (5.31%) .NET Framework
4 6 (5.31%) JSON
5 5 (4.42%) XML
6 4 (3.54%) ML.NET
7 3 (2.65%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.65%) Pandas
7 3 (2.65%) RESTful
7 3 (2.65%) SOAP
8 2 (1.77%) CSS
8 2 (1.77%) D3.js
8 2 (1.77%) Kafka
8 2 (1.77%) Node.js
8 2 (1.77%) pytest
8 2 (1.77%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.77%) Smarty
8 2 (1.77%) Symfony
8 2 (1.77%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.85%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (7.96%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.19%) Data Structures
4 6 (5.31%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.42%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.54%) Clustering
6 4 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.54%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.77%) Replication
8 2 (1.77%) Social Media
9 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.88%) Derivative
9 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.88%) IoT
9 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.88%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.88%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (59.29%) Business Intelligence
2 59 (52.21%) ETL
3 54 (47.79%) Analytics
4 41 (36.28%) DevOps
5 38 (33.63%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (29.20%) Data Modelling
7 29 (25.66%) CI/CD
8 28 (24.78%) Data Engineering
8 28 (24.78%) Data Pipeline
9 27 (23.89%) Visualisation
10 25 (22.12%) Decision-Making
11 21 (18.58%) Agile
12 20 (17.70%) Data Visualisation
13 19 (16.81%) Mentoring
14 17 (15.04%) Artificial Intelligence
14 17 (15.04%) CRM
14 17 (15.04%) Machine Learning
15 14 (12.39%) Data Governance
15 14 (12.39%) Data Science
15 14 (12.39%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 76 (67.26%) SQL
2 44 (38.94%) Python
3 18 (15.93%) PowerShell
4 14 (12.39%) C#
5 12 (10.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 12 (10.62%) JavaScript
5 12 (10.62%) T-SQL
6 7 (6.19%) Bicep
7 6 (5.31%) Bash
8 5 (4.42%) R
8 5 (4.42%) Scala
9 3 (2.65%) Java
10 2 (1.77%) PHP
11 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (16.81%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (11.50%) Degree
3 12 (10.62%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.62%) Security Cleared
4 8 (7.08%) DBS Check
5 7 (6.19%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.42%) ISTQB
7 4 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (22.12%) Data Quality
2 14 (12.39%) GDPR
3 3 (2.65%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (6.19%) Docker
2 2 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (14.16%) Terraform
2 7 (6.19%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (40.71%) Microsoft
2 28 (24.78%) Databricks
3 8 (7.08%) Informatica
4 7 (6.19%) Oracle
5 5 (4.42%) OpenAI
5 5 (4.42%) Talend
6 4 (3.54%) RedGate
6 4 (3.54%) SAP
7 3 (2.65%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.77%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.77%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.88%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.88%) eFront
9 1 (0.88%) Google
9 1 (0.88%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.88%) VMware