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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 316 291
Rank change year-on-year -27 -25 +3
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 125 98 202
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.50% 0.59% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 1.71% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 108 80 163
10th Percentile £51,015 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £51,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £63,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.49% -1.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,813 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,925 £93,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +4.00%

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 8,617 5,738 9,171
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.67% 34.41% 42.36%
Number of salaries quoted 6,317 4,064 6,015
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,738
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 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year +5.93% -7.81% +2.40%

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 10 October 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 13 (10.40%) SharePoint
2 10 (8.00%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.20%) Apache
4 2 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.60%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 125 (100.00%) Azure
2 65 (52.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 59 (47.20%) Power Platform
4 43 (34.40%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (22.40%) Azure Databricks
6 26 (20.80%) Microsoft Purview
7 19 (15.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 18 (14.40%) Azure Logic Apps
8 18 (14.40%) Snowflake
9 14 (11.20%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (10.40%) PowerApps
11 12 (9.60%) Power Automate
12 10 (8.00%) AWS
13 9 (7.20%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 9 (7.20%) OneDrive
14 8 (6.40%) Azure Functions
14 8 (6.40%) Serverless
15 6 (4.80%) Amazon S3
15 6 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (4.80%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (46.40%) Power BI
2 45 (36.00%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (28.80%) Metadata
4 34 (27.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 29 (23.20%) Delta Lake
6 28 (22.40%) Data Lake
7 20 (16.00%) SQL Server
8 18 (14.40%) Star Schema
9 16 (12.80%) Data Vault
10 14 (11.20%) NoSQL
11 10 (8.00%) Snowflake Schema
12 9 (7.20%) Amazon QuickSight
12 9 (7.20%) DynamoDB
12 9 (7.20%) MongoDB
13 8 (6.40%) Big Data
14 7 (5.60%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (5.60%) Parquet
14 7 (5.60%) Tableau
15 6 (4.80%) Amazon Athena
15 6 (4.80%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 27 (21.60%) Git
2 3 (2.40%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.60%) MLflow
3 2 (1.60%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (23.20%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.80%) Finance
3 15 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.80%) Retail
5 3 (2.40%) Legal
6 2 (1.60%) Banking
6 2 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.60%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.80%) Billing
7 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.80%) Law
7 1 (0.80%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 61 (48.80%) Data Engineer
2 37 (29.60%) Senior
3 24 (19.20%) Architect
3 24 (19.20%) Data Architect
4 19 (15.20%) Senior Data Engineer
5 17 (13.60%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (9.60%) Lead
7 11 (8.80%) Developer
8 10 (8.00%) Consultant
8 10 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (7.20%) Azure Data Engineer
10 8 (6.40%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 5 (4.00%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 5 (4.00%) Databricks Engineer
11 5 (4.00%) Senior Consultant
11 5 (4.00%) Senior Developer
12 4 (3.20%) Data Consultant
13 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Consultant
13 3 (2.40%) SEO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (36.00%) PySpark
2 31 (24.80%) Terraform
3 16 (12.80%) JSON
4 10 (8.00%) .NET
5 9 (7.20%) .NET Core
5 9 (7.20%) CSS
5 9 (7.20%) HTML
5 9 (7.20%) HTML5 Canvas
5 9 (7.20%) Microsoft Graph
5 9 (7.20%) SPFx
6 7 (5.60%) Kafka
7 6 (4.80%) Apache Avro
8 5 (4.00%) REST
9 3 (2.40%) FastAPI
9 3 (2.40%) LangChain
9 3 (2.40%) MDX
10 1 (0.80%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.80%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.60%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (7.20%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.00%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.20%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.60%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.80%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.80%) FMCG
8 1 (0.80%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (67.20%) Business Intelligence
2 73 (58.40%) CI/CD
3 72 (57.60%) Analytics
4 67 (53.60%) Data Modelling
5 61 (48.80%) DevOps
6 54 (43.20%) ETL
7 51 (40.80%) Data Pipeline
8 45 (36.00%) Data Engineering
9 44 (35.20%) AI
10 41 (32.80%) Data Architecture
11 37 (29.60%) Machine Learning
12 36 (28.80%) Data Strategy
13 34 (27.20%) Lakehouse
13 34 (27.20%) Technical Leadership
14 31 (24.80%) Agile
15 29 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
16 26 (20.80%) Data Science
16 26 (20.80%) Roadmaps
17 25 (20.00%) Decision-Making
17 25 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 102 (81.60%) SQL
2 78 (62.40%) Python
3 22 (17.60%) C#
4 21 (16.80%) Bicep
5 19 (15.20%) PowerShell
5 19 (15.20%) Scala
6 12 (9.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (9.60%) JavaScript
7 9 (7.20%) TypeScript
8 6 (4.80%) Java
8 6 (4.80%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.60%) VBA
10 1 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.80%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (16.00%) Azure Certification
2 17 (13.60%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (12.80%) SnowPro
4 15 (12.00%) Security Cleared
5 13 (10.40%) Degree
6 11 (8.80%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.80%) ICAEW
7 1 (0.80%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (44.00%) Data Quality
2 13 (10.40%) GDPR
3 9 (7.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (5.60%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.60%) IFRS
5 2 (1.60%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.60%) QA
5 2 (1.60%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.20%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.60%) Ansible
Vendors
1 83 (66.40%) Microsoft
2 57 (45.60%) Databricks
3 12 (9.60%) Informatica
4 11 (8.80%) Talend
5 9 (7.20%) Adobe
6 4 (3.20%) Foundry
7 3 (2.40%) Google
8 1 (0.80%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.80%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.80%) Salesforce