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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 324 317
Rank change year-on-year +107 -7 +41
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 173 111 228
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.06% 0.74% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.81% 1.58% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 92 88 200
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,200 £41,925
25th Percentile £53,625 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +16.07% -13.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -11.11%

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 6,166 7,015 12,793
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.60% 46.73% 46.02%
Number of salaries quoted 4,215 4,648 11,199
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,284
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -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 24 February 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 9 (5.20%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.89%) SAS
2 5 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.31%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 29 (16.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.73%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.58%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 173 (100.00%) Azure
2 80 (46.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 80 (46.24%) Power Platform
3 49 (28.32%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (23.70%) GitHub
5 24 (13.87%) Snowflake
6 23 (13.29%) Azure Monitor
7 20 (11.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 18 (10.40%) dbt
9 15 (8.67%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (8.09%) Azure Event Grid
10 14 (8.09%) Azure Service Bus
10 14 (8.09%) GitHub Copilot
11 11 (6.36%) Power Automate
12 8 (4.62%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (2.31%) PaaS
13 4 (2.31%) PowerApps
13 4 (2.31%) Serverless
14 3 (1.73%) IaaS
15 2 (1.16%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) DNS
1 2 (1.16%) Firewall
1 2 (1.16%) VPN
2 1 (0.58%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (45.66%) Power BI
2 58 (33.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 57 (32.95%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (28.90%) Data Lake
5 48 (27.75%) SQL Server
6 37 (21.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 19 (10.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 17 (9.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 14 (8.09%) Delta Lake
10 13 (7.51%) Metadata
11 6 (3.47%) Data Mining
12 5 (2.89%) MySQL
12 5 (2.89%) SAS EBI
13 4 (2.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 3 (1.73%) Power Query
14 3 (1.73%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (1.73%) Tableau
15 2 (1.16%) Data Vault
15 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
15 2 (1.16%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 16 (9.25%) Git
2 3 (1.73%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
General
1 113 (65.32%) Finance
2 65 (37.57%) Social Skills
3 48 (27.75%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.94%) Billing
4 12 (6.94%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (6.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.62%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.47%) Automotive
7 6 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.89%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.16%) Law
9 2 (1.16%) Legal
9 2 (1.16%) Local Government
9 2 (1.16%) Retail
10 1 (0.58%) Advertising
10 1 (0.58%) Banking
10 1 (0.58%) International Banking
10 1 (0.58%) Marketing
10 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (30.06%) Data Engineer
2 31 (17.92%) Senior
3 24 (13.87%) Lead
4 19 (10.98%) Azure Engineer
5 17 (9.83%) Platform Engineer
6 16 (9.25%) Senior Data Engineer
7 15 (8.67%) Developer
8 13 (7.51%) Analyst
9 12 (6.94%) Business Manager
9 12 (6.94%) Commercial Analyst
9 12 (6.94%) Insight Analyst
9 12 (6.94%) Insight Manager
10 11 (6.36%) Applications Engineer
10 11 (6.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 11 (6.36%) Lead Data Engineer
11 10 (5.78%) Integration Engineer
12 9 (5.20%) Azure Data Engineer
12 9 (5.20%) Data Manager
13 6 (3.47%) Business Developer
13 6 (3.47%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.61%) PySpark
2 18 (10.40%) JSON
3 15 (8.67%) OAuth
3 15 (8.67%) RESTful
4 14 (8.09%) OAuth2
5 8 (4.62%) YAML
6 6 (3.47%) .NET
7 5 (2.89%) Kafka
8 4 (2.31%) XML
9 3 (1.73%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.73%) REST
10 2 (1.16%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.58%) Blazor
11 1 (0.58%) CSS
11 1 (0.58%) D3.js
11 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Graph
11 1 (0.58%) Node.js
11 1 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
11 1 (0.58%) Smarty
11 1 (0.58%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.18%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (10.98%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (9.83%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.62%) Low-Code
5 6 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.89%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.16%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.16%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.58%) Clustering
9 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.58%) Derivative
9 1 (0.58%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.58%) EPoS
9 1 (0.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.31%) Windows
2 2 (1.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (64.74%) Analytics
2 99 (57.23%) Data Modelling
3 84 (48.55%) CI/CD
4 83 (47.98%) Business Intelligence
5 81 (46.82%) Data Pipeline
6 77 (44.51%) ETL
7 74 (42.77%) DevOps
8 68 (39.31%) Data Engineering
9 62 (35.84%) Decision-Making
10 56 (32.37%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (31.79%) Agile
12 54 (31.21%) Visualisation
13 53 (30.64%) Asset Management
14 51 (29.48%) Coaching
15 42 (24.28%) AI
16 40 (23.12%) Data Integration
17 39 (22.54%) Data Governance
18 37 (21.39%) Continuous Improvement
18 37 (21.39%) Data Analysis
18 37 (21.39%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 128 (73.99%) SQL
2 79 (45.66%) Python
3 29 (16.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 18 (10.40%) Bicep
4 18 (10.40%) PowerShell
5 16 (9.25%) Scala
6 12 (6.94%) T-SQL
7 6 (3.47%) C#
8 4 (2.31%) R
9 2 (1.16%) Java
9 2 (1.16%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (11.56%) Degree
2 12 (6.94%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 8 (4.62%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.31%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.73%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.73%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (38.73%) Data Quality
2 19 (10.98%) GDPR
3 12 (6.94%) Actionable Recommendations
4 8 (4.62%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.58%) QA
System Software
1 5 (2.89%) Active Directory
1 5 (2.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (21.39%) Terraform
2 5 (2.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 78 (45.09%) Databricks
2 45 (26.01%) Microsoft
3 18 (10.40%) Ab Initio
4 4 (2.31%) IBM
5 3 (1.73%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.16%) SAP
7 1 (0.58%) Foundry
7 1 (0.58%) Informatica
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle
7 1 (0.58%) RedGate
7 1 (0.58%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.58%) Talend