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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 309 328
Rank change year-on-year +25 +19 -27
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 136 114 271
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.69% 0.75% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.82% 1.95% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 112 98 234
10th Percentile £50,047 £44,000 £41,625
25th Percentile £59,375 £51,250 £45,332
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £61,250 £62,334
Median % change year-on-year +34.69% -1.74% -0.27%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £90,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £66,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +20.75% +6.00% -6.02%

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 7,465 5,843 14,568
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.80% 38.34% 42.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,193 4,244 12,151
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,375 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% +2.29% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%

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 13 June 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 (21.32%) SharePoint
2 10 (7.35%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.94%) Apache
4 2 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.47%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.47%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.74%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Markit EDM
1 1 (0.74%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 136 (100.00%) Azure
2 60 (44.12%) Power Platform
3 43 (31.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 27 (19.85%) Azure Logic Apps
5 25 (18.38%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (17.65%) Power Automate
6 24 (17.65%) PowerApps
7 22 (16.18%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (13.97%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 19 (13.97%) OneDrive
9 13 (9.56%) GitHub
10 8 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (5.88%) Snowflake
11 6 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (3.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (3.68%) dbt
12 5 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (2.94%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (41.91%) Power BI
2 45 (33.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 37 (27.21%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (22.06%) Data Lake
5 15 (11.03%) SQL Server
6 14 (10.29%) Delta Lake
7 11 (8.09%) Metadata
8 10 (7.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 10 (7.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (5.88%) Big Data
10 7 (5.15%) Spark SQL
10 7 (5.15%) Star Schema
11 4 (2.94%) Power Query
11 4 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (2.94%) Tableau
12 3 (2.21%) Data Vault
12 3 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (2.21%) Relational Database
13 2 (1.47%) MySQL
13 2 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (11.76%) Git
2 3 (2.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (1.47%) MLflow
3 2 (1.47%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.74%) GitLab
4 1 (0.74%) JIRA
4 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (33.09%) Finance
2 41 (30.15%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.62%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (4.41%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.94%) Retail
7 3 (2.21%) Automotive
7 3 (2.21%) Law
8 2 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.47%) Legal
8 2 (1.47%) Local Government
9 1 (0.74%) Banking
9 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 57 (41.91%) Data Engineer
2 35 (25.74%) Senior
3 32 (23.53%) Lead
4 29 (21.32%) Developer
5 25 (18.38%) Platform Engineer
6 19 (13.97%) Lead Data Engineer
7 16 (11.76%) Senior Developer
8 13 (9.56%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (8.82%) Architect
9 12 (8.82%) Data Architect
10 11 (8.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 8 (5.88%) Business Developer
12 7 (5.15%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Developer
12 7 (5.15%) Senior Microsoft Developer
13 6 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (4.41%) Consultant
14 5 (3.68%) Data Manager
14 5 (3.68%) Data Migration Specialist
14 5 (3.68%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (20.59%) PySpark
2 23 (16.91%) JSON
3 22 (16.18%) .NET
4 21 (15.44%) .NET Core
4 21 (15.44%) CSS
4 21 (15.44%) HTML
5 19 (13.97%) HTML5 Canvas
5 19 (13.97%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (13.97%) SPFx
6 5 (3.68%) Kafka
7 3 (2.21%) REST
7 3 (2.21%) RESTful
8 2 (1.47%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.47%) Middleware
8 2 (1.47%) Node.js
8 2 (1.47%) Smarty
8 2 (1.47%) Symfony
8 2 (1.47%) YAML
9 1 (0.74%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.74%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.56%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.15%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.41%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.21%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.47%) Product Ownership
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%) FMCG
7 1 (0.74%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.74%) Life Science
7 1 (0.74%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.74%) Replication
7 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (53.68%) Analytics
2 69 (50.74%) Data Modelling
3 66 (48.53%) Business Intelligence
4 63 (46.32%) Data Engineering
5 57 (41.91%) CI/CD
6 55 (40.44%) Data Pipeline
7 53 (38.97%) ETL
8 43 (31.62%) Decision-Making
8 43 (31.62%) DevOps
9 35 (25.74%) Machine Learning
10 33 (24.26%) AI
11 26 (19.12%) Platform Engineering
11 26 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
13 22 (16.18%) Dimensional Modelling
14 21 (15.44%) Data Governance
14 21 (15.44%) Data Science
15 20 (14.71%) Data Architecture
15 20 (14.71%) User Experience
16 19 (13.97%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (69.85%) SQL
2 57 (41.91%) Python
3 28 (20.59%) PowerShell
4 23 (16.91%) C#
5 21 (15.44%) JavaScript
6 19 (13.97%) TypeScript
7 11 (8.09%) Scala
8 7 (5.15%) Bicep
9 6 (4.41%) T-SQL
10 5 (3.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (2.21%) R
12 2 (1.47%) PHP
12 2 (1.47%) VBA
13 1 (0.74%) Java
13 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (9.56%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.82%) Degree
3 9 (6.62%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.21%) SnowPro
7 2 (1.47%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (34.56%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.62%) GDPR
3 4 (2.94%) QA
4 3 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.47%) IFRS
5 2 (1.47%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.47%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (14.71%) Terraform
2 1 (0.74%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.74%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 67 (49.26%) Databricks
2 58 (42.65%) Microsoft
3 19 (13.97%) Adobe
4 3 (2.21%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.47%) Ab Initio
5 2 (1.47%) Foundry
5 2 (1.47%) Google
5 2 (1.47%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.74%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.74%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.74%) IBM
6 1 (0.74%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.74%) Talend