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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 318 304
Rank change year-on-year -5 -14 -24
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 137 113 214
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.57% 0.70% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 1.95% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 116 98 176
10th Percentile £50,468 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £51,156
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -7.69% +6.12%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% - -

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 8,674 5,782 9,505
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.98% 35.59% 40.73%
Number of salaries quoted 6,370 4,175 6,576
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,659 £37,500
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 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 September 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 21 (15.33%) SharePoint
2 11 (8.03%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.92%) Apache
4 2 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.46%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.19%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.73%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 137 (100.00%) Azure
2 68 (49.64%) Power Platform
3 64 (46.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 40 (29.20%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (21.17%) Azure Databricks
6 25 (18.25%) Azure Logic Apps
6 25 (18.25%) Microsoft Purview
7 20 (14.60%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (13.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 18 (13.14%) Power Automate
8 18 (13.14%) PowerApps
8 18 (13.14%) Snowflake
9 16 (11.68%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 16 (11.68%) OneDrive
10 11 (8.03%) AWS
11 8 (5.84%) Azure Functions
11 8 (5.84%) Serverless
12 6 (4.38%) Amazon S3
12 6 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (4.38%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (48.91%) Power BI
2 42 (30.66%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (29.20%) Azure SQL Database
4 36 (26.28%) Metadata
5 30 (21.90%) Data Lake
6 29 (21.17%) Delta Lake
7 18 (13.14%) SQL Server
7 18 (13.14%) Star Schema
8 16 (11.68%) Data Vault
9 14 (10.22%) NoSQL
10 10 (7.30%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (6.57%) Amazon QuickSight
11 9 (6.57%) Big Data
11 9 (6.57%) DynamoDB
11 9 (6.57%) MongoDB
12 7 (5.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (5.11%) Parquet
12 7 (5.11%) Spark SQL
12 7 (5.11%) Tableau
13 6 (4.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (19.71%) Git
2 3 (2.19%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.46%) MLflow
3 2 (1.46%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.73%) JIRA
4 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.06%) Finance
3 17 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.65%) Retail
5 3 (2.19%) Legal
5 3 (2.19%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.46%) Banking
6 2 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.73%) Billing
7 1 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.73%) Law
7 1 (0.73%) Marketing
7 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.73%) Social Housing
7 1 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 64 (46.72%) Data Engineer
2 46 (33.58%) Senior
3 25 (18.25%) Architect
3 25 (18.25%) Data Architect
4 20 (14.60%) Senior Data Engineer
5 18 (13.14%) Developer
6 16 (11.68%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (8.76%) Lead
7 12 (8.76%) Senior Developer
8 10 (7.30%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.57%) Azure Data Engineer
9 9 (6.57%) Consultant
9 9 (6.57%) Lead Data Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Developer
10 6 (4.38%) Senior Microsoft Developer
11 5 (3.65%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Databricks Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Senior Consultant
12 4 (2.92%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (33.58%) PySpark
2 31 (22.63%) Terraform
3 23 (16.79%) JSON
4 17 (12.41%) .NET
5 16 (11.68%) .NET Core
5 16 (11.68%) CSS
5 16 (11.68%) HTML
5 16 (11.68%) HTML5 Canvas
5 16 (11.68%) Microsoft Graph
5 16 (11.68%) SPFx
6 7 (5.11%) Kafka
7 6 (4.38%) Apache Avro
8 4 (2.92%) REST
9 3 (2.19%) MDX
10 2 (1.46%) FastAPI
10 2 (1.46%) LangChain
11 1 (0.73%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.73%) NumPy
11 1 (0.73%) PyTorch
11 1 (0.73%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.71%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.76%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (8.03%) Product Ownership
4 10 (7.30%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.92%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.92%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.73%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.73%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.73%) FMCG
7 1 (0.73%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.73%) Life Science
7 1 (0.73%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.73%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (68.61%) Business Intelligence
2 75 (54.74%) Analytics
3 74 (54.01%) CI/CD
4 68 (49.64%) Data Modelling
5 59 (43.07%) DevOps
6 57 (41.61%) ETL
7 55 (40.15%) Data Pipeline
8 49 (35.77%) Data Engineering
9 45 (32.85%) Machine Learning
10 44 (32.12%) AI
10 44 (32.12%) Data Architecture
11 41 (29.93%) Technical Leadership
12 35 (25.55%) Data Strategy
12 35 (25.55%) Lakehouse
13 33 (24.09%) Agile
14 30 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (19.71%) Data Science
16 26 (18.98%) Mentoring
16 26 (18.98%) Roadmaps
17 24 (17.52%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 108 (78.83%) SQL
2 79 (57.66%) Python
3 28 (20.44%) C#
4 25 (18.25%) PowerShell
5 20 (14.60%) Bicep
6 19 (13.87%) JavaScript
6 19 (13.87%) Scala
7 16 (11.68%) TypeScript
8 11 (8.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (4.38%) Java
10 5 (3.65%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.46%) VBA
12 1 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.73%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (14.60%) Azure Certification
2 17 (12.41%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (12.41%) Security Cleared
3 16 (11.68%) SnowPro
4 15 (10.95%) Degree
5 13 (9.49%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.73%) ICAEW
6 1 (0.73%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (42.34%) Data Quality
2 14 (10.22%) GDPR
3 9 (6.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 6 (4.38%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.46%) IFRS
5 2 (1.46%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.46%) QA
5 2 (1.46%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.92%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.46%) Ansible
Vendors
1 85 (62.04%) Microsoft
2 58 (42.34%) Databricks
3 16 (11.68%) Adobe
4 12 (8.76%) Talend
5 11 (8.03%) Informatica
6 4 (2.92%) Google
7 3 (2.19%) Foundry
8 1 (0.73%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.73%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.73%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.73%) Salesforce