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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 290 297
Rank change year-on-year +68 +7 +104
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 160 159 183
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.04% 0.91% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.85% 1.98% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 79 131 157
10th Percentile £44,500 £46,500 £42,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% -13.60%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -7.41%

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 5,618 8,042 9,415
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.66% 46.06% 47.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,092 5,267 8,066
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,750 £36,260
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £63,020
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +3.14% -3.05%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% -3.85%

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 19 December 2025.

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 8 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.13%) SAS
3 4 (2.50%) Apache
4 2 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.25%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.63%) Jupyter
Applications
1 29 (18.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.63%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.63%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 160 (100.00%) Azure
2 83 (51.88%) Power Platform
3 67 (41.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 48 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (23.13%) GitHub
6 22 (13.75%) Snowflake
7 19 (11.88%) Azure Logic Apps
8 18 (11.25%) dbt
9 17 (10.63%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (8.75%) Azure Service Bus
10 14 (8.75%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (8.13%) Azure Event Grid
11 13 (8.13%) GitHub Copilot
12 10 (6.25%) Power Automate
13 8 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
13 8 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (3.13%) Serverless
15 4 (2.50%) Azure App Service
15 4 (2.50%) Azure Functions
16 3 (1.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.13%) Firewall
2 4 (2.50%) DNS
2 4 (2.50%) VPN
3 1 (0.63%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (50.63%) Power BI
2 50 (31.25%) Data Lake
3 49 (30.63%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (29.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 47 (29.38%) SQL Server
5 38 (23.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 19 (11.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 17 (10.63%) Metadata
8 12 (7.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 9 (5.63%) Delta Lake
10 6 (3.75%) Data Mining
10 6 (3.75%) MySQL
11 5 (3.13%) SAS EBI
12 4 (2.50%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (2.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (1.88%) Power Query
13 3 (1.88%) Tableau
14 2 (1.25%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 12 (7.50%) Git
2 4 (2.50%) JIRA
3 3 (1.88%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.25%) Bitbucket
General
1 94 (58.75%) Finance
2 68 (42.50%) Social Skills
3 51 (31.88%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.50%) Billing
4 12 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.13%) Banking
8 4 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.88%) Advertising
9 3 (1.88%) Automotive
9 3 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.25%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.25%) Law
10 2 (1.25%) Local Government
10 2 (1.25%) Marketing
10 2 (1.25%) Retail
11 1 (0.63%) Front Office
11 1 (0.63%) International Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (25.63%) Data Engineer
2 29 (18.13%) Senior
3 20 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (8.75%) Analyst
4 14 (8.75%) Senior Data Engineer
5 12 (7.50%) Business Manager
5 12 (7.50%) Commercial Analyst
5 12 (7.50%) Insight Analyst
5 12 (7.50%) Insight Manager
6 11 (6.88%) Developer
7 10 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
7 10 (6.25%) Lead
8 9 (5.63%) Integration Engineer
9 8 (5.00%) Azure Data Engineer
9 8 (5.00%) Data Manager
10 6 (3.75%) Architect
10 6 (3.75%) Consultant
10 6 (3.75%) Service Manager
11 5 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.13%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.25%) PySpark
2 17 (10.63%) JSON
3 14 (8.75%) OAuth
3 14 (8.75%) RESTful
4 13 (8.13%) OAuth2
5 8 (5.00%) .NET
6 7 (4.38%) YAML
7 5 (3.13%) Kafka
7 5 (3.13%) REST
7 5 (3.13%) XML
8 4 (2.50%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.25%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.25%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.25%) Blazor
9 2 (1.25%) D3.js
9 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.63%) Node.js
10 1 (0.63%) Smarty
10 1 (0.63%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (11.88%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.38%) Low-Code
5 5 (3.13%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.50%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.88%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.88%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.25%) Clustering
8 2 (1.25%) Derivative
8 2 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.63%) EPoS
9 1 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.63%) IoT
9 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.50%) VMS
2 3 (1.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (58.13%) Analytics
2 87 (54.38%) Business Intelligence
3 77 (48.13%) Data Modelling
4 71 (44.38%) ETL
5 68 (42.50%) CI/CD
5 68 (42.50%) DevOps
6 65 (40.63%) Data Pipeline
7 56 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (33.13%) Agile
9 51 (31.88%) Data Engineering
10 50 (31.25%) Visualisation
11 47 (29.38%) Coaching
12 45 (28.13%) Asset Management
13 43 (26.88%) Decision-Making
14 37 (23.13%) Data Integration
15 36 (22.50%) AI
15 36 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 34 (21.25%) Data Analysis
17 33 (20.63%) Data Governance
17 33 (20.63%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 114 (71.25%) SQL
2 65 (40.63%) Python
3 32 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 21 (13.13%) Bicep
5 19 (11.88%) PowerShell
6 13 (8.13%) Scala
6 13 (8.13%) T-SQL
7 8 (5.00%) C#
8 3 (1.88%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.25%) Java
10 1 (0.63%) Bash
10 1 (0.63%) PHP
10 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (10.63%) Degree
2 12 (7.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 9 (5.63%) Azure Certification
4 7 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.75%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.75%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.13%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.50%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.25%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (31.25%) Data Quality
2 21 (13.13%) GDPR
3 12 (7.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (4.38%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 8 (5.00%) Docker
2 5 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (20.63%) Terraform
2 8 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (34.38%) Databricks
2 54 (33.75%) Microsoft
3 16 (10.00%) Ab Initio
4 3 (1.88%) IBM
4 3 (1.88%) SAP
4 3 (1.88%) Talend
5 2 (1.25%) Informatica
5 2 (1.25%) Oracle
5 2 (1.25%) RedGate
5 2 (1.25%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.63%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.63%) eFront
6 1 (0.63%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.63%) JD Edwards
6 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.63%) VMware