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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 308 290
Rank change year-on-year -12 -18 +3
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 137 117 226
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.60% 0.71% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 1.96% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 117 99 186
10th Percentile £50,468 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £91,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £79,250 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.92% - -

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 8,681 5,956 10,089
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.72% 35.96% 40.86%
Number of salaries quoted 6,335 4,345 7,722
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
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 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 22 August 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 25 (18.25%) SharePoint
2 11 (8.03%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.65%) Apache
4 2 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.46%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (2.19%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.73%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 137 (100.00%) Azure
2 67 (48.91%) Power Platform
3 50 (36.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 30 (21.90%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (16.79%) Azure Logic Apps
5 23 (16.79%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (16.79%) Microsoft Purview
6 21 (15.33%) Power Automate
6 21 (15.33%) PowerApps
7 19 (13.87%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 19 (13.87%) OneDrive
8 17 (12.41%) Snowflake
9 12 (8.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (5.11%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (4.38%) GitHub
12 4 (2.92%) AWS
13 3 (2.19%) Azure Functions
13 3 (2.19%) GCP
13 3 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.19%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (47.45%) Power BI
2 37 (27.01%) Azure SQL Database
3 32 (23.36%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (21.17%) Metadata
5 27 (19.71%) Data Lake
5 27 (19.71%) Delta Lake
6 15 (10.95%) Data Vault
6 15 (10.95%) SQL Server
7 12 (8.76%) Star Schema
8 9 (6.57%) Big Data
9 8 (5.84%) Spark SQL
10 7 (5.11%) NoSQL
10 7 (5.11%) Tableau
11 5 (3.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (2.92%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.92%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (2.19%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (2.19%) DynamoDB
13 3 (2.19%) MongoDB
13 3 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (13.14%) Git
2 2 (1.46%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.46%) MLflow
2 2 (1.46%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.73%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.73%) GitLab
3 1 (0.73%) JIRA
3 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.52%) Finance
3 12 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.65%) Retail
5 4 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (2.92%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.46%) Banking
6 2 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.46%) Law
6 2 (1.46%) Legal
7 1 (0.73%) Billing
7 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.73%) Social Housing
7 1 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 57 (41.61%) Data Engineer
2 38 (27.74%) Senior
3 25 (18.25%) Architect
3 25 (18.25%) Data Architect
4 22 (16.06%) Developer
5 17 (12.41%) Lead
6 15 (10.95%) Senior Developer
7 14 (10.22%) Senior Data Engineer
8 12 (8.76%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.30%) Lead Data Engineer
10 9 (6.57%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (5.11%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 7 (5.11%) Microsoft Developer
11 7 (5.11%) Senior Microsoft Developer
12 6 (4.38%) Azure Data Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Consultant
13 5 (3.65%) Data Migration Specialist
13 5 (3.65%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
13 5 (3.65%) Migration Specialist
14 4 (2.92%) SEO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (27.01%) PySpark
2 30 (21.90%) Terraform
3 22 (16.06%) JSON
4 21 (15.33%) .NET
5 20 (14.60%) .NET Core
5 20 (14.60%) CSS
5 20 (14.60%) HTML
6 19 (13.87%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (13.87%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (13.87%) SPFx
7 7 (5.11%) Kafka
8 4 (2.92%) REST
9 2 (1.46%) FastAPI
9 2 (1.46%) LangChain
9 2 (1.46%) YAML
10 1 (0.73%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.73%) NumPy
10 1 (0.73%) PyTorch
10 1 (0.73%) RESTful
10 1 (0.73%) Smarty
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.06%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.65%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.92%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.92%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.46%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.73%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.73%) Clustering
6 1 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.73%) FMCG
6 1 (0.73%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.73%) Life Science
6 1 (0.73%) Replication
6 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (67.15%) Business Intelligence
2 69 (50.36%) Analytics
3 63 (45.99%) Data Modelling
4 61 (44.53%) CI/CD
5 53 (38.69%) Data Engineering
6 52 (37.96%) Data Pipeline
7 49 (35.77%) Machine Learning
8 47 (34.31%) ETL
9 44 (32.12%) AI
9 44 (32.12%) DevOps
10 40 (29.20%) Technical Leadership
11 37 (27.01%) Data Architecture
12 31 (22.63%) Data Strategy
13 28 (20.44%) Data Science
14 27 (19.71%) Decision-Making
14 27 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (17.52%) Infrastructure as Code
16 23 (16.79%) Roadmaps
17 20 (14.60%) Agile
18 19 (13.87%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 103 (75.18%) SQL
2 68 (49.64%) Python
3 28 (20.44%) PowerShell
4 26 (18.98%) C#
5 22 (16.06%) JavaScript
6 19 (13.87%) Bicep
6 19 (13.87%) TypeScript
7 18 (13.14%) Scala
8 6 (4.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (3.65%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.46%) VBA
11 1 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.73%) PHP
11 1 (0.73%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (14.60%) Azure Certification
2 16 (11.68%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (11.68%) Security Cleared
3 15 (10.95%) SnowPro
4 12 (8.76%) Degree
5 11 (8.03%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.73%) ICAEW
7 1 (0.73%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.73%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (35.04%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.30%) GDPR
3 4 (2.92%) QA
4 3 (2.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.46%) IFRS
5 2 (1.46%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.46%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.73%) Ansible
2 1 (0.73%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 78 (56.93%) Microsoft
2 63 (45.99%) Databricks
3 19 (13.87%) Adobe
4 5 (3.65%) Talend
5 4 (2.92%) Informatica
6 3 (2.19%) Foundry
6 3 (2.19%) Google
7 2 (1.46%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.73%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.73%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.73%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.73%) SolarWinds