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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 303 295
Rank change year-on-year -20 -8 +4
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 139 118 222
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.60% 0.71% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 1.98% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 121 101 182
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 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £78,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +20.77% - -

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 8,672 5,960 9,918
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.17% 36.09% 40.85%
Number of salaries quoted 6,347 4,353 7,332
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £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 £82,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.53%

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 31 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 (17.99%) SharePoint
2 11 (7.91%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.60%) Apache
4 2 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 139 (100.00%) Azure
2 71 (51.08%) Power Platform
3 52 (37.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 33 (23.74%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (22.30%) Azure Databricks
6 24 (17.27%) Microsoft Purview
7 23 (16.55%) Azure Logic Apps
7 23 (16.55%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (15.11%) Power Automate
8 21 (15.11%) PowerApps
9 19 (13.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 19 (13.67%) OneDrive
10 18 (12.95%) Snowflake
11 14 (10.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (5.04%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (4.32%) GitHub
14 4 (2.88%) AWS
15 3 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
15 3 (2.16%) GCP
15 3 (2.16%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (49.64%) Power BI
2 37 (26.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 35 (25.18%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (23.02%) Metadata
5 29 (20.86%) Delta Lake
6 26 (18.71%) Data Lake
7 17 (12.23%) SQL Server
8 16 (11.51%) Data Vault
9 13 (9.35%) Star Schema
10 9 (6.47%) Big Data
10 9 (6.47%) NoSQL
11 8 (5.76%) Spark SQL
12 7 (5.04%) Tableau
13 6 (4.32%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (3.60%) Amazon QuickSight
14 5 (3.60%) DynamoDB
14 5 (3.60%) MongoDB
14 5 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (2.16%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 3 (2.16%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 21 (15.11%) Git
2 2 (1.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.44%) MLflow
2 2 (1.44%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.72%) GitLab
3 1 (0.72%) JIRA
3 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (25.90%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.55%) Finance
3 12 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.60%) Retail
5 4 (2.88%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.16%) Legal
7 2 (1.44%) Banking
7 2 (1.44%) Law
8 1 (0.72%) Billing
8 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Marketing
8 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 58 (41.73%) Data Engineer
2 41 (29.50%) Senior
3 26 (18.71%) Architect
3 26 (18.71%) Data Architect
4 22 (15.83%) Developer
5 16 (11.51%) Lead
6 15 (10.79%) Senior Data Engineer
6 15 (10.79%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.91%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (7.91%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (7.19%) Lead Data Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) Azure Data Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) Consultant
9 7 (5.04%) Microsoft 365 Developer
9 7 (5.04%) Microsoft Developer
9 7 (5.04%) Senior Microsoft Developer
10 5 (3.60%) Data Migration Specialist
10 5 (3.60%) Databricks Engineer
10 5 (3.60%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
10 5 (3.60%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (28.78%) PySpark
2 31 (22.30%) Terraform
3 22 (15.83%) JSON
4 21 (15.11%) .NET
5 20 (14.39%) .NET Core
5 20 (14.39%) CSS
5 20 (14.39%) HTML
6 19 (13.67%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (13.67%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (13.67%) SPFx
7 7 (5.04%) Kafka
8 6 (4.32%) REST
9 2 (1.44%) FastAPI
9 2 (1.44%) LangChain
9 2 (1.44%) YAML
10 1 (0.72%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.72%) MDX
10 1 (0.72%) Middleware
10 1 (0.72%) PyTorch
10 1 (0.72%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.55%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.76%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.88%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.88%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.44%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.44%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.72%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.72%) Clustering
8 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.72%) FMCG
8 1 (0.72%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.72%) Life Science
8 1 (0.72%) Replication
8 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (69.06%) Business Intelligence
2 70 (50.36%) Analytics
3 64 (46.04%) CI/CD
3 64 (46.04%) Data Modelling
4 51 (36.69%) Data Engineering
4 51 (36.69%) Data Pipeline
5 50 (35.97%) ETL
5 50 (35.97%) Machine Learning
6 48 (34.53%) DevOps
7 45 (32.37%) AI
8 42 (30.22%) Technical Leadership
9 41 (29.50%) Data Architecture
10 40 (28.78%) Lakehouse
11 33 (23.74%) Data Strategy
12 29 (20.86%) Data Science
13 28 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (18.71%) Decision-Making
15 25 (17.99%) Infrastructure as Code
15 25 (17.99%) Roadmaps
16 22 (15.83%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 105 (75.54%) SQL
2 71 (51.08%) Python
3 28 (20.14%) C#
3 28 (20.14%) PowerShell
4 22 (15.83%) JavaScript
5 20 (14.39%) Bicep
6 19 (13.67%) Scala
6 19 (13.67%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (2.88%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.44%) VBA
10 1 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.72%) PHP
10 1 (0.72%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (15.11%) Azure Certification
2 17 (12.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (11.51%) SnowPro
4 15 (10.79%) Security Cleared
5 14 (10.07%) Degree
6 10 (7.19%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.72%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.72%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (36.69%) Data Quality
2 12 (8.63%) GDPR
3 5 (3.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (2.88%) QA
5 2 (1.44%) IFRS
5 2 (1.44%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.44%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.16%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.72%) Ansible
2 1 (0.72%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 84 (60.43%) Microsoft
2 63 (45.32%) Databricks
3 19 (13.67%) Adobe
4 7 (5.04%) Talend
5 6 (4.32%) Informatica
6 4 (2.88%) Google
7 3 (2.16%) Foundry
8 2 (1.44%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.72%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.72%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.72%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.72%) SolarWinds