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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 309 343
Rank change year-on-year +2 +34 -45
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 132 122 252
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.63% 0.75% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 2.00% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 112 108 207
10th Percentile £50,671 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £59,375 £51,625 £50,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £114,750 £90,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £67,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +19.40% +3.08% -

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 8,080 6,086 13,949
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.59% 37.56% 42.20%
Number of salaries quoted 5,763 4,484 11,551
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,599 £36,100
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.35%

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 5 July 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 30 (22.73%) SharePoint
2 10 (7.58%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.27%) Apache
4 2 (1.52%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.52%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 132 (100.00%) Azure
2 62 (46.97%) Power Platform
3 39 (29.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 27 (20.45%) Azure Logic Apps
5 24 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (18.18%) Power Automate
5 24 (18.18%) PowerApps
6 19 (14.39%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 19 (14.39%) OneDrive
7 13 (9.85%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (7.58%) GitHub
9 9 (6.82%) Snowflake
10 7 (5.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (5.30%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.79%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (3.79%) Serverless
12 4 (3.03%) Azure Functions
12 4 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (3.03%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (44.70%) Power BI
2 43 (32.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 33 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (18.18%) Data Lake
5 17 (12.88%) Delta Lake
6 16 (12.12%) SQL Server
7 15 (11.36%) Metadata
8 11 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (6.82%) Big Data
10 8 (6.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 8 (6.06%) Spark SQL
11 7 (5.30%) Data Vault
11 7 (5.30%) Star Schema
12 5 (3.79%) Tableau
13 4 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (2.27%) NoSQL
14 3 (2.27%) Power Query
14 3 (2.27%) Relational Database
15 2 (1.52%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 14 (10.61%) Git
2 3 (2.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (1.52%) MLflow
3 2 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.76%) GitLab
4 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.76%) JIRA
4 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 40 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 37 (28.03%) Finance
3 9 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.82%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (5.30%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.03%) Retail
6 3 (2.27%) Law
7 2 (1.52%) Automotive
7 2 (1.52%) Legal
7 2 (1.52%) Local Government
8 1 (0.76%) Banking
8 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 54 (40.91%) Data Engineer
2 35 (26.52%) Senior
3 31 (23.48%) Lead
4 29 (21.97%) Developer
5 22 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (12.88%) Lead Data Engineer
7 16 (12.12%) Architect
7 16 (12.12%) Data Architect
7 16 (12.12%) Senior Developer
8 13 (9.85%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (7.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 8 (6.06%) Business Developer
11 7 (5.30%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 7 (5.30%) Microsoft Developer
11 7 (5.30%) Senior Microsoft Developer
12 6 (4.55%) Azure Data Engineer
12 6 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (4.55%) Consultant
13 5 (3.79%) Data Manager
13 5 (3.79%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (21.97%) PySpark
2 23 (17.42%) .NET
2 23 (17.42%) JSON
3 21 (15.91%) .NET Core
3 21 (15.91%) CSS
3 21 (15.91%) HTML
4 19 (14.39%) HTML5 Canvas
4 19 (14.39%) Microsoft Graph
4 19 (14.39%) SPFx
5 5 (3.79%) Kafka
6 3 (2.27%) REST
7 2 (1.52%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.52%) Middleware
7 2 (1.52%) Node.js
7 2 (1.52%) RESTful
7 2 (1.52%) Smarty
7 2 (1.52%) Symfony
8 1 (0.76%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.76%) LangChain
8 1 (0.76%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.61%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.27%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.52%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.76%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.76%) Clustering
7 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.76%) FMCG
7 1 (0.76%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.76%) Life Science
7 1 (0.76%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.76%) Replication
7 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
2 69 (52.27%) Analytics
3 65 (49.24%) Data Modelling
4 60 (45.45%) Data Engineering
5 55 (41.67%) CI/CD
6 49 (37.12%) Data Pipeline
7 45 (34.09%) ETL
8 40 (30.30%) Decision-Making
8 40 (30.30%) Machine Learning
9 39 (29.55%) AI
9 39 (29.55%) DevOps
10 30 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
11 24 (18.18%) Data Architecture
11 24 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
13 21 (15.91%) Data Science
14 20 (15.15%) Data Governance
14 20 (15.15%) Dimensional Modelling
14 20 (15.15%) User Experience
15 19 (14.39%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 92 (69.70%) SQL
2 55 (41.67%) Python
3 29 (21.97%) PowerShell
4 24 (18.18%) C#
5 22 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 19 (14.39%) TypeScript
7 12 (9.09%) Scala
8 10 (7.58%) Bicep
9 5 (3.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (3.79%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.27%) R
11 2 (1.52%) PHP
11 2 (1.52%) VBA
12 1 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (10.61%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 12 (9.09%) Degree
3 9 (6.82%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (5.30%) SnowPro
6 4 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.52%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (34.85%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.06%) GDPR
3 3 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.27%) QA
4 2 (1.52%) IFRS
4 2 (1.52%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.52%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.76%) Ansible
3 1 (0.76%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 64 (48.48%) Databricks
2 61 (46.21%) Microsoft
3 19 (14.39%) Adobe
4 4 (3.03%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.27%) Foundry
5 3 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.52%) Google
6 2 (1.52%) Talend
7 1 (0.76%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.76%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.76%) Informatica
7 1 (0.76%) SolarWinds