Azure Lost 60% of DE Job Postings in One Year. Is Your Resume Wrong?

Last year, I was reviewing resumes for a senior data engineering role on my team. Out of maybe 40 applicants, I'd estimate 30 of them led with Azure. Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Azure Databricks, Azure everything. Made sense; that's where the jobs were. Fast forward twelve months and I'm looking at a market that's barely recognizable. If your resume looks like it did in 2025, you might be wondering why the phone stopped ringing. Here's the number: Azure dropped from 75% of data engineerin