Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Data Factory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Data Factory over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 465 364 449
Rank change year-on-year -101 +85 +5
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 502 878 1,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.90% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.40% 2.09% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 445 676 797
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Data Factory is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,821 42,083 81,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.91% 43.23% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,874 27,585 41,557
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Data Factory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Factory.

Salary trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Data Factory in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Data Factory within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -63 469 £62,500 -10.71% 145
Work from Home -54 265 £65,000 +4.00% 56
UK excluding London -100 252 £52,500 -8.70% 58
London -8 221 £77,500 - 83
North of England +29 91 £50,500 -8.18% 22
Midlands -2 73 £52,000 -5.45% 14
North West +12 64 £47,500 -26.92% 16
West Midlands +22 61 £52,250 -5.00% 11
South East -61 38 £61,084 -6.03% 7
South West -38 22 £56,000 -10.40% 4
North East +1 16 £47,500 -26.92% 1
Scotland -64 13 £66,500 +15.65% 4
East Midlands -24 12 £47,500 -13.64% 3
Yorkshire +47 11 £55,000 +10.00% 5
East of England -2 10 £51,333 -10.73% 7
Wales -18 3 £46,131 -19.77%
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 36 (7.17%) Apache Spark
2 29 (5.78%) Apache
3 7 (1.39%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.40%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.40%) nginx
5 2 (0.40%) SAS
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.20%) Moodle
Applications
1 13 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 502 (100.00%) Azure
2 284 (56.57%) Power Platform
3 201 (40.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 109 (21.71%) Azure DevOps
5 58 (11.55%) Serverless
6 45 (8.96%) Azure Logic Apps
7 43 (8.57%) Azure Functions
8 30 (5.98%) AWS
9 28 (5.58%) Azure Service Bus
10 26 (5.18%) PowerApps
11 21 (4.18%) Microsoft Purview
12 20 (3.98%) Snowflake
13 19 (3.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 18 (3.59%) GCP
14 18 (3.59%) Matillion
15 17 (3.39%) Azure App Service
16 16 (3.19%) Azure API Management
16 16 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
17 15 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
18 13 (2.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.18%) DNS
2 17 (3.39%) HTTP
3 13 (2.59%) Network Security
4 5 (1.00%) Firewall
5 3 (0.60%) MPLS
6 2 (0.40%) LAN
6 2 (0.40%) VPN
6 2 (0.40%) WAN
7 1 (0.20%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.20%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (52.79%) Power BI
2 221 (44.02%) Data Warehouse
3 189 (37.65%) Data Lake
4 162 (32.27%) SQL Server
5 105 (20.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 105 (20.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 40 (7.97%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 40 (7.97%) Big Data
7 37 (7.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 36 (7.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 35 (6.97%) Tableau
10 26 (5.18%) Metadata
10 26 (5.18%) Relational Database
11 25 (4.98%) Delta Lake
11 25 (4.98%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 24 (4.78%) NoSQL
13 18 (3.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 15 (2.99%) Data Vault
15 14 (2.79%) Hadoop
16 13 (2.59%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 28 (5.58%) Git
2 13 (2.59%) Postman
3 7 (1.39%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.20%) RStudio
5 3 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.40%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.40%) JIRA
6 2 (0.40%) JMeter
6 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.20%) Selenium
7 1 (0.20%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.20%) Subversion
7 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 140 (27.89%) Social Skills
2 111 (22.11%) Finance
3 71 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (8.17%) Public Sector
5 25 (4.98%) Retail
6 18 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.39%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (2.79%) Legal
10 13 (2.59%) Law
11 11 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.59%) Marketing
12 8 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.39%) Games
13 7 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.20%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.00%) Banking
15 5 (1.00%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.80%) Electronics
17 3 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 201 (40.04%) Data Engineer
2 106 (21.12%) Developer
3 81 (16.14%) Senior
4 79 (15.74%) Azure Engineer
5 71 (14.14%) Azure Data Engineer
6 60 (11.95%) Lead
7 56 (11.16%) Senior Data Engineer
8 50 (9.96%) Architect
9 38 (7.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 38 (7.57%) Data Manager
10 31 (6.18%) Data Architect
11 29 (5.78%) Lead Data Engineer
12 28 (5.58%) DevOps Engineer
13 27 (5.38%) Azure Architect
13 27 (5.38%) Engineering Manager
14 25 (4.98%) Azure Developer
15 23 (4.58%) Analyst
15 23 (4.58%) Consultant
16 22 (4.38%) Data Consultant
16 22 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (11.16%) PySpark
2 25 (4.98%) .NET
3 24 (4.78%) RESTful
4 17 (3.39%) JWT
5 13 (2.59%) Swagger
6 11 (2.19%) OpenAPI
6 11 (2.19%) XML
7 8 (1.59%) REST
8 7 (1.39%) React
9 6 (1.20%) Pandas
10 5 (1.00%) HTML
10 5 (1.00%) Middleware
11 4 (0.80%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.80%) ARM Templates
11 4 (0.80%) Kafka
11 4 (0.80%) Web Services
11 4 (0.80%) YAML
12 3 (0.60%) CSS
12 3 (0.60%) GraphQL
12 3 (0.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (3.98%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.39%) Management Information System
3 16 (3.19%) Data Structures
4 15 (2.99%) NHS
5 14 (2.79%) Algorithms
6 12 (2.39%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.59%) IoT
8 6 (1.20%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.20%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.60%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.40%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.40%) Housing Association
12 2 (0.40%) Replication
12 2 (0.40%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.38%) Windows
2 12 (2.39%) Linux
3 8 (1.59%) Unix
4 7 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (53.78%) Business Intelligence
2 254 (50.60%) ETL
3 207 (41.24%) Analytics
4 174 (34.66%) Data Engineering
5 165 (32.87%) DevOps
6 160 (31.87%) Data Pipeline
7 159 (31.67%) Data Modelling
8 139 (27.69%) Agile
9 135 (26.89%) CI/CD
10 118 (23.51%) Visualisation
11 95 (18.92%) Data Science
12 83 (16.53%) Machine Learning
13 80 (15.94%) Data Visualisation
14 67 (13.35%) Migration
15 65 (12.95%) Artificial Intelligence
16 60 (11.95%) Stakeholder Management
17 58 (11.55%) Data Architecture
18 57 (11.35%) Roadmaps
19 56 (11.16%) Data Governance
20 55 (10.96%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 391 (77.89%) SQL
2 168 (33.47%) Python
3 82 (16.33%) T-SQL
4 44 (8.76%) C#
5 32 (6.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 21 (4.18%) PowerShell
7 16 (3.19%) R
8 14 (2.79%) Scala
9 11 (2.19%) U-SQL
10 10 (1.99%) Java
11 8 (1.59%) JavaScript
12 5 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (1.00%) VBA
13 3 (0.60%) Bash
14 2 (0.40%) Korn
14 2 (0.40%) PHP
14 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.20%) Perl
15 1 (0.20%) SOQL
15 1 (0.20%) X++
Qualifications
1 46 (9.16%) Microsoft Certification
2 43 (8.57%) Degree
3 37 (7.37%) Azure Certification
4 36 (7.17%) DBS Check
5 23 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.59%) SC Cleared
6 13 (2.59%) Security Cleared
7 7 (1.39%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.80%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.60%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.40%) MCSA
10 2 (0.40%) MCSE
10 2 (0.40%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.20%) MCP
11 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (15.14%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.38%) GDPR
3 17 (3.39%) QA
4 4 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (0.80%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (1.20%) Docker
3 2 (0.40%) Firmware
4 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.20%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 39 (7.77%) Terraform
2 9 (1.79%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (0.20%) yum
Vendors
1 231 (46.02%) Databricks
2 215 (42.83%) Microsoft
3 18 (3.59%) Oracle
4 10 (1.99%) Alteryx
4 10 (1.99%) Google
5 6 (1.20%) Adobe
5 6 (1.20%) Apple
5 6 (1.20%) Informatica
6 5 (1.00%) MuleSoft
6 5 (1.00%) SAP
7 3 (0.60%) SnapLogic
7 3 (0.60%) VMware
8 2 (0.40%) Cognos
8 2 (0.40%) IBM
8 2 (0.40%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (0.40%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.40%) Snow
8 2 (0.40%) Sparx
8 2 (0.40%) Talend
9 1 (0.20%) OpenAI