Azure Data Factory Job Trends in England

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 381 340
Rank change year-on-year +8 -41 +101
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 302 447 479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.70% 0.65% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.14% 2.03% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 248 357 419
10th Percentile £43,925 £43,750 £46,000
25th Percentile £51,625 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,750 £100,000 £92,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,080 21,974 23,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.58% 31.84% 42.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,839 14,296 19,196
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,376 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% -2.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory in England

Azure Data Factory
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Data Factory.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Data Factory in England

Azure Data Factory
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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
London +6 164 £80,000 +6.67% 56
South East +35 48 £55,000 -4.35% 46
Midlands +41 40 £61,250 +6.52% 14
West Midlands +37 33 £60,000 +4.35% 12
North of England -35 21 £55,000 - 23
East of England - 17 £50,000 - 8
North West -38 10 £55,000 - 11
East Midlands +32 7 £65,000 +36.84% 2
Yorkshire +17 6 £60,000 +9.09% 7
South West +68 5 £70,750 +27.48% 5
North East +21 5 £52,500 -19.23% 5
Azure Data Factory
UK

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 29 (9.60%) SharePoint
2 21 (6.95%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.97%) Apache
4 4 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.66%) SAS
6 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (2.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.99%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.66%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.33%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 302 (100.00%) Azure
2 159 (52.65%) Power Platform
3 108 (35.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 74 (24.50%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (10.60%) Power Automate
6 28 (9.27%) Azure Logic Apps
6 28 (9.27%) PowerApps
7 22 (7.28%) Microsoft Purview
8 18 (5.96%) Snowflake
9 16 (5.30%) Azure Functions
9 16 (5.30%) Dynamics 365
9 16 (5.30%) Entra ID
9 16 (5.30%) Serverless
10 15 (4.97%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (4.97%) GitHub
11 11 (3.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 11 (3.64%) dbt
11 11 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (3.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.98%) Firewall
2 1 (0.33%) NAS
2 1 (0.33%) Network Security
2 1 (0.33%) SAN
2 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.33%) VLAN
2 1 (0.33%) VPN
2 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (46.69%) Power BI
2 93 (30.79%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (23.51%) SQL Server
4 60 (19.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 56 (18.54%) Data Lake
6 46 (15.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 33 (10.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (5.30%) Delta Lake
8 16 (5.30%) Metadata
9 13 (4.30%) Big Data
10 12 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (3.97%) Relational Database
11 11 (3.64%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 10 (3.31%) Star Schema
13 9 (2.98%) Power Query
14 8 (2.65%) MySQL
14 8 (2.65%) Tableau
15 7 (2.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 6 (1.99%) Data Hub
17 5 (1.66%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 29 (9.60%) Git
2 9 (2.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (1.99%) Selenium
3 6 (1.99%) Visual Studio
4 5 (1.66%) JIRA
4 5 (1.66%) JMeter
4 5 (1.66%) Locust
4 5 (1.66%) Postman
4 5 (1.66%) Robot Framework
5 4 (1.32%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.99%) MLflow
7 2 (0.66%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.33%) JUnit
8 1 (0.33%) TestComplete
General
1 106 (35.10%) Social Skills
2 81 (26.82%) Finance
3 53 (17.55%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.96%) Retail
5 17 (5.63%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (5.63%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.64%) Marketing
7 13 (4.30%) Law
8 10 (3.31%) Banking
8 10 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.98%) Legal
10 8 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.99%) Advertising
11 6 (1.99%) Automotive
11 6 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.66%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.99%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 126 (41.72%) Data Engineer
2 46 (15.23%) Senior
3 44 (14.57%) Developer
4 34 (11.26%) Azure Engineer
5 32 (10.60%) Senior Data Engineer
6 28 (9.27%) Azure Data Engineer
7 25 (8.28%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 21 (6.95%) Analyst
8 21 (6.95%) Lead
9 19 (6.29%) Architect
10 18 (5.96%) Data Architect
10 18 (5.96%) SQL Developer
11 17 (5.63%) Power BI Developer
12 13 (4.30%) Data Manager
13 10 (3.31%) Python Data Engineer
13 10 (3.31%) Python Engineer
13 10 (3.31%) Software Engineer
13 10 (3.31%) Test Engineer
14 9 (2.98%) Infrastructure Analyst
14 9 (2.98%) SQL BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (19.54%) PySpark
2 24 (7.95%) .NET
3 18 (5.96%) XML
4 15 (4.97%) REST
5 10 (3.31%) JSON
6 8 (2.65%) pytest
6 8 (2.65%) YAML
7 7 (2.32%) .NET Framework
7 7 (2.32%) Pandas
8 6 (1.99%) .NET Core
8 6 (1.99%) HTML
9 5 (1.66%) Entity Framework
9 5 (1.66%) SOAP
10 4 (1.32%) ASP.NET
10 4 (1.32%) Kafka
10 4 (1.32%) Polars
11 3 (0.99%) ARM Templates
11 3 (0.99%) FastAPI
11 3 (0.99%) Middleware
11 3 (0.99%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.64%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (4.30%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.64%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.98%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.65%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.65%) Distributed Architecture
5 8 (2.65%) Replication
6 7 (2.32%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.66%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.32%) Clustering
9 4 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.32%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.32%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.66%) Marketing Technology
12 1 (0.33%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.33%) Educational Technology
12 1 (0.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.31%) Windows
2 9 (2.98%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.33%) Linux
3 1 (0.33%) Unix
3 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (48.34%) Business Intelligence
2 144 (47.68%) ETL
3 127 (42.05%) Analytics
4 107 (35.43%) DevOps
5 100 (33.11%) Data Engineering
6 94 (31.13%) Problem-Solving
7 91 (30.13%) Data Modelling
7 91 (30.13%) Data Pipeline
8 85 (28.15%) CI/CD
9 70 (23.18%) Decision-Making
10 69 (22.85%) Agile
11 55 (18.21%) Visualisation
12 54 (17.88%) Data Governance
13 41 (13.58%) Artificial Intelligence
13 41 (13.58%) Machine Learning
14 39 (12.91%) Data Science
15 37 (12.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 35 (11.59%) Data Integration
16 35 (11.59%) Data Transformation
16 35 (11.59%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 219 (72.52%) SQL
2 131 (43.38%) Python
3 49 (16.23%) T-SQL
4 32 (10.60%) C#
5 22 (7.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (5.30%) PowerShell
7 15 (4.97%) Scala
8 14 (4.64%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.32%) Bash
9 7 (2.32%) Java
10 6 (1.99%) R
11 5 (1.66%) Bicep
12 2 (0.66%) PHP
12 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (11.26%) Azure Certification
1 34 (11.26%) Degree
1 34 (11.26%) Security Cleared
2 32 (10.60%) SC Cleared
3 27 (8.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 22 (7.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.31%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.65%) ISTQB
7 7 (2.32%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.99%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.33%) MCSE
9 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (17.22%) Data Quality
2 29 (9.60%) GDPR
3 18 (5.96%) QA
4 7 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.66%) SLA
6 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.33%) NIST
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (6.29%) Docker
2 7 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (11.59%) Terraform
2 19 (6.29%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.65%) Grafana
3 8 (2.65%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 143 (47.35%) Microsoft
2 119 (39.40%) Databricks
3 11 (3.64%) Informatica
4 9 (2.98%) Oracle
5 8 (2.65%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.65%) SolarWinds
6 6 (1.99%) Google
7 5 (1.66%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.66%) Talend
8 4 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.32%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.32%) RedGate
9 3 (0.99%) Alteryx
9 3 (0.99%) Intapp
9 3 (0.99%) SAP
9 3 (0.99%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.66%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.33%) iManage
11 1 (0.33%) SonicWALL