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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 360 305
Rank change year-on-year +1 -55 +121
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 272 413 478
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 0.69% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 2.06% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 215 319 417
10th Percentile £47,600 £45,837 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -14.29%

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 15,996 20,027 20,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.80% 33.32% 43.28%
Number of salaries quoted 10,413 12,083 16,889
10th Percentile £28,750 £36,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £100,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure Data Factory relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Azure Data Factory job vacancy trend 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 19 November 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 19 November 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 0 143 £82,500 +13.79% 135
North of England +21 36 £55,000 - 25
South East -17 33 £55,000 -12.00% 49
Midlands +61 32 £61,250 +11.36% 35
West Midlands +53 30 £61,250 +6.52% 30
North West -1 15 £56,250 +2.27% 12
North East +10 12 £52,500 -12.50% 5
East of England +27 9 £54,000 - 6
Yorkshire +2 9 £79,000 +21.54% 8
South West +28 8 £77,500 +40.91% 5
East Midlands +23 2 £61,250 +22.50% 5
Azure Data Factory
UK

Azure Data Factory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 17 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 11 (4.04%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.94%) Apache
4 5 (1.84%) SAS
5 4 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.74%) Appian
7 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 20 (7.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 272 (100.00%) Azure
2 156 (57.35%) Power Platform
3 107 (39.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 52 (19.12%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (9.19%) Microsoft Purview
6 24 (8.82%) Azure Logic Apps
7 16 (5.88%) Snowflake
8 14 (5.15%) GitHub
9 13 (4.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 13 (4.78%) Entra ID
9 13 (4.78%) Power Automate
9 13 (4.78%) SaaS
10 12 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (4.41%) PowerApps
11 11 (4.04%) AWS
11 11 (4.04%) dbt
11 11 (4.04%) Matillion
12 10 (3.68%) Azure Functions
12 10 (3.68%) GCP
12 10 (3.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.84%) Firewall
2 1 (0.37%) DNS
2 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.37%) Network Security
2 1 (0.37%) SSL
2 1 (0.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (50.37%) Power BI
2 88 (32.35%) SQL Server
3 77 (28.31%) Data Lake
4 74 (27.21%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (23.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 47 (17.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 42 (15.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 18 (6.62%) Metadata
9 16 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 13 (4.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 12 (4.41%) Tableau
12 11 (4.04%) Delta Lake
12 11 (4.04%) MySQL
12 11 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (2.57%) Relational Database
14 6 (2.21%) MongoDB
14 6 (2.21%) Qlik Sense
15 5 (1.84%) Big Data
15 5 (1.84%) SAS EBI
15 5 (1.84%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (8.46%) Git
2 6 (2.21%) Bitbucket
3 4 (1.47%) JIRA
4 2 (0.74%) MLflow
4 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.37%) JUnit
5 1 (0.37%) Selenium
5 1 (0.37%) TestComplete
General
1 110 (40.44%) Social Skills
2 94 (34.56%) Finance
3 52 (19.12%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.51%) Presentation Skills
5 14 (5.15%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.41%) Retail
7 11 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.04%) Law
7 11 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (3.68%) Marketing
9 9 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.94%) Automotive
10 8 (2.94%) Billing
11 7 (2.57%) Banking
12 5 (1.84%) Advertising
13 4 (1.47%) Legal
13 4 (1.47%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.74%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 114 (41.91%) Data Engineer
2 44 (16.18%) Senior
3 32 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
4 28 (10.29%) Architect
4 28 (10.29%) Developer
5 25 (9.19%) Azure Engineer
6 24 (8.82%) Data Architect
7 23 (8.46%) Analyst
7 23 (8.46%) Lead
8 21 (7.72%) Azure Data Engineer
9 13 (4.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 11 (4.04%) Data Manager
11 10 (3.68%) Azure Architect
12 9 (3.31%) Azure Data Architect
13 8 (2.94%) Lead Developer
13 8 (2.94%) Python Data Engineer
13 8 (2.94%) Python Engineer
14 7 (2.57%) DBA
14 7 (2.57%) Software Engineer
14 7 (2.57%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (14.34%) PySpark
2 19 (6.99%) .NET
3 13 (4.78%) REST
4 7 (2.57%) .NET Framework
4 7 (2.57%) JSON
4 7 (2.57%) XML
5 6 (2.21%) .NET Core
5 6 (2.21%) Pandas
6 5 (1.84%) Entity Framework
7 4 (1.47%) Kafka
7 4 (1.47%) Polars
7 4 (1.47%) RESTful
8 3 (1.10%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.10%) OAuth
8 3 (1.10%) SOAP
9 2 (0.74%) CSS
9 2 (0.74%) HTML
9 2 (0.74%) Middleware
9 2 (0.74%) Smarty
9 2 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 11 (4.04%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.68%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.94%) Low-Code
5 7 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.21%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.21%) Clustering
6 6 (2.21%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.47%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.10%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.10%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.74%) Derivative
10 2 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.84%) Windows
1 5 (1.84%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (52.21%) Business Intelligence
2 135 (49.63%) Analytics
3 125 (45.96%) ETL
4 102 (37.50%) Data Engineering
5 92 (33.82%) Data Modelling
6 88 (32.35%) Data Pipeline
7 78 (28.68%) DevOps
8 76 (27.94%) CI/CD
9 72 (26.47%) Agile
9 72 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
10 69 (25.37%) Decision-Making
11 58 (21.32%) AI
12 55 (20.22%) Data Governance
13 44 (16.18%) Visualisation
14 42 (15.44%) Stakeholder Management
15 39 (14.34%) Data Architecture
16 38 (13.97%) Machine Learning
17 32 (11.76%) Mentoring
18 31 (11.40%) Migration
19 30 (11.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 195 (71.69%) SQL
2 115 (42.28%) Python
3 44 (16.18%) T-SQL
4 32 (11.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 23 (8.46%) C#
6 11 (4.04%) PowerShell
6 11 (4.04%) Scala
7 10 (3.68%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.21%) Bicep
9 4 (1.47%) Java
9 4 (1.47%) R
10 3 (1.10%) Bash
11 2 (0.74%) PHP
12 1 (0.37%) C++
12 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (11.03%) Degree
2 22 (8.09%) Azure Certification
3 19 (6.99%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.04%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.04%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.94%) DBS Check
5 8 (2.94%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
6 7 (2.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 4 (1.47%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.74%) MCSE
8 2 (0.74%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.74%) PMP
9 1 (0.37%) IIBA
9 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (22.43%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.82%) GDPR
3 10 (3.68%) QA
4 7 (2.57%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.10%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.74%) SLA
8 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (3.68%) Docker
2 4 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (5.88%) Terraform
2 14 (5.15%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.84%) Grafana
3 5 (1.84%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 134 (49.26%) Microsoft
2 118 (43.38%) Databricks
3 8 (2.94%) Informatica
3 8 (2.94%) Talend
4 6 (2.21%) Oracle
4 6 (2.21%) RedGate
5 5 (1.84%) SAP
5 5 (1.84%) SolarWinds
6 4 (1.47%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.47%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.47%) Palo Alto
6 4 (1.47%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.10%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.10%) Google
7 3 (1.10%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.74%) Automation Anywhere
8 2 (0.74%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.74%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.74%) UiPath
9 1 (0.37%) Anaplan