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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 341 286
Rank change year-on-year -2 -55 +117
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 272 399 441
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 0.78% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.47% 2.15% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 213 325 380
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,639 £42,975
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -13.60%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £99,000 £92,050
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -7.41%

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 18,561 18,581 18,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.17% 36.43% 43.40%
Number of salaries quoted 10,360 11,229 15,775
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% -3.85%

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 18 December 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 December 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 +10 143 £82,500 +13.79% 65
Midlands +28 38 £60,000 -4.00% 28
South East -14 38 £55,000 -15.38% 52
West Midlands +49 37 £60,000 -7.69% 21
North of England +5 30 £56,367 +2.48% 31
North West +10 12 £57,500 +7.73% 19
North East +7 9 £51,750 -13.75% 2
Yorkshire -18 9 £79,000 +22.48% 10
South West +18 8 £72,500 +16.00% 17
East of England +33 5 £50,500 -36.88% 15
East Midlands -12 1 £82,500 +65.00% 7
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 14 (5.15%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.57%) Apache
3 6 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.84%) Appian
4 5 (1.84%) SAS
5 3 (1.10%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
Applications
1 22 (8.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.37%) Endur
2 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.37%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 272 (100.00%) Azure
2 151 (55.51%) Power Platform
3 119 (43.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 48 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (10.29%) Microsoft Purview
6 17 (6.25%) Snowflake
7 16 (5.88%) GitHub
8 14 (5.15%) AWS
8 14 (5.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 13 (4.78%) Azure Logic Apps
9 13 (4.78%) dbt
9 13 (4.78%) SaaS
10 11 (4.04%) Matillion
10 11 (4.04%) Power Automate
11 10 (3.68%) GCP
11 10 (3.68%) PaaS
12 9 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (3.31%) Serverless
13 8 (2.94%) Azure Functions
13 8 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) DNS
1 1 (0.37%) Firewall
1 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (50.74%) Power BI
2 95 (34.93%) Data Lake
3 93 (34.19%) SQL Server
4 83 (30.51%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (23.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 48 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 39 (14.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 20 (7.35%) Metadata
9 16 (5.88%) Delta Lake
9 16 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 15 (5.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 13 (4.78%) Tableau
12 11 (4.04%) MySQL
13 9 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (2.57%) Relational Database
15 6 (2.21%) Big Data
15 6 (2.21%) Data Mining
15 6 (2.21%) Qlik Sense
16 5 (1.84%) Pinecone
16 5 (1.84%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 30 (11.03%) Git
2 5 (1.84%) MLflow
3 4 (1.47%) Bitbucket
3 4 (1.47%) JIRA
4 3 (1.10%) Jenkins
General
1 109 (40.07%) Social Skills
2 98 (36.03%) Finance
3 48 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.51%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.41%) Law
6 11 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.04%) Retail
7 9 (3.31%) Automotive
7 9 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.94%) Billing
9 5 (1.84%) Banking
9 5 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.47%) Advertising
10 4 (1.47%) Legal
10 4 (1.47%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.47%) Marketing
11 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.74%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 127 (46.69%) Data Engineer
2 45 (16.54%) Senior
3 37 (13.60%) Senior Data Engineer
4 28 (10.29%) Developer
5 26 (9.56%) Azure Engineer
6 24 (8.82%) Architect
7 22 (8.09%) Azure Data Engineer
8 21 (7.72%) Data Architect
8 21 (7.72%) Lead
9 17 (6.25%) Analyst
10 13 (4.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 12 (4.41%) Consultant
12 11 (4.04%) Data Manager
13 9 (3.31%) Azure Architect
14 8 (2.94%) Azure Data Architect
14 8 (2.94%) Lead Developer
15 7 (2.57%) Business Manager
15 7 (2.57%) Commercial Analyst
15 7 (2.57%) Insight Analyst
15 7 (2.57%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (16.91%) PySpark
2 19 (6.99%) .NET
3 16 (5.88%) REST
4 9 (3.31%) Pandas
5 7 (2.57%) JSON
5 7 (2.57%) Kafka
6 6 (2.21%) OAuth
6 6 (2.21%) RESTful
6 6 (2.21%) XML
7 5 (1.84%) .NET Core
7 5 (1.84%) .NET Framework
7 5 (1.84%) Django
7 5 (1.84%) Flask
7 5 (1.84%) NumPy
7 5 (1.84%) pytest
7 5 (1.84%) PyTorch
7 5 (1.84%) scikit-learn
7 5 (1.84%) Swagger
7 5 (1.84%) TensorFlow
7 5 (1.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 11 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.68%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.68%) Low-Code
4 7 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.84%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.47%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.47%) Clustering
6 4 (1.47%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.47%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.47%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.10%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.10%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.74%) VMS
2 1 (0.37%) Windows
2 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (53.31%) Analytics
2 144 (52.94%) Business Intelligence
2 144 (52.94%) ETL
3 116 (42.65%) Data Modelling
4 114 (41.91%) Data Engineering
5 110 (40.44%) Data Pipeline
6 83 (30.51%) Agile
7 79 (29.04%) CI/CD
8 74 (27.21%) DevOps
9 72 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
10 70 (25.74%) Decision-Making
11 68 (25.00%) AI
12 59 (21.69%) Data Governance
13 49 (18.01%) Visualisation
14 42 (15.44%) Machine Learning
15 40 (14.71%) Data Architecture
16 38 (13.97%) Stakeholder Management
17 32 (11.76%) Migration
18 29 (10.66%) Mentoring
19 26 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 203 (74.63%) SQL
2 135 (49.63%) Python
3 38 (13.97%) T-SQL
4 29 (10.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 18 (6.62%) C#
5 18 (6.62%) Scala
6 9 (3.31%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.57%) Bicep
7 7 (2.57%) Java
8 5 (1.84%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.84%) R
9 2 (0.74%) C++
10 1 (0.37%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.37%) Bash
10 1 (0.37%) PHP
10 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (8.82%) Degree
2 17 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 14 (5.15%) Security Cleared
4 13 (4.78%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (2.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 6 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.84%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.47%) IIBA
10 4 (1.47%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.47%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.47%) PMP
11 3 (1.10%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.37%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 21 (7.72%) GDPR
3 7 (2.57%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (2.21%) QA
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
System Software
1 14 (5.15%) Docker
2 3 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (7.35%) Terraform
2 18 (6.62%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.37%) Grafana
4 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 131 (48.16%) Databricks
2 122 (44.85%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.57%) Alteryx
3 7 (2.57%) Informatica
3 7 (2.57%) Talend
4 6 (2.21%) OpenAI
5 5 (1.84%) Automation Anywhere
5 5 (1.84%) UiPath
6 4 (1.47%) Anaplan
6 4 (1.47%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.47%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.47%) Oracle
6 4 (1.47%) Palo Alto
6 4 (1.47%) RedGate
7 3 (1.10%) SAP
8 2 (0.74%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.37%) Foundry
9 1 (0.37%) Google
9 1 (0.37%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.37%) SolarWinds