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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 346 297
Rank change year-on-year -19 -49 +130
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 266 421 462
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 0.75% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 2.13% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 206 331 403
10th Percentile £47,000 £46,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,994 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £85,188 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £92,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%

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 16,856 19,795 19,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.67% 35.18% 43.13%
Number of salaries quoted 10,363 12,099 16,370
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £47,380 £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 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -2.56%

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 6 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 6 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 +8 145 £85,000 +17.24% 81
Midlands +40 34 £60,000 +9.09% 18
West Midlands +47 33 £60,000 -4.00% 14
South East -29 33 £55,000 -12.70% 60
North of England +4 31 £55,233 +0.42% 19
North West +14 12 £57,500 +4.55% 13
North East +14 10 £51,000 -15.00% 1
Yorkshire -7 9 £79,000 +22.01% 5
South West +22 7 £75,000 +27.66% 4
East of England +32 6 £52,250 - 5
East Midlands +12 1 £82,500 +65.00% 4
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 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.01%) Apache
2 8 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.88%) SAS
4 4 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.50%) Appian
5 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
Applications
1 21 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.38%) Endur
3 1 (0.38%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 266 (100.00%) Azure
2 147 (55.26%) Power Platform
3 110 (41.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 51 (19.17%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (10.90%) Microsoft Purview
6 18 (6.77%) Snowflake
7 15 (5.64%) Azure Logic Apps
8 14 (5.26%) AWS
8 14 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 14 (5.26%) GitHub
9 13 (4.89%) SaaS
10 12 (4.51%) dbt
11 11 (4.14%) Matillion
11 11 (4.14%) Power Automate
12 10 (3.76%) GCP
12 10 (3.76%) PaaS
13 9 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (3.01%) Azure Functions
14 8 (3.01%) PowerApps
14 8 (3.01%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.75%) Firewall
2 1 (0.38%) DNS
2 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (49.62%) Power BI
2 95 (35.71%) SQL Server
3 88 (33.08%) Data Lake
4 79 (29.70%) Data Warehouse
5 66 (24.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 47 (17.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 39 (14.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 19 (7.14%) Metadata
9 16 (6.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 14 (5.26%) Delta Lake
11 13 (4.89%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 12 (4.51%) Tableau
13 10 (3.76%) MySQL
13 10 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (2.26%) Big Data
14 6 (2.26%) Qlik Sense
14 6 (2.26%) Relational Database
15 5 (1.88%) SAS EBI
16 4 (1.50%) MongoDB
16 4 (1.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (10.90%) Git
2 4 (1.50%) Bitbucket
2 4 (1.50%) JIRA
2 4 (1.50%) MLflow
3 2 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.38%) JUnit
4 1 (0.38%) Selenium
4 1 (0.38%) TestComplete
General
1 109 (40.98%) Social Skills
2 98 (36.84%) Finance
3 49 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.51%) Law
6 11 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.76%) Retail
8 9 (3.38%) Automotive
8 9 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (3.01%) Billing
10 6 (2.26%) Marketing
10 6 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.88%) Banking
12 4 (1.50%) Advertising
12 4 (1.50%) Legal
13 3 (1.13%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.75%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 120 (45.11%) Data Engineer
2 45 (16.92%) Senior
3 36 (13.53%) Senior Data Engineer
4 27 (10.15%) Developer
5 26 (9.77%) Architect
6 24 (9.02%) Azure Engineer
7 23 (8.65%) Data Architect
8 22 (8.27%) Lead
9 20 (7.52%) Azure Data Engineer
10 19 (7.14%) Analyst
11 12 (4.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 12 (4.51%) Data Manager
12 10 (3.76%) Azure Architect
13 9 (3.38%) Azure Data Architect
14 8 (3.01%) Consultant
14 8 (3.01%) Lead Developer
15 7 (2.63%) Business Manager
15 7 (2.63%) Commercial Analyst
15 7 (2.63%) Insight Analyst
15 7 (2.63%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (16.17%) PySpark
2 18 (6.77%) .NET
3 15 (5.64%) REST
4 8 (3.01%) Pandas
5 7 (2.63%) JSON
6 6 (2.26%) .NET Framework
6 6 (2.26%) Kafka
6 6 (2.26%) XML
7 5 (1.88%) .NET Core
7 5 (1.88%) OAuth
7 5 (1.88%) RESTful
8 4 (1.50%) Django
8 4 (1.50%) Entity Framework
8 4 (1.50%) Flask
8 4 (1.50%) NumPy
8 4 (1.50%) pytest
8 4 (1.50%) PyTorch
8 4 (1.50%) scikit-learn
8 4 (1.50%) Swagger
8 4 (1.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (3.38%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (3.38%) Low-Code
3 7 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.26%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.88%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.88%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.50%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.50%) Clustering
6 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.50%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.13%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.13%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.75%) VMS
1 2 (0.75%) Windows
1 2 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (51.88%) Analytics
2 137 (51.50%) Business Intelligence
3 129 (48.50%) ETL
4 108 (40.60%) Data Engineering
5 101 (37.97%) Data Pipeline
6 99 (37.22%) Data Modelling
7 81 (30.45%) Agile
8 77 (28.95%) CI/CD
9 75 (28.20%) DevOps
10 69 (25.94%) AI
10 69 (25.94%) Decision-Making
10 69 (25.94%) Problem-Solving
11 58 (21.80%) Data Governance
12 47 (17.67%) Visualisation
13 42 (15.79%) Machine Learning
14 39 (14.66%) Data Architecture
14 39 (14.66%) Stakeholder Management
15 33 (12.41%) Migration
16 31 (11.65%) Mentoring
17 28 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 196 (73.68%) SQL
2 125 (46.99%) Python
3 39 (14.66%) T-SQL
4 29 (10.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 20 (7.52%) C#
6 15 (5.64%) Scala
7 9 (3.38%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.63%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.26%) Bicep
9 6 (2.26%) Java
10 5 (1.88%) R
11 2 (0.75%) C++
12 1 (0.38%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.38%) Bash
12 1 (0.38%) PHP
12 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (9.77%) Degree
2 18 (6.77%) Azure Certification
3 13 (4.89%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (4.89%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.89%) Security Cleared
4 8 (3.01%) TOGAF Certification
5 7 (2.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 6 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.88%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.88%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.88%) PMP
8 4 (1.50%) IIBA
8 4 (1.50%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.50%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.38%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (24.44%) Data Quality
2 19 (7.14%) GDPR
3 7 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (2.26%) QA
5 4 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.13%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.75%) SLA
8 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
System Software
1 13 (4.89%) Docker
2 3 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (6.39%) Kubernetes
1 17 (6.39%) Terraform
2 5 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.75%) Grafana
3 2 (0.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 125 (46.99%) Databricks
2 124 (46.62%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.63%) Alteryx
3 7 (2.63%) Informatica
3 7 (2.63%) Talend
4 5 (1.88%) OpenAI
4 5 (1.88%) Oracle
4 5 (1.88%) SAP
5 4 (1.50%) Anaplan
5 4 (1.50%) Automation Anywhere
5 4 (1.50%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (1.50%) Fortinet
5 4 (1.50%) Palo Alto
5 4 (1.50%) RedGate
5 4 (1.50%) UiPath
6 2 (0.75%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.75%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.38%) Google
7 1 (0.38%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow