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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 354 303
Rank change year-on-year -7 -51 +110
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 264 417 462
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 0.73% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 2.10% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 204 325 405
10th Percentile £47,575 £46,061 £42,750
25th Percentile £55,175 £52,500 £48,000
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% -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 15,872 19,817 19,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.66% 34.61% 43.14%
Number of salaries quoted 10,246 12,090 16,471
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £47,500 £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 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -2.34%

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 2 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 2 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 +12 143 £83,500 +15.17% 81
Midlands +55 34 £60,000 +9.09% 23
West Midlands +62 33 £60,000 -4.00% 19
North of England +7 32 £55,117 +0.21% 15
South East -23 32 £55,000 -15.38% 60
North West +17 13 £57,500 +4.55% 10
North East +16 10 £51,000 -15.00% 1
Yorkshire -6 9 £79,000 +22.01% 4
South West +16 7 £75,000 +27.66% 6
East of England +35 6 £52,250 - 4
East Midlands +19 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 (5.30%) Apache Spark
2 13 (4.92%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.03%) Apache
4 5 (1.89%) SAS
5 4 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.14%) Appian
7 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
Applications
1 22 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.38%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 264 (100.00%) Azure
2 150 (56.82%) Power Platform
3 105 (39.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 49 (18.56%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (10.61%) Microsoft Purview
6 17 (6.44%) Azure Logic Apps
6 17 (6.44%) Snowflake
7 14 (5.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 13 (4.92%) AWS
9 12 (4.55%) dbt
9 12 (4.55%) Power Automate
9 12 (4.55%) SaaS
10 11 (4.17%) GitHub
10 11 (4.17%) Matillion
11 10 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (3.79%) GCP
11 10 (3.79%) PaaS
11 10 (3.79%) PowerApps
12 9 (3.41%) Entra ID
13 8 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.14%) Firewall
2 1 (0.38%) DNS
2 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (50.76%) Power BI
2 92 (34.85%) SQL Server
3 83 (31.44%) Data Lake
4 80 (30.30%) Data Warehouse
5 66 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 48 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 41 (15.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 19 (7.20%) Metadata
9 16 (6.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 13 (4.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 12 (4.55%) Delta Lake
11 12 (4.55%) Tableau
12 10 (3.79%) MySQL
13 9 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (2.27%) Big Data
14 6 (2.27%) Qlik Sense
14 6 (2.27%) Relational Database
15 5 (1.89%) SAS EBI
15 5 (1.89%) Star Schema
16 4 (1.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (10.23%) Git
2 4 (1.52%) Bitbucket
2 4 (1.52%) JIRA
3 3 (1.14%) MLflow
4 2 (0.76%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.38%) JUnit
5 1 (0.38%) Selenium
5 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.38%) TestComplete
General
1 108 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 93 (35.23%) Finance
3 48 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.92%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (4.55%) Law
5 12 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.79%) Retail
7 9 (3.41%) Automotive
7 9 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.03%) Billing
8 8 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.65%) Marketing
10 5 (1.89%) Banking
11 4 (1.52%) Advertising
11 4 (1.52%) Legal
12 3 (1.14%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.76%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.76%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 115 (43.56%) Data Engineer
2 48 (18.18%) Senior
3 36 (13.64%) Senior Data Engineer
4 27 (10.23%) Developer
5 26 (9.85%) Architect
6 24 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
7 23 (8.71%) Data Architect
8 22 (8.33%) Lead
9 20 (7.58%) Analyst
9 20 (7.58%) Azure Data Engineer
10 13 (4.92%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 11 (4.17%) Data Manager
12 10 (3.79%) Azure Architect
13 9 (3.41%) Azure Data Architect
14 8 (3.03%) Consultant
14 8 (3.03%) Lead Developer
15 7 (2.65%) Business Manager
15 7 (2.65%) Commercial Analyst
15 7 (2.65%) Insight Analyst
15 7 (2.65%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (15.91%) PySpark
2 18 (6.82%) .NET
3 13 (4.92%) REST
4 7 (2.65%) .NET Framework
4 7 (2.65%) JSON
4 7 (2.65%) Pandas
5 6 (2.27%) XML
6 5 (1.89%) .NET Core
6 5 (1.89%) Entity Framework
6 5 (1.89%) Kafka
7 4 (1.52%) OAuth
7 4 (1.52%) Polars
7 4 (1.52%) RESTful
8 3 (1.14%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.14%) Django
8 3 (1.14%) Faiss
8 3 (1.14%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.14%) Hugging Face
8 3 (1.14%) JWT
8 3 (1.14%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.58%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (3.41%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.03%) Low-Code
4 7 (2.65%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.65%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.27%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.52%) Clustering
7 4 (1.52%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.14%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.14%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.14%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.14%) Windows
1 3 (1.14%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (53.03%) Business Intelligence
2 135 (51.14%) Analytics
3 126 (47.73%) ETL
4 106 (40.15%) Data Engineering
5 96 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
6 94 (35.61%) Data Modelling
7 78 (29.55%) Agile
8 76 (28.79%) CI/CD
9 74 (28.03%) DevOps
10 71 (26.89%) Decision-Making
11 70 (26.52%) Problem-Solving
12 68 (25.76%) AI
13 57 (21.59%) Data Governance
14 48 (18.18%) Visualisation
15 42 (15.91%) Machine Learning
16 39 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
17 38 (14.39%) Data Architecture
18 32 (12.12%) Migration
19 31 (11.74%) Mentoring
20 28 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 194 (73.48%) SQL
2 124 (46.97%) Python
3 39 (14.77%) T-SQL
4 30 (11.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 21 (7.95%) C#
6 13 (4.92%) Scala
7 10 (3.79%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.03%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.27%) Bicep
10 5 (1.89%) Java
11 4 (1.52%) R
12 2 (0.76%) Bash
13 1 (0.38%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.38%) C++
13 1 (0.38%) PHP
13 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (10.23%) Degree
2 19 (7.20%) Azure Certification
3 15 (5.68%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.55%) Security Cleared
5 8 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
6 7 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.65%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 5 (1.89%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.89%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.52%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.52%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.52%) PMP
9 3 (1.14%) IIBA
10 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.38%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (23.86%) Data Quality
2 21 (7.95%) GDPR
3 7 (2.65%) Actionable Recommendations
3 7 (2.65%) QA
4 4 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.76%) SLA
7 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
System Software
1 12 (4.55%) Docker
2 3 (1.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.68%) Terraform
3 4 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.14%) Grafana
4 3 (1.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 126 (47.73%) Microsoft
2 124 (46.97%) Databricks
3 7 (2.65%) Informatica
3 7 (2.65%) Talend
4 6 (2.27%) Alteryx
5 5 (1.89%) Oracle
5 5 (1.89%) SAP
6 4 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.52%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.52%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.52%) Palo Alto
6 4 (1.52%) RedGate
7 3 (1.14%) Anaplan
7 3 (1.14%) Automation Anywhere
7 3 (1.14%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.14%) UiPath
8 2 (0.76%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.38%) Google
9 1 (0.38%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow