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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 347 301
Rank change year-on-year -10 -46 +123
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 269 424 458
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 0.75% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.61% 2.13% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 209 334 402
10th Percentile £47,300 £46,030 £42,750
25th Percentile £55,233 £52,622 £47,625
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 £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 16,722 19,936 19,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.52% 35.16% 43.07%
Number of salaries quoted 10,366 12,184 16,266
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £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 £103,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,264 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.16% +1.22% -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 5 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 5 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 +3 145 £85,000 +15.25% 84
Midlands +54 35 £60,000 +9.09% 49
West Midlands +45 34 £60,000 -4.00% 30
South East -19 33 £55,000 -12.70% 101
North of England +10 32 £55,117 +0.21% 56
North West +16 13 £57,500 +4.55% 35
North East +14 10 £51,000 -15.00% 3
Yorkshire -11 9 £79,000 +22.01% 18
East of England +35 7 £54,000 - 30
South West +13 7 £75,000 +27.66% 23
East Midlands +4 1 £82,500 +65.00% 16
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 (5.20%) Apache Spark
2 11 (4.09%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.97%) Apache
4 5 (1.86%) SAS
5 4 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.49%) Appian
6 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
Applications
1 22 (8.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.37%) Endur
3 1 (0.37%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 269 (100.00%) Azure
2 151 (56.13%) Power Platform
3 109 (40.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 51 (18.96%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (10.78%) Microsoft Purview
6 18 (6.69%) Snowflake
7 17 (6.32%) Azure Logic Apps
8 14 (5.20%) AWS
8 14 (5.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 14 (5.20%) GitHub
9 13 (4.83%) SaaS
10 12 (4.46%) dbt
10 12 (4.46%) Power Automate
11 11 (4.09%) Matillion
11 11 (4.09%) PaaS
12 10 (3.72%) GCP
13 9 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (3.35%) Entra ID
13 9 (3.35%) PowerApps
14 8 (2.97%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.74%) Firewall
2 1 (0.37%) DNS
2 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (50.56%) Power BI
2 95 (35.32%) SQL Server
3 87 (32.34%) Data Lake
4 80 (29.74%) Data Warehouse
5 68 (25.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 49 (18.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 41 (15.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 19 (7.06%) Metadata
9 16 (5.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 14 (5.20%) Delta Lake
11 13 (4.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 12 (4.46%) Tableau
13 10 (3.72%) MySQL
13 10 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (2.23%) Big Data
14 6 (2.23%) Qlik Sense
14 6 (2.23%) Relational Database
15 5 (1.86%) SAS EBI
15 5 (1.86%) Star Schema
16 4 (1.49%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 29 (10.78%) Git
2 4 (1.49%) Bitbucket
2 4 (1.49%) JIRA
2 4 (1.49%) MLflow
3 2 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.37%) JUnit
4 1 (0.37%) Selenium
4 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.37%) TestComplete
General
1 110 (40.89%) Social Skills
2 98 (36.43%) Finance
3 48 (17.84%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.20%) Public Sector
5 13 (4.83%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.46%) Law
6 12 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.72%) Retail
8 9 (3.35%) Automotive
8 9 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.97%) Billing
9 8 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.23%) Marketing
11 5 (1.86%) Banking
12 4 (1.49%) Advertising
12 4 (1.49%) Legal
13 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.74%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 119 (44.24%) Data Engineer
2 46 (17.10%) Senior
3 36 (13.38%) Senior Data Engineer
4 28 (10.41%) Developer
5 26 (9.67%) Architect
6 24 (8.92%) Azure Engineer
7 23 (8.55%) Data Architect
8 22 (8.18%) Lead
9 20 (7.43%) Analyst
9 20 (7.43%) Azure Data Engineer
10 13 (4.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 12 (4.46%) Data Manager
12 10 (3.72%) Azure Architect
13 9 (3.35%) Azure Data Architect
14 8 (2.97%) Consultant
14 8 (2.97%) Lead Developer
15 7 (2.60%) Business Manager
15 7 (2.60%) Commercial Analyst
15 7 (2.60%) Insight Analyst
15 7 (2.60%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (15.99%) PySpark
2 18 (6.69%) .NET
3 15 (5.58%) REST
4 8 (2.97%) Pandas
5 7 (2.60%) JSON
6 6 (2.23%) .NET Framework
6 6 (2.23%) Kafka
6 6 (2.23%) XML
7 5 (1.86%) .NET Core
7 5 (1.86%) OAuth
7 5 (1.86%) RESTful
8 4 (1.49%) Django
8 4 (1.49%) Entity Framework
8 4 (1.49%) Flask
8 4 (1.49%) NumPy
8 4 (1.49%) pytest
8 4 (1.49%) PyTorch
8 4 (1.49%) Swagger
8 4 (1.49%) TensorFlow
8 4 (1.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.06%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (3.35%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (3.35%) Low-Code
3 7 (2.60%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.23%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.86%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.49%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.49%) Clustering
6 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.49%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.12%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.12%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.74%) VMS
1 2 (0.74%) Windows
1 2 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (52.42%) Business Intelligence
2 139 (51.67%) Analytics
3 130 (48.33%) ETL
4 108 (40.15%) Data Engineering
5 101 (37.55%) Data Pipeline
6 99 (36.80%) Data Modelling
7 81 (30.11%) Agile
8 77 (28.62%) CI/CD
9 75 (27.88%) DevOps
10 71 (26.39%) Decision-Making
11 70 (26.02%) Problem-Solving
12 69 (25.65%) AI
13 58 (21.56%) Data Governance
14 48 (17.84%) Visualisation
15 42 (15.61%) Machine Learning
16 41 (15.24%) Stakeholder Management
17 39 (14.50%) Data Architecture
18 33 (12.27%) Migration
19 31 (11.52%) Mentoring
20 28 (10.41%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 199 (73.98%) SQL
2 126 (46.84%) Python
3 39 (14.50%) T-SQL
4 30 (11.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 20 (7.43%) C#
6 15 (5.58%) Scala
7 10 (3.72%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.60%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.23%) Bicep
9 6 (2.23%) Java
10 5 (1.86%) R
11 2 (0.74%) Bash
11 2 (0.74%) C++
12 1 (0.37%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.37%) PHP
12 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (9.67%) Degree
2 18 (6.69%) Azure Certification
3 14 (5.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (4.83%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.83%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.97%) TOGAF Certification
6 7 (2.60%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 6 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.86%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.86%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.86%) PMP
9 4 (1.49%) IIBA
9 4 (1.49%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.49%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.37%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (24.54%) Data Quality
2 20 (7.43%) GDPR
3 7 (2.60%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (2.23%) QA
5 4 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.12%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.74%) SLA
8 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
System Software
1 13 (4.83%) Docker
2 3 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (6.32%) Kubernetes
1 17 (6.32%) Terraform
2 5 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.74%) Grafana
3 2 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 127 (47.21%) Microsoft
2 125 (46.47%) Databricks
3 7 (2.60%) Alteryx
3 7 (2.60%) Informatica
3 7 (2.60%) Talend
4 5 (1.86%) OpenAI
4 5 (1.86%) Oracle
4 5 (1.86%) SAP
5 4 (1.49%) Anaplan
5 4 (1.49%) Automation Anywhere
5 4 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (1.49%) Fortinet
5 4 (1.49%) Palo Alto
5 4 (1.49%) RedGate
5 4 (1.49%) UiPath
6 2 (0.74%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.74%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.37%) Google
7 1 (0.37%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow