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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 353 309
Rank change year-on-year -13 -44 +126
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 273 423 466
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 0.70% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.72% 2.12% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 215 328 404
10th Percentile £47,600 £45,787 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £48,563
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 15,865 19,948 20,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.66% 32.93% 43.30%
Number of salaries quoted 10,393 12,031 16,960
10th Percentile £28,697 £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 £105,000 £100,000
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 13 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 13 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 -7 144 £80,000 +10.34% 126
North of England +2 37 £55,000 - 28
South East -16 37 £55,000 -12.00% 47
Midlands +68 31 £62,500 +20.19% 44
West Midlands +50 28 £61,250 +6.52% 36
North West +16 16 £56,250 +2.27% 14
North East +18 12 £52,500 -12.50% 5
East of England +20 9 £54,000 - 5
Yorkshire 0 9 £79,000 +22.48% 9
South West +32 8 £77,500 +40.91% 5
East Midlands +22 3 £65,000 +30.00% 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 18 (6.59%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.66%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.20%) Apache
4 5 (1.83%) SAS
5 4 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.37%) Appian
6 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 20 (7.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 273 (100.00%) Azure
2 158 (57.88%) Power Platform
3 110 (40.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 51 (18.68%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (8.79%) Azure Logic Apps
5 24 (8.79%) Microsoft Purview
6 15 (5.49%) Snowflake
7 14 (5.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 14 (5.13%) GitHub
8 13 (4.76%) Entra ID
9 12 (4.40%) Power Automate
9 12 (4.40%) PowerApps
9 12 (4.40%) SaaS
10 11 (4.03%) Azure Functions
10 11 (4.03%) dbt
10 11 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (4.03%) Serverless
11 10 (3.66%) AWS
11 10 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (3.66%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.20%) Firewall
2 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.37%) Network Security
2 1 (0.37%) SSL
2 1 (0.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (50.92%) Power BI
2 87 (31.87%) SQL Server
3 73 (26.74%) Data Lake
4 70 (25.64%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (23.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 49 (17.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 43 (15.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (6.23%) Metadata
9 16 (5.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 12 (4.40%) Tableau
11 11 (4.03%) MySQL
11 11 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (3.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 10 (3.66%) Delta Lake
13 7 (2.56%) Relational Database
14 6 (2.20%) MongoDB
14 6 (2.20%) Power Query
15 5 (1.83%) Qlik Sense
15 5 (1.83%) SAS EBI
15 5 (1.83%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (7.69%) Git
2 6 (2.20%) Bitbucket
3 4 (1.47%) JIRA
4 2 (0.73%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.37%) JUnit
5 1 (0.37%) MLflow
5 1 (0.37%) Selenium
5 1 (0.37%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 107 (39.19%) Social Skills
2 95 (34.80%) Finance
3 51 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
4 15 (5.49%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.13%) Retail
6 12 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (4.03%) Marketing
7 11 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.66%) Law
9 9 (3.30%) Banking
9 9 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.93%) Automotive
10 8 (2.93%) Billing
11 6 (2.20%) Advertising
12 4 (1.47%) Legal
12 4 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.73%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 113 (41.39%) Data Engineer
2 46 (16.85%) Senior
3 32 (11.72%) Senior Data Engineer
4 31 (11.36%) Architect
5 27 (9.89%) Data Architect
6 26 (9.52%) Developer
7 25 (9.16%) Analyst
8 24 (8.79%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (7.69%) Lead
10 20 (7.33%) Azure Data Engineer
11 12 (4.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 12 (4.40%) Data Manager
12 10 (3.66%) Azure Architect
13 9 (3.30%) Azure Data Architect
14 8 (2.93%) Python Data Engineer
14 8 (2.93%) Python Engineer
14 8 (2.93%) Software Engineer
15 7 (2.56%) DBA
15 7 (2.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
15 7 (2.56%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (14.65%) PySpark
2 19 (6.96%) .NET
3 11 (4.03%) REST
4 8 (2.93%) .NET Framework
4 8 (2.93%) JSON
4 8 (2.93%) XML
5 6 (2.20%) .NET Core
5 6 (2.20%) Entity Framework
6 5 (1.83%) Pandas
7 4 (1.47%) Kafka
7 4 (1.47%) Polars
8 3 (1.10%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.10%) RESTful
9 2 (0.73%) CSS
9 2 (0.73%) HTML
9 2 (0.73%) OAuth
9 2 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.73%) Smarty
9 2 (0.73%) SOAP
9 2 (0.73%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 11 (4.03%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.56%) Low-Code
4 7 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.20%) Algorithms
5 6 (2.20%) Clustering
5 6 (2.20%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.20%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.47%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.10%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.10%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.73%) Derivative
9 2 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.20%) Windows
1 6 (2.20%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.73%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (53.11%) Business Intelligence
2 136 (49.82%) Analytics
3 122 (44.69%) ETL
4 98 (35.90%) Data Engineering
5 86 (31.50%) Data Modelling
6 85 (31.14%) Data Pipeline
7 75 (27.47%) DevOps
8 74 (27.11%) CI/CD
9 72 (26.37%) Agile
10 69 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
11 67 (24.54%) Decision-Making
12 55 (20.15%) AI
13 52 (19.05%) Data Governance
14 48 (17.58%) Visualisation
15 40 (14.65%) Stakeholder Management
16 39 (14.29%) Data Architecture
17 37 (13.55%) Machine Learning
18 33 (12.09%) Mentoring
19 31 (11.36%) Migration
20 30 (10.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 194 (71.06%) SQL
2 114 (41.76%) Python
3 43 (15.75%) T-SQL
4 33 (12.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 23 (8.42%) C#
6 11 (4.03%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.66%) JavaScript
7 10 (3.66%) Scala
8 5 (1.83%) Java
9 4 (1.47%) Bash
9 4 (1.47%) Bicep
9 4 (1.47%) R
10 2 (0.73%) PHP
11 1 (0.37%) C++
11 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (11.36%) Degree
2 23 (8.42%) Azure Certification
3 22 (8.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (5.13%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.13%) Security Cleared
5 12 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.30%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.93%) DBS Check
7 8 (2.93%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (2.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 4 (1.47%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.73%) MCSE
10 2 (0.73%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.73%) PMP
11 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.37%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (21.25%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.79%) GDPR
3 10 (3.66%) QA
4 7 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.73%) SLA
7 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (3.30%) Docker
2 4 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (5.86%) Terraform
2 13 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.20%) Grafana
3 6 (2.20%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 132 (48.35%) Microsoft
2 111 (40.66%) Databricks
3 8 (2.93%) Informatica
3 8 (2.93%) Talend
4 6 (2.20%) Oracle
4 6 (2.20%) RedGate
4 6 (2.20%) SolarWinds
5 5 (1.83%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.83%) SAP
6 4 (1.47%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.47%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.47%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.10%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.10%) Google
7 3 (1.10%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.73%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.73%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.37%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.37%) eFront
9 1 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud