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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 352 321
Rank change year-on-year -39 -31 +93
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 248 430 469
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 0.69% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 2.12% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 207 334 406
10th Percentile £46,400 £46,030 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £96,250 £93,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -10.71%

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 13,901 20,317 21,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.45% 32.81% 42.95%
Number of salaries quoted 9,694 12,453 17,823
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% -2.34%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,750
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 23 October 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 23 October 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 +2 143 £82,500 +10.00% 101
South East -7 37 £55,000 -8.33% 87
Midlands +40 27 £60,000 +2.13% 46
West Midlands +37 23 £60,000 - 33
North of England -31 21 £55,000 - 42
North West -46 10 £55,000 - 23
East of England - 8 £54,500 - 10
South West +32 6 £77,500 +40.91% 4
Yorkshire -3 6 £65,000 +0.78% 13
North East +11 5 £52,500 -12.50% 7
East Midlands +9 4 £65,000 +30.00% 13
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 19 (7.66%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.82%) Apache
4 5 (2.02%) SAS
5 3 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.21%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.81%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.40%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 248 (100.00%) Azure
2 137 (55.24%) Power Platform
3 87 (35.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 52 (20.97%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (10.89%) Azure Logic Apps
6 19 (7.66%) Microsoft Purview
7 15 (6.05%) Power Automate
7 15 (6.05%) PowerApps
8 14 (5.65%) Snowflake
9 13 (5.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 13 (5.24%) dbt
9 13 (5.24%) Entra ID
10 12 (4.84%) Azure Functions
10 12 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (4.84%) GitHub
10 12 (4.84%) Serverless
11 11 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (4.03%) AWS
12 10 (4.03%) SaaS
13 9 (3.63%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.82%) Firewall
2 1 (0.40%) Network Security
2 1 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (48.79%) Power BI
2 72 (29.03%) SQL Server
3 64 (25.81%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (24.19%) Data Lake
5 47 (18.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 44 (17.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 27 (10.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (5.65%) Metadata
9 13 (5.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 11 (4.44%) Delta Lake
10 11 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (3.63%) Relational Database
12 8 (3.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 8 (3.23%) MySQL
13 7 (2.82%) Tableau
14 6 (2.42%) Star Schema
15 5 (2.02%) Power Query
15 5 (2.02%) SAS EBI
16 4 (1.61%) Looker
16 4 (1.61%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (8.47%) Git
2 5 (2.02%) JIRA
3 4 (1.61%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.81%) MLflow
4 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.81%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.40%) JUnit
5 1 (0.40%) Selenium
5 1 (0.40%) TestComplete
General
1 89 (35.89%) Social Skills
2 74 (29.84%) Finance
3 42 (16.94%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.65%) Retail
5 13 (5.24%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.84%) Law
7 11 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (4.03%) Banking
8 10 (4.03%) Marketing
8 10 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.82%) Automotive
11 7 (2.82%) Legal
12 6 (2.42%) Advertising
13 2 (0.81%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.81%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.81%) Local Government
14 1 (0.40%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 108 (43.55%) Data Engineer
2 40 (16.13%) Senior
3 31 (12.50%) Developer
4 28 (11.29%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (10.48%) Architect
6 25 (10.08%) Azure Engineer
7 24 (9.68%) Data Architect
8 22 (8.87%) Azure Data Engineer
9 18 (7.26%) Analyst
9 18 (7.26%) Lead
10 14 (5.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 14 (5.65%) Data Manager
11 10 (4.03%) Python Data Engineer
11 10 (4.03%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.63%) Azure Architect
12 9 (3.63%) Azure Data Architect
13 8 (3.23%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 8 (3.23%) Software Engineer
13 8 (3.23%) SQL Developer
14 6 (2.42%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (16.13%) PySpark
2 20 (8.06%) .NET
3 11 (4.44%) XML
4 10 (4.03%) REST
5 9 (3.63%) JSON
6 8 (3.23%) .NET Framework
7 7 (2.82%) .NET Core
8 6 (2.42%) Entity Framework
9 4 (1.61%) Pandas
9 4 (1.61%) Polars
10 3 (1.21%) ARM Templates
11 2 (0.81%) Blazor
11 2 (0.81%) D3.js
11 2 (0.81%) FastAPI
11 2 (0.81%) Kafka
11 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
11 2 (0.81%) Node.js
11 2 (0.81%) pydantic
11 2 (0.81%) pytest
11 2 (0.81%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.63%) Analytical Mindset
1 9 (3.63%) Cloud Native
1 9 (3.63%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (2.82%) Algorithms
3 7 (2.82%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (2.42%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.02%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.61%) Clustering
6 4 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.61%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.21%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.21%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.21%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.21%) Replication
8 2 (0.81%) Derivative
8 2 (0.81%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.82%) Windows
1 7 (2.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (49.60%) Business Intelligence
2 118 (47.58%) ETL
3 108 (43.55%) Analytics
4 83 (33.47%) Data Engineering
5 79 (31.85%) DevOps
6 74 (29.84%) Data Modelling
6 74 (29.84%) Data Pipeline
7 71 (28.63%) CI/CD
8 62 (25.00%) Agile
9 53 (21.37%) Decision-Making
10 49 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (18.95%) Data Governance
12 40 (16.13%) AI
13 36 (14.52%) Machine Learning
13 36 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (13.31%) Data Architecture
14 33 (13.31%) Visualisation
15 32 (12.90%) Mentoring
16 30 (12.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 26 (10.48%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 175 (70.56%) SQL
2 111 (44.76%) Python
3 45 (18.15%) T-SQL
4 25 (10.08%) C#
5 17 (6.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 11 (4.44%) PowerShell
7 10 (4.03%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.03%) Scala
8 4 (1.61%) Bash
8 4 (1.61%) Bicep
8 4 (1.61%) Java
8 4 (1.61%) R
9 2 (0.81%) PHP
10 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (10.08%) Degree
2 24 (9.68%) Azure Certification
3 21 (8.47%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (6.45%) Security Cleared
5 15 (6.05%) SC Cleared
6 9 (3.63%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.82%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (2.42%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.61%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.40%) MCSE
10 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (18.15%) Data Quality
2 20 (8.06%) GDPR
3 13 (5.24%) QA
4 6 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.81%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (3.23%) Docker
2 4 (1.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (7.26%) Terraform
2 10 (4.03%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.82%) Grafana
3 7 (2.82%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 120 (48.39%) Microsoft
2 104 (41.94%) Databricks
3 7 (2.82%) SolarWinds
4 6 (2.42%) Informatica
4 6 (2.42%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.02%) Google
5 5 (2.02%) Talend
6 4 (1.61%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.61%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.61%) Oracle
6 4 (1.61%) Palo Alto
6 4 (1.61%) RedGate
6 4 (1.61%) SAP
7 3 (1.21%) Intapp
7 3 (1.21%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.81%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.81%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.40%) iManage
9 1 (0.40%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud