Azure Data Factory Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 277 237
Rank change year-on-year -18 -40 -23
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 65 22 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.27% 0.23% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 0.90% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 51 19 50
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,500 £41,700
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £60,625 £64,688
90th Percentile £95,000 £65,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £68,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +5.00% +4.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,973 2,440 3,944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 20.60% 25.47% 29.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,634 1,678 2,333
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,715 £82,241 £83,750
England median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.69% +2.22%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure Data Factory relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Azure Data Factory job vacancy trend in the North of England

Azure Data Factory
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure Data Factory.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Data Factory in the North of England

Azure Data Factory
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 3 October 2026. 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
Yorkshire -12 35 £80,000 +33.33% 11
North West -18 25 £55,000 - 22
North East -56 11 £57,500 +9.52% 6
Azure Data Factory
England

Azure Data Factory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 6 (9.23%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.15%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.54%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (33.85%) Power Platform
3 20 (30.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 13 (20.00%) AWS
4 13 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (16.92%) GCP
6 9 (13.85%) Azure Functions
6 9 (13.85%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (13.85%) Serverless
7 8 (12.31%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (10.77%) Azure Databricks
9 5 (7.69%) dbt
9 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (7.69%) Snowflake
10 3 (4.62%) Azure AI
10 3 (4.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (4.62%) IaaS
10 3 (4.62%) PaaS
11 2 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (3.08%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (35.38%) Data Lake
3 22 (33.85%) Power BI
4 11 (16.92%) BigQuery
5 10 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (13.85%) Spark SQL
7 8 (12.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (9.23%) Metadata
8 6 (9.23%) Semantic Layer
8 6 (9.23%) Tableau
9 5 (7.69%) SQL Server
9 5 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (6.15%) OLAP
10 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (6.15%) Star Schema
11 3 (4.62%) Data Vault
11 3 (4.62%) Delta Lake
11 3 (4.62%) Power Query
11 3 (4.62%) PowerPivot
11 3 (4.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) GitLab
2 2 (3.08%) Git
2 2 (3.08%) MLflow
3 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (36.92%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.77%) Finance
4 6 (9.23%) Retail
5 5 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.15%) Advertising
7 3 (4.62%) Games
7 3 (4.62%) Law
7 3 (4.62%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.08%) Legal
8 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.54%) Billing
Job Titles
1 36 (55.38%) Data Engineer
2 19 (29.23%) Azure Engineer
3 17 (26.15%) Lead
4 15 (23.08%) Senior
5 12 (18.46%) Lead Data Engineer
5 12 (18.46%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (16.92%) Azure Data Engineer
7 9 (13.85%) Architect
7 9 (13.85%) Data Architect
7 9 (13.85%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (12.31%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 8 (12.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 8 (12.31%) Databricks Data Engineer
8 8 (12.31%) Databricks Engineer
9 7 (10.77%) Developer
10 5 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (7.69%) Power BI Developer
11 3 (4.62%) Azure Architect
11 3 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (4.62%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (27.69%) Terraform
2 13 (20.00%) PySpark
3 7 (10.77%) ARM Templates
4 6 (9.23%) REST
5 4 (6.15%) Kafka
6 2 (3.08%) Apache Avro
6 2 (3.08%) JSON
7 1 (1.54%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.62%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 35 (53.85%) Data Engineering
3 33 (50.77%) Analytics
3 33 (50.77%) Data Pipeline
4 32 (49.23%) ETL
5 31 (47.69%) Data Modelling
6 29 (44.62%) DevOps
7 27 (41.54%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (33.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (32.31%) Data Governance
10 20 (30.77%) Agile
11 19 (29.23%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (27.69%) Test Automation
13 17 (26.15%) Data Transformation
13 17 (26.15%) Lakehouse
14 16 (24.62%) Mentoring
15 15 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
16 14 (21.54%) Cost Optimisation
16 14 (21.54%) Data Architecture
16 14 (21.54%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 48 (73.85%) SQL
2 32 (49.23%) Python
3 11 (16.92%) Java
4 7 (10.77%) Scala
5 4 (6.15%) Bicep
5 4 (6.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.15%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.62%) R
7 1 (1.54%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (20.00%) Degree
2 10 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 10 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 7 (10.77%) Azure Certification
3 7 (10.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.62%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (33.85%) Data Quality
2 6 (9.23%) GDPR
3 3 (4.62%) QA
4 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 30 (46.15%) Databricks
2 17 (26.15%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.69%) SAP
4 2 (3.08%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.54%) Actian
5 1 (1.54%) Google
5 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow