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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 225 229
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +115
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 29 48 93
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.24% 0.57% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.66% 1.72% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 18 39 84
10th Percentile £45,023 £40,925 £37,000
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,617 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% +30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £79,375 £70,625 £58,750
90th Percentile £83,500 £81,250 £69,688
England median annual salary £73,750 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.46% +8.33% -14.29%

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 4,373 2,790 4,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 36.54% 33.19% 37.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,008 1,566 3,941
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,925 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,241 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,813 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,548
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -10.77%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -27 11 £79,000 +21.54% 2
North West -12 10 £59,000 +7.27% 15
North East -7 8 £51,000 -15.00% 4
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 2 (6.90%) Apache Spark
1 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 12 (41.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (62.07%) Power Platform
3 17 (58.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (10.34%) GitHub
5 3 (10.34%) Power Automate
5 3 (10.34%) PowerApps
6 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.90%) IaaS
6 2 (6.90%) PaaS
7 1 (3.45%) AWS
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Stack
7 1 (3.45%) dbt
7 1 (3.45%) GCP
7 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (62.07%) Power BI
2 16 (55.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (55.17%) SQL Server
3 15 (51.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (27.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (20.69%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (17.24%) Data Lake
7 4 (13.79%) Metadata
8 3 (10.34%) MongoDB
8 3 (10.34%) MySQL
8 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (10.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (6.90%) Star Schema
10 1 (3.45%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
10 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
10 1 (3.45%) Spark SQL
10 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 19 (65.52%) Social Skills
2 12 (41.38%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (41.38%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Billing
3 5 (17.24%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.34%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.90%) Legal
6 1 (3.45%) Advertising
6 1 (3.45%) Law
6 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Data Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Analyst
2 5 (17.24%) Business Manager
2 5 (17.24%) Commercial Analyst
2 5 (17.24%) Insight Analyst
2 5 (17.24%) Insight Manager
3 4 (13.79%) Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Principal Data Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Principal Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Senior
4 3 (10.34%) Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Data Architect
4 3 (10.34%) DBA
4 3 (10.34%) Principal Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Principal Data Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) SQL DBA
5 2 (6.90%) Business Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (6.90%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) PySpark
2 1 (3.45%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (17.24%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (10.34%) Clustering
3 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.45%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) Analytics
2 19 (65.52%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (55.17%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (48.28%) Decision-Making
5 13 (44.83%) Visualisation
6 12 (41.38%) Data Analysis
7 11 (37.93%) ETL
8 10 (34.48%) Actionable Insight
8 10 (34.48%) AI
8 10 (34.48%) Data Engineering
8 10 (34.48%) Process Improvement
8 10 (34.48%) Visual Analytics
8 10 (34.48%) WFM
9 9 (31.03%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (27.59%) Data Modelling
10 8 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (24.14%) Migration
12 6 (20.69%) Data Analytics
12 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
12 6 (20.69%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 27 (93.10%) SQL
2 10 (34.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 7 (24.14%) Python
3 7 (24.14%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.45%) C#
4 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
2 5 (17.24%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 2 (6.90%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (34.48%) Data Quality
2 5 (17.24%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (6.90%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Databricks
3 3 (10.34%) Informatica
3 3 (10.34%) RedGate
3 3 (10.34%) Talend
4 1 (3.45%) Google