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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 277 242
Rank change year-on-year -11 -35 -10
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 66 23 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.28% 0.24% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 0.94% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 52 20 52
10th Percentile £50,250 £49,875 £43,919
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £55,117 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.26% +0.21% +10.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £62,813 £64,063
90th Percentile £95,000 £65,625 £71,125
England median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% - -

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 5,183 2,456 4,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 22.19% 26.15% 29.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,731 1,707 2,691
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,313 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.00% -3.85%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -13 39 £81,250 +35.42% 5
North West -3 21 £55,000 - 8
North East -58 6 £47,500 -9.52% 1
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 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.52%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (100.00%) Azure
2 25 (37.88%) Power Platform
3 17 (25.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 14 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (18.18%) AWS
6 11 (16.67%) Azure Functions
6 11 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (16.67%) GCP
6 11 (16.67%) Serverless
7 10 (15.15%) Azure Databricks
7 10 (15.15%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (7.58%) dbt
9 3 (4.55%) Azure AI
9 3 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (4.55%) Snowflake
10 2 (3.03%) SaaS
11 1 (1.52%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.52%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (42.42%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (37.88%) Power BI
3 20 (30.30%) Data Lake
4 15 (22.73%) Spark SQL
5 11 (16.67%) BigQuery
6 9 (13.64%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (9.09%) Metadata
7 6 (9.09%) Semantic Layer
7 6 (9.09%) SQL Server
7 6 (9.09%) Tableau
8 5 (7.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (6.06%) OLAP
9 4 (6.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (6.06%) Star Schema
10 3 (4.55%) Data Vault
10 3 (4.55%) Delta Lake
10 3 (4.55%) Power Query
10 3 (4.55%) PowerPivot
10 3 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.03%) GitLab
1 2 (3.03%) MLflow
2 1 (1.52%) Git
2 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (34.85%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.70%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.61%) Finance
4 6 (9.09%) Retail
5 4 (6.06%) Advertising
6 3 (4.55%) Games
6 3 (4.55%) Law
6 3 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.03%) Legal
7 2 (3.03%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.52%) Billing
8 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (60.61%) Data Engineer
2 25 (37.88%) Lead
3 19 (28.79%) Azure Engineer
3 19 (28.79%) Lead Data Engineer
4 15 (22.73%) Senior
5 13 (19.70%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
7 11 (16.67%) Databricks Data Engineer
7 11 (16.67%) Databricks Engineer
8 10 (15.15%) Architect
8 10 (15.15%) Azure Data Engineer
8 10 (15.15%) Data Architect
9 9 (13.64%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 9 (13.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (10.61%) Developer
11 5 (7.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 5 (7.58%) Power BI Developer
12 3 (4.55%) Azure Data Architect
12 3 (4.55%) Data Consultant
12 3 (4.55%) Principal Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (28.79%) PySpark
2 17 (25.76%) Terraform
3 10 (15.15%) ARM Templates
4 9 (13.64%) REST
5 1 (1.52%) .NET
5 1 (1.52%) Apache Avro
5 1 (1.52%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (57.58%) CI/CD
1 38 (57.58%) Data Engineering
2 34 (51.52%) Data Modelling
3 33 (50.00%) ETL
4 31 (46.97%) Business Intelligence
4 31 (46.97%) Data Pipeline
5 29 (43.94%) DevOps
6 28 (42.42%) Analytics
7 24 (36.36%) Lakehouse
8 23 (34.85%) Data Governance
9 20 (30.30%) Test Automation
10 19 (28.79%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (25.76%) Data Transformation
12 16 (24.24%) Data Integration
12 16 (24.24%) Mentoring
12 16 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (22.73%) Agile
13 15 (22.73%) Cost Optimisation
13 15 (22.73%) Data Strategy
13 15 (22.73%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (77.27%) SQL
2 36 (54.55%) Python
3 9 (13.64%) Java
4 7 (10.61%) Scala
5 4 (6.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (6.06%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.55%) R
7 2 (3.03%) Bicep
7 2 (3.03%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.52%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (24.24%) Degree
2 10 (15.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 5 (7.58%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.58%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 9 (13.64%) GDPR
3 3 (4.55%) QA
4 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 35 (53.03%) Databricks
2 14 (21.21%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.58%) SAP
4 2 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.52%) Google
5 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow