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

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 234 216
Rank change year-on-year -33 -18 +97
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 35 77 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.38% 0.62% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 2.16% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 21 49 71
10th Percentile £50,250 £43,350 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £83,500 £71,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -10.71%

All Cloud 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 2,564 3,566 3,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 27.67% 28.54% 43.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,772 2,027 2,844
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £70,063 £69,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.10%

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 29 October 2025.

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 29 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
North West -31 16 £55,000 - 17
North East +22 10 £52,500 -12.50% 7
Yorkshire -6 9 £72,000 +11.63% 12
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 3 (8.57%) Apache Spark
1 3 (8.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.71%) Apache
2 2 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 10 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (57.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 19 (54.29%) Power Platform
4 4 (11.43%) Entra ID
4 4 (11.43%) GitHub
4 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.71%) AWS
6 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.71%) dbt
6 2 (5.71%) GCP
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (57.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (54.29%) Power BI
3 16 (45.71%) SQL Server
4 12 (34.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (20.00%) Data Lake
6 6 (17.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (11.43%) Metadata
8 4 (11.43%) MongoDB
8 4 (11.43%) MySQL
8 4 (11.43%) RDBMS
8 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
9 3 (8.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (2.86%) Big Data
10 1 (2.86%) BigQuery
10 1 (2.86%) Data Mining
10 1 (2.86%) Star Schema
10 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 20 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 12 (34.29%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (34.29%) Finance
3 8 (22.86%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Billing
4 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 4 (11.43%) Advertising
5 4 (11.43%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (8.57%) Retail
7 2 (5.71%) Banking
7 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Data Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) Analyst
2 5 (14.29%) Architect
2 5 (14.29%) Business Manager
2 5 (14.29%) Commercial Analyst
2 5 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 5 (14.29%) Insight Analyst
2 5 (14.29%) Insight Manager
3 4 (11.43%) DBA
3 4 (11.43%) SQL DBA
4 3 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Principal Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Principal Data Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Principal Data Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Senior
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (28.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (11.43%) Clustering
4 3 (8.57%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.86%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (71.43%) Analytics
2 20 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (34.29%) Data Modelling
3 12 (34.29%) Decision-Making
3 12 (34.29%) ETL
3 12 (34.29%) Visualisation
4 11 (31.43%) Actionable Insight
5 10 (28.57%) Data Analysis
5 10 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (28.57%) Process Improvement
5 10 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (28.57%) Visual Analytics
5 10 (28.57%) WFM
6 9 (25.71%) Data Engineering
7 8 (22.86%) AI
7 8 (22.86%) Time Management
8 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (17.14%) Data Governance
8 6 (17.14%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 34 (97.14%) SQL
2 10 (28.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 7 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 6 (17.14%) Python
5 1 (2.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Degree
2 5 (14.29%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 4 (11.43%) DBS Check
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.71%) Data Quality
2 5 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (48.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (22.86%) Databricks
3 4 (11.43%) Informatica
3 4 (11.43%) RedGate
3 4 (11.43%) Talend
4 1 (2.86%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) SAP
4 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow