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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 258 289
Rank change year-on-year -15 +31 +35
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 50 38 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.27% 0.49% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.89% 1.51% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 44 36 86
10th Percentile £47,273 £42,125 £37,000
25th Percentile £56,563 £52,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £62,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% +28.21% -9.30%
75th Percentile £83,750 £71,250 £58,750
90th Percentile - £80,625 £68,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% -7.41%

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 5,634 2,513 5,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 29.88% 32.39% 35.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,947 1,660 4,990
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £69,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -40 35 £80,000 +33.33% 9
North West -1 14 £61,250 -2.00% 9
North East -39 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 (12.00%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (10.00%) Apache Spark
3 3 (6.00%) Apache
3 3 (6.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 50 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (38.00%) Power Platform
3 12 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (22.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 10 (20.00%) AWS
5 10 (20.00%) Azure Functions
5 10 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 10 (20.00%) Serverless
6 9 (18.00%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (18.00%) GCP
7 7 (14.00%) dbt
8 3 (6.00%) IaaS
8 3 (6.00%) PaaS
8 3 (6.00%) PowerApps
8 3 (6.00%) Snowflake
9 2 (4.00%) Power Automate
9 2 (4.00%) SaaS
10 1 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (2.00%) Collibra
10 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (54.00%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (36.00%) Power BI
3 15 (30.00%) Spark SQL
4 14 (28.00%) Data Lake
5 9 (18.00%) BigQuery
6 6 (12.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (10.00%) Star Schema
7 5 (10.00%) Tableau
8 4 (8.00%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (6.00%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (6.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (6.00%) Data Vault
9 3 (6.00%) Metadata
9 3 (6.00%) OLAP
9 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
10 2 (4.00%) PowerPivot
10 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.00%) Finance
4 3 (6.00%) Retail
4 3 (6.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.00%) Advertising
5 2 (4.00%) Legal
5 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.00%) Billing
6 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (70.00%) Data Engineer
2 22 (44.00%) Lead
3 20 (40.00%) Lead Data Engineer
4 17 (34.00%) Azure Engineer
5 13 (26.00%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (18.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 9 (18.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 8 (16.00%) Azure Data Engineer
7 8 (16.00%) Senior
7 8 (16.00%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (14.00%) Developer
9 5 (10.00%) Architect
9 5 (10.00%) Data Architect
10 4 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 3 (6.00%) Consultant
11 3 (6.00%) Data Consultant
11 3 (6.00%) Principal Architect
11 3 (6.00%) Principal Consultant
11 3 (6.00%) Principal Data Architect
12 2 (4.00%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (34.00%) PySpark
2 10 (20.00%) REST
3 9 (18.00%) ARM Templates
4 2 (4.00%) .NET
5 1 (2.00%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (58.00%) ETL
2 26 (52.00%) Data Modelling
3 25 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 24 (48.00%) CI/CD
5 23 (46.00%) Business Intelligence
5 23 (46.00%) DevOps
6 20 (40.00%) Data Governance
6 20 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
7 19 (38.00%) Analytics
8 15 (30.00%) Cost Optimisation
8 15 (30.00%) Test Automation
9 14 (28.00%) Data Integration
9 14 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (26.00%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (24.00%) Agile
11 12 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (22.00%) Data Strategy
13 10 (20.00%) Computer Science
13 10 (20.00%) Data Transformation
13 10 (20.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 39 (78.00%) SQL
2 25 (50.00%) Python
3 6 (12.00%) Java
4 3 (6.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (6.00%) Scala
4 3 (6.00%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.00%) C#
5 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.00%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (28.00%) Degree
2 10 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (34.00%) Data Quality
2 9 (18.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 12 (24.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (50.00%) Databricks
2 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.00%) SAP
4 3 (6.00%) Google
5 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.00%) Informatica
6 1 (2.00%) Nintex