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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 271 296
Rank change year-on-year -4 +25 +14
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 56 34 103
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.28% 0.41% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.12% 1.42% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 48 31 87
10th Percentile £51,750 £46,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +17.65% -0.49%
75th Percentile £83,750 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £87,125 £71,250 £66,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +18.52% +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 5,002 2,388 6,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.89% 28.80% 32.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,404 1,616 5,191
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £69,500
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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -16 39 £80,000 +33.33% 2
North West +2 15 £62,500 +13.64% 11
North East -51 2 - - 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 (10.71%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (8.93%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.36%) Apache
3 3 (5.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 56 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (41.07%) Power Platform
3 14 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 11 (19.64%) AWS
5 10 (17.86%) Azure Functions
5 10 (17.86%) Azure Logic Apps
5 10 (17.86%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (17.86%) GCP
5 10 (17.86%) Serverless
6 7 (12.50%) dbt
7 3 (5.36%) IaaS
7 3 (5.36%) PaaS
7 3 (5.36%) PowerApps
7 3 (5.36%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.57%) Azure AI
8 2 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (3.57%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.57%) SaaS
9 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (53.57%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (39.29%) Power BI
3 16 (28.57%) Data Lake
4 15 (26.79%) Spark SQL
5 10 (17.86%) BigQuery
6 8 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (10.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (10.71%) Star Schema
8 6 (10.71%) Tableau
9 4 (7.14%) Metadata
9 4 (7.14%) OLAP
9 4 (7.14%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
10 3 (5.36%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (5.36%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (5.36%) Data Vault
10 3 (5.36%) Power Query
10 3 (5.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 12 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (16.07%) Finance
4 3 (5.36%) Retail
4 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.57%) Advertising
5 2 (3.57%) Legal
5 2 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.79%) Billing
6 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 37 (66.07%) Data Engineer
2 23 (41.07%) Lead
3 20 (35.71%) Lead Data Engineer
4 18 (32.14%) Azure Engineer
5 13 (23.21%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (16.07%) Azure Data Engineer
6 9 (16.07%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 9 (16.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 9 (16.07%) Senior
6 9 (16.07%) Senior Data Engineer
7 8 (14.29%) Developer
8 7 (12.50%) Architect
8 7 (12.50%) Data Architect
9 5 (8.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 3 (5.36%) Consultant
10 3 (5.36%) Data Consultant
10 3 (5.36%) Power BI Developer
10 3 (5.36%) Principal Architect
10 3 (5.36%) Principal Consultant
10 3 (5.36%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (32.14%) PySpark
2 10 (17.86%) ARM Templates
2 10 (17.86%) REST
3 2 (3.57%) .NET
4 1 (1.79%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (53.57%) Data Modelling
1 30 (53.57%) ETL
2 29 (51.79%) Data Engineering
3 28 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 27 (48.21%) Business Intelligence
5 25 (44.64%) DevOps
6 24 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
7 23 (41.07%) Analytics
8 22 (39.29%) Data Governance
9 15 (26.79%) Cost Optimisation
9 15 (26.79%) Data Integration
9 15 (26.79%) Data Transformation
9 15 (26.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (26.79%) Test Automation
10 14 (25.00%) Agile
10 14 (25.00%) Data Strategy
11 13 (23.21%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (21.43%) Mentoring
13 11 (19.64%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 45 (80.36%) SQL
2 29 (51.79%) Python
3 7 (12.50%) Java
4 4 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (7.14%) Scala
4 4 (7.14%) T-SQL
5 3 (5.36%) R
6 2 (3.57%) C#
6 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.79%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (26.79%) Degree
2 10 (17.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (8.93%) Azure Certification
4 4 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 9 (16.07%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 14 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (48.21%) Databricks
2 10 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.93%) SAP
4 3 (5.36%) Google
5 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.79%) Informatica
6 1 (1.79%) Nintex
6 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow