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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 244 225
Rank change year-on-year -25 -19 +70
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 21 78 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.22% 0.55% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.85% 1.89% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 18 50 77
10th Percentile £49,125 £43,550 £37,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £61,563 £64,688 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £71,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 2,457 4,125 3,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 26.10% 29.21% 42.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,709 2,586 3,075
10th Percentile £27,400 £31,250 £31,125
25th Percentile £34,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,950 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,964 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.51% -2.31% +4.00%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Azure Data Factory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -39 10 £55,000 - 11
Yorkshire +4 6 £60,000 +14.29% 7
North East +19 5 £52,500 -19.23% 5
Azure Data Factory
England

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (9.52%) Apache
2 2 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (42.86%) Power Platform
3 8 (38.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (23.81%) Entra ID
5 4 (19.05%) GitHub
6 3 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (9.52%) AWS
7 2 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (9.52%) dbt
7 2 (9.52%) GCP
8 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) Power BI
2 8 (38.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (28.57%) Data Lake
3 6 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
4 5 (23.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (19.05%) MongoDB
5 4 (19.05%) MySQL
5 4 (19.05%) RDBMS
5 4 (19.05%) Relational Database
6 2 (9.52%) Star Schema
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (4.76%) Big Data
7 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
7 1 (4.76%) Metadata
7 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Advertising
2 4 (19.05%) Retail
3 3 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) DBA
2 4 (19.05%) Senior
2 4 (19.05%) SQL DBA
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Business Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Management Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior DBA
5 1 (4.76%) Senior SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Clustering
2 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) ETL
2 9 (42.86%) Analytics
2 9 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 7 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 6 (28.57%) Data Governance
5 5 (23.81%) Agile
5 5 (23.81%) Data Ingestion
5 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (19.05%) High Availability
6 4 (19.05%) Open Source
6 4 (19.05%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
6 4 (19.05%) Visualisation
7 3 (14.29%) DevOps
7 3 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (14.29%) Self-Awareness
Programming Languages
1 20 (95.24%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) T-SQL
3 3 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) DBS Check
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) Databricks
3 4 (19.05%) Informatica
3 4 (19.05%) RedGate
3 4 (19.05%) Talend
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) SAP
4 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow