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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 282 269
Rank change year-on-year -3 -13 -13
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 66 28 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.31% 0.29% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.24% 1.09% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 52 25 63
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,000 £42,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £67,250 £66,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +18.52% +3.85% -

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 5,326 2,576 4,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.76% 26.94% 31.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,701 1,791 3,637
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 0 41 £80,000 +33.33% 5
North West +4 20 £55,000 -4.35% 6
North East -51 5 £47,500 -9.52% 3
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 7 (10.61%) Apache Spark
2 5 (7.58%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.03%) Apache
4 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (100.00%) Azure
2 27 (40.91%) Power Platform
3 16 (24.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 14 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (19.70%) AWS
6 12 (18.18%) GCP
7 11 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (15.15%) Azure Functions
8 10 (15.15%) Serverless
9 9 (13.64%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (9.09%) dbt
11 3 (4.55%) Azure AI
11 3 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (4.55%) Snowflake
12 2 (3.03%) SaaS
13 1 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
13 1 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (1.52%) IaaS
13 1 (1.52%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (45.45%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (39.39%) Power BI
3 20 (30.30%) Data Lake
4 15 (22.73%) Spark SQL
5 12 (18.18%) BigQuery
6 9 (13.64%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (12.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (10.61%) Tableau
9 6 (9.09%) Metadata
9 6 (9.09%) Semantic Layer
9 6 (9.09%) SQL Server
9 6 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (6.06%) OLAP
10 4 (6.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (6.06%) Star Schema
11 3 (4.55%) Data Vault
11 3 (4.55%) Delta Lake
11 3 (4.55%) Power Query
11 3 (4.55%) PowerPivot
11 3 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.03%) GitLab
1 2 (3.03%) MLflow
2 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.70%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.12%) 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%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 39 (59.09%) Data Engineer
2 26 (39.39%) Lead
3 20 (30.30%) Lead Data Engineer
4 18 (27.27%) Azure Engineer
5 13 (19.70%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (18.18%) Senior
7 10 (15.15%) Architect
7 10 (15.15%) Data Architect
8 9 (13.64%) Azure Data Engineer
8 9 (13.64%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 9 (13.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 9 (13.64%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (12.12%) Developer
10 5 (7.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (7.58%) Power BI Developer
11 3 (4.55%) Azure Data Architect
11 3 (4.55%) Data Consultant
11 3 (4.55%) Principal Architect
11 3 (4.55%) Principal Consultant
11 3 (4.55%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (27.27%) PySpark
2 10 (15.15%) ARM Templates
2 10 (15.15%) REST
3 2 (3.03%) .NET
4 1 (1.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (56.06%) CI/CD
1 37 (56.06%) Data Engineering
2 34 (51.52%) Data Modelling
2 34 (51.52%) ETL
3 31 (46.97%) Business Intelligence
3 31 (46.97%) Data Pipeline
4 28 (42.42%) Analytics
4 28 (42.42%) DevOps
5 24 (36.36%) Data Governance
6 19 (28.79%) Test Automation
7 18 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (25.76%) Data Transformation
9 16 (24.24%) Agile
9 16 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (22.73%) Cost Optimisation
10 15 (22.73%) Data Architecture
10 15 (22.73%) Data Integration
10 15 (22.73%) Data Strategy
10 15 (22.73%) Mentoring
11 14 (21.21%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (75.76%) SQL
2 34 (51.52%) 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%) C#
7 2 (3.03%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.52%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (24.24%) Degree
2 10 (15.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.06%) 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
Systems Management
1 16 (24.24%) Terraform
2 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 34 (51.52%) Databricks
2 12 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.58%) SAP
4 2 (3.03%) Google
4 2 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.52%) Informatica
5 1 (1.52%) Nintex
5 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow