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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 234 188
Rank change year-on-year -3 -46 +151
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 29 58 79
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.28% 0.57% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.70% 1.80% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 17 36 66
10th Percentile £50,700 £41,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,250 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +10.24% -14.58%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £62,188
90th Percentile £83,500 £74,375 £70,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -13.60%

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 4,127 3,228 2,979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 39.51% 31.99% 43.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,872 1,829 2,529
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,238 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 14 December 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 14 December 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 +11 11 £57,500 +4.55% 17
North East +5 9 £51,750 -13.75% 4
Yorkshire -9 9 £79,000 +21.54% 7
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 (10.34%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.90%) Apache
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 10 (34.48%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (65.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 16 (55.17%) Power Platform
4 4 (13.79%) GitHub
4 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (10.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.45%) AWS
7 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Stack
7 1 (3.45%) dbt
7 1 (3.45%) GCP
7 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.45%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (58.62%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (55.17%) Power BI
2 16 (55.17%) SQL Server
3 13 (44.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (27.59%) Data Lake
5 7 (24.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (13.79%) Metadata
6 4 (13.79%) MongoDB
6 4 (13.79%) MySQL
6 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (10.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
8 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (3.45%) Big Data
9 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
9 1 (3.45%) Data Mining
9 1 (3.45%) Spark SQL
9 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Bitbucket
General
1 18 (62.07%) Social Skills
2 12 (41.38%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (34.48%) Finance
4 5 (17.24%) Billing
4 5 (17.24%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.34%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.90%) Advertising
7 1 (3.45%) Law
7 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Data Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Analyst
2 5 (17.24%) Business Manager
2 5 (17.24%) Commercial Analyst
2 5 (17.24%) Insight Analyst
2 5 (17.24%) Insight Manager
3 4 (13.79%) DBA
3 4 (13.79%) Principal Data Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Principal Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Senior
3 4 (13.79%) SQL DBA
4 3 (10.34%) Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Data Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Principal Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Principal Data Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (17.24%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (13.79%) Clustering
4 1 (3.45%) EPoS
4 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (82.76%) Analytics
2 16 (55.17%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (44.83%) Decision-Making
3 13 (44.83%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (44.83%) Visualisation
4 12 (41.38%) ETL
5 11 (37.93%) Data Engineering
5 11 (37.93%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (34.48%) Actionable Insight
6 10 (34.48%) AI
6 10 (34.48%) Data Analysis
6 10 (34.48%) Data Modelling
6 10 (34.48%) Process Improvement
6 10 (34.48%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (34.48%) Visual Analytics
6 10 (34.48%) WFM
7 7 (24.14%) Migration
8 6 (20.69%) Data Analytics
8 6 (20.69%) Performance Monitoring
9 5 (17.24%) Budgeting and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 28 (96.55%) SQL
2 10 (34.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 8 (27.59%) T-SQL
4 7 (24.14%) Python
5 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
2 5 (17.24%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 3 (10.34%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) Data Quality
2 5 (17.24%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.45%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) Microsoft
2 8 (27.59%) Databricks
3 4 (13.79%) Informatica
3 4 (13.79%) RedGate
3 4 (13.79%) Talend
4 1 (3.45%) Google