Azure Data Factory Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 142 257
Rank change year-on-year -58 +115 -25
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 15 11 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.19% 0.42% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.81% 1.35% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 14 10 17
10th Percentile £37,724 £50,650 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £66,250 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +18.30% -10.40%
75th Percentile £86,000 £78,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £96,625 £82,500 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% -10.36%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,847 817 2,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.92% 31.14% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,066 661 2,130
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,750 £28,833
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,063 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,125 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,747 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.89% +5.65% -11.54%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure Data Factory relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Azure Data Factory job vacancy trend in the South West

Azure Data Factory
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Azure Data Factory.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the South West over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Data Factory in the South West

Azure Data Factory
Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 26 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
Bristol -13 9 £84,000 +61.54% 4
Devon - 3 £52,500 - 1
Wiltshire - 2 £48,500 -
Somerset -36 1 £38,979 -49.70% 2
Azure Data Factory
England

Azure Data Factory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (13.33%) Apache
3 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (6.67%) Jupyter
3 1 (6.67%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Stack
5 2 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.67%) AWS
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Storage
6 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (6.67%) GCP
6 1 (6.67%) OCI
6 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 5 (33.33%) Power BI
3 4 (26.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (26.67%) Big Data
4 3 (20.00%) Metadata
5 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (13.33%) Delta Lake
5 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
5 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (13.33%) Star Schema
6 1 (6.67%) Spark SQL
6 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MLflow
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Law
5 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Data Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Lead Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Principal Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Data Scientist
4 1 (6.67%) Governance Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Junior
4 1 (6.67%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Pensions Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Principal Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) PySpark
2 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Data Modelling
2 10 (66.67%) Analytics
3 9 (60.00%) ETL
4 8 (53.33%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (53.33%) Data Engineering
5 6 (40.00%) Data Architecture
5 6 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (40.00%) Data Strategy
6 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 5 (33.33%) DevOps
7 4 (26.67%) Data Integration
8 3 (20.00%) Agile
8 3 (20.00%) AI
8 3 (20.00%) Data Governance
8 3 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
8 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
8 3 (20.00%) Data Science
8 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
8 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) SQL
2 8 (53.33%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Bicep
3 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (26.67%) GDPR
3 2 (13.33%) IFRS
3 2 (13.33%) IFRS 17
3 2 (13.33%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Databricks
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Foundry
2 1 (6.67%) Palantir