Azure Data Factory Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 220 301
Rank change year-on-year -23 +81 +4
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 28 82 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.26% 0.94% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.85% 2.86% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 25 74 40
10th Percentile £43,500 £47,500 £44,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £57,625 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year - +0.78% +7.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,375 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,250 £86,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% -13.60%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,275 2,872 3,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.12% 32.91% 32.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,787 1,564 3,305
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -7.89%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,560 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +11.11% -10.00%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Azure Data Factory job vacancy trend in the South East

Azure Data Factory
Salary Trend in the South East

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

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

Azure Data Factory
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory in the South East over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Data Factory in the South East

Azure Data Factory
Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 2 February 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
Thames Valley +8 19 £63,750 +2.00% 13
Berkshire -5 10 £50,000 -20.32% 2
Buckinghamshire +10 5 £62,500 +4.17% 5
Oxfordshire - 4 £75,000 - 6
Surrey -33 3 £45,000 -30.77% 2
East Sussex - 3 £90,000 - 1
Hampshire +16 1 £65,000 -35.00% 3
West Sussex -7 1 £75,000 +7.14%
Kent - 1 £75,000 -
Azure Data Factory
England

Azure Data Factory
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.57%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (39.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 11 (39.29%) Power Platform
3 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Storage
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.57%) AWS
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.57%) dbt
6 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.57%) GCP
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) HTTPS
1 1 (3.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (42.86%) Data Lake
2 11 (39.29%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (35.71%) Power BI
4 6 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (17.86%) Data Mining
5 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
5 5 (17.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (10.71%) MySQL
6 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
6 3 (10.71%) Spark SQL
6 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (3.57%) Looker
7 1 (3.57%) Metadata
7 1 (3.57%) Power Query
7 1 (3.57%) SAS EBI
7 1 (3.57%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Git
General
1 13 (46.43%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Law
4 2 (7.14%) Automotive
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Data Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Consultant
2 4 (14.29%) Data Manager
2 4 (14.29%) Developer
2 4 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (10.71%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Lead
4 2 (7.14%) Service Manager
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 1 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (3.57%) Data Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) DBA
5 1 (3.57%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Power BI Specialist
5 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) SQL DBA
5 1 (3.57%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) PySpark
2 2 (7.14%) JSON
2 2 (7.14%) XML
3 1 (3.57%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) OAuth
3 1 (3.57%) REST
3 1 (3.57%) SOAP
3 1 (3.57%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) ETL
2 14 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 13 (46.43%) Agile
4 12 (42.86%) Data Modelling
5 11 (39.29%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (35.71%) Analytics
6 10 (35.71%) CI/CD
6 10 (35.71%) Data Engineering
7 9 (32.14%) Data Architecture
7 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (17.86%) AI
8 5 (17.86%) Data Governance
8 5 (17.86%) Data Management
8 5 (17.86%) DevOps
8 5 (17.86%) Use Case
9 4 (14.29%) Clean Code
9 4 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
9 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (14.29%) ITIL
9 4 (14.29%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 22 (78.57%) SQL
2 15 (53.57%) Python
3 3 (10.71%) T-SQL
4 2 (7.14%) C++
4 2 (7.14%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.57%) C#
5 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (3.57%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (7.14%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) Databricks
2 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) Informatica
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) Talend