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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 219 236
Rank change year-on-year -14 +17 +82
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 38 92 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.37% 0.97% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.16% 2.97% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 33 84 34
10th Percentile £41,500 £47,500 £45,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £53,438 £47,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £73,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -13.60%

All Cloud 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 3,269 3,096 2,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.72% 32.54% 35.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,778 1,714 2,104
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,500 £39,348
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £82,500
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 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 18 December 2025.

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 18 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
Thames Valley +4 22 £55,000 -12.00% 5
Berkshire -15 10 £50,000 -20.00% 1
Surrey -33 10 £55,000 -15.38%
Buckinghamshire +9 9 £55,000 +2.33% 1
East Sussex - 3 £90,000 - 1
Oxfordshire - 3 £75,000 - 3
Hampshire +29 1 £65,000 -33.33% 6
West Sussex -6 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 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.63%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (47.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 16 (42.11%) Power Platform
4 8 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (10.53%) GitHub
5 4 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Storage
6 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.26%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.63%) AWS
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.63%) dbt
7 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.63%) GCP
7 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) HTTPS
1 1 (2.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (44.74%) Data Lake
2 15 (39.47%) Power BI
3 13 (34.21%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (31.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (26.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (23.68%) SQL Server
7 8 (21.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (13.16%) Data Mining
9 3 (7.89%) MySQL
9 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (7.89%) Relational Database
10 2 (5.26%) Spark SQL
11 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (2.63%) Looker
11 1 (2.63%) Metadata
11 1 (2.63%) Power Query
11 1 (2.63%) SAS EBI
11 1 (2.63%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Git
General
1 12 (31.58%) Finance
2 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Retail
5 2 (5.26%) Automotive
5 2 (5.26%) Law
5 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Data Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Senior
3 5 (13.16%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Consultant
4 4 (10.53%) Data Manager
4 4 (10.53%) Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Service Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) SQL Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Automation Specialist
7 1 (2.63%) Business Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 1 (2.63%) Data Consultant
7 1 (2.63%) DBA
7 1 (2.63%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) .NET
1 4 (10.53%) JSON
1 4 (10.53%) XML
2 3 (7.89%) PySpark
3 1 (2.63%) OAuth
3 1 (2.63%) REST
3 1 (2.63%) SOAP
3 1 (2.63%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Marketing Technology
1 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (60.53%) ETL
2 18 (47.37%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (42.11%) Agile
3 16 (42.11%) Data Pipeline
4 15 (39.47%) Analytics
5 13 (34.21%) CI/CD
5 13 (34.21%) Data Modelling
6 12 (31.58%) Data Engineering
7 11 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (21.05%) Data Architecture
8 8 (21.05%) Decision-Making
8 8 (21.05%) DevOps
9 7 (18.42%) Visualisation
10 5 (13.16%) AI
10 5 (13.16%) Data Governance
10 5 (13.16%) Data Management
10 5 (13.16%) Data Visualisation
10 5 (13.16%) Sprint Planning
10 5 (13.16%) Sprint Retrospective
10 5 (13.16%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 32 (84.21%) SQL
2 18 (47.37%) Python
3 5 (13.16%) T-SQL
4 4 (10.53%) C#
5 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.26%) C++
6 2 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (5.26%) Java
7 1 (2.63%) Bash
7 1 (2.63%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Degree
2 3 (7.89%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.63%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.05%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.26%) QA
3 2 (5.26%) SLA
4 1 (2.63%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Terraform
2 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (44.74%) Microsoft
2 14 (36.84%) Databricks
3 3 (7.89%) Informatica
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) Talend