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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 180 209
Rank change year-on-year +13 +29 +31
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 10 9 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.20% 0.22% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.85% 0.68% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 7 7 7
10th Percentile £56,100 £50,500 £51,000
25th Percentile £69,875 £52,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.91% -26.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £63,750 -
90th Percentile £93,250 £65,250 £90,000
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 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 1,171 1,333 1,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.05% 32.14% 39.32%
Number of salaries quoted 788 720 1,507
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,050
25th Percentile £32,375 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +17 8 £87,500 +40.00% 3
Dorset 0 1 £72,500 +31.82% 1
Devon - 1 £69,000 - 1
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 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (80.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (50.00%) Azure Stack
4 4 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (10.00%) AWS
6 1 (10.00%) GCP
6 1 (10.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Power BI
2 4 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (30.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (20.00%) Metadata
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Billing
4 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Lead Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Commercial Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Insight Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Insight Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (70.00%) Analytics
2 7 (70.00%) Data Modelling
3 5 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 5 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (40.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (30.00%) Data Strategy
5 3 (30.00%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (30.00%) ETL
6 2 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (20.00%) Customer Insight
6 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
6 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics
6 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
6 2 (20.00%) Visual Analytics
6 2 (20.00%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Foundry
3 1 (10.00%) Palantir