Azure Data Factory Jobs

Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Azure Data Factory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure Data Factory over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 454 379
Rank change year-on-year +91 -75 +51
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 376 507 917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.52% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.49% 1.43% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 297 450 724
10th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -6.72% +3.08%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £52,750 £59,000
% change year-on-year +23.22% -10.59% +7.27%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,077 35,358 44,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.91% 35.95% 43.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,032 26,774 29,301
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,725 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Azure Data Factory
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Data Factory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Data Factory.

Salary trend for Azure Data Factory in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Data Factory over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Data Factory in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Top 16 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +86 356 £67,500 +8.00% 169
UK excluding London +151 195 £65,000 +23.22% 105
London +55 161 £80,000 +10.34% 69
Work from Home +58 114 £65,000 +0.78% 116
South East +143 73 £70,000 +7.69% 22
Midlands +45 48 £63,750 +27.50% 26
West Midlands +46 43 £57,500 +15.00% 20
North of England +28 36 £65,000 +36.84% 25
Yorkshire +77 20 £60,000 +4.35% 13
North West -10 19 £67,500 +50.00% 12
East of England +62 17 £51,250 -6.82% 10
South West +106 14 £62,500 -7.41% 9
Scotland +121 6 £97,500 +46.62% 9
East Midlands +38 5 £65,000 +36.84% 6
Wales +37 1 £48,500 +5.14% 3
North East +36 1 £77,500 +63.16%

Azure Data Factory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (6.91%) Apache Spark
2 21 (5.59%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.93%) Apache
4 7 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Confluence
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.80%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Carpe Diem
2 1 (0.27%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 376 (100.00%) Azure
2 172 (45.74%) Power Platform
3 150 (39.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 75 (19.95%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (10.64%) Azure Logic Apps
6 33 (8.78%) Power Automate
7 28 (7.45%) Serverless
8 27 (7.18%) Snowflake
9 25 (6.65%) Azure Functions
10 24 (6.38%) AWS
11 23 (6.12%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (6.12%) PowerApps
12 22 (5.85%) GCP
12 22 (5.85%) GitHub
13 20 (5.32%) SaaS
14 19 (5.05%) PaaS
15 17 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (4.52%) Microsoft Purview
16 16 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
17 15 (3.99%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.33%) Network Security
2 4 (1.06%) DNS
3 3 (0.80%) Firewall
4 2 (0.53%) NAS
4 2 (0.53%) SAN
4 2 (0.53%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.53%) VPN
4 2 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (41.76%) Power BI
2 126 (33.51%) Data Warehouse
3 91 (24.20%) Data Lake
4 77 (20.48%) SQL Server
5 69 (18.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 66 (17.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 42 (11.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 25 (6.65%) Big Data
9 17 (4.52%) Power Query
9 17 (4.52%) Relational Database
10 15 (3.99%) Data Mining
11 14 (3.72%) NoSQL
12 13 (3.46%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 12 (3.19%) Metadata
13 12 (3.19%) Tableau
14 11 (2.93%) Star Schema
15 10 (2.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 9 (2.39%) Delta Lake
17 7 (1.86%) DB2
18 6 (1.60%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 38 (10.11%) Git
2 25 (6.65%) Visual Studio
3 14 (3.72%) JIRA
4 10 (2.66%) Postman
4 10 (2.66%) Selenium
4 10 (2.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 9 (2.39%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (1.33%) GitLab
6 5 (1.33%) JMeter
6 5 (1.33%) Locust
6 5 (1.33%) MLflow
6 5 (1.33%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.27%) NUnit
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.27%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 127 (33.78%) Social Skills
2 76 (20.21%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (18.62%) Finance
4 30 (7.98%) Retail
5 26 (6.91%) Law
6 12 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.19%) Legal
6 12 (3.19%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (2.66%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.13%) Marketing
10 7 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.06%) Billing
12 3 (0.80%) Automotive
13 2 (0.53%) Banking
13 2 (0.53%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.27%) Advertising
14 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 170 (45.21%) Data Engineer
2 89 (23.67%) Senior
3 57 (15.16%) Developer
4 49 (13.03%) Azure Engineer
5 46 (12.23%) Senior Data Engineer
6 42 (11.17%) Azure Data Engineer
7 39 (10.37%) Lead
8 33 (8.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 26 (6.91%) Architect
10 25 (6.65%) Analyst
11 20 (5.32%) Data Architect
12 19 (5.05%) Power BI Developer
13 18 (4.79%) Software Engineer
13 18 (4.79%) SQL Developer
14 14 (3.72%) Lead Data Engineer
15 13 (3.46%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 13 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
16 12 (3.19%) Senior Developer
16 12 (3.19%) SQL BI Developer
17 11 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (15.43%) .NET
2 49 (13.03%) PySpark
3 22 (5.85%) .NET Framework
4 20 (5.32%) ASP.NET
5 16 (4.26%) REST
5 16 (4.26%) XML
6 14 (3.72%) HTML
7 13 (3.46%) JSON
8 10 (2.66%) CSS
8 10 (2.66%) Kafka
9 9 (2.39%) pytest
10 8 (2.13%) Pandas
10 8 (2.13%) YAML
11 6 (1.60%) .NET Core
11 6 (1.60%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.60%) React
11 6 (1.60%) RESTful
11 6 (1.60%) SOAP
12 5 (1.33%) Bootstrap
12 5 (1.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.32%) Management Information System
2 19 (5.05%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.19%) Data Structures
4 11 (2.93%) Algorithms
4 11 (2.93%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (1.86%) Cloud Native
5 7 (1.86%) Replication
6 5 (1.33%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.33%) IoT
7 4 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.06%) Reinsurance
8 3 (0.80%) AS400
8 3 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.80%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.53%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.53%) PKI
9 2 (0.53%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.53%) Social Media
10 1 (0.27%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.19%) Windows
2 4 (1.06%) Linux
2 4 (1.06%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.80%) Unix
4 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (47.34%) Business Intelligence
2 158 (42.02%) ETL
3 151 (40.16%) Analytics
4 129 (34.31%) DevOps
5 117 (31.12%) Problem-Solving
6 114 (30.32%) Data Engineering
7 112 (29.79%) Data Modelling
8 111 (29.52%) Data Pipeline
9 110 (29.26%) CI/CD
10 106 (28.19%) Agile
11 84 (22.34%) Visualisation
12 61 (16.22%) Decision-Making
13 54 (14.36%) Data Science
14 50 (13.30%) Data Management
14 50 (13.30%) Machine Learning
15 49 (13.03%) Data Visualisation
16 47 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
16 47 (12.50%) Data Governance
17 46 (12.23%) Data Architecture
18 43 (11.44%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 284 (75.53%) SQL
2 165 (43.88%) Python
3 66 (17.55%) C#
4 39 (10.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 39 (10.37%) T-SQL
5 20 (5.32%) PowerShell
6 14 (3.72%) JavaScript
7 11 (2.93%) Java
8 9 (2.39%) Scala
9 8 (2.13%) Bash
9 8 (2.13%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.86%) R
10 7 (1.86%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.06%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.80%) Bicep
13 2 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.27%) C++
14 1 (0.27%) JCL
Qualifications
1 63 (16.76%) Degree
2 50 (13.30%) Azure Certification
3 28 (7.45%) Security Cleared
4 26 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (6.38%) SC Cleared
6 17 (4.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.86%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.60%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.06%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.80%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.53%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (17.82%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.32%) GDPR
3 17 (4.52%) QA
4 13 (3.46%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.80%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.53%) NIST
8 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (7.45%) Docker
2 13 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.53%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (8.24%) Terraform
2 29 (7.71%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.27%) Grafana
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 179 (47.61%) Databricks
2 166 (44.15%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.39%) Oracle
4 8 (2.13%) Google
4 8 (2.13%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.13%) SolarWinds
5 7 (1.86%) Informatica
6 5 (1.33%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.33%) SAP
7 4 (1.06%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.80%) Aderant
8 3 (0.80%) Cognos
8 3 (0.80%) Nintex
9 2 (0.53%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.53%) Cisco
9 2 (0.53%) Dell
9 2 (0.53%) EMC
9 2 (0.53%) IBM
9 2 (0.53%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.53%) Palo Alto