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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 472 348
Rank change year-on-year +72 -124 +131
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 385 502 798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.48% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.32% 1.46% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 298 420 608
10th Percentile £44,000 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,438 £51,719
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,625 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,813 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,750 £101,375 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -0.90%

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 16,623 34,483 36,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.66% 33.31% 42.20%
Number of salaries quoted 11,143 25,495 26,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £80,250 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,333 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% -6.67% +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 12 July 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 12 July 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 +58 362 £67,500 +3.85% 202
London +46 183 £80,000 - 109
UK excluding London +97 181 £60,000 +9.09% 125
Work from Home -11 125 £62,500 -3.85% 114
South East +99 65 £65,000 +18.18% 54
Midlands +57 44 £60,000 +14.29% 20
West Midlands +52 37 £57,500 +9.52% 18
North of England -18 30 £60,000 +11.11% 32
East of England +52 21 £54,000 +5.20% 4
North West -48 13 £60,000 +14.29% 17
Yorkshire +39 12 £60,000 +6.67% 11
South West +88 11 £77,500 +38.39% 12
Scotland +90 8 £42,250 -37.41% 3
East Midlands +39 7 £65,000 +23.81% 2
North East +39 5 £52,500 -30.00% 4
Wales +28 2 £55,000 +23.76%

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 38 (9.87%) SharePoint
2 25 (6.49%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.34%) Apache
4 6 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 17 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (3.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.78%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.52%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.26%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 385 (100.00%) Azure
2 207 (53.77%) Power Platform
3 139 (36.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 102 (26.49%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (12.99%) Azure Logic Apps
6 42 (10.91%) Power Automate
7 35 (9.09%) PowerApps
8 32 (8.31%) Dynamics 365
9 26 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (6.75%) Snowflake
10 25 (6.49%) Serverless
11 23 (5.97%) Azure Functions
12 22 (5.71%) GitHub
13 21 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
13 21 (5.45%) Entra ID
14 19 (4.94%) SaaS
15 18 (4.68%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (4.16%) GCP
17 15 (3.90%) Azure Service Bus
18 13 (3.38%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.86%) Firewall
2 2 (0.52%) NAS
2 2 (0.52%) SAN
2 2 (0.52%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.52%) VPN
2 2 (0.52%) WAN
3 1 (0.26%) Network Security
3 1 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (47.79%) Power BI
2 130 (33.77%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (20.52%) SQL Server
4 74 (19.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 70 (18.18%) Data Lake
6 68 (17.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 46 (11.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 21 (5.45%) Big Data
9 18 (4.68%) Power Query
10 16 (4.16%) Relational Database
11 14 (3.64%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 14 (3.64%) Data Mining
12 12 (3.12%) Metadata
12 12 (3.12%) Star Schema
12 12 (3.12%) Tableau
13 11 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 10 (2.60%) Delta Lake
14 10 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
15 8 (2.08%) DB2
16 6 (1.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (8.31%) Git
2 21 (5.45%) Visual Studio
3 11 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 10 (2.60%) Postman
4 10 (2.60%) Selenium
5 6 (1.56%) JIRA
6 5 (1.30%) JMeter
6 5 (1.30%) Locust
6 5 (1.30%) Robot Framework
7 4 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.78%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.78%) MLflow
9 1 (0.26%) ERwin
9 1 (0.26%) JUnit
9 1 (0.26%) TestComplete
General
1 136 (35.32%) Social Skills
2 91 (23.64%) Finance
3 76 (19.74%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (9.61%) Retail
5 25 (6.49%) Law
6 21 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (4.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.16%) Public Sector
9 15 (3.90%) Marketing
9 15 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.60%) Legal
12 8 (2.08%) Banking
13 7 (1.82%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.04%) Advertising
14 4 (1.04%) Billing
15 3 (0.78%) Health Technology
16 1 (0.26%) Automotive
16 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 154 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 80 (20.78%) Senior
3 60 (15.58%) Developer
4 43 (11.17%) Azure Engineer
5 42 (10.91%) Analyst
6 40 (10.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 39 (10.13%) Senior Data Engineer
8 38 (9.87%) Azure Data Engineer
9 36 (9.35%) Lead
10 26 (6.75%) Power BI Developer
11 23 (5.97%) Architect
12 20 (5.19%) SQL Developer
13 18 (4.68%) Data Architect
14 17 (4.42%) Software Engineer
15 15 (3.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 13 (3.38%) SQL BI Developer
17 12 (3.12%) Senior Analyst
18 11 (2.86%) Business Developer
18 11 (2.86%) ETL Developer
18 11 (2.86%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (15.32%) PySpark
2 50 (12.99%) .NET
3 21 (5.45%) .NET Framework
4 20 (5.19%) XML
5 18 (4.68%) REST
6 16 (4.16%) JSON
7 14 (3.64%) ASP.NET
8 10 (2.60%) HTML
8 10 (2.60%) pytest
9 9 (2.34%) Pandas
10 8 (2.08%) YAML
11 7 (1.82%) SOAP
12 6 (1.56%) CSS
12 6 (1.56%) RESTful
13 5 (1.30%) AngularJS
13 5 (1.30%) ASP.NET Web API
13 5 (1.30%) Bootstrap
13 5 (1.30%) Entity Framework
13 5 (1.30%) Tailwind CSS
14 4 (1.04%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.45%) Product Ownership
2 16 (4.16%) Analytical Mindset
3 14 (3.64%) Management Information System
4 13 (3.38%) Algorithms
5 10 (2.60%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.60%) Replication
6 8 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
7 7 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.82%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.30%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.04%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.78%) AS400
10 3 (0.78%) Clustering
10 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.52%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.52%) PKI
11 2 (0.52%) Social Media
12 1 (0.26%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.68%) Windows
2 10 (2.60%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.26%) Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (50.39%) Business Intelligence
2 159 (41.30%) ETL
3 147 (38.18%) DevOps
4 145 (37.66%) Analytics
5 120 (31.17%) Data Engineering
5 120 (31.17%) Problem-Solving
6 115 (29.87%) Data Modelling
7 109 (28.31%) Data Pipeline
8 102 (26.49%) CI/CD
9 84 (21.82%) Agile
10 80 (20.78%) Visualisation
11 67 (17.40%) Decision-Making
12 50 (12.99%) Data Visualisation
12 50 (12.99%) Machine Learning
13 46 (11.95%) Data Science
14 45 (11.69%) Artificial Intelligence
14 45 (11.69%) Data Transformation
15 44 (11.43%) Data Governance
16 41 (10.65%) Data Security
17 38 (9.87%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 286 (74.29%) SQL
2 150 (38.96%) Python
3 60 (15.58%) C#
4 57 (14.81%) T-SQL
5 43 (11.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 22 (5.71%) PowerShell
7 20 (5.19%) JavaScript
8 13 (3.38%) Scala
9 12 (3.12%) Bash
10 10 (2.60%) R
11 9 (2.34%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.82%) VB.NET
13 6 (1.56%) Java
14 5 (1.30%) Bicep
15 4 (1.04%) TypeScript
16 2 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
17 1 (0.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 53 (13.77%) Degree
2 47 (12.21%) Azure Certification
3 33 (8.57%) Security Cleared
4 32 (8.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 29 (7.53%) SC Cleared
6 27 (7.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.34%) DBS Check
7 9 (2.34%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.04%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.78%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.26%) MCSE
10 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (15.32%) Data Quality
2 24 (6.23%) GDPR
3 22 (5.71%) QA
4 8 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.82%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.78%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.52%) NIST
8 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (5.71%) Docker
2 8 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.52%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (9.61%) Terraform
2 23 (5.97%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.08%) Grafana
3 8 (2.08%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 186 (48.31%) Microsoft
2 144 (37.40%) Databricks
3 15 (3.90%) SolarWinds
4 10 (2.60%) Informatica
4 10 (2.60%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.34%) Oracle
5 9 (2.34%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.30%) Google
6 5 (1.30%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.30%) SAP
7 3 (0.78%) Aderant
7 3 (0.78%) Alteryx
7 3 (0.78%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.78%) Cognos
7 3 (0.78%) Intapp
7 3 (0.78%) JD Edwards
7 3 (0.78%) Palo Alto
7 3 (0.78%) RedGate
7 3 (0.78%) Talend
7 3 (0.78%) VMware