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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 459 378
Rank change year-on-year +97 -81 +41
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 374 510 927
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.52% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.47% 1.44% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 295 452 734
10th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,563 £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 £85,000 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £52,750 £58,000
% change year-on-year +23.22% -9.05% +5.45%

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 15,150 35,329 45,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.36% 35.99% 43.16%
Number of salaries quoted 11,082 26,785 29,604
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,644 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.21% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £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 26 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 26 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 +56 354 £67,500 +8.00% 227
UK excluding London +159 195 £65,000 +23.22% 122
London +60 159 £80,000 +8.47% 128
Work from Home +43 114 £65,000 +1.56% 138
South East +140 72 £70,000 +7.69% 30
Midlands +57 49 £62,500 +25.00% 24
West Midlands +63 43 £57,500 +15.00% 19
North of England +23 36 £65,000 +36.84% 29
Yorkshire +79 20 £60,000 +4.35% 11
North West -10 19 £67,500 +50.00% 17
East of England +67 17 £51,250 -6.82% 11
South West +108 14 £62,500 -7.41% 12
Scotland +127 6 £97,500 +46.62% 12
East Midlands +46 6 £65,000 +36.84% 5
Wales +41 1 £48,500 +5.14% 4
North East +36 1 £77,500 +63.16% 1

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 (6.95%) Apache Spark
2 22 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.94%) Apache
4 7 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Confluence
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.80%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (2.14%) 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
1 374 (100.00%) Azure
2 170 (45.45%) Power Platform
3 151 (40.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 72 (19.25%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (10.43%) Azure Logic Apps
6 33 (8.82%) Power Automate
7 28 (7.49%) Serverless
8 27 (7.22%) Snowflake
9 25 (6.68%) AWS
9 25 (6.68%) Azure Functions
10 23 (6.15%) Dynamics 365
10 23 (6.15%) PowerApps
11 22 (5.88%) GCP
11 22 (5.88%) GitHub
12 20 (5.35%) SaaS
13 19 (5.08%) PaaS
14 18 (4.81%) Microsoft Purview
15 17 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (4.01%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.34%) Network Security
2 4 (1.07%) 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
1 155 (41.44%) Power BI
2 127 (33.96%) Data Warehouse
3 93 (24.87%) Data Lake
4 76 (20.32%) SQL Server
5 69 (18.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 64 (17.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 41 (10.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 25 (6.68%) Big Data
9 18 (4.81%) Power Query
10 16 (4.28%) Relational Database
11 15 (4.01%) Data Mining
12 14 (3.74%) NoSQL
13 13 (3.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 13 (3.48%) Tableau
14 12 (3.21%) Metadata
15 11 (2.94%) Star Schema
16 10 (2.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 8 (2.14%) Delta Lake
18 7 (1.87%) DB2
19 6 (1.60%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 38 (10.16%) Git
2 25 (6.68%) Visual Studio
3 14 (3.74%) JIRA
4 10 (2.67%) Postman
4 10 (2.67%) Selenium
4 10 (2.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 9 (2.41%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (1.34%) GitLab
6 5 (1.34%) JMeter
6 5 (1.34%) Locust
6 5 (1.34%) Robot Framework
7 4 (1.07%) MLflow
8 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.27%) ERwin
9 1 (0.27%) NUnit
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 127 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 76 (20.32%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (18.98%) Finance
4 30 (8.02%) Retail
5 27 (7.22%) Law
6 12 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.21%) Legal
7 11 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (2.94%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.67%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.14%) Marketing
10 7 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.07%) Billing
12 3 (0.80%) Automotive
13 2 (0.53%) Back Office
13 2 (0.53%) Banking
13 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.27%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 168 (44.92%) Data Engineer
2 89 (23.80%) Senior
3 55 (14.71%) Developer
4 48 (12.83%) Azure Engineer
5 46 (12.30%) Senior Data Engineer
6 41 (10.96%) Azure Data Engineer
6 41 (10.96%) Lead
7 31 (8.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 26 (6.95%) Analyst
8 26 (6.95%) Architect
9 20 (5.35%) Data Architect
10 18 (4.81%) Power BI Developer
10 18 (4.81%) Software Engineer
10 18 (4.81%) SQL Developer
11 15 (4.01%) Lead Data Engineer
12 13 (3.48%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 13 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (3.21%) SQL BI Developer
14 11 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
14 11 (2.94%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (15.24%) .NET
2 47 (12.57%) PySpark
3 21 (5.61%) .NET Framework
4 20 (5.35%) ASP.NET
5 15 (4.01%) REST
6 14 (3.74%) HTML
6 14 (3.74%) XML
7 13 (3.48%) JSON
8 10 (2.67%) CSS
8 10 (2.67%) Kafka
9 8 (2.14%) Pandas
9 8 (2.14%) pytest
9 8 (2.14%) YAML
10 6 (1.60%) .NET Core
10 6 (1.60%) AngularJS
10 6 (1.60%) React
10 6 (1.60%) RESTful
10 6 (1.60%) SOAP
11 5 (1.34%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (1.34%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.61%) Management Information System
2 19 (5.08%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.21%) Data Structures
4 11 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 10 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (1.87%) Cloud Native
6 7 (1.87%) Replication
7 5 (1.34%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.34%) IoT
8 4 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.07%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.80%) AS400
9 3 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.80%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.53%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.53%) PKI
10 2 (0.53%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.53%) Social Media
11 1 (0.27%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.21%) Windows
2 4 (1.07%) Linux
2 4 (1.07%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.80%) Unix
4 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (47.06%) Business Intelligence
2 158 (42.25%) ETL
3 152 (40.64%) Analytics
4 125 (33.42%) DevOps
5 117 (31.28%) Problem-Solving
6 113 (30.21%) Data Engineering
7 111 (29.68%) Data Modelling
7 111 (29.68%) Data Pipeline
8 110 (29.41%) CI/CD
9 105 (28.07%) Agile
10 82 (21.93%) Visualisation
11 63 (16.84%) Decision-Making
12 54 (14.44%) Data Science
13 52 (13.90%) Data Management
14 49 (13.10%) Machine Learning
15 48 (12.83%) Data Governance
16 47 (12.57%) Data Architecture
16 47 (12.57%) Data Visualisation
17 46 (12.30%) Artificial Intelligence
18 43 (11.50%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 282 (75.40%) SQL
2 164 (43.85%) Python
3 66 (17.65%) C#
4 41 (10.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 37 (9.89%) T-SQL
6 20 (5.35%) PowerShell
7 14 (3.74%) JavaScript
8 11 (2.94%) Java
9 9 (2.41%) Scala
10 8 (2.14%) Bash
10 8 (2.14%) PL/SQL
10 8 (2.14%) R
11 7 (1.87%) VB.NET
12 4 (1.07%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.80%) Bicep
14 2 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.27%) C++
15 1 (0.27%) JCL
Qualifications
1 64 (17.11%) Degree
2 50 (13.37%) Azure Certification
3 26 (6.95%) Security Cleared
4 25 (6.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (5.88%) SC Cleared
6 15 (4.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.87%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.60%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.07%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.80%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.53%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.61%) GDPR
3 17 (4.55%) QA
4 13 (3.48%) 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 (7.49%) Docker
2 13 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.53%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (7.75%) Kubernetes
1 29 (7.75%) Terraform
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.27%) Grafana
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 181 (48.40%) Databricks
2 168 (44.92%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.41%) Oracle
4 8 (2.14%) Google
4 8 (2.14%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.14%) SolarWinds
5 7 (1.87%) Informatica
6 5 (1.34%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.34%) SAP
7 4 (1.07%) 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%) JD Edwards
9 2 (0.53%) Palo Alto