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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 474 366
Rank change year-on-year +96 -108 +87
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 371 500 883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.49% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.48% 1.40% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 291 443 681
10th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £81,875 £79,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £99,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -8.70% +4.55%

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 14,983 35,672 42,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.40% 34.92% 43.20%
Number of salaries quoted 9,875 26,806 27,789
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,723
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,688 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% -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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +61 345 £67,500 +8.00% 263
UK excluding London +138 185 £63,000 +20.00% 170
London +75 164 £77,500 +1.64% 145
Work from Home -19 103 £62,500 -3.85% 162
South East +114 62 £65,000 +6.41% 64
Midlands +31 43 £65,000 +25.00% 27
North of England -10 40 £60,000 +18.81% 34
West Midlands +40 36 £63,750 +22.60% 16
Yorkshire +72 21 £60,000 +9.09% 11
North West -43 20 £62,500 +31.58% 20
East of England +51 18 £53,750 +4.71% 13
South West +107 11 £66,250 +18.30% 14
Scotland +120 9 £45,000 -32.33% 18
East Midlands +34 7 £65,000 +36.84% 9
North East +35 3 £52,500 +10.53% 4
Wales +46 2 £51,750 +12.18% 5

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 28 (7.55%) Apache Spark
2 26 (7.01%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.70%) Apache
4 6 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.81%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.54%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 371 (100.00%) Azure
2 184 (49.60%) Power Platform
3 138 (37.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 80 (21.56%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (11.59%) Azure Logic Apps
6 38 (10.24%) Power Automate
7 29 (7.82%) PowerApps
7 29 (7.82%) Snowflake
8 28 (7.55%) Serverless
9 26 (7.01%) Azure Functions
10 25 (6.74%) Dynamics 365
11 21 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
11 21 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (5.12%) AWS
13 18 (4.85%) Entra ID
13 18 (4.85%) GCP
14 17 (4.58%) GitHub
15 16 (4.31%) Azure Service Bus
16 15 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (4.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.89%) Firewall
2 2 (0.54%) NAS
2 2 (0.54%) SAN
2 2 (0.54%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.54%) VPN
2 2 (0.54%) WAN
3 1 (0.27%) Network Security
3 1 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (45.28%) Power BI
2 127 (34.23%) Data Warehouse
3 78 (21.02%) SQL Server
4 74 (19.95%) Data Lake
5 66 (17.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 60 (16.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 40 (10.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 24 (6.47%) Big Data
9 20 (5.39%) Relational Database
10 16 (4.31%) Power Query
11 14 (3.77%) Data Mining
12 13 (3.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 12 (3.23%) Metadata
14 11 (2.96%) Star Schema
14 11 (2.96%) Tableau
15 10 (2.70%) NoSQL
16 9 (2.43%) Delta Lake
17 8 (2.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 7 (1.89%) DB2
18 7 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (10.78%) Git
2 22 (5.93%) Visual Studio
3 10 (2.70%) Postman
3 10 (2.70%) Selenium
3 10 (2.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 9 (2.43%) JIRA
5 5 (1.35%) JMeter
5 5 (1.35%) Locust
5 5 (1.35%) Robot Framework
6 4 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.81%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.81%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.81%) MLflow
8 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.27%) ERwin
8 1 (0.27%) NUnit
8 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.27%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 121 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 79 (21.29%) Finance
3 76 (20.49%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (8.89%) Retail
5 25 (6.74%) Law
6 16 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (4.04%) Public Sector
8 12 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.70%) Legal
9 10 (2.70%) Marketing
9 10 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.43%) Banking
11 7 (1.89%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.08%) Advertising
12 4 (1.08%) Billing
13 3 (0.81%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 159 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 80 (21.56%) Senior
3 57 (15.36%) Developer
4 44 (11.86%) Azure Engineer
5 39 (10.51%) Azure Data Engineer
6 37 (9.97%) Senior Data Engineer
7 35 (9.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 35 (9.43%) Lead
8 33 (8.89%) Analyst
9 28 (7.55%) Architect
10 22 (5.93%) Power BI Developer
11 21 (5.66%) Data Architect
12 19 (5.12%) SQL Developer
13 17 (4.58%) Software Engineer
14 14 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 13 (3.50%) Senior Developer
16 12 (3.23%) Lead Data Engineer
16 12 (3.23%) SQL BI Developer
17 11 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
17 11 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (14.56%) PySpark
2 49 (13.21%) .NET
3 20 (5.39%) .NET Framework
4 19 (5.12%) XML
5 15 (4.04%) REST
6 14 (3.77%) ASP.NET
6 14 (3.77%) JSON
7 10 (2.70%) Kafka
7 10 (2.70%) pytest
8 9 (2.43%) HTML
9 8 (2.16%) Pandas
9 8 (2.16%) YAML
10 6 (1.62%) AngularJS
10 6 (1.62%) React
10 6 (1.62%) SOAP
11 5 (1.35%) Bootstrap
11 5 (1.35%) CSS
11 5 (1.35%) Entity Framework
11 5 (1.35%) RESTful
11 5 (1.35%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.66%) Product Ownership
2 16 (4.31%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (2.96%) Algorithms
4 11 (2.96%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.70%) Replication
6 8 (2.16%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.35%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (1.35%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.08%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.81%) AS400
10 2 (0.54%) Clustering
10 2 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.54%) PKI
10 2 (0.54%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.54%) Social Media
11 1 (0.27%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.31%) Windows
2 8 (2.16%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.08%) Linux
4 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (49.33%) Business Intelligence
2 154 (41.51%) ETL
3 143 (38.54%) Analytics
4 128 (34.50%) DevOps
5 112 (30.19%) Data Modelling
5 112 (30.19%) Problem-Solving
6 109 (29.38%) Data Engineering
7 104 (28.03%) Data Pipeline
8 97 (26.15%) CI/CD
9 91 (24.53%) Agile
10 77 (20.75%) Visualisation
11 56 (15.09%) Decision-Making
12 50 (13.48%) Data Science
13 46 (12.40%) Machine Learning
14 45 (12.13%) Artificial Intelligence
14 45 (12.13%) Data Visualisation
15 44 (11.86%) Data Architecture
16 40 (10.78%) Data Governance
17 39 (10.51%) Computer Science
17 39 (10.51%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 277 (74.66%) SQL
2 154 (41.51%) Python
3 58 (15.63%) C#
4 45 (12.13%) T-SQL
5 36 (9.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 19 (5.12%) PowerShell
7 14 (3.77%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.70%) Bash
8 10 (2.70%) Java
9 9 (2.43%) Scala
10 8 (2.16%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.89%) VB.NET
12 6 (1.62%) R
13 4 (1.08%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.81%) Bicep
15 2 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.27%) C++
16 1 (0.27%) JCL
Qualifications
1 53 (14.29%) Degree
2 48 (12.94%) Azure Certification
3 36 (9.70%) Security Cleared
4 31 (8.36%) SC Cleared
5 28 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.62%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.62%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.08%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.81%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (16.44%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.12%) GDPR
3 17 (4.58%) QA
4 8 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.81%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.54%) NIST
8 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (6.20%) Docker
2 11 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.54%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (9.16%) Terraform
2 23 (6.20%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.35%) Grafana
3 5 (1.35%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 170 (45.82%) Microsoft
2 152 (40.97%) Databricks
3 12 (3.23%) SolarWinds
4 9 (2.43%) Informatica
5 8 (2.16%) Oracle
5 8 (2.16%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.62%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.35%) Google
7 5 (1.35%) SAP
8 4 (1.08%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.81%) Aderant
9 3 (0.81%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.81%) Cognos
9 3 (0.81%) Intapp
9 3 (0.81%) Nintex
10 2 (0.54%) Cisco
10 2 (0.54%) Dell
10 2 (0.54%) EMC
10 2 (0.54%) IBM
10 2 (0.54%) SonicWALL