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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 477 354
Rank change year-on-year +94 -123 +104
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 379 505 864
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.48% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.47% 1.40% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 298 443 670
10th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,063 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £67,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.06% +3.46%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £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 15,370 36,099 40,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.51% 34.40% 43.02%
Number of salaries quoted 10,123 26,996 27,249
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -10.85% +3.20%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +88 353 £67,000 +7.20% 1,981
UK excluding London +123 188 £63,000 +20.00% 1,970
London +62 167 £75,000 -3.23% 239
Work from Home -17 108 £62,500 -3.85% 1,012
South East +111 64 £65,000 +6.41% 504
Midlands +39 43 £65,000 +25.00% 395
North of England -3 40 £60,000 +17.65% 436
West Midlands +37 36 £60,000 +14.83% 213
Yorkshire +65 21 £60,000 +9.09% 179
North West -34 20 £62,500 +31.58% 199
East of England +51 19 £52,500 +2.27% 300
South West +110 12 £77,500 +39.64% 228
Scotland +106 9 £45,000 -32.33% 100
East Midlands +34 7 £65,000 +36.84% 158
North East +34 3 £52,500 +10.53% 59
Wales +41 1 £55,000 +19.23% 55

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 (7.39%) Apache Spark
2 27 (7.12%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.64%) Apache
4 6 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.79%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.53%) 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
Cloud Services
1 379 (100.00%) Azure
2 194 (51.19%) Power Platform
3 141 (37.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 83 (21.90%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (12.40%) Azure Logic Apps
6 39 (10.29%) Power Automate
7 31 (8.18%) Serverless
8 30 (7.92%) PowerApps
9 29 (7.65%) Azure Functions
9 29 (7.65%) Snowflake
10 27 (7.12%) Dynamics 365
11 21 (5.54%) Azure Monitor
11 21 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (5.28%) GCP
13 19 (5.01%) AWS
13 19 (5.01%) Entra ID
13 19 (5.01%) GitHub
13 19 (5.01%) SaaS
14 16 (4.22%) Azure Service Bus
14 16 (4.22%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.85%) Firewall
2 2 (0.53%) NAS
2 2 (0.53%) SAN
2 2 (0.53%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.53%) VPN
2 2 (0.53%) WAN
3 1 (0.26%) Network Security
3 1 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (45.91%) Power BI
2 130 (34.30%) Data Warehouse
3 81 (21.37%) SQL Server
4 76 (20.05%) Data Lake
5 69 (18.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 61 (16.09%) Azure SQL Database
7 42 (11.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 24 (6.33%) Big Data
9 20 (5.28%) Relational Database
10 18 (4.75%) Power Query
11 14 (3.69%) Data Mining
11 14 (3.69%) Tableau
12 13 (3.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 12 (3.17%) Metadata
14 11 (2.90%) Star Schema
15 10 (2.64%) NoSQL
15 10 (2.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 9 (2.37%) Delta Lake
17 8 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
18 7 (1.85%) DB2
Development Applications
1 41 (10.82%) Git
2 21 (5.54%) Visual Studio
3 11 (2.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 10 (2.64%) Postman
5 9 (2.37%) JIRA
5 9 (2.37%) Selenium
6 5 (1.32%) JMeter
6 5 (1.32%) Locust
6 5 (1.32%) Robot Framework
7 4 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.79%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.79%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.79%) MLflow
9 1 (0.26%) ERwin
General
1 124 (32.72%) Social Skills
2 81 (21.37%) Finance
3 79 (20.84%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (8.71%) Retail
5 25 (6.60%) Law
6 16 (4.22%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.96%) Public Sector
8 12 (3.17%) Marketing
8 12 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.64%) Legal
10 9 (2.37%) Banking
10 9 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.85%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.06%) Advertising
12 4 (1.06%) Billing
13 3 (0.79%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.26%) Automotive
14 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 161 (42.48%) Data Engineer
2 81 (21.37%) Senior
3 61 (16.09%) Developer
4 46 (12.14%) Azure Engineer
5 41 (10.82%) Azure Data Engineer
6 38 (10.03%) Senior Data Engineer
7 37 (9.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 35 (9.23%) Analyst
8 35 (9.23%) Lead
9 27 (7.12%) Architect
10 24 (6.33%) Power BI Developer
11 20 (5.28%) Data Architect
12 19 (5.01%) SQL Developer
13 17 (4.49%) Software Engineer
14 14 (3.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 14 (3.69%) Senior Developer
15 12 (3.17%) Lead Data Engineer
15 12 (3.17%) SQL BI Developer
16 11 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
16 11 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (14.51%) PySpark
2 50 (13.19%) .NET
3 20 (5.28%) .NET Framework
3 20 (5.28%) XML
4 18 (4.75%) REST
5 16 (4.22%) JSON
6 14 (3.69%) ASP.NET
7 10 (2.64%) HTML
7 10 (2.64%) Kafka
7 10 (2.64%) pytest
8 8 (2.11%) Pandas
8 8 (2.11%) YAML
9 7 (1.85%) SOAP
10 6 (1.58%) AngularJS
10 6 (1.58%) CSS
10 6 (1.58%) React
10 6 (1.58%) RESTful
11 5 (1.32%) ASP.NET Web API
11 5 (1.32%) Bootstrap
11 5 (1.32%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.54%) Product Ownership
2 16 (4.22%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (2.90%) Algorithms
4 11 (2.90%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.64%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.64%) Replication
6 8 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.85%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.32%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.32%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.79%) AS400
11 2 (0.53%) Clustering
11 2 (0.53%) PKI
11 2 (0.53%) Social Media
12 1 (0.26%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.26%) IoT
12 1 (0.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.22%) Windows
2 8 (2.11%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.06%) Linux
4 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (49.87%) Business Intelligence
2 162 (42.74%) ETL
3 146 (38.52%) Analytics
4 132 (34.83%) DevOps
5 117 (30.87%) Data Modelling
6 115 (30.34%) Problem-Solving
7 112 (29.55%) Data Engineering
8 107 (28.23%) Data Pipeline
9 102 (26.91%) CI/CD
10 90 (23.75%) Agile
11 80 (21.11%) Visualisation
12 60 (15.83%) Decision-Making
13 50 (13.19%) Data Science
14 47 (12.40%) Data Visualisation
15 45 (11.87%) Machine Learning
16 44 (11.61%) Artificial Intelligence
16 44 (11.61%) Data Architecture
17 42 (11.08%) Computer Science
18 40 (10.55%) Data Governance
19 39 (10.29%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 282 (74.41%) SQL
2 156 (41.16%) Python
3 58 (15.30%) C#
4 48 (12.66%) T-SQL
5 41 (10.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 21 (5.54%) PowerShell
7 16 (4.22%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.64%) Bash
9 9 (2.37%) Java
9 9 (2.37%) Scala
10 8 (2.11%) PL/SQL
10 8 (2.11%) R
11 7 (1.85%) VB.NET
12 4 (1.06%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.79%) Bicep
14 2 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.26%) C++
15 1 (0.26%) JCL
15 1 (0.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 56 (14.78%) Degree
2 50 (13.19%) Azure Certification
3 35 (9.23%) Security Cleared
4 31 (8.18%) SC Cleared
5 29 (7.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (7.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.85%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.85%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.06%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.79%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.26%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (16.62%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.54%) GDPR
3 17 (4.49%) QA
4 8 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.79%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.53%) NIST
7 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (5.80%) Docker
2 12 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.53%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (9.50%) Terraform
2 23 (6.07%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.32%) Grafana
3 5 (1.32%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 176 (46.44%) Microsoft
2 153 (40.37%) Databricks
3 12 (3.17%) SolarWinds
4 9 (2.37%) Informatica
4 9 (2.37%) Oracle
4 9 (2.37%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.11%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.85%) Google
7 5 (1.32%) SAP
8 4 (1.06%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.79%) Aderant
9 3 (0.79%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.79%) Cognos
9 3 (0.79%) Intapp
9 3 (0.79%) Nintex
10 2 (0.53%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.53%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.53%) RedGate
10 2 (0.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.53%) Talend