Microsoft Azure Data Factory
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Data Factory skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Data Factory over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 381 456
Rank change year-on-year -85 +75 -12
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 506 892 1,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.88% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.43% 2.06% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 450 699 779
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,500 £63,896
Median % change year-on-year -6.02% +4.08% +2.23%
75th Percentile £79,313 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Data Factory is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,402 43,277 76,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.68% 42.84% 48.35%
Number of salaries quoted 26,746 28,483 41,379
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,790 £33,779
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Data Factory in the UK

Azure Data Factory
Top 17 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 10 May 2024. 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 -44 471 £62,500 -7.41% 173
Work from Home -62 263 £65,000 +4.00% 78
UK excluding London -104 251 £52,500 -8.70% 86
London -12 220 £72,000 -4.00% 87
North of England +22 88 £47,500 -13.64% 20
Midlands -18 68 £50,000 -9.09% 21
North West -2 61 £47,500 -15.26% 11
West Midlands +4 54 £51,750 -10.00% 18
South East -50 41 £64,000 -1.54% 17
South West -34 25 £65,000 +23.81% 11
North East +1 16 £47,500 -26.92% 3
East Midlands -23 14 £47,500 -13.64% 3
Scotland -67 13 £66,500 +15.65% 5
Yorkshire +58 11 £57,500 +15.00% 6
East of England +17 10 £51,333 -12.62% 10
Wales -12 4 £46,131 -19.77% 1
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -

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 35 (6.92%) Apache Spark
2 28 (5.53%) Apache
3 8 (1.58%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.40%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.40%) nginx
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.20%) Confluence
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 506 (100.00%) Azure
2 285 (56.32%) Power Platform
3 194 (38.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 115 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
5 55 (10.87%) Serverless
6 46 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
7 41 (8.10%) Azure Functions
8 32 (6.32%) AWS
9 30 (5.93%) Azure Service Bus
10 23 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 23 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
10 23 (4.55%) Snowflake
11 22 (4.35%) GCP
11 22 (4.35%) PowerApps
12 19 (3.75%) Azure API Management
13 18 (3.56%) Matillion
14 17 (3.36%) Azure App Service
15 16 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
15 16 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
16 15 (2.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.55%) DNS
2 17 (3.36%) HTTP
3 12 (2.37%) Network Security
4 5 (0.99%) Firewall
5 2 (0.40%) LAN
5 2 (0.40%) VPN
5 2 (0.40%) WAN
6 1 (0.20%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.20%) 5G
6 1 (0.20%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 264 (52.17%) Power BI
2 224 (44.27%) Data Warehouse
3 194 (38.34%) Data Lake
4 169 (33.40%) SQL Server
5 113 (22.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 103 (20.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 44 (8.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 39 (7.71%) Big Data
9 37 (7.31%) Tableau
10 36 (7.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 35 (6.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 30 (5.93%) Relational Database
13 25 (4.94%) Delta Lake
13 25 (4.94%) Metadata
13 25 (4.94%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 22 (4.35%) NoSQL
15 18 (3.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 15 (2.96%) Data Vault
16 15 (2.96%) Hadoop
17 13 (2.57%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 26 (5.14%) Git
2 13 (2.57%) Postman
3 7 (1.38%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.19%) RStudio
5 3 (0.59%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.59%) JIRA
5 3 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (0.59%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.40%) JMeter
6 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.20%) Selenium
7 1 (0.20%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.20%) Subversion
7 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 140 (27.67%) Social Skills
2 102 (20.16%) Finance
3 67 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (8.50%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.74%) Retail
6 16 (3.16%) Manufacturing
7 15 (2.96%) Legal
7 15 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.57%) Law
9 11 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.58%) Marketing
11 7 (1.38%) Games
11 7 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.38%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.19%) Banking
13 5 (0.99%) Electronics
13 5 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.99%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.59%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 199 (39.33%) Data Engineer
2 101 (19.96%) Developer
3 86 (17.00%) Senior
4 80 (15.81%) Azure Engineer
5 68 (13.44%) Azure Data Engineer
6 59 (11.66%) Senior Data Engineer
7 56 (11.07%) Architect
8 50 (9.88%) Lead
9 40 (7.91%) Data Manager
10 37 (7.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 33 (6.52%) Data Architect
12 31 (6.13%) Azure Architect
13 29 (5.73%) Solutions Architect
14 27 (5.34%) Engineering Manager
15 26 (5.14%) Analyst
15 26 (5.14%) Consultant
15 26 (5.14%) DevOps Engineer
16 25 (4.94%) Data Consultant
17 22 (4.35%) Azure Developer
17 22 (4.35%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (10.87%) PySpark
2 30 (5.93%) .NET
3 26 (5.14%) RESTful
4 17 (3.36%) JWT
5 14 (2.77%) Swagger
6 12 (2.37%) OpenAPI
6 12 (2.37%) XML
7 8 (1.58%) REST
8 6 (1.19%) React
9 5 (0.99%) JSON
9 5 (0.99%) Kafka
9 5 (0.99%) Middleware
9 5 (0.99%) Pandas
10 4 (0.79%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.79%) ARM Templates
10 4 (0.79%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.79%) HTML
10 4 (0.79%) SOAP
10 4 (0.79%) Web Services
10 4 (0.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (3.75%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.16%) Data Structures
2 16 (3.16%) Management Information System
3 12 (2.37%) Algorithms
3 12 (2.37%) Data Centre
4 11 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (2.17%) NHS
5 10 (1.98%) IoT
6 7 (1.38%) Cloud Native
6 7 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.19%) Public Cloud
8 5 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.59%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.59%) Replication
10 2 (0.40%) e-Learning
10 2 (0.40%) Smart Meter
10 2 (0.40%) Tandem
10 2 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (5.73%) Windows
2 12 (2.37%) Linux
3 9 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (53.36%) Business Intelligence
2 260 (51.38%) ETL
3 210 (41.50%) Analytics
4 178 (35.18%) Data Engineering
5 171 (33.79%) DevOps
6 160 (31.62%) Data Pipeline
7 153 (30.24%) Data Modelling
8 145 (28.66%) Agile
9 133 (26.28%) CI/CD
10 123 (24.31%) Visualisation
11 97 (19.17%) Data Science
12 82 (16.21%) Data Visualisation
13 81 (16.01%) Machine Learning
14 72 (14.23%) Artificial Intelligence
15 69 (13.64%) Migration
16 60 (11.86%) Data Analytics
16 60 (11.86%) Data Integration
16 60 (11.86%) Roadmaps
17 59 (11.66%) Data Architecture
18 58 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 398 (78.66%) SQL
2 169 (33.40%) Python
3 78 (15.42%) T-SQL
4 45 (8.89%) C#
5 30 (5.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 22 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 18 (3.56%) R
8 15 (2.96%) Scala
9 11 (2.17%) Java
10 10 (1.98%) U-SQL
11 7 (1.38%) JavaScript
12 5 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.79%) VBA
14 2 (0.40%) Bash
14 2 (0.40%) Korn
14 2 (0.40%) PHP
14 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 46 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 40 (7.91%) Degree
3 38 (7.51%) Azure Certification
4 36 (7.11%) DBS Check
5 19 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.96%) Security Cleared
7 14 (2.77%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.38%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.59%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.59%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.40%) MCSA
10 2 (0.40%) MCSE
10 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.20%) MCP
11 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (14.43%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.35%) GDPR
3 16 (3.16%) QA
4 4 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (0.79%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (4.15%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (1.38%) Docker
3 4 (0.79%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.40%) Firmware
4 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 34 (6.72%) Terraform
2 10 (1.98%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 240 (47.43%) Databricks
2 225 (44.47%) Microsoft
3 21 (4.15%) Oracle
4 11 (2.17%) Alteryx
5 10 (1.98%) Google
6 8 (1.58%) SAP
7 7 (1.38%) Informatica
8 6 (1.19%) Adobe
8 6 (1.19%) Apple
8 6 (1.19%) MuleSoft
9 4 (0.79%) SnapLogic
10 2 (0.40%) Cognos
10 2 (0.40%) IBM
10 2 (0.40%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (0.40%) Snow
10 2 (0.40%) Talend
11 1 (0.20%) Dell
11 1 (0.20%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.20%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.20%) Sparx