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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 468 373 456
Rank change year-on-year -95 +83 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 496 888 1,295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.89% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.40% 2.07% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 440 689 798
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,875 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.72% +3.88% +3.20%
75th Percentile £79,625 £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 35,437 42,898 78,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.47% 43.13% 48.46%
Number of salaries quoted 26,650 28,186 41,598
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
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 £98,750
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 20 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 20 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 -58 461 £62,500 -10.00% 198
Work from Home -39 265 £65,000 +4.00% 75
UK excluding London -105 247 £52,500 -8.70% 107
London -23 217 £75,000 - 106
North of England +16 90 £47,500 -9.52% 27
Midlands -8 69 £51,000 -7.27% 27
North West 0 62 £47,500 -18.88% 19
West Midlands +21 56 £52,250 -5.00% 21
South East -53 37 £64,000 -1.54% 26
South West -36 22 £56,000 -2.61% 11
North East +6 16 £47,500 -26.92% 2
East Midlands -27 13 £47,500 -13.64% 6
Scotland -73 13 £66,500 +15.65% 4
Yorkshire +53 12 £55,000 +10.00% 6
East of England +6 10 £51,333 -10.73% 10
Wales -11 4 £46,131 -19.77%
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 36 (7.26%) Apache Spark
2 29 (5.85%) Apache
3 6 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.21%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.40%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.40%) nginx
4 2 (0.40%) SAS
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.20%) Confluence
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.20%) Moodle
Applications
1 13 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 496 (100.00%) Azure
2 279 (56.25%) Power Platform
3 198 (39.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 111 (22.38%) Azure DevOps
5 57 (11.49%) Serverless
6 43 (8.67%) Azure Logic Apps
7 42 (8.47%) Azure Functions
8 29 (5.85%) AWS
9 28 (5.65%) Azure Service Bus
10 24 (4.84%) PowerApps
11 22 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
12 20 (4.03%) Snowflake
13 19 (3.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 19 (3.83%) GCP
14 18 (3.63%) Matillion
15 17 (3.43%) Azure App Service
16 16 (3.23%) Azure API Management
17 14 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
17 14 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
17 14 (2.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.44%) DNS
2 17 (3.43%) HTTP
3 13 (2.62%) Network Security
4 5 (1.01%) Firewall
5 2 (0.40%) LAN
5 2 (0.40%) MPLS
5 2 (0.40%) VPN
5 2 (0.40%) WAN
6 1 (0.20%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.20%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (52.62%) Power BI
2 222 (44.76%) Data Warehouse
3 192 (38.71%) Data Lake
4 160 (32.26%) SQL Server
5 106 (21.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 102 (20.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 40 (8.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 40 (8.06%) Big Data
8 36 (7.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 35 (7.06%) Tableau
10 34 (6.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 26 (5.24%) Delta Lake
11 26 (5.24%) Metadata
11 26 (5.24%) Relational Database
12 24 (4.84%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 24 (4.84%) NoSQL
13 18 (3.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 15 (3.02%) Data Vault
15 14 (2.82%) Hadoop
16 13 (2.62%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 26 (5.24%) Git
2 13 (2.62%) Postman
3 7 (1.41%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.21%) RStudio
5 3 (0.60%) JIRA
5 3 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.40%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.40%) JMeter
6 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
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
1 136 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 105 (21.17%) Finance
3 69 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.84%) Retail
6 16 (3.23%) Manufacturing
7 15 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (3.02%) Legal
7 15 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.62%) Law
9 11 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.41%) Games
10 7 (1.41%) Marketing
10 7 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.21%) Banking
11 6 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.21%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.01%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.81%) Electronics
14 3 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 199 (40.12%) Data Engineer
2 102 (20.56%) Developer
3 80 (16.13%) Senior
4 76 (15.32%) Azure Engineer
5 67 (13.51%) Azure Data Engineer
6 55 (11.09%) Lead
6 55 (11.09%) Senior Data Engineer
7 52 (10.48%) Architect
8 38 (7.66%) Data Manager
9 37 (7.46%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 32 (6.45%) Data Architect
11 28 (5.65%) Azure Architect
11 28 (5.65%) DevOps Engineer
12 27 (5.44%) Engineering Manager
13 25 (5.04%) Lead Data Engineer
13 25 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
14 23 (4.64%) Analyst
14 23 (4.64%) Azure Developer
14 23 (4.64%) Consultant
15 22 (4.44%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (11.29%) PySpark
2 27 (5.44%) .NET
3 23 (4.64%) RESTful
4 17 (3.43%) JWT
5 14 (2.82%) Swagger
6 12 (2.42%) OpenAPI
6 12 (2.42%) XML
7 9 (1.81%) REST
8 6 (1.21%) Pandas
8 6 (1.21%) React
9 5 (1.01%) JSON
9 5 (1.01%) Middleware
10 4 (0.81%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.81%) ARM Templates
10 4 (0.81%) HTML
10 4 (0.81%) Kafka
10 4 (0.81%) SOAP
10 4 (0.81%) Web Services
10 4 (0.81%) YAML
11 3 (0.60%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.03%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.43%) Management Information System
3 16 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 13 (2.62%) Algorithms
5 12 (2.42%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (2.42%) NHS
6 9 (1.81%) IoT
7 7 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.21%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.21%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.60%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.60%) Replication
12 2 (0.40%) Housing Association
12 2 (0.40%) Tandem
12 2 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.44%) Windows
2 13 (2.62%) Linux
3 8 (1.61%) Unix
4 7 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (53.83%) Business Intelligence
2 257 (51.81%) ETL
3 206 (41.53%) Analytics
4 174 (35.08%) Data Engineering
5 169 (34.07%) DevOps
6 162 (32.66%) Data Pipeline
7 159 (32.06%) Data Modelling
8 138 (27.82%) Agile
9 134 (27.02%) CI/CD
10 118 (23.79%) Visualisation
11 97 (19.56%) Data Science
12 82 (16.53%) Machine Learning
13 81 (16.33%) Data Visualisation
14 67 (13.51%) Artificial Intelligence
15 64 (12.90%) Migration
16 59 (11.90%) Data Architecture
16 59 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
17 58 (11.69%) Roadmaps
18 57 (11.49%) Data Governance
19 56 (11.29%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 386 (77.82%) SQL
2 169 (34.07%) Python
3 78 (15.73%) T-SQL
4 44 (8.87%) C#
5 31 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 22 (4.44%) PowerShell
7 17 (3.43%) R
8 14 (2.82%) Scala
9 11 (2.22%) Java
9 11 (2.22%) U-SQL
10 7 (1.41%) JavaScript
11 5 (1.01%) VBA
12 4 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.60%) Bash
14 2 (0.40%) Korn
14 2 (0.40%) PHP
14 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.20%) Bicep
15 1 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 47 (9.48%) Microsoft Certification
2 41 (8.27%) Degree
3 37 (7.46%) Azure Certification
4 36 (7.26%) DBS Check
5 20 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.02%) Security Cleared
7 14 (2.82%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.41%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.81%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.60%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.40%) MCSA
11 2 (0.40%) MCSE
11 2 (0.40%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.20%) MCP
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (14.72%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.23%) GDPR
3 17 (3.43%) QA
4 4 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (0.81%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (3.63%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (1.41%) Docker
3 2 (0.40%) Firmware
4 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.20%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (7.66%) Terraform
2 10 (2.02%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (0.20%) yum
Vendors
1 238 (47.98%) Databricks
2 218 (43.95%) Microsoft
3 17 (3.43%) Oracle
4 10 (2.02%) Alteryx
4 10 (2.02%) Google
5 7 (1.41%) Informatica
6 6 (1.21%) Adobe
6 6 (1.21%) Apple
6 6 (1.21%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.01%) SAP
8 4 (0.81%) SnapLogic
9 2 (0.40%) Cognos
9 2 (0.40%) IBM
9 2 (0.40%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (0.40%) Snow
9 2 (0.40%) Sparx
9 2 (0.40%) Talend
9 2 (0.40%) VMware
10 1 (0.20%) Dell
10 1 (0.20%) OpenAI