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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 465 375 439
Rank change year-on-year -90 +64 -7
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 506 914 1,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.88% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.43% 2.06% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 451 720 802
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.72% +3.08% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -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 35,382 44,396 75,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.88% 42.78% 48.26%
Number of salaries quoted 26,757 29,121 41,951
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,788 £33,750
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 £96,000 £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 3 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 3 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 -48 471 £62,500 -7.41% 155
Work from Home -55 255 £64,500 +3.20% 66
UK excluding London -84 253 £52,500 -12.50% 87
London -20 218 £72,000 -7.10% 69
North of England +22 90 £47,500 -13.64% 17
Midlands +4 65 £50,000 -11.11% 19
North West 0 62 £45,000 -25.00% 9
West Midlands +14 50 £50,000 -13.04% 13
South East -50 42 £64,500 -0.77% 20
South West -38 24 £67,500 +31.71% 12
North East +4 17 £47,500 -26.92% 1
East Midlands -12 15 £47,500 -13.64% 6
East of England +17 13 £55,000 -4.35% 10
Scotland -73 13 £66,500 +20.91% 5
Yorkshire +48 11 £57,500 +15.00% 7
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 36 (7.11%) Apache Spark
2 29 (5.73%) Apache
3 10 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.40%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
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%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 504 (99.60%) Azure
2 282 (55.73%) Power Platform
3 192 (37.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 118 (23.32%) Azure DevOps
5 56 (11.07%) Serverless
6 50 (9.88%) Azure Logic Apps
7 42 (8.30%) Azure Functions
8 32 (6.32%) Azure Service Bus
9 31 (6.13%) AWS
10 25 (4.94%) Snowflake
11 23 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
11 23 (4.55%) PowerApps
12 22 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 22 (4.35%) GCP
13 21 (4.15%) Azure API Management
14 18 (3.56%) Matillion
15 17 (3.36%) Azure App Service
15 17 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
16 16 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
16 16 (3.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.55%) DNS
2 17 (3.36%) HTTP
3 11 (2.17%) 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%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (51.78%) Power BI
2 223 (44.07%) Data Warehouse
3 189 (37.35%) Data Lake
4 165 (32.61%) SQL Server
5 112 (22.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 103 (20.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 43 (8.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 40 (7.91%) Tableau
9 39 (7.71%) Big Data
10 37 (7.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 33 (6.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 27 (5.34%) Relational Database
13 24 (4.74%) Delta Lake
13 24 (4.74%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 21 (4.15%) NoSQL
15 19 (3.75%) Metadata
16 18 (3.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 16 (3.16%) Hadoop
18 14 (2.77%) Data Vault
19 13 (2.57%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 28 (5.53%) Git
2 15 (2.96%) Postman
3 7 (1.38%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.19%) RStudio
5 4 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (0.79%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.59%) JIRA
6 3 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.40%) JMeter
8 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.20%) Selenium
8 1 (0.20%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.20%) Subversion
8 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 141 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 101 (19.96%) Finance
3 65 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (8.50%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.55%) Retail
6 17 (3.36%) Legal
6 17 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (2.77%) Law
8 13 (2.57%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.58%) Marketing
12 7 (1.38%) Games
12 7 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.19%) Banking
13 6 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.99%) Electronics
14 5 (0.99%) Tech for Good
15 4 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.59%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 197 (38.93%) Data Engineer
2 104 (20.55%) Developer
3 86 (17.00%) Senior
4 77 (15.22%) Azure Engineer
5 64 (12.65%) Azure Data Engineer
6 59 (11.66%) Senior Data Engineer
7 56 (11.07%) Architect
8 46 (9.09%) Lead
9 39 (7.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 39 (7.71%) Data Manager
10 33 (6.52%) Data Architect
11 31 (6.13%) Azure Architect
12 29 (5.73%) Solutions Architect
13 27 (5.34%) Analyst
13 27 (5.34%) Engineering Manager
14 26 (5.14%) Consultant
15 25 (4.94%) Data Consultant
15 25 (4.94%) DevOps Engineer
16 24 (4.74%) Azure Developer
17 21 (4.15%) Azure Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (10.08%) PySpark
2 30 (5.93%) .NET
3 27 (5.34%) RESTful
4 17 (3.36%) JWT
5 16 (3.16%) Swagger
6 14 (2.77%) OpenAPI
7 13 (2.57%) XML
8 8 (1.58%) REST
9 6 (1.19%) JSON
10 5 (0.99%) ARM Templates
10 5 (0.99%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.99%) Kafka
10 5 (0.99%) Pandas
10 5 (0.99%) React
11 4 (0.79%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.79%) HTML
11 4 (0.79%) Middleware
11 4 (0.79%) SOAP
11 4 (0.79%) Web Services
11 4 (0.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (3.75%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.36%) Management Information System
3 16 (3.16%) Data Structures
4 12 (2.37%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.17%) Algorithms
5 11 (2.17%) IoT
6 10 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (1.98%) NHS
7 8 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.38%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.19%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.59%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.59%) Replication
11 3 (0.59%) Smart Meter
12 2 (0.40%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.40%) Housing Association
12 2 (0.40%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.93%) Windows
2 12 (2.37%) Linux
3 10 (1.98%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (52.17%) ETL
2 262 (51.78%) Business Intelligence
3 211 (41.70%) Analytics
4 177 (34.98%) Data Engineering
5 173 (34.19%) DevOps
6 163 (32.21%) Data Pipeline
7 154 (30.43%) Agile
8 148 (29.25%) Data Modelling
9 130 (25.69%) CI/CD
10 121 (23.91%) Visualisation
11 98 (19.37%) Data Science
12 81 (16.01%) Data Visualisation
12 81 (16.01%) Machine Learning
13 75 (14.82%) Artificial Intelligence
14 70 (13.83%) Migration
15 62 (12.25%) Data Architecture
16 61 (12.06%) Data Integration
17 60 (11.86%) Roadmaps
18 59 (11.66%) Data Analytics
18 59 (11.66%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 397 (78.46%) SQL
2 172 (33.99%) Python
3 78 (15.42%) T-SQL
4 48 (9.49%) C#
5 28 (5.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 22 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 18 (3.56%) R
8 15 (2.96%) Scala
9 11 (2.17%) Java
10 9 (1.78%) U-SQL
11 8 (1.58%) JavaScript
12 5 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.59%) 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%) Bicep
15 1 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 44 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 41 (8.10%) 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 68 (13.44%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.35%) GDPR
3 16 (3.16%) QA
4 4 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (0.79%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (4.35%) 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
5 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 32 (6.32%) Terraform
2 10 (1.98%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 241 (47.63%) Databricks
2 221 (43.68%) Microsoft
3 18 (3.56%) Oracle
4 11 (2.17%) Alteryx
5 9 (1.78%) Google
6 8 (1.58%) SAP
7 6 (1.19%) Adobe
7 6 (1.19%) Apple
8 5 (0.99%) MuleSoft
9 4 (0.79%) Informatica
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%) Nintex
11 1 (0.20%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.20%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.20%) Sparx