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 17 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 356 402
Rank change year-on-year -56 +46 -14
Permanent jobs citing Azure Data Factory 378 498 839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.80% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.87% 2.00% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 309 437 723
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,500 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +29.00% -16.67% +9.09%

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 20,230 24,845 47,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.09% 40.12% 43.95%
Number of salaries quoted 11,358 19,330 32,699
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £43,750 £46,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,762 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £98,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -59 356 £65,000 +8.33% 109
UK excluding London -44 194 £64,500 +29.00% 57
London -27 166 £72,500 +3.57% 51
Work from Home -17 132 £65,000 +18.18% 69
South East +32 89 £65,000 +8.33% 5
North of England -60 51 £64,500 +29.00% 35
Midlands -53 28 £62,500 +25.00% 8
North West -57 28 £55,000 +18.92% 22
West Midlands -35 24 £65,000 +18.18% 4
Yorkshire +21 20 £59,750 +19.50% 10
South West +20 12 £58,750 -21.67% 2
Scotland +17 9 £52,500 -4.55% 4
North East -22 7 £65,000 +36.84% 3
East Midlands -37 4 £44,000 -7.37% 4
Wales +17 3 £42,750 -7.19% 1
East of England -45 2 £80,000 +45.45% 2

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 18 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.97%) Apache
3 7 (1.85%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.06%) Confluence
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.53%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.79%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 378 (100.00%) Azure
2 171 (45.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 141 (37.30%) Power Platform
4 67 (17.72%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (10.58%) GitHub
6 38 (10.05%) Azure API Management
7 32 (8.47%) AWS
8 25 (6.61%) Azure Logic Apps
9 23 (6.08%) Serverless
10 20 (5.29%) Azure Functions
10 20 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (5.29%) Snowflake
11 18 (4.76%) Power Automate
12 17 (4.50%) Azure Machine Learning
12 17 (4.50%) Microsoft Purview
13 16 (4.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 16 (4.23%) GCP
13 16 (4.23%) PowerApps
14 15 (3.97%) SaaS
15 14 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.85%) Network Security
2 4 (1.06%) DNS
3 1 (0.26%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (35.98%) Power BI
2 109 (28.84%) Data Lake
3 95 (25.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 93 (24.60%) Data Warehouse
5 83 (21.96%) SQL Server
6 52 (13.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 19 (5.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 15 (3.97%) NoSQL
8 15 (3.97%) Power Query
9 14 (3.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 14 (3.70%) Delta Lake
9 14 (3.70%) Relational Database
10 13 (3.44%) Big Data
11 11 (2.91%) Metadata
12 9 (2.38%) Spark SQL
13 8 (2.12%) Tableau
14 7 (1.85%) BigQuery
14 7 (1.85%) Data Mining
14 7 (1.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 37 (9.79%) Git
2 19 (5.03%) Visual Studio
3 16 (4.23%) JIRA
4 9 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (1.32%) GitLab
5 5 (1.32%) Postman
5 5 (1.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (1.06%) Selenium
7 3 (0.79%) Flyway
7 3 (0.79%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.79%) MLflow
7 3 (0.79%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.53%) git-flow
8 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.26%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.26%) SpecFlow
General
1 94 (24.87%) Social Skills
2 66 (17.46%) Finance
3 56 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.14%) Law
5 19 (5.03%) Automotive
6 12 (3.17%) Marketing
7 10 (2.65%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.38%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.38%) Electronics
9 8 (2.12%) Legal
9 8 (2.12%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.85%) Advertising
10 7 (1.85%) Retail
11 6 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.32%) Banking
12 5 (1.32%) Brand Awareness
13 4 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 177 (46.83%) Data Engineer
2 93 (24.60%) Senior
3 68 (17.99%) Developer
4 56 (14.81%) Azure Engineer
5 51 (13.49%) Senior Data Engineer
6 50 (13.23%) Azure Data Engineer
7 42 (11.11%) Lead
8 34 (8.99%) Architect
9 30 (7.94%) Data Architect
10 26 (6.88%) Software Engineer
11 21 (5.56%) SQL Developer
12 17 (4.50%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
14 15 (3.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 13 (3.44%) Lead Data Engineer
16 12 (3.17%) Azure Developer
16 12 (3.17%) Python Engineer
17 10 (2.65%) Business Intelligence Lead
17 10 (2.65%) Python Data Engineer
17 10 (2.65%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (19.58%) .NET
2 30 (7.94%) PySpark
3 20 (5.29%) ASP.NET
3 20 (5.29%) HTML
4 19 (5.03%) Middleware
5 16 (4.23%) .NET Framework
6 12 (3.17%) CSS
7 11 (2.91%) REST
8 10 (2.65%) ASP.NET MVC
8 10 (2.65%) React
9 9 (2.38%) AngularJS
10 7 (1.85%) .NET Core
10 7 (1.85%) HTML5
10 7 (1.85%) JSON
10 7 (1.85%) Kafka
10 7 (1.85%) OAuth
10 7 (1.85%) OAuth2
10 7 (1.85%) RESTful
10 7 (1.85%) Swagger
11 6 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.20%) Product Ownership
2 16 (4.23%) Management Information System
3 8 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (1.85%) Data Structures
5 6 (1.59%) Data Fabric
5 6 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.59%) Low-Code
6 5 (1.32%) IoT
7 4 (1.06%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.79%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.79%) Replication
8 3 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.79%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.53%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.53%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.53%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.53%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.06%) Linux
2 3 (0.79%) Windows
3 2 (0.53%) Unix
3 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (39.68%) Business Intelligence
2 148 (39.15%) ETL
3 142 (37.57%) DevOps
4 139 (36.77%) Agile
5 129 (34.13%) Analytics
5 129 (34.13%) CI/CD
6 105 (27.78%) Data Engineering
7 98 (25.93%) Data Pipeline
8 94 (24.87%) Data Modelling
9 78 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
10 61 (16.14%) Data Governance
10 61 (16.14%) Data Management
11 60 (15.87%) Visualisation
12 54 (14.29%) Data Architecture
13 53 (14.02%) Data Science
13 53 (14.02%) Machine Learning
14 50 (13.23%) Computer Science
14 50 (13.23%) Software Engineering
15 49 (12.96%) Artificial Intelligence
15 49 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 294 (77.78%) SQL
2 200 (52.91%) Python
3 75 (19.84%) C#
4 48 (12.70%) T-SQL
5 35 (9.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 21 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.91%) Java
8 8 (2.12%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.85%) Bicep
9 7 (1.85%) R
10 6 (1.59%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.06%) PHP
12 2 (0.53%) Scala
12 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.53%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.26%) C++
13 1 (0.26%) JCL
13 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 93 (24.60%) Degree
2 50 (13.23%) Azure Certification
3 29 (7.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (5.03%) Security Cleared
5 9 (2.38%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
6 6 (1.59%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.32%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.79%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.53%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (19.58%) Data Quality
2 25 (6.61%) QA
3 11 (2.91%) GDPR
4 9 (2.38%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.79%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.53%) SLA
7 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 21 (5.56%) Docker
2 13 (3.44%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (6.88%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 227 (60.05%) Databricks
2 165 (43.65%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.91%) Google
3 11 (2.91%) SAP
4 10 (2.65%) Oracle
5 8 (2.12%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.79%) Informatica
6 3 (0.79%) MuleSoft
6 3 (0.79%) RedGate
7 2 (0.53%) Dell
7 2 (0.53%) Intapp
7 2 (0.53%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.53%) Splunk
8 1 (0.26%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.26%) IBM
8 1 (0.26%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.26%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.26%) Teradata
8 1 (0.26%) VMware
8 1 (0.26%) Workday