Azure Synapse Analytics Job Trends in England

Azure Synapse Analytics
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure Synapse Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 380 556
Rank change year-on-year -10 +176 +27
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 321 231 276
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.62% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 1.68% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 263 183 234
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £52,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £118,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +28.57% +3.70% -3.57%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Azure Synapse Analytics 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 in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 24,442 13,732 29,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.98% 36.98% 35.88%
Number of salaries quoted 12,963 10,215 24,332
10th Percentile £30,256 £31,895 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,925 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure Synapse Analytics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Azure Synapse Analytics job vacancy trend in England

Azure Synapse Analytics
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Synapse Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in England over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in England

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics within the England region over the 6 months to 17 April 2026. 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
London +58 164 £90,000 +12.50% 30
South East -19 83 £90,000 +28.57% 11
North of England -45 27 £70,932 +3.17% 13
Midlands -62 22 £65,000 +18.18% 8
West Midlands -41 16 £65,250 +18.64% 5
Yorkshire -54 11 £75,466 +11.80% 6
East of England -15 10 £58,750 +11.90% 2
North West -18 10 £70,932 +1.33% 6
South West -45 7 £53,000 -3.64% 6
North East -32 6 £60,000 - 1
East Midlands - 4 £57,500 - 3
Azure Synapse Analytics
UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 40 (12.46%) Apache Spark
2 30 (9.35%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.49%) Apache
4 4 (1.25%) SAS
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
Applications
1 16 (4.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 321 (100.00%) Azure
2 156 (48.60%) Power Platform
3 121 (37.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 92 (28.66%) Snowflake
5 62 (19.31%) Azure AI
6 60 (18.69%) Azure Machine Learning
7 40 (12.46%) GCP
8 36 (11.21%) AWS
9 35 (10.90%) dbt
10 29 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (6.23%) Microsoft Purview
12 16 (4.98%) Entra ID
13 15 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (4.36%) PaaS
15 12 (3.74%) GitHub
16 10 (3.12%) SaaS
17 9 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
18 8 (2.49%) Azure Service Bus
18 8 (2.49%) ChatGPT
18 8 (2.49%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.25%) WAN
2 2 (0.62%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (47.04%) Power BI
2 124 (38.63%) Data Lake
3 93 (28.97%) Data Warehouse
4 84 (26.17%) SQL Server
5 57 (17.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 33 (10.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 33 (10.28%) BigQuery
7 32 (9.97%) Big Data
7 32 (9.97%) Tableau
8 29 (9.03%) Snowflake Schema
9 24 (7.48%) Looker
10 23 (7.17%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (6.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 20 (6.23%) Delta Lake
13 11 (3.43%) Metadata
14 9 (2.80%) Power Query
14 9 (2.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 9 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (1.87%) Data Mining
16 5 (1.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (8.41%) MLflow
2 23 (7.17%) Git
3 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
General
1 141 (43.93%) Finance
2 93 (28.97%) Social Skills
3 60 (18.69%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.36%) Banking
5 9 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.18%) Billing
6 7 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.87%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.87%) Public Sector
8 3 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (0.93%) Law
8 3 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.62%) Retail
10 1 (0.31%) Advertising
10 1 (0.31%) Automotive
10 1 (0.31%) Local Government
10 1 (0.31%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 90 (28.04%) Data Engineer
2 83 (25.86%) Architect
3 74 (23.05%) Senior
4 63 (19.63%) Data Architect
5 59 (18.38%) Azure Architect
6 53 (16.51%) Azure Data Architect
7 36 (11.21%) Lead
8 34 (10.59%) Data Manager
9 33 (10.28%) Engineering Manager
9 33 (10.28%) Finance Manager
10 29 (9.03%) Big Data Engineer
10 29 (9.03%) DataOps Engineer
10 29 (9.03%) DataOps Leader
10 29 (9.03%) Lead Big Data Engineer
11 27 (8.41%) Senior Data Engineer
12 23 (7.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 23 (7.17%) Systems Engineer
13 17 (5.30%) Azure Engineer
14 16 (4.98%) Azure Data Engineer
15 15 (4.67%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (10.59%) Kafka
2 28 (8.72%) PySpark
3 23 (7.17%) LangChain
3 23 (7.17%) LlamaIndex
3 23 (7.17%) pgvector
3 23 (7.17%) PyTorch
3 23 (7.17%) scikit-learn
3 23 (7.17%) TensorFlow
4 5 (1.56%) .NET
5 4 (1.25%) CSS
6 2 (0.62%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.62%) RESTful
6 2 (0.62%) Vue
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Beam
7 1 (0.31%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.31%) MDX
7 1 (0.31%) Middleware
7 1 (0.31%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.53%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.17%) Clustering
2 23 (7.17%) Public Cloud
3 17 (5.30%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (4.05%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.49%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.49%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.56%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.93%) Data Fabric
11 3 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.31%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.31%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.31%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.31%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.31%) Replication
12 1 (0.31%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (51.40%) Business Intelligence
2 157 (48.91%) Data Governance
3 151 (47.04%) Analytics
4 145 (45.17%) Data Modelling
5 142 (44.24%) Data Engineering
6 130 (40.50%) AI
6 130 (40.50%) ETL
7 105 (32.71%) Machine Learning
8 96 (29.91%) Data Architecture
9 94 (29.28%) Data Pipeline
10 93 (28.97%) Agile
11 87 (27.10%) CI/CD
12 85 (26.48%) Roadmaps
13 83 (25.86%) Migration
14 68 (21.18%) Regulatory Compliance
15 62 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
16 61 (19.00%) DevOps
17 56 (17.45%) Data Development
18 55 (17.13%) Line Management
19 50 (15.58%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 223 (69.47%) SQL
2 124 (38.63%) Python
3 31 (9.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 16 (4.98%) Scala
5 8 (2.49%) T-SQL
6 7 (2.18%) C#
7 6 (1.87%) Bicep
8 5 (1.56%) Java
9 4 (1.25%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.62%) R
11 1 (0.31%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (6.23%) Degree
2 14 (4.36%) Azure Certification
3 12 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (3.12%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.49%) IIBA
5 8 (2.49%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.49%) PMP
6 7 (2.18%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.18%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 4 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.62%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.62%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.31%) MCSE
9 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (25.23%) Data Quality
2 35 (10.90%) GDPR
3 31 (9.66%) SLA
4 24 (7.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (2.18%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.31%) COBIT
7 1 (0.31%) IFRS
7 1 (0.31%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.31%) QA
7 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.31%) Solvency II
System Software
1 55 (17.13%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (1.87%) Docker
3 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (6.85%) Terraform
2 8 (2.49%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.93%) Ansible
Vendors
1 219 (68.22%) Databricks
2 136 (42.37%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.17%) Cloudera
3 23 (7.17%) Dell
4 9 (2.80%) Alteryx
4 9 (2.80%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.49%) Anaplan
6 4 (1.25%) Concur
6 4 (1.25%) Foundry
6 4 (1.25%) Sage
7 3 (0.93%) Dataiku
7 3 (0.93%) Google
8 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.31%) Confluent
8 1 (0.31%) Infor
8 1 (0.31%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.31%) Teradata