Azure Synapse Analytics Job Trends in the North West

Azure Synapse Analytics
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Azure Synapse Analytics skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 212 179
Rank change year-on-year -17 -33 +110
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 7 28 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.14% 0.36% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.50% 1.24% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5 17 31
10th Percentile - £42,750 £44,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £46,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -1.71% -7.87%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £70,750 £70,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% - +3.57%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,409 2,257 1,894
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 27.49% 29.22% 40.99%
Number of salaries quoted 862 1,375 1,576
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,900 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.08% +4.00%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Azure Synapse Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Synapse Analytics in the North West

Azure Synapse Analytics
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Azure Synapse Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in the North West over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in the North West

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Manchester +8 4 £57,500 - 6
Cheshire - 2 £70,000 -
Lancashire - 1 £67,500 - 7
Azure Synapse Analytics
England

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Data Lake
2 4 (57.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (42.86%) Power BI
4 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Retail
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Data Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Analytics
2 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (71.43%) ETL
3 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
3 3 (42.86%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) ITSM
4 2 (28.57%) Log Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Service Management
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Databricks