Azure Synapse Analytics Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Azure Synapse Analytics
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Azure Synapse Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 155 219
Rank change year-on-year -6 +64 +21
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 11 8 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.24% 0.29% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.87% 0.89% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 17
10th Percentile - - £47,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -11.67% -17.24%
75th Percentile £55,000 £90,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £57,500 - £87,000
South East median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +21.43% +3.70% -10.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,264 900 1,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.18% 32.06% 29.89%
Number of salaries quoted 752 530 1,491
10th Percentile £31,375 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,906 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,188 £76,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Azure Synapse Analytics job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Azure Synapse Analytics
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Synapse Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in the Thames Valley

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
Berkshire -1 7 £50,000 -5.66% 2
Buckinghamshire -4 4 £47,500 -47.22% 2
Azure Synapse Analytics
South East

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
1 11 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) Data Lake
2 6 (54.55%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (45.45%) Data Mining
4 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (9.09%) Metadata
4 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Data Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Data Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 11 (100.00%) ETL
2 10 (90.91%) Analytics
3 6 (54.55%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 5 (45.45%) Data Governance
4 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (45.45%) Use Case
5 4 (36.36%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
7 1 (9.09%) AI
7 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (9.09%) Clean Code
7 1 (9.09%) Data Ingestion
7 1 (9.09%) Data Validation
7 1 (9.09%) Kimball Methodology
7 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning
7 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Databricks