Azure Synapse Analytics Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Azure Synapse Analytics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure Synapse Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 460 512
Rank change year-on-year -93 +52 -89
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 111 90 149
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.26% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.62% 0.98% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 98 64 107
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,125 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £63,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.58% +10.00% -11.54%
75th Percentile £95,000 £70,313 £67,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £90,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% -3.45%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 17,789 9,197 15,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.69% 26.64% 27.61%
Number of salaries quoted 12,103 6,254 10,051
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -2.44% -1.60%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Azure Synapse Analytics job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Azure Synapse Analytics
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Synapse Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK excluding London

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 September 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
South East -28 55 £85,000 +30.77% 21
North of England -45 25 £66,250 -1.85% 17
Yorkshire -35 14 £90,000 +38.46% 7
North West -14 8 £52,500 -22.22% 9
East of England -27 8 £70,000 +12.00% 6
South West -75 8 £58,750 -21.67% 5
West Midlands -45 7 £65,000 +4.00% 7
Midlands -58 7 £65,000 +35.42% 12
Wales -59 7 £52,500 -8.70% 3
North East -65 3 £60,000 -22.58% 1
Scotland +4 1 £55,000 - 5
Azure Synapse Analytics
UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (10.81%) Apache Spark
2 9 (8.11%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.50%) Apache
4 1 (0.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 111 (100.00%) Azure
2 48 (43.24%) Azure Data Factory
3 46 (41.44%) Power Platform
4 31 (27.93%) Snowflake
5 22 (19.82%) Azure AI
5 22 (19.82%) Azure Machine Learning
6 17 (15.32%) Azure Databricks
7 16 (14.41%) AWS
7 16 (14.41%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (14.41%) GCP
8 9 (8.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (7.21%) dbt
10 6 (5.41%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (3.60%) GitHub
12 4 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
14 2 (1.80%) Entra ID
14 2 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
15 1 (0.90%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (43.24%) Data Warehouse
2 43 (38.74%) Power BI
3 36 (32.43%) Data Lake
3 36 (32.43%) SQL Server
4 22 (19.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (14.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (14.41%) Star Schema
6 15 (13.51%) BigQuery
7 14 (12.61%) Metadata
8 12 (10.81%) Snowflake Schema
9 9 (8.11%) Delta Lake
10 8 (7.21%) Amazon QuickSight
10 8 (7.21%) Tableau
11 7 (6.31%) DynamoDB
11 7 (6.31%) MongoDB
11 7 (6.31%) NoSQL
12 5 (4.50%) Big Data
12 5 (4.50%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (4.50%) Looker
12 5 (4.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (13.51%) Git
2 7 (6.31%) MLflow
3 1 (0.90%) JIRA
General
1 38 (34.23%) Finance
2 27 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 23 (20.72%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.60%) Banking
5 3 (2.70%) Retail
6 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Billing
7 1 (0.90%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 43 (38.74%) Data Engineer
2 31 (27.93%) Senior
3 20 (18.02%) Data Manager
4 18 (16.22%) Engineering Manager
4 18 (16.22%) Finance Manager
5 16 (14.41%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (14.41%) Senior Data Engineer
6 12 (10.81%) Architect
6 12 (10.81%) Data Architect
7 10 (9.01%) Lead
8 9 (8.11%) Azure Architect
8 9 (8.11%) Azure Data Architect
8 9 (8.11%) Azure Data Engineer
8 9 (8.11%) Developer
9 7 (6.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Analyst
10 5 (4.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Systems Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.41%) PySpark
2 8 (7.21%) Kafka
2 8 (7.21%) Terraform
3 5 (4.50%) LangChain
3 5 (4.50%) LlamaIndex
3 5 (4.50%) pgvector
3 5 (4.50%) PyTorch
3 5 (4.50%) scikit-learn
3 5 (4.50%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.80%) .NET
4 2 (1.80%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.80%) Pulumi
4 2 (1.80%) RESTful
4 2 (1.80%) Vue
5 1 (0.90%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.90%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.21%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (7.21%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.31%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (6.31%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.50%) Clustering
4 5 (4.50%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.90%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (56.76%) ETL
2 58 (52.25%) Analytics
3 57 (51.35%) Data Engineering
4 54 (48.65%) Data Modelling
5 53 (47.75%) Data Pipeline
6 52 (46.85%) Business Intelligence
7 50 (45.05%) Agile
8 49 (44.14%) Data Governance
9 40 (36.04%) AI
10 37 (33.33%) Data Architecture
11 36 (32.43%) CI/CD
12 31 (27.93%) Machine Learning
13 28 (25.23%) Migration
13 28 (25.23%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (23.42%) DevOps
15 24 (21.62%) Data Development
16 23 (20.72%) Performance Tuning
16 23 (20.72%) Roadmaps
17 22 (19.82%) Line Management
17 22 (19.82%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 97 (87.39%) SQL
2 68 (61.26%) Python
3 9 (8.11%) C#
4 8 (7.21%) Java
4 8 (7.21%) Scala
5 7 (6.31%) Bicep
6 5 (4.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (3.60%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.60%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (8.11%) Degree
2 2 (1.80%) Azure Certification
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (1.80%) SC Cleared
2 2 (1.80%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (34.23%) Data Quality
2 16 (14.41%) GDPR
3 12 (10.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.80%) IFRS
4 2 (1.80%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.80%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 22 (19.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (1.80%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 67 (60.36%) Microsoft
2 66 (59.46%) Databricks
3 7 (6.31%) Informatica
3 7 (6.31%) Talend
4 5 (4.50%) Cloudera
4 5 (4.50%) Dell
5 3 (2.70%) Google
6 1 (0.90%) Infor
6 1 (0.90%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow