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 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 428 438 416
Rank change year-on-year +10 -22 +140
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 92 169 144
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.36% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.91% 1.27% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 55 116 124
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,875
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -17.86%
75th Percentile £69,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £85,000 £83,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £71,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.75% +5.56% -3.57%

All Cloud 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 10,100 13,321 12,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.39% 28.05% 39.64%
Number of salaries quoted 6,715 7,359 10,208
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,352 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £67,625 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

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 10 November 2025.

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 10 November 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
Midlands +55 23 £47,500 -17.39% 17
North of England +6 23 £64,000 +20.19% 23
South East -25 22 £65,000 - 136
West Midlands +33 15 £60,000 +9.59% 13
North West +14 14 £64,000 +7.56% 14
East Midlands +32 8 £45,000 -28.00% 2
South West +22 7 £75,000 -6.25% 9
Scotland +11 7 - - 6
North East +8 5 £77,500 +70.33%
Yorkshire +9 4 £55,233 +10.47% 9
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East of England +22 3 £62,500 +11.11% 5
Wales +8 3 £60,000 +40.35%
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 2 (2.17%) Apache
1 2 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 22 (23.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 92 (100.00%) Azure
2 59 (64.13%) Azure Data Factory
3 57 (61.96%) Power Platform
4 13 (14.13%) Snowflake
5 10 (10.87%) GCP
6 8 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.43%) Azure API Management
7 5 (5.43%) GitHub
8 4 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.26%) AWS
9 3 (3.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.26%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (3.26%) SaaS
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.17%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.17%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (61.96%) Power BI
2 43 (46.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 38 (41.30%) SQL Server
4 33 (35.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 32 (34.78%) Data Lake
6 16 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (11.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (10.87%) BigQuery
9 9 (9.78%) NoSQL
10 7 (7.61%) Metadata
10 7 (7.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (3.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (3.26%) Delta Lake
12 2 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (2.17%) Power Query
13 1 (1.09%) Big Data
13 1 (1.09%) Data Hub
13 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
13 1 (1.09%) SAP HANA
13 1 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.17%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.09%) JUnit
2 1 (1.09%) Selenium
2 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.09%) TestComplete
General
1 41 (44.57%) Finance
2 38 (41.30%) Social Skills
3 32 (34.78%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (19.57%) Retail
5 13 (14.13%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (11.96%) Billing
7 4 (4.35%) Banking
8 3 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.26%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.17%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.09%) Law
10 1 (1.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 34 (36.96%) Data Engineer
2 20 (21.74%) Senior
3 18 (19.57%) Analyst
4 17 (18.48%) Senior Data Engineer
5 12 (13.04%) Developer
6 11 (11.96%) Business Manager
6 11 (11.96%) Commercial Analyst
6 11 (11.96%) Insight Analyst
6 11 (11.96%) Insight Manager
7 9 (9.78%) SQL Developer
8 8 (8.70%) Architect
9 7 (7.61%) Data Architect
9 7 (7.61%) Lead
10 6 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (6.52%) Database Developer
10 6 (6.52%) SQL Database Developer
11 5 (5.43%) Data Analyst
12 4 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
12 4 (4.35%) Lead Data Engineer
13 3 (3.26%) Azure Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.70%) .NET
2 7 (7.61%) PySpark
3 5 (5.43%) Middleware
4 1 (1.09%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (26.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 11 (11.96%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.17%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.09%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.09%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.09%) FMCG
5 1 (1.09%) Life Science
5 1 (1.09%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.09%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (61.96%) Analytics
2 54 (58.70%) Business Intelligence
3 39 (42.39%) Visualisation
4 37 (40.22%) Decision-Making
5 32 (34.78%) Data Pipeline
6 30 (32.61%) Data Modelling
7 29 (31.52%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (30.43%) Data Engineering
9 26 (28.26%) Actionable Insight
9 26 (28.26%) Data Analysis
10 23 (25.00%) ETL
10 23 (25.00%) Process Improvement
11 22 (23.91%) DevOps
11 22 (23.91%) Visual Analytics
11 22 (23.91%) WFM
12 19 (20.65%) AI
13 18 (19.57%) Agile
13 18 (19.57%) CI/CD
14 17 (18.48%) Data Governance
15 16 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 79 (85.87%) SQL
2 25 (27.17%) Python
3 23 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (14.13%) T-SQL
5 8 (8.70%) C#
6 6 (6.52%) Java
7 2 (2.17%) R
8 1 (1.09%) Bicep
8 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.09%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (13.04%) Degree
2 11 (11.96%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.26%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.26%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.09%) MBA
5 1 (1.09%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.96%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (4.35%) QA
4 2 (2.17%) GDPR
5 1 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Systems Management
1 3 (3.26%) Terraform
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (42.39%) Databricks
1 39 (42.39%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.26%) Informatica
3 2 (2.17%) Google
3 2 (2.17%) SAP
4 1 (1.09%) JD Edwards
4 1 (1.09%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle
4 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (1.09%) Teradata
4 1 (1.09%) UiPath