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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 447 519
Rank change year-on-year -83 +72 -83
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 111 96 147
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% 1.02% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 98 67 112
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £59,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.79% -6.27%
75th Percentile £95,000 £72,500 £68,125
90th Percentile £118,750 £83,750 £79,875
UK median annual salary £90,000 £65,000 £72,000
% change year-on-year +38.46% -9.72% -4.00%

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 17,730 9,405 16,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.40% 27.02% 27.99%
Number of salaries quoted 11,922 6,491 11,364
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £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 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -22 56 £85,000 +30.77% 20
North of England -25 26 £65,000 -3.70% 8
Yorkshire -15 15 £85,000 +30.77% 4
East of England -19 9 £66,250 +26.19% 1
North West -15 8 £52,500 -22.22% 3
South West -64 8 £58,750 -21.67% 1
West Midlands -31 7 £65,000 +1.96% 4
Midlands -60 7 £65,000 +32.65% 4
Wales -55 4 £52,500 -8.70% 3
North East -53 3 £60,000 -22.58% 1
Scotland +6 1 £55,000 - 1
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 14 (12.61%) Apache Spark
2 11 (9.91%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.50%) Apache
4 1 (0.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 111 (100.00%) Azure
2 45 (40.54%) Azure Data Factory
3 42 (37.84%) Power Platform
4 33 (29.73%) Snowflake
5 22 (19.82%) Azure AI
5 22 (19.82%) Azure Machine Learning
6 18 (16.22%) AWS
6 18 (16.22%) GCP
7 11 (9.91%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (9.01%) dbt
9 5 (4.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (3.60%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (3.60%) GitHub
10 4 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.90%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
12 1 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.90%) Dagster
12 1 (0.90%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (41.44%) Data Warehouse
2 41 (36.94%) Power BI
3 38 (34.23%) Data Lake
4 32 (28.83%) SQL Server
5 18 (16.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 17 (15.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (15.32%) BigQuery
7 13 (11.71%) Star Schema
8 10 (9.01%) Metadata
8 10 (9.01%) Snowflake Schema
8 10 (9.01%) Tableau
9 8 (7.21%) Delta Lake
10 7 (6.31%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (6.31%) Looker
11 5 (4.50%) Big Data
11 5 (4.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (3.60%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (2.70%) DynamoDB
13 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
13 3 (2.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (9.91%) Git
2 9 (8.11%) MLflow
3 1 (0.90%) JIRA
General
1 37 (33.33%) Finance
2 30 (27.03%) Social Skills
3 25 (22.52%) 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 27 (24.32%) Senior
3 20 (18.02%) Data Manager
4 18 (16.22%) Engineering Manager
4 18 (16.22%) Finance Manager
5 15 (13.51%) Architect
5 15 (13.51%) Data Architect
6 14 (12.61%) Senior Data Engineer
7 12 (10.81%) Azure Architect
7 12 (10.81%) Azure Data Architect
7 12 (10.81%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (8.11%) Azure Data Engineer
8 9 (8.11%) Developer
8 9 (8.11%) Lead
9 7 (6.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 7 (6.31%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 7 (6.31%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Analyst
12 4 (3.60%) Head of Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.51%) PySpark
2 10 (9.01%) Kafka
3 7 (6.31%) LangChain
3 7 (6.31%) LlamaIndex
3 7 (6.31%) pgvector
3 7 (6.31%) PyTorch
3 7 (6.31%) scikit-learn
3 7 (6.31%) TensorFlow
4 6 (5.41%) Terraform
5 2 (1.80%) .NET
5 2 (1.80%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.80%) Pulumi
5 2 (1.80%) RESTful
5 2 (1.80%) Vue
6 1 (0.90%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.31%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (6.31%) Clustering
2 7 (6.31%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
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 3 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (55.86%) ETL
2 59 (53.15%) Data Engineering
3 58 (52.25%) Analytics
4 55 (49.55%) Data Governance
4 55 (49.55%) Data Pipeline
5 54 (48.65%) Data Modelling
6 49 (44.14%) Business Intelligence
7 45 (40.54%) Agile
8 41 (36.94%) AI
9 33 (29.73%) Data Architecture
9 33 (29.73%) Machine Learning
10 32 (28.83%) CI/CD
11 31 (27.93%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (24.32%) Migration
13 26 (23.42%) Performance Tuning
14 24 (21.62%) Data Development
15 23 (20.72%) Roadmaps
16 22 (19.82%) DevOps
16 22 (19.82%) Line Management
16 22 (19.82%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 97 (87.39%) SQL
2 68 (61.26%) Python
3 8 (7.21%) Java
3 8 (7.21%) Scala
4 5 (4.50%) Bicep
4 5 (4.50%) C#
4 5 (4.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.60%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.70%) VBA
7 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (4.50%) 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 34 (30.63%) Data Quality
2 14 (12.61%) GDPR
3 10 (9.01%) 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 69 (62.16%) Databricks
2 62 (55.86%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.31%) Cloudera
3 7 (6.31%) Dell
4 3 (2.70%) Google
4 3 (2.70%) Informatica
4 3 (2.70%) Talend
5 1 (0.90%) Infor
5 1 (0.90%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow