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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 430 434
Rank change year-on-year -51 +4 +125
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 70 173 137
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.36% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.74% 1.29% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 57 120 117
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £43,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -17.86%
75th Percentile £69,000 £70,313 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £82,000
UK median annual salary £70,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.71% +3.70% -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 9,442 13,453 12,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.45% 28.02% 39.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,396 7,553 10,360
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,254 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £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 27 October 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 27 October 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 +41 22 £47,750 -20.42% 17
South East -28 22 £65,000 - 64
West Midlands +49 14 £61,250 +4.26% 12
North of England -11 13 £61,500 +15.49% 29
North West -6 9 £58,000 +7.41% 15
East Midlands +24 8 £45,000 -28.00% 5
South West +38 5 £75,000 - 7
East of England +7 3 £62,500 +11.11% 3
Yorkshire -2 3 £60,117 +20.23% 14
Scotland -8 3 - - 8
Wales +10 2 £57,500 +34.50% 2
North East +11 1 £77,500 +70.33% 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 2 (2.86%) Apache
1 2 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 70 (100.00%) Azure
2 35 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 34 (48.57%) Power Platform
4 12 (17.14%) Snowflake
5 10 (14.29%) GCP
6 9 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (8.57%) Azure API Management
8 5 (7.14%) AWS
9 4 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (4.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (4.29%) GitHub
10 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (4.29%) SaaS
11 2 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (2.86%) dbt
11 2 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.86%) IaaS
11 2 (2.86%) PaaS
11 2 (2.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.86%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (48.57%) Power BI
2 32 (45.71%) Data Lake
3 22 (31.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 18 (25.71%) SQL Server
5 17 (24.29%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (14.29%) BigQuery
6 10 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (12.86%) NoSQL
8 7 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (8.57%) Metadata
10 3 (4.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (4.29%) Delta Lake
11 2 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (2.86%) Power Query
12 1 (1.43%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (1.43%) Big Data
12 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
12 1 (1.43%) SAP HANA
12 1 (1.43%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.71%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.43%) Git
2 1 (1.43%) JIRA
2 1 (1.43%) JUnit
2 1 (1.43%) Selenium
2 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.43%) TestComplete
General
1 22 (31.43%) Finance
2 18 (25.71%) Retail
3 14 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 10 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.71%) Banking
6 3 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Law
8 1 (1.43%) Marketing
8 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (45.71%) Data Engineer
2 18 (25.71%) Senior
3 15 (21.43%) Senior Data Engineer
4 12 (17.14%) Developer
5 9 (12.86%) SQL Developer
6 8 (11.43%) Lead
7 7 (10.00%) Analyst
7 7 (10.00%) Architect
8 6 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (8.57%) Data Architect
8 6 (8.57%) Database Developer
8 6 (8.57%) SQL Database Developer
9 5 (7.14%) Data Analyst
10 4 (5.71%) Azure Data Engineer
10 4 (5.71%) Lead Data Engineer
11 2 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Lead
11 2 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
11 2 (2.86%) Head of Data Architecture
11 2 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
11 2 (2.86%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.86%) .NET
2 8 (11.43%) PySpark
3 6 (8.57%) Middleware
4 1 (1.43%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.86%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.43%) Data Fabric
3 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.43%) FMCG
3 1 (1.43%) Life Science
3 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.43%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (51.43%) Analytics
2 32 (45.71%) Business Intelligence
3 28 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
4 26 (37.14%) Data Engineering
5 21 (30.00%) DevOps
5 21 (30.00%) ETL
6 18 (25.71%) Agile
6 18 (25.71%) CI/CD
7 17 (24.29%) Data Modelling
7 17 (24.29%) Visualisation
8 16 (22.86%) Data Architecture
9 14 (20.00%) Data Governance
9 14 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
10 13 (18.57%) Decision-Making
11 11 (15.71%) Dimensional Modelling
12 10 (14.29%) Software Engineering
12 10 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (11.43%) API Management
14 7 (10.00%) Pair Programming
14 7 (10.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 56 (80.00%) SQL
2 23 (32.86%) Python
3 11 (15.71%) T-SQL
4 9 (12.86%) C#
5 7 (10.00%) Java
6 3 (4.29%) R
7 1 (1.43%) Bicep
7 1 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.86%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.43%) Degree
3 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.43%) MBA
3 1 (1.43%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.86%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.71%) QA
3 3 (4.29%) GDPR
4 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Systems Management
1 3 (4.29%) Terraform
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 40 (57.14%) Databricks
2 38 (54.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.29%) Informatica
4 2 (2.86%) Google
4 2 (2.86%) SAP
5 1 (1.43%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.43%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle
5 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Teradata
5 1 (1.43%) UiPath