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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 389 491
Rank change year-on-year -28 +102 +65
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 107 174 119
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.49% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.77% 1.51% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 70 137 102
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,050 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,058 £51,000 £46,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +15.56% -13.46%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £67,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,800 £77,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.43% +7.69% -7.14%

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 13,920 11,561 14,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.60% 32.51% 35.98%
Number of salaries quoted 6,990 6,306 12,241
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -11 42 £85,000 +30.77% 61
Midlands +13 20 £65,000 +44.44% 30
North of England -8 20 £66,500 +0.38% 38
West Midlands +9 15 £65,000 +44.44% 9
North West +8 9 £58,000 -22.67% 18
Scotland +1 9 - - 5
East of England +24 6 £62,500 +8.70% 24
Yorkshire -27 6 £67,617 +4.03% 15
North East +1 5 £77,500 +70.33% 5
South West -7 4 £48,500 -11.82% 25
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 3
East Midlands -2 3 £55,000 -12.00% 20
Wales +6 2 - - 9
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 4 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.80%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.87%) Apache
3 2 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 22 (20.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 107 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (59.81%) Azure Data Factory
3 51 (47.66%) Power Platform
4 10 (9.35%) Snowflake
5 8 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (6.54%) GitHub
6 7 (6.54%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.80%) AWS
8 3 (2.80%) dbt
8 3 (2.80%) GCP
8 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.87%) IaaS
9 2 (1.87%) PaaS
9 2 (1.87%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.87%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.87%) SaaS
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (46.73%) Power BI
2 36 (33.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 34 (31.78%) Data Lake
4 30 (28.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 28 (26.17%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (25.23%) SQL Server
7 11 (10.28%) Metadata
8 8 (7.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (5.61%) Data Mining
10 5 (4.67%) Power Query
10 5 (4.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (2.80%) BigQuery
11 3 (2.80%) Star Schema
12 2 (1.87%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.87%) Big Data
12 2 (1.87%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.87%) Tableau
13 1 (0.93%) Data Vault
13 1 (0.93%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Git
2 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
General
1 49 (45.79%) Social Skills
2 46 (42.99%) Finance
3 38 (35.51%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.21%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (10.28%) Billing
6 3 (2.80%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.80%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.80%) Retail
7 2 (1.87%) Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Law
8 1 (0.93%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 30 (28.04%) Data Engineer
2 27 (25.23%) Architect
2 27 (25.23%) Data Architect
3 26 (24.30%) Azure Architect
3 26 (24.30%) Azure Data Architect
4 14 (13.08%) Analyst
5 11 (10.28%) Business Manager
5 11 (10.28%) Commercial Analyst
5 11 (10.28%) Insight Analyst
5 11 (10.28%) Insight Manager
5 11 (10.28%) Senior
6 10 (9.35%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.67%) Consultant
8 5 (4.67%) Developer
8 5 (4.67%) Lead
9 4 (3.74%) Azure Data Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (3.74%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.74%) PySpark
2 3 (2.80%) .NET
2 3 (2.80%) Kafka
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Beam
3 1 (0.93%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.43%) Analytical Mindset
2 11 (10.28%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (7.48%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (60.75%) Analytics
2 62 (57.94%) Data Modelling
3 54 (50.47%) Business Intelligence
4 45 (42.06%) ETL
4 45 (42.06%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (39.25%) Decision-Making
6 33 (30.84%) Visualisation
7 31 (28.97%) Data Governance
8 29 (27.10%) Data Pipeline
9 28 (26.17%) Actionable Insight
9 28 (26.17%) Data Engineering
10 24 (22.43%) AI
11 23 (21.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (21.50%) Data Analysis
12 22 (20.56%) Process Improvement
12 22 (20.56%) Visual Analytics
12 22 (20.56%) WFM
13 20 (18.69%) CI/CD
13 20 (18.69%) DevOps
13 20 (18.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (75.70%) SQL
2 36 (33.64%) Python
3 28 (26.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (10.28%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.87%) Bicep
5 2 (1.87%) C#
5 2 (1.87%) Scala
6 1 (0.93%) Java
6 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (10.28%) Degree
1 11 (10.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.87%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.87%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.87%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (37.38%) Data Quality
2 11 (10.28%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (5.61%) GDPR
4 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.93%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (4.67%) Terraform
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 54 (50.47%) Databricks
2 28 (26.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.93%) Google
3 1 (0.93%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.93%) Teradata