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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 486 438
Rank change year-on-year +25 -48 +133
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 78 158 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.28% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.85% 1.03% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 62 111 137
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £43,900
25th Percentile £46,875 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £69,750 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,150 £77,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -

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 9,198 15,289 13,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.74% 27.56% 38.44%
Number of salaries quoted 6,248 9,219 10,968
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £30,134
25th Percentile £32,696 £41,000 £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 £82,514
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Synapse Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Synapse Analytics 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 19 September 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 19 September 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
South East +4 30 £65,000 +6.12% 32
Midlands +51 25 £48,000 -18.30% 11
West Midlands +41 17 £62,500 +4.17% 9
North of England +4 11 £66,250 +22.69% 16
East Midlands +33 8 £45,000 +12.50% 2
North West -13 7 £67,500 +17.39% 12
South West +60 4 £75,000 - 5
East of England -14 4 £62,500 +11.11% 9
Yorkshire +7 3 £60,117 +28.00%
Wales +20 2 £57,500 +34.50% 1
Scotland - 2 - - 1
North East +19 1 £77,500 +19.23% 4
Azure Synapse Analytics
UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.56%) Apache
1 2 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.56%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 78 (100.00%) Azure
2 36 (46.15%) Azure Data Factory
3 32 (41.03%) Power Platform
4 13 (16.67%) GCP
4 13 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 9 (11.54%) Azure API Management
5 9 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (8.97%) AWS
7 5 (6.41%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.85%) SaaS
10 2 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.56%) dbt
10 2 (2.56%) GitHub
10 2 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.56%) IaaS
10 2 (2.56%) PaaS
11 1 (1.28%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.56%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (41.03%) Power BI
2 29 (37.18%) Data Lake
3 22 (28.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 19 (24.36%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (24.36%) SQL Server
5 13 (16.67%) BigQuery
6 12 (15.38%) NoSQL
7 7 (8.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (8.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (6.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (6.41%) Metadata
9 3 (3.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (2.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.56%) Power Query
11 1 (1.28%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.28%) Data Hub
11 1 (1.28%) Delta Lake
11 1 (1.28%) SAP HANA
11 1 (1.28%) Spark SQL
11 1 (1.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.41%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.28%) ERwin
2 1 (1.28%) Git
2 1 (1.28%) JIRA
2 1 (1.28%) JUnit
2 1 (1.28%) Selenium
2 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.28%) TestComplete
General
1 26 (33.33%) Finance
2 22 (28.21%) Retail
3 20 (25.64%) Social Skills
4 16 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.13%) Banking
5 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.85%) Law
7 2 (2.56%) Marketing
7 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (39.74%) Data Engineer
2 18 (23.08%) Senior
3 15 (19.23%) Senior Data Engineer
4 13 (16.67%) Lead
5 12 (15.38%) Architect
6 11 (14.10%) Data Architect
6 11 (14.10%) Developer
7 8 (10.26%) SQL Developer
8 6 (7.69%) Analyst
8 6 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (7.69%) Database Developer
8 6 (7.69%) SQL Database Developer
9 5 (6.41%) Data Analyst
9 5 (6.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) Software Engineer
10 4 (5.13%) Azure Data Engineer
10 4 (5.13%) Lead Architect
11 3 (3.85%) Lead Data Architect
11 3 (3.85%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.67%) .NET
2 9 (11.54%) Middleware
2 9 (11.54%) PySpark
3 1 (1.28%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.28%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.13%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.56%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.28%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.28%) FMCG
5 1 (1.28%) Life Science
5 1 (1.28%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.28%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (50.00%) Analytics
2 31 (39.74%) Data Engineering
3 30 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
4 29 (37.18%) Data Pipeline
5 25 (32.05%) Agile
6 24 (30.77%) DevOps
7 22 (28.21%) ETL
8 21 (26.92%) CI/CD
9 18 (23.08%) Data Architecture
9 18 (23.08%) Data Modelling
9 18 (23.08%) Software Engineering
9 18 (23.08%) Visualisation
10 17 (21.79%) Data Governance
11 15 (19.23%) Data Visualisation
12 14 (17.95%) Decision-Making
13 12 (15.38%) API Management
14 11 (14.10%) Artificial Intelligence
15 10 (12.82%) Dimensional Modelling
15 10 (12.82%) Pair Programming
15 10 (12.82%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 61 (78.21%) SQL
2 25 (32.05%) Python
3 13 (16.67%) C#
4 11 (14.10%) Java
4 11 (14.10%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.85%) R
6 1 (1.28%) Bicep
6 1 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.28%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (2.56%) Degree
2 2 (2.56%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.28%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.28%) MBA
3 1 (1.28%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.41%) QA
3 3 (3.85%) GDPR
4 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Systems Management
1 3 (3.85%) Terraform
2 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 47 (60.26%) Databricks
2 43 (55.13%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.41%) Google
4 3 (3.85%) Informatica
5 2 (2.56%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (2.56%) SAP
6 1 (1.28%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.28%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle
6 1 (1.28%) UiPath