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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 408 608
Rank change year-on-year -38 +200 -72
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 137 125 138
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.43% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.76% 1.44% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 116 98 119
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,375 £43,500
25th Percentile £58,438 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £79,375 £71,250
90th Percentile £118,750 £98,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £90,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +28.57% +3.70% -3.57%

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 18,137 8,710 22,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.36% 29.82% 32.78%
Number of salaries quoted 9,448 6,038 17,415
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £37,000 £36,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +2 78 £90,000 +28.57% 17
North of England -38 19 £70,932 +5.08% 7
Midlands -46 18 £64,250 +14.22% 5
Yorkshire -44 13 £80,000 +18.52% 5
West Midlands -50 12 £66,750 +18.67% 5
East of England -13 10 £58,750 +11.90% 1
South West -47 7 £52,500 -4.55% 3
North West -1 4 £67,966 -1.14% 2
Scotland -2 4 - - 2
East Midlands - 4 £57,500 -
North East - 2 £60,000 -
Wales -30 1 £55,000 -14.02% 3
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 16 (11.68%) Apache Spark
2 13 (9.49%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (4.38%) Apache
4 3 (2.19%) SAS
5 1 (0.73%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 137 (100.00%) Azure
2 46 (33.58%) Azure Data Factory
3 38 (27.74%) Snowflake
4 37 (27.01%) Power Platform
5 22 (16.06%) Azure AI
5 22 (16.06%) Azure Machine Learning
6 18 (13.14%) GCP
7 14 (10.22%) AWS
8 12 (8.76%) dbt
9 8 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (4.38%) GitHub
11 4 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (2.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (1.46%) Azure Key Vault
13 2 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (37.23%) Data Lake
1 51 (37.23%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (25.55%) Power BI
3 25 (18.25%) SQL Server
4 18 (13.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 18 (13.14%) BigQuery
5 16 (11.68%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (9.49%) Metadata
7 11 (8.03%) Tableau
8 8 (5.84%) Looker
8 8 (5.84%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (5.11%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (4.38%) Data Mining
10 6 (4.38%) Star Schema
11 5 (3.65%) Big Data
11 5 (3.65%) Power Query
12 3 (2.19%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (2.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (2.19%) Delta Lake
13 2 (1.46%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 9 (6.57%) MLflow
2 7 (5.11%) Git
3 1 (0.73%) Jenkins
General
1 47 (34.31%) Finance
2 39 (28.47%) Social Skills
3 25 (18.25%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.38%) Banking
5 5 (3.65%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.73%) Local Government
7 1 (0.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (30.66%) Architect
2 40 (29.20%) Data Engineer
3 39 (28.47%) Data Architect
4 36 (26.28%) Azure Architect
4 36 (26.28%) Azure Data Architect
5 23 (16.79%) Senior
6 18 (13.14%) Data Manager
6 18 (13.14%) Engineering Manager
6 18 (13.14%) Finance Manager
7 9 (6.57%) Azure Data Engineer
7 9 (6.57%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (6.57%) Lead
7 9 (6.57%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (5.11%) Developer
8 7 (5.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 7 (5.11%) Systems Engineer
9 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Engineer
10 5 (3.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (3.65%) Lead Data Engineer
11 4 (2.92%) Head of AI
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.30%) Kafka
2 7 (5.11%) LangChain
2 7 (5.11%) LlamaIndex
2 7 (5.11%) pgvector
2 7 (5.11%) PyTorch
2 7 (5.11%) scikit-learn
2 7 (5.11%) TensorFlow
3 6 (4.38%) PySpark
4 4 (2.92%) .NET
5 2 (1.46%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.46%) RESTful
5 2 (1.46%) Vue
6 1 (0.73%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.73%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.95%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.11%) Clustering
2 7 (5.11%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.19%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (2.19%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (55.47%) Data Modelling
2 73 (53.28%) ETL
3 68 (49.64%) Data Governance
4 58 (42.34%) Analytics
5 56 (40.88%) Data Engineering
6 49 (35.77%) Data Pipeline
7 45 (32.85%) Business Intelligence
8 42 (30.66%) AI
9 37 (27.01%) Agile
10 35 (25.55%) Machine Learning
10 35 (25.55%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (24.82%) Data Architecture
12 30 (21.90%) Performance Tuning
13 29 (21.17%) CI/CD
13 29 (21.17%) Migration
14 24 (17.52%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (17.52%) Use Case
15 23 (16.79%) DevOps
15 23 (16.79%) Roadmaps
16 22 (16.06%) Data Development
Programming Languages
1 103 (75.18%) SQL
2 65 (47.45%) Python
3 9 (6.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (5.84%) T-SQL
5 6 (4.38%) Java
6 5 (3.65%) Scala
7 3 (2.19%) Bicep
7 3 (2.19%) C#
8 2 (1.46%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.46%) VBA
9 1 (0.73%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (1.46%) Azure Certification
1 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (0.73%) Degree
2 1 (0.73%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.73%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (28.47%) Data Quality
2 15 (10.95%) GDPR
3 7 (5.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.46%) IFRS
4 2 (1.46%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.46%) Solvency II
System Software
1 22 (16.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.92%) Terraform
2 2 (1.46%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 98 (71.53%) Databricks
2 55 (40.15%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.11%) Cloudera
3 7 (5.11%) Dell
4 3 (2.19%) Google
5 2 (1.46%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.73%) Infor