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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 477 464
Rank change year-on-year -107 -13 -41
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 98 72 170
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.21% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.58% 0.78% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 81 61 117
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -1.72%
75th Percentile £87,500 £69,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -

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 17,041 9,227 14,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.69% 26.56% 27.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,901 6,180 8,383
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £41,250
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.76% +0.80%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -40 37 £62,500 -3.85% 28
North of England -36 28 £67,750 +10.61% 38
Yorkshire -28 17 £80,000 +33.07% 12
North West -28 12 £56,250 -2.17% 20
West Midlands -40 10 £55,000 -10.20% 11
Midlands -63 10 £55,000 +18.28% 16
Wales -58 9 £52,500 -8.70% 2
South West -69 8 £60,000 -20.00% 10
North East -58 5 £60,000 -22.58% 7
Scotland +3 3 £55,000 - 6
East of England -34 3 £72,500 +16.00% 6
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 7 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.10%) Apache
3 4 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.02%) Confluence
4 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 98 (100.00%) Azure
2 54 (55.10%) Azure Data Factory
3 44 (44.90%) Power Platform
4 19 (19.39%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (17.35%) AWS
6 16 (16.33%) Azure Databricks
7 12 (12.24%) GCP
7 12 (12.24%) Snowflake
8 11 (11.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (8.16%) Azure AI
9 8 (8.16%) Azure Machine Learning
10 7 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (6.12%) Azure Functions
11 6 (6.12%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (6.12%) Serverless
12 5 (5.10%) Amazon S3
12 5 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (5.10%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (5.10%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (41.84%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (40.82%) Power BI
3 38 (38.78%) Data Lake
4 26 (26.53%) SQL Server
5 24 (24.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (19.39%) Star Schema
7 16 (16.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (16.33%) Metadata
8 11 (11.22%) NoSQL
9 10 (10.20%) Amazon QuickSight
9 10 (10.20%) BigQuery
9 10 (10.20%) Delta Lake
10 9 (9.18%) DynamoDB
10 9 (9.18%) MongoDB
10 9 (9.18%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (6.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (5.10%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (5.10%) Big Data
12 5 (5.10%) Parquet
13 4 (4.08%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 25 (25.51%) Git
2 4 (4.08%) GitLab
3 2 (2.04%) MLflow
4 1 (1.02%) JIRA
General
1 29 (29.59%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (23.47%) Finance
2 23 (23.47%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.08%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.08%) Retail
4 2 (2.04%) Banking
4 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.02%) Billing
5 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 47 (47.96%) Data Engineer
2 32 (32.65%) Senior
3 20 (20.41%) Senior Data Engineer
4 17 (17.35%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Developer
5 9 (9.18%) Lead
6 8 (8.16%) Architect
6 8 (8.16%) Data Architect
6 8 (8.16%) Data Manager
7 7 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (6.12%) Analyst
8 6 (6.12%) Engineering Manager
8 6 (6.12%) Finance Manager
8 6 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Azure Architect
9 5 (5.10%) Azure Data Architect
10 4 (4.08%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.43%) PySpark
2 15 (15.31%) Terraform
3 7 (7.14%) JSON
3 7 (7.14%) Kafka
4 5 (5.10%) Apache Avro
5 2 (2.04%) Pulumi
5 2 (2.04%) REST
5 2 (2.04%) SOAP
5 2 (2.04%) XML
6 1 (1.02%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.02%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.35%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.22%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (10.20%) Product Ownership
4 9 (9.18%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.02%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.20%) Windows
2 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (62.24%) Analytics
2 60 (61.22%) ETL
3 56 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
4 50 (51.02%) Business Intelligence
5 49 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 46 (46.94%) Agile
6 46 (46.94%) Data Modelling
7 44 (44.90%) Data Engineering
8 39 (39.80%) DevOps
9 34 (34.69%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (26.53%) Data Architecture
11 24 (24.49%) Data Governance
12 21 (21.43%) AI
12 21 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (20.41%) Performance Tuning
14 19 (19.39%) Data Security
15 18 (18.37%) Data Integration
15 18 (18.37%) Mentoring
16 17 (17.35%) Decision-Making
17 16 (16.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 80 (81.63%) SQL
2 64 (65.31%) Python
3 13 (13.27%) Java
4 10 (10.20%) Bicep
5 9 (9.18%) C#
6 7 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 7 (7.14%) Scala
7 4 (4.08%) T-SQL
8 3 (3.06%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (11.22%) Degree
2 10 (10.20%) SC Cleared
2 10 (10.20%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.02%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (45.92%) Data Quality
2 12 (12.24%) GDPR
3 9 (9.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 6 (6.12%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.04%) IFRS
5 2 (2.04%) IFRS 17
5 2 (2.04%) Solvency II
6 1 (1.02%) IASME
6 1 (1.02%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.02%) QA
System Software
1 9 (9.18%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (55.10%) Microsoft
2 47 (47.96%) Databricks
3 9 (9.18%) Informatica
3 9 (9.18%) Talend
4 3 (3.06%) Google
5 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow