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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 439 425
Rank change year-on-year +16 -14 +118
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 90 170 137
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.36% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.83% 1.26% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 55 118 118
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,125
25th Percentile £45,875 £47,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -15.44%
75th Percentile £68,250 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £84,000 £86,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +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 10,794 13,534 12,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.74% 28.54% 39.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6,818 7,500 10,097
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £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 17 November 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 17 November 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 +70 23 £47,500 -2.06% 20
North of England +21 23 £58,000 +10.48% 16
South East -30 22 £65,000 - 30
West Midlands +50 15 £60,000 +33.33% 15
North West +40 13 £64,000 +4.92% 9
East Midlands +26 8 £45,000 -28.00% 4
South West +15 6 £72,500 -9.38% 6
Scotland +6 6 - - 4
North East +11 5 £77,500 +70.33%
Yorkshire -3 5 £50,117 +0.23% 7
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East of England +20 3 £62,500 +11.11% 6
Wales +11 3 £60,000 +40.35%
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 (2.22%) Apache
1 2 (2.22%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 22 (24.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 90 (100.00%) Azure
2 59 (65.56%) Azure Data Factory
3 56 (62.22%) Power Platform
4 13 (14.44%) Snowflake
5 10 (11.11%) GCP
6 7 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.56%) Azure API Management
7 5 (5.56%) GitHub
8 4 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.33%) AWS
9 3 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (3.33%) SaaS
10 2 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.22%) IaaS
10 2 (2.22%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (62.22%) Power BI
2 45 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 38 (42.22%) SQL Server
4 34 (37.78%) Data Lake
5 33 (36.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (17.78%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (12.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (11.11%) BigQuery
9 9 (10.00%) NoSQL
10 7 (7.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (5.56%) Metadata
12 3 (3.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (3.33%) Delta Lake
13 2 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (2.22%) Power Query
14 1 (1.11%) Amazon QuickSight
14 1 (1.11%) Data Hub
14 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
14 1 (1.11%) Spark SQL
14 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.11%) JUnit
1 1 (1.11%) Selenium
1 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (1.11%) TestComplete
General
1 38 (42.22%) Social Skills
2 36 (40.00%) Finance
3 32 (35.56%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (17.78%) Retail
5 13 (14.44%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (12.22%) Billing
7 3 (3.33%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.22%) Banking
8 2 (2.22%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 34 (37.78%) Data Engineer
2 18 (20.00%) Analyst
2 18 (20.00%) Senior
3 17 (18.89%) Senior Data Engineer
4 12 (13.33%) Developer
5 11 (12.22%) Business Manager
5 11 (12.22%) Commercial Analyst
5 11 (12.22%) Insight Analyst
5 11 (12.22%) Insight Manager
6 9 (10.00%) SQL Developer
7 6 (6.67%) Architect
7 6 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Data Architect
7 6 (6.67%) Database Developer
7 6 (6.67%) Lead
7 6 (6.67%) SQL Database Developer
8 5 (5.56%) Data Analyst
9 4 (4.44%) Azure Data Architect
9 4 (4.44%) Azure Data Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.00%) .NET
2 7 (7.78%) PySpark
3 5 (5.56%) Middleware
4 1 (1.11%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 11 (12.22%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.44%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.22%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.11%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (62.22%) Analytics
2 55 (61.11%) Business Intelligence
3 41 (45.56%) Visualisation
4 37 (41.11%) Decision-Making
5 32 (35.56%) Data Pipeline
6 30 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (32.22%) Data Engineering
8 28 (31.11%) Data Modelling
9 26 (28.89%) Actionable Insight
10 25 (27.78%) ETL
11 24 (26.67%) Data Analysis
12 23 (25.56%) Process Improvement
13 22 (24.44%) Visual Analytics
13 22 (24.44%) WFM
14 21 (23.33%) DevOps
15 20 (22.22%) AI
16 19 (21.11%) Agile
17 18 (20.00%) CI/CD
18 17 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
18 17 (18.89%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 78 (86.67%) SQL
2 28 (31.11%) Python
3 23 (25.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (15.56%) T-SQL
5 9 (10.00%) C#
6 6 (6.67%) Java
7 2 (2.22%) Bicep
7 2 (2.22%) R
7 2 (2.22%) Scala
8 1 (1.11%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (12.22%) Degree
1 11 (12.22%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.33%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.22%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (25.56%) Data Quality
2 11 (12.22%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (4.44%) QA
4 2 (2.22%) GDPR
5 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (4.44%) Terraform
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (43.33%) Databricks
2 38 (42.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.22%) Google
3 2 (2.22%) Informatica
3 2 (2.22%) SAP
4 1 (1.11%) JD Edwards
4 1 (1.11%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle
4 1 (1.11%) Teradata
4 1 (1.11%) UiPath