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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 448 531
Rank change year-on-year -88 +83 -100
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 110 103 137
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.30% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% 1.10% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 97 71 109
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £49,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £73,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £118,750 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £90,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -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 18,042 9,371 17,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.46% 27.06% 28.62%
Number of salaries quoted 11,901 6,548 11,898
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,500 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -26 55 £90,000 +38.46% 19
North of England -27 29 £70,932 +5.08% 9
Yorkshire -25 17 £80,000 +14.29% 5
North West -8 10 £56,250 -16.67% 3
East of England -21 9 £66,250 +26.19% 3
South West -62 8 £58,750 -21.67% 1
Midlands -54 7 £75,000 +50.00% 7
West Midlands -41 6 £75,000 +15.38% 5
Wales -52 2 £53,750 -6.52% 5
North East - 2 £60,000 - 2
East Midlands -29 1 £80,000 +77.78% 2
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 15 (13.64%) Apache Spark
2 11 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (5.45%) Apache
4 3 (2.73%) SAS
5 1 (0.91%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 110 (100.00%) Azure
2 36 (32.73%) Azure Data Factory
2 36 (32.73%) Power Platform
3 35 (31.82%) Snowflake
4 22 (20.00%) Azure AI
4 22 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 21 (19.09%) GCP
6 19 (17.27%) AWS
7 10 (9.09%) dbt
8 7 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.64%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (3.64%) GitHub
9 4 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.82%) Pulumi
12 1 (0.91%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.91%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.91%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (41.82%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (36.36%) Data Lake
3 35 (31.82%) Power BI
4 30 (27.27%) SQL Server
5 21 (19.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 20 (18.18%) BigQuery
7 13 (11.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (10.00%) Tableau
9 9 (8.18%) Metadata
10 8 (7.27%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (6.36%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (6.36%) Looker
11 7 (6.36%) Star Schema
12 6 (5.45%) Delta Lake
13 5 (4.55%) Big Data
13 5 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (2.73%) Amazon QuickSight
15 2 (1.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 2 (1.82%) Semantic Layer
16 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 9 (8.18%) MLflow
2 7 (6.36%) Git
3 1 (0.91%) JIRA
General
1 34 (30.91%) Finance
2 31 (28.18%) Social Skills
3 21 (19.09%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.64%) Banking
4 4 (3.64%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (1.82%) Retail
6 1 (0.91%) Billing
Job Titles
1 39 (35.45%) Data Engineer
2 27 (24.55%) Senior
3 22 (20.00%) Architect
4 20 (18.18%) Data Manager
5 19 (17.27%) Data Architect
6 18 (16.36%) Engineering Manager
6 18 (16.36%) Finance Manager
7 16 (14.55%) Azure Architect
7 16 (14.55%) Azure Data Architect
8 13 (11.82%) Senior Data Engineer
9 11 (10.00%) Lead
10 10 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (8.18%) Azure Data Engineer
12 7 (6.36%) Developer
12 7 (6.36%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 7 (6.36%) Systems Engineer
13 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Engineer
14 5 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 5 (4.55%) Lead Data Engineer
15 4 (3.64%) Head of Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.09%) Kafka
1 10 (9.09%) PySpark
2 7 (6.36%) LangChain
2 7 (6.36%) LlamaIndex
2 7 (6.36%) pgvector
2 7 (6.36%) PyTorch
2 7 (6.36%) scikit-learn
2 7 (6.36%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.82%) .NET
3 2 (1.82%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.82%) RESTful
3 2 (1.82%) Vue
4 1 (0.91%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.91%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.36%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (6.36%) Clustering
2 7 (6.36%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.91%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (52.73%) ETL
2 57 (51.82%) Data Governance
3 56 (50.91%) Data Engineering
4 55 (50.00%) Analytics
5 51 (46.36%) Data Modelling
6 50 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
7 44 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
8 43 (39.09%) Agile
9 41 (37.27%) AI
10 33 (30.00%) Data Architecture
10 33 (30.00%) Machine Learning
11 29 (26.36%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (24.55%) CI/CD
12 27 (24.55%) Migration
12 27 (24.55%) Performance Tuning
13 23 (20.91%) Data Development
13 23 (20.91%) Roadmaps
14 22 (20.00%) Line Management
14 22 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
14 22 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (82.73%) SQL
2 62 (56.36%) Python
3 9 (8.18%) Java
4 8 (7.27%) Scala
5 5 (4.55%) Bicep
6 3 (2.73%) C#
6 3 (2.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (2.73%) VBA
7 2 (1.82%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (2.73%) Degree
2 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
2 2 (1.82%) SC Cleared
2 2 (1.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 12 (10.91%) GDPR
3 8 (7.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.82%) IFRS
4 2 (1.82%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.82%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.91%) QA
System Software
1 22 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (5.45%) Terraform
2 2 (1.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 68 (61.82%) Databricks
2 56 (50.91%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.36%) Cloudera
3 7 (6.36%) Dell
4 4 (3.64%) Google
5 1 (0.91%) Infor
5 1 (0.91%) Informatica
5 1 (0.91%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.91%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.91%) Talend