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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 413 418 421
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +108
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 104 161 113
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.42% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.76% 1.30% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 65 123 95
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,337 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £75,216 £70,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £78,750 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +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 13,685 12,360 11,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.66% 32.13% 40.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6,912 6,877 9,316
10th Percentile £27,810 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,938 £41,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% -3.85%

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 19 December 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 December 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 -1 37 £76,250 +17.31% 41
Midlands +14 22 £55,000 +22.22% 22
North of England +16 21 £57,750 +15.50% 28
West Midlands +26 17 £63,000 +40.00% 11
North West +26 10 £57,750 +15.50% 17
Scotland +17 8 - - 5
Yorkshire -24 6 £55,233 +7.77% 8
East of England +30 5 £62,500 +8.70% 19
North East +11 5 £77,500 +70.33% 3
East Midlands -5 5 £45,000 -28.00% 11
South West +9 4 £72,500 -6.45% 9
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Wales +2 3 £60,000 +40.35% 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 4 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.88%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.92%) Apache
3 2 (1.92%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 22 (21.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 104 (100.00%) Azure
2 69 (66.35%) Azure Data Factory
3 54 (51.92%) Power Platform
4 13 (12.50%) Snowflake
5 8 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (7.69%) GitHub
6 7 (6.73%) GCP
7 6 (5.77%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (2.88%) AWS
10 3 (2.88%) dbt
10 3 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.92%) IaaS
11 2 (1.92%) PaaS
11 2 (1.92%) SaaS
12 1 (0.96%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (50.96%) Power BI
2 43 (41.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 40 (38.46%) Data Lake
4 32 (30.77%) SQL Server
4 32 (30.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 25 (24.04%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (10.58%) Metadata
7 10 (9.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (6.73%) BigQuery
9 6 (5.77%) Data Mining
9 6 (5.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (4.81%) NoSQL
11 3 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.92%) Big Data
12 2 (1.92%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.92%) Power Query
12 2 (1.92%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.92%) Tableau
13 1 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Git
2 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
General
1 45 (43.27%) Social Skills
2 43 (41.35%) Finance
3 37 (35.58%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (10.58%) Billing
6 9 (8.65%) Retail
7 3 (2.88%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.92%) Banking
8 2 (1.92%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (36.54%) Data Engineer
2 16 (15.38%) Architect
2 16 (15.38%) Data Architect
2 16 (15.38%) Senior
3 15 (14.42%) Analyst
3 15 (14.42%) Azure Architect
3 15 (14.42%) Azure Data Architect
3 15 (14.42%) Senior Data Engineer
4 11 (10.58%) Business Manager
4 11 (10.58%) Commercial Analyst
4 11 (10.58%) Insight Analyst
4 11 (10.58%) Insight Manager
5 8 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (6.73%) Developer
7 6 (5.77%) Azure Data Engineer
8 5 (4.81%) Consultant
8 5 (4.81%) SQL Developer
9 4 (3.85%) Database Developer
9 4 (3.85%) Lead
9 4 (3.85%) SQL Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.73%) .NET
1 7 (6.73%) PySpark
2 3 (2.88%) Kafka
3 2 (1.92%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Beam
4 1 (0.96%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.08%) Analytical Mindset
2 11 (10.58%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.92%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.96%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (61.54%) Analytics
2 55 (52.88%) Business Intelligence
3 52 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 42 (40.38%) ETL
5 41 (39.42%) Decision-Making
6 40 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (36.54%) Visualisation
8 34 (32.69%) Data Pipeline
9 31 (29.81%) Data Engineering
10 27 (25.96%) Actionable Insight
11 25 (24.04%) Data Governance
12 23 (22.12%) CI/CD
12 23 (22.12%) Data Analysis
12 23 (22.12%) DevOps
13 22 (21.15%) AI
13 22 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (21.15%) Process Improvement
13 22 (21.15%) Visual Analytics
13 22 (21.15%) WFM
14 18 (17.31%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 85 (81.73%) SQL
2 36 (34.62%) Python
3 25 (24.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (13.46%) T-SQL
5 6 (5.77%) C#
6 3 (2.88%) Bicep
6 3 (2.88%) Scala
7 2 (1.92%) Java
8 1 (0.96%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (10.58%) Degree
1 11 (10.58%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 3 (2.88%) SC Cleared
2 3 (2.88%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.92%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (31.73%) Data Quality
2 11 (10.58%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (5.77%) GDPR
4 3 (2.88%) QA
5 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 6 (5.77%) Terraform
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 51 (49.04%) Databricks
2 34 (32.69%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.92%) Informatica
4 1 (0.96%) Google
4 1 (0.96%) JD Edwards
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle
4 1 (0.96%) SAP
4 1 (0.96%) Teradata