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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 398 467
Rank change year-on-year -8 +69 +85
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 106 171 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.48% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.77% 1.48% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 69 134 100
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,713 £43,750
25th Percentile £54,000 £51,125 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £65,688
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,400 £77,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.43% +7.69% -7.14%

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 13,812 11,517 13,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.93% 32.48% 36.07%
Number of salaries quoted 6,897 6,253 11,412
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £38,348
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 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,650 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 -8 40 £85,000 +30.77% 58
Midlands +19 21 £64,250 +42.78% 23
North of England -12 20 £66,500 +0.38% 32
West Midlands +16 15 £65,000 +44.44% 7
North West +13 9 £58,000 -22.67% 13
Scotland +5 9 - - 5
East of England +28 6 £62,500 +8.70% 22
Yorkshire -24 6 £67,617 +4.03% 12
North East +10 5 £77,500 +70.33% 7
South West 0 4 £48,500 -19.17% 20
East Midlands -5 4 £50,000 -20.00% 15
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 3
Wales +4 2 - - 9
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 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.83%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.89%) Apache
3 2 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.94%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 22 (20.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 106 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (60.38%) Azure Data Factory
3 52 (49.06%) Power Platform
4 11 (10.38%) Snowflake
5 8 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (6.60%) GitHub
6 7 (6.60%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.77%) GCP
9 3 (2.83%) AWS
9 3 (2.83%) dbt
9 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.89%) IaaS
10 2 (1.89%) PaaS
10 2 (1.89%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.89%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.89%) SaaS
11 1 (0.94%) Amazon Kinesis
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (48.11%) Power BI
2 37 (34.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 35 (33.02%) Data Lake
4 30 (28.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 28 (26.42%) SQL Server
6 27 (25.47%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (10.38%) Metadata
8 8 (7.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (5.66%) Data Mining
10 5 (4.72%) Power Query
10 5 (4.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (3.77%) BigQuery
12 3 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (2.83%) Star Schema
13 2 (1.89%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.89%) Big Data
13 2 (1.89%) Delta Lake
13 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
13 2 (1.89%) Tableau
14 1 (0.94%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Git
2 1 (0.94%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (45.28%) Social Skills
2 46 (43.40%) Finance
3 38 (35.85%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.32%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (10.38%) Billing
6 4 (3.77%) Retail
7 3 (2.83%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.83%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.89%) Banking
9 1 (0.94%) Law
9 1 (0.94%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 30 (28.30%) Data Engineer
2 25 (23.58%) Architect
2 25 (23.58%) Data Architect
3 24 (22.64%) Azure Architect
3 24 (22.64%) Azure Data Architect
4 14 (13.21%) Analyst
5 11 (10.38%) Business Manager
5 11 (10.38%) Commercial Analyst
5 11 (10.38%) Insight Analyst
5 11 (10.38%) Insight Manager
5 11 (10.38%) Senior
6 10 (9.43%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (5.66%) Developer
8 5 (4.72%) Consultant
8 5 (4.72%) Lead
9 4 (3.77%) Azure Data Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (3.77%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.77%) PySpark
2 3 (2.83%) .NET
2 3 (2.83%) Kafka
3 1 (0.94%) Apache Beam
3 1 (0.94%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.64%) Analytical Mindset
2 11 (10.38%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (7.55%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.94%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (61.32%) Analytics
2 61 (57.55%) Data Modelling
3 55 (51.89%) Business Intelligence
4 44 (41.51%) ETL
4 44 (41.51%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (39.62%) Decision-Making
6 34 (32.08%) Visualisation
7 30 (28.30%) Data Governance
7 30 (28.30%) Data Pipeline
8 28 (26.42%) Actionable Insight
8 28 (26.42%) Data Engineering
9 24 (22.64%) AI
10 23 (21.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (21.70%) Data Analysis
11 22 (20.75%) Process Improvement
11 22 (20.75%) Visual Analytics
11 22 (20.75%) WFM
12 21 (19.81%) DevOps
13 20 (18.87%) CI/CD
14 19 (17.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (76.42%) SQL
2 35 (33.02%) Python
3 28 (26.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (11.32%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.89%) Bicep
5 2 (1.89%) C#
5 2 (1.89%) Scala
6 1 (0.94%) Java
6 1 (0.94%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (10.38%) Degree
1 11 (10.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.89%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.89%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.89%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (36.79%) Data Quality
2 11 (10.38%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (5.66%) GDPR
4 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.94%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (4.72%) Terraform
2 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 53 (50.00%) Databricks
2 28 (26.42%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.94%) Google
3 1 (0.94%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.94%) Teradata