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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 352 596
Rank change year-on-year -54 +244 -41
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 153 135 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.52% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% 1.57% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 108 108 108
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,188 £53,438 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £68,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% +14.58% -4.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £118,750 £100,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £90,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +28.57% +3.70% -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 17,475 8,591 21,993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.96% 33.25% 34.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,522 6,306 17,168
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 April 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 April 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 -21 74 £87,500 +25.00% 17
North of England -50 26 £70,932 +5.08% 10
Midlands -52 22 £65,000 +30.00% 6
West Midlands -35 16 £65,250 +30.50% 6
East of England -14 10 £58,750 +11.90% 3
North West -27 10 £70,932 +5.08% 5
Yorkshire -51 10 £70,932 +5.08% 3
Scotland -26 9 - -
North East -18 6 £60,000 - 2
South West -39 6 £48,500 -11.82% 7
East Midlands - 4 £57,500 -
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Wales -26 2 - - 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 12 (7.84%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (7.19%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.96%) Apache
3 3 (1.96%) SAS
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 22 (14.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 153 (100.00%) Azure
2 71 (46.41%) Azure Data Factory
3 61 (39.87%) Power Platform
4 34 (22.22%) Snowflake
5 14 (9.15%) Azure AI
5 14 (9.15%) Azure Machine Learning
5 14 (9.15%) GCP
6 11 (7.19%) AWS
6 11 (7.19%) dbt
7 7 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.58%) GitHub
7 7 (4.58%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.31%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.31%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (38.56%) Power BI
2 54 (35.29%) Data Lake
3 48 (31.37%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (25.49%) SQL Server
5 38 (24.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 27 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 15 (9.80%) Metadata
8 14 (9.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (9.15%) BigQuery
9 10 (6.54%) Tableau
10 8 (5.23%) Looker
10 8 (5.23%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (4.58%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (3.92%) Data Mining
13 5 (3.27%) Power Query
13 5 (3.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (2.61%) Star Schema
15 3 (1.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 2 (1.31%) Amazon QuickSight
17 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (4.58%) MLflow
2 5 (3.27%) Git
3 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
General
1 61 (39.87%) Finance
2 60 (39.22%) Social Skills
3 45 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.19%) Billing
4 11 (7.19%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (3.27%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.61%) Banking
7 3 (1.96%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 44 (28.76%) Architect
2 41 (26.80%) Data Architect
3 40 (26.14%) Azure Architect
3 40 (26.14%) Azure Data Architect
4 37 (24.18%) Data Engineer
5 26 (16.99%) Senior
6 12 (7.84%) Analyst
6 12 (7.84%) Data Manager
6 12 (7.84%) Engineering Manager
6 12 (7.84%) Finance Manager
6 12 (7.84%) Senior Data Engineer
7 11 (7.19%) Business Manager
7 11 (7.19%) Commercial Analyst
7 11 (7.19%) Insight Analyst
7 11 (7.19%) Insight Manager
8 9 (5.88%) Azure Data Engineer
8 9 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (4.58%) Developer
9 7 (4.58%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 7 (4.58%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.54%) Kafka
2 7 (4.58%) LangChain
2 7 (4.58%) LlamaIndex
2 7 (4.58%) pgvector
2 7 (4.58%) PyTorch
2 7 (4.58%) scikit-learn
2 7 (4.58%) TensorFlow
3 6 (3.92%) PySpark
4 5 (3.27%) .NET
5 2 (1.31%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.31%) RESTful
5 2 (1.31%) Vue
6 1 (0.65%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.65%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.03%) Analytical Mindset
2 16 (10.46%) Cloud Native
3 11 (7.19%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.58%) Clustering
4 7 (4.58%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (56.86%) Data Modelling
2 79 (51.63%) Analytics
3 68 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
4 67 (43.79%) ETL
5 64 (41.83%) Data Governance
6 56 (36.60%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (32.68%) Data Engineering
8 47 (30.72%) AI
9 45 (29.41%) Data Pipeline
10 39 (25.49%) Decision-Making
11 32 (20.92%) Visualisation
12 30 (19.61%) Agile
13 28 (18.30%) Data Architecture
14 27 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
14 27 (17.65%) CI/CD
14 27 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
14 27 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (16.99%) DevOps
15 26 (16.99%) Machine Learning
16 25 (16.34%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 118 (77.12%) SQL
2 62 (40.52%) Python
3 30 (19.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (7.84%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.61%) C#
6 3 (1.96%) Scala
7 2 (1.31%) Bicep
7 2 (1.31%) Java
8 1 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (7.84%) Degree
2 11 (7.19%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.31%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.31%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.65%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 14 (9.15%) GDPR
3 11 (7.19%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (4.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (9.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.61%) Terraform
2 2 (1.31%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 92 (60.13%) Databricks
2 49 (32.03%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.58%) Cloudera
3 7 (4.58%) Dell
4 2 (1.31%) Google
4 2 (1.31%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.65%) Infor
5 1 (0.65%) Teradata