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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 373 530
Rank change year-on-year -48 +157 +34
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 113 164 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.51% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.74% 1.52% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 75 132 111
10th Percentile £45,500 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £73,448 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +21.43% +5.26% -5.00%

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 15,183 10,795 17,878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.08% 33.67% 35.48%
Number of salaries quoted 7,585 6,128 14,736
10th Percentile £28,036 £31,250 £27,744
25th Percentile £34,000 £41,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,067 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -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 20 February 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 February 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 -40 44 £85,000 +21.43% 29
Midlands -14 22 £65,000 +44.44% 18
North of England -22 21 £70,932 +5.08% 15
West Midlands -5 16 £65,000 +44.44% 8
North West -5 10 £70,932 +1.33% 9
Scotland -3 9 - - 6
Yorkshire -42 7 £80,000 +23.08% 5
East of England +16 6 £62,500 - 4
South West -18 5 £48,500 -11.82% 6
North East -9 4 - - 1
East Midlands -12 4 £57,500 -8.00% 10
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Wales -1 2 - - 1
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 5 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.54%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.65%) Apache
3 3 (2.65%) SAS
4 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.88%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 22 (19.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 113 (100.00%) Azure
2 63 (55.75%) Azure Data Factory
3 50 (44.25%) Power Platform
4 13 (11.50%) Snowflake
5 8 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (6.19%) GCP
6 7 (6.19%) GitHub
6 7 (6.19%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.54%) AWS
8 4 (3.54%) dbt
9 2 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.77%) IaaS
9 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.77%) PaaS
9 2 (1.77%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.77%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.77%) SaaS
10 1 (0.88%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 1 (0.88%) Dataform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (43.36%) Power BI
2 36 (31.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 36 (31.86%) Data Lake
3 34 (30.09%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (24.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 24 (21.24%) SQL Server
6 14 (12.39%) Metadata
7 7 (6.19%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (6.19%) BigQuery
8 6 (5.31%) Data Mining
8 6 (5.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (4.42%) Power Query
9 5 (4.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (2.65%) Star Schema
10 3 (2.65%) Tableau
11 2 (1.77%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (1.77%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.77%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.88%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.88%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Git
2 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
General
1 50 (44.25%) Social Skills
2 47 (41.59%) Finance
3 39 (34.51%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.73%) Billing
4 11 (9.73%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (4.42%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.65%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.77%) Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Law
8 1 (0.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 35 (30.97%) Architect
2 32 (28.32%) Data Architect
3 31 (27.43%) Azure Architect
3 31 (27.43%) Azure Data Architect
4 29 (25.66%) Data Engineer
5 14 (12.39%) Senior
6 12 (10.62%) Analyst
7 11 (9.73%) Business Manager
7 11 (9.73%) Commercial Analyst
7 11 (9.73%) Insight Analyst
7 11 (9.73%) Insight Manager
8 10 (8.85%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Consultant
9 5 (4.42%) Developer
9 5 (4.42%) Lead
10 4 (3.54%) Azure Data Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 4 (3.54%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.65%) .NET
1 3 (2.65%) Kafka
1 3 (2.65%) PySpark
2 1 (0.88%) Apache Beam
2 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 24 (21.24%) Analytical Mindset
2 11 (9.73%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (7.08%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.65%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (59.29%) Data Modelling
2 65 (57.52%) Analytics
3 57 (50.44%) Business Intelligence
4 47 (41.59%) ETL
4 47 (41.59%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (35.40%) Decision-Making
6 32 (28.32%) Visualisation
7 31 (27.43%) Data Governance
8 28 (24.78%) Actionable Insight
8 28 (24.78%) Data Pipeline
9 27 (23.89%) Data Engineering
10 24 (21.24%) AI
11 23 (20.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (20.35%) Data Analysis
12 22 (19.47%) Process Improvement
12 22 (19.47%) Stakeholder Management
12 22 (19.47%) Visual Analytics
12 22 (19.47%) WFM
13 20 (17.70%) CI/CD
13 20 (17.70%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 84 (74.34%) SQL
2 40 (35.40%) Python
3 29 (25.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (9.73%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.77%) Bicep
5 2 (1.77%) C#
5 2 (1.77%) Java
5 2 (1.77%) Scala
6 1 (0.88%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (9.73%) Degree
1 11 (9.73%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.77%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.77%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (39.82%) Data Quality
2 11 (9.73%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (5.31%) GDPR
4 2 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (3.54%) Terraform
2 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 58 (51.33%) Databricks
2 27 (23.89%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.77%) Google
4 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.88%) Teradata