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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 401 596
Rank change year-on-year -80 +195 -95
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 124 125 157
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.42% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.77% 1.46% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 107 94 128
10th Percentile £48,900 £42,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £67,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% +15.38% -6.40%
75th Percentile £93,125 £74,688 £71,250
90th Percentile £118,750 £87,500 £76,250
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 16,133 8,540 23,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.14% 28.80% 30.38%
Number of salaries quoted 10,253 5,869 17,952
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% -7.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,350 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -14 68 £90,000 +28.57% 18
North of England -39 22 £70,932 +3.17% 7
Yorkshire -38 14 £80,000 +18.52% 3
Midlands -41 13 £65,000 +18.18% 8
East of England -12 10 £62,500 +19.05% 2
South West -49 9 £52,500 -4.55% 2
West Midlands -43 7 £70,000 +21.74% 8
North West -17 6 £67,966 -2.91% 3
East Midlands -23 4 £57,500 +27.78%
North East - 2 £60,000 - 1
Scotland +17 1 - - 1
Wales -43 1 £55,000 - 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 15 (12.10%) Apache Spark
2 12 (9.68%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.03%) Apache
4 3 (2.42%) SAS
5 1 (0.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 124 (100.00%) Azure
2 36 (29.03%) Azure Data Factory
3 35 (28.23%) Power Platform
4 34 (27.42%) Snowflake
5 22 (17.74%) Azure AI
5 22 (17.74%) Azure Machine Learning
6 17 (13.71%) GCP
7 15 (12.10%) AWS
8 12 (9.68%) dbt
9 9 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.23%) GitHub
11 3 (2.42%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (2.42%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
13 1 (0.81%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (37.10%) Data Warehouse
2 44 (35.48%) Data Lake
3 34 (27.42%) Power BI
4 25 (20.16%) SQL Server
5 17 (13.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (13.71%) BigQuery
6 14 (11.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (9.68%) Tableau
8 8 (6.45%) Metadata
8 8 (6.45%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (5.65%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (5.65%) Looker
10 6 (4.84%) Star Schema
11 5 (4.03%) Big Data
11 5 (4.03%) Power Query
12 4 (3.23%) Delta Lake
13 3 (2.42%) Amazon QuickSight
14 2 (1.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 2 (1.61%) Semantic Layer
14 2 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (7.26%) MLflow
2 7 (5.65%) Git
3 1 (0.81%) JIRA
General
1 37 (29.84%) Social Skills
2 36 (29.03%) Finance
3 21 (16.94%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.03%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.23%) Banking
6 2 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Local Government
7 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (32.26%) Architect
2 37 (29.84%) Data Architect
3 34 (27.42%) Azure Architect
3 34 (27.42%) Azure Data Architect
4 33 (26.61%) Data Engineer
5 22 (17.74%) Senior
6 20 (16.13%) Data Manager
7 18 (14.52%) Engineering Manager
7 18 (14.52%) Finance Manager
8 10 (8.06%) Lead
9 9 (7.26%) Senior Data Engineer
10 8 (6.45%) Azure Data Engineer
10 8 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (5.65%) Developer
11 7 (5.65%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 7 (5.65%) Systems Engineer
12 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Engineer
13 5 (4.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 5 (4.03%) Lead Data Engineer
14 4 (3.23%) Head of Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.45%) Kafka
2 7 (5.65%) LangChain
2 7 (5.65%) LlamaIndex
2 7 (5.65%) pgvector
2 7 (5.65%) PyTorch
2 7 (5.65%) scikit-learn
2 7 (5.65%) TensorFlow
3 6 (4.84%) PySpark
4 3 (2.42%) .NET
5 2 (1.61%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.61%) RESTful
5 2 (1.61%) Vue
6 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.65%) Clustering
2 7 (5.65%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.81%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (52.42%) Data Governance
2 64 (51.61%) Data Modelling
3 62 (50.00%) ETL
4 52 (41.94%) Data Engineering
5 51 (41.13%) Analytics
6 46 (37.10%) Data Pipeline
7 42 (33.87%) Business Intelligence
8 38 (30.65%) AI
9 36 (29.03%) Agile
10 32 (25.81%) Data Architecture
10 32 (25.81%) Machine Learning
10 32 (25.81%) Performance Tuning
10 32 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (21.77%) Stakeholder Management
12 26 (20.97%) CI/CD
12 26 (20.97%) Migration
13 24 (19.35%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (18.55%) Data Development
14 23 (18.55%) Roadmaps
15 22 (17.74%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 96 (77.42%) SQL
2 60 (48.39%) Python
3 10 (8.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (5.65%) Java
5 5 (4.03%) Scala
6 4 (3.23%) Bicep
6 4 (3.23%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.42%) VBA
8 2 (1.61%) C#
8 2 (1.61%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (1.61%) Azure Certification
1 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (1.61%) SC Cleared
1 2 (1.61%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.81%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (29.03%) Data Quality
2 12 (9.68%) GDPR
3 7 (5.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.61%) IFRS
4 2 (1.61%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.61%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 22 (17.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.23%) Terraform
2 2 (1.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 86 (69.35%) Databricks
2 54 (43.55%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.65%) Cloudera
3 7 (5.65%) Dell
4 3 (2.42%) Google
5 2 (1.61%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.81%) Infor
6 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow