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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 419 599
Rank change year-on-year -78 +180 -95
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 115 121 157
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.39% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.68% 1.38% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 101 88 128
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £59,750
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% +8.79% -4.40%
75th Percentile £95,000 £73,750 £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 16,880 8,772 23,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.40% 28.01% 30.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10,928 6,087 17,692
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £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 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%

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 29 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 29 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 -26 61 £90,000 +28.57% 17
North of England -48 26 £70,932 +1.33% 8
Yorkshire -18 16 £80,000 +6.67%
East of England -6 9 £66,250 +26.19% 3
Midlands -55 9 £65,000 +18.18% 6
South West -68 9 £52,500 -12.50% 3
North West -3 8 £61,250 -12.50% 7
West Midlands -40 5 £70,000 +24.44% 5
East Midlands -20 3 £60,000 +33.33% 1
North East - 2 £60,000 - 1
Wales -40 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 (13.04%) Apache Spark
2 11 (9.57%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.35%) Apache
4 3 (2.61%) SAS
5 1 (0.87%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 115 (100.00%) Azure
2 34 (29.57%) Snowflake
3 32 (27.83%) Azure Data Factory
3 32 (27.83%) Power Platform
4 22 (19.13%) Azure AI
4 22 (19.13%) Azure Machine Learning
5 19 (16.52%) GCP
6 17 (14.78%) AWS
7 11 (9.57%) dbt
8 8 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.48%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (3.48%) GitHub
9 4 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.61%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.74%) Pulumi
12 1 (0.87%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (33.91%) Data Lake
3 31 (26.96%) Power BI
4 27 (23.48%) SQL Server
5 19 (16.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 19 (16.52%) BigQuery
6 13 (11.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (10.43%) Tableau
8 7 (6.09%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (6.09%) Looker
8 7 (6.09%) Metadata
8 7 (6.09%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (4.35%) Big Data
9 5 (4.35%) Delta Lake
9 5 (4.35%) Star Schema
10 4 (3.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (2.61%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (1.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.74%) Power Query
12 2 (1.74%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 9 (7.83%) MLflow
2 6 (5.22%) Git
3 1 (0.87%) JIRA
General
1 35 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 32 (27.83%) Finance
3 20 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.48%) Banking
6 2 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.74%) Retail
7 1 (0.87%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 33 (28.70%) Architect
1 33 (28.70%) Data Engineer
2 30 (26.09%) Data Architect
3 27 (23.48%) Azure Architect
3 27 (23.48%) Azure Data Architect
4 24 (20.87%) Senior
5 20 (17.39%) Data Manager
6 18 (15.65%) Engineering Manager
6 18 (15.65%) Finance Manager
7 11 (9.57%) Lead
7 11 (9.57%) Senior Data Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) Azure Data Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Developer
9 7 (6.09%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Microsoft Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 5 (4.35%) Lead Data Engineer
12 4 (3.48%) Head of Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.96%) Kafka
2 7 (6.09%) LangChain
2 7 (6.09%) LlamaIndex
2 7 (6.09%) pgvector
2 7 (6.09%) PySpark
2 7 (6.09%) PyTorch
2 7 (6.09%) scikit-learn
2 7 (6.09%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.74%) .NET
3 2 (1.74%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.74%) RESTful
3 2 (1.74%) Vue
4 1 (0.87%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.57%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.09%) Clustering
2 7 (6.09%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.48%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.87%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (54.78%) Data Governance
2 60 (52.17%) ETL
3 57 (49.57%) Data Modelling
4 53 (46.09%) Data Engineering
5 50 (43.48%) Analytics
6 46 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
7 40 (34.78%) Business Intelligence
8 38 (33.04%) Agile
9 37 (32.17%) AI
10 32 (27.83%) Machine Learning
11 31 (26.96%) Data Architecture
11 31 (26.96%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (26.09%) Performance Tuning
13 26 (22.61%) Stakeholder Management
14 25 (21.74%) CI/CD
14 25 (21.74%) Migration
15 23 (20.00%) Data Development
15 23 (20.00%) Roadmaps
15 23 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
16 22 (19.13%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 92 (80.00%) SQL
2 59 (51.30%) Python
3 8 (6.96%) Java
4 6 (5.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.22%) Scala
5 5 (4.35%) Bicep
6 3 (2.61%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.61%) VBA
7 2 (1.74%) C#
7 2 (1.74%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.87%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
1 2 (1.74%) SC Cleared
1 2 (1.74%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.87%) Degree
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (29.57%) Data Quality
2 11 (9.57%) GDPR
3 7 (6.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.74%) IFRS
4 2 (1.74%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.74%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.87%) QA
System Software
1 22 (19.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (4.35%) Terraform
2 2 (1.74%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 80 (69.57%) Databricks
2 53 (46.09%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.09%) Cloudera
3 7 (6.09%) Dell
4 4 (3.48%) Google
5 2 (1.74%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.87%) Infor
6 1 (0.87%) ServiceNow