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 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 429 438
Rank change year-on-year +15 +9 +119
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 90 168 120
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.39% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.72% 1.28% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 54 121 104
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,328 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,875 £47,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £88,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £71,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.77% +5.56% -3.57%

All Cloud 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 12,542 13,169 11,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.58% 30.77% 39.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6,797 7,458 9,640
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £39,556
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £69,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

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 11 December 2025.

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 11 December 2025. 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 27 £71,250 +9.62% 66
North of England +15 21 £57,750 +15.50% 38
Midlands +31 18 £55,000 +29.41% 34
West Midlands +26 13 £63,750 +59.38% 17
North West +33 10 £57,750 -2.94% 20
Scotland +8 7 - - 6
Yorkshire -13 6 £55,233 +16.28% 12
East of England +26 5 £62,500 +8.70% 14
East Midlands +18 5 £45,000 -28.00% 16
South West +17 5 £66,250 -14.52% 11
North East +11 5 £77,500 +70.33% 6
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
Wales +4 3 £60,000 +40.35% 3
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 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.33%) Apache
2 3 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 22 (24.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 90 (100.00%) Azure
2 58 (64.44%) Azure Data Factory
3 49 (54.44%) Power Platform
4 13 (14.44%) Snowflake
5 8 (8.89%) GCP
6 7 (7.78%) GitHub
7 6 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (4.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (3.33%) AWS
10 3 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (2.22%) Azure API Management
11 2 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (2.22%) dbt
11 2 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.22%) IaaS
11 2 (2.22%) PaaS
11 2 (2.22%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (53.33%) Power BI
2 40 (44.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 34 (37.78%) SQL Server
4 33 (36.67%) Data Lake
5 32 (35.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 18 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (10.00%) Metadata
9 8 (8.89%) BigQuery
10 6 (6.67%) NoSQL
10 6 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (3.33%) Data Mining
11 3 (3.33%) Delta Lake
12 2 (2.22%) Big Data
12 2 (2.22%) Tableau
13 1 (1.11%) DB2
13 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
13 1 (1.11%) Spark SQL
13 1 (1.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Git
2 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
General
1 40 (44.44%) Finance
1 40 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 34 (37.78%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (14.44%) Presentation Skills
4 11 (12.22%) Billing
4 11 (12.22%) Retail
5 3 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.22%) Banking
6 2 (2.22%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 34 (37.78%) Data Engineer
2 16 (17.78%) Analyst
3 15 (16.67%) Senior
4 14 (15.56%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (12.22%) Architect
5 11 (12.22%) Business Manager
5 11 (12.22%) Commercial Analyst
5 11 (12.22%) Data Architect
5 11 (12.22%) Insight Analyst
5 11 (12.22%) Insight Manager
6 10 (11.11%) Azure Architect
6 10 (11.11%) Azure Data Architect
7 6 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Developer
7 6 (6.67%) SQL Developer
8 5 (5.56%) Database Developer
8 5 (5.56%) SQL Database Developer
9 4 (4.44%) Data Analyst
9 4 (4.44%) Lead
9 4 (4.44%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.78%) PySpark
2 6 (6.67%) .NET
3 3 (3.33%) Kafka
4 2 (2.22%) Middleware
5 1 (1.11%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.11%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 24 (26.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 11 (12.22%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.22%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (63.33%) Analytics
2 48 (53.33%) Business Intelligence
3 39 (43.33%) Decision-Making
4 38 (42.22%) Visualisation
5 37 (41.11%) Data Modelling
6 35 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (32.22%) Data Engineering
7 29 (32.22%) ETL
8 28 (31.11%) Data Pipeline
9 25 (27.78%) Actionable Insight
10 23 (25.56%) Data Analysis
11 22 (24.44%) Process Improvement
11 22 (24.44%) Visual Analytics
11 22 (24.44%) WFM
12 21 (23.33%) AI
12 21 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (23.33%) Data Governance
13 19 (21.11%) CI/CD
13 19 (21.11%) DevOps
14 18 (20.00%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 76 (84.44%) SQL
2 29 (32.22%) Python
3 22 (24.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (14.44%) T-SQL
5 6 (6.67%) C#
6 3 (3.33%) Java
7 2 (2.22%) Bicep
7 2 (2.22%) Scala
8 1 (1.11%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.11%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (12.22%) Degree
1 11 (12.22%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 3 (3.33%) SC Cleared
2 3 (3.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.22%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (32.22%) Data Quality
2 11 (12.22%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (3.33%) GDPR
3 3 (3.33%) QA
4 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 5 (5.56%) Terraform
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 42 (46.67%) Databricks
2 29 (32.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.22%) Informatica
4 1 (1.11%) Google
4 1 (1.11%) JD Edwards
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle
4 1 (1.11%) SAP
4 1 (1.11%) Teradata