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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 470 488
Rank change year-on-year -84 +18 -66
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 107 79 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.23% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% 0.86% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 90 63 110
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £94,063 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £82,050 £77,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +30.77% -7.14% -

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 17,670 9,145 15,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.74% 26.72% 27.54%
Number of salaries quoted 12,049 6,204 9,139
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,533 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 47 £80,000 +23.08% 24
North of England -54 25 £60,500 -8.68% 26
Yorkshire -28 13 £90,000 +49.71% 7
North West -29 10 £52,500 -22.22% 16
West Midlands -56 9 £58,250 -6.80% 12
South West -65 9 £58,750 -21.67% 11
Midlands -69 9 £58,250 +21.35% 18
Wales -65 8 £52,500 -8.70% 2
East of England -34 6 £70,000 +12.00% 5
North East -56 4 £57,500 -25.81% 3
Scotland +15 3 £55,000 - 6
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 9 (8.41%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.61%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.67%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 107 (100.00%) Azure
2 54 (50.47%) Azure Data Factory
3 47 (43.93%) Power Platform
4 22 (20.56%) Snowflake
5 18 (16.82%) AWS
5 18 (16.82%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (14.95%) Azure AI
6 16 (14.95%) Azure Machine Learning
7 15 (14.02%) Azure Databricks
8 13 (12.15%) GCP
9 11 (10.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (6.54%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (5.61%) Azure Functions
11 6 (5.61%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (5.61%) dbt
11 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (5.61%) Serverless
12 5 (4.67%) Amazon S3
12 5 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (4.67%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (41.12%) Data Warehouse
2 43 (40.19%) Power BI
3 38 (35.51%) Data Lake
4 32 (29.91%) SQL Server
5 26 (24.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (17.76%) Star Schema
7 18 (16.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (15.89%) Metadata
9 12 (11.21%) BigQuery
10 11 (10.28%) Snowflake Schema
11 10 (9.35%) Amazon QuickSight
11 10 (9.35%) Delta Lake
11 10 (9.35%) NoSQL
12 9 (8.41%) DynamoDB
12 9 (8.41%) MongoDB
13 5 (4.67%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (4.67%) Big Data
13 5 (4.67%) Parquet
13 5 (4.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (4.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (21.50%) Git
2 4 (3.74%) MLflow
3 2 (1.87%) GitLab
4 1 (0.93%) JIRA
General
1 33 (30.84%) Finance
2 29 (27.10%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (21.50%) Social Skills
4 4 (3.74%) Banking
5 3 (2.80%) Retail
6 2 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.87%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.93%) Billing
7 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 47 (43.93%) Data Engineer
2 34 (31.78%) Senior
3 20 (18.69%) Senior Data Engineer
4 17 (15.89%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (13.08%) Data Manager
6 12 (11.21%) Engineering Manager
6 12 (11.21%) Finance Manager
7 10 (9.35%) Developer
8 9 (8.41%) Architect
8 9 (8.41%) Data Architect
9 8 (7.48%) Azure Data Engineer
9 8 (7.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (7.48%) Lead
10 6 (5.61%) Analyst
10 6 (5.61%) Azure Architect
10 6 (5.61%) Azure Data Architect
11 5 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 4 (3.74%) Head of AI
12 4 (3.74%) Head of Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (20.56%) PySpark
2 11 (10.28%) Terraform
3 7 (6.54%) Kafka
4 6 (5.61%) JSON
5 5 (4.67%) Apache Avro
6 2 (1.87%) LangChain
6 2 (1.87%) LlamaIndex
6 2 (1.87%) pgvector
6 2 (1.87%) Pulumi
6 2 (1.87%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.87%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.87%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.93%) .NET
7 1 (0.93%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.93%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.93%) Middleware
7 1 (0.93%) REST
7 1 (0.93%) RESTful
7 1 (0.93%) SOAP
7 1 (0.93%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.95%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.35%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (9.35%) Product Ownership
3 9 (8.41%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (6.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.87%) Clustering
5 2 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.87%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.93%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (59.81%) ETL
2 62 (57.94%) Analytics
3 56 (52.34%) Data Pipeline
4 54 (50.47%) Data Engineering
5 53 (49.53%) Agile
6 52 (48.60%) Business Intelligence
7 50 (46.73%) Data Modelling
8 45 (42.06%) CI/CD
9 36 (33.64%) Data Governance
10 35 (32.71%) Data Architecture
11 33 (30.84%) DevOps
12 32 (29.91%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (28.97%) AI
14 23 (21.50%) Machine Learning
14 23 (21.50%) Migration
14 23 (21.50%) Performance Tuning
15 20 (18.69%) Data Security
16 18 (16.82%) Data Development
16 18 (16.82%) Mentoring
17 17 (15.89%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 92 (85.98%) SQL
2 68 (63.55%) Python
3 13 (12.15%) Java
4 10 (9.35%) C#
5 8 (7.48%) Bicep
5 8 (7.48%) Scala
6 7 (6.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (4.67%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.67%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (10.28%) Degree
2 8 (7.48%) SC Cleared
2 8 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (42.99%) Data Quality
2 15 (14.02%) GDPR
3 11 (10.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 6 (5.61%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.87%) IFRS
5 2 (1.87%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.87%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 16 (14.95%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 62 (57.94%) Microsoft
2 56 (52.34%) Databricks
3 9 (8.41%) Informatica
3 9 (8.41%) Talend
4 3 (2.80%) Google
5 2 (1.87%) Cloudera
5 2 (1.87%) Dell
6 1 (0.93%) Infor
6 1 (0.93%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow