Azure Synapse Analytics Job Trends

Azure Synapse Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Azure Synapse Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 419 450
Rank change year-on-year -38 +31 +184
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 215 356 298
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.53% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 1.62% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 129 274 240
10th Percentile £46,100 £46,030 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,000 £54,500 £52,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +1.82% -1.79%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £80,313
90th Percentile £118,000 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -17.86%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 16,370 21,963 23,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.02% 32.47% 43.01%
Number of salaries quoted 11,123 13,226 19,267
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,145
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.58% -1.55%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure Synapse Analytics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Azure Synapse Analytics job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Synapse Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 November 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
England -31 189 £71,000 +1.43% 266
London +27 106 £90,000 +7.82% 143
UK excluding London +6 92 £62,500 - 192
Work from Home -29 74 £85,000 +17.24% 82
Midlands +66 23 £47,500 -17.39% 15
North of England +1 23 £64,000 +20.19% 25
South East -23 22 £65,000 - 128
West Midlands +38 15 £60,000 +4.35% 12
North West +9 14 £64,000 +7.56% 15
East Midlands +28 8 £45,000 -28.00% 2
South West +21 7 £75,000 -3.23% 13
Scotland +6 7 - - 7
North East +16 5 £77,500 +70.33% 1
Yorkshire -2 4 £55,233 +10.47% 9
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East of England +24 3 £62,500 +11.11% 5
Wales +14 3 £60,000 +40.35%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 22 (10.23%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.72%) Apache
3 5 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.86%) Apache Synapse
5 2 (0.93%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.47%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 24 (11.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (6.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.93%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.47%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 215 (100.00%) Azure
2 127 (59.07%) Power Platform
3 121 (56.28%) Azure Data Factory
4 28 (13.02%) AWS
4 28 (13.02%) Snowflake
5 26 (12.09%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (10.70%) GCP
7 22 (10.23%) Microsoft Purview
8 16 (7.44%) dbt
9 12 (5.58%) GitHub
10 11 (5.12%) Fivetran
11 10 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (4.19%) Collibra
13 7 (3.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (3.26%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (2.79%) SaaS
15 5 (2.33%) Entra ID
15 5 (2.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.79%) Firewall
2 2 (0.93%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (57.67%) Power BI
2 65 (30.23%) Data Lake
3 62 (28.84%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (27.91%) SQL Server
5 57 (26.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 46 (21.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 27 (12.56%) NoSQL
7 27 (12.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 23 (10.70%) Metadata
9 22 (10.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 19 (8.84%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (8.37%) Big Data
12 15 (6.98%) BigQuery
13 13 (6.05%) Hadoop
14 8 (3.72%) Power Query
14 8 (3.72%) Snowflake Schema
14 8 (3.72%) Tableau
15 6 (2.79%) Delta Lake
16 4 (1.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 4 (1.86%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.40%) Git
3 2 (0.93%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.47%) JIRA
4 1 (0.47%) JUnit
4 1 (0.47%) RStudio
4 1 (0.47%) Selenium
4 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.47%) TestComplete
General
1 93 (43.26%) Social Skills
2 75 (34.88%) Finance
3 57 (26.51%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (12.56%) Retail
5 23 (10.70%) Law
6 18 (8.37%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (6.05%) Billing
8 6 (2.79%) Banking
9 5 (2.33%) Legal
9 5 (2.33%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.86%) Marketing
10 4 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.40%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.93%) Automotive
12 2 (0.93%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.47%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 79 (36.74%) Data Engineer
2 37 (17.21%) Senior
3 33 (15.35%) Architect
4 30 (13.95%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (12.09%) Analyst
5 26 (12.09%) Data Architect
6 25 (11.63%) Lead
7 19 (8.84%) Azure Engineer
7 19 (8.84%) Developer
8 16 (7.44%) Azure Data Engineer
9 13 (6.05%) Product Lead
10 12 (5.58%) Azure Architect
10 12 (5.58%) Azure Data Architect
10 12 (5.58%) Business Manager
10 12 (5.58%) Commercial Analyst
10 12 (5.58%) Insight Analyst
10 12 (5.58%) Insight Manager
11 9 (4.19%) Data Manager
11 9 (4.19%) SQL Developer
12 7 (3.26%) Data Science Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.30%) Kafka
2 19 (8.84%) PySpark
3 8 (3.72%) .NET
4 5 (2.33%) Middleware
5 4 (1.86%) Apache Beam
5 4 (1.86%) Pandas
5 4 (1.86%) Polars
6 3 (1.40%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.40%) REST
7 2 (0.93%) XML
8 1 (0.47%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 16 (7.44%) Product Ownership
3 15 (6.98%) FMCG
4 12 (5.58%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (4.65%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.79%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.93%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.93%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.47%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.47%) Life Science
11 1 (0.47%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.47%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.79%) Windows
1 6 (2.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (69.77%) Analytics
2 131 (60.93%) Business Intelligence
3 102 (47.44%) Data Modelling
4 82 (38.14%) Data Engineering
4 82 (38.14%) DevOps
5 81 (37.67%) ETL
6 72 (33.49%) Data Pipeline
6 72 (33.49%) Decision-Making
7 63 (29.30%) Data Governance
8 60 (27.91%) CI/CD
8 60 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (26.51%) Visualisation
10 56 (26.05%) AI
11 48 (22.33%) Agile
12 46 (21.40%) Machine Learning
13 37 (17.21%) Data Architecture
14 36 (16.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 33 (15.35%) Data Analytics
16 32 (14.88%) Continuous Improvement
17 31 (14.42%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 172 (80.00%) SQL
2 92 (42.79%) Python
3 34 (15.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 21 (9.77%) T-SQL
5 16 (7.44%) C#
6 13 (6.05%) Scala
7 10 (4.65%) R
8 8 (3.72%) Java
9 3 (1.40%) Bicep
10 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (9.30%) Degree
2 16 (7.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (6.51%) Azure Certification
4 12 (5.58%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 11 (5.12%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.12%) Security Cleared
6 8 (3.72%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (3.26%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.40%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.93%) MCSE
11 1 (0.47%) MBA
11 1 (0.47%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (27.91%) Data Quality
2 23 (10.70%) QA
3 21 (9.77%) GDPR
4 12 (5.58%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (6.51%) Terraform
2 6 (2.79%) Grafana
2 6 (2.79%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.93%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 102 (47.44%) Databricks
2 94 (43.72%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.44%) SAP
4 8 (3.72%) Dataiku
5 6 (2.79%) SolarWinds
6 5 (2.33%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.86%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (1.86%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.86%) Google
7 4 (1.86%) Informatica
7 4 (1.86%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.86%) Talend
8 3 (1.40%) Oracle
9 2 (0.93%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.47%) Adobe
10 1 (0.47%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.47%) Lotus
10 1 (0.47%) PayPal
10 1 (0.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.47%) Teradata