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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 456 553
Rank change year-on-year -22 +97 -48
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 292 242 367
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.50% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.09% 1.54% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 239 166 314
10th Percentile £54,750 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £75,625 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £118,750 £82,438 £90,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £110,625 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +30.77% +8.33% -4.00%

All Cloud Computing 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 26,740 15,701 34,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.43% 32.62% 33.47%
Number of salaries quoted 17,448 10,962 26,260
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,276
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

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 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Top 15 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 July 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
England -24 278 £90,000 +33.33% 51
London +18 158 £90,000 +28.57% 30
Work from Home +71 138 £91,250 +40.38% 38
UK excluding London -62 113 £85,000 +30.77% 37
South East -25 59 £90,000 +38.46% 20
North of England -27 26 £70,932 +3.17% 5
Yorkshire -14 16 £80,000 +14.29% 3
South West -54 10 £55,000 -8.33% 3
East of England -15 9 £66,250 +26.19% 2
North West -10 8 £61,250 -10.91% 3
Midlands -49 8 £65,000 +18.18% 7
West Midlands -37 5 £70,000 +21.74% 5
East Midlands -28 3 £60,000 +33.33% 2
North East - 2 £60,000 -
Wales -52 1 £55,000 - 1

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 44 (15.07%) Apache Spark
2 30 (10.27%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.08%) Apache
4 4 (1.37%) SAS
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) Confluence
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 292 (100.00%) Azure
2 117 (40.07%) Power Platform
3 106 (36.30%) Azure Data Factory
4 97 (33.22%) Snowflake
5 62 (21.23%) Azure AI
5 62 (21.23%) Azure Machine Learning
6 43 (14.73%) GCP
7 41 (14.04%) AWS
8 31 (10.62%) dbt
9 25 (8.56%) Microsoft Purview
10 20 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (3.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (3.42%) GitHub
13 9 (3.08%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (3.08%) Entra ID
14 8 (2.74%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (2.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.37%) WAN
2 1 (0.34%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (39.73%) Power BI
2 100 (34.25%) Data Lake
3 89 (30.48%) Data Warehouse
4 67 (22.95%) SQL Server
5 43 (14.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 38 (13.01%) BigQuery
7 37 (12.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 33 (11.30%) Big Data
8 33 (11.30%) Tableau
9 25 (8.56%) Metadata
10 24 (8.22%) Delta Lake
10 24 (8.22%) Snowflake Schema
11 23 (7.88%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (7.88%) Looker
12 11 (3.77%) Star Schema
13 10 (3.42%) Power Query
14 9 (3.08%) Data Vault
15 7 (2.40%) Semantic Layer
16 6 (2.05%) Spark SQL
16 6 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (9.59%) MLflow
2 15 (5.14%) Git
3 1 (0.34%) JIRA
General
1 105 (35.96%) Finance
2 65 (22.26%) Social Skills
3 53 (18.15%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.77%) Banking
5 9 (3.08%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (2.05%) Legal
7 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.37%) Law
8 3 (1.03%) Retail
9 2 (0.68%) Local Government
9 2 (0.68%) Police
10 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 87 (29.79%) Data Engineer
2 81 (27.74%) Architect
3 72 (24.66%) Senior
4 66 (22.60%) Data Architect
5 47 (16.10%) Lead
6 45 (15.41%) Azure Architect
7 41 (14.04%) Data Manager
8 40 (13.70%) Azure Data Architect
9 33 (11.30%) Engineering Manager
9 33 (11.30%) Finance Manager
10 26 (8.90%) Lead Data Engineer
11 25 (8.56%) Big Data Engineer
11 25 (8.56%) DataOps Engineer
11 25 (8.56%) DataOps Leader
11 25 (8.56%) Lead Big Data Engineer
12 23 (7.88%) Senior Data Engineer
12 23 (7.88%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 23 (7.88%) Systems Engineer
13 15 (5.14%) Azure Engineer
14 14 (4.79%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.64%) Kafka
1 34 (11.64%) PySpark
2 24 (8.22%) LangChain
3 23 (7.88%) LlamaIndex
3 23 (7.88%) pgvector
3 23 (7.88%) PyTorch
3 23 (7.88%) scikit-learn
3 23 (7.88%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.37%) CSS
5 3 (1.03%) .NET
6 2 (0.68%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.68%) RESTful
6 2 (0.68%) Vue
7 1 (0.34%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.34%) BAPI
7 1 (0.34%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.34%) Middleware
7 1 (0.34%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 51 (17.47%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.88%) Clustering
2 23 (7.88%) Public Cloud
3 15 (5.14%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.37%) Replication
7 3 (1.03%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.03%) Data Fabric
7 3 (1.03%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.03%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.34%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.34%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.34%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.34%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (51.03%) Data Governance
2 146 (50.00%) Analytics
2 146 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 138 (47.26%) Business Intelligence
4 137 (46.92%) AI
5 128 (43.84%) Data Modelling
6 115 (39.38%) Machine Learning
7 109 (37.33%) ETL
8 105 (35.96%) Data Pipeline
9 103 (35.27%) Data Architecture
10 100 (34.25%) CI/CD
11 97 (33.22%) Agile
12 86 (29.45%) Roadmaps
13 75 (25.68%) Migration
14 64 (21.92%) Regulatory Compliance
15 57 (19.52%) Data Development
16 55 (18.84%) Line Management
17 53 (18.15%) Data Science
18 52 (17.81%) DevOps
19 51 (17.47%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 212 (72.60%) SQL
2 138 (47.26%) Python
3 17 (5.82%) Scala
4 15 (5.14%) Bicep
5 13 (4.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (3.42%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.08%) Java
8 5 (1.71%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.37%) C#
10 3 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.03%) R
10 3 (1.03%) VBA
11 1 (0.34%) Bash
Qualifications
1 22 (7.53%) Azure Certification
2 16 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (5.14%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.42%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.74%) Degree
6 7 (2.40%) SnowPro
7 5 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.03%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.68%) IIBA
9 2 (0.68%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.68%) PMP
10 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (28.08%) Data Quality
2 36 (12.33%) GDPR
3 31 (10.62%) SLA
4 23 (7.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.03%) QA
6 2 (0.68%) IFRS
6 2 (0.68%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.68%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.34%) COBIT
7 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (18.84%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (7.53%) Terraform
2 8 (2.74%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.03%) Ansible
Vendors
1 219 (75.00%) Databricks
2 142 (48.63%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.88%) Cloudera
3 23 (7.88%) Dell
4 11 (3.77%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.40%) Google
6 6 (2.05%) Foundry
7 4 (1.37%) Concur
7 4 (1.37%) Informatica
7 4 (1.37%) Sage
8 3 (1.03%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.03%) SAP
9 2 (0.68%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.34%) Confluent
10 1 (0.34%) Infor
10 1 (0.34%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow