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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 476 460
Rank change year-on-year -45 -16 +26
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 285 207 352
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.42% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.02% 1.32% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 227 145 283
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £118,750 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £111,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,250 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.00% +8.70% -8.00%

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 27,851 15,675 24,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.99% 31.71% 31.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,800 10,624 15,726
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,375 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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 19 September 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 19 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
England -60 266 £90,000 +38.46% 170
London -27 156 £105,000 +50.00% 94
Work from Home +47 148 £105,000 +27.27% 67
UK excluding London -99 115 £71,250 +14.00% 83
South East -23 55 £85,000 +30.77% 24
North of England -56 25 £60,500 -8.68% 23
Yorkshire -33 13 £90,000 +49.71% 7
North West -15 10 £52,500 -22.22% 13
West Midlands -53 9 £58,250 -6.80% 9
Midlands -63 9 £58,250 +21.35% 17
South West -70 9 £58,750 -21.67% 9
East of England -23 7 £70,000 +12.00% 4
Wales -68 7 £52,500 -8.70% 2
North East -65 4 £57,500 -25.81% 3
Scotland +7 3 £55,000 - 5

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 36 (12.63%) Apache Spark
2 16 (5.61%) Apache
2 16 (5.61%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 285 (100.00%) Azure
2 145 (50.88%) Azure Data Factory
3 107 (37.54%) Power Platform
4 94 (32.98%) Snowflake
5 61 (21.40%) Azure Machine Learning
6 58 (20.35%) Azure AI
7 46 (16.14%) Azure Databricks
8 37 (12.98%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (12.28%) AWS
10 34 (11.93%) Microsoft Purview
11 26 (9.12%) GCP
12 23 (8.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 19 (6.67%) dbt
14 17 (5.96%) Serverless
15 12 (4.21%) Azure Functions
15 12 (4.21%) GitHub
15 12 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (3.86%) Azure Logic Apps
17 9 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
18 8 (2.81%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.35%) Firewall
1 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (36.49%) Power BI
2 96 (33.68%) Data Lake
3 90 (31.58%) Data Warehouse
4 81 (28.42%) SQL Server
5 57 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 54 (18.95%) Metadata
7 35 (12.28%) Delta Lake
8 30 (10.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 29 (10.18%) Star Schema
10 22 (7.72%) BigQuery
11 20 (7.02%) Snowflake Schema
12 18 (6.32%) Big Data
12 18 (6.32%) Data Vault
12 18 (6.32%) Tableau
13 15 (5.26%) NoSQL
14 13 (4.56%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (4.56%) MongoDB
15 12 (4.21%) DynamoDB
16 11 (3.86%) Power Query
16 11 (3.86%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 30 (10.53%) Git
2 13 (4.56%) MLflow
3 2 (0.70%) GitLab
4 1 (0.35%) JIRA
4 1 (0.35%) kappa
General
1 105 (36.84%) Finance
2 60 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 56 (19.65%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.86%) Banking
5 10 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.46%) Legal
7 6 (2.11%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.75%) Law
8 5 (1.75%) Retail
9 2 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.70%) Police
10 1 (0.35%) Billing
10 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Publishing
10 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (33.68%) Data Engineer
2 70 (24.56%) Senior
3 66 (23.16%) Architect
4 61 (21.40%) Data Architect
5 46 (16.14%) Data Manager
6 33 (11.58%) Azure Engineer
6 33 (11.58%) Engineering Manager
6 33 (11.58%) Finance Manager
6 33 (11.58%) Senior Data Engineer
7 28 (9.82%) Lead
8 24 (8.42%) Azure Architect
9 22 (7.72%) Azure Data Architect
10 21 (7.37%) Azure Data Engineer
11 16 (5.61%) Lead Data Engineer
12 13 (4.56%) Analyst
12 13 (4.56%) Developer
13 10 (3.51%) Head of AI
13 10 (3.51%) Head of Finance
13 10 (3.51%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 10 (3.51%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (19.30%) PySpark
2 35 (12.28%) Terraform
3 26 (9.12%) Kafka
4 13 (4.56%) LangChain
5 10 (3.51%) LlamaIndex
5 10 (3.51%) pgvector
5 10 (3.51%) PyTorch
5 10 (3.51%) scikit-learn
5 10 (3.51%) TensorFlow
6 7 (2.46%) JSON
7 6 (2.11%) Apache Avro
8 4 (1.40%) MDX
9 3 (1.05%) Pulumi
9 3 (1.05%) SAML
10 2 (0.70%) .NET
10 2 (0.70%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.70%) FastAPI
10 2 (0.70%) REST
11 1 (0.35%) SOAP
11 1 (0.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (17.54%) Cloud Native
2 29 (10.18%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.51%) Clustering
3 10 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.51%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.40%) Reference Data
5 4 (1.40%) Replication
6 3 (1.05%) Data Fabric
6 3 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.05%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.05%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.70%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.70%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.70%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.70%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (55.44%) Analytics
2 149 (52.28%) Data Engineering
3 141 (49.47%) AI
4 137 (48.07%) Business Intelligence
5 136 (47.72%) Data Modelling
6 124 (43.51%) CI/CD
7 122 (42.81%) Data Governance
8 120 (42.11%) Data Architecture
9 119 (41.75%) Agile
9 119 (41.75%) ETL
10 111 (38.95%) Data Pipeline
10 111 (38.95%) Machine Learning
11 95 (33.33%) Roadmaps
12 80 (28.07%) DevOps
13 74 (25.96%) Lakehouse
14 72 (25.26%) Migration
15 57 (20.00%) Data Development
15 57 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
16 55 (19.30%) Line Management
17 53 (18.60%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 225 (78.95%) SQL
2 151 (52.98%) Python
3 31 (10.88%) Scala
4 25 (8.77%) Bicep
5 20 (7.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (5.26%) Java
7 13 (4.56%) C#
8 12 (4.21%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.11%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.40%) Bash
11 3 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.05%) VBA
12 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (10.88%) Azure Certification
2 25 (8.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 22 (7.72%) Security Cleared
4 16 (5.61%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.61%) SnowPro
5 14 (4.91%) Degree
6 7 (2.46%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.75%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (34.39%) Data Quality
2 34 (11.93%) GDPR
3 19 (6.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 18 (6.32%) SLA
5 9 (3.16%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.75%) QA
7 2 (0.70%) IFRS
7 2 (0.70%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.70%) Solvency II
System Software
1 55 (19.30%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.46%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.40%) Ansible
3 3 (1.05%) Grafana
3 3 (1.05%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 201 (70.53%) Databricks
2 181 (63.51%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.56%) Informatica
4 10 (3.51%) Cloudera
4 10 (3.51%) Dell
5 9 (3.16%) Talend
6 6 (2.11%) Google
6 6 (2.11%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.11%) SAP
7 4 (1.40%) Foundry
8 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.35%) Confluent
8 1 (0.35%) Infor
8 1 (0.35%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow