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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 439 534
Rank change year-on-year -48 +95 -24
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 286 245 363
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.50% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.06% 1.54% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 231 164 312
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £76,250 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £66,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.85% -5.36% -
75th Percentile £118,750 £83,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £104,750 £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 27,094 15,957 31,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.13% 32.35% 32.99%
Number of salaries quoted 17,745 11,119 23,949
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +2.56% -6.40%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,482 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

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 20 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 20 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 -20 274 £90,000 +35.85% 36
London +18 159 £92,500 +32.14% 17
Work from Home +60 135 £105,000 +61.54% 23
UK excluding London -90 108 £85,000 +30.77% 27
South East -20 57 £90,000 +38.46% 16
North of England -10 26 £70,932 +3.17% 5
Yorkshire -11 16 £80,000 +14.29% 2
East of England -9 9 £66,250 +26.19% 2
South West -58 9 £57,500 -22.03%
North West -8 8 £61,250 -10.91% 2
Midlands -55 6 £67,500 +22.73% 4
West Midlands -39 5 £55,000 -6.38% 4
North East - 2 £60,000 - 1
East Midlands -26 1 £80,000 +77.78%
Wales -55 1 £55,000 -4.35% 2

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 46 (16.08%) Apache Spark
2 30 (10.49%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.85%) Apache
4 4 (1.40%) SAS
5 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.35%) Confluence
6 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 286 (100.00%) Azure
2 114 (39.86%) Power Platform
3 104 (36.36%) Azure Data Factory
4 98 (34.27%) Snowflake
5 64 (22.38%) Azure Machine Learning
6 63 (22.03%) Azure AI
7 43 (15.03%) GCP
8 41 (14.34%) AWS
9 30 (10.49%) dbt
10 25 (8.74%) Microsoft Purview
11 19 (6.64%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (4.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (3.50%) GitHub
14 9 (3.15%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (3.15%) Entra ID
14 9 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (2.45%) Serverless
16 6 (2.10%) Azure Monitor
17 5 (1.75%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.40%) WAN
2 1 (0.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (39.51%) Power BI
2 99 (34.62%) Data Lake
3 89 (31.12%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (23.78%) SQL Server
5 41 (14.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 37 (12.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 37 (12.94%) BigQuery
7 33 (11.54%) Big Data
8 32 (11.19%) Tableau
9 29 (10.14%) Metadata
10 24 (8.39%) Delta Lake
10 24 (8.39%) Snowflake Schema
11 23 (8.04%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (8.04%) Looker
12 12 (4.20%) Star Schema
13 10 (3.50%) Data Vault
14 9 (3.15%) Power Query
15 7 (2.45%) Semantic Layer
16 6 (2.10%) Spark SQL
17 5 (1.75%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (9.79%) MLflow
2 15 (5.24%) Git
3 1 (0.35%) JIRA
General
1 102 (35.66%) Finance
2 62 (21.68%) Social Skills
3 55 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.85%) Banking
5 7 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (2.45%) Legal
5 7 (2.45%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.75%) Law
7 3 (1.05%) Retail
8 2 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.70%) Police
9 1 (0.35%) Billing
9 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 86 (30.07%) Data Engineer
2 79 (27.62%) Architect
3 71 (24.83%) Senior
4 64 (22.38%) Data Architect
5 46 (16.08%) Lead
6 42 (14.69%) Azure Architect
6 42 (14.69%) Data Manager
7 37 (12.94%) Azure Data Architect
8 33 (11.54%) Engineering Manager
8 33 (11.54%) Finance Manager
9 26 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
10 24 (8.39%) Big Data Engineer
10 24 (8.39%) DataOps Engineer
10 24 (8.39%) DataOps Leader
10 24 (8.39%) Lead Big Data Engineer
11 23 (8.04%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 23 (8.04%) Systems Engineer
12 22 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
13 15 (5.24%) Azure Engineer
14 14 (4.90%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (12.94%) Kafka
2 34 (11.89%) PySpark
3 25 (8.74%) LangChain
4 23 (8.04%) LlamaIndex
4 23 (8.04%) pgvector
4 23 (8.04%) PyTorch
4 23 (8.04%) scikit-learn
4 23 (8.04%) TensorFlow
5 4 (1.40%) CSS
6 3 (1.05%) .NET
7 2 (0.70%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.70%) RESTful
7 2 (0.70%) Vue
8 1 (0.35%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.35%) BAPI
8 1 (0.35%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.35%) Middleware
8 1 (0.35%) REST
8 1 (0.35%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 51 (17.83%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.04%) Clustering
2 23 (8.04%) Public Cloud
3 16 (5.59%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.40%) Replication
8 3 (1.05%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.05%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.05%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.70%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.70%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.35%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (52.45%) Data Governance
2 148 (51.75%) Data Engineering
3 142 (49.65%) Analytics
4 139 (48.60%) AI
5 135 (47.20%) Business Intelligence
6 125 (43.71%) Data Modelling
7 121 (42.31%) Machine Learning
8 104 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
9 103 (36.01%) CI/CD
9 103 (36.01%) Data Architecture
9 103 (36.01%) ETL
10 97 (33.92%) Agile
11 87 (30.42%) Roadmaps
12 75 (26.22%) Migration
13 64 (22.38%) Regulatory Compliance
14 58 (20.28%) Data Science
15 57 (19.93%) Data Development
16 56 (19.58%) DevOps
17 55 (19.23%) Line Management
18 50 (17.48%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 210 (73.43%) SQL
2 138 (48.25%) Python
3 19 (6.64%) Scala
4 16 (5.59%) Bicep
5 12 (4.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (3.50%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.15%) Java
8 4 (1.40%) C#
8 4 (1.40%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.05%) VBA
10 1 (0.35%) Bash
10 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (8.39%) Azure Certification
2 18 (6.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (4.90%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.50%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.80%) SnowPro
6 7 (2.45%) Degree
7 6 (2.10%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.05%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (27.97%) Data Quality
2 39 (13.64%) GDPR
3 31 (10.84%) SLA
4 23 (8.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.05%) QA
6 2 (0.70%) IFRS
6 2 (0.70%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.70%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 55 (19.23%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (8.04%) Terraform
2 8 (2.80%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.05%) Ansible
Vendors
1 218 (76.22%) Databricks
2 145 (50.70%) Microsoft
3 23 (8.04%) Cloudera
3 23 (8.04%) Dell
4 11 (3.85%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.45%) Foundry
5 7 (2.45%) Google
6 4 (1.40%) Concur
6 4 (1.40%) Informatica
6 4 (1.40%) Sage
7 3 (1.05%) SAP
8 1 (0.35%) Alteryx
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