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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 436 566
Rank change year-on-year -20 +130 -37
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 296 244 361
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.55% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.19% 1.64% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 248 175 308
10th Percentile £54,625 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £77,188 £56,250 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £118,750 £83,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £131,875 £111,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £67,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year +25.93% +15.38% -6.40%

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 24,958 14,897 35,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.92% 33.54% 33.30%
Number of salaries quoted 16,098 10,253 27,328
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £30,463
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £84,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -8.18%

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 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Top 16 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 13 June 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 -21 278 £90,000 +28.57% 56
London +34 149 £90,000 +28.57% 29
Work from Home +76 140 £90,000 +28.57% 34
UK excluding London -67 124 £85,000 +25.93% 39
South East -3 68 £90,000 +28.57% 19
North of England -37 22 £70,932 +3.17% 8
Yorkshire -32 14 £80,000 +18.52% 3
Midlands -39 13 £65,000 +18.18% 7
East of England -6 10 £62,500 +19.05% 2
South West -54 9 £52,500 -4.55% 3
West Midlands -46 7 £70,000 +21.74% 7
North West 0 6 £67,966 -2.91% 4
East Midlands -20 4 £57,500 +27.78%
North East - 2 £60,000 - 1
Scotland +13 1 - - 1
Wales -45 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 43 (14.53%) Apache Spark
2 31 (10.47%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.04%) Apache
4 4 (1.35%) SAS
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) Confluence
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 296 (100.00%) Azure
2 116 (39.19%) Power Platform
3 103 (34.80%) Azure Data Factory
4 92 (31.08%) Snowflake
5 62 (20.95%) Azure AI
6 61 (20.61%) Azure Machine Learning
7 41 (13.85%) GCP
8 40 (13.51%) AWS
9 33 (11.15%) dbt
10 26 (8.78%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (6.42%) Microsoft Purview
12 14 (4.73%) GitHub
13 11 (3.72%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (3.04%) Entra ID
15 9 (3.04%) PaaS
16 8 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 8 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
17 7 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
17 7 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.35%) WAN
2 1 (0.34%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (38.85%) Power BI
2 103 (34.80%) Data Lake
3 84 (28.38%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (22.30%) SQL Server
5 48 (16.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 35 (11.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 35 (11.82%) Big Data
6 35 (11.82%) BigQuery
7 32 (10.81%) Tableau
8 25 (8.45%) Snowflake Schema
9 23 (7.77%) Delta Lake
9 23 (7.77%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (7.77%) Looker
10 17 (5.74%) Metadata
11 12 (4.05%) Power Query
12 10 (3.38%) Star Schema
13 6 (2.03%) Spark SQL
14 5 (1.69%) NoSQL
14 5 (1.69%) Semantic Layer
15 4 (1.35%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 28 (9.46%) MLflow
2 21 (7.09%) Git
3 1 (0.34%) JIRA
General
1 116 (39.19%) Finance
2 68 (22.97%) Social Skills
3 49 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.39%) Banking
5 8 (2.70%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.68%) Legal
8 2 (0.68%) Local Government
9 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.34%) Law
9 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.34%) Police
9 1 (0.34%) Publishing
9 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 89 (30.07%) Data Engineer
2 80 (27.03%) Architect
3 70 (23.65%) Senior
4 65 (21.96%) Data Architect
5 54 (18.24%) Azure Architect
6 49 (16.55%) Azure Data Architect
6 49 (16.55%) Lead
7 38 (12.84%) Data Manager
8 33 (11.15%) Engineering Manager
8 33 (11.15%) Finance Manager
9 28 (9.46%) Big Data Engineer
9 28 (9.46%) DataOps Engineer
9 28 (9.46%) DataOps Leader
9 28 (9.46%) Lead Big Data Engineer
10 26 (8.78%) Lead Data Engineer
11 23 (7.77%) Senior Data Engineer
11 23 (7.77%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 23 (7.77%) Systems Engineer
12 17 (5.74%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (5.07%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.49%) Kafka
2 32 (10.81%) PySpark
3 24 (8.11%) LangChain
4 23 (7.77%) LlamaIndex
4 23 (7.77%) pgvector
4 23 (7.77%) PyTorch
4 23 (7.77%) scikit-learn
4 23 (7.77%) TensorFlow
5 4 (1.35%) .NET
5 4 (1.35%) CSS
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 48 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.77%) Clustering
2 23 (7.77%) Public Cloud
3 14 (4.73%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.35%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.35%) Replication
7 3 (1.01%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.68%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.68%) Reference Data
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 (1.01%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (48.99%) Data Engineering
1 145 (48.99%) Data Governance
2 141 (47.64%) Analytics
3 132 (44.59%) Data Modelling
4 129 (43.58%) Business Intelligence
5 123 (41.55%) AI
6 111 (37.50%) ETL
7 106 (35.81%) Data Pipeline
8 104 (35.14%) Machine Learning
9 101 (34.12%) CI/CD
10 98 (33.11%) Data Architecture
11 96 (32.43%) Agile
12 80 (27.03%) Roadmaps
13 74 (25.00%) Migration
14 64 (21.62%) Regulatory Compliance
15 57 (19.26%) Data Development
15 57 (19.26%) DevOps
16 55 (18.58%) Line Management
17 52 (17.57%) Performance Tuning
18 50 (16.89%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 210 (70.95%) SQL
2 135 (45.61%) Python
3 16 (5.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 16 (5.41%) Scala
4 10 (3.38%) Bicep
4 10 (3.38%) PowerShell
5 8 (2.70%) Java
6 6 (2.03%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.35%) C#
8 3 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.01%) R
8 3 (1.01%) VBA
9 1 (0.34%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (5.74%) Azure Certification
2 14 (4.73%) Security Cleared
3 13 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (3.38%) Degree
5 9 (3.04%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.35%) IIBA
7 4 (1.35%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.35%) PMP
8 3 (1.01%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.01%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (28.04%) Data Quality
2 32 (10.81%) GDPR
3 31 (10.47%) SLA
4 23 (7.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.01%) 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 (18.58%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (7.09%) Terraform
2 8 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.01%) Ansible
Vendors
1 223 (75.34%) Databricks
2 132 (44.59%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.77%) Cloudera
3 23 (7.77%) Dell
4 10 (3.38%) OpenAI
5 6 (2.03%) Foundry
6 5 (1.69%) Alteryx
6 5 (1.69%) Google
7 4 (1.35%) Anaplan
7 4 (1.35%) Concur
7 4 (1.35%) Sage
8 2 (0.68%) Informatica
8 2 (0.68%) SAP
9 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.34%) Confluent
9 1 (0.34%) Infor
9 1 (0.34%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow