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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 427 434 439
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 +173
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 216 355 287
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.52% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.21% 1.56% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 135 275 233
10th Percentile £45,800 £43,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,125 £53,750 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% +7.41% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £107,500 £94,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £63,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.92% +10.87% -14.81%

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 17,845 22,707 22,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.48% 33.14% 42.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,345 13,866 18,740
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £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 £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 22 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 22 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 -11 191 £72,500 - 161
London +21 105 £90,000 +7.82% 95
UK excluding London -4 92 £61,250 -3.92% 84
Work from Home +16 77 £82,500 +13.79% 83
Midlands +67 23 £48,000 +6.67% 16
North of England +27 23 £58,000 +5.45% 15
South East -21 23 £65,000 - 36
West Midlands +51 16 £61,250 +36.11% 13
North West +37 13 £64,000 +2.40% 10
East Midlands +35 7 £45,000 -28.00% 3
South West +23 6 £72,500 -6.45% 5
Scotland +16 6 - - 4
North East +20 5 £77,500 +70.33%
Yorkshire +3 5 £50,117 +5.51% 5
East of England +21 4 £62,500 +11.11% 8
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Wales +11 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 23 (10.65%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.70%) Apache
3 5 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.85%) Apache Synapse
5 2 (0.93%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.46%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 24 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (6.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.93%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.46%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 216 (100.00%) Azure
2 129 (59.72%) Power Platform
3 121 (56.02%) Azure Data Factory
4 29 (13.43%) AWS
5 28 (12.96%) Snowflake
6 27 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (12.04%) Microsoft Purview
8 24 (11.11%) GCP
9 17 (7.87%) dbt
10 12 (5.56%) Fivetran
10 12 (5.56%) GitHub
11 9 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (3.70%) Collibra
12 8 (3.70%) SaaS
13 7 (3.24%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (3.24%) Entra ID
13 7 (3.24%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.85%) Firewall
2 1 (0.46%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (57.87%) Power BI
2 74 (34.26%) Data Lake
3 67 (31.02%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (28.24%) SQL Server
5 60 (27.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 46 (21.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 27 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 26 (12.04%) NoSQL
9 22 (10.19%) Metadata
9 22 (10.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 19 (8.80%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (8.33%) Big Data
12 14 (6.48%) BigQuery
13 13 (6.02%) Hadoop
14 9 (4.17%) Tableau
15 8 (3.70%) Power Query
15 8 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
16 7 (3.24%) Delta Lake
17 4 (1.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 4 (1.85%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 6 (2.78%) Git
2 4 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.46%) JIRA
3 1 (0.46%) JUnit
3 1 (0.46%) RStudio
3 1 (0.46%) Selenium
3 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.46%) TestComplete
General
1 100 (46.30%) Social Skills
2 80 (37.04%) Finance
3 59 (27.31%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.11%) Law
5 23 (10.65%) Retail
6 18 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (6.02%) Billing
8 5 (2.31%) Banking
8 5 (2.31%) Legal
9 4 (1.85%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.85%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.39%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.39%) Marketing
11 2 (0.93%) Automotive
11 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 82 (37.96%) Data Engineer
2 40 (18.52%) Senior
3 32 (14.81%) Architect
3 32 (14.81%) Senior Data Engineer
4 26 (12.04%) Analyst
5 24 (11.11%) Data Architect
5 24 (11.11%) Lead
6 20 (9.26%) Developer
7 18 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (6.94%) Azure Data Engineer
9 14 (6.48%) Azure Architect
9 14 (6.48%) Azure Data Architect
10 13 (6.02%) Product Lead
11 12 (5.56%) Business Manager
11 12 (5.56%) Commercial Analyst
11 12 (5.56%) Insight Analyst
11 12 (5.56%) Insight Manager
12 8 (3.70%) Consultant
12 8 (3.70%) SQL Developer
13 7 (3.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.65%) Kafka
2 19 (8.80%) PySpark
3 8 (3.70%) .NET
4 4 (1.85%) Apache Beam
4 4 (1.85%) Middleware
4 4 (1.85%) Pandas
4 4 (1.85%) Polars
5 3 (1.39%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.39%) REST
6 2 (0.93%) XML
7 1 (0.46%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.96%) Analytical Mindset
2 16 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 14 (6.48%) FMCG
4 12 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (4.63%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.85%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.93%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.93%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.46%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.46%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.46%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.85%) Windows
1 4 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (70.37%) Analytics
2 136 (62.96%) Business Intelligence
3 109 (50.46%) Data Modelling
4 90 (41.67%) ETL
5 88 (40.74%) Data Engineering
6 80 (37.04%) DevOps
7 78 (36.11%) Decision-Making
8 75 (34.72%) Data Pipeline
9 72 (33.33%) Data Governance
10 65 (30.09%) Problem-Solving
11 62 (28.70%) CI/CD
12 60 (27.78%) AI
13 56 (25.93%) Visualisation
14 50 (23.15%) Agile
15 47 (21.76%) Machine Learning
16 35 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (16.20%) Data Architecture
16 35 (16.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 32 (14.81%) Data Analytics
17 32 (14.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 171 (79.17%) SQL
2 91 (42.13%) Python
3 36 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 21 (9.72%) T-SQL
5 16 (7.41%) C#
6 14 (6.48%) Scala
7 10 (4.63%) R
8 7 (3.24%) Java
9 5 (2.31%) Bicep
10 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (8.80%) Degree
2 14 (6.48%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (6.02%) Azure Certification
4 12 (5.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 10 (4.63%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.63%) Security Cleared
6 8 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (2.31%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.85%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.93%) IIBA
9 2 (0.93%) MCSE
9 2 (0.93%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.93%) PMP
10 1 (0.46%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (29.63%) Data Quality
2 21 (9.72%) GDPR
2 21 (9.72%) QA
3 12 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.93%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (6.48%) Terraform
2 4 (1.85%) Grafana
2 4 (1.85%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.39%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 110 (50.93%) Databricks
2 94 (43.52%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.41%) SAP
4 8 (3.70%) Dataiku
5 5 (2.31%) Talend
6 4 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.85%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.85%) Google
6 4 (1.85%) Palo Alto
6 4 (1.85%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.85%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.39%) Informatica
7 3 (1.39%) Oracle
8 2 (0.93%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.93%) Anaplan
8 2 (0.93%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.46%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.46%) Lotus
9 1 (0.46%) PayPal
9 1 (0.46%) Teradata