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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 476 487
Rank change year-on-year -43 +11 +10
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 286 234 350
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.47% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 1.47% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 230 152 298
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £73,125 £54,862 £57,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £65,000 £70,750
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -8.13% +1.07%
75th Percentile £118,750 £83,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £136,250 £101,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £84,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +29.23% +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 27,840 15,938 26,691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.20% 31.91% 31.99%
Number of salaries quoted 18,383 11,032 19,076
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%

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 August 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 13 August 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 -37 276 £90,000 +38.46% 70
London -8 164 £95,000 +35.71% 44
Work from Home +58 135 £105,000 +31.25% 37
UK excluding London -92 108 £84,000 +29.23% 44
South East -11 56 £90,000 +38.46% 23
North of England -33 25 £66,250 -1.85% 8
Yorkshire -13 15 £85,000 +30.77% 6
East of England -15 9 £66,250 +26.19% 1
North West -1 8 £52,500 -22.22% 1
South West -53 8 £58,750 -21.67% 1
Midlands -58 8 £75,000 +53.06% 5
West Midlands -40 7 £65,000 +1.96% 4
North East -55 2 £60,000 -22.58% 2
Wales -60 2 £53,750 -6.52% 3
East Midlands -35 1 £80,000 +77.78% 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 46 (16.08%) Apache Spark
2 28 (9.79%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.85%) Apache
4 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.35%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
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
3 111 (38.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 104 (36.36%) Snowflake
5 64 (22.38%) Azure Machine Learning
6 63 (22.03%) Azure AI
7 43 (15.03%) AWS
8 39 (13.64%) GCP
9 31 (10.84%) Microsoft Purview
10 28 (9.79%) dbt
11 19 (6.64%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (3.85%) Serverless
14 9 (3.15%) GitHub
14 9 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
16 7 (2.45%) Azure Functions
16 7 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
16 7 (2.45%) Entra ID
17 6 (2.10%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.05%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (39.51%) Power BI
2 95 (33.22%) Data Lake
3 90 (31.47%) Data Warehouse
4 71 (24.83%) SQL Server
5 39 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 36 (12.59%) Amazon Redshift
6 36 (12.59%) Metadata
7 34 (11.89%) BigQuery
8 32 (11.19%) Tableau
9 29 (10.14%) Delta Lake
10 26 (9.09%) Big Data
11 25 (8.74%) Snowflake Schema
12 23 (8.04%) Elasticsearch
12 23 (8.04%) Looker
13 15 (5.24%) Data Vault
13 15 (5.24%) Star Schema
14 9 (3.15%) Power Query
14 9 (3.15%) Semantic Layer
15 6 (2.10%) NoSQL
15 6 (2.10%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 28 (9.79%) MLflow
2 15 (5.24%) Git
3 1 (0.35%) JIRA
General
1 106 (37.06%) Finance
2 60 (20.98%) Social Skills
3 57 (19.93%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.85%) Banking
5 7 (2.45%) Legal
6 6 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.75%) Law
7 5 (1.75%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.75%) 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
9 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (30.07%) Data Engineer
2 77 (26.92%) Architect
3 71 (24.83%) Senior
4 67 (23.43%) Data Architect
5 46 (16.08%) Data Manager
6 35 (12.24%) Azure Architect
6 35 (12.24%) Lead
7 33 (11.54%) Engineering Manager
7 33 (11.54%) Finance Manager
8 31 (10.84%) Azure Data Architect
9 25 (8.74%) Senior Data Engineer
10 23 (8.04%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 23 (8.04%) Systems Engineer
11 19 (6.64%) Lead Data Engineer
12 18 (6.29%) Azure Engineer
13 17 (5.94%) Big Data Engineer
13 17 (5.94%) DataOps Engineer
13 17 (5.94%) DataOps Leader
13 17 (5.94%) Lead Big Data Engineer
14 16 (5.59%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (13.29%) Kafka
2 37 (12.94%) 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 3 (1.05%) .NET
5 3 (1.05%) CSS
6 2 (0.70%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.70%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.70%) RESTful
6 2 (0.70%) Vue
7 1 (0.35%) BAPI
7 1 (0.35%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.35%) REST
7 1 (0.35%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 58 (20.28%) 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 5 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.40%) Data Fabric
6 4 (1.40%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.40%) Replication
7 3 (1.05%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.70%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.70%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.35%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.35%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.35%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (53.15%) AI
2 150 (52.45%) Analytics
2 150 (52.45%) Data Engineering
3 145 (50.70%) Data Governance
4 140 (48.95%) Business Intelligence
5 129 (45.10%) Data Modelling
6 125 (43.71%) Machine Learning
7 109 (38.11%) ETL
8 108 (37.76%) Data Architecture
9 107 (37.41%) Data Pipeline
10 105 (36.71%) CI/CD
11 101 (35.31%) Agile
12 91 (31.82%) Roadmaps
13 73 (25.52%) Migration
14 63 (22.03%) Regulatory Compliance
15 59 (20.63%) Data Science
16 58 (20.28%) DevOps
17 56 (19.58%) Data Development
18 55 (19.23%) Line Management
19 50 (17.48%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 218 (76.22%) SQL
2 144 (50.35%) Python
3 24 (8.39%) Scala
4 20 (6.99%) Bicep
5 11 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (3.50%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.15%) Java
8 5 (1.75%) C#
9 4 (1.40%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.05%) VBA
11 1 (0.35%) Bash
11 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (10.14%) Azure Certification
2 23 (8.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (5.24%) Security Cleared
4 13 (4.55%) SnowPro
5 9 (3.15%) Degree
5 9 (3.15%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.10%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.75%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (27.97%) Data Quality
2 39 (13.64%) GDPR
3 27 (9.44%) SLA
4 24 (8.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.40%) QA
6 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.70%) IFRS
7 2 (0.70%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.70%) Solvency II
System Software
1 55 (19.23%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (9.09%) Terraform
2 7 (2.45%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.05%) Ansible
Vendors
1 217 (75.87%) Databricks
2 157 (54.90%) Microsoft
3 23 (8.04%) Cloudera
3 23 (8.04%) Dell
4 11 (3.85%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.45%) Foundry
6 6 (2.10%) Google
7 5 (1.75%) Informatica
8 4 (1.40%) SAP
9 3 (1.05%) Concur
9 3 (1.05%) Sage
10 1 (0.35%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.35%) Confluent
10 1 (0.35%) Infor
10 1 (0.35%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.35%) Talend