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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 467 453
Rank change year-on-year -128 -14 +4
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 216 191 358
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.38% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.81% 1.23% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 165 135 280
10th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £47,475
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £110,500 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% +8.70% -1.71%

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 26,716 15,535 23,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.69% 31.28% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 18,334 10,393 14,373
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,354 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -5.51% +1.60%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -100 196 £77,500 +10.71% 169
London -57 112 £90,000 +9.09% 86
UK excluding London -93 91 £61,500 -1.60% 95
Work from Home -6 85 £87,500 +2.94% 78
South East -47 30 £62,500 -3.85% 27
North of England -49 28 £67,750 +10.61% 36
Yorkshire -20 17 £80,000 +33.07% 10
North West -17 12 £56,250 -2.17% 19
West Midlands -44 10 £55,000 -10.20% 9
Midlands -53 10 £55,000 +18.28% 11
Wales -68 9 £52,500 -8.70% 2
South West -66 8 £60,000 -20.00% 8
North East -56 5 £60,000 -22.58% 7
Scotland +1 3 £55,000 - 7
East of England -31 3 £72,500 +16.00% 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 25 (11.57%) Apache Spark
2 16 (7.41%) Apache
3 6 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.39%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.46%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.93%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 216 (100.00%) Azure
2 146 (67.59%) Azure Data Factory
3 95 (43.98%) Power Platform
4 48 (22.22%) Azure Databricks
5 41 (18.98%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (15.74%) Microsoft Purview
7 31 (14.35%) Snowflake
8 27 (12.50%) AWS
9 23 (10.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 19 (8.80%) Serverless
11 18 (8.33%) GCP
12 12 (5.56%) Azure Functions
12 12 (5.56%) dbt
13 11 (5.09%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (5.09%) GitHub
13 11 (5.09%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (3.70%) Amazon S3
15 8 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
15 8 (3.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.46%) Firewall
1 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (42.13%) Power BI
2 85 (39.35%) Data Lake
3 84 (38.89%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (25.00%) Metadata
5 51 (23.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 33 (15.28%) Delta Lake
7 31 (14.35%) SQL Server
7 31 (14.35%) Star Schema
8 20 (9.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (8.80%) Data Vault
10 16 (7.41%) NoSQL
11 14 (6.48%) Power Query
12 13 (6.02%) MongoDB
13 12 (5.56%) Big Data
13 12 (5.56%) BigQuery
13 12 (5.56%) DynamoDB
13 12 (5.56%) Semantic Layer
14 10 (4.63%) Amazon QuickSight
14 10 (4.63%) Snowflake Schema
14 10 (4.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (13.89%) Git
2 4 (1.85%) GitLab
3 2 (0.93%) MLflow
4 1 (0.46%) JIRA
4 1 (0.46%) kappa
General
1 58 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 49 (22.69%) Analytical Skills
2 49 (22.69%) Finance
3 10 (4.63%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.24%) Legal
6 6 (2.78%) Retail
7 5 (2.31%) Law
8 3 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Police
9 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Banking
10 1 (0.46%) Billing
10 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Publishing
10 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 94 (43.52%) Data Engineer
2 61 (28.24%) Senior
3 50 (23.15%) Architect
4 46 (21.30%) Data Architect
5 38 (17.59%) Azure Engineer
6 34 (15.74%) Senior Data Engineer
7 24 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
8 23 (10.65%) Lead
9 15 (6.94%) Analyst
10 14 (6.48%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (6.02%) Data Manager
11 13 (6.02%) Developer
12 10 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (4.17%) Azure Architect
13 9 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 8 (3.70%) Azure Data Architect
14 8 (3.70%) Consultant
14 8 (3.70%) Data Analyst
14 8 (3.70%) Microsoft Engineer
15 7 (3.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (24.07%) PySpark
2 39 (18.06%) Terraform
3 17 (7.87%) Kafka
4 8 (3.70%) JSON
5 6 (2.78%) Apache Avro
6 4 (1.85%) MDX
7 3 (1.39%) LangChain
7 3 (1.39%) Pulumi
7 3 (1.39%) REST
7 3 (1.39%) SAML
8 2 (0.93%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.93%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.93%) SOAP
8 2 (0.93%) XML
9 1 (0.46%) .NET
9 1 (0.46%) BAPI
9 1 (0.46%) Middleware
9 1 (0.46%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 43 (19.91%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.57%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.09%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.24%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.85%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.85%) Replication
6 4 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.39%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.39%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.93%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.93%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.93%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.46%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.02%) Windows
2 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (69.44%) Analytics
2 130 (60.19%) Data Modelling
3 125 (57.87%) Business Intelligence
4 121 (56.02%) CI/CD
5 107 (49.54%) ETL
6 105 (48.61%) Data Pipeline
7 85 (39.35%) DevOps
8 83 (38.43%) Data Engineering
9 77 (35.65%) AI
10 62 (28.70%) Lakehouse
11 61 (28.24%) Agile
12 60 (27.78%) Data Architecture
13 54 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
14 52 (24.07%) Data Governance
15 50 (23.15%) Technical Leadership
16 46 (21.30%) Infrastructure as Code
17 44 (20.37%) Machine Learning
18 43 (19.91%) Data Science
19 42 (19.44%) Data Strategy
19 42 (19.44%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 160 (74.07%) SQL
2 139 (64.35%) Python
3 32 (14.81%) Scala
4 28 (12.96%) Bicep
5 22 (10.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (6.94%) Java
6 15 (6.94%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.56%) C#
8 6 (2.78%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.85%) Bash
10 3 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.39%) VBA
11 1 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (12.96%) Azure Certification
2 25 (11.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (11.57%) Security Cleared
3 19 (8.80%) SC Cleared
4 16 (7.41%) SnowPro
5 13 (6.02%) Degree
6 7 (3.24%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (2.31%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.46%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.46%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (45.37%) Data Quality
2 23 (10.65%) GDPR
3 12 (5.56%) SLA
4 9 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 9 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (2.78%) QA
6 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.93%) IFRS
6 2 (0.93%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.93%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.46%) IASME
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (2.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.31%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.39%) Ansible
2 3 (1.39%) Grafana
2 3 (1.39%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 130 (60.19%) Databricks
1 130 (60.19%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.02%) Informatica
3 9 (4.17%) SAP
3 9 (4.17%) Talend
4 7 (3.24%) Google
5 3 (1.39%) Foundry
5 3 (1.39%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.46%) Confluent
6 1 (0.46%) Refinitiv
6 1 (0.46%) ServiceNow