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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 389 570
Rank change year-on-year -33 +181 +30
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 294 267 291
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.63% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.20% 1.70% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 220 208 242
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £43,875
25th Percentile £66,250 £55,938 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% +12.50% -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 24,419 15,736 32,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.16% 37.24% 37.59%
Number of salaries quoted 13,100 10,983 25,826
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 21 March 2026.

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 21 March 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 -16 258 £88,750 +26.79% 74
UK excluding London -51 136 £82,500 +22.22% 53
Work from Home +54 132 £90,000 +20.00% 41
London +23 128 £90,000 +12.50% 34
South East -28 62 £85,000 +21.43% 27
North of England -52 26 £70,932 +5.08% 9
Midlands -32 21 £65,000 +30.00% 9
West Midlands -21 15 £65,000 +30.00% 9
North West -18 11 £70,932 +3.17% 5
Yorkshire -42 10 £70,932 +5.08% 3
Scotland -11 9 - -
East of England - 7 £55,000 - 2
North East -22 5 £60,000 +31.87% 1
South West -33 5 £48,500 -11.82% 6
East Midlands - 4 £57,500 -
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Wales -23 2 - - 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 27 (9.18%) Apache Spark
2 21 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.04%) Apache
4 4 (1.36%) SAS
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
Applications
1 25 (8.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 294 (100.00%) Azure
2 158 (53.74%) Power Platform
3 146 (49.66%) Azure Data Factory
4 57 (19.39%) Snowflake
5 33 (11.22%) dbt
5 33 (11.22%) GCP
6 31 (10.54%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (8.50%) AWS
8 21 (7.14%) Azure AI
9 19 (6.46%) Azure Machine Learning
9 19 (6.46%) Microsoft Purview
10 17 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (5.44%) GitHub
12 15 (5.10%) Entra ID
12 15 (5.10%) PaaS
13 11 (3.74%) SaaS
14 10 (3.40%) Fivetran
15 9 (3.06%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (3.06%) Azure Monitor
16 8 (2.72%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.36%) WAN
2 2 (0.68%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (51.70%) Power BI
2 117 (39.80%) Data Lake
3 93 (31.63%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (23.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 61 (20.75%) SQL Server
6 37 (12.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (8.50%) Big Data
8 24 (8.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 24 (8.16%) BigQuery
8 24 (8.16%) Tableau
9 23 (7.82%) Snowflake Schema
10 17 (5.78%) Metadata
10 17 (5.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 17 (5.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (5.44%) Delta Lake
11 16 (5.44%) Looker
12 15 (5.10%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (4.08%) Power Query
14 6 (2.04%) Data Mining
15 4 (1.36%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (7.14%) Git
2 17 (5.78%) MLflow
3 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
General
1 118 (40.14%) Finance
2 105 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 58 (19.73%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.08%) Billing
4 12 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.38%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.04%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.04%) Law
8 4 (1.36%) Banking
9 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Local Government
11 1 (0.34%) Advertising
11 1 (0.34%) Automotive
11 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.34%) Legal
11 1 (0.34%) Marketing
11 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 98 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 72 (24.49%) Architect
3 66 (22.45%) Senior
4 53 (18.03%) Data Architect
5 51 (17.35%) Azure Architect
6 46 (15.65%) Azure Data Architect
7 41 (13.95%) Lead
8 29 (9.86%) Senior Data Engineer
9 23 (7.82%) Big Data Engineer
9 23 (7.82%) DataOps Engineer
9 23 (7.82%) DataOps Leader
9 23 (7.82%) Lead Big Data Engineer
10 20 (6.80%) Lead Data Engineer
11 18 (6.12%) Analyst
11 18 (6.12%) Azure Data Engineer
11 18 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (5.44%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (5.10%) Developer
13 15 (5.10%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 15 (5.10%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.50%) PySpark
2 22 (7.48%) Kafka
3 15 (5.10%) LangChain
3 15 (5.10%) LlamaIndex
3 15 (5.10%) pgvector
3 15 (5.10%) PyTorch
3 15 (5.10%) scikit-learn
3 15 (5.10%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.36%) .NET
4 4 (1.36%) CSS
5 1 (0.34%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.34%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.34%) MDX
5 1 (0.34%) Middleware
5 1 (0.34%) REST
5 1 (0.34%) RESTful
5 1 (0.34%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.84%) Analytical Mindset
3 15 (5.10%) Clustering
3 15 (5.10%) Public Cloud
4 12 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.72%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.72%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (2.38%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.70%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.02%) Data Fabric
11 2 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.68%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.34%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.34%) FMCG
12 1 (0.34%) IoT
12 1 (0.34%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (58.50%) Analytics
2 166 (56.46%) Business Intelligence
3 165 (56.12%) Data Modelling
4 120 (40.82%) ETL
5 118 (40.14%) Data Governance
6 106 (36.05%) Data Engineering
7 94 (31.97%) Data Pipeline
8 93 (31.63%) AI
9 92 (31.29%) CI/CD
10 74 (25.17%) Problem-Solving
11 73 (24.83%) Decision-Making
12 68 (23.13%) DevOps
13 57 (19.39%) Data Architecture
14 56 (19.05%) Machine Learning
15 55 (18.71%) Agile
16 47 (15.99%) Roadmaps
17 45 (15.31%) Migration
18 41 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
18 41 (13.95%) Visualisation
19 40 (13.61%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 203 (69.05%) SQL
2 131 (44.56%) Python
3 41 (13.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 16 (5.44%) T-SQL
5 14 (4.76%) Scala
6 9 (3.06%) C#
7 4 (1.36%) Bicep
7 4 (1.36%) Java
8 3 (1.02%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.02%) R
9 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (8.16%) Degree
2 12 (4.08%) Azure Certification
2 12 (4.08%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 11 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (3.74%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.06%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.72%) IIBA
5 8 (2.72%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.72%) PMP
6 3 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.02%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.34%) MCSE
8 1 (0.34%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (34.35%) Data Quality
2 29 (9.86%) GDPR
3 24 (8.16%) SLA
4 16 (5.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 12 (4.08%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.34%) COBIT
7 1 (0.34%) QA
7 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (5.10%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.36%) Docker
3 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (6.46%) Terraform
2 5 (1.70%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.68%) Ansible
Vendors
1 174 (59.18%) Databricks
2 99 (33.67%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.10%) Cloudera
3 15 (5.10%) Dell
4 9 (3.06%) Alteryx
5 8 (2.72%) Anaplan
6 7 (2.38%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.04%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.36%) Concur
8 4 (1.36%) Foundry
8 4 (1.36%) Sage
8 4 (1.36%) Talend
9 3 (1.02%) Google
10 1 (0.34%) Teradata