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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 477 465
Rank change year-on-year +13 -12 +188
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 216 344 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.44% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 1.39% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 145 279 268
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,690
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,250 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.00% -10.71%

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 15,715 24,713 26,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.69% 31.57% 42.37%
Number of salaries quoted 10,630 16,031 22,037
10th Percentile £29,750 £34,000 £33,733
25th Percentile £39,250 £45,108 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Synapse Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Synapse Analytics 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 September 2025.

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 September 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 -2 203 £65,000 -10.34% 124
London +7 113 £70,000 -22.22% 65
UK excluding London +50 88 £63,250 +10.00% 87
Work from Home -24 58 £82,500 +17.86% 74
South East +14 38 £65,000 +8.33% 40
Midlands +66 26 £48,000 -16.52% 15
West Midlands +34 18 £62,500 +6.38% 10
North of England -1 12 £67,500 +25.00% 18
East Midlands +35 8 £45,000 +12.50% 5
North West -11 7 £67,500 +17.39% 14
South West +62 4 £75,000 - 3
Yorkshire +27 4 £65,000 +38.40% 2
East of England 0 4 £62,500 +11.11% 8
Wales +23 2 £57,500 +34.50% 1
Scotland - 2 - - 2
North East +18 1 £77,500 +19.23% 2

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 37 (17.13%) Apache Spark
2 12 (5.56%) Apache
3 7 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.85%) Apache Synapse
4 4 (1.85%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.93%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.46%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
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
2 116 (53.70%) Azure Data Factory
3 104 (48.15%) Power Platform
4 42 (19.44%) AWS
5 38 (17.59%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (17.59%) GCP
6 24 (11.11%) Snowflake
7 17 (7.87%) Microsoft Purview
8 13 (6.02%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (4.63%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (4.63%) GitHub
10 9 (4.17%) Azure API Management
11 8 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.31%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (2.31%) dbt
13 5 (2.31%) SaaS
13 5 (2.31%) Stackdriver
14 4 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (1.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.70%) Firewall
2 2 (0.93%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (47.22%) Power BI
2 63 (29.17%) Data Lake
3 57 (26.39%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (16.20%) NoSQL
5 32 (14.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 32 (14.81%) Big Data
6 31 (14.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 27 (12.50%) BigQuery
7 27 (12.50%) Metadata
7 27 (12.50%) SQL Server
8 20 (9.26%) Hadoop
9 15 (6.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (4.63%) Data Mining
10 10 (4.63%) Tableau
11 9 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (3.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 7 (3.24%) Delta Lake
13 7 (3.24%) Power Query
14 6 (2.78%) Relational Database
14 6 (2.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (5.09%) Git
2 7 (3.24%) ER Studio
3 6 (2.78%) Selenium
4 5 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.31%) JMeter
4 5 (2.31%) Locust
4 5 (2.31%) Postman
4 5 (2.31%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.93%) JIRA
6 1 (0.46%) ERwin
6 1 (0.46%) JUnit
6 1 (0.46%) RStudio
6 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.46%) TestComplete
General
1 71 (32.87%) Social Skills
2 62 (28.70%) Finance
3 54 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (16.67%) Retail
5 35 (16.20%) Law
6 11 (5.09%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.24%) Banking
8 6 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.85%) Legal
10 4 (1.85%) Marketing
10 4 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.93%) Automotive
13 1 (0.46%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 70 (32.41%) Data Engineer
2 38 (17.59%) Architect
3 37 (17.13%) Lead
3 37 (17.13%) Senior
4 33 (15.28%) Data Architect
5 21 (9.72%) Senior Data Engineer
6 20 (9.26%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (8.33%) Analyst
7 18 (8.33%) Developer
8 15 (6.94%) Azure Data Engineer
9 13 (6.02%) Product Lead
10 9 (4.17%) Data Manager
11 8 (3.70%) Azure Architect
11 8 (3.70%) Azure Data Architect
11 8 (3.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 8 (3.70%) SQL Developer
12 7 (3.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 7 (3.24%) Data Analyst
12 7 (3.24%) Data Science Manager
12 7 (3.24%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.43%) PySpark
2 24 (11.11%) Kafka
3 13 (6.02%) .NET
4 9 (4.17%) Middleware
5 8 (3.70%) YAML
6 5 (2.31%) Apache Beam
6 5 (2.31%) pytest
7 4 (1.85%) Pandas
7 4 (1.85%) Polars
8 2 (0.93%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.93%) REST
8 2 (0.93%) XML
9 1 (0.46%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (0.46%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.72%) Product Ownership
2 17 (7.87%) FMCG
3 13 (6.02%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.70%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.70%) Distributed Architecture
6 7 (3.24%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.85%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.93%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (0.46%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.46%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.46%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.46%) Life Science
10 1 (0.46%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.46%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.70%) Windows
1 8 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (59.72%) Analytics
2 106 (49.07%) DevOps
3 105 (48.61%) Business Intelligence
4 98 (45.37%) Data Engineering
5 83 (38.43%) Data Modelling
6 77 (35.65%) ETL
7 73 (33.80%) Data Pipeline
8 71 (32.87%) CI/CD
9 70 (32.41%) Agile
10 59 (27.31%) Data Governance
10 59 (27.31%) Visualisation
11 55 (25.46%) Problem-Solving
12 54 (25.00%) Machine Learning
13 52 (24.07%) Artificial Intelligence
14 48 (22.22%) Decision-Making
15 42 (19.44%) Data Architecture
16 38 (17.59%) Data Visualisation
17 36 (16.67%) Data Science
18 34 (15.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 29 (13.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 163 (75.46%) SQL
2 91 (42.13%) Python
3 17 (7.87%) T-SQL
4 16 (7.41%) C#
5 15 (6.94%) Java
6 13 (6.02%) Scala
7 11 (5.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 11 (5.09%) R
8 6 (2.78%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.39%) Bicep
10 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (10.19%) Security Cleared
2 21 (9.72%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.87%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (7.41%) Degree
5 15 (6.94%) Azure Certification
5 15 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (6.02%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.85%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.39%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.46%) MBA
10 1 (0.46%) MCSE
10 1 (0.46%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (19.91%) Data Quality
2 29 (13.43%) QA
3 13 (6.02%) GDPR
4 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
System Software
1 8 (3.70%) Docker
2 4 (1.85%) HDFS
3 2 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (15.74%) Terraform
2 8 (3.70%) Grafana
2 8 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.70%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 132 (61.11%) Databricks
2 109 (50.46%) Microsoft
3 20 (9.26%) SAP
4 16 (7.41%) Google
5 8 (3.70%) SolarWinds
6 7 (3.24%) Oracle
6 7 (3.24%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (1.85%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.85%) Informatica
7 4 (1.85%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.85%) Teradata
8 2 (0.93%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.46%) Adobe
9 1 (0.46%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.46%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.46%) Lotus
9 1 (0.46%) Talend
9 1 (0.46%) UiPath