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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 434 435 466
Rank change year-on-year +1 +31 +157
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 218 335 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.53% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.16% 1.54% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 136 262 214
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,188 £52,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +7.41% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £94,688 £81,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £94,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%

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 18,766 21,811 21,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.62% 34.73% 42.74%
Number of salaries quoted 11,265 13,267 18,071
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -2.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 6 December 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 6 December 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 -5 193 £77,500 +6.90% 154
London +27 108 £90,000 +12.50% 63
UK excluding London +14 91 £62,500 -3.85% 125
Work from Home +12 80 £80,000 +8.47% 128
South East -22 26 £65,000 - 66
North of England +23 22 £58,000 +16.00% 19
Midlands +30 19 £55,000 +37.50% 20
West Midlands +29 14 £65,000 +62.50% 11
North West +34 11 £58,000 -2.52% 10
Scotland +12 7 - - 5
Yorkshire -6 6 £55,233 +16.28% 9
East of England +28 5 £62,500 +8.70% 7
East Midlands +20 5 £45,000 -28.00% 8
South West +18 5 £66,250 -14.52% 6
North East +12 5 £77,500 +70.33%
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
Wales +6 3 £60,000 +40.35% 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 26 (11.93%) Apache Spark
2 9 (4.13%) Apache
3 7 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.29%) Apache Synapse
5 2 (0.92%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.46%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 24 (11.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (5.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.92%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.46%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 218 (100.00%) Azure
2 130 (59.63%) Power Platform
3 126 (57.80%) Azure Data Factory
4 30 (13.76%) Snowflake
5 29 (13.30%) AWS
6 28 (12.84%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (12.84%) Microsoft Purview
7 22 (10.09%) GCP
8 18 (8.26%) dbt
9 16 (7.34%) GitHub
10 12 (5.50%) Fivetran
11 11 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (4.13%) Collibra
12 9 (4.13%) SaaS
13 8 (3.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (3.67%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (3.67%) Entra ID
13 8 (3.67%) PaaS
14 7 (3.21%) Matillion
15 5 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.92%) Firewall
2 1 (0.46%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (56.88%) Power BI
2 84 (38.53%) Data Lake
3 70 (32.11%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (27.52%) SQL Server
5 58 (26.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 44 (20.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 27 (12.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 25 (11.47%) Metadata
9 24 (11.01%) NoSQL
10 22 (10.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 21 (9.63%) Big Data
12 20 (9.17%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (5.96%) BigQuery
13 13 (5.96%) Hadoop
14 10 (4.59%) Delta Lake
15 8 (3.67%) Tableau
16 7 (3.21%) Data Mining
16 7 (3.21%) Snowflake Schema
17 5 (2.29%) Power Query
18 3 (1.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 11 (5.05%) Git
2 5 (2.29%) 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%) TestComplete
General
1 104 (47.71%) Social Skills
2 86 (39.45%) Finance
3 60 (27.52%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.47%) Law
5 18 (8.26%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (7.34%) Retail
7 13 (5.96%) Billing
8 5 (2.29%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.29%) Legal
9 4 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.38%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.92%) Advertising
11 2 (0.92%) Banking
11 2 (0.92%) Marketing
12 1 (0.46%) Automotive
12 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (38.07%) Data Engineer
2 38 (17.43%) Senior
3 36 (16.51%) Architect
4 29 (13.30%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (11.93%) Data Architect
6 25 (11.47%) Lead
7 24 (11.01%) Analyst
8 19 (8.72%) Azure Architect
9 18 (8.26%) Azure Data Architect
9 18 (8.26%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (7.34%) Developer
11 15 (6.88%) Azure Data Engineer
12 13 (5.96%) Product Lead
13 12 (5.50%) Business Manager
13 12 (5.50%) Commercial Analyst
13 12 (5.50%) Insight Analyst
13 12 (5.50%) Insight Manager
14 10 (4.59%) Consultant
15 7 (3.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 6 (2.75%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.55%) Kafka
2 20 (9.17%) PySpark
3 6 (2.75%) .NET
4 5 (2.29%) Apache Beam
5 4 (1.83%) Pandas
5 4 (1.83%) Polars
6 3 (1.38%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.92%) Middleware
7 2 (0.92%) XML
8 1 (0.46%) MDX
8 1 (0.46%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 16 (7.34%) Product Ownership
3 14 (6.42%) FMCG
4 12 (5.50%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (5.05%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.59%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.29%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.83%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.92%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.46%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.46%) IoT
11 1 (0.46%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.92%) Windows
1 2 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (72.02%) Analytics
2 138 (63.30%) Business Intelligence
3 120 (55.05%) Data Modelling
4 97 (44.50%) ETL
5 88 (40.37%) Data Engineering
6 82 (37.61%) Decision-Making
7 80 (36.70%) Data Governance
7 80 (36.70%) DevOps
8 78 (35.78%) Data Pipeline
9 68 (31.19%) Problem-Solving
10 65 (29.82%) AI
10 65 (29.82%) CI/CD
11 55 (25.23%) Visualisation
12 53 (24.31%) Agile
13 50 (22.94%) Machine Learning
14 37 (16.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (16.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 35 (16.06%) Technical Leadership
16 32 (14.68%) Data Architecture
17 31 (14.22%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 169 (77.52%) SQL
2 94 (43.12%) Python
3 36 (16.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 20 (9.17%) T-SQL
5 16 (7.34%) Scala
6 14 (6.42%) C#
7 9 (4.13%) R
8 6 (2.75%) Java
9 5 (2.29%) Bicep
10 2 (0.92%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.46%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (8.72%) Degree
2 12 (5.50%) Azure Certification
2 12 (5.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 10 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (4.13%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.13%) Security Cleared
5 8 (3.67%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (2.29%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.83%) IIBA
7 4 (1.83%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.83%) PMP
8 2 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.92%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.46%) MCSE
9 1 (0.46%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (32.57%) Data Quality
2 21 (9.63%) GDPR
3 18 (8.26%) QA
4 12 (5.50%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.46%) SLA
5 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (7.80%) Terraform
2 4 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.38%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.92%) Grafana
4 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 117 (53.67%) Databricks
2 87 (39.91%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.88%) SAP
4 8 (3.67%) Dataiku
5 4 (1.83%) Alteryx
5 4 (1.83%) Anaplan
5 4 (1.83%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (1.83%) Fortinet
5 4 (1.83%) Palo Alto
5 4 (1.83%) Talend
6 3 (1.38%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.92%) Google
7 2 (0.92%) HubSpot
7 2 (0.92%) Informatica
7 2 (0.92%) Oracle
7 2 (0.92%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.46%) Adobe
8 1 (0.46%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.46%) Lotus
8 1 (0.46%) Teradata