Azure Synapse Analytics Jobs

Azure Synapse Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Azure Synapse Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure Synapse Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 567 540
Rank change year-on-year +71 -27 +190
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 242 364 420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.34% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.49% 1.02% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 167 311 347
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - -
75th Percentile £82,375 £91,875 £83,125
90th Percentile £110,250 £107,500 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -3.85%

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 16,245 35,720 37,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.43% 33.24% 42.38%
Number of salaries quoted 10,891 26,652 26,570
10th Percentile £30,625 £30,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.73% +0.80%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% +4.76%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics.

Salary trend for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

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 4 July 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 +46 226 £67,500 -3.57% 664
UK excluding London +163 116 £65,000 +8.33% 452
London +29 108 £70,000 -17.65% 260
Work from Home +13 63 £65,000 -3.70% 393
South East +79 58 £65,000 -3.70% 112
Midlands +80 33 £55,000 -4.35% 82
West Midlands +53 27 £57,500 - 43
North of England +24 11 £68,750 +14.58% 110
North West -4 9 £68,750 +15.55% 67
South West +101 8 £60,000 -17.24% 52
East Midlands +51 6 £45,000 -14.29% 38
Scotland +93 4 - - 25
Yorkshire +47 2 £70,000 +33.33% 31
Wales +38 1 £55,000 - 17
East of England +33 1 £52,500 -16.00% 49

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 31 (12.81%) Apache Spark
2 10 (4.13%) Apache
3 8 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.65%) Apache Synapse
4 4 (1.65%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.83%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.83%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.41%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.83%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.41%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 242 (100.00%) Azure
2 136 (56.20%) Azure Data Factory
3 116 (47.93%) Power Platform
4 52 (21.49%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (16.94%) GCP
6 30 (12.40%) Snowflake
7 29 (11.98%) AWS
8 17 (7.02%) Azure API Management
8 17 (7.02%) GitHub
9 13 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (5.37%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (4.13%) Azure Functions
11 10 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (4.13%) Serverless
12 8 (3.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (2.48%) PowerApps
14 5 (2.07%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (2.07%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.31%) Firewall
2 2 (0.83%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (47.11%) Power BI
2 67 (27.69%) Data Lake
3 64 (26.45%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (15.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 31 (12.81%) NoSQL
6 30 (12.40%) BigQuery
7 27 (11.16%) Big Data
8 25 (10.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (9.09%) SQL Server
10 21 (8.68%) Metadata
11 16 (6.61%) Data Mining
11 16 (6.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 14 (5.79%) Hadoop
12 14 (5.79%) Tableau
13 12 (4.96%) Relational Database
14 11 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 9 (3.72%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 7 (2.89%) Power Query
17 6 (2.48%) Snowflake Schema
17 6 (2.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 13 (5.37%) Git
2 7 (2.89%) ER Studio
2 7 (2.89%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.48%) Selenium
4 5 (2.07%) JMeter
4 5 (2.07%) Locust
4 5 (2.07%) Postman
4 5 (2.07%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.24%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.83%) ERwin
7 1 (0.41%) JIRA
7 1 (0.41%) JUnit
7 1 (0.41%) kappa
7 1 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.41%) RStudio
7 1 (0.41%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.41%) TestComplete
General
1 67 (27.69%) Finance
1 67 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 62 (25.62%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (14.46%) Retail
4 29 (11.98%) Law
5 12 (4.96%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.31%) Banking
7 7 (2.89%) Marketing
8 4 (1.65%) Automotive
9 3 (1.24%) Billing
9 3 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.24%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.41%) Legal
Job Titles
1 74 (30.58%) Data Engineer
2 54 (22.31%) Senior
3 44 (18.18%) Architect
4 42 (17.36%) Lead
5 33 (13.64%) Senior Data Engineer
6 30 (12.40%) Data Architect
7 23 (9.50%) Azure Engineer
7 23 (9.50%) Developer
8 19 (7.85%) Analyst
8 19 (7.85%) Azure Data Engineer
9 12 (4.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 12 (4.96%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (4.96%) Lead Architect
9 12 (4.96%) Software Engineer
10 10 (4.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 10 (4.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 8 (3.31%) Data Manager
11 8 (3.31%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 8 (3.31%) Power BI Developer
11 8 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.98%) .NET
2 27 (11.16%) PySpark
3 20 (8.26%) Middleware
4 17 (7.02%) Kafka
5 8 (3.31%) REST
5 8 (3.31%) YAML
6 6 (2.48%) ADO
6 6 (2.48%) MERN Stack
6 6 (2.48%) pytest
6 6 (2.48%) SOAP
6 6 (2.48%) WebSockets
7 5 (2.07%) Apache Beam
8 3 (1.24%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.83%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.41%) Apache NiFi
10 1 (0.41%) Blazor
10 1 (0.41%) EDI
10 1 (0.41%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.92%) Product Ownership
2 18 (7.44%) Data Structures
3 13 (5.37%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (4.55%) FMCG
5 10 (4.13%) Algorithms
6 8 (3.31%) Distributed Architecture
7 7 (2.89%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.48%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.24%) AS400
11 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.83%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.83%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
12 1 (0.41%) Data Fabric
12 1 (0.41%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.41%) Life Science
12 1 (0.41%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.41%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.31%) Windows
1 8 (3.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (52.07%) Analytics
2 113 (46.69%) DevOps
3 111 (45.87%) Business Intelligence
4 105 (43.39%) Data Engineering
5 88 (36.36%) CI/CD
6 76 (31.40%) Agile
7 73 (30.17%) ETL
8 72 (29.75%) Data Modelling
9 66 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
9 66 (27.27%) Visualisation
10 58 (23.97%) Data Architecture
11 57 (23.55%) Problem-Solving
12 51 (21.07%) Data Governance
13 49 (20.25%) Artificial Intelligence
14 43 (17.77%) Data Visualisation
15 38 (15.70%) Machine Learning
16 37 (15.29%) Decision-Making
17 36 (14.88%) Roadmaps
18 35 (14.46%) Data Science
19 32 (13.22%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 177 (73.14%) SQL
2 102 (42.15%) Python
3 35 (14.46%) C#
4 20 (8.26%) Java
5 16 (6.61%) T-SQL
6 14 (5.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (4.13%) R
8 5 (2.07%) Bicep
8 5 (2.07%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.65%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.24%) C++
10 3 (1.24%) Scala
11 2 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 28 (11.57%) Azure Certification
1 28 (11.57%) Degree
2 24 (9.92%) Security Cleared
3 22 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 17 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (5.37%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.65%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.24%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.41%) MBA
10 1 (0.41%) MCSE
10 1 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (16.94%) Data Quality
2 24 (9.92%) QA
3 6 (2.48%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.48%) GDPR
4 1 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (3.72%) Docker
2 4 (1.65%) HDFS
3 2 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (15.70%) Terraform
2 9 (3.72%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.31%) Grafana
3 8 (3.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 142 (58.68%) Databricks
2 132 (54.55%) Microsoft
3 21 (8.68%) Google
4 11 (4.55%) SAP
5 8 (3.31%) SolarWinds
6 7 (2.89%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.48%) Oracle
8 4 (1.65%) Informatica
8 4 (1.65%) Teradata
9 3 (1.24%) Aderant
9 3 (1.24%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.24%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.41%) dotdigital
11 1 (0.41%) Lotus
11 1 (0.41%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.41%) PayPal
11 1 (0.41%) Talend
11 1 (0.41%) UiPath
11 1 (0.41%) Workday