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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 428 489
Rank change year-on-year -2 +61 +118
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 233 293 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.55% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.12% 1.53% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 164 231 211
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £81,875
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

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 20,790 19,180 24,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.00% 36.26% 39.63%
Number of salaries quoted 11,300 11,228 19,741
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 +5 203 £85,000 +21.43% 175
London +55 106 £90,000 +12.50% 30
UK excluding London -8 106 £75,000 +15.38% 170
Work from Home +43 100 £85,000 +17.24% 81
South East -8 40 £85,000 +30.77% 58
Midlands +19 21 £64,250 +42.78% 24
North of England -12 20 £66,500 +0.38% 32
West Midlands +16 15 £65,000 +44.44% 8
North West +13 9 £58,000 -22.67% 13
Scotland +5 9 - - 5
East of England +28 6 £62,500 +8.70% 22
Yorkshire -24 6 £67,617 +4.03% 12
North East +10 5 £77,500 +70.33% 7
South West 0 4 £48,500 -19.17% 20
East Midlands -5 4 £50,000 -20.00% 15
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 3
Wales +4 2 - - 9

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 18 (7.73%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.00%) Apache
3 4 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 24 (10.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 233 (100.00%) Azure
2 141 (60.52%) Azure Data Factory
3 132 (56.65%) Power Platform
4 34 (14.59%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (11.16%) Microsoft Purview
6 25 (10.73%) Snowflake
7 20 (8.58%) dbt
8 19 (8.15%) AWS
9 18 (7.73%) GitHub
10 17 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (6.87%) GCP
12 12 (5.15%) Fivetran
12 12 (5.15%) PaaS
13 11 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (4.72%) SaaS
14 9 (3.86%) Collibra
15 8 (3.43%) ChatGPT
15 8 (3.43%) Entra ID
15 8 (3.43%) Microsoft Copilot
16 7 (3.00%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (54.08%) Power BI
2 93 (39.91%) Data Lake
3 76 (32.62%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (25.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 53 (22.75%) SQL Server
6 42 (18.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 24 (10.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 21 (9.01%) Metadata
8 21 (9.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 16 (6.87%) Big Data
10 15 (6.44%) Delta Lake
11 11 (4.72%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (4.29%) NoSQL
12 10 (4.29%) Power Query
13 8 (3.43%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (3.43%) Tableau
14 7 (3.00%) Hadoop
15 6 (2.58%) BigQuery
15 6 (2.58%) Data Mining
16 3 (1.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (8.58%) Git
2 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.43%) JIRA
General
1 101 (43.35%) Finance
1 101 (43.35%) Social Skills
2 49 (21.03%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (8.15%) Law
4 13 (5.58%) Billing
4 13 (5.58%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.15%) Financial Institution
6 5 (2.15%) Legal
6 5 (2.15%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.15%) Retail
7 4 (1.72%) Banking
8 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.86%) Advertising
9 2 (0.86%) Local Government
9 2 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Automotive
10 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 90 (38.63%) Data Engineer
2 44 (18.88%) Architect
3 38 (16.31%) Data Architect
4 37 (15.88%) Senior
5 30 (12.88%) Azure Architect
6 29 (12.45%) Azure Data Architect
6 29 (12.45%) Senior Data Engineer
7 27 (11.59%) Lead
8 19 (8.15%) Analyst
8 19 (8.15%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (6.87%) Azure Data Engineer
9 16 (6.87%) Developer
10 12 (5.15%) Business Manager
10 12 (5.15%) Commercial Analyst
10 12 (5.15%) Consultant
10 12 (5.15%) Insight Analyst
10 12 (5.15%) Insight Manager
11 11 (4.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 11 (4.72%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.43%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.44%) PySpark
2 14 (6.01%) Kafka
3 3 (1.29%) .NET
3 3 (1.29%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.86%) Pandas
4 2 (0.86%) Polars
4 2 (0.86%) XML
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.43%) MDX
5 1 (0.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.59%) Analytical Mindset
2 15 (6.44%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.72%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.43%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.43%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (3.43%) FMCG
7 5 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.43%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.43%) IoT
11 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (68.24%) Analytics
2 144 (61.80%) Data Modelling
3 141 (60.52%) Business Intelligence
4 108 (46.35%) ETL
5 86 (36.91%) Data Engineering
6 84 (36.05%) Data Governance
6 84 (36.05%) Data Pipeline
6 84 (36.05%) Decision-Making
7 72 (30.90%) CI/CD
7 72 (30.90%) DevOps
8 71 (30.47%) Problem-Solving
9 66 (28.33%) AI
10 45 (19.31%) Agile
11 43 (18.45%) Visualisation
12 38 (16.31%) Machine Learning
13 37 (15.88%) Data Architecture
14 36 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (13.73%) Actionable Insight
15 32 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
16 30 (12.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 164 (70.39%) SQL
2 103 (44.21%) Python
3 41 (17.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 21 (9.01%) Scala
5 19 (8.15%) T-SQL
6 10 (4.29%) C#
7 7 (3.00%) R
8 5 (2.15%) Bicep
8 5 (2.15%) Java
9 1 (0.43%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (9.01%) Degree
2 12 (5.15%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 9 (3.86%) Azure Certification
3 9 (3.86%) Security Cleared
4 8 (3.43%) IIBA
4 8 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (3.43%) PMI Certification
4 8 (3.43%) PMP
4 8 (3.43%) TOGAF Certification
5 7 (3.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.29%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.43%) MCSE
7 1 (0.43%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (38.63%) Data Quality
2 24 (10.30%) GDPR
3 12 (5.15%) Actionable Recommendations
4 8 (3.43%) QA
5 6 (2.58%) SLA
6 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.43%) COBIT
7 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (8.15%) Terraform
2 4 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.29%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 126 (54.08%) Databricks
2 79 (33.91%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.43%) Alteryx
3 8 (3.43%) Anaplan
3 8 (3.43%) Dataiku
4 7 (3.00%) SAP
5 4 (1.72%) Talend
6 2 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (0.86%) Fortinet
6 2 (0.86%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.86%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.43%) Google
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle
7 1 (0.43%) Teradata