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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 454 519
Rank change year-on-year -44 +65 -23
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 284 244 351
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.50% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.04% 1.53% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 229 160 304
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £76,250 £55,938 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £66,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.85% -5.36% -
75th Percentile £118,750 £83,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £106,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +30.77% +8.33% -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 27,240 15,928 30,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.15% 32.44% 32.78%
Number of salaries quoted 17,815 11,073 22,718
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,063 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +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 23 July 2026.

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 23 July 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 -38 272 £90,000 +35.85% 49
London +8 160 £94,500 +35.00% 24
Work from Home +55 135 £105,000 +61.54% 27
UK excluding London -80 106 £85,000 +30.77% 33
South East -20 55 £90,000 +38.46% 14
North of England -18 26 £70,932 +3.17% 6
Yorkshire -17 16 £80,000 +14.29% 4
East of England +1 9 £66,250 +26.19% 4
South West -55 9 £57,500 -23.33% 1
North West -3 8 £61,250 -10.91% 2
Midlands -57 6 £67,500 +22.73% 7
West Midlands -50 5 £55,000 -8.33% 7
North East - 2 £60,000 - 1
East Midlands -34 1 £80,000 +77.78%
Wales -52 1 £55,000 -4.35% 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 46 (16.20%) Apache Spark
2 30 (10.56%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.87%) Apache
4 4 (1.41%) SAS
5 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.35%) Confluence
6 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 284 (100.00%) Azure
2 114 (40.14%) Power Platform
3 103 (36.27%) Azure Data Factory
4 99 (34.86%) Snowflake
5 64 (22.54%) Azure Machine Learning
6 63 (22.18%) Azure AI
7 42 (14.79%) GCP
8 40 (14.08%) AWS
9 30 (10.56%) dbt
10 26 (9.15%) Microsoft Purview
11 17 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (4.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (3.17%) Entra ID
13 9 (3.17%) GitHub
13 9 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (2.46%) Serverless
15 5 (1.76%) Azure Key Vault
15 5 (1.76%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (39.79%) Power BI
2 98 (34.51%) Data Lake
3 88 (30.99%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (23.94%) SQL Server
5 39 (13.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 37 (13.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 37 (13.03%) BigQuery
7 32 (11.27%) Big Data
7 32 (11.27%) Tableau
8 31 (10.92%) Metadata
9 24 (8.45%) Delta Lake
9 24 (8.45%) Snowflake Schema
10 23 (8.10%) Elasticsearch
10 23 (8.10%) Looker
11 12 (4.23%) Star Schema
12 11 (3.87%) Data Vault
13 9 (3.17%) Power Query
14 7 (2.46%) Semantic Layer
15 6 (2.11%) Spark SQL
16 5 (1.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (9.86%) MLflow
2 14 (4.93%) Git
3 1 (0.35%) JIRA
General
1 101 (35.56%) Finance
2 62 (21.83%) Social Skills
3 55 (19.37%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.87%) Banking
5 7 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (2.46%) Legal
5 7 (2.46%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.76%) Law
7 3 (1.06%) Retail
8 2 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.70%) Police
9 1 (0.35%) Billing
9 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 85 (29.93%) Data Engineer
2 78 (27.46%) Architect
3 71 (25.00%) Senior
4 62 (21.83%) Data Architect
5 45 (15.85%) Lead
6 43 (15.14%) Data Manager
7 39 (13.73%) Azure Architect
8 34 (11.97%) Azure Data Architect
9 33 (11.62%) Engineering Manager
9 33 (11.62%) Finance Manager
10 26 (9.15%) Lead Data Engineer
11 23 (8.10%) Big Data Engineer
11 23 (8.10%) DataOps Engineer
11 23 (8.10%) DataOps Leader
11 23 (8.10%) Lead Big Data Engineer
11 23 (8.10%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 23 (8.10%) Systems Engineer
12 22 (7.75%) Senior Data Engineer
13 15 (5.28%) Azure Engineer
14 14 (4.93%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.03%) Kafka
2 34 (11.97%) PySpark
3 25 (8.80%) LangChain
4 23 (8.10%) LlamaIndex
4 23 (8.10%) pgvector
4 23 (8.10%) PyTorch
4 23 (8.10%) scikit-learn
4 23 (8.10%) TensorFlow
5 4 (1.41%) CSS
6 3 (1.06%) .NET
7 2 (0.70%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.70%) RESTful
7 2 (0.70%) Vue
8 1 (0.35%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.35%) BAPI
8 1 (0.35%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.35%) Middleware
8 1 (0.35%) REST
8 1 (0.35%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 52 (18.31%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.10%) Clustering
2 23 (8.10%) Public Cloud
3 17 (5.99%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.41%) Replication
8 3 (1.06%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.06%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.06%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.70%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.70%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.35%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.35%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.35%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (52.46%) Data Governance
2 148 (52.11%) Data Engineering
3 142 (50.00%) Analytics
4 141 (49.65%) AI
5 137 (48.24%) Business Intelligence
6 125 (44.01%) Data Modelling
7 122 (42.96%) Machine Learning
8 105 (36.97%) Data Architecture
9 104 (36.62%) Data Pipeline
10 102 (35.92%) CI/CD
11 101 (35.56%) ETL
12 97 (34.15%) Agile
13 88 (30.99%) Roadmaps
14 75 (26.41%) Migration
15 64 (22.54%) Regulatory Compliance
16 58 (20.42%) Data Science
17 57 (20.07%) Data Development
18 55 (19.37%) Line Management
19 54 (19.01%) DevOps
20 49 (17.25%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 209 (73.59%) SQL
2 137 (48.24%) Python
3 19 (6.69%) Scala
4 17 (5.99%) Bicep
5 12 (4.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (3.52%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.17%) Java
8 4 (1.41%) C#
8 4 (1.41%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.06%) VBA
10 1 (0.35%) Bash
10 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (8.45%) Azure Certification
2 19 (6.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (4.58%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.17%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.17%) SnowPro
5 7 (2.46%) Degree
6 6 (2.11%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.06%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (28.17%) Data Quality
2 39 (13.73%) GDPR
3 31 (10.92%) SLA
4 23 (8.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.06%) QA
6 2 (0.70%) IFRS
6 2 (0.70%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.70%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 55 (19.37%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (8.10%) Terraform
2 7 (2.46%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.06%) Ansible
Vendors
1 216 (76.06%) Databricks
2 147 (51.76%) Microsoft
3 23 (8.10%) Cloudera
3 23 (8.10%) Dell
4 11 (3.87%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.46%) Foundry
5 7 (2.46%) Google
6 4 (1.41%) Concur
6 4 (1.41%) Informatica
6 4 (1.41%) Sage
7 3 (1.06%) SAP
8 1 (0.35%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.35%) Confluent
8 1 (0.35%) Infor
8 1 (0.35%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow