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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 431 495
Rank change year-on-year +2 +64 +112
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 229 296 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.55% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.12% 1.54% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 158 233 203
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £64,000 £53,000 £50,625
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 £80,625
90th Percentile £120,000 £113,000 £93,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,750 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.46% +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 20,419 19,247 22,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.23% 36.08% 40.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,169 11,295 18,548
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,331 £46,713 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £100,000
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 13 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 13 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 +10 201 £85,000 +21.43% 145
London +55 106 £90,000 +12.50% 31
UK excluding London 0 104 £73,750 +13.46% 138
Work from Home +35 95 £85,000 +13.33% 44
South East -16 39 £85,000 +30.77% 50
North of England +10 21 £66,500 +0.38% 25
Midlands +17 19 £64,250 +42.78% 20
West Midlands +11 14 £65,000 +44.44% 5
North West +20 9 £58,000 -22.67% 9
Scotland +8 9 - - 4
Yorkshire -19 7 £67,617 +4.03% 11
East of England +25 6 £62,500 +8.70% 17
North East +6 5 £77,500 +70.33% 5
South West -2 4 £72,500 -3.33% 15
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 2
East Midlands -6 3 £45,000 -28.00% 15
Wales +3 2 - - 7

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 20 (8.73%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.49%) Apache
3 5 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 24 (10.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 229 (100.00%) Azure
2 139 (60.70%) Azure Data Factory
3 134 (58.52%) Power Platform
4 33 (14.41%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (11.35%) Microsoft Purview
6 24 (10.48%) Snowflake
7 21 (9.17%) AWS
7 21 (9.17%) dbt
8 18 (7.86%) GitHub
9 16 (6.99%) GCP
9 16 (6.99%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (5.24%) Fivetran
11 11 (4.80%) PaaS
12 10 (4.37%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (4.37%) SaaS
13 9 (3.93%) Collibra
14 8 (3.49%) Entra ID
15 7 (3.06%) GitHub Copilot
15 7 (3.06%) Matillion
15 7 (3.06%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.44%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (55.90%) Power BI
2 94 (41.05%) Data Lake
3 77 (33.62%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (26.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 54 (23.58%) SQL Server
6 43 (18.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 23 (10.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 22 (9.61%) Metadata
8 22 (9.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 16 (6.99%) Big Data
10 14 (6.11%) Delta Lake
11 12 (5.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (4.80%) NoSQL
13 10 (4.37%) Power Query
14 9 (3.93%) Tableau
15 8 (3.49%) Hadoop
15 8 (3.49%) Snowflake Schema
16 6 (2.62%) BigQuery
16 6 (2.62%) Data Mining
17 3 (1.31%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (7.86%) Git
2 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.44%) JIRA
General
1 102 (44.54%) Social Skills
2 101 (44.10%) Finance
3 52 (22.71%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.73%) Law
5 14 (6.11%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (5.68%) Billing
7 7 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.62%) Retail
9 5 (2.18%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.18%) Legal
10 4 (1.75%) Banking
11 3 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.31%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.31%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.87%) Advertising
13 1 (0.44%) Automotive
13 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Marketing
13 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 90 (39.30%) Data Engineer
2 42 (18.34%) Architect
3 38 (16.59%) Senior
4 36 (15.72%) Data Architect
5 30 (13.10%) Senior Data Engineer
6 29 (12.66%) Azure Architect
7 28 (12.23%) Azure Data Architect
8 25 (10.92%) Lead
9 19 (8.30%) Analyst
10 18 (7.86%) Azure Engineer
11 15 (6.55%) Azure Data Engineer
12 14 (6.11%) Developer
13 13 (5.68%) Consultant
14 12 (5.24%) Business Manager
14 12 (5.24%) Commercial Analyst
14 12 (5.24%) Insight Analyst
14 12 (5.24%) Insight Manager
15 10 (4.37%) Platform Engineer
16 9 (3.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 8 (3.49%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.04%) PySpark
2 15 (6.55%) Kafka
3 3 (1.31%) .NET
3 3 (1.31%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.31%) Pandas
3 3 (1.31%) Polars
4 2 (0.87%) XML
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.44%) MDX
5 1 (0.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.79%) Analytical Mindset
2 14 (6.11%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.24%) Product Ownership
3 12 (5.24%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.37%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (3.93%) FMCG
6 7 (3.06%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.06%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.18%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.44%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.44%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.44%) IoT
11 1 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (68.12%) Analytics
2 140 (61.14%) Data Modelling
3 139 (60.70%) Business Intelligence
4 106 (46.29%) ETL
5 88 (38.43%) Data Engineering
6 85 (37.12%) Decision-Making
7 83 (36.24%) Data Governance
7 83 (36.24%) Data Pipeline
8 73 (31.88%) DevOps
9 71 (31.00%) CI/CD
9 71 (31.00%) Problem-Solving
10 65 (28.38%) AI
11 47 (20.52%) Agile
12 43 (18.78%) Visualisation
13 41 (17.90%) Machine Learning
14 36 (15.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (15.28%) Data Architecture
16 31 (13.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 31 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
17 30 (13.10%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 165 (72.05%) SQL
2 104 (45.41%) Python
3 41 (17.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 21 (9.17%) Scala
5 18 (7.86%) T-SQL
6 10 (4.37%) C#
7 6 (2.62%) Java
7 6 (2.62%) R
8 5 (2.18%) Bicep
9 1 (0.44%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (8.73%) Degree
2 12 (5.24%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 9 (3.93%) Azure Certification
3 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (3.49%) TOGAF Certification
5 7 (3.06%) IIBA
5 7 (3.06%) PMI Certification
5 7 (3.06%) PMP
5 7 (3.06%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.06%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.31%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.44%) MCSE
7 1 (0.44%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (37.12%) Data Quality
2 23 (10.04%) GDPR
3 12 (5.24%) Actionable Recommendations
4 9 (3.93%) QA
5 5 (2.18%) SLA
6 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (7.86%) Terraform
2 4 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.31%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 125 (54.59%) Databricks
2 81 (35.37%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.49%) Dataiku
3 8 (3.49%) SAP
4 7 (3.06%) Alteryx
4 7 (3.06%) Anaplan
5 4 (1.75%) Talend
6 3 (1.31%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (1.31%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.31%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.87%) Google
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle
8 1 (0.44%) Teradata