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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 426 484
Rank change year-on-year -5 +58 +120
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 234 297 243
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.56% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 1.54% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 164 234 200
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,875 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £114,775 £92,175
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 20,665 19,345 22,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.06% 36.21% 40.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,325 11,368 18,530
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,331 £46,438 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,837 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% +8.06% -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 16 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 16 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 +12 204 £85,000 +21.43% 74
UK excluding London -19 107 £75,000 +15.38% 64
London +53 106 £90,000 +12.50% 29
Work from Home +41 99 £85,000 +13.33% 43
South East -5 41 £85,000 +30.77% 34
North of England +1 21 £66,500 +0.38% 10
Midlands +23 20 £63,500 +41.11% 7
West Midlands +14 14 £65,000 +44.44% 3
North West +17 9 £58,000 -22.67% 5
Scotland +6 9 - - 2
Yorkshire -17 7 £67,617 +4.03% 2
East of England +29 6 £62,500 +8.70% 4
North East +6 5 £77,500 +70.33% 3
South West -1 4 £72,500 +3.57% 4
East Midlands -4 4 £50,000 -20.00% 4
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Wales +5 2 - - 3

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 19 (8.12%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.42%) Apache
3 5 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 24 (10.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 234 (100.00%) Azure
2 142 (60.68%) Azure Data Factory
3 134 (57.26%) Power Platform
4 35 (14.96%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (10.68%) Microsoft Purview
5 25 (10.68%) Snowflake
6 21 (8.97%) dbt
7 20 (8.55%) AWS
8 18 (7.69%) GitHub
9 17 (7.26%) GCP
10 16 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (5.13%) Fivetran
12 11 (4.70%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (4.70%) PaaS
13 10 (4.27%) SaaS
14 9 (3.85%) Collibra
15 8 (3.42%) Entra ID
16 7 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
16 7 (2.99%) Matillion
16 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (54.70%) Power BI
2 94 (40.17%) Data Lake
3 78 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (26.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 53 (22.65%) SQL Server
6 43 (18.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (10.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 22 (9.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 21 (8.97%) Metadata
10 16 (6.84%) Big Data
11 15 (6.41%) Delta Lake
12 12 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (4.27%) NoSQL
13 10 (4.27%) Power Query
14 9 (3.85%) Tableau
15 8 (3.42%) Snowflake Schema
16 7 (2.99%) BigQuery
16 7 (2.99%) Hadoop
17 6 (2.56%) Data Mining
18 3 (1.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (8.55%) Git
2 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.43%) JIRA
General
1 102 (43.59%) Finance
1 102 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 51 (21.79%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (8.12%) Law
4 13 (5.56%) Billing
4 13 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.14%) Financial Institution
6 5 (2.14%) Legal
6 5 (2.14%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.14%) Retail
7 4 (1.71%) Banking
8 3 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.28%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.85%) Advertising
9 2 (0.85%) Local Government
9 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Automotive
10 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 92 (39.32%) Data Engineer
2 44 (18.80%) Architect
3 39 (16.67%) Senior
4 38 (16.24%) Data Architect
5 31 (13.25%) Senior Data Engineer
6 30 (12.82%) Azure Architect
7 29 (12.39%) Azure Data Architect
8 27 (11.54%) Lead
9 19 (8.12%) Analyst
10 18 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
11 16 (6.84%) Developer
12 15 (6.41%) Azure Data Engineer
13 12 (5.13%) Business Manager
13 12 (5.13%) Commercial Analyst
13 12 (5.13%) Consultant
13 12 (5.13%) Insight Analyst
13 12 (5.13%) Insight Manager
14 11 (4.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 11 (4.70%) Platform Engineer
15 8 (3.42%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.83%) PySpark
2 14 (5.98%) Kafka
3 3 (1.28%) .NET
3 3 (1.28%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.85%) Pandas
4 2 (0.85%) Polars
4 2 (0.85%) XML
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.43%) MDX
5 1 (0.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.54%) Analytical Mindset
2 15 (6.41%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.70%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.27%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.42%) FMCG
7 7 (2.99%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.99%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.14%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.85%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.85%) 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
1 157 (67.09%) Analytics
2 143 (61.11%) Data Modelling
3 140 (59.83%) Business Intelligence
4 109 (46.58%) ETL
5 88 (37.61%) Data Engineering
6 86 (36.75%) Decision-Making
7 84 (35.90%) Data Governance
7 84 (35.90%) Data Pipeline
8 73 (31.20%) DevOps
9 72 (30.77%) CI/CD
9 72 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
10 65 (27.78%) AI
11 46 (19.66%) Agile
12 44 (18.80%) Visualisation
13 39 (16.67%) Machine Learning
14 37 (15.81%) Data Architecture
15 36 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
16 33 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
17 32 (13.68%) Actionable Insight
18 30 (12.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 166 (70.94%) SQL
2 107 (45.73%) Python
3 41 (17.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 22 (9.40%) Scala
5 18 (7.69%) T-SQL
6 10 (4.27%) C#
7 8 (3.42%) R
8 6 (2.56%) Java
9 5 (2.14%) Bicep
10 1 (0.43%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (8.55%) Degree
2 12 (5.13%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 9 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 9 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 8 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (3.42%) TOGAF Certification
5 7 (2.99%) IIBA
5 7 (2.99%) PMI Certification
5 7 (2.99%) PMP
5 7 (2.99%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.28%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.43%) MCSE
7 1 (0.43%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (38.46%) Data Quality
2 23 (9.83%) GDPR
3 12 (5.13%) Actionable Recommendations
4 8 (3.42%) QA
5 6 (2.56%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.43%) COBIT
6 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.85%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (8.12%) Terraform
2 4 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.28%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 126 (53.85%) Databricks
2 79 (33.76%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.42%) Dataiku
4 7 (2.99%) Alteryx
4 7 (2.99%) Anaplan
4 7 (2.99%) SAP
5 4 (1.71%) Talend
6 2 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (0.85%) Fortinet
6 2 (0.85%) Google
6 2 (0.85%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.85%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle
7 1 (0.43%) Teradata