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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 420 484
Rank change year-on-year -4 +64 +119
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 226 300 249
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.56% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 1.55% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 155 237 206
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £64,250 £53,000 £50,313
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 £81,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £95,000
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 20,367 19,394 22,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.33% 36.11% 40.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11,129 11,407 18,508
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £46,597 £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 £83,000 £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 11 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 11 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 +6 199 £85,000 +21.43% 112
London +41 106 £90,000 +12.50% 30
UK excluding London -14 102 £73,750 +13.46% 101
Work from Home +45 94 £85,000 +13.33% 44
South East -8 39 £85,000 +30.77% 42
North of England +1 20 £58,000 -12.45% 14
Midlands +12 18 £65,000 +44.44% 18
West Midlands +22 14 £65,000 +44.44% 6
North West +17 9 £58,000 -22.67% 3
Scotland +11 9 - - 3
East of England +19 6 £62,500 +8.70% 12
Yorkshire -28 6 £55,233 -15.03% 7
North East +8 5 £77,500 +70.33% 4
South West -7 4 £72,500 -3.33% 8
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
Wales -2 2 - - 4
East Midlands -6 2 £45,000 -28.00% 12

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 (8.41%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.10%) Apache
3 4 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 24 (10.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (3.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 226 (100.00%) Azure
2 137 (60.62%) Azure Data Factory
3 132 (58.41%) Power Platform
4 32 (14.16%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (11.50%) Microsoft Purview
6 24 (10.62%) Snowflake
7 20 (8.85%) AWS
7 20 (8.85%) dbt
8 18 (7.96%) GitHub
9 15 (6.64%) GCP
9 15 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (5.31%) Fivetran
11 11 (4.87%) PaaS
12 10 (4.42%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (4.42%) SaaS
13 9 (3.98%) Collibra
14 8 (3.54%) Entra ID
15 7 (3.10%) GitHub Copilot
15 7 (3.10%) Matillion
15 7 (3.10%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.44%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (55.75%) Power BI
2 92 (40.71%) Data Lake
3 76 (33.63%) Data Warehouse
4 59 (26.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 54 (23.89%) SQL Server
6 43 (19.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 23 (10.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 22 (9.73%) Metadata
8 22 (9.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 16 (7.08%) Big Data
10 14 (6.19%) Delta Lake
11 11 (4.87%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (4.87%) NoSQL
12 9 (3.98%) Power Query
13 8 (3.54%) Hadoop
13 8 (3.54%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (3.54%) Tableau
14 6 (2.65%) Data Mining
15 5 (2.21%) BigQuery
16 3 (1.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 18 (7.96%) Git
2 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.44%) JIRA
General
1 101 (44.69%) Social Skills
2 99 (43.81%) Finance
3 50 (22.12%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.85%) Law
5 14 (6.19%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (5.75%) Billing
7 7 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.65%) Retail
9 5 (2.21%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.21%) Legal
10 4 (1.77%) Banking
11 3 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.33%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.88%) 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 88 (38.94%) Data Engineer
2 42 (18.58%) Architect
3 37 (16.37%) Senior
4 36 (15.93%) Data Architect
5 29 (12.83%) Azure Architect
5 29 (12.83%) Senior Data Engineer
6 28 (12.39%) Azure Data Architect
7 24 (10.62%) Lead
8 19 (8.41%) Analyst
9 18 (7.96%) Azure Engineer
10 15 (6.64%) Azure Data Engineer
11 13 (5.75%) Consultant
11 13 (5.75%) Developer
12 12 (5.31%) Business Manager
12 12 (5.31%) Commercial Analyst
12 12 (5.31%) Insight Analyst
12 12 (5.31%) Insight Manager
13 9 (3.98%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 8 (3.54%) Product Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.18%) PySpark
2 15 (6.64%) Kafka
3 3 (1.33%) .NET
3 3 (1.33%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.33%) Pandas
3 3 (1.33%) Polars
4 2 (0.88%) XML
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.44%) MDX
5 1 (0.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.95%) Analytical Mindset
2 14 (6.19%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.31%) Product Ownership
3 12 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (3.98%) FMCG
6 7 (3.10%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.10%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.21%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.88%) 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
1 154 (68.14%) Analytics
2 138 (61.06%) Data Modelling
3 137 (60.62%) Business Intelligence
4 104 (46.02%) ETL
5 86 (38.05%) Data Engineering
6 84 (37.17%) Decision-Making
7 82 (36.28%) Data Governance
8 81 (35.84%) Data Pipeline
9 72 (31.86%) DevOps
10 70 (30.97%) CI/CD
10 70 (30.97%) Problem-Solving
11 65 (28.76%) AI
12 46 (20.35%) Agile
13 41 (18.14%) Machine Learning
13 41 (18.14%) Visualisation
14 36 (15.93%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (15.49%) Data Architecture
16 31 (13.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 31 (13.72%) Stakeholder Management
17 30 (13.27%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 162 (71.68%) SQL
2 102 (45.13%) Python
3 40 (17.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 21 (9.29%) Scala
5 18 (7.96%) T-SQL
6 10 (4.42%) C#
7 6 (2.65%) R
8 5 (2.21%) Bicep
8 5 (2.21%) Java
9 1 (0.44%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (8.85%) Degree
2 12 (5.31%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 9 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (3.54%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.54%) TOGAF Certification
5 7 (3.10%) IIBA
5 7 (3.10%) PMI Certification
5 7 (3.10%) PMP
5 7 (3.10%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.10%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.33%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.44%) MCSE
7 1 (0.44%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (36.73%) Data Quality
2 23 (10.18%) GDPR
3 12 (5.31%) Actionable Recommendations
4 9 (3.98%) QA
5 5 (2.21%) 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 (0.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (7.96%) Terraform
2 4 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 124 (54.87%) Databricks
2 80 (35.40%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.54%) Dataiku
3 8 (3.54%) SAP
4 7 (3.10%) Alteryx
4 7 (3.10%) Anaplan
5 4 (1.77%) Talend
6 3 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (1.33%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.33%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.44%) Google
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle
7 1 (0.44%) Teradata