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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 411 556
Rank change year-on-year -27 +145 +54
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 266 276 269
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.60% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 1.61% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 197 221 224
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £52,500
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 £88,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £94,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +23.08% +13.04% -8.00%

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 23,589 17,106 30,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.67% 37.32% 38.08%
Number of salaries quoted 12,692 10,927 24,500
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,750 £30,984
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,264 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +10.02% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -39 229 £85,000 +21.43% 98
UK excluding London -52 122 £80,000 +23.08% 80
Work from Home +38 114 £85,000 +13.33% 58
London +38 113 £90,000 +12.50% 36
South East -39 51 £85,000 +21.43% 31
Midlands -23 22 £65,000 +18.18% 16
North of England -44 22 £70,932 +5.08% 17
West Midlands -16 16 £65,000 +30.00% 8
North West -15 10 £70,932 +1.33% 7
Scotland -4 9 - - 3
Yorkshire -45 8 £75,466 +13.91% 8
East of England +8 7 £62,500 - 4
South West -18 5 £48,500 -11.82% 8
North East -10 4 - - 2
East Midlands -26 4 £57,500 -8.00% 7
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Wales -9 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 20 (7.52%) Apache Spark
2 14 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.63%) Apache
4 4 (1.50%) SAS
5 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
Applications
1 25 (9.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 266 (100.00%) Azure
2 151 (56.77%) Power Platform
3 142 (53.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 37 (13.91%) Snowflake
5 35 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (11.28%) dbt
7 27 (10.15%) GCP
8 21 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (7.52%) Microsoft Purview
10 19 (7.14%) AWS
11 18 (6.77%) GitHub
12 17 (6.39%) PaaS
13 14 (5.26%) Entra ID
14 13 (4.89%) SaaS
15 12 (4.51%) Fivetran
16 10 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
17 9 (3.38%) Azure Logic Apps
17 9 (3.38%) Collibra
18 8 (3.01%) ChatGPT
18 8 (3.01%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.50%) WAN
2 2 (0.75%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (54.51%) Power BI
2 108 (40.60%) Data Lake
3 85 (31.95%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (25.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 48 (18.05%) SQL Server
6 40 (15.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 21 (7.89%) Big Data
7 21 (7.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 21 (7.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 17 (6.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (6.39%) BigQuery
8 17 (6.39%) Delta Lake
8 17 (6.39%) Metadata
8 17 (6.39%) Tableau
9 16 (6.02%) Snowflake Schema
10 12 (4.51%) Power Query
11 9 (3.38%) Looker
12 8 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (2.26%) Data Mining
14 5 (1.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (7.89%) Git
2 9 (3.38%) MLflow
3 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
General
1 105 (39.47%) Finance
2 104 (39.10%) Social Skills
3 51 (19.17%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.89%) Billing
5 12 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.01%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.63%) Law
9 6 (2.26%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.50%) Banking
11 3 (1.13%) Legal
11 3 (1.13%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Local Government
13 1 (0.38%) Advertising
13 1 (0.38%) Automotive
13 1 (0.38%) Marketing
13 1 (0.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 96 (36.09%) Data Engineer
2 65 (24.44%) Architect
3 56 (21.05%) Senior
4 47 (17.67%) Data Architect
5 44 (16.54%) Azure Architect
6 40 (15.04%) Azure Data Architect
7 38 (14.29%) Lead
8 30 (11.28%) Senior Data Engineer
9 19 (7.14%) Big Data Engineer
9 19 (7.14%) DataOps Engineer
9 19 (7.14%) DataOps Leader
9 19 (7.14%) Lead Big Data Engineer
9 19 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
10 18 (6.77%) Analyst
11 17 (6.39%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (5.64%) Azure Data Engineer
13 15 (5.64%) Developer
14 13 (4.89%) Senior Architect
15 12 (4.51%) Insight Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.02%) PySpark
2 15 (5.64%) Kafka
3 8 (3.01%) LangChain
3 8 (3.01%) LlamaIndex
3 8 (3.01%) pgvector
3 8 (3.01%) PyTorch
3 8 (3.01%) scikit-learn
3 8 (3.01%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.50%) CSS
5 3 (1.13%) .NET
6 2 (0.75%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Beam
7 1 (0.38%) MDX
7 1 (0.38%) Middleware
7 1 (0.38%) REST
7 1 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.90%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.77%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.14%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.01%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.01%) Clustering
6 8 (3.01%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (3.01%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.26%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.88%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.75%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.75%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.38%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.38%) FMCG
10 1 (0.38%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (61.65%) Analytics
2 159 (59.77%) Business Intelligence
3 157 (59.02%) Data Modelling
4 111 (41.73%) ETL
5 95 (35.71%) Data Governance
6 87 (32.71%) CI/CD
6 87 (32.71%) Data Pipeline
7 85 (31.95%) Data Engineering
8 74 (27.82%) Decision-Making
9 70 (26.32%) AI
9 70 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
10 69 (25.94%) DevOps
11 43 (16.17%) Data Architecture
12 41 (15.41%) Stakeholder Management
12 41 (15.41%) Visualisation
13 39 (14.66%) Agile
14 35 (13.16%) Cost Optimisation
14 35 (13.16%) Machine Learning
15 34 (12.78%) Roadmaps
16 33 (12.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 175 (65.79%) SQL
2 119 (44.74%) Python
3 42 (15.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 18 (6.77%) T-SQL
5 16 (6.02%) Scala
6 10 (3.76%) C#
7 5 (1.88%) Bicep
7 5 (1.88%) Java
8 3 (1.13%) R
9 1 (0.38%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (8.27%) Degree
2 12 (4.51%) Azure Certification
2 12 (4.51%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 10 (3.76%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (3.01%) IIBA
5 8 (3.01%) PMI Certification
5 8 (3.01%) PMP
6 3 (1.13%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.38%) MCSE
7 1 (0.38%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (36.84%) Data Quality
2 26 (9.77%) GDPR
3 19 (7.14%) SLA
4 12 (4.51%) Actionable Recommendations
5 9 (3.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.38%) COBIT
7 1 (0.38%) QA
7 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (1.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (7.14%) Terraform
2 4 (1.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 144 (54.14%) Databricks
2 84 (31.58%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.38%) Alteryx
4 8 (3.01%) Anaplan
4 8 (3.01%) Cloudera
4 8 (3.01%) Dataiku
4 8 (3.01%) Dell
5 4 (1.50%) Concur
5 4 (1.50%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.50%) Sage
5 4 (1.50%) Talend
6 3 (1.13%) Google
7 2 (0.75%) Foundry
8 1 (0.38%) Teradata