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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 428 457
Rank change year-on-year -31 +29 +164
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 218 352 295
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.52% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.23% 1.59% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 133 270 238
10th Percentile £45,100 £43,625 £45,875
25th Percentile £59,000 £53,188 £52,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £116,500 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -16.97%

All Cloud 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 17,768 22,140 22,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.54% 32.57% 42.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11,332 13,359 19,033
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 -17 191 £70,500 +0.71% 144
London +16 106 £90,000 +5.88% 82
UK excluding London +10 93 £60,000 -4.00% 70
Work from Home -20 75 £83,750 +15.52% 64
North of England +26 24 £58,000 +7.41% 14
Midlands +56 23 £47,500 -8.65% 19
South East -32 23 £65,000 - 23
West Midlands +38 15 £60,000 +23.71% 15
North West +34 14 £64,000 +4.92% 7
East Midlands +31 8 £45,000 -28.00% 3
Scotland +10 7 - - 4
South West +21 6 £72,500 -9.38% 6
North East +10 5 £77,500 +70.33%
Yorkshire +1 5 £50,117 +0.23% 7
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East of England +25 3 £62,500 +11.11% 6
Wales +11 3 £60,000 +40.35%

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 23 (10.55%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.67%) Apache
3 5 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.83%) Apache Synapse
5 2 (0.92%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.46%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 24 (11.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (5.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.92%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.46%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 218 (100.00%) Azure
2 127 (58.26%) Power Platform
3 125 (57.34%) Azure Data Factory
4 29 (13.30%) AWS
4 29 (13.30%) Snowflake
5 26 (11.93%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (11.47%) GCP
6 25 (11.47%) Microsoft Purview
7 17 (7.80%) dbt
8 12 (5.50%) Fivetran
8 12 (5.50%) GitHub
9 9 (4.13%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.67%) Collibra
10 8 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (3.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (3.21%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (3.21%) Matillion
11 7 (3.21%) SaaS
12 6 (2.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.29%) Firewall
2 1 (0.46%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (56.88%) Power BI
2 71 (32.57%) Data Lake
3 64 (29.36%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (27.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 60 (27.52%) SQL Server
5 46 (21.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 27 (12.39%) NoSQL
6 27 (12.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 22 (10.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 21 (9.63%) Metadata
9 19 (8.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 18 (8.26%) Big Data
11 15 (6.88%) BigQuery
12 13 (5.96%) Hadoop
13 9 (4.13%) Tableau
14 8 (3.67%) Power Query
14 8 (3.67%) Snowflake Schema
15 7 (3.21%) Delta Lake
16 4 (1.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 4 (1.83%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Git
1 4 (1.83%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.46%) JIRA
2 1 (0.46%) JUnit
2 1 (0.46%) RStudio
2 1 (0.46%) Selenium
2 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (0.46%) TestComplete
General
1 97 (44.50%) Social Skills
2 76 (34.86%) Finance
3 57 (26.15%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (12.39%) Retail
5 23 (10.55%) Law
6 18 (8.26%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (5.96%) Billing
8 6 (2.75%) Banking
9 5 (2.29%) Legal
10 4 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.83%) Marketing
10 4 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.83%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.38%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.92%) Automotive
13 1 (0.46%) Advertising
13 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (37.16%) Data Engineer
2 38 (17.43%) Senior
3 34 (15.60%) Architect
4 31 (14.22%) Senior Data Engineer
5 27 (12.39%) Data Architect
6 26 (11.93%) Analyst
7 24 (11.01%) Lead
8 20 (9.17%) Developer
9 18 (8.26%) Azure Engineer
10 15 (6.88%) Azure Data Engineer
11 13 (5.96%) Azure Architect
11 13 (5.96%) Azure Data Architect
11 13 (5.96%) Product Lead
12 12 (5.50%) Business Manager
12 12 (5.50%) Commercial Analyst
12 12 (5.50%) Insight Analyst
12 12 (5.50%) Insight Manager
13 9 (4.13%) SQL Developer
14 8 (3.67%) Consultant
15 6 (2.75%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.63%) Kafka
2 19 (8.72%) PySpark
3 9 (4.13%) .NET
4 5 (2.29%) Middleware
5 4 (1.83%) Apache Beam
5 4 (1.83%) Pandas
5 4 (1.83%) Polars
6 3 (1.38%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.38%) REST
7 2 (0.92%) XML
8 1 (0.46%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.93%) Analytical Mindset
2 16 (7.34%) Product Ownership
3 14 (6.42%) FMCG
4 12 (5.50%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (4.59%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.29%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.38%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.92%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.46%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.46%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.46%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.46%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.46%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.29%) Windows
1 5 (2.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (71.10%) Analytics
2 134 (61.47%) Business Intelligence
3 104 (47.71%) Data Modelling
4 86 (39.45%) ETL
5 85 (38.99%) Data Engineering
6 81 (37.16%) DevOps
7 74 (33.94%) Data Pipeline
7 74 (33.94%) Decision-Making
8 67 (30.73%) Data Governance
9 63 (28.90%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (28.44%) CI/CD
11 58 (26.61%) AI
11 58 (26.61%) Visualisation
12 52 (23.85%) Agile
13 46 (21.10%) Machine Learning
14 37 (16.97%) Data Architecture
15 35 (16.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 33 (15.14%) Continuous Improvement
17 32 (14.68%) Data Analytics
18 31 (14.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 174 (79.82%) SQL
2 94 (43.12%) Python
3 35 (16.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 22 (10.09%) T-SQL
5 17 (7.80%) C#
6 14 (6.42%) Scala
7 10 (4.59%) R
8 8 (3.67%) Java
9 4 (1.83%) Bicep
10 2 (0.92%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (8.72%) Degree
2 18 (8.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (6.42%) Azure Certification
4 12 (5.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 11 (5.05%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.05%) Security Cleared
6 8 (3.67%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.29%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.29%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.92%) MCSE
9 1 (0.46%) IIBA
9 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.46%) PMP
9 1 (0.46%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (28.44%) Data Quality
2 22 (10.09%) QA
3 21 (9.63%) GDPR
4 12 (5.50%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.92%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (6.42%) Terraform
2 5 (2.29%) Grafana
2 5 (2.29%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.38%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 107 (49.08%) Databricks
2 98 (44.95%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.34%) SAP
4 8 (3.67%) Dataiku
5 5 (2.29%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.29%) SolarWinds
5 5 (2.29%) Talend
6 4 (1.83%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.83%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.83%) Google
6 4 (1.83%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.38%) Informatica
7 3 (1.38%) Oracle
8 2 (0.92%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.46%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.46%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.46%) Lotus
9 1 (0.46%) PayPal
9 1 (0.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.46%) Teradata