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

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 440 444
Rank change year-on-year -49 +4 +190
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 184 353 303
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.49% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.19% 1.54% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 130 276 248
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,813 £82,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £58,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year +6.84% - -16.43%

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 15,451 22,911 24,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.49% 32.09% 42.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10,399 13,886 20,133
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 13 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Top 16 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 October 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 -35 170 £70,000 - 112
London +5 101 £85,000 - 45
UK excluding London 0 70 £62,500 +6.84% 97
Work from Home -53 49 £85,000 +21.43% 77
South East -7 26 £65,000 - 37
Midlands +52 22 £46,500 -20.85% 18
West Midlands +27 14 £61,250 +4.26% 12
North of England -18 11 £61,250 +13.43% 27
East Midlands +23 8 £45,000 -12.20% 6
North West -16 7 £57,500 +3.14% 15
South West +46 4 £75,000 - 5
Yorkshire +7 3 £60,117 +20.23% 9
East of England +7 3 £62,500 +11.11% 2
Wales +14 2 £57,500 +34.50% 2
Scotland +8 2 - - 7
North East +19 1 £77,500 +40.27% 4

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 26 (14.13%) Apache Spark
2 9 (4.89%) Apache
3 7 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.17%) Apache Synapse
4 4 (2.17%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.09%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.54%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (7.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.09%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.54%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 184 (100.00%) Azure
2 96 (52.17%) Power Platform
3 89 (48.37%) Azure Data Factory
4 32 (17.39%) AWS
5 30 (16.30%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (14.13%) GCP
7 24 (13.04%) Snowflake
8 18 (9.78%) Microsoft Purview
9 12 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (5.98%) dbt
11 10 (5.43%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (4.89%) GitHub
13 8 (4.35%) Azure API Management
14 7 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (3.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 6 (3.26%) Fivetran
16 5 (2.72%) Amazon Kinesis
16 5 (2.72%) Azure Logic Apps
16 5 (2.72%) Collibra
16 5 (2.72%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.80%) Firewall
2 2 (1.09%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (50.54%) Power BI
2 55 (29.89%) Data Lake
3 52 (28.26%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (18.48%) SQL Server
5 30 (16.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 29 (15.76%) NoSQL
7 23 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (11.96%) Big Data
8 22 (11.96%) Metadata
9 19 (10.33%) BigQuery
10 18 (9.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (8.15%) Hadoop
12 13 (7.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 12 (6.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (3.80%) Tableau
15 5 (2.72%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 5 (2.72%) Delta Lake
15 5 (2.72%) Power Query
16 4 (2.17%) Data Mining
16 4 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (2.72%) Git
1 5 (2.72%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.17%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.09%) JIRA
3 2 (1.09%) Selenium
4 1 (0.54%) JMeter
4 1 (0.54%) JUnit
4 1 (0.54%) Locust
4 1 (0.54%) Postman
4 1 (0.54%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.54%) RStudio
4 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.54%) TestComplete
General
1 63 (34.24%) Social Skills
2 51 (27.72%) Finance
3 36 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (14.13%) Retail
5 23 (12.50%) Law
6 8 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.26%) Banking
7 6 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.72%) Legal
9 4 (2.17%) Marketing
9 4 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.09%) Automotive
12 1 (0.54%) Advertising
12 1 (0.54%) Billing
Job Titles
1 69 (37.50%) Data Engineer
2 31 (16.85%) Architect
3 28 (15.22%) Senior
4 27 (14.67%) Lead
5 26 (14.13%) Data Architect
6 22 (11.96%) Senior Data Engineer
7 20 (10.87%) Azure Engineer
8 18 (9.78%) Developer
9 17 (9.24%) Azure Data Engineer
10 16 (8.70%) Analyst
11 13 (7.07%) Product Lead
12 9 (4.89%) Data Manager
12 9 (4.89%) SQL Developer
13 8 (4.35%) Azure Architect
13 8 (4.35%) Azure Data Architect
14 7 (3.80%) Data Science Manager
14 7 (3.80%) Infrastructure Analyst
15 6 (3.26%) Data Analyst
15 6 (3.26%) Database Developer
15 6 (3.26%) SQL Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.96%) PySpark
2 21 (11.41%) Kafka
3 11 (5.98%) .NET
4 8 (4.35%) Middleware
5 5 (2.72%) Apache Beam
6 4 (2.17%) Pandas
6 4 (2.17%) Polars
7 3 (1.63%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.09%) REST
8 2 (1.09%) XML
8 2 (1.09%) YAML
9 1 (0.54%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (0.54%) Blazor
9 1 (0.54%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.15%) Product Ownership
2 14 (7.61%) FMCG
3 10 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.89%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.80%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.09%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.09%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.09%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.09%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.54%) Life Science
9 1 (0.54%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.54%) Replication
9 1 (0.54%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.80%) Windows
1 7 (3.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (59.24%) Analytics
2 99 (53.80%) Business Intelligence
3 84 (45.65%) DevOps
4 77 (41.85%) Data Engineering
5 74 (40.22%) Data Modelling
6 70 (38.04%) ETL
7 63 (34.24%) Data Pipeline
8 57 (30.98%) CI/CD
9 51 (27.72%) Agile
10 50 (27.17%) Data Governance
11 42 (22.83%) Machine Learning
12 40 (21.74%) Decision-Making
12 40 (21.74%) Visualisation
13 38 (20.65%) AI
14 34 (18.48%) Data Architecture
14 34 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (18.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 28 (15.22%) Technical Leadership
16 27 (14.67%) Data Visualisation
17 23 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 146 (79.35%) SQL
2 85 (46.20%) Python
3 19 (10.33%) T-SQL
4 16 (8.70%) C#
5 13 (7.07%) Scala
6 11 (5.98%) Java
6 11 (5.98%) R
7 8 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (2.17%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.63%) Bicep
10 2 (1.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (7.61%) Azure Certification
2 14 (7.61%) SC Cleared
2 14 (7.61%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.43%) Degree
3 10 (5.43%) Master's Degree
4 9 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.26%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.09%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.54%) MBA
7 1 (0.54%) MCSE
7 1 (0.54%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (19.57%) Data Quality
2 26 (14.13%) QA
3 18 (9.78%) GDPR
4 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (1.09%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.09%) Docker
1 2 (1.09%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (11.41%) Terraform
2 7 (3.80%) Grafana
2 7 (3.80%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.63%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 102 (55.43%) Databricks
2 91 (49.46%) Microsoft
3 18 (9.78%) SAP
4 8 (4.35%) Google
5 7 (3.80%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.80%) SolarWinds
6 5 (2.72%) Oracle
7 4 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (2.17%) Dataiku
7 4 (2.17%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.17%) Informatica
7 4 (2.17%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.63%) Talend
9 2 (1.09%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.09%) Teradata
10 1 (0.54%) Adobe
10 1 (0.54%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.54%) Lotus
10 1 (0.54%) PayPal