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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 409 531
Rank change year-on-year -29 +122 +84
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 245 287 273
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.58% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.08% 1.57% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 184 225 228
10th Percentile £54,300 £43,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £66,750
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +4.87% -4.64%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £80,313
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +19.23% +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 22,608 18,303 28,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.30% 37.21% 38.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,219 10,901 23,698
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -13 209 £85,000 +21.43% 89
UK excluding London -44 113 £77,500 +19.23% 73
Work from Home +43 112 £85,000 +13.33% 61
London +33 103 £90,000 +12.50% 36
South East -17 44 £85,000 +21.43% 33
Midlands -1 22 £65,000 +44.44% 16
North of England -35 21 £70,932 +5.08% 11
West Midlands -2 16 £65,000 +44.44% 6
North West 0 10 £70,932 +1.33% 7
Scotland -1 9 - - 2
Yorkshire -37 7 £80,000 +23.08% 3
East of England +19 6 £62,500 - 5
South West -2 5 £48,500 -11.82% 6
North East -5 4 - - 1
East Midlands -12 4 £57,500 -8.00% 10
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Wales 0 2 - - 1

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 14 (5.71%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.27%) Apache
3 6 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.63%) SAS
5 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 25 (10.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 245 (100.00%) Azure
2 141 (57.55%) Azure Data Factory
3 131 (53.47%) Power Platform
4 36 (14.69%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (11.84%) Snowflake
6 24 (9.80%) Microsoft Purview
7 23 (9.39%) dbt
8 20 (8.16%) GCP
9 19 (7.76%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (7.35%) GitHub
11 15 (6.12%) PaaS
12 14 (5.71%) AWS
13 12 (4.90%) Fivetran
14 11 (4.49%) Entra ID
14 11 (4.49%) SaaS
15 10 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (3.67%) Collibra
17 8 (3.27%) ChatGPT
17 8 (3.27%) Microsoft Copilot
18 7 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.82%) DNS
1 2 (0.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (51.02%) Power BI
2 99 (40.41%) Data Lake
3 81 (33.06%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (26.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 48 (19.59%) SQL Server
6 40 (16.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 22 (8.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 21 (8.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 19 (7.76%) Metadata
10 17 (6.94%) Big Data
11 15 (6.12%) Delta Lake
12 11 (4.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (4.49%) Power Query
13 9 (3.67%) BigQuery
14 8 (3.27%) Snowflake Schema
14 8 (3.27%) Tableau
15 6 (2.45%) Data Mining
16 4 (1.63%) NoSQL
17 3 (1.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 3 (1.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (8.57%) Git
2 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.41%) JIRA
General
1 104 (42.45%) Finance
2 98 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 47 (19.18%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.71%) Law
5 13 (5.31%) Billing
6 12 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.86%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.04%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.63%) Banking
10 4 (1.63%) Legal
11 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.82%) Local Government
13 1 (0.41%) Advertising
13 1 (0.41%) Automotive
13 1 (0.41%) Marketing
13 1 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 93 (37.96%) Data Engineer
2 59 (24.08%) Architect
3 46 (18.78%) Data Architect
4 44 (17.96%) Senior
5 40 (16.33%) Azure Architect
6 38 (15.51%) Azure Data Architect
7 33 (13.47%) Lead
8 30 (12.24%) Senior Data Engineer
9 17 (6.94%) Analyst
9 17 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
10 15 (6.12%) Azure Data Engineer
10 15 (6.12%) Developer
10 15 (6.12%) Lead Data Engineer
10 15 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (5.31%) Big Data Engineer
11 13 (5.31%) DataOps Engineer
11 13 (5.31%) DataOps Leader
11 13 (5.31%) Lead Big Data Engineer
12 12 (4.90%) Insight Analyst
12 12 (4.90%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.39%) PySpark
2 9 (3.67%) Kafka
3 3 (1.22%) .NET
4 2 (0.82%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.82%) CSS
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.41%) MDX
5 1 (0.41%) Middleware
5 1 (0.41%) REST
5 1 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.02%) Analytical Mindset
2 16 (6.53%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (3.67%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.27%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.27%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.04%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.22%) FMCG
9 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.41%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.41%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.41%) IoT
10 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (64.08%) Analytics
2 151 (61.63%) Data Modelling
3 144 (58.78%) Business Intelligence
4 103 (42.04%) ETL
5 83 (33.88%) Data Governance
6 80 (32.65%) Data Pipeline
6 80 (32.65%) Decision-Making
7 78 (31.84%) Data Engineering
8 77 (31.43%) CI/CD
9 70 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
10 67 (27.35%) DevOps
11 63 (25.71%) AI
12 44 (17.96%) Data Architecture
13 42 (17.14%) Visualisation
14 38 (15.51%) Agile
15 37 (15.10%) Stakeholder Management
16 33 (13.47%) Continuous Improvement
17 32 (13.06%) Actionable Insight
17 32 (13.06%) Machine Learning
17 32 (13.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 160 (65.31%) SQL
2 104 (42.45%) Python
3 41 (16.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 19 (7.76%) Scala
5 17 (6.94%) T-SQL
6 10 (4.08%) C#
7 6 (2.45%) Java
8 5 (2.04%) Bicep
9 4 (1.63%) R
10 1 (0.41%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (8.57%) Degree
2 12 (4.90%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 11 (4.49%) Security Cleared
4 10 (4.08%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.67%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.27%) IIBA
6 8 (3.27%) PMI Certification
6 8 (3.27%) PMP
6 8 (3.27%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.22%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.41%) MCSE
9 1 (0.41%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (40.41%) Data Quality
2 23 (9.39%) GDPR
3 13 (5.31%) SLA
4 12 (4.90%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.82%) QA
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.41%) COBIT
6 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (7.35%) Terraform
2 4 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.22%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 130 (53.06%) Databricks
2 80 (32.65%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.27%) Alteryx
3 8 (3.27%) Anaplan
3 8 (3.27%) Dataiku
4 4 (1.63%) Talend
5 3 (1.22%) Google
6 2 (0.82%) Concur
6 2 (0.82%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.82%) Sage
6 2 (0.82%) SAP
7 1 (0.41%) Foundry
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle
7 1 (0.41%) Teradata