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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 420 520
Rank change year-on-year +8 +100 +92
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 233 292 271
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.56% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.10% 1.53% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 166 233 222
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £44,100
25th Percentile £65,313 £52,500 £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 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £114,850 £94,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% -11.54%

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 21,096 19,038 26,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.56% 36.42% 39.02%
Number of salaries quoted 11,481 11,105 22,093
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,716
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.35% -5.97%

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 27 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 27 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 -14 202 £85,000 +23.64% 249
UK excluding London -23 106 £75,000 +15.38% 241
London +64 104 £90,000 +12.50% 45
Work from Home +45 102 £85,000 +17.24% 113
South East -23 41 £85,000 +30.77% 83
Midlands -2 21 £65,000 +44.44% 33
North of England -5 19 £75,000 +13.21% 41
West Midlands +13 16 £65,000 +44.44% 11
Scotland +1 9 - - 8
North West +16 8 £66,500 -11.33% 18
East of England +25 6 £62,500 +8.70% 35
Yorkshire -26 6 £67,617 +4.03% 17
North East +2 5 £77,500 +70.33% 6
South West -11 4 £48,500 -11.82% 28
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 5
East Midlands -11 3 £55,000 -12.00% 22
Wales +3 2 - - 13

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 17 (7.30%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.00%) Apache
3 4 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 24 (10.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 233 (100.00%) Azure
2 141 (60.52%) Azure Data Factory
3 129 (55.36%) Power Platform
4 36 (15.45%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (11.59%) Microsoft Purview
6 24 (10.30%) Snowflake
7 20 (8.58%) dbt
8 19 (8.15%) GitHub
9 18 (7.73%) AWS
10 17 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (6.87%) GCP
12 13 (5.58%) PaaS
13 12 (5.15%) Fivetran
14 11 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (4.72%) SaaS
15 9 (3.86%) Collibra
16 8 (3.43%) ChatGPT
16 8 (3.43%) Entra ID
16 8 (3.43%) Microsoft Copilot
17 7 (3.00%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.86%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (52.79%) Power BI
2 93 (39.91%) Data Lake
3 77 (33.05%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (26.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 50 (21.46%) SQL Server
6 41 (17.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 23 (9.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 21 (9.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 20 (8.58%) Metadata
10 16 (6.87%) Big Data
10 16 (6.87%) Delta Lake
11 10 (4.29%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (4.29%) Power Query
12 8 (3.43%) NoSQL
12 8 (3.43%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (3.43%) Tableau
13 6 (2.58%) Data Mining
13 6 (2.58%) Hadoop
14 5 (2.15%) BigQuery
15 3 (1.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (9.01%) Git
2 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.43%) JIRA
General
1 101 (43.35%) Finance
2 99 (42.49%) Social Skills
3 49 (21.03%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.73%) Law
5 13 (5.58%) Billing
5 13 (5.58%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.15%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.15%) Legal
7 5 (2.15%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.72%) Banking
9 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.29%) Retail
10 2 (0.86%) Advertising
10 2 (0.86%) Local Government
11 1 (0.43%) Automotive
11 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Marketing
11 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (37.77%) Data Engineer
2 47 (20.17%) Architect
3 41 (17.60%) Data Architect
4 37 (15.88%) Senior
5 33 (14.16%) Azure Architect
6 32 (13.73%) Azure Data Architect
7 29 (12.45%) Senior Data Engineer
8 28 (12.02%) Lead
9 19 (8.15%) Analyst
10 17 (7.30%) Azure Engineer
11 15 (6.44%) Azure Data Engineer
11 15 (6.44%) Developer
12 12 (5.15%) Business Manager
12 12 (5.15%) Commercial Analyst
12 12 (5.15%) Insight Analyst
12 12 (5.15%) Insight Manager
12 12 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 11 (4.72%) Consultant
14 9 (3.86%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.44%) PySpark
2 13 (5.58%) Kafka
3 3 (1.29%) .NET
3 3 (1.29%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.86%) XML
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.43%) MDX
5 1 (0.43%) Pandas
5 1 (0.43%) Polars
5 1 (0.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.59%) Analytical Mindset
2 15 (6.44%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (4.29%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.43%) AI Agents
5 8 (3.43%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (3.00%) FMCG
7 5 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.43%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.43%) IoT
11 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (67.38%) Analytics
2 145 (62.23%) Data Modelling
3 138 (59.23%) Business Intelligence
4 107 (45.92%) ETL
5 84 (36.05%) Data Governance
6 83 (35.62%) Data Engineering
6 83 (35.62%) Decision-Making
7 81 (34.76%) Data Pipeline
8 76 (32.62%) CI/CD
9 72 (30.90%) DevOps
10 70 (30.04%) Problem-Solving
11 64 (27.47%) AI
12 43 (18.45%) Agile
13 42 (18.03%) Visualisation
14 37 (15.88%) Data Architecture
15 35 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (15.02%) Machine Learning
16 33 (14.16%) Actionable Insight
17 32 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
18 29 (12.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 162 (69.53%) SQL
2 103 (44.21%) Python
3 42 (18.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 21 (9.01%) Scala
5 18 (7.73%) T-SQL
6 10 (4.29%) C#
7 6 (2.58%) R
8 5 (2.15%) Bicep
8 5 (2.15%) Java
9 1 (0.43%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (9.01%) Degree
2 12 (5.15%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 10 (4.29%) Azure Certification
3 10 (4.29%) Security Cleared
4 8 (3.43%) IIBA
4 8 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (3.43%) PMI Certification
4 8 (3.43%) PMP
4 8 (3.43%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.43%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (1.29%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.43%) MCSE
6 1 (0.43%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (39.06%) Data Quality
2 24 (10.30%) GDPR
3 12 (5.15%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (3.00%) QA
4 7 (3.00%) SLA
5 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.43%) COBIT
6 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (1.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (8.15%) Terraform
2 4 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 126 (54.08%) Databricks
2 77 (33.05%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.43%) Alteryx
3 8 (3.43%) Anaplan
3 8 (3.43%) Dataiku
4 6 (2.58%) SAP
5 4 (1.72%) Talend
6 2 (0.86%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.43%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.43%) Google
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle
7 1 (0.43%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.43%) Teradata