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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 473 485
Rank change year-on-year -39 +12 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 286 224 353
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.45% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 1.40% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 226 146 290
10th Percentile £51,950 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £64,375 £52,813 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £66,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.85% -5.36% -6.67%
75th Percentile £118,750 £86,813 £95,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £110,625 £107,500
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 27,651 16,009 25,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.15% 31.95% 31.70%
Number of salaries quoted 18,548 10,944 17,588
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,750 £44,998
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.53%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 31 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Top 15 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 31 August 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 -30 274 £90,000 +38.46% 74
London -2 164 £102,500 +46.43% 41
Work from Home +39 139 £105,000 +27.27% 38
UK excluding London -98 109 £75,000 +15.38% 52
South East -18 55 £85,000 +30.77% 24
North of England -56 25 £66,250 -1.85% 12
Yorkshire -28 14 £90,000 +38.46% 5
East of England -5 9 £66,250 +26.19% 1
North West -8 8 £52,500 -22.22% 7
South West -66 8 £58,750 -21.67% 4
West Midlands -39 7 £65,000 +4.00% 4
Midlands -54 7 £65,000 +35.42% 5
Wales -65 4 £52,500 -8.70% 2
North East -58 3 £60,000 -22.58%
Scotland -2 1 £55,000 - 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 50 (17.48%) Apache Spark
2 29 (10.14%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (5.24%) Apache
4 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.35%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 286 (100.00%) Azure
2 126 (44.06%) Azure Data Factory
3 115 (40.21%) Power Platform
4 107 (37.41%) Snowflake
5 65 (22.73%) Azure Machine Learning
6 63 (22.03%) Azure AI
7 46 (16.08%) Azure Databricks
8 42 (14.69%) AWS
9 39 (13.64%) GCP
10 35 (12.24%) Microsoft Purview
11 29 (10.14%) dbt
12 26 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (6.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 11 (3.85%) Serverless
15 9 (3.15%) GitHub
15 9 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (2.10%) Amazon Kinesis
16 6 (2.10%) Azure Functions
16 6 (2.10%) Azure Key Vault
17 5 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (39.86%) Power BI
2 100 (34.97%) Data Lake
3 96 (33.57%) Data Warehouse
4 74 (25.87%) SQL Server
5 47 (16.43%) Metadata
6 42 (14.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 37 (12.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 35 (12.24%) BigQuery
8 35 (12.24%) Delta Lake
9 31 (10.84%) Tableau
10 29 (10.14%) Snowflake Schema
11 23 (8.04%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (8.04%) Looker
11 23 (8.04%) Milvus
12 22 (7.69%) Big Data
12 22 (7.69%) Star Schema
13 18 (6.29%) Data Vault
14 10 (3.50%) NoSQL
15 9 (3.15%) MongoDB
15 9 (3.15%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 28 (9.79%) MLflow
2 20 (6.99%) Git
3 1 (0.35%) JIRA
3 1 (0.35%) kappa
General
1 102 (35.66%) Finance
2 61 (21.33%) Social Skills
3 59 (20.63%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.85%) Banking
5 9 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.45%) Legal
7 5 (1.75%) Law
7 5 (1.75%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.75%) Retail
8 2 (0.70%) Police
9 1 (0.35%) Billing
9 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Publishing
9 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (30.42%) Data Engineer
2 73 (25.52%) Senior
3 72 (25.17%) Architect
4 63 (22.03%) Data Architect
5 46 (16.08%) Data Manager
6 33 (11.54%) Engineering Manager
6 33 (11.54%) Finance Manager
7 32 (11.19%) Lead
8 30 (10.49%) Azure Architect
9 25 (8.74%) Azure Data Architect
9 25 (8.74%) Senior Data Engineer
10 23 (8.04%) Azure Engineer
10 23 (8.04%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 23 (8.04%) Systems Engineer
11 18 (6.29%) Azure Data Engineer
11 18 (6.29%) Lead Data Engineer
12 13 (4.55%) Big Data Engineer
12 13 (4.55%) DataOps Engineer
12 13 (4.55%) DataOps Leader
12 13 (4.55%) Lead Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (16.08%) PySpark
2 39 (13.64%) Kafka
3 30 (10.49%) Terraform
4 26 (9.09%) LangChain
5 23 (8.04%) LlamaIndex
5 23 (8.04%) pgvector
5 23 (8.04%) PyTorch
5 23 (8.04%) scikit-learn
5 23 (8.04%) TensorFlow
6 3 (1.05%) .NET
6 3 (1.05%) Pulumi
7 2 (0.70%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.70%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.70%) FastAPI
7 2 (0.70%) MDX
7 2 (0.70%) RESTful
7 2 (0.70%) Vue
8 1 (0.35%) BAPI
8 1 (0.35%) REST
8 1 (0.35%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 58 (20.28%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.04%) Clustering
2 23 (8.04%) Product Ownership
2 23 (8.04%) Public Cloud
3 7 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.75%) Data Fabric
5 5 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.40%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.40%) Replication
7 3 (1.05%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.70%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.70%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.70%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.70%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.35%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (54.90%) Data Engineering
2 156 (54.55%) AI
3 154 (53.85%) Analytics
4 145 (50.70%) Business Intelligence
5 141 (49.30%) Data Governance
6 137 (47.90%) Data Modelling
7 128 (44.76%) Machine Learning
8 118 (41.26%) ETL
9 114 (39.86%) Data Architecture
10 111 (38.81%) CI/CD
11 110 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
12 105 (36.71%) Agile
13 96 (33.57%) Roadmaps
14 87 (30.42%) Lakehouse
15 70 (24.48%) Migration
16 66 (23.08%) Data Science
17 64 (22.38%) DevOps
18 60 (20.98%) Regulatory Compliance
19 57 (19.93%) Data Development
20 55 (19.23%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 225 (78.67%) SQL
2 154 (53.85%) Python
3 29 (10.14%) Scala
4 23 (8.04%) Bicep
5 14 (4.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (3.50%) C#
6 10 (3.50%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.15%) Java
8 5 (1.75%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.05%) VBA
10 2 (0.70%) R
11 1 (0.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 33 (11.54%) Azure Certification
2 29 (10.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (5.59%) SnowPro
4 15 (5.24%) Security Cleared
5 13 (4.55%) Degree
6 9 (3.15%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.45%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.75%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (30.07%) Data Quality
2 43 (15.03%) GDPR
3 28 (9.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 23 (8.04%) SLA
5 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.05%) QA
6 2 (0.70%) IFRS
6 2 (0.70%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.70%) Solvency II
System Software
1 55 (19.23%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.05%) Ansible
Vendors
1 216 (75.52%) Databricks
2 172 (60.14%) Microsoft
3 23 (8.04%) Cloudera
3 23 (8.04%) Dell
4 11 (3.85%) OpenAI
5 9 (3.15%) Informatica
6 7 (2.45%) Foundry
7 6 (2.10%) Google
8 5 (1.75%) Talend
9 4 (1.40%) SAP
10 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.35%) Confluent
10 1 (0.35%) Infor
10 1 (0.35%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow