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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 394 558
Rank change year-on-year -42 +164 +39
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 275 264 288
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.62% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.14% 1.67% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 202 203 240
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £65,313 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £97,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.52% +12.50% -4.00%

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 24,204 15,801 32,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.24% 37.16% 37.68%
Number of salaries quoted 12,926 10,992 25,773
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -31 238 £85,000 +21.43% 75
UK excluding London -44 128 £80,000 +18.52% 52
Work from Home +30 116 £85,000 +13.33% 38
London +23 116 £90,000 +12.50% 32
South East -40 55 £85,000 +21.43% 23
North of England -45 26 £70,932 +5.08% 11
Midlands -32 21 £65,000 +30.00% 9
West Midlands -21 15 £65,000 +30.00% 9
North West -10 11 £70,932 +3.17% 6
Yorkshire -40 10 £70,932 +5.08% 4
Scotland -17 9 - -
East of England - 6 £55,000 - 2
North East -19 5 £60,000 +31.87% 1
South West -30 5 £48,500 -11.82% 7
East Midlands - 4 £57,500 -
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Wales -13 2 - - 2

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 25 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 19 (6.91%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.18%) Apache
4 4 (1.45%) SAS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
Applications
1 25 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 275 (100.00%) Azure
2 154 (56.00%) Power Platform
3 145 (52.73%) Azure Data Factory
4 40 (14.55%) Snowflake
5 31 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (11.27%) dbt
5 31 (11.27%) GCP
6 23 (8.36%) AWS
7 20 (7.27%) Microsoft Purview
8 17 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (5.82%) GitHub
10 15 (5.45%) Entra ID
10 15 (5.45%) PaaS
11 11 (4.00%) SaaS
12 10 (3.64%) Fivetran
13 9 (3.27%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (2.91%) ChatGPT
14 8 (2.91%) Microsoft Copilot
14 8 (2.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.45%) WAN
2 2 (0.73%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (53.82%) Power BI
2 115 (41.82%) Data Lake
3 91 (33.09%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (24.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 46 (16.73%) SQL Server
6 37 (13.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 23 (8.36%) Big Data
8 22 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (8.00%) BigQuery
8 22 (8.00%) Tableau
9 21 (7.64%) Snowflake Schema
10 17 (6.18%) Delta Lake
10 17 (6.18%) Metadata
10 17 (6.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 17 (6.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (5.09%) Looker
12 13 (4.73%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (4.36%) Power Query
14 6 (2.18%) Data Mining
15 5 (1.82%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (7.64%) Git
2 15 (5.45%) MLflow
3 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
General
1 105 (38.18%) Social Skills
2 104 (37.82%) Finance
3 56 (20.36%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.36%) Billing
4 12 (4.36%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.55%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.18%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.18%) Law
8 4 (1.45%) Banking
9 3 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Legal
10 2 (0.73%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) Advertising
11 1 (0.36%) Automotive
11 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.36%) Marketing
11 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 98 (35.64%) Data Engineer
2 67 (24.36%) Architect
3 64 (23.27%) Senior
4 48 (17.45%) Data Architect
5 46 (16.73%) Azure Architect
6 41 (14.91%) Azure Data Architect
7 40 (14.55%) Lead
8 29 (10.55%) Senior Data Engineer
9 21 (7.64%) Big Data Engineer
9 21 (7.64%) DataOps Engineer
9 21 (7.64%) DataOps Leader
9 21 (7.64%) Lead Big Data Engineer
10 20 (7.27%) Lead Data Engineer
11 18 (6.55%) Analyst
11 18 (6.55%) Azure Data Engineer
11 18 (6.55%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (5.82%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (5.45%) Developer
14 14 (5.09%) Consultant
14 14 (5.09%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.09%) PySpark
2 20 (7.27%) Kafka
3 13 (4.73%) LangChain
3 13 (4.73%) LlamaIndex
3 13 (4.73%) pgvector
3 13 (4.73%) PyTorch
3 13 (4.73%) scikit-learn
3 13 (4.73%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.45%) .NET
4 4 (1.45%) CSS
5 1 (0.36%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.36%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.36%) MDX
5 1 (0.36%) Middleware
5 1 (0.36%) REST
5 1 (0.36%) RESTful
5 1 (0.36%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 13 (4.73%) Clustering
3 13 (4.73%) Public Cloud
4 12 (4.36%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.91%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.91%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (2.55%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.82%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.09%) Data Fabric
11 2 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.73%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.36%) FMCG
12 1 (0.36%) IoT
12 1 (0.36%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (61.82%) Analytics
2 163 (59.27%) Data Modelling
3 162 (58.91%) Business Intelligence
4 119 (43.27%) ETL
5 101 (36.73%) Data Governance
6 91 (33.09%) Data Engineering
6 91 (33.09%) Data Pipeline
7 89 (32.36%) CI/CD
8 77 (28.00%) AI
9 74 (26.91%) Decision-Making
10 73 (26.55%) Problem-Solving
11 67 (24.36%) DevOps
12 44 (16.00%) Data Architecture
13 42 (15.27%) Stakeholder Management
14 41 (14.91%) Visualisation
15 40 (14.55%) Agile
15 40 (14.55%) Machine Learning
16 38 (13.82%) Performance Tuning
16 38 (13.82%) Use Case
17 36 (13.09%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 187 (68.00%) SQL
2 130 (47.27%) Python
3 41 (14.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 16 (5.82%) T-SQL
5 14 (5.09%) Scala
6 9 (3.27%) C#
7 4 (1.45%) Bicep
7 4 (1.45%) Java
8 3 (1.09%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.09%) R
9 1 (0.36%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (8.73%) Degree
2 13 (4.73%) Azure Certification
3 12 (4.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 11 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (4.00%) Security Cleared
5 9 (3.27%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.91%) IIBA
6 8 (2.91%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.91%) PMP
7 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.09%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.36%) MCSE
9 1 (0.36%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (36.73%) Data Quality
2 27 (9.82%) GDPR
3 22 (8.00%) SLA
4 14 (5.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 12 (4.36%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.36%) COBIT
7 1 (0.36%) QA
7 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (1.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (6.91%) Terraform
2 5 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.73%) Ansible
Vendors
1 155 (56.36%) Databricks
2 84 (30.55%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.73%) Cloudera
3 13 (4.73%) Dell
4 9 (3.27%) Alteryx
5 8 (2.91%) Anaplan
6 7 (2.55%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.18%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.45%) Concur
8 4 (1.45%) Foundry
8 4 (1.45%) Sage
8 4 (1.45%) Talend
9 3 (1.09%) Google
10 1 (0.36%) Teradata