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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 391 576
Rank change year-on-year -7 +185 +15
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 333 258 298
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.63% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 1.70% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 251 198 249
10th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £66,875 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +21.43% +16.67% -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 25,665 15,138 33,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.16% 37.02% 36.99%
Number of salaries quoted 13,582 11,003 26,384
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -17 296 £90,000 +28.57% 63
Work from Home +84 159 £90,000 +20.00% 34
UK excluding London -51 153 £85,000 +21.43% 43
London +39 149 £90,000 +12.50% 31
South East -27 74 £87,500 +25.00% 17
North of England -61 26 £70,932 +5.08% 10
Midlands -46 22 £65,000 +30.00% 6
West Midlands -35 16 £65,250 +30.50% 6
East of England -16 10 £58,750 +11.90% 3
North West -25 10 £70,932 +5.08% 5
Yorkshire -50 10 £70,932 +5.08% 3
Scotland -21 9 - -
North East -21 6 £60,000 - 2
South West -35 6 £48,500 -11.82% 7
East Midlands - 4 £57,500 -
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Wales -21 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 35 (10.51%) Apache Spark
2 29 (8.71%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.80%) Apache
4 4 (1.20%) SAS
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
Applications
1 25 (7.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 333 (100.00%) Azure
2 166 (49.85%) Power Platform
3 152 (45.65%) Azure Data Factory
4 84 (25.23%) Snowflake
5 43 (12.91%) Azure AI
6 41 (12.31%) GCP
7 40 (12.01%) Azure Machine Learning
8 39 (11.71%) dbt
9 33 (9.91%) AWS
10 29 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (6.01%) Microsoft Purview
12 17 (5.11%) GitHub
13 16 (4.80%) Entra ID
14 15 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
14 15 (4.50%) PaaS
15 11 (3.30%) SaaS
16 10 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
17 9 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
18 8 (2.40%) Fivetran
18 8 (2.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.20%) WAN
2 2 (0.60%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (47.75%) Power BI
2 129 (38.74%) Data Lake
3 99 (29.73%) Data Warehouse
4 77 (23.12%) SQL Server
5 74 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 35 (10.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 32 (9.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 32 (9.61%) BigQuery
7 32 (9.61%) Tableau
8 30 (9.01%) Snowflake Schema
9 27 (8.11%) Big Data
10 24 (7.21%) Looker
11 23 (6.91%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (5.41%) Metadata
13 17 (5.11%) Delta Lake
14 13 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 12 (3.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 11 (3.30%) Power Query
17 6 (1.80%) Data Mining
18 5 (1.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (7.51%) MLflow
2 24 (7.21%) Git
3 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
General
1 144 (43.24%) Finance
2 106 (31.83%) Social Skills
3 68 (20.42%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (3.60%) Billing
4 12 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (3.00%) Banking
6 9 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.10%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.80%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.20%) Law
10 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Local Government
12 1 (0.30%) Advertising
12 1 (0.30%) Automotive
12 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.30%) Marketing
12 1 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 105 (31.53%) Data Engineer
2 79 (23.72%) Senior
3 78 (23.42%) Architect
4 59 (17.72%) Data Architect
5 56 (16.82%) Azure Architect
6 51 (15.32%) Azure Data Architect
7 41 (12.31%) Lead
8 31 (9.31%) Senior Data Engineer
9 25 (7.51%) Big Data Engineer
9 25 (7.51%) DataOps Engineer
9 25 (7.51%) DataOps Leader
9 25 (7.51%) Lead Big Data Engineer
10 23 (6.91%) Data Manager
10 23 (6.91%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 23 (6.91%) Systems Engineer
11 22 (6.61%) Engineering Manager
11 22 (6.61%) Finance Manager
12 21 (6.31%) Lead Data Engineer
13 18 (5.41%) Analyst
13 18 (5.41%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.01%) Kafka
2 28 (8.41%) PySpark
3 23 (6.91%) LangChain
3 23 (6.91%) LlamaIndex
3 23 (6.91%) pgvector
3 23 (6.91%) PyTorch
3 23 (6.91%) scikit-learn
3 23 (6.91%) TensorFlow
4 5 (1.50%) .NET
5 4 (1.20%) CSS
6 2 (0.60%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.60%) RESTful
6 2 (0.60%) Vue
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Beam
7 1 (0.30%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.30%) MDX
7 1 (0.30%) Middleware
7 1 (0.30%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 44 (13.21%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.81%) Analytical Mindset
3 23 (6.91%) Clustering
3 23 (6.91%) Public Cloud
4 12 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.30%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.40%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.40%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.50%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.60%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.60%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.30%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.30%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.30%) IoT
11 1 (0.30%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (55.86%) Analytics
2 174 (52.25%) Data Modelling
3 173 (51.95%) Business Intelligence
4 149 (44.74%) Data Governance
5 138 (41.44%) Data Engineering
6 130 (39.04%) ETL
7 126 (37.84%) AI
8 109 (32.73%) Data Pipeline
9 98 (29.43%) CI/CD
10 87 (26.13%) Machine Learning
11 84 (25.23%) Data Architecture
12 81 (24.32%) Agile
13 76 (22.82%) Problem-Solving
14 74 (22.22%) Decision-Making
15 68 (20.42%) DevOps
16 67 (20.12%) Roadmaps
17 66 (19.82%) Migration
18 49 (14.71%) Performance Tuning
19 48 (14.41%) Regulatory Compliance
19 48 (14.41%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 238 (71.47%) SQL
2 146 (43.84%) Python
3 42 (12.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 15 (4.50%) Scala
4 15 (4.50%) T-SQL
5 8 (2.40%) C#
6 4 (1.20%) Bicep
6 4 (1.20%) Java
6 4 (1.20%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.90%) R
8 1 (0.30%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (7.51%) Degree
2 13 (3.90%) Azure Certification
3 12 (3.60%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 11 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (3.30%) Security Cleared
5 9 (2.70%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.40%) IIBA
6 8 (2.40%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.40%) PMP
7 3 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.90%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.30%) MCSE
9 1 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (31.23%) Data Quality
2 35 (10.51%) GDPR
3 26 (7.81%) SLA
4 24 (7.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 12 (3.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.30%) COBIT
7 1 (0.30%) QA
7 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (10.81%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.20%) Docker
3 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.71%) Terraform
2 6 (1.80%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.60%) Ansible
Vendors
1 213 (63.96%) Databricks
2 123 (36.94%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.91%) Cloudera
3 23 (6.91%) Dell
4 9 (2.70%) Alteryx
4 9 (2.70%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.40%) Anaplan
6 5 (1.50%) Foundry
7 4 (1.20%) Concur
7 4 (1.20%) Dataiku
7 4 (1.20%) Sage
7 4 (1.20%) Talend
8 3 (0.90%) Google
9 1 (0.30%) Infor
9 1 (0.30%) Teradata