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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 431 591
Rank change year-on-year +1 +160 -19
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 317 238 313
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.54% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.19% 1.55% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 266 183 271
10th Percentile £54,375 £42,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £87,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £68,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +23.64% +14.58% -

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 26,587 15,373 34,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.41% 35.15% 35.65%
Number of salaries quoted 14,876 10,843 26,768
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Top 16 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 12 May 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 +1 296 £90,000 +28.57% 41
London +43 156 £90,000 +22.03% 26
Work from Home +98 150 £90,000 +28.57% 26
UK excluding London -28 137 £85,000 +23.64% 30
South East +10 79 £90,000 +28.57% 12
Midlands -46 19 £65,000 +18.18% 3
North of England -35 17 £70,932 +5.08% 7
West Midlands -46 13 £65,500 +19.09% 2
Yorkshire -49 12 £80,000 +18.52% 5
East of England -6 10 £58,750 +11.90% 1
South West -46 7 £52,500 -4.55% 2
Scotland +1 4 - - 2
East Midlands - 4 £57,500 - 1
North West -12 3 £70,932 +1.33% 2
North East - 2 £60,000 -
Wales -27 1 £55,000 -14.02% 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 44 (13.88%) Apache Spark
2 31 (9.78%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.15%) Apache
4 4 (1.26%) SAS
5 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 317 (100.00%) Azure
2 129 (40.69%) Power Platform
3 116 (36.59%) Azure Data Factory
4 94 (29.65%) Snowflake
5 62 (19.56%) Azure AI
6 61 (19.24%) Azure Machine Learning
7 42 (13.25%) GCP
8 38 (11.99%) AWS
9 32 (10.09%) dbt
10 30 (9.46%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (5.68%) GitHub
11 18 (5.68%) Microsoft Purview
12 15 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (4.42%) PaaS
14 12 (3.79%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (3.79%) Entra ID
15 11 (3.47%) SaaS
16 8 (2.52%) Azure Service Bus
16 8 (2.52%) ChatGPT
16 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.26%) WAN
2 2 (0.63%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (39.43%) Power BI
2 119 (37.54%) Data Lake
3 87 (27.44%) Data Warehouse
4 69 (21.77%) SQL Server
5 52 (16.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 36 (11.36%) Big Data
7 35 (11.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 35 (11.04%) BigQuery
8 28 (8.83%) Tableau
9 25 (7.89%) Snowflake Schema
10 24 (7.57%) Looker
11 23 (7.26%) Elasticsearch
12 20 (6.31%) Delta Lake
13 16 (5.05%) Metadata
14 9 (2.84%) Power Query
15 7 (2.21%) Star Schema
16 6 (1.89%) Data Mining
17 5 (1.58%) Spark SQL
18 4 (1.26%) MongoDB
18 4 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (8.83%) MLflow
2 26 (8.20%) Git
3 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
General
1 136 (42.90%) Finance
2 76 (23.97%) Social Skills
3 49 (15.46%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.42%) Banking
5 10 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (1.89%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.63%) Law
9 2 (0.63%) Local Government
10 1 (0.32%) Advertising
10 1 (0.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 99 (31.23%) Data Engineer
2 79 (24.92%) Architect
3 73 (23.03%) Senior
4 61 (19.24%) Data Architect
5 57 (17.98%) Azure Architect
6 51 (16.09%) Azure Data Architect
7 50 (15.77%) Lead
8 34 (10.73%) Data Manager
9 33 (10.41%) Engineering Manager
9 33 (10.41%) Finance Manager
10 30 (9.46%) Big Data Engineer
10 30 (9.46%) DataOps Engineer
10 30 (9.46%) DataOps Leader
10 30 (9.46%) Lead Big Data Engineer
11 26 (8.20%) Lead Data Engineer
12 25 (7.89%) Senior Data Engineer
13 23 (7.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 23 (7.26%) Systems Engineer
14 16 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
14 16 (5.05%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (10.73%) Kafka
2 28 (8.83%) PySpark
3 23 (7.26%) LangChain
3 23 (7.26%) LlamaIndex
3 23 (7.26%) pgvector
3 23 (7.26%) PyTorch
3 23 (7.26%) scikit-learn
3 23 (7.26%) TensorFlow
4 6 (1.89%) .NET
5 4 (1.26%) CSS
6 2 (0.63%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.63%) RESTful
6 2 (0.63%) Vue
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Beam
7 1 (0.32%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.32%) BAPI
7 1 (0.32%) MDX
7 1 (0.32%) Middleware
7 1 (0.32%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 45 (14.20%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.26%) Clustering
2 23 (7.26%) Public Cloud
3 13 (4.10%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.52%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.52%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.26%) Replication
8 3 (0.95%) Data Fabric
8 3 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.63%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.32%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.32%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.32%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.32%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.32%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.32%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (47.95%) Data Governance
2 151 (47.63%) Data Engineering
3 148 (46.69%) Analytics
4 144 (45.43%) Data Modelling
5 140 (44.16%) Business Intelligence
6 125 (39.43%) AI
7 124 (39.12%) ETL
8 111 (35.02%) Data Pipeline
9 106 (33.44%) CI/CD
10 103 (32.49%) Machine Learning
11 99 (31.23%) Data Architecture
12 98 (30.91%) Agile
13 82 (25.87%) Migration
14 80 (25.24%) Roadmaps
15 66 (20.82%) Regulatory Compliance
16 65 (20.50%) DevOps
17 56 (17.67%) Data Development
18 55 (17.35%) Line Management
19 53 (16.72%) Use Case
20 49 (15.46%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 219 (69.09%) SQL
2 139 (43.85%) Python
3 17 (5.36%) Scala
4 16 (5.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 11 (3.47%) T-SQL
6 9 (2.84%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.21%) Bicep
7 7 (2.21%) Java
8 5 (1.58%) C#
9 3 (0.95%) R
10 2 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.63%) VBA
11 1 (0.32%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (4.10%) Azure Certification
1 13 (4.10%) Degree
2 10 (3.15%) Security Cleared
3 9 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (2.52%) IIBA
4 8 (2.52%) PMI Certification
4 8 (2.52%) PMP
5 5 (1.58%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.95%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (26.18%) Data Quality
2 33 (10.41%) GDPR
3 32 (10.09%) SLA
4 23 (7.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.63%) IFRS
5 2 (0.63%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.63%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.32%) COBIT
6 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 55 (17.35%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (6.94%) Terraform
2 8 (2.52%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.95%) Ansible
Vendors
1 236 (74.45%) Databricks
2 133 (41.96%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.26%) Cloudera
3 23 (7.26%) Dell
4 10 (3.15%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.84%) Alteryx
6 8 (2.52%) Anaplan
7 5 (1.58%) Foundry
8 4 (1.26%) Concur
8 4 (1.26%) Google
8 4 (1.26%) Sage
9 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.32%) Confluent
9 1 (0.32%) Infor
9 1 (0.32%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.32%) SAP