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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 490 466
Rank change year-on-year -86 -24 +7
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 237 192 348
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.39% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.87% 1.24% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 187 136 273
10th Percentile £51,760 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -
75th Percentile £107,500 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -4.96%

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 27,320 15,472 24,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.26% 31.37% 31.87%
Number of salaries quoted 18,572 10,431 14,953
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -87 218 £80,000 +14.29% 153
London -24 129 £94,000 +21.29% 74
Work from Home +28 111 £92,500 +8.82% 70
UK excluding London -117 95 £62,500 - 79
South East -45 37 £62,500 -3.85% 19
North of England -48 25 £60,500 -8.68% 24
Yorkshire -17 14 £85,000 +41.39% 7
North West -31 11 £55,000 -18.52% 12
West Midlands -43 9 £55,750 -8.98% 11
Midlands -63 9 £55,750 +19.89% 17
South West -77 9 £58,750 -21.67% 8
Wales -54 8 £52,500 -8.70% 1
East of England -27 4 £70,000 +12.00% 7
North East -62 4 £57,500 -25.81% 5
Scotland +7 3 £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 26 (10.97%) Apache Spark
2 16 (6.75%) Apache
3 6 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.27%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.42%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.84%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 237 (100.00%) Azure
2 144 (60.76%) Azure Data Factory
3 96 (40.51%) Power Platform
4 52 (21.94%) Snowflake
5 47 (19.83%) Azure Databricks
6 38 (16.03%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (14.35%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (11.39%) AWS
8 27 (11.39%) Azure Machine Learning
9 23 (9.70%) Azure AI
9 23 (9.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 18 (7.59%) GCP
10 18 (7.59%) Serverless
11 12 (5.06%) Azure Functions
11 12 (5.06%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (5.06%) GitHub
11 12 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (4.22%) dbt
13 9 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (3.38%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.42%) Firewall
1 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (38.82%) Power BI
2 88 (37.13%) Data Lake
3 81 (34.18%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (22.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 53 (22.36%) Metadata
6 50 (21.10%) SQL Server
7 35 (14.77%) Delta Lake
8 30 (12.66%) Star Schema
9 20 (8.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (8.02%) Data Vault
11 16 (6.75%) Big Data
11 16 (6.75%) NoSQL
12 13 (5.49%) MongoDB
13 12 (5.06%) BigQuery
13 12 (5.06%) DynamoDB
13 12 (5.06%) Power Query
14 11 (4.64%) Semantic Layer
15 10 (4.22%) Amazon QuickSight
15 10 (4.22%) Snowflake Schema
15 10 (4.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (12.66%) Git
2 3 (1.27%) GitLab
2 3 (1.27%) MLflow
3 1 (0.42%) JIRA
3 1 (0.42%) kappa
General
1 71 (29.96%) Finance
2 59 (24.89%) Social Skills
3 47 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.22%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (2.95%) Banking
5 7 (2.95%) Legal
5 7 (2.95%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.11%) Law
6 5 (2.11%) Retail
7 3 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.84%) Police
8 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.42%) Billing
9 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.42%) Publishing
9 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (39.24%) Data Engineer
2 58 (24.47%) Senior
3 56 (23.63%) Architect
4 51 (21.52%) Data Architect
5 34 (14.35%) Azure Engineer
6 31 (13.08%) Senior Data Engineer
7 27 (11.39%) Lead
8 24 (10.13%) Data Manager
9 21 (8.86%) Azure Data Engineer
10 16 (6.75%) Lead Data Engineer
11 14 (5.91%) Azure Architect
12 13 (5.49%) Analyst
12 13 (5.49%) Developer
13 12 (5.06%) Azure Data Architect
14 11 (4.64%) Engineering Manager
14 11 (4.64%) Finance Manager
15 9 (3.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 9 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
16 8 (3.38%) Consultant
17 7 (2.95%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (22.78%) PySpark
2 38 (16.03%) Terraform
3 17 (7.17%) Kafka
4 8 (3.38%) JSON
5 6 (2.53%) Apache Avro
6 4 (1.69%) MDX
7 3 (1.27%) LangChain
7 3 (1.27%) Pulumi
7 3 (1.27%) REST
7 3 (1.27%) SAML
8 2 (0.84%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.84%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.84%) SOAP
8 2 (0.84%) XML
9 1 (0.42%) .NET
9 1 (0.42%) BAPI
9 1 (0.42%) Middleware
9 1 (0.42%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 43 (18.14%) Cloud Native
2 28 (11.81%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.64%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.22%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.69%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.69%) Replication
7 3 (1.27%) Data Fabric
7 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.27%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.27%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.84%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.84%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.84%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.84%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.42%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.42%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.49%) Windows
2 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (62.87%) Analytics
2 126 (53.16%) Business Intelligence
2 126 (53.16%) Data Modelling
3 124 (52.32%) CI/CD
4 108 (45.57%) ETL
5 106 (44.73%) Data Engineering
6 103 (43.46%) Data Pipeline
7 98 (41.35%) AI
8 86 (36.29%) Data Architecture
9 85 (35.86%) Agile
10 83 (35.02%) DevOps
11 75 (31.65%) Data Governance
12 67 (28.27%) Machine Learning
13 63 (26.58%) Lakehouse
14 60 (25.32%) Roadmaps
15 50 (21.10%) Technical Leadership
16 49 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
17 45 (18.99%) Infrastructure as Code
18 43 (18.14%) Data Science
19 42 (17.72%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 179 (75.53%) SQL
2 139 (58.65%) Python
3 31 (13.08%) Scala
4 27 (11.39%) Bicep
5 21 (8.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (6.33%) Java
7 13 (5.49%) PowerShell
8 12 (5.06%) C#
9 6 (2.53%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.69%) Bash
11 3 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.27%) VBA
12 1 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (12.24%) Azure Certification
2 25 (10.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 24 (10.13%) Security Cleared
4 18 (7.59%) SC Cleared
5 16 (6.75%) SnowPro
6 15 (6.33%) Degree
7 7 (2.95%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (2.11%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.42%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (41.35%) Data Quality
2 23 (9.70%) GDPR
3 16 (6.75%) SLA
4 9 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 9 (3.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (2.53%) QA
6 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.84%) IFRS
6 2 (0.84%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.84%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.42%) IASME
7 1 (0.42%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (9.28%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.53%) Docker
3 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.53%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.69%) Ansible
3 3 (1.27%) Grafana
3 3 (1.27%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 154 (64.98%) Databricks
2 146 (61.60%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.49%) Informatica
4 9 (3.80%) Talend
5 7 (2.95%) Google
5 7 (2.95%) SAP
6 4 (1.69%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.27%) Foundry
8 1 (0.42%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.42%) Confluent
8 1 (0.42%) Infor
8 1 (0.42%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow