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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 450 513
Rank change year-on-year -57 +63 -12
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 284 240 342
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.49% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 1.51% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 229 157 297
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £49,000
25th Percentile £76,250 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £118,750 £83,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £103,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +30.77% +8.33% -

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 27,568 15,912 28,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.11% 32.25% 32.40%
Number of salaries quoted 18,019 11,067 20,788
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,500 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £84,128 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% -4.55%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -36 273 £90,000 +33.33% 43
London +19 163 £95,000 +35.71% 22
Work from Home +47 136 £105,000 +44.83% 29
UK excluding London -87 104 £85,000 +30.77% 30
South East -33 53 £90,000 +38.46% 12
North of England -21 27 £70,932 +5.08% 7
Yorkshire -15 17 £80,000 +14.29% 4
East of England -16 9 £66,250 +26.19%
South West -56 9 £57,500 -23.33%
North West -16 8 £61,250 -9.26% 3
Midlands -63 5 £67,500 +28.57% 7
West Midlands -49 4 £55,000 -10.20% 7
North East - 2 £60,000 - 1
East Midlands -34 1 £80,000 +77.78%
Wales -57 1 £55,000 -4.35% 3

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 47 (16.55%) Apache Spark
2 30 (10.56%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (4.23%) Apache
4 4 (1.41%) SAS
5 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.35%) Confluence
6 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 284 (100.00%) Azure
2 113 (39.79%) Power Platform
3 105 (36.97%) Azure Data Factory
4 102 (35.92%) Snowflake
5 64 (22.54%) Azure Machine Learning
6 63 (22.18%) Azure AI
7 43 (15.14%) GCP
8 42 (14.79%) AWS
9 30 (10.56%) dbt
10 28 (9.86%) Microsoft Purview
11 16 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (4.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (3.17%) Entra ID
13 9 (3.17%) GitHub
13 9 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.82%) Serverless
15 7 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
16 5 (1.76%) Azure Functions
16 5 (1.76%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (39.44%) Power BI
2 96 (33.80%) Data Lake
3 86 (30.28%) Data Warehouse
4 67 (23.59%) SQL Server
5 39 (13.73%) Amazon Redshift
6 38 (13.38%) BigQuery
7 36 (12.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 35 (12.32%) Metadata
9 33 (11.62%) Tableau
10 30 (10.56%) Big Data
11 26 (9.15%) Delta Lake
12 24 (8.45%) Snowflake Schema
13 23 (8.10%) Elasticsearch
13 23 (8.10%) Looker
14 13 (4.58%) Data Vault
14 13 (4.58%) Star Schema
15 9 (3.17%) Power Query
16 8 (2.82%) Semantic Layer
17 6 (2.11%) Spark SQL
18 5 (1.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (9.86%) MLflow
2 13 (4.58%) Git
3 1 (0.35%) JIRA
General
1 103 (36.27%) Finance
2 62 (21.83%) Social Skills
3 54 (19.01%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.87%) Banking
5 7 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (2.46%) Legal
5 7 (2.46%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.76%) Law
7 3 (1.06%) Retail
8 2 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.70%) Police
9 1 (0.35%) Billing
9 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 84 (29.58%) Data Engineer
2 80 (28.17%) Architect
3 72 (25.35%) Senior
4 64 (22.54%) Data Architect
5 44 (15.49%) Data Manager
6 42 (14.79%) Lead
7 37 (13.03%) Azure Architect
8 33 (11.62%) Engineering Manager
8 33 (11.62%) Finance Manager
9 32 (11.27%) Azure Data Architect
10 24 (8.45%) Lead Data Engineer
11 23 (8.10%) Senior Data Engineer
11 23 (8.10%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 23 (8.10%) Systems Engineer
12 21 (7.39%) Big Data Engineer
12 21 (7.39%) DataOps Engineer
12 21 (7.39%) DataOps Leader
12 21 (7.39%) Lead Big Data Engineer
13 14 (4.93%) Azure Engineer
14 13 (4.58%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (13.38%) Kafka
2 36 (12.68%) PySpark
3 25 (8.80%) LangChain
4 23 (8.10%) LlamaIndex
4 23 (8.10%) pgvector
4 23 (8.10%) PyTorch
4 23 (8.10%) scikit-learn
4 23 (8.10%) TensorFlow
5 4 (1.41%) CSS
6 3 (1.06%) .NET
7 2 (0.70%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.70%) RESTful
7 2 (0.70%) Vue
8 1 (0.35%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.35%) BAPI
8 1 (0.35%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.35%) Middleware
8 1 (0.35%) REST
8 1 (0.35%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 56 (19.72%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.10%) Clustering
2 23 (8.10%) Public Cloud
3 17 (5.99%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.41%) Replication
8 3 (1.06%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.06%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.06%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.70%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.70%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.35%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (52.46%) Data Governance
2 148 (52.11%) Data Engineering
3 146 (51.41%) AI
3 146 (51.41%) Analytics
4 138 (48.59%) Business Intelligence
5 127 (44.72%) Data Modelling
6 126 (44.37%) Machine Learning
7 108 (38.03%) Data Architecture
8 103 (36.27%) Data Pipeline
9 102 (35.92%) CI/CD
10 100 (35.21%) ETL
11 99 (34.86%) Agile
12 91 (32.04%) Roadmaps
13 75 (26.41%) Migration
14 64 (22.54%) Regulatory Compliance
15 60 (21.13%) Data Science
16 57 (20.07%) Data Development
17 55 (19.37%) DevOps
17 55 (19.37%) Line Management
18 49 (17.25%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 209 (73.59%) SQL
2 138 (48.59%) Python
3 21 (7.39%) Scala
4 18 (6.34%) Bicep
5 11 (3.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (3.52%) Java
6 10 (3.52%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.41%) C#
7 4 (1.41%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.06%) VBA
9 1 (0.35%) Bash
9 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (9.51%) Azure Certification
2 21 (7.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (5.28%) Security Cleared
4 11 (3.87%) SnowPro
5 10 (3.52%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.46%) Degree
7 6 (2.11%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.41%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (28.87%) Data Quality
2 39 (13.73%) GDPR
3 30 (10.56%) SLA
4 23 (8.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.06%) QA
6 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.70%) IFRS
6 2 (0.70%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.70%) Solvency II
System Software
1 55 (19.37%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (8.45%) Terraform
2 7 (2.46%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.06%) Ansible
Vendors
1 216 (76.06%) Databricks
2 149 (52.46%) Microsoft
3 23 (8.10%) Cloudera
3 23 (8.10%) Dell
4 11 (3.87%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.46%) Foundry
5 7 (2.46%) Google
6 4 (1.41%) Concur
6 4 (1.41%) Informatica
6 4 (1.41%) Sage
7 3 (1.06%) SAP
8 1 (0.35%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.35%) Confluent
8 1 (0.35%) Infor
8 1 (0.35%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow