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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 422 587
Rank change year-on-year -9 +165 -18
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 315 236 313
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.54% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.18% 1.57% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 263 181 272
10th Percentile £54,000 £43,750 £43,875
25th Percentile £70,000 £56,250 £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 £102,500 £87,000 £86,563
90th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £102,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +21.43% +16.67% -

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 26,671 15,071 34,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.33% 34.63% 35.63%
Number of salaries quoted 14,912 10,556 26,678
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,687 £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 £82,500 £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 15 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 15 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 +15 294 £90,000 +28.57% 52
London +26 156 £90,000 +24.14% 33
Work from Home +112 150 £90,000 +28.57% 31
UK excluding London -41 136 £85,000 +21.43% 30
South East -2 78 £90,000 +28.57% 13
North of England -32 18 £70,932 +5.08% 8
Midlands -48 18 £64,250 +14.22% 2
Yorkshire -48 13 £80,000 +18.52% 5
West Midlands -50 12 £66,750 +18.67% 2
East of England -3 10 £58,750 +11.90% 1
South West -53 7 £52,500 -4.55% 3
Scotland -2 4 - - 1
East Midlands - 4 £57,500 -
North West -7 3 £70,932 +3.17% 3
North East - 2 £60,000 -
Wales -31 1 £55,000 -14.02% 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 44 (13.97%) Apache Spark
2 31 (9.84%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.17%) Apache
4 4 (1.27%) SAS
5 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (1.27%) 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
1 315 (100.00%) Azure
2 129 (40.95%) Power Platform
3 115 (36.51%) Azure Data Factory
4 94 (29.84%) Snowflake
5 62 (19.68%) Azure AI
6 61 (19.37%) Azure Machine Learning
7 42 (13.33%) GCP
8 38 (12.06%) AWS
9 32 (10.16%) dbt
10 28 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (5.71%) GitHub
12 16 (5.08%) Microsoft Purview
13 14 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (3.81%) Entra ID
14 12 (3.81%) PaaS
15 10 (3.17%) SaaS
16 9 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
17 8 (2.54%) Microsoft Copilot
18 7 (2.22%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.27%) WAN
2 1 (0.32%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (39.68%) Power BI
2 117 (37.14%) Data Lake
3 88 (27.94%) Data Warehouse
4 69 (21.90%) SQL Server
5 52 (16.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 36 (11.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 36 (11.43%) Big Data
6 36 (11.43%) BigQuery
7 29 (9.21%) Tableau
8 25 (7.94%) Snowflake Schema
9 24 (7.62%) Looker
10 23 (7.30%) Elasticsearch
11 20 (6.35%) Delta Lake
12 15 (4.76%) Metadata
13 9 (2.86%) Power Query
14 7 (2.22%) Star Schema
15 6 (1.90%) Data Mining
16 5 (1.59%) Spark SQL
17 4 (1.27%) MongoDB
17 4 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (8.89%) MLflow
2 26 (8.25%) Git
3 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
General
1 136 (43.17%) Finance
2 75 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 49 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.44%) Banking
5 9 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (1.90%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.27%) 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%) Legal
10 1 (0.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 98 (31.11%) Data Engineer
2 79 (25.08%) Architect
3 72 (22.86%) Senior
4 61 (19.37%) Data Architect
5 57 (18.10%) Azure Architect
6 51 (16.19%) Azure Data Architect
6 51 (16.19%) Lead
7 34 (10.79%) Data Manager
8 33 (10.48%) Engineering Manager
8 33 (10.48%) Finance Manager
9 30 (9.52%) Big Data Engineer
9 30 (9.52%) DataOps Engineer
9 30 (9.52%) DataOps Leader
9 30 (9.52%) Lead Big Data Engineer
10 26 (8.25%) Lead Data Engineer
11 24 (7.62%) Senior Data Engineer
12 23 (7.30%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 23 (7.30%) Systems Engineer
13 16 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
13 16 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (10.79%) Kafka
2 28 (8.89%) PySpark
3 23 (7.30%) LangChain
3 23 (7.30%) LlamaIndex
3 23 (7.30%) pgvector
3 23 (7.30%) PyTorch
3 23 (7.30%) scikit-learn
3 23 (7.30%) TensorFlow
4 5 (1.59%) .NET
5 4 (1.27%) 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 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.30%) Clustering
2 23 (7.30%) Public Cloud
3 13 (4.13%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.22%) AI Agents
5 7 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.27%) 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 (48.25%) Data Governance
2 151 (47.94%) Data Engineering
3 146 (46.35%) Analytics
4 144 (45.71%) Data Modelling
5 140 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
6 126 (40.00%) ETL
7 125 (39.68%) AI
8 112 (35.56%) Data Pipeline
9 104 (33.02%) CI/CD
10 102 (32.38%) Machine Learning
11 99 (31.43%) Data Architecture
12 98 (31.11%) Agile
13 81 (25.71%) Migration
14 80 (25.40%) Roadmaps
15 66 (20.95%) Regulatory Compliance
16 63 (20.00%) DevOps
17 56 (17.78%) Data Development
18 55 (17.46%) Line Management
19 52 (16.51%) Use Case
20 48 (15.24%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 219 (69.52%) SQL
2 139 (44.13%) Python
3 17 (5.40%) Scala
4 16 (5.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 10 (3.17%) T-SQL
6 9 (2.86%) PowerShell
7 8 (2.54%) Java
8 6 (1.90%) Bicep
9 4 (1.27%) C#
10 3 (0.95%) R
11 2 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.63%) VBA
12 1 (0.32%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (4.13%) Azure Certification
2 12 (3.81%) Degree
3 9 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (2.86%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.22%) IIBA
4 7 (2.22%) PMI Certification
4 7 (2.22%) PMP
5 4 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.27%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.95%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (26.35%) Data Quality
2 32 (10.16%) GDPR
2 32 (10.16%) SLA
3 23 (7.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.63%) IFRS
4 2 (0.63%) IFRS 17
4 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.63%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.32%) COBIT
5 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 55 (17.46%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (6.67%) Terraform
2 7 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.95%) Ansible
3 3 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 234 (74.29%) Databricks
2 133 (42.22%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.30%) Cloudera
3 23 (7.30%) Dell
4 10 (3.17%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.54%) Alteryx
6 7 (2.22%) Anaplan
7 5 (1.59%) Foundry
8 4 (1.27%) Concur
8 4 (1.27%) Google
8 4 (1.27%) Sage
9 2 (0.63%) SAP
10 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.32%) Confluent
10 1 (0.32%) Infor
10 1 (0.32%) Informatica
10 1 (0.32%) Refinitiv