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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 444 553
Rank change year-on-year -26 +109 -56
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 297 246 370
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.50% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.10% 1.55% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 242 169 317
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £118,750 £82,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £135,625 £108,750 £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 27,007 15,871 33,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.46% 32.37% 33.26%
Number of salaries quoted 17,602 11,053 25,645
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,262
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

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 11 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 11 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 -15 283 £90,000 +33.33% 45
London +26 161 £92,500 +32.14% 26
Work from Home +57 141 £92,500 +42.31% 25
UK excluding London -57 115 £85,000 +30.77% 31
South East -28 59 £90,000 +38.46% 16
North of England -17 27 £70,932 +3.17% 3
Yorkshire -11 17 £80,000 +14.29% 2
South West -59 10 £55,000 -8.33% 1
East of England -6 9 £66,250 +26.19% 2
Midlands -57 9 £60,000 +9.09% 8
North West -7 8 £61,250 -10.91% 1
West Midlands -39 6 £62,500 +8.70% 7
East Midlands -33 3 £60,000 +33.33% 1
North East - 2 £60,000 -
Wales -47 1 £55,000 -4.35% 1

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 46 (15.49%) Apache Spark
2 31 (10.44%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (4.04%) Apache
4 4 (1.35%) SAS
5 2 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) Confluence
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 297 (100.00%) Azure
2 118 (39.73%) Power Platform
3 111 (37.37%) Azure Data Factory
4 99 (33.33%) Snowflake
5 62 (20.88%) Azure AI
5 62 (20.88%) Azure Machine Learning
6 45 (15.15%) GCP
7 43 (14.48%) AWS
8 31 (10.44%) dbt
9 26 (8.75%) Microsoft Purview
10 20 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (4.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (3.37%) GitHub
13 9 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (3.03%) Entra ID
14 8 (2.69%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (2.36%) Azure Monitor
16 6 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
16 6 (2.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.35%) WAN
2 1 (0.34%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (39.39%) Power BI
2 102 (34.34%) Data Lake
3 92 (30.98%) Data Warehouse
4 67 (22.56%) SQL Server
5 43 (14.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 39 (13.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 39 (13.13%) BigQuery
7 33 (11.11%) Big Data
7 33 (11.11%) Tableau
8 28 (9.43%) Metadata
9 25 (8.42%) Delta Lake
10 24 (8.08%) Snowflake Schema
11 23 (7.74%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (7.74%) Looker
12 12 (4.04%) Star Schema
13 10 (3.37%) Data Vault
13 10 (3.37%) Power Query
14 7 (2.36%) Semantic Layer
15 6 (2.02%) Spark SQL
15 6 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (9.43%) MLflow
2 16 (5.39%) Git
3 1 (0.34%) JIRA
General
1 106 (35.69%) Finance
2 66 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 55 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.70%) Banking
5 9 (3.03%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.36%) Legal
7 5 (1.68%) Law
8 3 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.01%) Retail
9 2 (0.67%) Local Government
9 2 (0.67%) Police
10 1 (0.34%) Billing
10 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 90 (30.30%) Data Engineer
2 82 (27.61%) Architect
3 72 (24.24%) Senior
4 67 (22.56%) Data Architect
5 49 (16.50%) Lead
6 44 (14.81%) Azure Architect
7 42 (14.14%) Data Manager
8 39 (13.13%) Azure Data Architect
9 33 (11.11%) Engineering Manager
9 33 (11.11%) Finance Manager
10 27 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
11 25 (8.42%) Big Data Engineer
11 25 (8.42%) DataOps Engineer
11 25 (8.42%) DataOps Leader
11 25 (8.42%) Lead Big Data Engineer
12 23 (7.74%) Senior Data Engineer
12 23 (7.74%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 23 (7.74%) Systems Engineer
13 15 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
14 14 (4.71%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.12%) Kafka
2 35 (11.78%) PySpark
3 24 (8.08%) LangChain
4 23 (7.74%) LlamaIndex
4 23 (7.74%) pgvector
4 23 (7.74%) PyTorch
4 23 (7.74%) scikit-learn
4 23 (7.74%) TensorFlow
5 4 (1.35%) CSS
6 3 (1.01%) .NET
7 2 (0.67%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.67%) RESTful
7 2 (0.67%) Vue
8 1 (0.34%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.34%) BAPI
8 1 (0.34%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.34%) Middleware
8 1 (0.34%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 52 (17.51%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.74%) Clustering
2 23 (7.74%) Public Cloud
3 16 (5.39%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.35%) Replication
8 3 (1.01%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.01%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.01%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.67%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.34%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.34%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.34%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.34%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.34%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.01%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (50.84%) Data Governance
2 149 (50.17%) Analytics
2 149 (50.17%) Data Engineering
3 142 (47.81%) Business Intelligence
4 138 (46.46%) AI
5 132 (44.44%) Data Modelling
6 118 (39.73%) Machine Learning
7 111 (37.37%) ETL
8 108 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
9 104 (35.02%) CI/CD
9 104 (35.02%) Data Architecture
10 99 (33.33%) Agile
11 88 (29.63%) Roadmaps
12 76 (25.59%) Migration
13 64 (21.55%) Regulatory Compliance
14 57 (19.19%) Data Development
15 56 (18.86%) Data Science
16 55 (18.52%) DevOps
16 55 (18.52%) Line Management
17 51 (17.17%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 216 (72.73%) SQL
2 142 (47.81%) Python
3 19 (6.40%) Scala
4 16 (5.39%) Bicep
5 13 (4.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (3.37%) Java
6 10 (3.37%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.68%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.35%) C#
9 3 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.01%) R
9 3 (1.01%) VBA
10 1 (0.34%) Bash
Qualifications
1 24 (8.08%) Azure Certification
2 17 (5.72%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (5.05%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.37%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.69%) Degree
5 8 (2.69%) SnowPro
6 6 (2.02%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.34%) IIBA
10 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (28.96%) Data Quality
2 38 (12.79%) GDPR
3 32 (10.77%) SLA
4 23 (7.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.01%) QA
6 2 (0.67%) IFRS
6 2 (0.67%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.67%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.34%) COBIT
7 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (18.52%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (8.08%) Terraform
2 8 (2.69%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.01%) Ansible
Vendors
1 222 (74.75%) Databricks
2 145 (48.82%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.74%) Cloudera
3 23 (7.74%) Dell
4 11 (3.70%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.69%) Google
6 6 (2.02%) Foundry
7 4 (1.35%) Concur
7 4 (1.35%) Informatica
7 4 (1.35%) Sage
8 3 (1.01%) SAP
9 2 (0.67%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.34%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.34%) Confluent
10 1 (0.34%) Infor
10 1 (0.34%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow