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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 435 516
Rank change year-on-year +1 +81 +90
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 241 279 279
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.56% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.08% 1.51% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 179 221 231
10th Percentile £53,700 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £53,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +4.48% -4.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £78,125
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% -8.00%

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 22,255 18,439 28,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.38% 37.05% 38.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,038 11,019 23,621
10th Percentile £28,925 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Top 17 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 13 February 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 -4 207 £85,000 +21.43% 79
Work from Home +53 110 £85,000 +13.33% 55
UK excluding London -47 110 £75,000 +15.38% 67
London +52 103 £90,000 +12.50% 28
South East -7 42 £85,000 +21.43% 31
Midlands -4 21 £65,000 +44.44% 11
North of England -16 21 £70,932 +5.08% 11
West Midlands -1 16 £65,000 +44.44% 4
North West +3 10 £70,932 -2.16% 7
Scotland -9 9 - - 3
Yorkshire -41 7 £80,000 +23.08% 3
East of England +17 6 £62,500 - 6
South West -16 5 £48,500 -11.82% 5
North East -4 4 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East Midlands -11 3 £55,000 -12.00% 7
Wales +1 2 - - 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 16 (6.64%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.32%) Apache
3 6 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.66%) SAS
5 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 24 (9.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 241 (100.00%) Azure
2 139 (57.68%) Azure Data Factory
3 130 (53.94%) Power Platform
4 36 (14.94%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (11.62%) Snowflake
6 24 (9.96%) Microsoft Purview
7 23 (9.54%) dbt
8 20 (8.30%) GCP
9 18 (7.47%) GitHub
9 18 (7.47%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (6.64%) AWS
11 14 (5.81%) PaaS
12 12 (4.98%) Fivetran
13 11 (4.56%) SaaS
14 10 (4.15%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (4.15%) Entra ID
15 9 (3.73%) Collibra
16 8 (3.32%) ChatGPT
16 8 (3.32%) Microsoft Copilot
17 7 (2.90%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.83%) DNS
2 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (51.45%) Power BI
2 98 (40.66%) Data Lake
3 80 (33.20%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (26.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 48 (19.92%) SQL Server
6 40 (16.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 22 (9.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 21 (8.71%) Metadata
8 21 (8.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 19 (7.88%) Big Data
10 15 (6.22%) Delta Lake
11 13 (5.39%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (4.15%) Power Query
13 9 (3.73%) BigQuery
14 8 (3.32%) Snowflake Schema
14 8 (3.32%) Tableau
15 6 (2.49%) Data Mining
15 6 (2.49%) NoSQL
16 4 (1.66%) Hadoop
17 3 (1.24%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (8.71%) Git
2 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.41%) JIRA
General
1 100 (41.49%) Finance
2 98 (40.66%) Social Skills
3 48 (19.92%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.64%) Law
5 13 (5.39%) Billing
6 12 (4.98%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.90%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.07%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.66%) Banking
10 4 (1.66%) Legal
11 3 (1.24%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.83%) Local Government
13 1 (0.41%) Advertising
13 1 (0.41%) Automotive
13 1 (0.41%) Marketing
13 1 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 90 (37.34%) Data Engineer
2 55 (22.82%) Architect
3 43 (17.84%) Data Architect
3 43 (17.84%) Senior
4 37 (15.35%) Azure Architect
5 35 (14.52%) Azure Data Architect
6 33 (13.69%) Lead
7 30 (12.45%) Senior Data Engineer
8 17 (7.05%) Analyst
9 16 (6.64%) Azure Engineer
10 15 (6.22%) Developer
11 14 (5.81%) Azure Data Engineer
11 14 (5.81%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (5.39%) Big Data Engineer
12 13 (5.39%) DataOps Engineer
12 13 (5.39%) DataOps Leader
12 13 (5.39%) Lead Big Data Engineer
12 13 (5.39%) Lead Data Engineer
13 12 (4.98%) Insight Analyst
13 12 (4.98%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.13%) PySpark
2 11 (4.56%) Kafka
3 3 (1.24%) .NET
4 2 (0.83%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.41%) CSS
5 1 (0.41%) MDX
5 1 (0.41%) Middleware
5 1 (0.41%) REST
5 1 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.20%) Analytical Mindset
2 14 (5.81%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.56%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.15%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.32%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.32%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.07%) FMCG
8 5 (2.07%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.83%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.41%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.41%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.41%) IoT
11 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (64.73%) Analytics
2 150 (62.24%) Data Modelling
3 145 (60.17%) Business Intelligence
4 103 (42.74%) ETL
5 83 (34.44%) Data Governance
6 81 (33.61%) Data Pipeline
6 81 (33.61%) Decision-Making
7 79 (32.78%) CI/CD
7 79 (32.78%) Data Engineering
8 69 (28.63%) Problem-Solving
9 67 (27.80%) DevOps
10 62 (25.73%) AI
11 42 (17.43%) Data Architecture
11 42 (17.43%) Visualisation
12 38 (15.77%) Agile
13 34 (14.11%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (13.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (13.69%) Machine Learning
15 32 (13.28%) Actionable Insight
16 31 (12.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 159 (65.98%) SQL
2 101 (41.91%) Python
3 41 (17.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 19 (7.88%) Scala
5 18 (7.47%) T-SQL
6 10 (4.15%) C#
7 6 (2.49%) Bicep
7 6 (2.49%) Java
8 4 (1.66%) R
9 1 (0.41%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (8.71%) Degree
2 12 (4.98%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 11 (4.56%) Security Cleared
4 10 (4.15%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.73%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.32%) IIBA
6 8 (3.32%) PMI Certification
6 8 (3.32%) PMP
6 8 (3.32%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.24%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.41%) MCSE
9 1 (0.41%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (40.25%) Data Quality
2 23 (9.54%) GDPR
3 13 (5.39%) SLA
4 12 (4.98%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.66%) QA
6 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.41%) COBIT
7 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (7.88%) Terraform
2 4 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.24%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 128 (53.11%) Databricks
2 79 (32.78%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.32%) Alteryx
3 8 (3.32%) Anaplan
3 8 (3.32%) Dataiku
4 4 (1.66%) SAP
4 4 (1.66%) Talend
5 3 (1.24%) Google
6 2 (0.83%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.41%) Concur
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle
7 1 (0.41%) Sage
7 1 (0.41%) Teradata