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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 447 576
Rank change year-on-year -8 +129 -49
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 290 243 347
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.55% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 1.64% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 243 177 299
10th Percentile £54,000 £43,750 £44,750
25th Percentile £77,500 £56,250 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £118,750 £83,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £110,250 £104,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.93% +12.50% -4.00%

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 24,822 14,837 35,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.06% 33.56% 33.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15,841 10,199 27,255
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,497 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,600
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -31 272 £90,000 +28.57% 55
London +31 144 £90,000 +28.57% 32
Work from Home +90 140 £90,000 +28.57% 30
UK excluding London -44 126 £85,000 +25.93% 39
South East -7 68 £90,000 +28.57% 19
North of England -32 22 £70,932 +5.08% 7
Midlands -36 14 £64,250 +16.82% 7
Yorkshire -39 14 £80,000 +18.52% 3
East of England -3 10 £62,500 +19.05% 2
South West -50 9 £52,500 -4.55% 3
West Midlands -42 8 £66,750 +16.09% 7
North West -2 6 £67,966 -2.91% 3
East Midlands -22 4 £57,500 +27.78%
Scotland +14 2 - - 1
North East - 2 £60,000 - 1
Wales -43 1 £55,000 - 2

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 41 (14.14%) Apache Spark
2 31 (10.69%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.10%) Apache
4 4 (1.38%) SAS
5 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) Confluence
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 290 (100.00%) Azure
2 112 (38.62%) Power Platform
3 101 (34.83%) Azure Data Factory
4 92 (31.72%) Snowflake
5 62 (21.38%) Azure AI
6 61 (21.03%) Azure Machine Learning
7 41 (14.14%) GCP
8 40 (13.79%) AWS
9 33 (11.38%) dbt
10 24 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (4.83%) Microsoft Purview
12 13 (4.48%) GitHub
13 11 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (3.10%) Entra ID
15 9 (3.10%) PaaS
16 8 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
17 7 (2.41%) Azure Logic Apps
17 7 (2.41%) SaaS
18 6 (2.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.38%) WAN
2 1 (0.34%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (38.28%) Power BI
2 102 (35.17%) Data Lake
3 82 (28.28%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (22.76%) SQL Server
5 48 (16.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 35 (12.07%) Amazon Redshift
6 35 (12.07%) BigQuery
7 34 (11.72%) Big Data
8 30 (10.34%) Tableau
9 25 (8.62%) Snowflake Schema
10 23 (7.93%) Elasticsearch
10 23 (7.93%) Looker
11 19 (6.55%) Delta Lake
12 14 (4.83%) Metadata
13 11 (3.79%) Power Query
14 9 (3.10%) Star Schema
15 5 (1.72%) Spark SQL
16 4 (1.38%) MongoDB
16 4 (1.38%) Semantic Layer
16 4 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (9.66%) MLflow
2 20 (6.90%) Git
3 1 (0.34%) JIRA
General
1 115 (39.66%) Finance
2 67 (23.10%) Social Skills
3 47 (16.21%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.14%) Banking
5 7 (2.41%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.69%) Local Government
9 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.34%) Legal
9 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 89 (30.69%) Data Engineer
2 75 (25.86%) Architect
3 69 (23.79%) Senior
4 60 (20.69%) Data Architect
5 54 (18.62%) Azure Architect
6 49 (16.90%) Azure Data Architect
6 49 (16.90%) Lead
7 37 (12.76%) Data Manager
8 33 (11.38%) Engineering Manager
8 33 (11.38%) Finance Manager
9 28 (9.66%) Big Data Engineer
9 28 (9.66%) DataOps Engineer
9 28 (9.66%) DataOps Leader
9 28 (9.66%) Lead Big Data Engineer
10 26 (8.97%) Lead Data Engineer
11 23 (7.93%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 23 (7.93%) Systems Engineer
12 22 (7.59%) Senior Data Engineer
13 15 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
13 15 (5.17%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.38%) Kafka
2 29 (10.00%) PySpark
3 24 (8.28%) LangChain
4 23 (7.93%) LlamaIndex
4 23 (7.93%) pgvector
4 23 (7.93%) PyTorch
4 23 (7.93%) scikit-learn
4 23 (7.93%) TensorFlow
5 5 (1.72%) .NET
6 4 (1.38%) CSS
7 2 (0.69%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.69%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.69%) RESTful
7 2 (0.69%) Vue
8 1 (0.34%) BAPI
8 1 (0.34%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.34%) Middleware
8 1 (0.34%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 47 (16.21%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.93%) Clustering
2 23 (7.93%) Public Cloud
3 14 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.38%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.38%) Replication
7 3 (1.03%) Data Fabric
7 3 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.34%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.34%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.34%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.34%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.34%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.34%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.34%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (48.62%) Data Engineering
2 140 (48.28%) Data Governance
3 135 (46.55%) Analytics
4 129 (44.48%) Data Modelling
5 124 (42.76%) Business Intelligence
6 120 (41.38%) AI
7 109 (37.59%) ETL
8 105 (36.21%) Data Pipeline
9 101 (34.83%) Machine Learning
10 97 (33.45%) CI/CD
11 96 (33.10%) Data Architecture
12 95 (32.76%) Agile
13 76 (26.21%) Roadmaps
14 75 (25.86%) Migration
15 64 (22.07%) Regulatory Compliance
16 56 (19.31%) Data Development
17 55 (18.97%) Line Management
18 54 (18.62%) DevOps
19 52 (17.93%) Performance Tuning
20 48 (16.55%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 209 (72.07%) SQL
2 134 (46.21%) Python
3 16 (5.52%) Scala
4 15 (5.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 9 (3.10%) PowerShell
6 8 (2.76%) Bicep
6 8 (2.76%) Java
7 7 (2.41%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.72%) C#
9 3 (1.03%) R
9 3 (1.03%) VBA
10 2 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 15 (5.17%) Azure Certification
2 11 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (3.79%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.10%) Degree
4 6 (2.07%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.38%) IIBA
5 4 (1.38%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.38%) PMP
6 3 (1.03%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.69%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (26.90%) Data Quality
2 31 (10.69%) GDPR
2 31 (10.69%) SLA
3 23 (7.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.69%) IFRS
4 2 (0.69%) IFRS 17
4 2 (0.69%) QA
4 2 (0.69%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.34%) COBIT
5 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (18.97%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (6.21%) Terraform
2 7 (2.41%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.03%) Ansible
Vendors
1 218 (75.17%) Databricks
2 128 (44.14%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.93%) Cloudera
3 23 (7.93%) Dell
4 10 (3.45%) OpenAI
5 6 (2.07%) Foundry
6 5 (1.72%) Alteryx
6 5 (1.72%) Google
7 4 (1.38%) Anaplan
7 4 (1.38%) Concur
7 4 (1.38%) Sage
8 2 (0.69%) SAP
9 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.34%) Confluent
9 1 (0.34%) Infor
9 1 (0.34%) Informatica
9 1 (0.34%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow