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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 485 422
Rank change year-on-year -98 -63 +42
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 224 185 353
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.38% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.84% 1.19% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 170 130 276
10th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £47,375
25th Percentile £57,813 £58,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £92,813
90th Percentile £108,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year - +6.84% -

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 26,750 15,506 22,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.54% 31.52% 32.16%
Number of salaries quoted 18,407 10,440 13,861
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,500 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% -10.00% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -98 204 £75,000 +7.14% 176
London -46 116 £87,500 +2.94% 96
UK excluding London -109 95 £62,500 - 81
Work from Home -6 88 £87,500 +2.94% 82
South East -33 32 £62,500 -3.85% 15
North of England -41 30 £67,750 +10.61% 35
Yorkshire -18 19 £75,000 +24.76% 10
North West -24 12 £56,250 -2.17% 19
West Midlands -41 9 £55,750 -8.98% 9
South West -61 9 £60,000 -20.00% 6
Wales -64 9 £52,500 -8.70%
Midlands -64 9 £55,750 +19.89% 12
North East -67 5 £60,000 -22.58% 6
Scotland +11 3 £55,000 - 8
East of England -30 3 £72,500 +16.00% 6

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 24 (10.71%) Apache Spark
2 16 (7.14%) Apache
3 6 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.79%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 224 (100.00%) Azure
2 151 (67.41%) Azure Data Factory
3 96 (42.86%) Power Platform
4 50 (22.32%) Azure Databricks
5 43 (19.20%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (15.18%) Microsoft Purview
7 31 (13.84%) Snowflake
8 26 (11.61%) AWS
9 25 (11.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 19 (8.48%) Serverless
11 17 (7.59%) GCP
12 13 (5.80%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (5.36%) Azure Functions
13 12 (5.36%) dbt
13 12 (5.36%) GitHub
13 12 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (4.02%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (4.02%) Azure Key Vault
14 9 (4.02%) Entra ID
15 8 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.45%) Firewall
1 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (41.07%) Power BI
2 87 (38.84%) Data Lake
2 87 (38.84%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (24.11%) Metadata
4 53 (23.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 35 (15.63%) SQL Server
6 33 (14.73%) Delta Lake
6 33 (14.73%) Star Schema
7 20 (8.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 19 (8.48%) Data Vault
9 17 (7.59%) NoSQL
10 15 (6.70%) Power Query
11 13 (5.80%) MongoDB
12 12 (5.36%) Big Data
12 12 (5.36%) BigQuery
12 12 (5.36%) DynamoDB
12 12 (5.36%) Semantic Layer
13 11 (4.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (4.46%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 10 (4.46%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (13.39%) Git
2 4 (1.79%) GitLab
3 2 (0.89%) MLflow
4 1 (0.45%) JIRA
4 1 (0.45%) kappa
General
1 61 (27.23%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.32%) Analytical Skills
2 50 (22.32%) Finance
3 10 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.13%) Legal
6 5 (2.23%) Law
6 5 (2.23%) Retail
7 3 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.89%) Police
8 2 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Banking
9 1 (0.45%) Billing
9 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.45%) Publishing
9 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 100 (44.64%) Data Engineer
2 64 (28.57%) Senior
3 49 (21.88%) Architect
4 45 (20.09%) Data Architect
5 39 (17.41%) Azure Engineer
6 36 (16.07%) Senior Data Engineer
7 25 (11.16%) Azure Data Engineer
8 24 (10.71%) Lead
9 16 (7.14%) Developer
10 14 (6.25%) Analyst
10 14 (6.25%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (5.80%) Data Manager
12 11 (4.91%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (4.46%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 9 (4.02%) Azure Architect
14 9 (4.02%) Microsoft Engineer
15 8 (3.57%) Azure Data Architect
15 8 (3.57%) Consultant
15 8 (3.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 7 (3.13%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (24.11%) PySpark
2 40 (17.86%) Terraform
3 16 (7.14%) Kafka
4 9 (4.02%) JSON
5 6 (2.68%) Apache Avro
6 4 (1.79%) LangChain
6 4 (1.79%) MDX
6 4 (1.79%) Pulumi
6 4 (1.79%) REST
7 3 (1.34%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.34%) SAML
7 3 (1.34%) SOAP
7 3 (1.34%) XML
8 2 (0.89%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.89%) Middleware
9 1 (0.45%) .NET
9 1 (0.45%) BAPI
9 1 (0.45%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.64%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.16%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.91%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.79%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.79%) Replication
6 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.34%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.34%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.34%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.89%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.89%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.89%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.45%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.80%) Windows
2 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (69.20%) Analytics
2 133 (59.38%) Data Modelling
3 127 (56.70%) Business Intelligence
4 124 (55.36%) CI/CD
5 112 (50.00%) ETL
6 111 (49.55%) Data Pipeline
7 88 (39.29%) DevOps
8 87 (38.84%) Data Engineering
9 80 (35.71%) AI
10 64 (28.57%) Agile
10 64 (28.57%) Lakehouse
11 59 (26.34%) Data Architecture
12 57 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
13 53 (23.66%) Data Governance
14 50 (22.32%) Technical Leadership
15 48 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
16 46 (20.54%) Machine Learning
17 43 (19.20%) Data Science
17 43 (19.20%) Data Strategy
17 43 (19.20%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 166 (74.11%) SQL
2 145 (64.73%) Python
3 33 (14.73%) Scala
4 29 (12.95%) Bicep
5 23 (10.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (6.70%) Java
6 15 (6.70%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.80%) C#
8 7 (3.13%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.79%) Bash
9 4 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.34%) VBA
11 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 25 (11.16%) Microsoft Certification
3 24 (10.71%) Security Cleared
4 19 (8.48%) SC Cleared
5 16 (7.14%) SnowPro
6 14 (6.25%) Degree
7 7 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.79%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.45%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (44.64%) Data Quality
2 24 (10.71%) GDPR
3 12 (5.36%) SLA
4 10 (4.46%) Accessibility
5 9 (4.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (2.68%) QA
7 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.89%) IFRS
7 2 (0.89%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.89%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.45%) IASME
8 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (2.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.23%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.34%) Ansible
2 3 (1.34%) Grafana
2 3 (1.34%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 138 (61.61%) Microsoft
2 133 (59.38%) Databricks
3 14 (6.25%) Informatica
4 9 (4.02%) SAP
4 9 (4.02%) Talend
5 7 (3.13%) Google
6 4 (1.79%) Foundry
7 3 (1.34%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.45%) Confluent
8 1 (0.45%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.45%) ServiceNow