Azure Synapse Analytics Jobs

Azure Synapse Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Azure Synapse Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure Synapse Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 600 591
Rank change year-on-year +148 -9 +110
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 241 302 448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.31% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 0.85% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 185 259 385
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -14.29%

All Cloud 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 15,077 35,358 44,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.91% 35.95% 43.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,032 26,774 29,301
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,725 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Synapse Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics.

Salary trend for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Top 14 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 30 April 2025. 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 +137 228 £70,000 +3.70% 134
UK excluding London +203 127 £70,000 +16.67% 71
London +57 100 £75,000 -3.23% 65
Work from Home +101 68 £70,000 +7.69% 97
South East +138 64 £70,000 +3.70% 17
West Midlands +53 34 £55,000 -4.35% 12
Midlands +51 34 £55,000 -4.35% 17
North of England +69 17 £68,750 +22.22% 14
North West +22 10 £70,000 +27.27% 7
South West +117 7 £55,000 -24.14% 5
Yorkshire +75 7 £67,500 +28.57% 7
Scotland +128 3 £100,000 +34.23% 5
East of England +55 1 £52,500 +10.53% 8
Wales +40 1 £72,931 - 3

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (9.96%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.73%) Apache
3 8 (3.32%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.83%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.83%) SAS
6 1 (0.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (5.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.24%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 241 (100.00%) Azure
2 150 (62.24%) Azure Data Factory
3 120 (49.79%) Power Platform
4 52 (21.58%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (16.60%) GCP
6 37 (15.35%) AWS
7 29 (12.03%) Snowflake
8 20 (8.30%) Microsoft Purview
9 19 (7.88%) GitHub
10 16 (6.64%) Azure API Management
11 15 (6.22%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (4.56%) dbt
13 10 (4.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (4.15%) Azure Functions
13 10 (4.15%) Serverless
14 9 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (3.73%) PowerApps
15 7 (2.90%) Azure Machine Learning
15 7 (2.90%) PaaS
15 7 (2.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.66%) DNS
2 2 (0.83%) Internet
3 1 (0.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (48.55%) Power BI
2 73 (30.29%) Data Lake
3 67 (27.80%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (15.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 27 (11.20%) BigQuery
6 26 (10.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (9.54%) Big Data
8 22 (9.13%) NoSQL
9 21 (8.71%) Relational Database
10 19 (7.88%) SQL Server
11 17 (7.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 15 (6.22%) Tableau
13 13 (5.39%) Data Mining
13 13 (5.39%) Metadata
14 12 (4.98%) Hadoop
15 9 (3.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 7 (2.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 7 (2.90%) Microsoft Analysis Services
17 6 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
17 6 (2.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 16 (6.64%) Git
2 5 (2.07%) JMeter
2 5 (2.07%) Locust
2 5 (2.07%) Postman
2 5 (2.07%) Robot Framework
2 5 (2.07%) Selenium
3 4 (1.66%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.24%) ER Studio
4 3 (1.24%) ERwin
4 3 (1.24%) GitLab
4 3 (1.24%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.24%) MLflow
5 1 (0.41%) JIRA
5 1 (0.41%) kappa
5 1 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.41%) SpecFlow
General
1 68 (28.22%) Analytical Skills
2 66 (27.39%) Social Skills
3 57 (23.65%) Finance
4 28 (11.62%) Law
5 20 (8.30%) Retail
6 15 (6.22%) Manufacturing
7 12 (4.98%) Marketing
8 11 (4.56%) Public Sector
9 10 (4.15%) Automotive
10 4 (1.66%) Legal
11 3 (1.24%) Billing
11 3 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.83%) Banking
12 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Local Government
13 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 97 (40.25%) Data Engineer
2 55 (22.82%) Senior
3 45 (18.67%) Architect
4 39 (16.18%) Lead
5 37 (15.35%) Senior Data Engineer
6 32 (13.28%) Data Architect
7 27 (11.20%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (8.71%) Azure Data Engineer
9 14 (5.81%) Lead Architect
10 13 (5.39%) Developer
11 12 (4.98%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (4.56%) Azure Architect
12 11 (4.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 11 (4.56%) Data Scientist
12 11 (4.56%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (4.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (4.15%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 8 (3.32%) Azure Data Architect
14 8 (3.32%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.45%) .NET
2 25 (10.37%) PySpark
3 17 (7.05%) Middleware
4 16 (6.64%) Kafka
5 9 (3.73%) REST
5 9 (3.73%) SOAP
6 8 (3.32%) ADO
6 8 (3.32%) MERN Stack
6 8 (3.32%) WebSockets
7 7 (2.90%) YAML
8 6 (2.49%) pytest
9 4 (1.66%) ASP.NET
10 3 (1.24%) PyTorch
10 3 (1.24%) TensorFlow
11 1 (0.41%) Apache Beam
11 1 (0.41%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.41%) EDI
11 1 (0.41%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.54%) Product Ownership
2 20 (8.30%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.15%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.73%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.49%) FMCG
7 5 (2.07%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.07%) IoT
8 4 (1.66%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.24%) AS400
10 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.83%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.83%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.83%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.41%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.41%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.41%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.83%) Unix
2 1 (0.41%) Windows
2 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (60.17%) Analytics
2 119 (49.38%) Business Intelligence
3 111 (46.06%) Data Engineering
4 105 (43.57%) DevOps
5 101 (41.91%) CI/CD
6 87 (36.10%) Agile
7 82 (34.02%) ETL
8 66 (27.39%) Data Pipeline
8 66 (27.39%) Visualisation
9 62 (25.73%) Artificial Intelligence
9 62 (25.73%) Data Architecture
9 62 (25.73%) Data Modelling
10 58 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
11 56 (23.24%) Data Governance
12 52 (21.58%) Data Science
12 52 (21.58%) Machine Learning
13 44 (18.26%) Computer Science
13 44 (18.26%) Decision-Making
14 41 (17.01%) Software Engineering
15 39 (16.18%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 174 (72.20%) SQL
2 121 (50.21%) Python
3 39 (16.18%) C#
4 28 (11.62%) Java
5 19 (7.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (6.22%) R
7 11 (4.56%) C++
8 10 (4.15%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.32%) T-SQL
10 6 (2.49%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.07%) Scala
12 4 (1.66%) Bicep
13 2 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (21.58%) Degree
2 41 (17.01%) Azure Certification
3 20 (8.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (7.88%) Security Cleared
5 17 (7.05%) SC Cleared
6 13 (5.39%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.66%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.24%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (20.75%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.81%) QA
3 11 (4.56%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.49%) GDPR
5 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (6.64%) Docker
2 4 (1.66%) HDFS
3 3 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (12.03%) Terraform
2 17 (7.05%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.41%) Grafana
3 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 160 (66.39%) Databricks
2 125 (51.87%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.88%) Google
4 6 (2.49%) SAP
5 5 (2.07%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.66%) Oracle
6 4 (1.66%) Teradata
7 3 (1.24%) Aderant
8 2 (0.83%) Informatica
8 2 (0.83%) RedGate
9 1 (0.41%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.41%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.41%) SolarWinds