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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 413 545
Rank change year-on-year -18 +132 +59
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 252 274 274
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.59% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.10% 1.58% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 191 220 229
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,938 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,813 £80,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £92,350
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,750 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +21.15% +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 23,010 17,328 29,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.83% 37.07% 38.27%
Number of salaries quoted 12,378 10,878 24,451
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,750
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 1 March 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 1 March 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 -3 215 £85,000 +21.43% 128
UK excluding London -39 118 £78,750 +21.15% 106
Work from Home +30 114 £85,000 +13.33% 65
London +35 104 £90,000 +12.50% 36
South East -34 48 £85,000 +21.43% 40
Midlands -20 22 £65,000 +18.18% 20
North of England -29 22 £70,932 +5.08% 20
West Midlands -2 16 £65,000 +30.00% 11
North West -3 10 £70,932 +1.33% 10
Scotland -8 9 - - 4
Yorkshire -43 8 £75,466 +13.91% 9
East of England +11 6 £62,500 - 10
South West -18 5 £48,500 -11.82% 11
North East -8 4 - - 1
East Midlands -27 4 £57,500 -8.00% 9
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
Wales -7 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 12 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.78%) Apache
3 6 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.59%) SAS
5 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
Applications
1 25 (9.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 252 (100.00%) Azure
2 141 (55.95%) Azure Data Factory
3 137 (54.37%) Power Platform
4 36 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (11.51%) Snowflake
6 22 (8.73%) dbt
7 20 (7.94%) GCP
7 20 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (7.94%) Microsoft Purview
8 18 (7.14%) GitHub
9 16 (6.35%) PaaS
10 13 (5.16%) AWS
11 12 (4.76%) Entra ID
11 12 (4.76%) Fivetran
12 11 (4.37%) SaaS
13 10 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (3.57%) Collibra
15 8 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (3.17%) ChatGPT
15 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.19%) WAN
2 2 (0.79%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (51.98%) Power BI
2 97 (38.49%) Data Lake
3 78 (30.95%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (26.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 49 (19.44%) SQL Server
6 40 (15.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 22 (8.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 22 (8.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (7.94%) Big Data
9 18 (7.14%) Metadata
10 16 (6.35%) Delta Lake
11 12 (4.76%) Power Query
12 10 (3.97%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (3.57%) BigQuery
13 9 (3.57%) Tableau
14 8 (3.17%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (2.38%) Data Mining
16 5 (1.98%) Star Schema
17 3 (1.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 3 (1.19%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.40%) JIRA
General
1 105 (41.67%) Finance
2 100 (39.68%) Social Skills
3 45 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.16%) Billing
5 12 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.57%) Law
7 8 (3.17%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.38%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.59%) Banking
9 4 (1.59%) Legal
10 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.79%) Local Government
12 1 (0.40%) Advertising
12 1 (0.40%) Automotive
12 1 (0.40%) Marketing
12 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 96 (38.10%) Data Engineer
2 60 (23.81%) Architect
3 46 (18.25%) Data Architect
3 46 (18.25%) Senior
4 41 (16.27%) Azure Architect
5 39 (15.48%) Azure Data Architect
6 37 (14.68%) Lead
7 31 (12.30%) Senior Data Engineer
8 18 (7.14%) Analyst
8 18 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
9 17 (6.75%) Big Data Engineer
9 17 (6.75%) DataOps Engineer
9 17 (6.75%) DataOps Leader
9 17 (6.75%) Lead Big Data Engineer
10 16 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (6.35%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (5.95%) Developer
12 14 (5.56%) Azure Data Engineer
13 12 (4.76%) Business Manager
13 12 (4.76%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.13%) PySpark
2 7 (2.78%) Kafka
3 3 (1.19%) .NET
3 3 (1.19%) CSS
4 2 (0.79%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.40%) MDX
5 1 (0.40%) Middleware
5 1 (0.40%) REST
5 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.71%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (6.75%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.37%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.17%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.17%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (3.17%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.98%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.79%) FMCG
8 2 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.40%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (61.90%) Analytics
2 150 (59.52%) Data Modelling
3 147 (58.33%) Business Intelligence
4 102 (40.48%) ETL
5 84 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 83 (32.94%) Data Governance
7 80 (31.75%) Data Pipeline
8 77 (30.56%) Data Engineering
8 77 (30.56%) Decision-Making
9 69 (27.38%) Problem-Solving
10 67 (26.59%) DevOps
11 59 (23.41%) AI
12 43 (17.06%) Data Architecture
13 42 (16.67%) Visualisation
14 38 (15.08%) Stakeholder Management
15 37 (14.68%) Agile
16 33 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
17 32 (12.70%) Actionable Insight
17 32 (12.70%) Cost Optimisation
18 31 (12.30%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 165 (65.48%) SQL
2 107 (42.46%) Python
3 42 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 18 (7.14%) T-SQL
5 16 (6.35%) Scala
6 10 (3.97%) C#
7 5 (1.98%) Bicep
7 5 (1.98%) Java
8 2 (0.79%) R
9 1 (0.40%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (8.33%) Degree
2 12 (4.76%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.76%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 10 (3.97%) Azure Certification
3 10 (3.97%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.17%) IIBA
4 8 (3.17%) PMI Certification
4 8 (3.17%) PMP
5 7 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.19%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.40%) MCSE
8 1 (0.40%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (38.49%) Data Quality
2 19 (7.54%) GDPR
3 17 (6.75%) SLA
4 12 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.79%) QA
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.40%) COBIT
6 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (7.14%) Terraform
2 4 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.19%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 132 (52.38%) Databricks
2 81 (32.14%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.57%) Alteryx
4 8 (3.17%) Anaplan
4 8 (3.17%) Dataiku
5 4 (1.59%) Talend
6 3 (1.19%) Concur
6 3 (1.19%) Google
6 3 (1.19%) Sage
7 2 (0.79%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.40%) Foundry
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle
8 1 (0.40%) SAP
8 1 (0.40%) Teradata