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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 472 488
Rank change year-on-year -53 +16 -7
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 286 220 358
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.44% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 1.38% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 227 142 297
10th Percentile £52,060 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £65,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -9.09% -4.67%
75th Percentile £118,750 £84,688 £95,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £108,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +9.24% -8.46%

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 27,640 15,966 26,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.26% 31.94% 31.55%
Number of salaries quoted 18,542 10,900 18,355
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,936 £39,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -35 274 £90,000 +38.46% 81
London +4 163 £102,500 +46.43% 50
Work from Home +47 138 £105,000 +27.27% 33
UK excluding London -73 110 £75,000 +15.38% 49
South East -31 56 £85,000 +30.77% 23
North of England -34 25 £66,250 -1.85% 13
Yorkshire -31 14 £90,000 +38.46% 5
East of England -16 9 £66,250 +26.19% 2
North West -21 8 £52,500 -22.22% 5
South West -69 8 £58,750 -21.67% 2
West Midlands -41 7 £65,000 +4.00% 4
Midlands -50 7 £65,000 +35.42% 5
Wales -70 4 £52,500 -8.70% 2
North East -51 3 £60,000 -22.58% 3
Scotland +7 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 49 (17.13%) Apache Spark
2 29 (10.14%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (4.90%) Apache
4 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.35%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 286 (100.00%) Azure
2 124 (43.36%) Azure Data Factory
3 116 (40.56%) Power Platform
4 106 (37.06%) Snowflake
5 65 (22.73%) Azure Machine Learning
6 63 (22.03%) Azure AI
7 42 (14.69%) AWS
8 39 (13.64%) GCP
9 34 (11.89%) Microsoft Purview
10 29 (10.14%) dbt
11 26 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (6.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (3.85%) Serverless
14 9 (3.15%) GitHub
14 9 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (2.10%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (2.10%) Azure Functions
15 6 (2.10%) Azure Key Vault
15 6 (2.10%) Azure Service Bus
16 5 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (40.21%) Power BI
2 99 (34.62%) Data Lake
3 96 (33.57%) Data Warehouse
4 74 (25.87%) SQL Server
5 45 (15.73%) Metadata
6 42 (14.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 37 (12.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 35 (12.24%) BigQuery
9 34 (11.89%) Delta Lake
10 31 (10.84%) Tableau
11 29 (10.14%) Snowflake Schema
12 23 (8.04%) Elasticsearch
12 23 (8.04%) Looker
13 22 (7.69%) Big Data
13 22 (7.69%) Star Schema
14 17 (5.94%) Data Vault
15 10 (3.50%) NoSQL
16 9 (3.15%) MongoDB
16 9 (3.15%) Power Query
16 9 (3.15%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 28 (9.79%) MLflow
2 20 (6.99%) Git
3 1 (0.35%) JIRA
3 1 (0.35%) kappa
General
1 103 (36.01%) Finance
2 62 (21.68%) Social Skills
3 59 (20.63%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.85%) Banking
5 8 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.45%) Legal
7 5 (1.75%) Law
7 5 (1.75%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.75%) Retail
8 2 (0.70%) Police
9 1 (0.35%) Billing
9 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Publishing
9 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (30.07%) Data Engineer
2 74 (25.87%) Senior
3 73 (25.52%) Architect
4 63 (22.03%) Data Architect
5 46 (16.08%) Data Manager
6 33 (11.54%) Engineering Manager
6 33 (11.54%) Finance Manager
7 31 (10.84%) Azure Architect
7 31 (10.84%) Lead
8 26 (9.09%) Azure Data Architect
9 25 (8.74%) Senior Data Engineer
10 23 (8.04%) Azure Engineer
10 23 (8.04%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 23 (8.04%) Systems Engineer
11 18 (6.29%) Azure Data Engineer
12 17 (5.94%) Lead Data Engineer
13 13 (4.55%) Big Data Engineer
13 13 (4.55%) DataOps Engineer
13 13 (4.55%) DataOps Leader
13 13 (4.55%) Lead Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (15.73%) PySpark
2 39 (13.64%) Kafka
3 29 (10.14%) Terraform
4 26 (9.09%) LangChain
5 23 (8.04%) LlamaIndex
5 23 (8.04%) pgvector
5 23 (8.04%) PyTorch
5 23 (8.04%) scikit-learn
5 23 (8.04%) TensorFlow
6 3 (1.05%) .NET
6 3 (1.05%) Pulumi
7 2 (0.70%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.70%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.70%) FastAPI
7 2 (0.70%) MDX
7 2 (0.70%) RESTful
7 2 (0.70%) Vue
8 1 (0.35%) CSS
8 1 (0.35%) REST
8 1 (0.35%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 58 (20.28%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.04%) Clustering
2 23 (8.04%) Public Cloud
3 22 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.75%) Data Fabric
6 5 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.40%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.40%) Replication
8 3 (1.05%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.70%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.70%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.70%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.70%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.35%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (54.55%) AI
1 156 (54.55%) Data Engineering
2 154 (53.85%) Analytics
3 145 (50.70%) Business Intelligence
4 142 (49.65%) Data Governance
5 136 (47.55%) Data Modelling
6 128 (44.76%) Machine Learning
7 118 (41.26%) ETL
8 114 (39.86%) Data Architecture
9 109 (38.11%) CI/CD
9 109 (38.11%) Data Pipeline
10 105 (36.71%) Agile
11 95 (33.22%) Roadmaps
12 71 (24.83%) Migration
13 64 (22.38%) Data Science
13 64 (22.38%) DevOps
14 61 (21.33%) Regulatory Compliance
15 57 (19.93%) Data Development
16 55 (19.23%) Line Management
17 51 (17.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 224 (78.32%) SQL
2 153 (53.50%) Python
3 28 (9.79%) Scala
4 22 (7.69%) Bicep
5 14 (4.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (3.50%) C#
6 10 (3.50%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.15%) Java
8 5 (1.75%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.05%) VBA
10 2 (0.70%) R
11 1 (0.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 32 (11.19%) Azure Certification
2 28 (9.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (5.24%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.24%) SnowPro
4 13 (4.55%) Degree
5 9 (3.15%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.45%) TOGAF Certification
7 6 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.75%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (29.72%) Data Quality
2 43 (15.03%) GDPR
3 28 (9.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 23 (8.04%) SLA
5 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.05%) QA
6 2 (0.70%) IFRS
6 2 (0.70%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.70%) Solvency II
System Software
1 55 (19.23%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.05%) Ansible
Vendors
1 216 (75.52%) Databricks
2 171 (59.79%) Microsoft
3 23 (8.04%) Cloudera
3 23 (8.04%) Dell
4 11 (3.85%) OpenAI
5 9 (3.15%) Informatica
6 7 (2.45%) Foundry
7 6 (2.10%) Google
8 5 (1.75%) Talend
9 4 (1.40%) SAP
10 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.35%) Concur
10 1 (0.35%) Confluent
10 1 (0.35%) Infor
10 1 (0.35%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.35%) Sage
10 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow