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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 415 557
Rank change year-on-year -10 +142 +55
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 259 271 267
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.59% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.10% 1.59% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 193 219 222
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £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 £89,375 £81,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £94,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +23.08% +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 23,515 17,043 29,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.75% 37.28% 38.09%
Number of salaries quoted 12,639 10,876 24,338
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,539
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 5 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 5 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 -21 222 £85,000 +21.43% 116
UK excluding London -37 121 £80,000 +23.08% 83
Work from Home +38 113 £85,000 +13.33% 71
London +43 108 £90,000 +12.50% 48
South East -39 50 £85,000 +21.43% 29
Midlands -14 22 £65,000 +18.18% 21
North of England -39 22 £70,932 +5.08% 18
West Midlands -14 16 £65,000 +30.00% 14
North West -18 10 £70,932 +1.33% 9
Scotland -6 9 - - 3
Yorkshire -43 8 £75,466 +13.91% 7
East of England +14 7 £62,500 - 5
South West -19 5 £48,500 -11.82% 8
North East -14 4 - - 2
East Midlands -21 4 £57,500 -8.00% 7
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Wales -9 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 16 (6.18%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.70%) Apache
4 4 (1.54%) SAS
5 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
Applications
1 25 (9.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 259 (100.00%) Azure
2 143 (55.21%) Power Platform
3 141 (54.44%) Azure Data Factory
4 36 (13.90%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (12.74%) Snowflake
6 26 (10.04%) dbt
7 23 (8.88%) GCP
8 21 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (7.34%) Microsoft Purview
10 18 (6.95%) GitHub
11 17 (6.56%) PaaS
12 16 (6.18%) AWS
13 14 (5.41%) Entra ID
14 12 (4.63%) Fivetran
14 12 (4.63%) SaaS
15 10 (3.86%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (3.47%) Azure Logic Apps
16 9 (3.47%) Collibra
17 8 (3.09%) ChatGPT
17 8 (3.09%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.54%) WAN
2 2 (0.77%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (52.90%) Power BI
2 101 (39.00%) Data Lake
3 81 (31.27%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (26.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 48 (18.53%) SQL Server
6 40 (15.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 21 (8.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 21 (8.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (7.72%) Big Data
9 18 (6.95%) Metadata
10 16 (6.18%) Delta Lake
11 14 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (5.02%) BigQuery
12 13 (5.02%) Tableau
13 12 (4.63%) Power Query
13 12 (4.63%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (2.32%) Data Mining
15 5 (1.93%) Looker
15 5 (1.93%) Star Schema
16 4 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 21 (8.11%) Git
2 4 (1.54%) MLflow
3 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
General
1 105 (40.54%) Finance
2 103 (39.77%) Social Skills
3 49 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.02%) Billing
5 12 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.09%) Law
7 8 (3.09%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.32%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.54%) Banking
10 3 (1.16%) Legal
10 3 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Local Government
12 1 (0.39%) Advertising
12 1 (0.39%) Automotive
12 1 (0.39%) Marketing
12 1 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 95 (36.68%) Data Engineer
2 63 (24.32%) Architect
3 52 (20.08%) Senior
4 47 (18.15%) Data Architect
5 43 (16.60%) Azure Architect
6 40 (15.44%) Azure Data Architect
7 37 (14.29%) Lead
8 31 (11.97%) Senior Data Engineer
9 18 (6.95%) Analyst
9 18 (6.95%) Lead Data Engineer
10 17 (6.56%) Big Data Engineer
10 17 (6.56%) DataOps Engineer
10 17 (6.56%) DataOps Leader
10 17 (6.56%) Lead Big Data Engineer
11 16 (6.18%) Azure Engineer
11 16 (6.18%) Platform Engineer
12 15 (5.79%) Developer
13 14 (5.41%) Azure Data Engineer
14 12 (4.63%) Commercial Analyst
14 12 (4.63%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.88%) PySpark
2 11 (4.25%) Kafka
3 4 (1.54%) CSS
3 4 (1.54%) LangChain
3 4 (1.54%) LlamaIndex
3 4 (1.54%) pgvector
3 4 (1.54%) PyTorch
3 4 (1.54%) scikit-learn
3 4 (1.54%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.16%) .NET
5 2 (0.77%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.39%) MDX
6 1 (0.39%) Middleware
6 1 (0.39%) REST
6 1 (0.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.42%) Analytical Mindset
2 23 (8.88%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.25%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.09%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.09%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (2.70%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.93%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.54%) Clustering
9 4 (1.54%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.77%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.77%) FMCG
10 2 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.39%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.39%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (61.39%) Analytics
2 154 (59.46%) Data Modelling
3 152 (58.69%) Business Intelligence
4 106 (40.93%) ETL
5 89 (34.36%) Data Governance
6 85 (32.82%) CI/CD
7 83 (32.05%) Data Pipeline
8 81 (31.27%) Data Engineering
9 76 (29.34%) Decision-Making
10 70 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
11 68 (26.25%) DevOps
12 64 (24.71%) AI
13 44 (16.99%) Data Architecture
14 41 (15.83%) Stakeholder Management
14 41 (15.83%) Visualisation
15 38 (14.67%) Agile
16 34 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
17 33 (12.74%) Cost Optimisation
17 33 (12.74%) Roadmaps
17 33 (12.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 171 (66.02%) SQL
2 114 (44.02%) Python
3 42 (16.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 18 (6.95%) T-SQL
5 16 (6.18%) Scala
6 10 (3.86%) C#
7 5 (1.93%) Bicep
7 5 (1.93%) Java
8 3 (1.16%) R
9 1 (0.39%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (8.11%) Degree
2 12 (4.63%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 11 (4.25%) Azure Certification
4 10 (3.86%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.09%) IIBA
5 8 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (3.09%) PMI Certification
5 8 (3.09%) PMP
6 3 (1.16%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.39%) MCSE
7 1 (0.39%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (37.84%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.49%) GDPR
3 17 (6.56%) SLA
4 12 (4.63%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (1.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.77%) QA
7 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.39%) COBIT
7 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (6.95%) Terraform
2 4 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.16%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 138 (53.28%) Databricks
2 82 (31.66%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.47%) Alteryx
4 8 (3.09%) Anaplan
4 8 (3.09%) Dataiku
5 4 (1.54%) Cloudera
5 4 (1.54%) Concur
5 4 (1.54%) Dell
5 4 (1.54%) Sage
5 4 (1.54%) Talend
6 3 (1.16%) Google
6 3 (1.16%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.77%) Foundry
8 1 (0.39%) SAP
8 1 (0.39%) Teradata