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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 424 586
Rank change year-on-year -28 +162 -27
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 309 237 331
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.55% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 1.65% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 260 173 286
10th Percentile £52,500 £45,750 £45,375
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £88,438
90th Percentile £130,000 £112,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +25.93% +17.39% -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 27,315 14,369 34,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.31% 33.51% 34.80%
Number of salaries quoted 15,661 9,890 26,881
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,450 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.90% +6.90% -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 29 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Top 16 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 29 May 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 -20 289 £90,000 +28.57% 54
London +28 153 £90,000 +28.57% 27
Work from Home +101 149 £90,000 +28.57% 28
UK excluding London -54 135 £85,000 +25.93% 39
South East -12 76 £90,000 +28.57% 17
North of England -46 21 £70,932 +5.08% 10
Midlands -44 17 £63,500 +8.09% 4
Yorkshire -49 14 £80,000 +18.52% 4
West Midlands -52 11 £63,500 +1.60% 4
East of England -11 10 £62,500 +19.05% 1
South West -57 7 £52,500 -4.55% 7
North West -10 5 £70,932 +3.17% 5
East Midlands -32 4 £57,500 +27.78%
Scotland -3 3 - - 1
North East - 2 £60,000 - 1
Wales -35 1 £55,000 - 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 41 (13.27%) Apache Spark
2 30 (9.71%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.91%) Apache
4 4 (1.29%) SAS
5 2 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 309 (100.00%) Azure
2 123 (39.81%) Power Platform
3 116 (37.54%) Azure Data Factory
4 91 (29.45%) Snowflake
5 62 (20.06%) Azure AI
6 61 (19.74%) Azure Machine Learning
7 41 (13.27%) GCP
8 40 (12.94%) AWS
9 32 (10.36%) dbt
10 27 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (5.50%) GitHub
12 14 (4.53%) Microsoft Purview
13 13 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (3.24%) Entra ID
15 10 (3.24%) PaaS
16 8 (2.59%) Azure Service Bus
16 8 (2.59%) SaaS
17 7 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
18 6 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.29%) WAN
2 1 (0.32%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (38.83%) Power BI
2 115 (37.22%) Data Lake
3 89 (28.80%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (22.01%) SQL Server
5 52 (16.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 35 (11.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 35 (11.33%) Big Data
6 35 (11.33%) BigQuery
7 29 (9.39%) Tableau
8 25 (8.09%) Snowflake Schema
9 23 (7.44%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (7.44%) Looker
10 21 (6.80%) Delta Lake
11 13 (4.21%) Metadata
12 10 (3.24%) Power Query
13 8 (2.59%) Star Schema
14 5 (1.62%) Data Mining
14 5 (1.62%) Spark SQL
15 4 (1.29%) MongoDB
15 4 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (9.06%) MLflow
2 23 (7.44%) Git
General
1 126 (40.78%) Finance
2 73 (23.62%) Social Skills
3 49 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (3.88%) Banking
5 7 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (2.27%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.65%) Local Government
8 1 (0.32%) Advertising
8 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.32%) Legal
8 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 97 (31.39%) Data Engineer
2 77 (24.92%) Architect
3 70 (22.65%) Senior
4 61 (19.74%) Data Architect
5 57 (18.45%) Azure Architect
6 52 (16.83%) Lead
7 51 (16.50%) Azure Data Architect
8 36 (11.65%) Data Manager
9 33 (10.68%) Engineering Manager
9 33 (10.68%) Finance Manager
10 30 (9.71%) Big Data Engineer
10 30 (9.71%) DataOps Engineer
10 30 (9.71%) DataOps Leader
10 30 (9.71%) Lead Big Data Engineer
11 26 (8.41%) Lead Data Engineer
12 23 (7.44%) Senior Data Engineer
12 23 (7.44%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 23 (7.44%) Systems Engineer
13 16 (5.18%) Azure Engineer
13 16 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (10.36%) Kafka
2 30 (9.71%) PySpark
3 24 (7.77%) LangChain
4 23 (7.44%) LlamaIndex
4 23 (7.44%) pgvector
4 23 (7.44%) PyTorch
4 23 (7.44%) scikit-learn
4 23 (7.44%) TensorFlow
5 5 (1.62%) .NET
6 4 (1.29%) CSS
7 2 (0.65%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.65%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.65%) RESTful
7 2 (0.65%) Vue
8 1 (0.32%) BAPI
8 1 (0.32%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.32%) MDX
8 1 (0.32%) Middleware
8 1 (0.32%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 46 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.44%) Clustering
2 23 (7.44%) Public Cloud
3 14 (4.53%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.62%) AI Agents
5 5 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.29%) Replication
7 3 (0.97%) Data Fabric
7 3 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.32%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.32%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.32%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.32%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.32%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.32%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.32%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.32%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (48.22%) Data Engineering
2 148 (47.90%) Data Governance
3 143 (46.28%) Analytics
4 140 (45.31%) Data Modelling
5 134 (43.37%) Business Intelligence
6 125 (40.45%) ETL
7 123 (39.81%) AI
8 113 (36.57%) Data Pipeline
9 102 (33.01%) CI/CD
10 101 (32.69%) Machine Learning
11 97 (31.39%) Agile
11 97 (31.39%) Data Architecture
12 77 (24.92%) Migration
13 76 (24.60%) Roadmaps
14 64 (20.71%) Regulatory Compliance
15 60 (19.42%) DevOps
16 56 (18.12%) Data Development
17 55 (17.80%) Line Management
18 52 (16.83%) Performance Tuning
19 50 (16.18%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 217 (70.23%) SQL
2 143 (46.28%) Python
3 18 (5.83%) Scala
4 15 (4.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 9 (2.91%) Java
5 9 (2.91%) PowerShell
5 9 (2.91%) T-SQL
6 6 (1.94%) Bicep
7 5 (1.62%) C#
8 3 (0.97%) R
9 2 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.65%) VBA
10 1 (0.32%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (4.53%) Azure Certification
2 10 (3.24%) Degree
2 10 (3.24%) Security Cleared
3 9 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (1.62%) IIBA
4 5 (1.62%) PMI Certification
4 5 (1.62%) PMP
4 5 (1.62%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.97%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (26.86%) Data Quality
2 32 (10.36%) GDPR
2 32 (10.36%) SLA
3 23 (7.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.65%) IFRS
4 2 (0.65%) IFRS 17
4 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.65%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.32%) COBIT
5 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 55 (17.80%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (6.15%) Terraform
2 7 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.97%) Ansible
4 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 230 (74.43%) Databricks
2 135 (43.69%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.44%) Cloudera
3 23 (7.44%) Dell
4 10 (3.24%) OpenAI
5 6 (1.94%) Alteryx
5 6 (1.94%) Foundry
6 5 (1.62%) Anaplan
6 5 (1.62%) Google
7 4 (1.29%) Concur
7 4 (1.29%) Sage
8 2 (0.65%) SAP
9 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.32%) Confluent
9 1 (0.32%) Infor
9 1 (0.32%) Informatica
9 1 (0.32%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.32%) ServiceNow