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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 392 560
Rank change year-on-year -50 +168 +37
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 270 265 291
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.62% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.12% 1.67% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 201 206 242
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,125 £43,875
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,188
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +18.52% +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 24,204 15,884 32,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.35% 37.13% 37.68%
Number of salaries quoted 12,932 11,006 25,778
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
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 18 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 18 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 -30 233 £85,000 +21.43% 74
UK excluding London -56 127 £80,000 +18.52% 55
Work from Home +34 116 £85,000 +13.33% 41
London +15 112 £90,000 +12.50% 31
South East -23 55 £85,000 +21.43% 24
North of England -46 26 £70,932 +5.08% 9
Midlands -31 21 £65,000 +18.18% 13
West Midlands -19 15 £65,000 +18.18% 10
North West -18 11 £70,932 +1.33% 3
Yorkshire -46 10 £70,932 +5.08% 5
Scotland -14 9 - -
North East -18 5 £60,000 +31.87% 1
South West -29 5 £48,500 -11.82% 5
East of England - 5 £55,000 - 3
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East Midlands - 4 £57,500 - 3
Wales -17 2 - - 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 21 (7.78%) Apache Spark
2 15 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.22%) Apache
4 4 (1.48%) SAS
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
Applications
1 25 (9.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 270 (100.00%) Azure
2 150 (55.56%) Power Platform
3 144 (53.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 36 (13.33%) Snowflake
5 31 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (10.00%) dbt
6 27 (10.00%) GCP
7 20 (7.41%) Microsoft Purview
8 19 (7.04%) AWS
9 17 (6.30%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (5.93%) GitHub
11 15 (5.56%) Entra ID
11 15 (5.56%) PaaS
12 11 (4.07%) SaaS
13 10 (3.70%) Fivetran
14 9 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (2.96%) ChatGPT
15 8 (2.96%) Microsoft Copilot
15 8 (2.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.48%) WAN
2 2 (0.74%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (53.33%) Power BI
2 111 (41.11%) Data Lake
3 86 (31.85%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (25.19%) Azure SQL Database
5 46 (17.04%) SQL Server
6 37 (13.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 23 (8.52%) Big Data
8 18 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 18 (6.67%) BigQuery
8 18 (6.67%) Tableau
9 17 (6.30%) Delta Lake
9 17 (6.30%) Metadata
9 17 (6.30%) Snowflake Schema
9 17 (6.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 17 (6.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (4.44%) Power Query
11 10 (3.70%) Looker
12 9 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (2.22%) Data Mining
14 5 (1.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (7.78%) Git
2 11 (4.07%) MLflow
3 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
General
1 105 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 103 (38.15%) Finance
3 51 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.44%) Billing
4 12 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.59%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.22%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.22%) Law
8 4 (1.48%) Banking
9 3 (1.11%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.74%) Legal
10 2 (0.74%) Local Government
11 1 (0.37%) Advertising
11 1 (0.37%) Automotive
11 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.37%) Marketing
11 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 97 (35.93%) Data Engineer
2 67 (24.81%) Architect
3 59 (21.85%) Senior
4 48 (17.78%) Data Architect
5 46 (17.04%) Azure Architect
6 41 (15.19%) Azure Data Architect
7 40 (14.81%) Lead
8 28 (10.37%) Senior Data Engineer
9 21 (7.78%) Big Data Engineer
9 21 (7.78%) DataOps Engineer
9 21 (7.78%) DataOps Leader
9 21 (7.78%) Lead Big Data Engineer
10 20 (7.41%) Lead Data Engineer
11 18 (6.67%) Analyst
12 17 (6.30%) Azure Data Engineer
12 17 (6.30%) Azure Engineer
13 16 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
14 15 (5.56%) Developer
15 14 (5.19%) Consultant
15 14 (5.19%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.26%) PySpark
2 16 (5.93%) Kafka
3 9 (3.33%) LangChain
3 9 (3.33%) LlamaIndex
3 9 (3.33%) pgvector
3 9 (3.33%) PyTorch
3 9 (3.33%) scikit-learn
3 9 (3.33%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.48%) .NET
4 4 (1.48%) CSS
5 1 (0.37%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.37%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.37%) MDX
5 1 (0.37%) Middleware
5 1 (0.37%) REST
5 1 (0.37%) RESTful
5 1 (0.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.74%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.33%) Clustering
5 9 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (3.33%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.96%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.96%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (2.59%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.85%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.11%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.74%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.37%) FMCG
11 1 (0.37%) IoT
11 1 (0.37%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (61.11%) Analytics
2 158 (58.52%) Business Intelligence
2 158 (58.52%) Data Modelling
3 114 (42.22%) ETL
4 97 (35.93%) Data Governance
5 89 (32.96%) CI/CD
6 86 (31.85%) Data Engineering
6 86 (31.85%) Data Pipeline
7 73 (27.04%) AI
7 73 (27.04%) Decision-Making
8 72 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
9 67 (24.81%) DevOps
10 44 (16.30%) Data Architecture
11 42 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 41 (15.19%) Visualisation
13 40 (14.81%) Agile
14 36 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
14 36 (13.33%) Machine Learning
15 35 (12.96%) Observability
16 34 (12.59%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 182 (67.41%) SQL
2 126 (46.67%) Python
3 41 (15.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 16 (5.93%) T-SQL
5 14 (5.19%) Scala
6 9 (3.33%) C#
7 4 (1.48%) Bicep
7 4 (1.48%) Java
8 3 (1.11%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.11%) R
9 1 (0.37%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (8.52%) Degree
2 13 (4.81%) Azure Certification
3 12 (4.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 11 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (4.07%) Security Cleared
5 9 (3.33%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.96%) IIBA
6 8 (2.96%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.96%) PMP
7 3 (1.11%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.37%) MCSE
9 1 (0.37%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (37.04%) Data Quality
2 23 (8.52%) GDPR
3 22 (8.15%) SLA
4 12 (4.44%) Actionable Recommendations
5 10 (3.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.37%) COBIT
7 1 (0.37%) QA
7 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (1.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (7.04%) Terraform
2 5 (1.85%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.74%) Ansible
Vendors
1 150 (55.56%) Databricks
2 84 (31.11%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.33%) Alteryx
3 9 (3.33%) Cloudera
3 9 (3.33%) Dell
4 8 (2.96%) Anaplan
5 7 (2.59%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.22%) Dataiku
7 4 (1.48%) Concur
7 4 (1.48%) Foundry
7 4 (1.48%) Sage
7 4 (1.48%) Talend
8 3 (1.11%) Google
9 1 (0.37%) Teradata