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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 429 439
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 +175
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 213 341 292
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.51% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.20% 1.55% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 133 261 234
10th Percentile £45,100 £43,750 £45,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £119,500 £107,500 £94,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -14.81%

All Cloud 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 17,783 21,945 22,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.78% 32.77% 42.92%
Number of salaries quoted 11,246 13,161 18,911
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -20 188 £71,000 -2.07% 163
London -1 104 £90,000 +5.88% 97
UK excluding London +19 91 £60,000 -4.00% 80
Work from Home -6 74 £82,500 +13.79% 99
Midlands +52 23 £47,500 -2.06% 19
North of England +35 23 £58,000 +10.48% 15
South East -15 23 £65,000 - 33
West Midlands +50 15 £60,000 +33.33% 14
North West +35 13 £64,000 +4.92% 8
East Midlands +32 8 £45,000 -28.00% 4
South West +26 6 £72,500 -9.38% 4
Scotland +6 6 - - 4
North East +8 5 £77,500 +70.33%
Yorkshire +5 5 £50,117 +5.51% 7
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East of England +16 3 £62,500 +11.11% 6
Wales +12 3 £60,000 +40.35%

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 23 (10.80%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.76%) Apache
3 5 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.88%) Apache Synapse
5 2 (0.94%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.94%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.47%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 24 (11.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (6.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.94%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.47%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 213 (100.00%) Azure
2 127 (59.62%) Power Platform
3 120 (56.34%) Azure Data Factory
4 29 (13.62%) AWS
4 29 (13.62%) Snowflake
5 25 (11.74%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (11.74%) GCP
5 25 (11.74%) Microsoft Purview
6 17 (7.98%) dbt
7 12 (5.63%) Fivetran
7 12 (5.63%) GitHub
8 9 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (3.76%) Collibra
9 8 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (3.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (3.29%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (3.29%) Entra ID
10 7 (3.29%) Matillion
10 7 (3.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.35%) Firewall
2 1 (0.47%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (58.22%) Power BI
2 72 (33.80%) Data Lake
3 66 (30.99%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (28.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 60 (28.17%) SQL Server
5 46 (21.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 27 (12.68%) NoSQL
6 27 (12.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 22 (10.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 21 (9.86%) Metadata
9 19 (8.92%) Amazon Redshift
10 18 (8.45%) Big Data
11 15 (7.04%) BigQuery
12 13 (6.10%) Hadoop
13 9 (4.23%) Tableau
14 8 (3.76%) Power Query
14 8 (3.76%) Snowflake Schema
15 7 (3.29%) Delta Lake
16 4 (1.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 4 (1.88%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (1.88%) Git
1 4 (1.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.47%) JIRA
2 1 (0.47%) JUnit
2 1 (0.47%) RStudio
2 1 (0.47%) Selenium
2 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (0.47%) TestComplete
General
1 98 (46.01%) Social Skills
2 75 (35.21%) Finance
3 57 (26.76%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.27%) Retail
5 23 (10.80%) Law
6 18 (8.45%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (6.10%) Billing
8 5 (2.35%) Legal
9 4 (1.88%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.88%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.41%) Banking
10 3 (1.41%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.41%) Marketing
11 2 (0.94%) Automotive
12 1 (0.47%) Advertising
12 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (37.09%) Data Engineer
2 38 (17.84%) Senior
3 32 (15.02%) Architect
4 30 (14.08%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (12.21%) Analyst
6 24 (11.27%) Data Architect
6 24 (11.27%) Lead
7 21 (9.86%) Developer
8 18 (8.45%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (7.04%) Azure Data Engineer
10 14 (6.57%) Azure Architect
10 14 (6.57%) Azure Data Architect
11 13 (6.10%) Product Lead
12 12 (5.63%) Business Manager
12 12 (5.63%) Commercial Analyst
12 12 (5.63%) Insight Analyst
12 12 (5.63%) Insight Manager
13 9 (4.23%) SQL Developer
14 8 (3.76%) Consultant
15 7 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.86%) Kafka
2 18 (8.45%) PySpark
3 9 (4.23%) .NET
4 5 (2.35%) Middleware
5 4 (1.88%) Apache Beam
5 4 (1.88%) Pandas
5 4 (1.88%) Polars
6 3 (1.41%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.41%) REST
7 2 (0.94%) XML
8 1 (0.47%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.21%) Analytical Mindset
2 16 (7.51%) Product Ownership
3 14 (6.57%) FMCG
4 12 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (4.69%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.35%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.88%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.94%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.94%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.47%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.47%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.47%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.47%) IoT
10 1 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.47%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.35%) Windows
1 5 (2.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (69.95%) Analytics
2 134 (62.91%) Business Intelligence
3 106 (49.77%) Data Modelling
4 88 (41.31%) ETL
5 85 (39.91%) Data Engineering
6 80 (37.56%) DevOps
7 75 (35.21%) Decision-Making
8 74 (34.74%) Data Pipeline
9 70 (32.86%) Data Governance
10 64 (30.05%) Problem-Solving
11 61 (28.64%) CI/CD
12 58 (27.23%) AI
13 57 (26.76%) Visualisation
14 50 (23.47%) Agile
15 46 (21.60%) Machine Learning
16 34 (15.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 33 (15.49%) Continuous Improvement
17 33 (15.49%) Data Architecture
18 32 (15.02%) Data Analytics
18 32 (15.02%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 170 (79.81%) SQL
2 91 (42.72%) Python
3 36 (16.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 22 (10.33%) T-SQL
5 17 (7.98%) C#
6 14 (6.57%) Scala
7 10 (4.69%) R
8 8 (3.76%) Java
9 4 (1.88%) Bicep
10 2 (0.94%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (8.92%) Degree
2 14 (6.57%) Azure Certification
2 14 (6.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (5.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 10 (4.69%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.69%) Security Cleared
5 8 (3.76%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.35%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.35%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.94%) MCSE
8 1 (0.47%) IIBA
8 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.47%) PMP
8 1 (0.47%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (29.58%) Data Quality
2 22 (10.33%) QA
3 21 (9.86%) GDPR
4 12 (5.63%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.94%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (6.10%) Terraform
2 5 (2.35%) Grafana
2 5 (2.35%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.41%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 108 (50.70%) Databricks
2 93 (43.66%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.51%) SAP
4 8 (3.76%) Dataiku
5 5 (2.35%) SolarWinds
5 5 (2.35%) Talend
6 4 (1.88%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.88%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.88%) Google
6 4 (1.88%) Palo Alto
6 4 (1.88%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.41%) Informatica
7 3 (1.41%) Oracle
8 2 (0.94%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.47%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.47%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.47%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.47%) Lotus
9 1 (0.47%) PayPal
9 1 (0.47%) Teradata