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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 421 459
Rank change year-on-year +6 +38 +139
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 225 311 260
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.57% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.10% 1.57% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 152 247 214
10th Percentile £50,250 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,000 £50,000
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 £90,000 £80,938
90th Percentile £120,000 £104,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%

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 20,518 19,807 21,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.63% 36.05% 41.50%
Number of salaries quoted 11,206 11,679 17,619
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,813 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,000
90th Percentile £98,375 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -21 198 £85,000 +21.43% 110
London +36 105 £90,000 +12.50% 51
UK excluding London -20 103 £65,000 - 64
Work from Home +33 95 £85,000 +13.33% 63
South East -16 36 £85,000 +30.77% 24
Midlands +15 21 £63,000 +40.00% 16
North of England 0 20 £58,000 -10.77% 9
West Midlands +16 16 £63,500 +41.11% 7
North West +26 9 £58,000 -18.60% 3
Scotland +6 9 - -
East of England +29 6 £62,500 +8.70% 7
Yorkshire -19 6 £55,233 -15.03% 2
North East +9 5 £77,500 +70.33% 4
South West +3 4 £72,500 -3.33% 4
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Wales +3 3 £60,000 +40.35% 4
East Midlands -14 3 £45,000 -28.00% 8

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 19 (8.44%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.67%) Apache
3 4 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 24 (10.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 225 (100.00%) Azure
2 136 (60.44%) Azure Data Factory
3 133 (59.11%) Power Platform
4 33 (14.67%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
5 25 (11.11%) Snowflake
6 22 (9.78%) AWS
7 20 (8.89%) dbt
8 18 (8.00%) GitHub
9 16 (7.11%) GCP
10 14 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (5.33%) Fivetran
12 9 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (4.00%) Collibra
12 9 (4.00%) PaaS
13 8 (3.56%) Entra ID
13 8 (3.56%) SaaS
14 7 (3.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (3.11%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (3.11%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.44%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (56.44%) Power BI
2 93 (41.33%) Data Lake
3 75 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (27.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 55 (24.44%) SQL Server
6 43 (19.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 24 (10.67%) Metadata
8 23 (10.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 22 (9.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 16 (7.11%) Big Data
11 13 (5.78%) Delta Lake
11 13 (5.78%) NoSQL
12 12 (5.33%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (4.00%) Hadoop
13 9 (4.00%) Power Query
14 8 (3.56%) Snowflake Schema
14 8 (3.56%) Tableau
15 6 (2.67%) BigQuery
15 6 (2.67%) Data Mining
16 3 (1.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (7.56%) Git
2 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.44%) JIRA
General
1 101 (44.89%) Social Skills
2 96 (42.67%) Finance
3 52 (23.11%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.33%) Law
5 15 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (5.78%) Billing
7 8 (3.56%) Retail
8 5 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.22%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.22%) Legal
9 4 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.33%) Banking
10 3 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.33%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.89%) Advertising
11 2 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.44%) Automotive
12 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 89 (39.56%) Data Engineer
2 40 (17.78%) Architect
3 37 (16.44%) Senior
4 34 (15.11%) Data Architect
5 29 (12.89%) Senior Data Engineer
6 27 (12.00%) Azure Architect
7 26 (11.56%) Azure Data Architect
8 23 (10.22%) Lead
9 19 (8.44%) Analyst
9 19 (8.44%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (7.11%) Azure Data Engineer
11 14 (6.22%) Consultant
11 14 (6.22%) Developer
12 12 (5.33%) Business Manager
12 12 (5.33%) Commercial Analyst
12 12 (5.33%) Insight Analyst
12 12 (5.33%) Insight Manager
13 9 (4.00%) Product Lead
14 8 (3.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 7 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.67%) PySpark
2 16 (7.11%) Kafka
3 4 (1.78%) .NET
3 4 (1.78%) ARM Templates
3 4 (1.78%) Pandas
3 4 (1.78%) Polars
4 2 (0.89%) XML
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.44%) MDX
5 1 (0.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 15 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.33%) Product Ownership
3 12 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.44%) FMCG
4 10 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.22%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.44%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.44%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.44%) IoT
8 1 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (69.33%) Analytics
2 140 (62.22%) Business Intelligence
3 138 (61.33%) Data Modelling
4 103 (45.78%) ETL
5 87 (38.67%) Data Engineering
6 83 (36.89%) Data Governance
6 83 (36.89%) Data Pipeline
6 83 (36.89%) Decision-Making
7 75 (33.33%) DevOps
8 72 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
9 69 (30.67%) CI/CD
10 65 (28.89%) AI
11 46 (20.44%) Agile
12 45 (20.00%) Machine Learning
13 44 (19.56%) Visualisation
14 37 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (15.11%) Data Architecture
16 32 (14.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 31 (13.78%) Stakeholder Management
17 31 (13.78%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 166 (73.78%) SQL
2 103 (45.78%) Python
3 40 (17.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 22 (9.78%) Scala
5 20 (8.89%) T-SQL
6 11 (4.89%) C#
7 7 (3.11%) R
8 6 (2.67%) Bicep
9 5 (2.22%) Java
10 1 (0.44%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (8.00%) Degree
2 12 (5.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 10 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (3.56%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.56%) TOGAF Certification
5 7 (3.11%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.11%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.22%) IIBA
6 5 (2.22%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.22%) PMP
7 3 (1.33%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.44%) MCSE
8 1 (0.44%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (36.00%) Data Quality
2 24 (10.67%) GDPR
3 12 (5.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 10 (4.44%) QA
5 4 (1.78%) SLA
6 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (8.00%) Terraform
2 4 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 125 (55.56%) Databricks
2 81 (36.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.00%) SAP
4 8 (3.56%) Dataiku
5 5 (2.22%) Alteryx
5 5 (2.22%) Anaplan
6 4 (1.78%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.78%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.78%) Palo Alto
6 4 (1.78%) Talend
7 1 (0.44%) Google
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle
7 1 (0.44%) Teradata