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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 396 557
Rank change year-on-year -17 +161 +34
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 308 263 293
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.64% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.24% 1.72% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 224 204 244
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £44,125
25th Percentile £66,250 £55,000 £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 £89,063 £82,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.52% +12.50% -4.00%

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 24,817 15,260 32,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.26% 37.08% 37.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,141 10,961 26,103
10th Percentile £29,750 £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 £81,250 £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 25 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 25 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 -24 271 £85,250 +21.79% 66
UK excluding London -56 143 £80,000 +18.52% 47
Work from Home +57 134 £90,000 +20.00% 33
London +26 134 £90,000 +12.50% 31
South East -36 66 £85,000 +21.43% 18
North of England -49 26 £70,932 +5.08% 11
Midlands -45 22 £65,000 +44.44% 8
West Midlands -18 16 £65,250 +45.00% 8
North West -25 11 £70,932 +3.17% 6
Yorkshire -41 10 £70,932 +5.08% 3
East of England -8 9 £55,000 +4.76% 3
Scotland -15 9 - -
North East -22 5 £60,000 - 2
South West -43 5 £48,500 -11.82% 7
East Midlands - 4 £57,500 -
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Wales -18 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 35 (11.36%) Apache Spark
2 29 (9.42%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.95%) Apache
4 4 (1.30%) SAS
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
Applications
1 25 (8.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 308 (100.00%) Azure
2 166 (53.90%) Power Platform
3 149 (48.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 64 (20.78%) Snowflake
5 41 (13.31%) GCP
6 40 (12.99%) dbt
7 33 (10.71%) AWS
8 30 (9.74%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (7.14%) Azure AI
10 20 (6.49%) Microsoft Purview
11 19 (6.17%) Azure Machine Learning
12 16 (5.19%) Entra ID
12 16 (5.19%) GitHub
12 16 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (4.87%) PaaS
14 11 (3.57%) SaaS
15 9 (2.92%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (2.92%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (2.92%) Fivetran
16 8 (2.60%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.30%) WAN
2 2 (0.65%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (51.95%) Power BI
2 126 (40.91%) Data Lake
3 101 (32.79%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (22.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 59 (19.16%) SQL Server
6 36 (11.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 32 (10.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 32 (10.39%) BigQuery
7 32 (10.39%) Tableau
8 31 (10.06%) Snowflake Schema
9 25 (8.12%) Big Data
10 24 (7.79%) Looker
11 23 (7.47%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (5.84%) Metadata
13 16 (5.19%) Delta Lake
14 15 (4.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 15 (4.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 12 (3.90%) Power Query
16 6 (1.95%) Data Mining
17 4 (1.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (8.12%) MLflow
2 22 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
General
1 120 (38.96%) Finance
2 107 (34.74%) Social Skills
3 66 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (3.90%) Billing
4 12 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.27%) Public Sector
7 6 (1.95%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.95%) Law
8 4 (1.30%) Banking
9 3 (0.97%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.65%) Local Government
11 1 (0.32%) Advertising
11 1 (0.32%) Automotive
11 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.32%) Legal
11 1 (0.32%) Marketing
11 1 (0.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 102 (33.12%) Data Engineer
2 77 (25.00%) Senior
3 73 (23.70%) Architect
4 54 (17.53%) Data Architect
5 52 (16.88%) Azure Architect
6 47 (15.26%) Azure Data Architect
7 40 (12.99%) Lead
8 31 (10.06%) Senior Data Engineer
9 23 (7.47%) Big Data Engineer
9 23 (7.47%) DataOps Engineer
9 23 (7.47%) DataOps Leader
9 23 (7.47%) Lead Big Data Engineer
9 23 (7.47%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 23 (7.47%) Systems Engineer
10 20 (6.49%) Lead Data Engineer
11 19 (6.17%) Azure Data Engineer
11 19 (6.17%) Azure Engineer
12 18 (5.84%) Analyst
13 16 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
14 15 (4.87%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.74%) Kafka
2 27 (8.77%) PySpark
3 23 (7.47%) LangChain
3 23 (7.47%) LlamaIndex
3 23 (7.47%) pgvector
3 23 (7.47%) PyTorch
3 23 (7.47%) scikit-learn
3 23 (7.47%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.30%) .NET
4 4 (1.30%) CSS
5 1 (0.32%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.32%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.32%) MDX
5 1 (0.32%) Middleware
5 1 (0.32%) REST
5 1 (0.32%) RESTful
5 1 (0.32%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 23 (7.47%) Clustering
3 23 (7.47%) Public Cloud
4 12 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.60%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.60%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.60%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.62%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.97%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.65%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.32%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.32%) FMCG
10 1 (0.32%) IoT
10 1 (0.32%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (60.06%) Analytics
2 174 (56.49%) Business Intelligence
2 174 (56.49%) Data Modelling
3 129 (41.88%) ETL
4 128 (41.56%) Data Governance
5 115 (37.34%) Data Engineering
6 105 (34.09%) Data Pipeline
7 103 (33.44%) AI
8 94 (30.52%) CI/CD
9 76 (24.68%) Problem-Solving
10 74 (24.03%) Decision-Making
11 68 (22.08%) DevOps
12 65 (21.10%) Machine Learning
13 58 (18.83%) Data Architecture
14 57 (18.51%) Agile
15 49 (15.91%) Performance Tuning
16 48 (15.58%) Use Case
17 47 (15.26%) Roadmaps
18 46 (14.94%) Data Science
19 45 (14.61%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 217 (70.45%) SQL
2 144 (46.75%) Python
3 41 (13.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 15 (4.87%) Scala
4 15 (4.87%) T-SQL
5 8 (2.60%) C#
6 4 (1.30%) Bicep
6 4 (1.30%) Java
6 4 (1.30%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.97%) R
8 1 (0.32%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (7.79%) Degree
2 14 (4.55%) Azure Certification
3 12 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (3.90%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 11 (3.57%) Security Cleared
5 9 (2.92%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.60%) IIBA
6 8 (2.60%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.60%) PMP
7 3 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.97%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.32%) MCSE
9 1 (0.32%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (33.12%) Data Quality
2 37 (12.01%) GDPR
3 24 (7.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 24 (7.79%) SLA
4 12 (3.90%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.32%) COBIT
6 1 (0.32%) QA
6 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (4.87%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.30%) Docker
3 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (6.17%) Terraform
2 5 (1.62%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.65%) Ansible
Vendors
1 187 (60.71%) Databricks
2 104 (33.77%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.47%) Cloudera
3 23 (7.47%) Dell
4 9 (2.92%) Alteryx
4 9 (2.92%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.60%) Anaplan
6 5 (1.62%) Dataiku
6 5 (1.62%) Foundry
7 4 (1.30%) Concur
7 4 (1.30%) Sage
7 4 (1.30%) Talend
8 3 (0.97%) Google
9 1 (0.32%) Teradata