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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 427 505
Rank change year-on-year -5 +78 +109
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 235 291 277
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.56% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.10% 1.53% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 171 229 226
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £44,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £53,000 £52,500
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 £82,188
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £94,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% -11.54%

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 21,404 19,035 27,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.56% 36.63% 39.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,606 11,163 22,602
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% -7.27%

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 31 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 31 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 -15 203 £85,000 +21.43% 176
UK excluding London -24 108 £75,000 +15.38% 164
Work from Home +33 104 £85,000 +17.24% 69
London +49 102 £90,000 +12.50% 45
South East -12 42 £85,000 +30.77% 60
Midlands +5 21 £65,000 +44.44% 24
North of England -22 19 £75,000 +13.21% 30
West Midlands +11 16 £65,000 +44.44% 8
Scotland +2 9 - - 6
North West +9 8 £66,500 -11.33% 16
East of England +27 6 £62,500 +8.70% 17
Yorkshire -22 6 £67,617 +4.03% 11
North East +2 5 £77,500 +70.33% 3
South West -4 5 £48,500 -11.82% 20
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 2
East Midlands -3 3 £55,000 -12.00% 16
Wales +3 2 - - 7

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 16 (6.81%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.98%) Apache
3 4 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 24 (10.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 235 (100.00%) Azure
2 140 (59.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 128 (54.47%) Power Platform
4 37 (15.74%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (11.49%) Microsoft Purview
6 24 (10.21%) Snowflake
7 20 (8.51%) dbt
8 19 (8.09%) GitHub
9 17 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (6.81%) AWS
10 16 (6.81%) GCP
11 13 (5.53%) PaaS
12 12 (5.11%) Fivetran
13 11 (4.68%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (4.68%) SaaS
14 9 (3.83%) Collibra
15 8 (3.40%) ChatGPT
15 8 (3.40%) Entra ID
15 8 (3.40%) Microsoft Copilot
16 7 (2.98%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.85%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (51.91%) Power BI
2 92 (39.15%) Data Lake
3 77 (32.77%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (26.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 50 (21.28%) SQL Server
6 40 (17.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 22 (9.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 21 (8.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 19 (8.09%) Metadata
10 17 (7.23%) Big Data
11 15 (6.38%) Delta Lake
12 10 (4.26%) Power Query
13 9 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (3.40%) Snowflake Schema
14 8 (3.40%) Tableau
15 7 (2.98%) NoSQL
16 6 (2.55%) Data Mining
17 5 (2.13%) BigQuery
17 5 (2.13%) Hadoop
18 3 (1.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (8.94%) Git
2 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.43%) JIRA
General
1 101 (42.98%) Finance
2 96 (40.85%) Social Skills
3 48 (20.43%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.23%) Law
5 13 (5.53%) Billing
6 12 (5.11%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.13%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.13%) Legal
8 5 (2.13%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.70%) Banking
10 3 (1.28%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.85%) Advertising
11 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.85%) Local Government
11 2 (0.85%) Retail
12 1 (0.43%) Automotive
12 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 90 (38.30%) Data Engineer
2 49 (20.85%) Architect
3 43 (18.30%) Data Architect
4 37 (15.74%) Senior
5 35 (14.89%) Azure Architect
6 34 (14.47%) Azure Data Architect
7 30 (12.77%) Lead
8 29 (12.34%) Senior Data Engineer
9 18 (7.66%) Analyst
9 18 (7.66%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (6.81%) Azure Data Engineer
11 15 (6.38%) Developer
12 13 (5.53%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (5.11%) Business Manager
13 12 (5.11%) Commercial Analyst
13 12 (5.11%) Insight Analyst
13 12 (5.11%) Insight Manager
14 11 (4.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 11 (4.68%) Lead Data Engineer
15 10 (4.26%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.94%) PySpark
2 12 (5.11%) Kafka
3 3 (1.28%) .NET
3 3 (1.28%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Beam
4 1 (0.43%) MDX
4 1 (0.43%) REST
4 1 (0.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.49%) Analytical Mindset
2 15 (6.38%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (3.83%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.40%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.40%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (2.55%) FMCG
8 5 (2.13%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.85%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.43%) Data Fabric
12 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.43%) IoT
12 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (66.38%) Analytics
2 147 (62.55%) Data Modelling
3 138 (58.72%) Business Intelligence
4 107 (45.53%) ETL
5 84 (35.74%) Decision-Making
6 83 (35.32%) Data Governance
7 82 (34.89%) Data Engineering
7 82 (34.89%) Data Pipeline
8 78 (33.19%) CI/CD
9 71 (30.21%) DevOps
10 70 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
11 62 (26.38%) AI
12 41 (17.45%) Agile
12 41 (17.45%) Visualisation
13 37 (15.74%) Data Architecture
14 34 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
15 33 (14.04%) Machine Learning
15 33 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
16 32 (13.62%) Actionable Insight
17 29 (12.34%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 161 (68.51%) SQL
2 103 (43.83%) Python
3 41 (17.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 21 (8.94%) Scala
5 18 (7.66%) T-SQL
6 10 (4.26%) C#
7 6 (2.55%) Bicep
7 6 (2.55%) R
8 5 (2.13%) Java
9 1 (0.43%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (8.94%) Degree
2 12 (5.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 10 (4.26%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.83%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.40%) IIBA
5 8 (3.40%) PMI Certification
5 8 (3.40%) PMP
5 8 (3.40%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.40%) TOGAF Certification
6 7 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.28%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.43%) MCSE
8 1 (0.43%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (39.57%) Data Quality
2 24 (10.21%) GDPR
3 12 (5.11%) Actionable Recommendations
4 9 (3.83%) SLA
5 6 (2.55%) QA
6 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.43%) COBIT
7 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (1.28%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (8.51%) Terraform
2 4 (1.70%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 129 (54.89%) Databricks
2 77 (32.77%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.40%) Alteryx
3 8 (3.40%) Anaplan
3 8 (3.40%) Dataiku
4 5 (2.13%) SAP
5 4 (1.70%) Talend
6 2 (0.85%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.43%) Google
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle
7 1 (0.43%) Teradata