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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 478 468
Rank change year-on-year -68 -10 +12
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 262 203 342
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.41% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.95% 1.31% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 208 141 272
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £47,275
25th Percentile £60,938 £55,233 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £86,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,750 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -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 27,639 15,451 24,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.79% 31.57% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 18,715 10,447 15,298
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 22 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Top 15 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 22 September 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 -74 242 £87,500 +34.62% 162
London -36 141 £95,000 +34.75% 85
Work from Home +34 131 £105,000 +27.27% 68
UK excluding London -111 107 £62,500 - 84
South East -28 47 £85,000 +30.77% 25
North of England -54 25 £60,500 -8.68% 23
Yorkshire -34 13 £90,000 +49.71% 7
North West -35 10 £52,500 -22.22% 13
West Midlands -56 10 £56,500 -9.60% 11
Midlands -60 10 £56,500 +17.71% 17
South West -72 9 £58,750 -21.67% 9
Wales -68 8 £52,500 -8.70% 2
East of England -26 5 £70,000 +12.00% 4
North East -61 4 £57,500 -25.81% 3
Scotland +7 3 £55,000 - 5

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 30 (11.45%) Apache Spark
2 16 (6.11%) Apache
3 10 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.15%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.76%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.38%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 262 (100.00%) Azure
2 143 (54.58%) Azure Data Factory
3 100 (38.17%) Power Platform
4 73 (27.86%) Snowflake
5 46 (17.56%) Azure Databricks
5 46 (17.56%) Azure Machine Learning
6 43 (16.41%) Azure AI
7 37 (14.12%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (13.36%) Microsoft Purview
9 29 (11.07%) AWS
10 24 (9.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 20 (7.63%) GCP
12 17 (6.49%) Serverless
13 13 (4.96%) dbt
14 12 (4.58%) Azure Functions
14 12 (4.58%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (4.58%) GitHub
14 12 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (3.44%) AWS Lambda
16 8 (3.05%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) Firewall
1 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (36.64%) Power BI
2 90 (34.35%) Data Lake
3 84 (32.06%) Data Warehouse
4 67 (25.57%) SQL Server
5 57 (21.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 54 (20.61%) Metadata
7 35 (13.36%) Delta Lake
8 29 (11.07%) Star Schema
9 24 (9.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 18 (6.87%) Data Vault
11 16 (6.11%) Big Data
11 16 (6.11%) BigQuery
11 16 (6.11%) NoSQL
12 14 (5.34%) Snowflake Schema
13 13 (4.96%) MongoDB
14 12 (4.58%) DynamoDB
14 12 (4.58%) Tableau
15 11 (4.20%) Power Query
15 11 (4.20%) Semantic Layer
16 10 (3.82%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 30 (11.45%) Git
2 7 (2.67%) MLflow
3 2 (0.76%) GitLab
4 1 (0.38%) JIRA
4 1 (0.38%) kappa
General
1 90 (34.35%) Finance
2 59 (22.52%) Social Skills
3 50 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.20%) Banking
5 10 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.67%) Legal
7 6 (2.29%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.91%) Law
8 5 (1.91%) Retail
9 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.76%) Police
10 1 (0.38%) Billing
10 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Publishing
10 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (35.50%) Data Engineer
2 66 (25.19%) Senior
3 61 (23.28%) Architect
4 56 (21.37%) Data Architect
5 35 (13.36%) Data Manager
6 33 (12.60%) Senior Data Engineer
7 32 (12.21%) Azure Engineer
8 26 (9.92%) Lead
9 22 (8.40%) Engineering Manager
9 22 (8.40%) Finance Manager
10 19 (7.25%) Azure Architect
10 19 (7.25%) Azure Data Engineer
11 17 (6.49%) Azure Data Architect
12 15 (5.73%) Lead Data Engineer
13 14 (5.34%) Developer
14 13 (4.96%) Analyst
15 10 (3.82%) Head of AI
15 10 (3.82%) Head of Finance
16 9 (3.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 9 (3.44%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (20.99%) PySpark
2 37 (14.12%) Terraform
3 20 (7.63%) Kafka
4 8 (3.05%) JSON
5 7 (2.67%) LangChain
6 6 (2.29%) Apache Avro
7 4 (1.53%) LlamaIndex
7 4 (1.53%) MDX
7 4 (1.53%) pgvector
7 4 (1.53%) PyTorch
7 4 (1.53%) scikit-learn
7 4 (1.53%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.15%) Pulumi
8 3 (1.15%) REST
8 3 (1.15%) SAML
9 2 (0.76%) .NET
9 2 (0.76%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.76%) FastAPI
9 2 (0.76%) SOAP
9 2 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (17.94%) Cloud Native
2 29 (11.07%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.53%) Clustering
6 4 (1.53%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.53%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.53%) Replication
7 3 (1.15%) Data Fabric
7 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.15%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.15%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.76%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.76%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.76%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.76%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.96%) Windows
2 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (58.02%) Analytics
2 130 (49.62%) Business Intelligence
3 128 (48.85%) Data Engineering
3 128 (48.85%) Data Modelling
4 123 (46.95%) CI/CD
5 121 (46.18%) AI
6 112 (42.75%) ETL
7 105 (40.08%) Data Architecture
7 105 (40.08%) Data Pipeline
8 104 (39.69%) Agile
9 99 (37.79%) Data Governance
10 91 (34.73%) Machine Learning
11 81 (30.92%) DevOps
12 80 (30.53%) Roadmaps
13 67 (25.57%) Lakehouse
14 58 (22.14%) Migration
15 51 (19.47%) Technical Leadership
16 48 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
17 47 (17.94%) Data Science
18 43 (16.41%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 204 (77.86%) SQL
2 145 (55.34%) Python
3 31 (11.83%) Scala
4 27 (10.31%) Bicep
5 20 (7.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (5.73%) Java
7 14 (5.34%) PowerShell
8 13 (4.96%) C#
9 6 (2.29%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.53%) Bash
11 3 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.15%) VBA
12 1 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (11.83%) Azure Certification
2 25 (9.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 22 (8.40%) Security Cleared
4 16 (6.11%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.11%) SnowPro
5 15 (5.73%) Degree
6 7 (2.67%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.91%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (37.40%) Data Quality
2 28 (10.69%) GDPR
3 16 (6.11%) SLA
4 13 (4.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 9 (3.44%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.91%) QA
7 2 (0.76%) IFRS
7 2 (0.76%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.76%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 41 (15.65%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.29%) Docker
3 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (2.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.53%) Ansible
3 3 (1.15%) Grafana
3 3 (1.15%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 178 (67.94%) Databricks
2 166 (63.36%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.96%) Informatica
4 9 (3.44%) Talend
5 6 (2.29%) Google
5 6 (2.29%) OpenAI
5 6 (2.29%) SAP
6 4 (1.53%) Cloudera
6 4 (1.53%) Dell
6 4 (1.53%) Foundry
7 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.38%) Confluent
7 1 (0.38%) Infor
7 1 (0.38%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow