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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 416 483
Rank change year-on-year -11 +67 +113
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 233 300 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.56% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 1.55% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 163 237 204
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,000 £50,938
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 £81,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £114,550 £94,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,750 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.46% +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 20,529 19,355 22,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.22% 36.17% 40.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,258 11,374 18,418
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £46,713 £45,000
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £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 14 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 14 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 +2 204 £85,000 +21.43% 149
London +52 107 £90,000 +12.50% 34
UK excluding London -7 106 £73,750 +13.46% 140
Work from Home +37 98 £85,000 +13.33% 48
South East -4 40 £85,000 +30.77% 53
North of England -10 21 £66,500 +0.38% 25
Midlands +14 20 £63,500 +41.11% 19
West Midlands +8 14 £65,000 +44.44% 5
Scotland +13 9 - - 4
North West +11 9 £58,000 -22.67% 10
Yorkshire -23 7 £67,617 +4.03% 10
East of England +27 6 £62,500 +8.70% 16
North East +13 5 £77,500 +70.33% 5
South West 0 4 £72,500 -3.33% 16
East Midlands -4 4 £50,000 -20.00% 14
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 2
Wales +9 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 19 (8.15%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.43%) Apache
3 5 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 24 (10.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 233 (100.00%) Azure
2 141 (60.52%) Azure Data Factory
3 137 (58.80%) Power Platform
4 33 (14.16%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (11.16%) Microsoft Purview
6 25 (10.73%) Snowflake
7 21 (9.01%) dbt
8 20 (8.58%) AWS
9 18 (7.73%) GitHub
10 17 (7.30%) GCP
11 16 (6.87%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (5.15%) Fivetran
13 11 (4.72%) PaaS
14 10 (4.29%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (4.29%) SaaS
15 9 (3.86%) Collibra
16 8 (3.43%) Entra ID
17 7 (3.00%) GitHub Copilot
17 7 (3.00%) Matillion
17 7 (3.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (56.22%) Power BI
2 94 (40.34%) Data Lake
3 77 (33.05%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (26.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 54 (23.18%) SQL Server
6 43 (18.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (10.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 22 (9.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 21 (9.01%) Metadata
10 16 (6.87%) Big Data
11 14 (6.01%) Delta Lake
12 12 (5.15%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (4.29%) NoSQL
13 10 (4.29%) Power Query
14 9 (3.86%) Tableau
15 8 (3.43%) Snowflake Schema
16 7 (3.00%) BigQuery
16 7 (3.00%) Hadoop
17 6 (2.58%) Data Mining
18 3 (1.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (7.73%) Git
2 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.43%) JIRA
General
1 101 (43.35%) Finance
1 101 (43.35%) Social Skills
2 51 (21.89%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (8.15%) Law
4 14 (6.01%) Presentation Skills
5 13 (5.58%) Billing
6 7 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.58%) Retail
8 5 (2.15%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.15%) Legal
8 5 (2.15%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.72%) Banking
10 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.86%) Advertising
11 2 (0.86%) Local Government
12 1 (0.43%) Automotive
12 1 (0.43%) Marketing
12 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 91 (39.06%) Data Engineer
2 43 (18.45%) Architect
3 38 (16.31%) Senior
4 37 (15.88%) Data Architect
5 30 (12.88%) Azure Architect
5 30 (12.88%) Senior Data Engineer
6 29 (12.45%) Azure Data Architect
7 27 (11.59%) Lead
8 19 (8.15%) Analyst
9 18 (7.73%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (6.87%) Developer
11 15 (6.44%) Azure Data Engineer
12 13 (5.58%) Consultant
13 12 (5.15%) Business Manager
13 12 (5.15%) Commercial Analyst
13 12 (5.15%) Insight Analyst
13 12 (5.15%) Insight Manager
14 11 (4.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 10 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
16 8 (3.43%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.87%) PySpark
2 14 (6.01%) Kafka
3 3 (1.29%) .NET
3 3 (1.29%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.29%) Pandas
3 3 (1.29%) Polars
4 2 (0.86%) XML
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.43%) MDX
5 1 (0.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.59%) Analytical Mindset
2 14 (6.01%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.72%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.43%) FMCG
7 7 (3.00%) AI Agents
7 7 (3.00%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.15%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.43%) Data Fabric
12 1 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.43%) IoT
12 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (67.81%) Analytics
2 142 (60.94%) Business Intelligence
3 141 (60.52%) Data Modelling
4 108 (46.35%) ETL
5 88 (37.77%) Data Engineering
6 86 (36.91%) Decision-Making
7 83 (35.62%) Data Pipeline
8 82 (35.19%) Data Governance
9 72 (30.90%) DevOps
10 71 (30.47%) CI/CD
10 71 (30.47%) Problem-Solving
11 67 (28.76%) AI
12 47 (20.17%) Agile
13 45 (19.31%) Visualisation
14 40 (17.17%) Machine Learning
15 36 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (15.02%) Data Architecture
17 32 (13.73%) Actionable Insight
18 31 (13.30%) Stakeholder Management
19 30 (12.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 166 (71.24%) SQL
2 107 (45.92%) Python
3 41 (17.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 21 (9.01%) Scala
5 18 (7.73%) T-SQL
6 10 (4.29%) C#
7 8 (3.43%) R
8 6 (2.58%) Java
9 5 (2.15%) Bicep
10 1 (0.43%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (8.58%) Degree
2 12 (5.15%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 9 (3.86%) Azure Certification
3 9 (3.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (3.43%) TOGAF Certification
5 7 (3.00%) IIBA
5 7 (3.00%) PMI Certification
5 7 (3.00%) PMP
5 7 (3.00%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.00%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.29%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.43%) MCSE
7 1 (0.43%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (37.34%) Data Quality
2 23 (9.87%) GDPR
3 12 (5.15%) Actionable Recommendations
4 8 (3.43%) QA
5 6 (2.58%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (7.73%) Terraform
2 4 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.29%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 126 (54.08%) Databricks
2 81 (34.76%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.43%) Dataiku
4 7 (3.00%) Alteryx
4 7 (3.00%) Anaplan
4 7 (3.00%) SAP
5 4 (1.72%) Talend
6 3 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (1.29%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.29%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.86%) Google
7 2 (0.86%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle
8 1 (0.43%) Teradata