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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 495 427
Rank change year-on-year -97 -68 +30
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 220 185 355
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.37% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.82% 1.19% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 167 130 277
10th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £109,500 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,500 £62,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% +6.84% -

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 26,793 15,536 23,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 31.47% 32.19%
Number of salaries quoted 18,282 10,452 14,136
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,250 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,400 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.02% -10.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -107 200 £77,500 +10.71% 206
London -42 114 £87,500 +2.94% 118
UK excluding London -101 93 £61,500 -1.60% 93
Work from Home +2 88 £87,500 +2.94% 95
South East -42 31 £62,500 -3.85% 20
North of England -49 29 £60,500 -1.22% 35
Yorkshire -28 18 £77,500 +28.92% 11
North West -18 12 £56,250 -2.17% 18
West Midlands -54 9 £55,750 -8.98% 12
Midlands -62 9 £55,750 +19.89% 14
South West -67 9 £60,000 -20.00% 8
Wales -67 9 £52,500 -8.70%
North East -63 5 £60,000 -22.58% 6
Scotland +12 3 £55,000 - 9
East of England -42 3 £72,500 +16.00% 6

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 24 (10.91%) Apache Spark
2 16 (7.27%) Apache
3 6 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.82%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 220 (100.00%) Azure
2 150 (68.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 96 (43.64%) Power Platform
4 49 (22.27%) Azure Databricks
5 42 (19.09%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (15.45%) Microsoft Purview
7 31 (14.09%) Snowflake
8 26 (11.82%) AWS
9 25 (11.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 19 (8.64%) Serverless
11 17 (7.73%) GCP
12 12 (5.45%) Azure Functions
12 12 (5.45%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (5.45%) dbt
13 11 (5.00%) GitHub
13 11 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (3.64%) Amazon S3
15 8 (3.64%) Azure Key Vault
15 8 (3.64%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.45%) Firewall
1 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (41.82%) Power BI
2 86 (39.09%) Data Lake
2 86 (39.09%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (24.55%) Metadata
4 53 (24.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 34 (15.45%) SQL Server
6 33 (15.00%) Delta Lake
6 33 (15.00%) Star Schema
7 20 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 19 (8.64%) Data Vault
9 17 (7.73%) NoSQL
10 15 (6.82%) Power Query
11 13 (5.91%) MongoDB
12 12 (5.45%) Big Data
12 12 (5.45%) BigQuery
12 12 (5.45%) DynamoDB
12 12 (5.45%) Semantic Layer
13 10 (4.55%) Amazon QuickSight
13 10 (4.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 10 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (13.64%) Git
2 4 (1.82%) GitLab
3 2 (0.91%) MLflow
4 1 (0.45%) JIRA
4 1 (0.45%) kappa
General
1 60 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
2 50 (22.73%) Finance
3 10 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (3.64%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.18%) Legal
6 5 (2.27%) Law
6 5 (2.27%) Retail
7 3 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.91%) Police
8 2 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Banking
9 1 (0.45%) Billing
9 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.45%) Publishing
9 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (43.64%) Data Engineer
2 62 (28.18%) Senior
3 49 (22.27%) Architect
4 45 (20.45%) Data Architect
5 38 (17.27%) Azure Engineer
6 34 (15.45%) Senior Data Engineer
7 24 (10.91%) Azure Data Engineer
7 24 (10.91%) Lead
8 16 (7.27%) Developer
9 14 (6.36%) Analyst
9 14 (6.36%) Lead Data Engineer
10 13 (5.91%) Data Manager
11 10 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 10 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.09%) Azure Architect
13 8 (3.64%) Azure Data Architect
13 8 (3.64%) Consultant
13 8 (3.64%) Microsoft Engineer
14 7 (3.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 7 (3.18%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (24.09%) PySpark
2 39 (17.73%) Terraform
3 16 (7.27%) Kafka
4 9 (4.09%) JSON
5 6 (2.73%) Apache Avro
6 4 (1.82%) LangChain
6 4 (1.82%) MDX
6 4 (1.82%) REST
7 3 (1.36%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.36%) Pulumi
7 3 (1.36%) SAML
7 3 (1.36%) SOAP
7 3 (1.36%) XML
8 2 (0.91%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.91%) Middleware
9 1 (0.45%) .NET
9 1 (0.45%) BAPI
9 1 (0.45%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 44 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.36%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.82%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.82%) Replication
6 4 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.36%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.36%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.91%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.91%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.91%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.91%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.45%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.91%) Windows
2 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (69.09%) Analytics
2 132 (60.00%) Data Modelling
3 127 (57.73%) Business Intelligence
4 123 (55.91%) CI/CD
5 111 (50.45%) ETL
6 108 (49.09%) Data Pipeline
7 87 (39.55%) DevOps
8 85 (38.64%) Data Engineering
9 80 (36.36%) AI
10 64 (29.09%) Agile
11 63 (28.64%) Lakehouse
12 59 (26.82%) Data Architecture
13 56 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
14 53 (24.09%) Data Governance
15 50 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
16 47 (21.36%) Infrastructure as Code
17 46 (20.91%) Machine Learning
18 43 (19.55%) Data Science
18 43 (19.55%) Data Strategy
18 43 (19.55%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 165 (75.00%) SQL
2 142 (64.55%) Python
3 32 (14.55%) Scala
4 28 (12.73%) Bicep
5 23 (10.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (6.82%) Java
6 15 (6.82%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.91%) C#
8 7 (3.18%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.82%) Bash
10 3 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.36%) VBA
11 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (12.73%) Azure Certification
2 25 (11.36%) Microsoft Certification
3 24 (10.91%) Security Cleared
4 19 (8.64%) SC Cleared
5 16 (7.27%) SnowPro
6 14 (6.36%) Degree
7 7 (3.18%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.82%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.45%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (45.45%) Data Quality
2 24 (10.91%) GDPR
3 12 (5.45%) SLA
4 10 (4.55%) Accessibility
5 9 (4.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (2.73%) QA
7 2 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.91%) IFRS
7 2 (0.91%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.91%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.45%) IASME
8 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (2.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.36%) Ansible
2 3 (1.36%) Grafana
2 3 (1.36%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 135 (61.36%) Microsoft
2 131 (59.55%) Databricks
3 14 (6.36%) Informatica
4 9 (4.09%) SAP
4 9 (4.09%) Talend
5 7 (3.18%) Google
6 4 (1.82%) Foundry
7 3 (1.36%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.45%) Confluent
8 1 (0.45%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.45%) ServiceNow