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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 477 480
Rank change year-on-year -56 +3 -10
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 282 211 344
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.43% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 1.35% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 224 145 276
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £118,750 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £108,750 £114,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% +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 27,462 15,625 24,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.07% 31.65% 31.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,587 10,573 15,690
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,983 £39,375 £45,750
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 £100,400 £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 16 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 16 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 -49 263 £90,000 +38.46% 209
London -16 156 £105,000 +50.00% 121
Work from Home +61 148 £105,000 +29.23% 85
UK excluding London -90 112 £75,000 +20.00% 97
South East -31 53 £85,000 +30.77% 24
North of England -54 24 £67,750 +0.37% 29
Yorkshire -25 12 £90,000 +38.46% 8
North West -16 9 £50,000 -25.93% 17
South West -66 9 £58,750 -21.67% 11
East of England -28 8 £70,000 +12.00% 5
Midlands -49 8 £60,000 +25.00% 17
West Midlands -50 8 £60,000 -4.00% 10
Wales -71 7 £52,500 -8.70% 3
Scotland +8 3 £55,000 - 8
North East -61 3 £60,000 -22.58% 4

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 40 (14.18%) Apache Spark
2 20 (7.09%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (5.67%) Apache
4 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.71%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 282 (100.00%) Azure
2 138 (48.94%) Azure Data Factory
3 110 (39.01%) Power Platform
4 98 (34.75%) Snowflake
5 61 (21.63%) Azure Machine Learning
6 59 (20.92%) Azure AI
7 45 (15.96%) Azure Databricks
8 39 (13.83%) AWS
9 36 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (12.06%) Microsoft Purview
11 30 (10.64%) GCP
12 23 (8.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 22 (7.80%) dbt
14 17 (6.03%) Serverless
15 12 (4.26%) Azure Functions
16 10 (3.55%) Azure Logic Apps
17 9 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
17 9 (3.19%) GitHub
17 9 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
18 8 (2.84%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (37.94%) Power BI
2 96 (34.04%) Data Lake
3 93 (32.98%) Data Warehouse
4 79 (28.01%) SQL Server
5 53 (18.79%) Metadata
6 52 (18.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 34 (12.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 34 (12.06%) Delta Lake
8 28 (9.93%) Star Schema
9 26 (9.22%) BigQuery
10 24 (8.51%) Snowflake Schema
11 22 (7.80%) Tableau
12 18 (6.38%) Big Data
12 18 (6.38%) Data Vault
13 14 (4.96%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (4.96%) Looker
13 14 (4.96%) Milvus
13 14 (4.96%) NoSQL
14 13 (4.61%) MongoDB
15 12 (4.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 29 (10.28%) Git
2 17 (6.03%) MLflow
3 1 (0.35%) JIRA
3 1 (0.35%) kappa
General
1 104 (36.88%) Finance
2 58 (20.57%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (19.86%) Social Skills
4 11 (3.90%) Banking
5 10 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.48%) Legal
7 5 (1.77%) Law
7 5 (1.77%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.77%) Retail
8 2 (0.71%) Police
9 1 (0.35%) Billing
9 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Publishing
9 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (32.98%) Data Engineer
2 76 (26.95%) Senior
3 66 (23.40%) Architect
4 61 (21.63%) Data Architect
5 46 (16.31%) Data Manager
6 34 (12.06%) Senior Data Engineer
7 33 (11.70%) Engineering Manager
7 33 (11.70%) Finance Manager
8 29 (10.28%) Azure Engineer
9 28 (9.93%) Lead
10 24 (8.51%) Azure Architect
11 22 (7.80%) Azure Data Architect
12 20 (7.09%) Azure Data Engineer
13 16 (5.67%) Lead Data Engineer
14 14 (4.96%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 14 (4.96%) Systems Engineer
15 12 (4.26%) Analyst
15 12 (4.26%) Developer
16 10 (3.55%) Head of AI
16 10 (3.55%) Head of Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (18.79%) PySpark
2 30 (10.64%) Terraform
3 28 (9.93%) Kafka
4 17 (6.03%) LangChain
5 14 (4.96%) LlamaIndex
5 14 (4.96%) pgvector
5 14 (4.96%) PyTorch
5 14 (4.96%) scikit-learn
5 14 (4.96%) TensorFlow
6 6 (2.13%) Apache Avro
6 6 (2.13%) JSON
7 4 (1.42%) MDX
8 3 (1.06%) .NET
8 3 (1.06%) Pulumi
9 2 (0.71%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.71%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.71%) FastAPI
9 2 (0.71%) RESTful
9 2 (0.71%) Vue
10 1 (0.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 53 (18.79%) Cloud Native
2 29 (10.28%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.96%) Clustering
3 14 (4.96%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.42%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.42%) Replication
7 3 (1.06%) Data Fabric
7 3 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.06%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.06%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.71%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.71%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.71%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.35%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (55.32%) Analytics
2 149 (52.84%) Data Engineering
3 145 (51.42%) AI
4 138 (48.94%) Business Intelligence
5 137 (48.58%) Data Modelling
6 124 (43.97%) Data Governance
7 119 (42.20%) ETL
8 118 (41.84%) Data Architecture
9 117 (41.49%) CI/CD
10 114 (40.43%) Machine Learning
11 112 (39.72%) Agile
12 110 (39.01%) Data Pipeline
13 95 (33.69%) Roadmaps
14 76 (26.95%) Lakehouse
15 75 (26.60%) DevOps
16 71 (25.18%) Migration
17 58 (20.57%) Data Science
18 57 (20.21%) Data Development
18 57 (20.21%) Regulatory Compliance
19 55 (19.50%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 223 (79.08%) SQL
2 149 (52.84%) Python
3 30 (10.64%) Scala
4 25 (8.87%) Bicep
5 19 (6.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (5.32%) Java
7 14 (4.96%) C#
8 10 (3.55%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.77%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.06%) VBA
11 1 (0.35%) Bash
11 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (10.28%) Azure Certification
2 25 (8.87%) Microsoft Certification
3 21 (7.45%) Security Cleared
4 16 (5.67%) SnowPro
5 15 (5.32%) Degree
5 15 (5.32%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.48%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.77%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (34.40%) Data Quality
2 38 (13.48%) GDPR
3 23 (8.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 18 (6.38%) SLA
5 9 (3.19%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.77%) QA
7 2 (0.71%) IFRS
7 2 (0.71%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.71%) Solvency II
System Software
1 55 (19.50%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 198 (70.21%) Databricks
2 177 (62.77%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.96%) Cloudera
3 14 (4.96%) Dell
4 13 (4.61%) Informatica
5 9 (3.19%) Talend
6 7 (2.48%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.13%) Google
7 6 (2.13%) SAP
8 5 (1.77%) Foundry
9 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.35%) Confluent
9 1 (0.35%) Infor
9 1 (0.35%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow