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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 452 557
Rank change year-on-year -18 +105 -32
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 296 245 375
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.53% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 1.61% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 246 172 322
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,625 £43,750
25th Percentile £76,250 £55,938 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £118,750 £83,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £133,125 £112,125 £107,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £65,000 £59,750
% change year-on-year +30.77% +8.79% -4.40%

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 26,119 15,222 35,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.22% 32.92% 33.29%
Number of salaries quoted 17,028 10,574 27,007
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £30,450
25th Percentile £43,219 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% -7.85%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -22 280 £90,000 +28.57% 43
London +40 158 £90,000 +28.57% 19
Work from Home +76 138 £90,000 +28.57% 26
UK excluding London -78 115 £85,000 +30.77% 37
South East -26 61 £90,000 +28.57% 17
North of England -48 26 £70,932 +1.33% 8
Yorkshire -18 16 £80,000 +6.67%
East of England -6 9 £66,250 +26.19% 3
Midlands -55 9 £65,000 +18.18% 6
South West -68 9 £52,500 -12.50% 3
North West -3 8 £61,250 -12.50% 7
West Midlands -40 5 £70,000 +24.44% 5
East Midlands -20 3 £60,000 +33.33% 1
North East - 2 £60,000 - 1
Wales -40 1 £55,000 - 1

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 44 (14.86%) Apache Spark
2 30 (10.14%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.38%) Apache
4 4 (1.35%) SAS
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) Confluence
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 296 (100.00%) Azure
2 118 (39.86%) Power Platform
3 107 (36.15%) Azure Data Factory
4 95 (32.09%) Snowflake
5 62 (20.95%) Azure AI
6 61 (20.61%) Azure Machine Learning
7 42 (14.19%) GCP
8 41 (13.85%) AWS
9 31 (10.47%) dbt
10 24 (8.11%) Microsoft Purview
11 23 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (4.05%) GitHub
13 10 (3.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (3.04%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (3.04%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (3.04%) Entra ID
15 8 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (2.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.35%) WAN
2 1 (0.34%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (39.53%) Power BI
2 102 (34.46%) Data Lake
3 89 (30.07%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (22.97%) SQL Server
5 47 (15.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 37 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 37 (12.50%) BigQuery
7 33 (11.15%) Big Data
7 33 (11.15%) Tableau
8 25 (8.45%) Delta Lake
9 24 (8.11%) Snowflake Schema
10 23 (7.77%) Elasticsearch
10 23 (7.77%) Looker
11 22 (7.43%) Metadata
12 11 (3.72%) Power Query
12 11 (3.72%) Star Schema
13 7 (2.36%) Data Vault
13 7 (2.36%) Semantic Layer
14 6 (2.03%) Spark SQL
14 6 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (9.46%) MLflow
2 18 (6.08%) Git
3 1 (0.34%) JIRA
General
1 111 (37.50%) Finance
2 66 (22.30%) Social Skills
3 52 (17.57%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.39%) Banking
5 9 (3.04%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (1.69%) Legal
7 3 (1.01%) Law
7 3 (1.01%) Retail
8 2 (0.68%) Local Government
8 2 (0.68%) Police
9 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 89 (30.07%) Data Engineer
2 81 (27.36%) Architect
3 74 (25.00%) Senior
4 66 (22.30%) Data Architect
5 49 (16.55%) Lead
6 48 (16.22%) Azure Architect
7 43 (14.53%) Azure Data Architect
8 40 (13.51%) Data Manager
9 33 (11.15%) Engineering Manager
9 33 (11.15%) Finance Manager
10 27 (9.12%) Lead Data Engineer
11 26 (8.78%) Big Data Engineer
11 26 (8.78%) DataOps Engineer
11 26 (8.78%) DataOps Leader
11 26 (8.78%) Lead Big Data Engineer
12 25 (8.45%) Senior Data Engineer
13 23 (7.77%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 23 (7.77%) Systems Engineer
14 15 (5.07%) Azure Engineer
14 15 (5.07%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.15%) Kafka
1 33 (11.15%) PySpark
2 24 (8.11%) LangChain
3 23 (7.77%) LlamaIndex
3 23 (7.77%) pgvector
3 23 (7.77%) PyTorch
3 23 (7.77%) scikit-learn
3 23 (7.77%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.35%) CSS
5 3 (1.01%) .NET
6 2 (0.68%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.68%) RESTful
6 2 (0.68%) Vue
7 1 (0.34%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.34%) BAPI
7 1 (0.34%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.34%) Middleware
7 1 (0.34%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.55%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.77%) Clustering
2 23 (7.77%) Public Cloud
3 16 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.35%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.35%) Replication
7 3 (1.01%) Data Fabric
7 3 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.01%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.01%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.34%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.34%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.34%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.34%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.01%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (50.34%) Data Governance
2 148 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 146 (49.32%) Analytics
4 137 (46.28%) Business Intelligence
5 132 (44.59%) AI
6 131 (44.26%) Data Modelling
7 111 (37.50%) ETL
7 111 (37.50%) Machine Learning
8 107 (36.15%) Data Pipeline
9 103 (34.80%) CI/CD
9 103 (34.80%) Data Architecture
10 98 (33.11%) Agile
11 86 (29.05%) Roadmaps
12 73 (24.66%) Migration
13 64 (21.62%) Regulatory Compliance
14 57 (19.26%) Data Development
15 55 (18.58%) DevOps
15 55 (18.58%) Line Management
16 53 (17.91%) Data Science
17 52 (17.57%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 214 (72.30%) SQL
2 139 (46.96%) Python
3 17 (5.74%) Scala
4 14 (4.73%) Bicep
4 14 (4.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 10 (3.38%) PowerShell
6 8 (2.70%) Java
7 5 (1.69%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.35%) C#
9 3 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.01%) R
9 3 (1.01%) VBA
10 1 (0.34%) Bash
Qualifications
1 21 (7.09%) Azure Certification
2 16 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (5.07%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.38%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.04%) Degree
6 6 (2.03%) SnowPro
7 5 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.01%) IIBA
9 3 (1.01%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.01%) PMP
10 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (28.38%) Data Quality
2 34 (11.49%) GDPR
3 31 (10.47%) SLA
4 23 (7.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.01%) QA
6 2 (0.68%) IFRS
6 2 (0.68%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.68%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.34%) COBIT
7 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (18.58%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (7.77%) Terraform
2 8 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.01%) Ansible
Vendors
1 222 (75.00%) Databricks
2 142 (47.97%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.77%) Cloudera
3 23 (7.77%) Dell
4 11 (3.72%) OpenAI
5 6 (2.03%) Foundry
5 6 (2.03%) Google
6 4 (1.35%) Alteryx
6 4 (1.35%) Concur
6 4 (1.35%) Informatica
6 4 (1.35%) Sage
7 3 (1.01%) Anaplan
7 3 (1.01%) SAP
8 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.34%) Confluent
8 1 (0.34%) Infor
8 1 (0.34%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow