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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 409 593
Rank change year-on-year -5 +184 -26
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 347 243 300
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.57% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.25% 1.61% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 271 186 257
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £102,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +21.43% +16.67% -

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 27,729 15,047 34,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.96% 35.56% 35.91%
Number of salaries quoted 14,373 11,044 26,682
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £62,373 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +8.47% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +4 315 £90,000 +28.57% 54
Work from Home +96 177 £90,000 +28.57% 33
London +56 161 £90,000 +16.13% 23
UK excluding London -44 161 £85,000 +21.43% 47
South East -23 82 £90,000 +28.57% 15
North of England -46 27 £70,932 +3.17% 9
Midlands -50 21 £65,000 +18.18% 8
West Midlands -40 15 £65,250 +18.64% 6
Yorkshire -55 13 £75,466 +11.80% 2
East of England -15 10 £58,750 +11.90% 2
Scotland -15 8 - - 1
North West -29 8 £70,932 +1.33% 6
South West -51 7 £57,500 +4.55% 7
North East - 6 £60,000 - 1
East Midlands - 4 £57,500 - 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
Wales -28 2 - - 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 41 (11.82%) Apache Spark
2 30 (8.65%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.59%) Apache
4 4 (1.15%) SAS
5 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
Applications
1 26 (7.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 347 (100.00%) Azure
2 163 (46.97%) Power Platform
3 150 (43.23%) Azure Data Factory
4 98 (28.24%) Snowflake
5 62 (17.87%) Azure AI
6 60 (17.29%) Azure Machine Learning
7 40 (11.53%) GCP
8 34 (9.80%) AWS
8 34 (9.80%) dbt
9 33 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (5.76%) GitHub
10 20 (5.76%) Microsoft Purview
11 15 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (4.03%) Entra ID
12 14 (4.03%) PaaS
13 10 (2.88%) SaaS
14 9 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (2.31%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (2.31%) ChatGPT
15 8 (2.31%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.15%) WAN
2 2 (0.58%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (45.82%) Power BI
2 127 (36.60%) Data Lake
3 93 (26.80%) Data Warehouse
3 93 (26.80%) SQL Server
4 75 (21.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 34 (9.80%) Big Data
6 33 (9.51%) Amazon Redshift
6 33 (9.51%) BigQuery
7 30 (8.65%) Tableau
8 28 (8.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 27 (7.78%) Snowflake Schema
10 24 (6.92%) Looker
11 23 (6.63%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (6.05%) Delta Lake
13 18 (5.19%) Metadata
14 9 (2.59%) Power Query
15 7 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (2.02%) Star Schema
16 6 (1.73%) Data Mining
17 5 (1.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 28 (8.07%) MLflow
2 25 (7.20%) Git
3 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
General
1 167 (48.13%) Finance
2 105 (30.26%) Social Skills
3 71 (20.46%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.03%) Banking
5 12 (3.46%) Billing
5 12 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.02%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.44%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.58%) Law
10 2 (0.58%) Local Government
11 1 (0.29%) Advertising
11 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 101 (29.11%) Data Engineer
2 81 (23.34%) Architect
3 73 (21.04%) Senior
4 62 (17.87%) Data Architect
5 59 (17.00%) Azure Architect
6 53 (15.27%) Azure Data Architect
7 48 (13.83%) Lead
8 34 (9.80%) Data Manager
9 33 (9.51%) Engineering Manager
9 33 (9.51%) Finance Manager
10 30 (8.65%) Big Data Engineer
10 30 (8.65%) DataOps Engineer
10 30 (8.65%) DataOps Leader
10 30 (8.65%) Lead Big Data Engineer
11 26 (7.49%) Senior Data Engineer
12 25 (7.20%) Lead Data Engineer
13 23 (6.63%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 23 (6.63%) Systems Engineer
14 19 (5.48%) Analyst
15 17 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (9.80%) Kafka
2 28 (8.07%) PySpark
3 23 (6.63%) LangChain
3 23 (6.63%) LlamaIndex
3 23 (6.63%) pgvector
3 23 (6.63%) PyTorch
3 23 (6.63%) scikit-learn
3 23 (6.63%) TensorFlow
4 5 (1.44%) .NET
5 4 (1.15%) CSS
6 2 (0.58%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.58%) RESTful
6 2 (0.58%) Vue
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Beam
7 1 (0.29%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.29%) MDX
7 1 (0.29%) Middleware
7 1 (0.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 46 (13.26%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 23 (6.63%) Clustering
3 23 (6.63%) Public Cloud
4 14 (4.03%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.31%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.31%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.15%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.86%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.29%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.29%) Housing Association
11 1 (0.29%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.29%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.29%) Replication
11 1 (0.29%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (50.14%) Analytics
2 173 (49.86%) Business Intelligence
3 164 (47.26%) Data Modelling
4 160 (46.11%) Data Governance
5 155 (44.67%) Data Engineering
6 141 (40.63%) AI
7 129 (37.18%) ETL
8 111 (31.99%) Data Pipeline
9 105 (30.26%) CI/CD
10 104 (29.97%) Machine Learning
11 102 (29.39%) Data Architecture
12 100 (28.82%) Agile
13 83 (23.92%) Roadmaps
14 80 (23.05%) Migration
15 75 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
16 71 (20.46%) Decision-Making
17 70 (20.17%) DevOps
18 67 (19.31%) Regulatory Compliance
19 56 (16.14%) Data Development
20 55 (15.85%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 248 (71.47%) SQL
2 141 (40.63%) Python
3 41 (11.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 16 (4.61%) Scala
5 13 (3.75%) T-SQL
6 7 (2.02%) Bicep
7 6 (1.73%) C#
7 6 (1.73%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.44%) Java
9 3 (0.86%) R
10 2 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.29%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (7.20%) Degree
2 13 (3.75%) Azure Certification
3 12 (3.46%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 11 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (2.88%) Security Cleared
6 8 (2.31%) IIBA
6 8 (2.31%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.31%) PMP
7 6 (1.73%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.58%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.29%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (29.39%) Data Quality
2 33 (9.51%) GDPR
3 32 (9.22%) SLA
4 23 (6.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 12 (3.46%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.58%) IFRS
6 2 (0.58%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.58%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.29%) COBIT
7 1 (0.29%) QA
System Software
1 55 (15.85%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (1.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (6.34%) Terraform
2 8 (2.31%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 237 (68.30%) Databricks
2 137 (39.48%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.63%) Cloudera
3 23 (6.63%) Dell
4 10 (2.88%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.59%) Alteryx
6 8 (2.31%) Anaplan
7 5 (1.44%) Foundry
8 4 (1.15%) Concur
8 4 (1.15%) Sage
9 3 (0.86%) Google
10 2 (0.58%) Dataiku
11 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.29%) Confluent
11 1 (0.29%) Infor
11 1 (0.29%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.29%) Talend