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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 434 457
Rank change year-on-year +2 +23 +141
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 229 310 260
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.55% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 1.51% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 150 248 206
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,375 £45,625
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £80,938
90th Percentile £120,000 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.54% +13.04% -11.54%

All Cloud 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 20,611 20,485 21,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.99% 36.06% 43.17%
Number of salaries quoted 11,349 12,306 17,435
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 +20 205 £80,000 +14.29% 128
London +40 108 £90,000 +12.50% 47
UK excluding London +5 104 £64,000 -1.54% 105
Work from Home +26 93 £77,500 +6.90% 79
South East -1 37 £76,250 +17.31% 36
Midlands +14 22 £55,000 +22.22% 21
North of England +16 21 £57,750 +15.50% 24
West Midlands +26 17 £63,000 +40.00% 11
North West +26 10 £57,750 +15.50% 15
Scotland +17 8 - - 3
Yorkshire -24 6 £55,233 +7.77% 6
East of England +30 5 £62,500 +8.70% 14
North East +11 5 £77,500 +70.33% 3
East Midlands -5 5 £45,000 -28.00% 10
South West +9 4 £72,500 -6.45% 5
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Wales +2 3 £60,000 +40.35% 2

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 21 (9.17%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.62%) Apache
2 6 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.31%) Apache Synapse
4 2 (0.87%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.44%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 24 (10.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (4.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.87%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.44%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 229 (100.00%) Azure
2 137 (59.83%) Azure Data Factory
2 137 (59.83%) Power Platform
3 31 (13.54%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (12.23%) Microsoft Purview
4 28 (12.23%) Snowflake
5 25 (10.92%) AWS
6 19 (8.30%) dbt
6 19 (8.30%) GCP
6 19 (8.30%) GitHub
7 13 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (5.24%) Fivetran
9 9 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (3.93%) Collibra
9 9 (3.93%) SaaS
10 8 (3.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (3.49%) Entra ID
10 8 (3.49%) PaaS
11 7 (3.06%) Matillion
12 6 (2.62%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.44%) DNS
1 1 (0.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (57.21%) Power BI
2 91 (39.74%) Data Lake
3 74 (32.31%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (27.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 57 (24.89%) SQL Server
6 44 (19.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 27 (11.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 25 (10.92%) Metadata
9 22 (9.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 19 (8.30%) Big Data
10 19 (8.30%) NoSQL
11 16 (6.99%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (4.80%) Delta Lake
12 11 (4.80%) Hadoop
13 10 (4.37%) BigQuery
14 8 (3.49%) Data Mining
14 8 (3.49%) Snowflake Schema
14 8 (3.49%) Tableau
15 7 (3.06%) Power Query
16 3 (1.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 14 (6.11%) Git
2 3 (1.31%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.44%) JIRA
General
1 104 (45.41%) Social Skills
2 92 (40.17%) Finance
3 57 (24.89%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.04%) Law
5 18 (7.86%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (6.11%) Retail
7 13 (5.68%) Billing
8 5 (2.18%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.18%) Legal
9 4 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.31%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.31%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.87%) Advertising
11 2 (0.87%) Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Automotive
12 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 89 (38.86%) Data Engineer
2 40 (17.47%) Architect
3 39 (17.03%) Senior
4 32 (13.97%) Data Architect
5 31 (13.54%) Senior Data Engineer
6 25 (10.92%) Azure Architect
7 24 (10.48%) Azure Data Architect
7 24 (10.48%) Lead
8 21 (9.17%) Analyst
9 19 (8.30%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (6.99%) Azure Data Engineer
10 16 (6.99%) Developer
11 14 (6.11%) Consultant
12 12 (5.24%) Business Manager
12 12 (5.24%) Commercial Analyst
12 12 (5.24%) Insight Analyst
12 12 (5.24%) Insight Manager
13 11 (4.80%) Product Lead
14 8 (3.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 6 (2.62%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.61%) PySpark
2 19 (8.30%) Kafka
3 7 (3.06%) .NET
4 4 (1.75%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.75%) Pandas
4 4 (1.75%) Polars
5 3 (1.31%) Apache Beam
6 2 (0.87%) XML
7 1 (0.44%) MDX
7 1 (0.44%) Middleware
7 1 (0.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.79%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (5.68%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.68%) Product Ownership
3 12 (5.24%) FMCG
3 12 (5.24%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.37%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.18%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.75%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.31%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (0.44%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.44%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.44%) Windows
1 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (69.00%) Analytics
2 145 (63.32%) Business Intelligence
3 134 (58.52%) Data Modelling
4 107 (46.72%) ETL
5 89 (38.86%) Data Engineering
6 83 (36.24%) Data Governance
6 83 (36.24%) Data Pipeline
7 81 (35.37%) Decision-Making
8 80 (34.93%) DevOps
9 71 (31.00%) Problem-Solving
10 70 (30.57%) CI/CD
11 65 (28.38%) AI
12 52 (22.71%) Agile
12 52 (22.71%) Visualisation
13 48 (20.96%) Machine Learning
14 38 (16.59%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (15.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 35 (15.28%) Technical Leadership
17 32 (13.97%) Data Architecture
18 31 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 173 (75.55%) SQL
2 102 (44.54%) Python
3 39 (17.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 21 (9.17%) T-SQL
5 19 (8.30%) Scala
6 14 (6.11%) C#
7 7 (3.06%) R
8 6 (2.62%) Bicep
9 5 (2.18%) Java
10 2 (0.87%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.44%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (7.86%) Degree
2 12 (5.24%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 11 (4.80%) Azure Certification
4 10 (4.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (3.49%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.49%) Security Cleared
5 8 (3.49%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (2.18%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.75%) IIBA
7 4 (1.75%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.75%) PMP
8 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.44%) MCSE
8 1 (0.44%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (32.31%) Data Quality
2 24 (10.48%) GDPR
3 15 (6.55%) QA
4 12 (5.24%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.31%) SLA
6 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (7.86%) Terraform
2 4 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.31%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.44%) Grafana
5 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 127 (55.46%) Databricks
2 88 (38.43%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.24%) SAP
4 8 (3.49%) Dataiku
5 4 (1.75%) Alteryx
5 4 (1.75%) Anaplan
5 4 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (1.75%) Fortinet
5 4 (1.75%) Palo Alto
5 4 (1.75%) Talend
6 2 (0.87%) HubSpot
6 2 (0.87%) Informatica
6 2 (0.87%) Oracle
6 2 (0.87%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.44%) Google
7 1 (0.44%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.44%) Lotus
7 1 (0.44%) PayPal
7 1 (0.44%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.44%) Teradata