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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 488 459
Rank change year-on-year -71 -29 +17
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 256 198 351
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.40% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.93% 1.27% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 207 140 278
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £47,425
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,188 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% - -
75th Percentile £107,500 £88,125 £93,750
90th Percentile £121,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.19% +10.00% -4.96%

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 27,603 15,559 24,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.55% 31.50% 31.80%
Number of salaries quoted 18,768 10,536 15,264
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,000 £46,250
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 £100,000 £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 25 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 25 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 -75 237 £87,500 +27.27% 184
London -20 139 £95,000 +31.03% 100
Work from Home +33 130 £105,000 +25.37% 80
UK excluding London -103 104 £62,500 -1.19% 97
South East -35 45 £85,000 +30.77% 31
North of England -52 26 £60,250 -9.06% 26
Yorkshire -24 14 £85,000 +41.39% 8
North West -24 11 £55,000 -18.52% 14
West Midlands -53 9 £55,750 -10.80% 14
Midlands -59 9 £55,750 +16.15% 19
South West -71 9 £58,750 -21.67% 11
Wales -63 8 £52,500 -8.70% 2
North East -66 5 £60,000 -22.58% 5
East of England -20 4 £70,000 +12.00% 7
Scotland +10 3 £55,000 - 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 26 (10.16%) Apache Spark
2 16 (6.25%) Apache
3 6 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.17%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.78%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.39%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 256 (100.00%) Azure
2 143 (55.86%) Azure Data Factory
3 96 (37.50%) Power Platform
4 71 (27.73%) Snowflake
5 46 (17.97%) Azure Databricks
5 46 (17.97%) Azure Machine Learning
6 42 (16.41%) Azure AI
7 38 (14.84%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (13.28%) Microsoft Purview
9 27 (10.55%) AWS
10 24 (9.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 18 (7.03%) GCP
11 18 (7.03%) Serverless
12 12 (4.69%) Azure Functions
12 12 (4.69%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (4.69%) GitHub
12 12 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (3.91%) dbt
14 9 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (3.13%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) Firewall
1 1 (0.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (35.94%) Power BI
2 87 (33.98%) Data Lake
3 81 (31.64%) Data Warehouse
4 69 (26.95%) SQL Server
5 58 (22.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 53 (20.70%) Metadata
7 35 (13.67%) Delta Lake
8 30 (11.72%) Star Schema
9 20 (7.81%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (7.42%) Data Vault
11 16 (6.25%) Big Data
11 16 (6.25%) NoSQL
12 13 (5.08%) MongoDB
13 12 (4.69%) BigQuery
13 12 (4.69%) DynamoDB
13 12 (4.69%) Power Query
14 11 (4.30%) Semantic Layer
15 10 (3.91%) Amazon QuickSight
15 10 (3.91%) Snowflake Schema
15 10 (3.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (11.72%) Git
2 3 (1.17%) GitLab
2 3 (1.17%) MLflow
3 1 (0.39%) JIRA
3 1 (0.39%) kappa
General
1 90 (35.16%) Finance
2 58 (22.66%) Social Skills
3 47 (18.36%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.30%) Banking
5 10 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.73%) Legal
6 7 (2.73%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.95%) Law
7 5 (1.95%) Retail
8 3 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.78%) Police
9 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Billing
10 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Publishing
10 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (35.94%) Data Engineer
2 60 (23.44%) Architect
3 59 (23.05%) Senior
4 55 (21.48%) Data Architect
5 35 (13.67%) Data Manager
6 33 (12.89%) Azure Engineer
7 31 (12.11%) Senior Data Engineer
8 27 (10.55%) Lead
9 22 (8.59%) Engineering Manager
9 22 (8.59%) Finance Manager
10 20 (7.81%) Azure Data Engineer
11 18 (7.03%) Azure Architect
12 16 (6.25%) Azure Data Architect
12 16 (6.25%) Lead Data Engineer
13 14 (5.47%) Developer
14 13 (5.08%) Analyst
15 10 (3.91%) Head of AI
15 10 (3.91%) Head of Finance
16 9 (3.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 9 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (21.09%) PySpark
2 38 (14.84%) Terraform
3 17 (6.64%) Kafka
4 8 (3.13%) JSON
5 6 (2.34%) Apache Avro
6 4 (1.56%) MDX
7 3 (1.17%) LangChain
7 3 (1.17%) Pulumi
7 3 (1.17%) REST
7 3 (1.17%) SAML
8 2 (0.78%) .NET
8 2 (0.78%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.78%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.78%) SOAP
8 2 (0.78%) XML
9 1 (0.39%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.39%) BAPI
9 1 (0.39%) Middleware
9 1 (0.39%) RESTful
9 1 (0.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.80%) Cloud Native
2 28 (10.94%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.56%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.56%) Replication
7 3 (1.17%) Data Fabric
7 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.17%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.17%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.78%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.78%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.78%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.39%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.08%) Windows
2 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (57.81%) Analytics
2 126 (49.22%) Business Intelligence
3 125 (48.83%) Data Modelling
4 124 (48.44%) CI/CD
4 124 (48.44%) Data Engineering
5 117 (45.70%) AI
6 107 (41.80%) ETL
7 105 (41.02%) Data Architecture
8 104 (40.63%) Agile
9 102 (39.84%) Data Pipeline
10 94 (36.72%) Data Governance
11 86 (33.59%) Machine Learning
12 83 (32.42%) DevOps
13 79 (30.86%) Roadmaps
14 63 (24.61%) Lakehouse
15 58 (22.66%) Migration
16 50 (19.53%) Technical Leadership
17 48 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
18 45 (17.58%) Infrastructure as Code
19 43 (16.80%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 197 (76.95%) SQL
2 138 (53.91%) Python
3 30 (11.72%) Scala
4 27 (10.55%) Bicep
5 21 (8.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (5.86%) Java
7 13 (5.08%) C#
7 13 (5.08%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.34%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.56%) Bash
10 3 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.17%) VBA
11 1 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (11.33%) Azure Certification
2 25 (9.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 24 (9.38%) Security Cleared
4 18 (7.03%) SC Cleared
5 16 (6.25%) SnowPro
6 15 (5.86%) Degree
7 7 (2.73%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.95%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.39%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (38.28%) Data Quality
2 23 (8.98%) GDPR
3 16 (6.25%) SLA
4 9 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 9 (3.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (2.34%) QA
6 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.78%) IFRS
6 2 (0.78%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.78%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.39%) IASME
7 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 41 (16.02%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.34%) Docker
3 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (2.73%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.56%) Ansible
3 3 (1.17%) Grafana
3 3 (1.17%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 172 (67.19%) Databricks
2 164 (64.06%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.08%) Informatica
4 9 (3.52%) Talend
5 7 (2.73%) Google
5 7 (2.73%) SAP
6 4 (1.56%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.17%) Foundry
8 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.39%) Confluent
8 1 (0.39%) Infor
8 1 (0.39%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow