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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 472 482
Rank change year-on-year -56 +10 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 278 218 352
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.44% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.01% 1.38% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 228 142 289
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £118,750 £85,938 £95,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £112,125 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.28% +12.17% -11.54%

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 27,504 15,836 25,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.98% 31.83% 31.63%
Number of salaries quoted 18,545 10,809 17,434
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,925 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
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 3 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 3 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 -38 263 £90,000 +38.46% 134
London -14 155 £105,000 +50.00% 79
Work from Home +53 142 £105,000 +27.27% 66
UK excluding London -81 109 £75,000 +16.28% 79
South East -20 55 £85,000 +30.77% 26
North of England -31 25 £66,250 -1.85% 20
Yorkshire -42 14 £90,000 +38.46% 6
North West -14 8 £52,500 -22.22% 13
East of England -28 8 £70,000 +33.33% 4
South West -70 8 £58,750 -21.67% 8
West Midlands -42 7 £65,000 +4.00% 7
Midlands -62 7 £65,000 +35.42% 10
Wales -58 5 £52,500 -8.70% 3
North East -55 3 £60,000 -22.58% 1
Scotland +11 1 £55,000 - 8

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 (14.75%) Apache Spark
2 21 (7.55%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (5.40%) Apache
4 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.36%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 278 (100.00%) Azure
2 131 (47.12%) Azure Data Factory
3 108 (38.85%) Power Platform
4 99 (35.61%) Snowflake
5 62 (22.30%) Azure Machine Learning
6 61 (21.94%) Azure AI
7 45 (16.19%) Azure Databricks
8 34 (12.23%) AWS
8 34 (12.23%) Microsoft Purview
9 31 (11.15%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (11.15%) GCP
10 21 (7.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 21 (7.55%) dbt
11 10 (3.60%) Serverless
12 9 (3.24%) GitHub
12 9 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (2.16%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (2.16%) Azure Functions
13 6 (2.16%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (38.49%) Power BI
2 93 (33.45%) Data Warehouse
3 90 (32.37%) Data Lake
4 76 (27.34%) SQL Server
5 49 (17.63%) Metadata
6 46 (16.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 35 (12.59%) Delta Lake
8 29 (10.43%) Amazon Redshift
9 27 (9.71%) BigQuery
10 25 (8.99%) Star Schema
11 23 (8.27%) Snowflake Schema
11 23 (8.27%) Tableau
12 20 (7.19%) Big Data
13 18 (6.47%) Data Vault
14 15 (5.40%) Elasticsearch
14 15 (5.40%) Looker
14 15 (5.40%) Milvus
15 12 (4.32%) NoSQL
16 11 (3.96%) MongoDB
17 10 (3.60%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (7.91%) Git
2 19 (6.83%) MLflow
3 1 (0.36%) JIRA
3 1 (0.36%) kappa
General
1 103 (37.05%) Finance
2 61 (21.94%) Social Skills
3 52 (18.71%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.96%) Banking
5 9 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.52%) Legal
7 5 (1.80%) Law
7 5 (1.80%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.80%) Retail
8 2 (0.72%) Police
9 1 (0.36%) Billing
9 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.36%) Publishing
9 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (31.29%) Data Engineer
2 69 (24.82%) Senior
3 68 (24.46%) Architect
4 62 (22.30%) Data Architect
5 46 (16.55%) Data Manager
6 33 (11.87%) Engineering Manager
6 33 (11.87%) Finance Manager
7 31 (11.15%) Lead
8 27 (9.71%) Azure Architect
8 27 (9.71%) Senior Data Engineer
9 24 (8.63%) Azure Data Architect
9 24 (8.63%) Azure Engineer
10 18 (6.47%) Azure Data Engineer
11 17 (6.12%) Lead Data Engineer
12 15 (5.40%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 15 (5.40%) Systems Engineer
13 12 (4.32%) Developer
14 11 (3.96%) Analyst
14 11 (3.96%) Big Data Engineer
14 11 (3.96%) Lead Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (17.27%) PySpark
2 30 (10.79%) Kafka
3 29 (10.43%) Terraform
4 18 (6.47%) LangChain
5 15 (5.40%) LlamaIndex
5 15 (5.40%) pgvector
5 15 (5.40%) PyTorch
5 15 (5.40%) scikit-learn
5 15 (5.40%) TensorFlow
6 4 (1.44%) MDX
7 3 (1.08%) .NET
7 3 (1.08%) Pulumi
8 2 (0.72%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.72%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.72%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.72%) RESTful
8 2 (0.72%) Vue
9 1 (0.36%) Middleware
9 1 (0.36%) REST
9 1 (0.36%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 47 (16.91%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.35%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.40%) Clustering
3 15 (5.40%) Public Cloud
4 8 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.44%) Data Fabric
6 4 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.44%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.44%) Replication
7 3 (1.08%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.72%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.72%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.72%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.72%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.72%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.36%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.36%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (53.96%) Analytics
2 148 (53.24%) AI
3 147 (52.88%) Data Engineering
4 139 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
5 135 (48.56%) Data Modelling
6 129 (46.40%) Data Governance
7 118 (42.45%) Data Architecture
8 117 (42.09%) Machine Learning
9 115 (41.37%) ETL
10 109 (39.21%) CI/CD
11 106 (38.13%) Agile
12 102 (36.69%) Data Pipeline
13 96 (34.53%) Roadmaps
14 78 (28.06%) Lakehouse
15 71 (25.54%) Migration
16 65 (23.38%) DevOps
17 58 (20.86%) Data Science
17 58 (20.86%) Regulatory Compliance
18 57 (20.50%) Data Development
19 55 (19.78%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 219 (78.78%) SQL
2 147 (52.88%) Python
3 29 (10.43%) Scala
4 23 (8.27%) Bicep
5 17 (6.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (4.32%) C#
7 9 (3.24%) Java
7 9 (3.24%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.80%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.08%) VBA
10 1 (0.36%) Bash
10 1 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (11.15%) Azure Certification
2 27 (9.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (5.76%) SnowPro
4 15 (5.40%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.04%) Degree
6 9 (3.24%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.52%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.80%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (32.01%) Data Quality
2 37 (13.31%) GDPR
3 22 (7.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 21 (7.55%) SLA
5 4 (1.44%) QA
6 3 (1.08%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.72%) IFRS
7 2 (0.72%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.72%) Solvency II
System Software
1 55 (19.78%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.16%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.72%) Ansible
Vendors
1 205 (73.74%) Databricks
2 174 (62.59%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.40%) Cloudera
3 15 (5.40%) Dell
4 11 (3.96%) Informatica
5 9 (3.24%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.52%) Talend
7 6 (2.16%) Foundry
7 6 (2.16%) Google
8 4 (1.44%) SAP
9 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.36%) Confluent
9 1 (0.36%) Infor
9 1 (0.36%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow