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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 468 489
Rank change year-on-year -41 +21 +6
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 289 236 352
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.47% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 1.47% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 233 155 303
10th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £58,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £118,750 £84,375 £93,750
90th Percentile £136,250 £101,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% +8.33% -4.00%

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 27,986 16,019 26,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.44% 32.09% 32.03%
Number of salaries quoted 18,442 11,134 19,179
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -30 280 £90,000 +33.33% 69
London -15 165 £95,000 +35.71% 39
Work from Home +56 138 £105,000 +35.48% 42
UK excluding London -88 110 £80,000 +23.08% 49
South East -26 55 £90,000 +38.46% 21
North of England -27 29 £70,932 +5.08% 9
Yorkshire -25 17 £80,000 +14.29% 6
North West -8 10 £56,250 -16.67% 2
East of England -21 9 £66,250 +26.19% 3
South West -62 8 £58,750 -21.67% 2
Midlands -54 7 £75,000 +50.00% 6
West Midlands -41 6 £75,000 +15.38% 5
Wales -52 2 £53,750 -6.52% 5
North East - 2 £60,000 - 2
East Midlands -29 1 £80,000 +77.78% 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 47 (16.26%) Apache Spark
2 29 (10.03%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (4.15%) Apache
4 4 (1.38%) SAS
5 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.35%) Confluence
6 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.35%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 289 (100.00%) Azure
2 116 (40.14%) Power Platform
3 109 (37.72%) Azure Data Factory
4 106 (36.68%) Snowflake
5 64 (22.15%) Azure Machine Learning
6 63 (21.80%) Azure AI
7 44 (15.22%) AWS
7 44 (15.22%) GCP
8 30 (10.38%) Microsoft Purview
9 29 (10.03%) dbt
10 18 (6.23%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (4.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 11 (3.81%) Serverless
13 9 (3.11%) GitHub
13 9 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.77%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (2.42%) Azure Functions
15 7 (2.42%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (2.42%) Entra ID
16 6 (2.08%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (39.79%) Power BI
2 98 (33.91%) Data Lake
3 92 (31.83%) Data Warehouse
4 71 (24.57%) SQL Server
5 41 (14.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 39 (13.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 39 (13.49%) BigQuery
6 39 (13.49%) Metadata
7 33 (11.42%) Tableau
8 29 (10.03%) Delta Lake
9 28 (9.69%) Big Data
10 25 (8.65%) Snowflake Schema
11 23 (7.96%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (7.96%) Looker
12 15 (5.19%) Data Vault
12 15 (5.19%) Star Schema
13 9 (3.11%) Power Query
14 8 (2.77%) Semantic Layer
15 6 (2.08%) Spark SQL
15 6 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (9.69%) MLflow
2 14 (4.84%) Git
3 1 (0.35%) JIRA
General
1 105 (36.33%) Finance
2 61 (21.11%) Social Skills
3 55 (19.03%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.81%) Banking
5 8 (2.77%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.42%) Legal
7 6 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.73%) Law
9 4 (1.38%) Retail
10 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Police
11 1 (0.35%) Billing
11 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Publishing
11 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (29.41%) Data Engineer
2 80 (27.68%) Architect
3 75 (25.95%) Senior
4 66 (22.84%) Data Architect
5 46 (15.92%) Data Manager
6 38 (13.15%) Lead
7 35 (12.11%) Azure Architect
8 33 (11.42%) Engineering Manager
8 33 (11.42%) Finance Manager
9 31 (10.73%) Azure Data Architect
10 25 (8.65%) Senior Data Engineer
11 23 (7.96%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 23 (7.96%) Systems Engineer
12 21 (7.27%) Lead Data Engineer
13 19 (6.57%) Big Data Engineer
13 19 (6.57%) DataOps Engineer
13 19 (6.57%) DataOps Leader
13 19 (6.57%) Lead Big Data Engineer
14 18 (6.23%) Azure Engineer
15 16 (5.54%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (13.15%) Kafka
2 37 (12.80%) PySpark
3 25 (8.65%) LangChain
4 23 (7.96%) LlamaIndex
4 23 (7.96%) pgvector
4 23 (7.96%) PyTorch
4 23 (7.96%) scikit-learn
4 23 (7.96%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.04%) .NET
5 3 (1.04%) CSS
6 2 (0.69%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.69%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.69%) RESTful
6 2 (0.69%) Vue
7 1 (0.35%) BAPI
7 1 (0.35%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.35%) Middleware
7 1 (0.35%) REST
7 1 (0.35%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 58 (20.07%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.96%) Clustering
2 23 (7.96%) Public Cloud
3 18 (6.23%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.38%) Data Fabric
6 4 (1.38%) Replication
7 3 (1.04%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.04%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.69%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.69%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.35%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (52.94%) Analytics
2 151 (52.25%) AI
3 149 (51.56%) Data Engineering
4 146 (50.52%) Data Governance
5 144 (49.83%) Business Intelligence
6 130 (44.98%) Data Modelling
7 125 (43.25%) Machine Learning
8 111 (38.41%) Data Architecture
9 107 (37.02%) ETL
10 106 (36.68%) CI/CD
11 105 (36.33%) Data Pipeline
12 103 (35.64%) Agile
13 91 (31.49%) Roadmaps
14 74 (25.61%) Migration
15 63 (21.80%) Regulatory Compliance
16 62 (21.45%) Data Science
17 57 (19.72%) DevOps
18 56 (19.38%) Data Development
19 55 (19.03%) Line Management
20 49 (16.96%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 215 (74.39%) SQL
2 142 (49.13%) Python
3 24 (8.30%) Scala
4 20 (6.92%) Bicep
5 11 (3.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (3.46%) Java
6 10 (3.46%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.73%) C#
8 4 (1.38%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.04%) VBA
10 1 (0.35%) Bash
10 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (9.69%) Azure Certification
2 23 (7.96%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (5.54%) Security Cleared
4 13 (4.50%) SnowPro
5 10 (3.46%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.77%) Degree
7 6 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (28.37%) Data Quality
2 39 (13.49%) GDPR
3 29 (10.03%) SLA
4 24 (8.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.04%) QA
6 2 (0.69%) IFRS
6 2 (0.69%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.69%) Solvency II
System Software
1 55 (19.03%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (9.00%) Terraform
2 7 (2.42%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.04%) Ansible
Vendors
1 217 (75.09%) Databricks
2 155 (53.63%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.96%) Cloudera
3 23 (7.96%) Dell
4 11 (3.81%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.77%) Google
6 7 (2.42%) Foundry
7 5 (1.73%) Informatica
8 4 (1.38%) SAP
9 3 (1.04%) Concur
9 3 (1.04%) Sage
10 1 (0.35%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.35%) Confluent
10 1 (0.35%) Infor
10 1 (0.35%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.35%) Talend