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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 448 555
Rank change year-on-year -26 +107 -41
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 293 242 365
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.51% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 1.55% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 241 167 312
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £76,250 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £118,750 £82,375 £90,313
90th Percentile £136,250 £110,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +30.77% +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 26,490 15,629 34,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.26% 32.65% 33.20%
Number of salaries quoted 17,277 10,901 26,573
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.35%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,364
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.21% -6.61%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -15 278 £90,000 +33.33% 68
London +24 159 £91,250 +30.36% 39
Work from Home +66 138 £96,250 +48.08% 40
UK excluding London -66 112 £85,000 +30.77% 50
South East -34 59 £90,000 +38.46% 25
North of England -17 26 £70,932 +3.17% 10
Yorkshire -14 16 £80,000 +14.29% 5
East of England -9 9 £66,250 +26.19% 2
South West -63 9 £52,500 -12.50% 3
North West -10 8 £61,250 -10.91% 5
Midlands -47 8 £65,000 +18.18% 9
West Midlands -39 5 £70,000 +21.74% 7
East Midlands -27 3 £60,000 +33.33% 2
North East - 2 £60,000 - 1
Wales -53 1 £55,000 - 3

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 44 (15.02%) Apache Spark
2 30 (10.24%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.41%) Apache
4 4 (1.37%) SAS
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) Confluence
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 293 (100.00%) Azure
2 115 (39.25%) Power Platform
3 106 (36.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 97 (33.11%) Snowflake
5 62 (21.16%) Azure AI
6 61 (20.82%) Azure Machine Learning
7 43 (14.68%) GCP
8 41 (13.99%) AWS
9 31 (10.58%) dbt
10 25 (8.53%) Microsoft Purview
11 21 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (3.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 11 (3.75%) GitHub
13 9 (3.07%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (3.07%) Entra ID
14 8 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (2.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.37%) WAN
2 1 (0.34%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (38.91%) Power BI
2 100 (34.13%) Data Lake
3 90 (30.72%) Data Warehouse
4 67 (22.87%) SQL Server
5 44 (15.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 38 (12.97%) BigQuery
7 37 (12.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 33 (11.26%) Tableau
9 32 (10.92%) Big Data
10 25 (8.53%) Delta Lake
11 24 (8.19%) Metadata
11 24 (8.19%) Snowflake Schema
12 23 (7.85%) Elasticsearch
12 23 (7.85%) Looker
13 11 (3.75%) Star Schema
14 10 (3.41%) Power Query
15 9 (3.07%) Data Vault
16 7 (2.39%) Semantic Layer
17 6 (2.05%) Spark SQL
17 6 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (9.56%) MLflow
2 16 (5.46%) Git
3 1 (0.34%) JIRA
General
1 107 (36.52%) Finance
2 65 (22.18%) Social Skills
3 52 (17.75%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.10%) Banking
5 9 (3.07%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (2.05%) Legal
7 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.37%) Law
8 3 (1.02%) Retail
9 2 (0.68%) Local Government
9 2 (0.68%) Police
10 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 87 (29.69%) Data Engineer
2 82 (27.99%) Architect
3 73 (24.91%) Senior
4 67 (22.87%) Data Architect
5 48 (16.38%) Lead
6 46 (15.70%) Azure Architect
7 41 (13.99%) Azure Data Architect
7 41 (13.99%) Data Manager
8 33 (11.26%) Engineering Manager
8 33 (11.26%) Finance Manager
9 27 (9.22%) Lead Data Engineer
10 25 (8.53%) Big Data Engineer
10 25 (8.53%) DataOps Engineer
10 25 (8.53%) DataOps Leader
10 25 (8.53%) Lead Big Data Engineer
11 24 (8.19%) Senior Data Engineer
12 23 (7.85%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 23 (7.85%) Systems Engineer
13 14 (4.78%) Azure Engineer
14 13 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.26%) Kafka
1 33 (11.26%) PySpark
2 24 (8.19%) LangChain
3 23 (7.85%) LlamaIndex
3 23 (7.85%) pgvector
3 23 (7.85%) PyTorch
3 23 (7.85%) scikit-learn
3 23 (7.85%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.37%) CSS
5 3 (1.02%) .NET
6 2 (0.68%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.68%) RESTful
6 2 (0.68%) Vue
7 1 (0.34%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.34%) BAPI
7 1 (0.34%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.34%) Middleware
7 1 (0.34%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 51 (17.41%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.85%) Clustering
2 23 (7.85%) Public Cloud
3 16 (5.46%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.37%) Replication
7 3 (1.02%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.02%) Data Fabric
7 3 (1.02%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.02%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.34%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.34%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.34%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.34%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.34%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.34%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.02%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (50.85%) Data Governance
2 147 (50.17%) Data Engineering
3 145 (49.49%) Analytics
4 136 (46.42%) Business Intelligence
5 134 (45.73%) AI
6 130 (44.37%) Data Modelling
7 114 (38.91%) Machine Learning
8 109 (37.20%) ETL
9 105 (35.84%) Data Pipeline
10 104 (35.49%) Data Architecture
11 102 (34.81%) CI/CD
12 97 (33.11%) Agile
13 87 (29.69%) Roadmaps
14 73 (24.91%) Migration
15 64 (21.84%) Regulatory Compliance
16 57 (19.45%) Data Development
17 55 (18.77%) Line Management
18 54 (18.43%) Data Science
19 53 (18.09%) DevOps
20 51 (17.41%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 212 (72.35%) SQL
2 138 (47.10%) Python
3 17 (5.80%) Scala
4 15 (5.12%) Bicep
5 13 (4.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (3.41%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.07%) Java
8 5 (1.71%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.37%) C#
10 3 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.02%) R
10 3 (1.02%) VBA
11 1 (0.34%) Bash
Qualifications
1 22 (7.51%) Azure Certification
2 16 (5.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (5.12%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.41%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.73%) Degree
6 7 (2.39%) SnowPro
7 5 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.02%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.68%) IIBA
9 2 (0.68%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.68%) PMP
10 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (28.33%) Data Quality
2 35 (11.95%) GDPR
3 31 (10.58%) SLA
4 23 (7.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.02%) QA
6 2 (0.68%) IFRS
6 2 (0.68%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.68%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.34%) COBIT
7 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (18.77%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (7.85%) Terraform
2 8 (2.73%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.02%) Ansible
Vendors
1 221 (75.43%) Databricks
2 142 (48.46%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.85%) Cloudera
3 23 (7.85%) Dell
4 11 (3.75%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.39%) Google
6 6 (2.05%) Foundry
7 4 (1.37%) Concur
7 4 (1.37%) Informatica
7 4 (1.37%) Sage
8 3 (1.02%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.02%) SAP
9 2 (0.68%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.34%) Confluent
10 1 (0.34%) Infor
10 1 (0.34%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow