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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 401 595
Rank change year-on-year +9 +194 -21
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 355 247 297
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.59% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 1.64% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 274 191 251
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £53,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £103,750 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £129,250 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +21.43% +16.67% -2.04%

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 27,246 15,058 34,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.43% 36.18% 36.17%
Number of salaries quoted 14,149 11,075 26,814
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 18 April 2026.

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 18 April 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 +8 322 £90,000 +28.57% 63
Work from Home +101 178 £90,000 +22.03% 32
UK excluding London -34 165 £85,000 +21.43% 38
London +66 164 £90,000 +12.50% 33
South East -20 83 £90,000 +28.57% 11
North of England -49 28 £70,932 +3.17% 11
Midlands -47 22 £65,000 +18.18% 5
West Midlands -41 16 £65,250 +18.64% 3
Yorkshire -61 12 £75,466 +11.80% 4
North West -23 10 £70,932 +1.33% 6
East of England -24 10 £58,750 +11.90% 2
Scotland -18 9 - - 1
South West -48 7 £53,000 -3.64% 6
North East -26 6 £60,000 - 1
East Midlands - 4 £57,500 - 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Wales -25 2 - - 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 40 (11.27%) Apache Spark
2 30 (8.45%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.25%) Apache
4 4 (1.13%) SAS
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 26 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 355 (100.00%) Azure
2 168 (47.32%) Power Platform
3 153 (43.10%) Azure Data Factory
4 101 (28.45%) Snowflake
5 62 (17.46%) Azure AI
6 60 (16.90%) Azure Machine Learning
7 41 (11.55%) GCP
8 36 (10.14%) AWS
8 36 (10.14%) dbt
9 30 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (5.63%) Microsoft Purview
11 19 (5.35%) GitHub
12 16 (4.51%) Entra ID
13 15 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (3.94%) PaaS
15 10 (2.82%) SaaS
16 9 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
17 8 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
17 8 (2.25%) ChatGPT
17 8 (2.25%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.13%) WAN
2 2 (0.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (45.92%) Power BI
2 132 (37.18%) Data Lake
3 96 (27.04%) Data Warehouse
4 94 (26.48%) SQL Server
5 77 (21.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 33 (9.30%) Amazon Redshift
6 33 (9.30%) BigQuery
7 32 (9.01%) Big Data
7 32 (9.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 32 (9.01%) Tableau
8 29 (8.17%) Snowflake Schema
9 24 (6.76%) Looker
10 23 (6.48%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (5.92%) Delta Lake
12 18 (5.07%) Metadata
13 10 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (2.54%) Power Query
14 9 (2.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (1.69%) Data Mining
15 6 (1.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (7.61%) MLflow
2 25 (7.04%) Git
3 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
General
1 168 (47.32%) Finance
2 105 (29.58%) Social Skills
3 70 (19.72%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (3.94%) Banking
5 12 (3.38%) Billing
5 12 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.97%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.69%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.85%) Law
9 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.56%) Local Government
10 2 (0.56%) Retail
11 1 (0.28%) Advertising
11 1 (0.28%) Automotive
11 1 (0.28%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 104 (29.30%) Data Engineer
2 84 (23.66%) Architect
3 77 (21.69%) Senior
4 64 (18.03%) Data Architect
5 60 (16.90%) Azure Architect
6 54 (15.21%) Azure Data Architect
7 47 (13.24%) Lead
8 34 (9.58%) Data Manager
9 33 (9.30%) Engineering Manager
9 33 (9.30%) Finance Manager
10 29 (8.17%) Big Data Engineer
10 29 (8.17%) DataOps Engineer
10 29 (8.17%) DataOps Leader
10 29 (8.17%) Lead Big Data Engineer
10 29 (8.17%) Senior Data Engineer
11 24 (6.76%) Lead Data Engineer
12 23 (6.48%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 23 (6.48%) Systems Engineer
13 20 (5.63%) Analyst
14 18 (5.07%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (9.58%) Kafka
2 30 (8.45%) PySpark
3 23 (6.48%) LangChain
3 23 (6.48%) LlamaIndex
3 23 (6.48%) pgvector
3 23 (6.48%) PyTorch
3 23 (6.48%) scikit-learn
3 23 (6.48%) TensorFlow
4 5 (1.41%) .NET
5 4 (1.13%) CSS
6 2 (0.56%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.56%) RESTful
6 2 (0.56%) Vue
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Beam
7 1 (0.28%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.28%) MDX
7 1 (0.28%) Middleware
7 1 (0.28%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.96%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.61%) Analytical Mindset
3 23 (6.48%) Clustering
3 23 (6.48%) Public Cloud
4 13 (3.66%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.25%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.41%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.85%) Data Fabric
11 3 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.28%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.28%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.28%) FMCG
12 1 (0.28%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.28%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.28%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (51.27%) Analytics
2 177 (49.86%) Business Intelligence
3 171 (48.17%) Data Modelling
4 166 (46.76%) Data Governance
5 160 (45.07%) Data Engineering
6 143 (40.28%) AI
7 133 (37.46%) ETL
8 114 (32.11%) Data Pipeline
9 106 (29.86%) CI/CD
9 106 (29.86%) Data Architecture
10 105 (29.58%) Machine Learning
11 101 (28.45%) Agile
12 85 (23.94%) Roadmaps
13 84 (23.66%) Migration
14 74 (20.85%) Decision-Making
14 74 (20.85%) Problem-Solving
15 71 (20.00%) DevOps
16 68 (19.15%) Regulatory Compliance
17 56 (15.77%) Data Development
18 55 (15.49%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 255 (71.83%) SQL
2 146 (41.13%) Python
3 41 (11.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 16 (4.51%) Scala
5 15 (4.23%) T-SQL
6 7 (1.97%) C#
7 6 (1.69%) Bicep
8 5 (1.41%) Java
8 5 (1.41%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.85%) R
10 1 (0.28%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (7.04%) Degree
2 14 (3.94%) Azure Certification
3 12 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (3.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 11 (3.10%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.25%) IIBA
5 8 (2.25%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.25%) PMP
6 7 (1.97%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.56%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.28%) MCSE
9 1 (0.28%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (30.42%) Data Quality
2 35 (9.86%) GDPR
3 31 (8.73%) SLA
4 24 (6.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 12 (3.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.28%) COBIT
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS
7 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.28%) QA
7 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 55 (15.49%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (1.69%) Docker
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (6.20%) Terraform
2 8 (2.25%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 239 (67.32%) Databricks
2 140 (39.44%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.48%) Cloudera
3 23 (6.48%) Dell
4 10 (2.82%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.54%) Alteryx
6 8 (2.25%) Anaplan
7 5 (1.41%) Foundry
8 4 (1.13%) Concur
8 4 (1.13%) Sage
9 3 (0.85%) Dataiku
9 3 (0.85%) Google
10 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.28%) Confluent
10 1 (0.28%) Infor
10 1 (0.28%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.28%) Talend
10 1 (0.28%) Teradata