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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 403 561
Rank change year-on-year -35 +158 +50
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 271 262 289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.60% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 1.60% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 200 209 240
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £65,938 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £81,563
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £95,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,750 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +17.39% -8.00%

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 24,071 16,366 31,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.36% 37.32% 37.72%
Number of salaries quoted 12,973 11,127 25,702
10th Percentile £29,212 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -28 234 £85,000 +21.43% 69
UK excluding London -41 126 £78,750 +16.67% 49
Work from Home +64 116 £85,000 +13.33% 41
London +26 114 £90,000 +12.50% 36
South East -20 54 £85,000 +21.43% 23
North of England -48 25 £70,932 +5.08% 9
Midlands -28 22 £65,000 +18.18% 8
West Midlands -12 16 £65,000 +30.00% 5
North West -7 11 £70,932 +1.33% 3
Yorkshire -45 10 £70,932 +7.07% 5
Scotland -12 9 - - 1
South West -25 5 £48,500 -11.82% 5
East of England - 5 £55,000 - 2
North East -12 4 - - 1
East Midlands -35 4 £57,500 -8.00% 3
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Wales -9 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 21 (7.75%) Apache Spark
2 15 (5.54%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.21%) Apache
4 4 (1.48%) SAS
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
Applications
1 25 (9.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 271 (100.00%) Azure
2 155 (57.20%) Power Platform
3 145 (53.51%) Azure Data Factory
4 37 (13.65%) Snowflake
5 34 (12.55%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (10.70%) dbt
7 27 (9.96%) GCP
8 21 (7.75%) Microsoft Purview
9 19 (7.01%) AWS
10 18 (6.64%) GitHub
10 18 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (5.54%) Entra ID
11 15 (5.54%) PaaS
12 11 (4.06%) Fivetran
12 11 (4.06%) SaaS
13 10 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (3.32%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (2.95%) Collibra
15 8 (2.95%) Microsoft Copilot
15 8 (2.95%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.48%) WAN
2 2 (0.74%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (54.98%) Power BI
2 111 (40.96%) Data Lake
3 86 (31.73%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (25.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 48 (17.71%) SQL Server
6 39 (14.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 23 (8.49%) Big Data
8 20 (7.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 20 (7.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 18 (6.64%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (6.64%) BigQuery
9 18 (6.64%) Tableau
10 17 (6.27%) Delta Lake
10 17 (6.27%) Metadata
10 17 (6.27%) Snowflake Schema
11 12 (4.43%) Power Query
12 10 (3.69%) Looker
13 9 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (2.21%) Data Mining
15 5 (1.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (7.38%) Git
2 11 (4.06%) MLflow
3 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
General
1 107 (39.48%) Social Skills
2 103 (38.01%) Finance
3 52 (19.19%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.80%) Billing
5 12 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.95%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.21%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.21%) Law
9 4 (1.48%) Banking
10 3 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Legal
11 2 (0.74%) Local Government
12 1 (0.37%) Advertising
12 1 (0.37%) Automotive
12 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.37%) Marketing
12 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 98 (36.16%) Data Engineer
2 66 (24.35%) Architect
3 58 (21.40%) Senior
4 47 (17.34%) Data Architect
5 45 (16.61%) Azure Architect
6 42 (15.50%) Lead
7 40 (14.76%) Azure Data Architect
8 29 (10.70%) Senior Data Engineer
9 21 (7.75%) Big Data Engineer
9 21 (7.75%) DataOps Engineer
9 21 (7.75%) DataOps Leader
9 21 (7.75%) Lead Big Data Engineer
9 21 (7.75%) Lead Data Engineer
10 18 (6.64%) Analyst
10 18 (6.64%) Azure Engineer
11 17 (6.27%) Azure Data Engineer
12 16 (5.90%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (5.54%) Developer
14 14 (5.17%) Senior Architect
15 13 (4.80%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.23%) PySpark
2 16 (5.90%) Kafka
3 9 (3.32%) LangChain
3 9 (3.32%) LlamaIndex
3 9 (3.32%) pgvector
3 9 (3.32%) PyTorch
3 9 (3.32%) scikit-learn
3 9 (3.32%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.48%) CSS
5 3 (1.11%) .NET
6 2 (0.74%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.37%) Apache Beam
7 1 (0.37%) MDX
7 1 (0.37%) Middleware
7 1 (0.37%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.07%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.59%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.69%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.32%) Clustering
5 9 (3.32%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.95%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.95%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (2.21%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.85%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.11%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.74%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.37%) FMCG
11 1 (0.37%) IoT
11 1 (0.37%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (61.62%) Analytics
2 163 (60.15%) Business Intelligence
3 158 (58.30%) Data Modelling
4 114 (42.07%) ETL
5 98 (36.16%) Data Governance
6 91 (33.58%) CI/CD
7 88 (32.47%) Data Pipeline
8 87 (32.10%) Data Engineering
9 74 (27.31%) Decision-Making
10 73 (26.94%) AI
11 72 (26.57%) Problem-Solving
12 70 (25.83%) DevOps
13 43 (15.87%) Data Architecture
14 42 (15.50%) Stakeholder Management
15 41 (15.13%) Visualisation
16 40 (14.76%) Agile
17 37 (13.65%) Cost Optimisation
17 37 (13.65%) Machine Learning
18 35 (12.92%) Observability
18 35 (12.92%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 180 (66.42%) SQL
2 124 (45.76%) Python
3 41 (15.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 17 (6.27%) T-SQL
5 14 (5.17%) Scala
6 9 (3.32%) C#
7 5 (1.85%) Bicep
8 4 (1.48%) Java
9 3 (1.11%) R
10 2 (0.74%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.37%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (8.49%) Degree
2 13 (4.80%) Azure Certification
3 12 (4.43%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 10 (3.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (3.69%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.95%) IIBA
5 8 (2.95%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.95%) PMP
6 3 (1.11%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.37%) MCSE
8 1 (0.37%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (36.90%) Data Quality
2 25 (9.23%) GDPR
3 22 (8.12%) SLA
4 12 (4.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 10 (3.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.37%) COBIT
7 1 (0.37%) QA
7 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (1.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (7.38%) Terraform
2 5 (1.85%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.74%) Ansible
Vendors
1 149 (54.98%) Databricks
2 86 (31.73%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.32%) Alteryx
3 9 (3.32%) Cloudera
3 9 (3.32%) Dell
4 8 (2.95%) Anaplan
5 7 (2.58%) Dataiku
6 6 (2.21%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.48%) Concur
7 4 (1.48%) Sage
7 4 (1.48%) Talend
8 3 (1.11%) Foundry
8 3 (1.11%) Google
9 1 (0.37%) Teradata