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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 426 542
Rank change year-on-year -8 +116 +56
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 244 278 277
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.57% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% 1.54% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 183 219 232
10th Percentile £54,200 £43,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,750 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +21.15% +13.04% -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 22,787 18,010 29,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.04% 37.19% 38.52%
Number of salaries quoted 12,310 10,972 23,902
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -17 208 £85,000 +21.43% 81
UK excluding London -52 114 £78,750 +21.15% 65
Work from Home +50 111 £85,000 +15.25% 56
London +49 101 £90,000 +12.50% 31
South East -28 45 £85,000 +21.43% 25
Midlands -10 22 £65,000 +44.44% 17
North of England -30 21 £70,932 +5.08% 11
West Midlands -1 16 £65,000 +44.44% 9
North West -8 10 £70,932 +1.33% 6
Scotland +7 9 - - 2
Yorkshire -37 7 £80,000 +23.08% 4
East of England +20 6 £62,500 - 4
South West -21 5 £48,500 -11.82% 6
North East -12 4 - - 1
East Midlands -19 4 £57,500 -8.00% 8
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Wales -2 2 - - 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 13 (5.33%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.87%) Apache
3 6 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.64%) SAS
5 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 25 (10.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 244 (100.00%) Azure
2 138 (56.56%) Azure Data Factory
3 133 (54.51%) Power Platform
4 36 (14.75%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (11.89%) Snowflake
6 22 (9.02%) dbt
7 21 (8.61%) Microsoft Purview
8 20 (8.20%) GCP
9 19 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (7.38%) GitHub
11 15 (6.15%) PaaS
12 14 (5.74%) AWS
13 12 (4.92%) Fivetran
14 11 (4.51%) Entra ID
14 11 (4.51%) SaaS
15 10 (4.10%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (3.69%) Collibra
17 8 (3.28%) ChatGPT
17 8 (3.28%) Microsoft Copilot
18 7 (2.87%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.82%) DNS
1 2 (0.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (52.05%) Power BI
2 95 (38.93%) Data Lake
3 78 (31.97%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (27.05%) Azure SQL Database
5 48 (19.67%) SQL Server
6 40 (16.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 22 (9.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 21 (8.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 19 (7.79%) Big Data
9 19 (7.79%) Metadata
10 15 (6.15%) Delta Lake
11 11 (4.51%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (4.51%) Power Query
12 9 (3.69%) BigQuery
13 8 (3.28%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (3.28%) Tableau
14 6 (2.46%) Data Mining
15 4 (1.64%) NoSQL
16 3 (1.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 3 (1.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (8.61%) Git
2 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.41%) JIRA
General
1 102 (41.80%) Finance
2 97 (39.75%) Social Skills
3 46 (18.85%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.33%) Billing
5 12 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (4.51%) Law
7 8 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.28%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.05%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.64%) Banking
9 4 (1.64%) Legal
10 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Local Government
12 1 (0.41%) Advertising
12 1 (0.41%) Automotive
12 1 (0.41%) Marketing
12 1 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 93 (38.11%) Data Engineer
2 58 (23.77%) Architect
3 45 (18.44%) Data Architect
4 44 (18.03%) Senior
5 39 (15.98%) Azure Architect
6 37 (15.16%) Azure Data Architect
7 35 (14.34%) Lead
8 30 (12.30%) Senior Data Engineer
9 17 (6.97%) Analyst
10 16 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (6.56%) Lead Data Engineer
11 15 (6.15%) Big Data Engineer
11 15 (6.15%) DataOps Engineer
11 15 (6.15%) DataOps Leader
11 15 (6.15%) Developer
11 15 (6.15%) Lead Big Data Engineer
11 15 (6.15%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (5.74%) Azure Data Engineer
13 12 (4.92%) Insight Analyst
13 12 (4.92%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.02%) PySpark
2 8 (3.28%) Kafka
3 3 (1.23%) .NET
4 2 (0.82%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.82%) CSS
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.41%) MDX
5 1 (0.41%) Middleware
5 1 (0.41%) REST
5 1 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.07%) Analytical Mindset
2 16 (6.56%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (3.69%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.28%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.28%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.05%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.23%) FMCG
9 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.41%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.41%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.41%) IoT
10 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (62.70%) Analytics
2 147 (60.25%) Data Modelling
3 144 (59.02%) Business Intelligence
4 101 (41.39%) ETL
5 81 (33.20%) Data Governance
6 79 (32.38%) CI/CD
6 79 (32.38%) Data Pipeline
7 77 (31.56%) Data Engineering
7 77 (31.56%) Decision-Making
8 68 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
9 66 (27.05%) DevOps
10 60 (24.59%) AI
11 42 (17.21%) Data Architecture
11 42 (17.21%) Visualisation
12 38 (15.57%) Agile
13 36 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (13.52%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (13.11%) Actionable Insight
16 29 (11.89%) Cost Optimisation
16 29 (11.89%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 160 (65.57%) SQL
2 103 (42.21%) Python
3 41 (16.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 17 (6.97%) Scala
4 17 (6.97%) T-SQL
5 10 (4.10%) C#
6 5 (2.05%) Bicep
6 5 (2.05%) Java
7 3 (1.23%) R
8 1 (0.41%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (8.61%) Degree
2 12 (4.92%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 11 (4.51%) Security Cleared
4 10 (4.10%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.69%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.28%) IIBA
6 8 (3.28%) PMI Certification
6 8 (3.28%) PMP
7 7 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.05%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.23%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.41%) MCSE
10 1 (0.41%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (39.75%) Data Quality
2 20 (8.20%) GDPR
3 15 (6.15%) SLA
4 12 (4.92%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.82%) QA
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.41%) COBIT
6 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (7.38%) Terraform
2 4 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.23%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 129 (52.87%) Databricks
2 78 (31.97%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.28%) Alteryx
3 8 (3.28%) Anaplan
3 8 (3.28%) Dataiku
4 4 (1.64%) Talend
5 3 (1.23%) Google
6 2 (0.82%) Concur
6 2 (0.82%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.82%) Sage
6 2 (0.82%) SAP
7 1 (0.41%) Foundry
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle
7 1 (0.41%) Teradata