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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 432 501
Rank change year-on-year +20 +69 +99
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 233 296 264
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.56% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.12% 1.54% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 165 234 219
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,875 £43,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,000 £50,625
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 £81,875
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £95,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% +18.18% -13.73%

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 20,886 19,243 24,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.94% 36.33% 39.62%
Number of salaries quoted 11,380 11,285 20,536
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,864
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% +8.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 +1 203 £85,000 +21.43% 172
UK excluding London -14 107 £75,000 +15.38% 168
London +55 105 £90,000 +12.50% 30
Work from Home +39 100 £85,000 +17.24% 77
South East -14 41 £85,000 +30.77% 55
Midlands +16 21 £64,250 +42.78% 24
North of England -3 20 £66,500 +0.38% 33
West Midlands +12 15 £65,000 +44.44% 8
North West +14 9 £58,000 -22.67% 14
Scotland +5 9 - - 5
East of England +17 6 £62,500 +8.70% 22
Yorkshire -26 6 £67,617 +4.03% 12
North East +9 5 £77,500 +70.33% 7
South West -1 4 £48,500 -11.82% 20
East Midlands -4 4 £50,000 -20.00% 15
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 3
Wales +6 2 - - 9

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 17 (7.30%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.00%) Apache
3 4 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 24 (10.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 233 (100.00%) Azure
2 141 (60.52%) Azure Data Factory
3 132 (56.65%) Power Platform
4 34 (14.59%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (11.16%) Microsoft Purview
6 25 (10.73%) Snowflake
7 20 (8.58%) dbt
8 18 (7.73%) AWS
8 18 (7.73%) GitHub
9 17 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (6.87%) GCP
11 12 (5.15%) Fivetran
11 12 (5.15%) PaaS
12 11 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (4.72%) SaaS
13 9 (3.86%) Collibra
14 8 (3.43%) ChatGPT
14 8 (3.43%) Entra ID
14 8 (3.43%) Microsoft Copilot
15 7 (3.00%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (54.08%) Power BI
2 93 (39.91%) Data Lake
3 75 (32.19%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (25.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 53 (22.75%) SQL Server
6 42 (18.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 24 (10.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 21 (9.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 20 (8.58%) Metadata
10 15 (6.44%) Big Data
10 15 (6.44%) Delta Lake
11 10 (4.29%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (4.29%) Power Query
12 9 (3.86%) NoSQL
13 8 (3.43%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (3.43%) Tableau
14 6 (2.58%) BigQuery
14 6 (2.58%) Data Mining
14 6 (2.58%) Hadoop
15 3 (1.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (8.58%) Git
2 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.43%) JIRA
General
1 101 (43.35%) Finance
2 100 (42.92%) Social Skills
3 48 (20.60%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.73%) Law
5 13 (5.58%) Billing
5 13 (5.58%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.15%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.15%) Legal
7 5 (2.15%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.15%) Retail
8 4 (1.72%) Banking
9 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.86%) Advertising
10 2 (0.86%) Local Government
10 2 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Automotive
11 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 90 (38.63%) Data Engineer
2 45 (19.31%) Architect
3 39 (16.74%) Data Architect
4 37 (15.88%) Senior
5 31 (13.30%) Azure Architect
6 30 (12.88%) Azure Data Architect
7 29 (12.45%) Senior Data Engineer
8 26 (11.16%) Lead
9 19 (8.15%) Analyst
9 19 (8.15%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (6.87%) Azure Data Engineer
10 16 (6.87%) Developer
11 12 (5.15%) Business Manager
11 12 (5.15%) Commercial Analyst
11 12 (5.15%) Consultant
11 12 (5.15%) Insight Analyst
11 12 (5.15%) Insight Manager
12 11 (4.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 11 (4.72%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (3.43%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.44%) PySpark
2 13 (5.58%) Kafka
3 3 (1.29%) .NET
3 3 (1.29%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.86%) Pandas
4 2 (0.86%) Polars
4 2 (0.86%) XML
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.43%) MDX
5 1 (0.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.59%) Analytical Mindset
2 15 (6.44%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (4.29%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.43%) AI Agents
5 8 (3.43%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (3.00%) FMCG
7 5 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.43%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.43%) IoT
11 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (67.81%) Analytics
2 143 (61.37%) Data Modelling
3 140 (60.09%) Business Intelligence
4 107 (45.92%) ETL
5 85 (36.48%) Data Engineering
6 83 (35.62%) Data Governance
6 83 (35.62%) Data Pipeline
6 83 (35.62%) Decision-Making
7 71 (30.47%) CI/CD
7 71 (30.47%) DevOps
7 71 (30.47%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (28.33%) AI
9 45 (19.31%) Agile
10 43 (18.45%) Visualisation
11 37 (15.88%) Data Architecture
11 37 (15.88%) Machine Learning
12 36 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (13.73%) Actionable Insight
13 32 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (12.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 163 (69.96%) SQL
2 103 (44.21%) Python
3 41 (17.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 21 (9.01%) Scala
5 19 (8.15%) T-SQL
6 10 (4.29%) C#
7 7 (3.00%) R
8 5 (2.15%) Bicep
8 5 (2.15%) Java
9 1 (0.43%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (9.01%) Degree
2 12 (5.15%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 9 (3.86%) Azure Certification
3 9 (3.86%) Security Cleared
4 8 (3.43%) IIBA
4 8 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (3.43%) PMI Certification
4 8 (3.43%) PMP
4 8 (3.43%) TOGAF Certification
5 7 (3.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.29%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.43%) MCSE
7 1 (0.43%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (38.20%) Data Quality
2 24 (10.30%) GDPR
3 12 (5.15%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (3.00%) QA
5 6 (2.58%) SLA
6 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.43%) COBIT
7 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (8.15%) Terraform
2 4 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.29%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 126 (54.08%) Databricks
2 79 (33.91%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.43%) Alteryx
3 8 (3.43%) Anaplan
3 8 (3.43%) Dataiku
4 6 (2.58%) SAP
5 4 (1.72%) Talend
6 2 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (0.86%) Fortinet
6 2 (0.86%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.86%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.43%) Google
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle
7 1 (0.43%) Teradata