Azure Synapse Analytics Job Trends in the West Midlands

Azure Synapse Analytics
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Azure Synapse Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 160 199
Rank change year-on-year -30 +39 -9
Permanent jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 7 20 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.082% 0.58% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.35% 1.73% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 6 14 19
10th Percentile £42,125 £43,400 £52,000
25th Percentile £48,438 £50,625 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +6.25% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,188 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £107,375 £77,500
England median annual salary £90,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +38.46% -10.34% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,020 1,153 1,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.62% 33.34% 27.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,442 926 1,397
10th Percentile £32,751 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,688 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -4.98% +7.62%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,625 £84,978
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -7.69%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure Synapse Analytics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Azure Synapse Analytics job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Azure Synapse Analytics
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Azure Synapse Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in the West Midlands

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Birmingham -30 4 £75,000 +57.89% 2
Coventry - 2 £42,750 - 1
Staffordshire +2 1 £55,000 -12.00% 2
Azure Synapse Analytics
England

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Power Platform
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) Metadata
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Billing
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (57.14%) Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
3 3 (42.86%) AI
3 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Wealth Management
5 1 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
5 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
5 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
5 1 (14.29%) Data Sharing
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 1 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Databricks
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) OpenAI