Azure Synapse Analytics Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Azure Synapse Analytics
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Azure Synapse Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 2.35% - 1.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.69% - 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - £476
25th Percentile £405 - £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £513
75th Percentile £725 - £519
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £500 - £513
% change year-on-year - - -16.33%

All Cloud Skills
Cardiff

Azure Synapse Analytics falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 65 68 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 30.52% 29.69% 47.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 45 80
10th Percentile £290 £161 £178
25th Percentile £304 £375 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £431
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +21.74% -13.75%
75th Percentile £501 £575 £541
90th Percentile £675 £606 £638
South Wales median daily rate £425 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £15.02 - -
25th Percentile £15.05 £20.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.22 £21.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.88% +7.95% +1.27%
75th Percentile £17.49 £22.89 £23.75
90th Percentile £17.59 - £25.10
South Wales median hourly rate £22.84 £21.59 £18.00
% change year-on-year +5.79% +19.94% -8.86%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Azure Synapse Analytics job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Azure Synapse Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in Cardiff over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in Cardiff

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Pipelines
4 2 (40.00%) GCP
4 2 (40.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (40.00%) Metadata
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ADO
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft