Azure Synapse Analytics Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Azure Synapse Analytics
Central London > City of London

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 116 137
Rank change year-on-year +12 +21 +47
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 15 9 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.87% 0.43% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.16% 1.07% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 12
10th Percentile £357 £398 £463
25th Percentile £363 £459 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £570
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -10.09% +8.57%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £648
90th Percentile £700 £698 £766
Central London median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +9.52%

All Cloud Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 696 839 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.30% 40.14% 41.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 554 845
10th Percentile £335 £388 £325
25th Percentile £435 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -0.44% -1.74%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £561 £551
% change year-on-year -2.00% +1.95% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 6
10th Percentile £23.75 - £14.63
25th Percentile £25.71 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% +30.12% -17.00%
75th Percentile £61.16 £59.75 £34.44
90th Percentile £88.75 £79.40 £45.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -17.00%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Azure Synapse Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Synapse Analytics in the City of London

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Synapse Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in the City of London over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in the City of London

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 7 (46.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
6 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
6 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 10 (66.67%) Power BI
2 4 (26.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
4 1 (6.67%) Metadata
4 1 (6.67%) Parquet
4 1 (6.67%) Power Query
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Data Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Data Modeller
4 1 (6.67%) Report Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) IoT
1 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (60.00%) Analytics
2 9 (60.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (40.00%) ETL
4 5 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 5 (33.33%) DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
5 4 (26.67%) Data Analysis
5 4 (26.67%) Data Lineage
5 4 (26.67%) Visualisation
6 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (20.00%) RBAC
7 2 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
7 2 (13.33%) Data Ingestion
7 2 (13.33%) Data Integration
7 2 (13.33%) Data Transformation
8 1 (6.67%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 6 (40.00%) Python
3 4 (26.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Databricks
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) Dataiku