Azure Synapse Analytics Contract Job Trends in England

Azure Synapse Analytics
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure Synapse Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 352 401
Rank change year-on-year +18 +49 +31
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 287 122 146
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.50% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.94% 1.33% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 94 114
10th Percentile £380 £363 £413
25th Percentile £438 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £614 £592 £638
90th Percentile £750 £675 £771
UK median daily rate £521 £475 £529
% change year-on-year +9.74% -10.17% -3.86%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,823 9,195 11,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.08% 37.74% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,078 6,273 8,560
10th Percentile £325 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £510 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 512 223 330
10th Percentile £15.94 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.57 £16.02
Median hourly rate £42.59 £25.01 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +70.30% +16.54% -38.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.75 £42.06
90th Percentile £82.15 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +32.14% +30.23% -45.64%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Azure Synapse Analytics job vacancy trend in England

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in England over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in England

Azure Synapse Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Synapse Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics within the England region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +25 174 £540 +11.92% 33
Midlands -23 42 £500 +31.58% 7
West Midlands -30 38 £498 +42.14% 7
North of England -54 30 £500 +5.26% 8
North West -29 17 £550 +15.79% 4
South West -15 13 £500 -13.04% 2
Yorkshire -51 8 £495 +32.00% 3
South East -67 8 £575 +22.34% 24
East of England -21 5 £625 +38.89% 2
North East - 5 £450 - 1
East Midlands -26 1 £600 +46.34%
Azure Synapse Analytics
UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 33 (11.50%) Apache Spark
2 24 (8.36%) Apache
3 8 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.74%) Confluence
5 3 (1.05%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.70%) Apache Synapse
6 2 (0.70%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 287 (100.00%) Azure
2 182 (63.41%) Azure Data Factory
3 136 (47.39%) Power Platform
4 77 (26.83%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (16.38%) GitHub
6 37 (12.89%) AWS
7 30 (10.45%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (8.01%) GCP
9 19 (6.62%) Amazon S3
9 19 (6.62%) Azure Key Vault
9 19 (6.62%) Serverless
10 17 (5.92%) Snowflake
11 16 (5.57%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (5.57%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (5.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 15 (5.23%) Azure Machine Learning
12 15 (5.23%) dbt
13 13 (4.53%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (4.53%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.05%) Firewall
1 3 (1.05%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (47.04%) Data Lake
2 128 (44.60%) Power BI
3 94 (32.75%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (24.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 54 (18.82%) Delta Lake
6 49 (17.07%) SQL Server
7 28 (9.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 26 (9.06%) Metadata
8 26 (9.06%) Spark SQL
9 18 (6.27%) Star Schema
10 15 (5.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 15 (5.23%) BigQuery
10 15 (5.23%) OLAP
11 14 (4.88%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (4.88%) Snowflake Schema
12 13 (4.53%) Mixpanel
13 12 (4.18%) OLTP
14 10 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (3.48%) Power Query
14 10 (3.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 45 (15.68%) Git
2 7 (2.44%) JIRA
3 6 (2.09%) MLflow
4 5 (1.74%) ERwin
5 4 (1.39%) GitLab
6 3 (1.05%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.70%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.70%) Selenium
7 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.35%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.35%) Postman
8 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 68 (23.69%) Finance
2 59 (20.56%) Social Skills
3 41 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.80%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.79%) Retail
6 6 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.09%) Law
7 5 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.74%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.74%) Marketing
8 4 (1.39%) Military
9 3 (1.05%) Banking
10 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.70%) Legal
10 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.70%) Publishing
11 1 (0.35%) Local Government
11 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 151 (52.61%) Data Engineer
2 59 (20.56%) Senior
3 51 (17.77%) Architect
4 39 (13.59%) Senior Data Engineer
5 34 (11.85%) Data Architect
6 33 (11.50%) Azure Engineer
7 27 (9.41%) Azure Data Engineer
8 26 (9.06%) Azure Architect
9 19 (6.62%) Lead
10 18 (6.27%) Azure Data Architect
11 14 (4.88%) Lead Data Engineer
12 12 (4.18%) Analyst
12 12 (4.18%) Developer
12 12 (4.18%) Microsoft Engineer
12 12 (4.18%) Principal Engineer
12 12 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (3.83%) Principal Data Engineer
14 10 (3.48%) Informatica Engineer
15 9 (3.14%) Platform Engineer
16 8 (2.79%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (28.22%) PySpark
2 29 (10.10%) Kafka
3 15 (5.23%) Great Expectations
4 13 (4.53%) JSON
4 13 (4.53%) Pandas
5 9 (3.14%) REST
5 9 (3.14%) XML
6 7 (2.44%) .NET
7 6 (2.09%) YAML
8 4 (1.39%) pytest
9 3 (1.05%) ADO
9 3 (1.05%) NumPy
10 2 (0.70%) Matplotlib
10 2 (0.70%) Playwright
10 2 (0.70%) PyArrow
10 2 (0.70%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.70%) Seaborn
10 2 (0.70%) Swagger
10 2 (0.70%) TensorFlow
10 2 (0.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.24%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (2.79%) IoT
4 5 (1.74%) Data Fabric
4 5 (1.74%) Data Structures
4 5 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (1.74%) SCADA
5 4 (1.39%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.39%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.39%) Replication
6 3 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.05%) NHS
6 3 (1.05%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.05%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.05%) Wiki
7 2 (0.70%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.70%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.35%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.70%) Unix
1 2 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (66.20%) Analytics
2 150 (52.26%) Data Modelling
2 150 (52.26%) ETL
3 140 (48.78%) Data Pipeline
4 132 (45.99%) Business Intelligence
5 131 (45.64%) Data Engineering
6 130 (45.30%) CI/CD
7 117 (40.77%) DevOps
8 99 (34.49%) Data Governance
9 72 (25.09%) AI
10 68 (23.69%) Data Architecture
11 58 (20.21%) Migration
12 55 (19.16%) Infrastructure as Code
13 51 (17.77%) Machine Learning
14 48 (16.72%) Agile
15 42 (14.63%) Decision-Making
15 42 (14.63%) Dimensional Modelling
16 41 (14.29%) Data Integration
16 41 (14.29%) Data Science
17 40 (13.94%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 215 (74.91%) SQL
2 150 (52.26%) Python
3 36 (12.54%) T-SQL
4 26 (9.06%) C#
4 26 (9.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 23 (8.01%) Bicep
6 17 (5.92%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.18%) Scala
8 3 (1.05%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.70%) R
10 1 (0.35%) C
10 1 (0.35%) Java
10 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 61 (21.25%) Security Cleared
2 50 (17.42%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.67%) Azure Certification
4 20 (6.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (4.88%) Degree
6 6 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.74%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.39%) PhD
9 3 (1.05%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.70%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.70%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.35%) CBAP
11 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.35%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (36.24%) Data Quality
2 33 (11.50%) GDPR
3 17 (5.92%) QA
4 6 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.70%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.70%) PMO
6 1 (0.35%) Basel II
6 1 (0.35%) Basel III
6 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.35%) MiFID
6 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (5.57%) Docker
2 4 (1.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 61 (21.25%) Terraform
2 13 (4.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 149 (51.92%) Databricks
2 148 (51.57%) Microsoft
3 23 (8.01%) Informatica
4 14 (4.88%) Google
5 9 (3.14%) SAP
6 8 (2.79%) Foundry
7 7 (2.44%) Oracle
7 7 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.74%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.05%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.70%) Ab Initio
10 2 (0.70%) Infor
10 2 (0.70%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.35%) Ariba
11 1 (0.35%) Cognos
11 1 (0.35%) Concur
11 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.35%) SimCorp