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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 350 404
Rank change year-on-year +8 +54 +61
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 212 125 164
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.47% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 1.28% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 73 122
10th Percentile £363 £363 £401
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £664 £695 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 -

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 11,896 9,764 12,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.98% 36.73% 34.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,223 6,507 9,063
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £422 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 130 237
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.18 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.21 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +25.36% -0.07%
75th Percentile £56.13 £45.89 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.60 £64.78 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £27.35 £22.75
% change year-on-year +0.55% +20.22% +1.11%

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 13 January 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 13 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +34 141 £525 -4.55% 31
Midlands -37 25 £600 +6.67% 20
West Midlands -32 21 £600 +6.67% 5
North of England -48 18 £463 +20.92% 25
South East -29 9 £525 -16.00% 50
North West -21 7 £525 +23.53% 9
Yorkshire -39 6 £438 -12.50% 11
North East -8 5 £438 +22.21% 5
East Midlands - 4 £575 - 15
South West -20 3 £550 +27.54% 15
East of England - 1 - - 17
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 24 (11.32%) Apache Spark
2 19 (8.96%) Apache
3 11 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.47%) CMS
4 1 (0.47%) Confluence
4 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.47%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 212 (100.00%) Azure
2 139 (65.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 105 (49.53%) Power Platform
4 58 (27.36%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (14.15%) AWS
6 23 (10.85%) GitHub
7 21 (9.91%) GCP
7 21 (9.91%) Microsoft Purview
8 20 (9.43%) Dynamics 365
8 20 (9.43%) Snowflake
9 19 (8.96%) Serverless
10 17 (8.02%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (7.08%) Azure Key Vault
11 15 (7.08%) Azure Machine Learning
11 15 (7.08%) dbt
12 13 (6.13%) Azure Functions
13 12 (5.66%) Amazon S3
13 12 (5.66%) SaaS
14 11 (5.19%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (5.19%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.47%) Firewall
1 1 (0.47%) Network Security
1 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (50.94%) Data Lake
2 98 (46.23%) Power BI
3 66 (31.13%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (21.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 33 (15.57%) SQL Server
6 29 (13.68%) Metadata
7 23 (10.85%) Delta Lake
8 17 (8.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (6.60%) BigQuery
10 13 (6.13%) Power Query
11 12 (5.66%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (5.66%) Snowflake Schema
12 10 (4.72%) Spark SQL
13 9 (4.25%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (4.25%) Mixpanel
13 9 (4.25%) OLAP
13 9 (4.25%) OLTP
14 8 (3.77%) Star Schema
15 7 (3.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 7 (3.30%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 20 (9.43%) Git
2 5 (2.36%) MLflow
3 3 (1.42%) JIRA
3 3 (1.42%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.42%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.94%) ERwin
5 1 (0.47%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.47%) GCC
5 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.47%) Poetry
5 1 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.47%) Pylint
General
1 66 (31.13%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.40%) Finance
3 26 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.91%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.89%) Billing
8 3 (1.42%) Banking
8 3 (1.42%) Marketing
8 3 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.42%) Retail
9 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.94%) Law
9 2 (0.94%) Military
9 2 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.47%) Legal
10 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 102 (48.11%) Data Engineer
2 42 (19.81%) Architect
3 36 (16.98%) Azure Engineer
4 29 (13.68%) Azure Data Engineer
5 26 (12.26%) Data Architect
6 21 (9.91%) Developer
7 19 (8.96%) Senior
8 18 (8.49%) Lead
9 16 (7.55%) Azure Architect
10 15 (7.08%) Senior Data Engineer
11 10 (4.72%) Azure Data Architect
12 8 (3.77%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 8 (3.77%) Enterprise Architect
12 8 (3.77%) Principal Data Engineer
12 8 (3.77%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (3.30%) Business Architect
13 7 (3.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 7 (3.30%) Microsoft Engineer
13 7 (3.30%) Principal Software Engineer
13 7 (3.30%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (30.66%) PySpark
2 16 (7.55%) Kafka
3 11 (5.19%) Great Expectations
4 8 (3.77%) REST
5 6 (2.83%) PyTorch
5 6 (2.83%) TensorFlow
6 5 (2.36%) ARM Templates
6 5 (2.36%) Pandas
6 5 (2.36%) scikit-learn
6 5 (2.36%) YAML
7 4 (1.89%) JSON
8 3 (1.42%) ADO
8 3 (1.42%) Celery
8 3 (1.42%) pytest
9 2 (0.94%) .NET
9 2 (0.94%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.94%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.94%) FHIR
9 2 (0.94%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.32%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.66%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.77%) Data Fabric
5 6 (2.83%) IoT
6 5 (2.36%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.42%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.42%) Replication
8 2 (0.94%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.47%) Life Science
9 1 (0.47%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (66.98%) Analytics
2 113 (53.30%) Data Modelling
3 105 (49.53%) Business Intelligence
4 101 (47.64%) ETL
5 90 (42.45%) Data Engineering
6 89 (41.98%) CI/CD
7 88 (41.51%) Data Pipeline
7 88 (41.51%) DevOps
8 85 (40.09%) Data Governance
9 55 (25.94%) Data Architecture
10 45 (21.23%) AI
11 40 (18.87%) Agile
12 39 (18.40%) Machine Learning
13 35 (16.51%) Data Integration
13 35 (16.51%) Infrastructure as Code
13 35 (16.51%) Migration
14 30 (14.15%) RBAC
15 28 (13.21%) Data Science
16 25 (11.79%) Dimensional Modelling
17 24 (11.32%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 159 (75.00%) SQL
2 114 (53.77%) Python
3 25 (11.79%) T-SQL
4 23 (10.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 16 (7.55%) Bicep
6 11 (5.19%) C#
7 8 (3.77%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.77%) R
8 7 (3.30%) Scala
9 3 (1.42%) Java
9 3 (1.42%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.42%) X++
10 2 (0.94%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.47%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.47%) Bash
11 1 (0.47%) C++
11 1 (0.47%) Go
11 1 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 33 (15.57%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.85%) Azure Certification
2 23 (10.85%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (2.83%) Degree
5 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.42%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.94%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.47%) PhD
7 1 (0.47%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.47%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.47%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (28.77%) Data Quality
2 31 (14.62%) GDPR
3 6 (2.83%) QA
4 4 (1.89%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.94%) MiFID
5 2 (0.94%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.47%) Basel II
6 1 (0.47%) Basel III
6 1 (0.47%) GRC
6 1 (0.47%) IFRS
6 1 (0.47%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 13 (6.13%) Docker
2 3 (1.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (18.87%) Terraform
2 17 (8.02%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.42%) Grafana
3 3 (1.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 130 (61.32%) Databricks
2 89 (41.98%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.66%) Google
4 6 (2.83%) SAP
5 5 (2.36%) Oracle
5 5 (2.36%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.42%) Informatica
6 3 (1.42%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.94%) Ab Initio
7 2 (0.94%) Foundry
7 2 (0.94%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.94%) RedGate
7 2 (0.94%) Workday
8 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.47%) Concur
8 1 (0.47%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.47%) Palantir
8 1 (0.47%) Sparx
8 1 (0.47%) UiPath
8 1 (0.47%) Veeam