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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 325 360
Rank change year-on-year -71 +35 +46
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 251 194 174
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.70% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.80% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 153 112
10th Percentile £363 £365 £413
25th Percentile £413 £430 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £710 £640
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £21.50 - -
75th Percentile £21.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.50 - -

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 16,067 10,775 11,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.51% 38.60% 35.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,693 7,284 7,497
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% -4.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 260 159
10th Percentile £15.44 £14.99 £16.24
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.03 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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 October 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 October 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 -39 163 £500 -4.76% 98
Midlands -37 37 £450 -22.58% 11
West Midlands -49 25 £450 -24.21% 8
North of England -48 24 £423 -11.05% 35
East Midlands -5 12 £500 +4.17% 3
Yorkshire -27 12 £400 -5.88% 10
North West -47 10 £500 +5.26% 19
South East -73 8 £613 +28.95% 15
South West -27 6 £500 - 5
North East -40 2 - - 6
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 26 (10.36%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (6.77%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.98%) Apache
4 7 (2.79%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.80%) nginx
5 2 (0.80%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Chatbot
1 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.40%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.40%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 251 (100.00%) Azure
2 163 (64.94%) Azure Data Factory
3 104 (41.43%) Power Platform
4 78 (31.08%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (14.34%) AWS
6 34 (13.55%) Microsoft Purview
7 29 (11.55%) Snowflake
8 28 (11.16%) dbt
8 28 (11.16%) GitHub
9 24 (9.56%) Azure Databricks
10 20 (7.97%) Entra ID
11 18 (7.17%) Serverless
12 17 (6.77%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (6.37%) SaaS
14 14 (5.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 14 (5.58%) PaaS
15 12 (4.78%) Azure Machine Learning
15 12 (4.78%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (4.78%) Dynamics 365
15 12 (4.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.18%) Firewall
2 3 (1.20%) DNS
3 2 (0.80%) Network Security
3 2 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (39.44%) Power BI
2 88 (35.06%) Data Lake
3 81 (32.27%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (16.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 41 (16.33%) Metadata
5 33 (13.15%) SQL Server
6 32 (12.75%) Delta Lake
7 20 (7.97%) Star Schema
8 19 (7.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 18 (7.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (6.77%) Data Vault
10 17 (6.77%) NoSQL
11 10 (3.98%) Semantic Layer
12 9 (3.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 9 (3.59%) BigQuery
12 9 (3.59%) Parquet
12 9 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (3.59%) Power Query
13 8 (3.19%) Relational Database
13 8 (3.19%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 26 (10.36%) Git
2 7 (2.79%) GitLab
3 5 (1.99%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.99%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.59%) MLflow
4 4 (1.59%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.80%) ERwin
5 2 (0.80%) JIRA
5 2 (0.80%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.40%) Postman
6 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (25.90%) Social Skills
2 48 (19.12%) Finance
3 39 (15.54%) Public Sector
4 38 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.77%) Retail
6 12 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.78%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.99%) Banking
7 5 (1.99%) Local Government
8 4 (1.59%) Billing
8 4 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.59%) Law
8 4 (1.59%) Legal
9 3 (1.20%) Marketing
9 3 (1.20%) Military
10 2 (0.80%) Police
10 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 104 (41.43%) Data Engineer
2 56 (22.31%) Architect
3 45 (17.93%) Azure Engineer
4 41 (16.33%) Data Architect
5 32 (12.75%) Senior
6 31 (12.35%) Azure Data Engineer
7 26 (10.36%) Lead
8 21 (8.37%) Senior Data Engineer
9 19 (7.57%) Analyst
9 19 (7.57%) Data Analyst
9 19 (7.57%) Developer
10 13 (5.18%) Azure Architect
10 13 (5.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 12 (4.78%) Power BI Developer
12 11 (4.38%) Azure Data Architect
12 11 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (3.59%) Lead Data Engineer
14 8 (3.19%) Business Analyst
14 8 (3.19%) Data Business Analyst
14 8 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (23.51%) PySpark
2 45 (17.93%) Terraform
3 22 (8.76%) Kafka
4 12 (4.78%) YAML
5 9 (3.59%) JSON
6 8 (3.19%) REST
7 6 (2.39%) pytest
8 4 (1.59%) .NET
8 4 (1.59%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.20%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.20%) JSON-LD
9 3 (1.20%) NetworkX
9 3 (1.20%) Pandas
10 2 (0.80%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (0.80%) NumPy
10 2 (0.80%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.80%) Spark Streaming
10 2 (0.80%) TensorFlow
10 2 (0.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.55%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.58%) Data Structures
2 14 (5.58%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.59%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.59%) Reinsurance
4 7 (2.79%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.79%) Reference Data
5 6 (2.39%) Data Fabric
5 6 (2.39%) IoT
5 6 (2.39%) SCADA
6 5 (1.99%) AI Agents
6 5 (1.99%) NHS
6 5 (1.99%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.20%) Housing Association
7 3 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.20%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.39%) Linux
2 3 (1.20%) Windows
3 2 (0.80%) Unix
4 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (64.54%) Analytics
2 130 (51.79%) Data Modelling
3 122 (48.61%) Data Pipeline
4 117 (46.61%) Data Engineering
5 109 (43.43%) CI/CD
6 108 (43.03%) DevOps
7 107 (42.63%) Business Intelligence
8 96 (38.25%) ETL
9 88 (35.06%) Data Governance
10 87 (34.66%) Migration
11 55 (21.91%) Data Architecture
12 54 (21.51%) Data Integration
12 54 (21.51%) Lakehouse
13 53 (21.12%) Infrastructure as Code
14 48 (19.12%) Agile
14 48 (19.12%) AI
15 45 (17.93%) Stakeholder Management
16 40 (15.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 39 (15.54%) Data Transformation
18 37 (14.74%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 179 (71.31%) SQL
2 108 (43.03%) Python
3 24 (9.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 18 (7.17%) Bicep
5 15 (5.98%) PowerShell
6 14 (5.58%) T-SQL
7 11 (4.38%) Bash
8 8 (3.19%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (2.39%) C#
10 3 (1.20%) Cypher
10 3 (1.20%) Gremlin
10 3 (1.20%) R
10 3 (1.20%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.20%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.80%) Scala
12 1 (0.40%) C
12 1 (0.40%) COBOL
12 1 (0.40%) Java
12 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 61 (24.30%) Security Cleared
2 53 (21.12%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.76%) Azure Certification
4 10 (3.98%) Degree
5 9 (3.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.99%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.80%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.80%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.80%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.40%) CCSP
9 1 (0.40%) CISSP
9 1 (0.40%) FFIEC
9 1 (0.40%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (34.66%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.76%) GDPR
3 10 (3.98%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.98%) QA
4 4 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.20%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (1.20%) IFRS
5 3 (1.20%) IFRS 17
5 3 (1.20%) NIST
6 2 (0.80%) GRC
6 2 (0.80%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.40%) GLBA
7 1 (0.40%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.40%) MiFID
7 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (8.37%) Docker
2 4 (1.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (10.76%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.99%) Grafana
2 5 (1.99%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.80%) Ansible
3 2 (0.80%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.40%) Control-M
Vendors
1 123 (49.00%) Databricks
1 123 (49.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.77%) Informatica
3 12 (4.78%) Oracle
4 10 (3.98%) SAP
5 5 (1.99%) MicroStrategy
5 5 (1.99%) Talend
6 4 (1.59%) Google
6 4 (1.59%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.20%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.80%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.80%) GoldenSource
8 2 (0.80%) Infor
8 2 (0.80%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.40%) Foundry
9 1 (0.40%) IBM
9 1 (0.40%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.40%) SimCorp
9 1 (0.40%) Workday