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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 367 395
Rank change year-on-year +55 +28 +56
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 281 104 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.42% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.03% 1.12% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 69 124
10th Percentile £393 £358 £413
25th Percentile £459 £408 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £580 £668
90th Percentile £719 £638 £775
UK median daily rate £545 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +14.74% -9.52% -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 13,849 9,257 12,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.99% 37.79% 32.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,550 6,463 8,760
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £711 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 422 172 330
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.93 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.31 £27.13 £21.19
Median % change year-on-year +37.55% +28.04% -15.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.48 £40.75
90th Percentile £79.95 £74.88 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £26.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +39.62% +24.01% -16.13%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 +57 185 £550 +14.29% 33
Midlands -32 39 £575 +21.05% 9
West Midlands -36 34 £550 +15.79% 9
North of England -55 23 £475 +29.60% 9
North West -18 13 £575 +64.29% 5
South East -54 8 £613 +20.10% 26
South West -23 6 £525 +7.69% 6
Yorkshire -51 6 £488 +30.00% 3
East of England -17 5 £625 +56.25% 2
North East -16 4 £450 +25.70% 1
East Midlands -31 3 £600 -
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 37 (13.17%) Apache Spark
2 27 (9.61%) Apache
3 7 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.78%) Confluence
5 3 (1.07%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.71%) Apache Synapse
6 2 (0.71%) CMS
7 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.07%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 281 (100.00%) Azure
2 178 (63.35%) Azure Data Factory
3 140 (49.82%) Power Platform
4 80 (28.47%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (16.37%) GitHub
6 42 (14.95%) AWS
7 28 (9.96%) GCP
8 26 (9.25%) Microsoft Purview
8 26 (9.25%) Serverless
9 25 (8.90%) Azure Key Vault
10 23 (8.19%) Amazon S3
11 22 (7.83%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (7.83%) Snowflake
12 20 (7.12%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (6.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 19 (6.76%) Collibra
14 18 (6.41%) Amazon SQS
14 18 (6.41%) Azure Machine Learning
14 18 (6.41%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (5.69%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.42%) Firewall
1 4 (1.42%) Network Security
2 1 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (49.47%) Data Lake
2 129 (45.91%) Power BI
3 94 (33.45%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (24.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 49 (17.44%) Delta Lake
6 43 (15.30%) SQL Server
7 29 (10.32%) Metadata
7 29 (10.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 22 (7.83%) BigQuery
9 19 (6.76%) OLAP
9 19 (6.76%) Spark SQL
9 19 (6.76%) Star Schema
10 18 (6.41%) Amazon Athena
10 18 (6.41%) Mixpanel
11 17 (6.05%) OLTP
11 17 (6.05%) Snowflake Schema
12 16 (5.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 15 (5.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (5.34%) Power Query
14 10 (3.56%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 37 (13.17%) Git
2 10 (3.56%) MLflow
3 6 (2.14%) JIRA
4 4 (1.42%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.07%) ERwin
5 3 (1.07%) GitLab
5 3 (1.07%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 72 (25.62%) Social Skills
2 65 (23.13%) Finance
3 37 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.68%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.42%) Banking
7 4 (1.42%) Retail
8 3 (1.07%) Billing
8 3 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.07%) Law
8 3 (1.07%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.07%) Marketing
8 3 (1.07%) Military
9 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.36%) Legal
10 1 (0.36%) Local Government
10 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 139 (49.47%) Data Engineer
2 59 (21.00%) Architect
3 45 (16.01%) Senior
4 37 (13.17%) Azure Engineer
5 36 (12.81%) Data Architect
6 30 (10.68%) Senior Data Engineer
7 28 (9.96%) Azure Architect
7 28 (9.96%) Azure Data Engineer
8 24 (8.54%) Lead
9 22 (7.83%) Developer
10 17 (6.05%) Azure Data Architect
11 16 (5.69%) Principal Engineer
12 15 (5.34%) Lead Data Engineer
12 15 (5.34%) Principal Data Engineer
12 15 (5.34%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.91%) Microsoft Engineer
15 10 (3.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 9 (3.20%) Enterprise Architect
17 8 (2.85%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (28.47%) PySpark
2 30 (10.68%) Kafka
3 21 (7.47%) Great Expectations
4 12 (4.27%) JSON
5 10 (3.56%) REST
6 8 (2.85%) Pandas
6 8 (2.85%) YAML
7 7 (2.49%) XML
8 4 (1.42%) ARM Templates
8 4 (1.42%) pytest
9 3 (1.07%) .NET
9 3 (1.07%) ADO
9 3 (1.07%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.71%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.71%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.71%) FHIR
10 2 (0.71%) PyArrow
10 2 (0.71%) PyTorch
10 2 (0.71%) React
10 2 (0.71%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.95%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (3.91%) Data Structures
4 10 (3.56%) IoT
5 7 (2.49%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (2.14%) Data Fabric
6 6 (2.14%) Replication
7 4 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.42%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.42%) SCADA
8 3 (1.07%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.07%) Wiki
9 2 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.71%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.71%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.36%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.36%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.71%) VMS
2 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (69.04%) Analytics
2 161 (57.30%) Data Modelling
3 152 (54.09%) ETL
4 135 (48.04%) Business Intelligence
5 131 (46.62%) CI/CD
6 130 (46.26%) Data Engineering
7 128 (45.55%) DevOps
8 126 (44.84%) Data Pipeline
9 113 (40.21%) Data Governance
10 80 (28.47%) Data Architecture
11 76 (27.05%) AI
12 65 (23.13%) Infrastructure as Code
13 56 (19.93%) Machine Learning
14 50 (17.79%) Migration
15 49 (17.44%) Agile
16 48 (17.08%) Dimensional Modelling
17 44 (15.66%) Data Science
18 41 (14.59%) Data Integration
18 41 (14.59%) RBAC
19 38 (13.52%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 217 (77.22%) SQL
2 147 (52.31%) Python
3 35 (12.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 34 (12.10%) T-SQL
5 26 (9.25%) Bicep
5 26 (9.25%) C#
6 18 (6.41%) PowerShell
7 15 (5.34%) Scala
8 3 (1.07%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.07%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.07%) R
9 2 (0.71%) Java
10 1 (0.36%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.36%) Bash
10 1 (0.36%) C
10 1 (0.36%) X++
Qualifications
1 52 (18.51%) Security Cleared
2 38 (13.52%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.90%) Azure Certification
4 20 (7.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (6.05%) Degree
6 7 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.14%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.42%) PhD
10 3 (1.07%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.71%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.71%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.71%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.36%) CBAP
12 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (36.30%) Data Quality
2 44 (15.66%) GDPR
3 12 (4.27%) QA
4 6 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.07%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.71%) PMO
6 2 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.36%) Basel II
7 1 (0.36%) Basel III
7 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.36%) GRC
7 1 (0.36%) MiFID
System Software
1 13 (4.63%) Docker
2 7 (2.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 74 (26.33%) Terraform
2 13 (4.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.36%) Grafana
Vendors
1 165 (58.72%) Databricks
2 131 (46.62%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.76%) Google
4 14 (4.98%) Informatica
5 10 (3.56%) SAP
6 7 (2.49%) Foundry
6 7 (2.49%) Oracle
6 7 (2.49%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.78%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.42%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.71%) Ab Initio
9 2 (0.71%) RedGate
10 1 (0.36%) Ariba
10 1 (0.36%) Brio
10 1 (0.36%) Commvault
10 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.36%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.36%) Palantir
10 1 (0.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.36%) Veeam