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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 350 420
Rank change year-on-year +5 +70 +50
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 193 166 173
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.53% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 1.50% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 106 133
10th Percentile £363 £413 £403
25th Percentile £426 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £641
90th Percentile £700 £674 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -4.44%

All Cloud 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 11,368 11,098 14,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.98% 35.63% 35.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,683 7,377 10,391
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £533
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +0.28% -3.18%
75th Percentile £619 £645 £650
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 144 293
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.26 £14.68
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.15% +29.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £44.43 £65.04 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.62 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +9.38% +42.22%

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 1 November 2025.

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 1 November 2025. 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 +18 120 £538 +2.38% 56
Midlands -1 32 £588 - 17
West Midlands -13 26 £600 +2.13% 12
South East 0 14 £475 -24.00% 44
North of England -38 13 £475 +7.04% 23
North West -22 7 £488 +11.43% 14
East Midlands - 6 £480 - 4
East of England -7 5 £550 +144.44% 3
Yorkshire -25 5 £425 -10.53% 9
South West +5 1 - - 8
North East - 1 £375 -
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 15 (7.77%) Apache
1 15 (7.77%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (6.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.52%) Confluence
3 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.11%) Dynamics AX
1 6 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.07%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.52%) Endur
3 1 (0.52%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.52%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.52%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 193 (100.00%) Azure
2 121 (62.69%) Azure Data Factory
3 90 (46.63%) Power Platform
4 55 (28.50%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (12.44%) Dynamics 365
6 19 (9.84%) GitHub
7 18 (9.33%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (8.81%) Azure Machine Learning
8 17 (8.81%) Microsoft Purview
8 17 (8.81%) Serverless
9 16 (8.29%) AWS
10 15 (7.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 14 (7.25%) Snowflake
12 13 (6.74%) Azure Functions
12 13 (6.74%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (6.74%) dbt
13 11 (5.70%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (5.70%) GCP
14 10 (5.18%) Azure AKS
15 9 (4.66%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.07%) Firewall
2 2 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (45.60%) Data Lake
2 82 (42.49%) Power BI
3 54 (27.98%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (19.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 24 (12.44%) Delta Lake
6 22 (11.40%) SQL Server
7 16 (8.29%) Metadata
8 11 (5.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (5.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (4.66%) Relational Database
11 8 (4.15%) Big Data
11 8 (4.15%) BigQuery
11 8 (4.15%) NoSQL
11 8 (4.15%) Power Query
11 8 (4.15%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (3.63%) Star Schema
13 6 (3.11%) Tableau
14 5 (2.59%) Data Mining
14 5 (2.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (2.07%) GIS
Development Applications
1 12 (6.22%) Git
2 4 (2.07%) ERwin
2 4 (2.07%) MLflow
3 3 (1.55%) JIRA
3 3 (1.55%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.55%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.04%) GCC
5 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.52%) Poetry
5 1 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.52%) Pylint
General
1 66 (34.20%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.62%) Finance
3 20 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (10.36%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.11%) Retail
6 4 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.55%) Banking
7 3 (1.55%) Billing
7 3 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.04%) Marketing
8 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Automotive
9 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Law
9 1 (0.52%) Legal
9 1 (0.52%) Local Government
9 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 77 (39.90%) Data Engineer
2 48 (24.87%) Architect
3 35 (18.13%) Azure Engineer
4 31 (16.06%) Azure Data Engineer
5 30 (15.54%) Data Architect
6 24 (12.44%) Azure Architect
7 23 (11.92%) Developer
8 16 (8.29%) Lead
9 13 (6.74%) Azure Data Architect
9 13 (6.74%) Senior
10 9 (4.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 9 (4.66%) Enterprise Architect
11 8 (4.15%) Analyst
11 8 (4.15%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (4.15%) Dynamics 365 Architect
12 7 (3.63%) Business Architect
12 7 (3.63%) Lead Data Engineer
13 6 (3.11%) Data Analyst
14 5 (2.59%) Senior Developer
14 5 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (24.87%) PySpark
2 13 (6.74%) Kafka
3 6 (3.11%) PyTorch
3 6 (3.11%) scikit-learn
3 6 (3.11%) TensorFlow
4 4 (2.07%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.07%) Great Expectations
5 3 (1.55%) Celery
5 3 (1.55%) pytest
5 3 (1.55%) YAML
6 2 (1.04%) JSON
6 2 (1.04%) REST
7 1 (0.52%) .NET
7 1 (0.52%) ADO
7 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.52%) Middleware
7 1 (0.52%) React
7 1 (0.52%) SOAP
7 1 (0.52%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (0.52%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.77%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.70%) Data Structures
2 11 (5.70%) IoT
3 10 (5.18%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.15%) Data Fabric
5 7 (3.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.59%) Reinsurance
7 4 (2.07%) SCADA
7 4 (2.07%) Smart Meter
8 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.04%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.04%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.04%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.52%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (56.48%) Analytics
2 91 (47.15%) Data Modelling
3 90 (46.63%) Business Intelligence
4 79 (40.93%) DevOps
5 76 (39.38%) ETL
6 70 (36.27%) Data Engineering
7 67 (34.72%) Data Pipeline
8 61 (31.61%) Data Governance
9 60 (31.09%) CI/CD
10 41 (21.24%) Machine Learning
11 39 (20.21%) AI
12 37 (19.17%) Data Architecture
13 36 (18.65%) Agile
13 36 (18.65%) Migration
14 31 (16.06%) Data Integration
15 30 (15.54%) Infrastructure as Code
16 29 (15.03%) Data Transformation
17 28 (14.51%) Visualisation
18 22 (11.40%) RBAC
19 21 (10.88%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 135 (69.95%) SQL
2 85 (44.04%) Python
3 17 (8.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 16 (8.29%) Bicep
4 16 (8.29%) T-SQL
5 11 (5.70%) R
6 8 (4.15%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.11%) Scala
8 5 (2.59%) X++
9 4 (2.07%) C#
9 4 (2.07%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.55%) Java
11 2 (1.04%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.04%) Korn
12 1 (0.52%) Bash
12 1 (0.52%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 40 (20.73%) Security Cleared
2 32 (16.58%) SC Cleared
3 26 (13.47%) Azure Certification
4 8 (4.15%) Degree
5 7 (3.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.55%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (1.04%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.52%) PhD
9 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.52%) PMP
9 1 (0.52%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (20.21%) Data Quality
2 26 (13.47%) GDPR
3 6 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.59%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.59%) QA
5 4 (2.07%) NIST
6 3 (1.55%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.04%) MiFID
8 1 (0.52%) GRC
8 1 (0.52%) IFRS
8 1 (0.52%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (6.74%) Docker
2 6 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (16.58%) Terraform
2 17 (8.81%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.55%) Grafana
3 3 (1.55%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 105 (54.40%) Databricks
2 84 (43.52%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.70%) Oracle
4 8 (4.15%) Google
5 7 (3.63%) Informatica
5 7 (3.63%) SAP
6 4 (2.07%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.55%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.04%) Palantir
8 2 (1.04%) RedGate
8 2 (1.04%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.04%) Teradata
8 2 (1.04%) Veeam
8 2 (1.04%) Workday
9 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.52%) Commvault
9 1 (0.52%) Foundry
9 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.52%) Talend
9 1 (0.52%) VMware