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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 327 352
Rank change year-on-year -69 +25 +72
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 253 192 173
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.69% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 1.81% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 150 111
10th Percentile £363 £363 £413
25th Percentile £413 £435 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £709 £701 £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 15,949 10,616 11,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.43% 38.24% 34.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,607 7,183 7,470
10th Percentile £320 £304 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -3.67%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £640
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 574 254 165
10th Percentile £15.42 £15.50 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +15.38% -24.56% +4.44%

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 6 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 6 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 -56 161 £500 -6.98% 93
Midlands -32 39 £463 -19.57% 16
West Midlands -43 27 £450 -23.40% 11
North of England -57 26 £458 -3.68% 37
East Midlands -2 12 £500 +4.17% 5
Yorkshire -29 12 £400 -5.88% 11
North West -40 12 £550 +15.79% 19
South West -28 8 £500 - 9
South East -63 8 £613 +28.95% 32
North East -36 2 - - 7
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 27 (10.67%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (7.11%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.95%) Apache
4 7 (2.77%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.79%) nginx
5 2 (0.79%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.58%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.19%) 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
1 253 (100.00%) Azure
2 164 (64.82%) Azure Data Factory
3 108 (42.69%) Power Platform
4 77 (30.43%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (15.02%) AWS
6 34 (13.44%) Microsoft Purview
7 31 (12.25%) Snowflake
8 29 (11.46%) GitHub
9 28 (11.07%) dbt
10 22 (8.70%) Azure Databricks
11 19 (7.51%) Entra ID
12 17 (6.72%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (6.72%) Serverless
13 16 (6.32%) SaaS
14 14 (5.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 14 (5.53%) GCP
14 14 (5.53%) PaaS
15 12 (4.74%) Azure Machine Learning
15 12 (4.74%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (4.74%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.14%) Firewall
2 3 (1.19%) DNS
3 2 (0.79%) Network Security
3 2 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (40.71%) Power BI
2 86 (33.99%) Data Lake
3 80 (31.62%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (15.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 40 (15.81%) Metadata
5 34 (13.44%) SQL Server
6 31 (12.25%) Delta Lake
7 20 (7.91%) Star Schema
8 19 (7.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 18 (7.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (6.72%) Data Vault
11 16 (6.32%) NoSQL
12 10 (3.95%) Parquet
12 10 (3.95%) Semantic Layer
12 10 (3.95%) Spark SQL
13 9 (3.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 9 (3.56%) BigQuery
13 9 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (3.56%) Power Query
14 7 (2.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (10.67%) Git
2 7 (2.77%) GitLab
3 5 (1.98%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.98%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.58%) MLflow
4 4 (1.58%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.79%) ERwin
5 2 (0.79%) JIRA
5 2 (0.79%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.40%) Postman
6 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 51 (20.16%) Finance
3 37 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (14.62%) Public Sector
4 16 (6.32%) Retail
5 12 (4.74%) Manufacturing
6 11 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.98%) Banking
7 5 (1.98%) Law
7 5 (1.98%) Local Government
8 4 (1.58%) Billing
8 4 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.58%) Legal
9 3 (1.19%) Marketing
9 3 (1.19%) Military
9 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.79%) Publishing
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 104 (41.11%) Data Engineer
2 57 (22.53%) Architect
3 45 (17.79%) Azure Engineer
4 42 (16.60%) Data Architect
5 34 (13.44%) Senior
6 32 (12.65%) Azure Data Engineer
7 25 (9.88%) Lead
8 23 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
9 21 (8.30%) Developer
10 17 (6.72%) Analyst
11 16 (6.32%) Data Analyst
12 14 (5.53%) Azure Architect
12 14 (5.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 13 (5.14%) Power BI Developer
14 12 (4.74%) Azure Data Architect
15 11 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
16 8 (3.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 8 (3.16%) Lead Data Engineer
16 8 (3.16%) Migration Engineer
16 8 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (24.11%) PySpark
2 45 (17.79%) Terraform
3 22 (8.70%) Kafka
4 11 (4.35%) YAML
5 10 (3.95%) JSON
6 8 (3.16%) REST
7 6 (2.37%) pytest
8 5 (1.98%) .NET
9 4 (1.58%) ARM Templates
9 4 (1.58%) Pandas
10 3 (1.19%) GraphQL
10 3 (1.19%) JSON-LD
10 3 (1.19%) NetworkX
10 3 (1.19%) XML
11 2 (0.79%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.79%) NumPy
11 2 (0.79%) scikit-learn
11 2 (0.79%) Spark Streaming
11 2 (0.79%) TensorFlow
11 2 (0.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.46%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.14%) Data Structures
2 13 (5.14%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.56%) Reinsurance
4 8 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.77%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.77%) Reference Data
6 6 (2.37%) Data Fabric
6 6 (2.37%) IoT
6 6 (2.37%) SCADA
7 5 (1.98%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.98%) NHS
7 5 (1.98%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.19%) Housing Association
8 3 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.19%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.37%) Linux
2 3 (1.19%) Windows
3 2 (0.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (65.22%) Analytics
2 131 (51.78%) Data Modelling
3 123 (48.62%) Data Pipeline
4 114 (45.06%) Data Engineering
5 110 (43.48%) Business Intelligence
6 108 (42.69%) DevOps
7 106 (41.90%) CI/CD
8 100 (39.53%) ETL
9 90 (35.57%) Migration
10 85 (33.60%) Data Governance
11 56 (22.13%) Data Architecture
12 54 (21.34%) Lakehouse
13 52 (20.55%) Data Integration
13 52 (20.55%) Infrastructure as Code
14 50 (19.76%) Agile
15 49 (19.37%) AI
16 45 (17.79%) Stakeholder Management
17 41 (16.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 40 (15.81%) Data Transformation
19 39 (15.42%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 181 (71.54%) SQL
2 111 (43.87%) Python
3 25 (9.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 18 (7.11%) Bicep
5 15 (5.93%) PowerShell
5 15 (5.93%) T-SQL
6 11 (4.35%) Bash
7 8 (3.16%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (2.77%) C#
9 3 (1.19%) Cypher
9 3 (1.19%) Gremlin
9 3 (1.19%) R
9 3 (1.19%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.19%) SPARQL
10 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.79%) Scala
11 1 (0.40%) C
11 1 (0.40%) COBOL
11 1 (0.40%) Java
Qualifications
1 59 (23.32%) Security Cleared
2 50 (19.76%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.70%) Azure Certification
4 10 (3.95%) Degree
4 10 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.58%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.79%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.79%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.40%) CISM
9 1 (0.40%) FFIEC
9 1 (0.40%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.40%) PhD
9 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (34.39%) Data Quality
2 23 (9.09%) GDPR
3 10 (3.95%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.95%) QA
4 4 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.19%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (1.19%) IFRS
5 3 (1.19%) IFRS 17
5 3 (1.19%) NIST
6 2 (0.79%) GRC
6 2 (0.79%) 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 22 (8.70%) Docker
2 4 (1.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (10.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.98%) Grafana
2 5 (1.98%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.79%) Ansible
3 2 (0.79%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.40%) Control-M
Vendors
1 125 (49.41%) Microsoft
2 124 (49.01%) Databricks
3 16 (6.32%) Informatica
4 10 (3.95%) Oracle
4 10 (3.95%) SAP
5 5 (1.98%) MicroStrategy
5 5 (1.98%) Talend
6 4 (1.58%) Google
6 4 (1.58%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.19%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.79%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.79%) GoldenSource
8 2 (0.79%) Infor
8 2 (0.79%) 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