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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 391 410
Rank change year-on-year +67 +19 +34
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 270 94 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.38% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.98% 1.01% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 59 130
10th Percentile £374 £362 £413
25th Percentile £463 £408 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -
75th Percentile £634 £588 £665
90th Percentile £704 £638 £764
UK median daily rate £550 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +12.24% -6.67% -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 13,647 9,338 12,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.07% 37.79% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,387 6,476 8,847
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 £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 163 330
10th Percentile £15.55 £15.17 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.57 £42.06
90th Percentile £79.80 £76.10 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%

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 14 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 14 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 +57 172 £550 +5.77% 38
Midlands -25 40 £575 +21.05% 8
West Midlands -37 34 £575 +21.05% 5
North of England -54 24 £475 +26.67% 9
North West -25 13 £575 +48.39% 3
South East -54 9 £613 +11.36% 23
Yorkshire -52 6 £488 +30.00% 5
North East -13 5 £438 +22.21% 1
East of England -22 5 £625 +56.25% 2
South West -25 5 £550 +12.82% 6
East Midlands -26 5 £600 - 3
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 36 (13.33%) Apache Spark
2 26 (9.63%) Apache
3 7 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.85%) Confluence
5 3 (1.11%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Synapse
6 2 (0.74%) CMS
7 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (1.11%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.37%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 270 (100.00%) Azure
2 173 (64.07%) Azure Data Factory
3 135 (50.00%) Power Platform
4 73 (27.04%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (15.56%) AWS
5 42 (15.56%) GitHub
6 27 (10.00%) GCP
7 26 (9.63%) Serverless
8 24 (8.89%) Azure Key Vault
9 23 (8.52%) Microsoft Purview
10 22 (8.15%) Amazon S3
10 22 (8.15%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (7.78%) Snowflake
12 20 (7.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 20 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
13 19 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
14 18 (6.67%) Collibra
15 17 (6.30%) Amazon SQS
15 17 (6.30%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.48%) Network Security
2 3 (1.11%) Firewall
3 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (49.26%) Data Lake
2 123 (45.56%) Power BI
3 90 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 65 (24.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 45 (16.67%) Delta Lake
6 39 (14.44%) SQL Server
7 29 (10.74%) Metadata
8 28 (10.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 21 (7.78%) BigQuery
10 17 (6.30%) Amazon Athena
10 17 (6.30%) Mixpanel
10 17 (6.30%) OLAP
10 17 (6.30%) Spark SQL
11 16 (5.93%) OLTP
12 15 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
13 14 (5.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (5.19%) Star Schema
14 13 (4.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 13 (4.81%) Power Query
15 10 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 38 (14.07%) Git
2 9 (3.33%) MLflow
3 6 (2.22%) JIRA
4 4 (1.48%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.11%) ERwin
5 3 (1.11%) GitLab
5 3 (1.11%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.37%) Selenium
General
1 74 (27.41%) Social Skills
2 55 (20.37%) Finance
3 32 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.48%) Banking
7 4 (1.48%) Retail
8 3 (1.11%) Billing
8 3 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.11%) Law
8 3 (1.11%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.11%) Military
9 2 (0.74%) Marketing
9 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.37%) Legal
10 1 (0.37%) Local Government
10 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 134 (49.63%) Data Engineer
2 58 (21.48%) Architect
3 40 (14.81%) Senior
4 36 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
5 34 (12.59%) Data Architect
6 28 (10.37%) Senior Data Engineer
7 27 (10.00%) Azure Architect
7 27 (10.00%) Azure Data Engineer
8 25 (9.26%) Lead
9 24 (8.89%) Developer
10 16 (5.93%) Azure Data Architect
11 15 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
12 14 (5.19%) Lead Data Engineer
12 14 (5.19%) Principal Data Engineer
12 14 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
14 10 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 10 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
14 10 (3.70%) Microsoft Engineer
15 8 (2.96%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (29.63%) PySpark
2 28 (10.37%) Kafka
3 20 (7.41%) Great Expectations
4 10 (3.70%) JSON
4 10 (3.70%) REST
5 8 (2.96%) Pandas
5 8 (2.96%) YAML
6 7 (2.59%) XML
7 4 (1.48%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.48%) pytest
8 3 (1.11%) .NET
8 3 (1.11%) ADO
8 3 (1.11%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.11%) PyTorch
8 3 (1.11%) TensorFlow
9 2 (0.74%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.74%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.74%) PyArrow
9 2 (0.74%) React
9 2 (0.74%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.56%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.07%) Data Structures
4 10 (3.70%) IoT
5 8 (2.96%) Data Fabric
6 7 (2.59%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.85%) Replication
8 4 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.11%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.11%) SCADA
9 3 (1.11%) Wiki
10 2 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.74%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.74%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.74%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.37%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.37%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.74%) VMS
2 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (69.26%) Analytics
2 154 (57.04%) Data Modelling
3 141 (52.22%) ETL
4 129 (47.78%) Business Intelligence
5 127 (47.04%) CI/CD
6 120 (44.44%) Data Engineering
6 120 (44.44%) DevOps
7 118 (43.70%) Data Pipeline
8 110 (40.74%) Data Governance
9 75 (27.78%) Data Architecture
10 68 (25.19%) AI
11 62 (22.96%) Infrastructure as Code
12 54 (20.00%) Machine Learning
13 50 (18.52%) Agile
13 50 (18.52%) Migration
14 43 (15.93%) Data Science
14 43 (15.93%) Dimensional Modelling
15 40 (14.81%) Data Integration
16 38 (14.07%) RBAC
17 37 (13.70%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 207 (76.67%) SQL
2 144 (53.33%) Python
3 32 (11.85%) T-SQL
4 31 (11.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 25 (9.26%) Bicep
5 25 (9.26%) C#
6 15 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 15 (5.56%) Scala
7 3 (1.11%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.11%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.11%) R
7 3 (1.11%) X++
8 2 (0.74%) Java
9 1 (0.37%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.37%) Bash
9 1 (0.37%) C
Qualifications
1 46 (17.04%) Security Cleared
2 32 (11.85%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.26%) Azure Certification
4 19 (7.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (5.19%) Degree
6 5 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.11%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.11%) PhD
9 2 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.74%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.37%) CBAP
10 1 (0.37%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.37%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (35.19%) Data Quality
2 42 (15.56%) GDPR
3 10 (3.70%) QA
4 5 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.11%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.74%) PMO
6 2 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.37%) Basel II
7 1 (0.37%) Basel III
7 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.37%) GRC
7 1 (0.37%) MiFID
System Software
1 13 (4.81%) Docker
2 7 (2.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 72 (26.67%) Terraform
2 13 (4.81%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.37%) Grafana
Vendors
1 160 (59.26%) Databricks
2 123 (45.56%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.67%) Google
4 9 (3.33%) SAP
5 7 (2.59%) Foundry
5 7 (2.59%) Informatica
5 7 (2.59%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.85%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.85%) Oracle
7 3 (1.11%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.74%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.74%) RedGate
9 1 (0.37%) Ariba
9 1 (0.37%) Brio
9 1 (0.37%) Commvault
9 1 (0.37%) Concur
9 1 (0.37%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.37%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.37%) Palantir
9 1 (0.37%) Veeam