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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 340 381
Rank change year-on-year -33 +41 +27
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 277 180 146
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.65% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 1.75% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 142 95
10th Percentile £386 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -5.62%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £608
90th Percentile £750 £700 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% -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 15,873 10,277 11,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.74% 37.31% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 6,951 7,884
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 546 274 198
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.69
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.84% -3.15% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.13 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +21.39% +3.70% -22.86%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -32 172 £500 - 27
Midlands -30 50 £493 -10.45% 5
West Midlands -17 42 £493 -14.35% 5
North of England -47 27 £500 +5.26% 8
North West -28 15 £550 +15.79% 3
Yorkshire -32 10 £490 +15.29% 4
South West - 9 £485 - 1
South East -73 7 £613 +28.95% 19
East Midlands -17 5 £475 +15.85%
North East - 2 - - 1
East of England -25 1 £575 +8.49% 1
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 24 (8.66%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (7.94%) Apache Spark
3 15 (5.42%) Apache
4 5 (1.81%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.72%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.72%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 7 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.44%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.36%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.36%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 277 (100.00%) Azure
2 172 (62.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 118 (42.60%) Power Platform
4 77 (27.80%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (14.80%) AWS
6 34 (12.27%) GitHub
7 32 (11.55%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (8.30%) dbt
9 22 (7.94%) Snowflake
10 20 (7.22%) Serverless
11 18 (6.50%) GCP
12 17 (6.14%) Azure Machine Learning
13 16 (5.78%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (5.05%) Amazon S3
15 13 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (4.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 13 (4.69%) Power Automate
16 11 (3.97%) PowerApps
17 10 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
17 10 (3.61%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.53%) Firewall
2 2 (0.72%) Network Security
3 1 (0.36%) DNS
3 1 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (40.43%) Power BI
2 97 (35.02%) Data Warehouse
3 95 (34.30%) Data Lake
4 51 (18.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 38 (13.72%) Delta Lake
6 33 (11.91%) Metadata
6 33 (11.91%) SQL Server
7 30 (10.83%) Star Schema
8 20 (7.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (6.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 16 (5.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 16 (5.78%) Snowflake Schema
10 16 (5.78%) Spark SQL
11 13 (4.69%) BigQuery
11 13 (4.69%) Data Vault
12 11 (3.97%) NoSQL
12 11 (3.97%) Power Query
13 10 (3.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 10 (3.61%) Relational Database
14 9 (3.25%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 22 (7.94%) Git
2 7 (2.53%) MLflow
3 4 (1.44%) GitLab
3 4 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.44%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.08%) ERwin
4 3 (1.08%) JIRA
4 3 (1.08%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.72%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.36%) Postman
6 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.36%) Selenium
6 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 63 (22.74%) Finance
2 59 (21.30%) Social Skills
3 46 (16.61%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (15.88%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (5.05%) Retail
7 9 (3.25%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.89%) Law
9 5 (1.81%) Local Government
10 4 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.44%) Legal
10 4 (1.44%) Marketing
11 3 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.08%) Military
12 2 (0.72%) Banking
12 2 (0.72%) Billing
12 2 (0.72%) Publishing
13 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.36%) Police
13 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (46.21%) Data Engineer
2 62 (22.38%) Architect
3 46 (16.61%) Data Architect
4 44 (15.88%) Senior
5 43 (15.52%) Azure Engineer
6 36 (13.00%) Azure Data Engineer
7 27 (9.75%) Senior Data Engineer
8 26 (9.39%) Lead
9 20 (7.22%) Azure Architect
10 17 (6.14%) Analyst
11 16 (5.78%) Azure Data Architect
11 16 (5.78%) Developer
12 15 (5.42%) Data Analyst
13 12 (4.33%) Lead Data Engineer
13 12 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (3.97%) Informatica Engineer
15 9 (3.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 9 (3.25%) Migration Engineer
15 9 (3.25%) Power BI Developer
16 8 (2.89%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (23.83%) PySpark
2 49 (17.69%) Terraform
3 28 (10.11%) Kafka
4 12 (4.33%) JSON
5 7 (2.53%) .NET
5 7 (2.53%) REST
6 5 (1.81%) Great Expectations
6 5 (1.81%) Pandas
6 5 (1.81%) pytest
6 5 (1.81%) YAML
7 4 (1.44%) XML
8 3 (1.08%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.08%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.08%) JSON-LD
8 3 (1.08%) NetworkX
9 2 (0.72%) ADO
9 2 (0.72%) NumPy
9 2 (0.72%) scikit-learn
9 2 (0.72%) TensorFlow
9 2 (0.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.19%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.78%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (3.97%) IoT
4 10 (3.61%) SCADA
5 9 (3.25%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.53%) Data Fabric
6 7 (2.53%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.17%) Reference Data
8 5 (1.81%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.81%) NHS
8 5 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.81%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.44%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.44%) Replication
10 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.08%) Housing Association
10 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.08%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.36%) Linux
1 1 (0.36%) Unix
1 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (66.79%) Analytics
2 146 (52.71%) Data Modelling
3 136 (49.10%) Data Pipeline
4 131 (47.29%) ETL
5 129 (46.57%) Data Engineering
6 119 (42.96%) Business Intelligence
7 105 (37.91%) CI/CD
7 105 (37.91%) DevOps
8 89 (32.13%) Data Governance
9 74 (26.71%) Migration
10 63 (22.74%) AI
11 61 (22.02%) Data Architecture
12 51 (18.41%) Infrastructure as Code
13 50 (18.05%) Data Transformation
14 49 (17.69%) Machine Learning
15 48 (17.33%) Data Integration
16 44 (15.88%) Agile
17 43 (15.52%) Validation
18 40 (14.44%) Decision-Making
18 40 (14.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 198 (71.48%) SQL
2 123 (44.40%) Python
3 31 (11.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 24 (8.66%) T-SQL
5 19 (6.86%) Bicep
6 11 (3.97%) C#
7 9 (3.25%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.81%) Bash
9 4 (1.44%) R
9 4 (1.44%) Scala
10 3 (1.08%) Cypher
10 3 (1.08%) Gremlin
10 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.08%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.36%) C
12 1 (0.36%) COBOL
12 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 71 (25.63%) Security Cleared
2 62 (22.38%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.22%) Azure Certification
4 14 (5.05%) Degree
5 10 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.17%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.44%) PhD
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.72%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.36%) CISSP
10 1 (0.36%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.36%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (33.57%) Data Quality
2 27 (9.75%) GDPR
3 17 (6.14%) QA
4 9 (3.25%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.08%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (1.08%) IFRS
6 3 (1.08%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.72%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.36%) GRC
8 1 (0.36%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.36%) MiFID
8 1 (0.36%) NIST
8 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (7.94%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (8.66%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.72%) Grafana
3 1 (0.36%) Control-M
3 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 141 (50.90%) Microsoft
2 120 (43.32%) Databricks
3 27 (9.75%) Informatica
4 10 (3.61%) Oracle
5 9 (3.25%) SAP
6 6 (2.17%) Google
7 5 (1.81%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.44%) Foundry
9 3 (1.08%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (0.72%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.72%) Infor
10 2 (0.72%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.72%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.72%) Talend
11 1 (0.36%) Cognos
11 1 (0.36%) GoldenSource
11 1 (0.36%) IBM
11 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.36%) SimCorp