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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 364 384
Rank change year-on-year +20 +20 +50
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 279 133 164
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.52% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 1.39% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 105 120
10th Percentile £384 £363 £412
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% -6.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £613
90th Percentile £750 £675 £763
UK median daily rate £523 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +6.63% -6.67% -4.55%

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 15,260 9,598 12,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.69% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,294 6,485 8,644
10th Percentile £325 £311 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.77% -3.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 247 333
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.03
25th Percentile £23.08 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.73 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.45 £69.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 +8 168 £540 +3.85% 20
Midlands -26 44 £496 +30.59% 6
West Midlands -29 39 £493 +40.71% 5
North of England -49 28 £506 +6.58% 8
North West -30 17 £550 +15.79% 7
South West -24 12 £500 -13.04% 3
Yorkshire -42 9 £500 +33.33%
South East -62 9 £575 +22.34% 16
East of England -25 5 £625 +23.76% 2
East Midlands -14 2 £600 +46.34% 1
North East - 2 - - 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 29 (10.39%) Apache Spark
2 22 (7.89%) Apache
3 12 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.79%) Confluence
5 3 (1.08%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.72%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.36%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.72%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 279 (100.00%) Azure
2 172 (61.65%) Azure Data Factory
3 125 (44.80%) Power Platform
4 71 (25.45%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (15.41%) GitHub
6 35 (12.54%) AWS
7 27 (9.68%) Microsoft Purview
8 20 (7.17%) Serverless
9 19 (6.81%) GCP
10 18 (6.45%) Amazon S3
11 17 (6.09%) Azure Key Vault
11 17 (6.09%) Azure Machine Learning
11 17 (6.09%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (5.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 16 (5.73%) dbt
13 14 (5.02%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (5.02%) Snowflake
14 12 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (3.94%) Collibra
16 10 (3.58%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.43%) Firewall
1 4 (1.43%) Network Security
2 1 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (43.01%) Data Lake
2 118 (42.29%) Power BI
3 93 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (22.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 50 (17.92%) Delta Lake
6 37 (13.26%) SQL Server
7 27 (9.68%) Metadata
8 22 (7.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (7.17%) Spark SQL
10 18 (6.45%) Star Schema
11 14 (5.02%) BigQuery
11 14 (5.02%) Snowflake Schema
12 13 (4.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 12 (4.30%) OLAP
14 11 (3.94%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (3.94%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (3.58%) Mixpanel
16 9 (3.23%) OLTP
16 9 (3.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 8 (2.87%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 40 (14.34%) Git
2 7 (2.51%) JIRA
3 6 (2.15%) MLflow
4 4 (1.43%) ERwin
4 4 (1.43%) GitLab
5 3 (1.08%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.72%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.72%) Selenium
6 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.36%) Postman
7 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 69 (24.73%) Finance
2 60 (21.51%) Social Skills
3 40 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (11.47%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (3.23%) Retail
6 7 (2.51%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.15%) Law
8 4 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.43%) Legal
8 4 (1.43%) Marketing
9 3 (1.08%) Banking
9 3 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.08%) Military
10 2 (0.72%) Local Government
10 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.72%) Publishing
11 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 141 (50.54%) Data Engineer
2 56 (20.07%) Senior
3 55 (19.71%) Architect
4 37 (13.26%) Data Architect
5 36 (12.90%) Azure Engineer
5 36 (12.90%) Senior Data Engineer
6 30 (10.75%) Azure Data Engineer
7 28 (10.04%) Azure Architect
8 20 (7.17%) Azure Data Architect
9 19 (6.81%) Lead
10 15 (5.38%) Lead Data Engineer
11 14 (5.02%) Analyst
12 13 (4.66%) Developer
13 12 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (3.58%) Data Analyst
14 10 (3.58%) Informatica Engineer
14 10 (3.58%) Microsoft Engineer
14 10 (3.58%) Principal Engineer
15 9 (3.23%) Migration Engineer
15 9 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (27.96%) PySpark
2 28 (10.04%) Kafka
3 16 (5.73%) JSON
4 12 (4.30%) Great Expectations
5 10 (3.58%) Pandas
6 9 (3.23%) XML
7 8 (2.87%) REST
8 7 (2.51%) .NET
9 6 (2.15%) YAML
10 4 (1.43%) pytest
11 3 (1.08%) ARM Templates
11 3 (1.08%) GraphQL
11 3 (1.08%) NumPy
12 2 (0.72%) Matplotlib
12 2 (0.72%) NetworkX
12 2 (0.72%) Playwright
12 2 (0.72%) scikit-learn
12 2 (0.72%) Seaborn
12 2 (0.72%) Swagger
12 2 (0.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.26%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.58%) IoT
4 7 (2.51%) SCADA
5 6 (2.15%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.79%) Data Fabric
6 5 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.79%) NHS
6 5 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.43%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.43%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.43%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.08%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.08%) Replication
8 3 (1.08%) Taxonomies
8 3 (1.08%) Wiki
9 2 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.72%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.72%) Unix
1 2 (0.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (64.87%) Analytics
2 143 (51.25%) ETL
3 142 (50.90%) Data Modelling
4 140 (50.18%) Data Pipeline
5 128 (45.88%) Data Engineering
6 121 (43.37%) Business Intelligence
7 118 (42.29%) CI/CD
8 106 (37.99%) DevOps
9 94 (33.69%) Data Governance
10 71 (25.45%) AI
11 68 (24.37%) Migration
12 62 (22.22%) Data Architecture
13 54 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
13 54 (19.35%) Machine Learning
14 49 (17.56%) Agile
15 44 (15.77%) Data Transformation
16 43 (15.41%) Data Science
16 43 (15.41%) Decision-Making
17 39 (13.98%) Data Integration
18 38 (13.62%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 207 (74.19%) SQL
2 146 (52.33%) Python
3 29 (10.39%) T-SQL
4 24 (8.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 23 (8.24%) C#
6 21 (7.53%) Bicep
7 14 (5.02%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.30%) Scala
9 3 (1.08%) R
10 2 (0.72%) Bash
10 2 (0.72%) Cypher
10 2 (0.72%) Gremlin
10 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.72%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.36%) C
11 1 (0.36%) Java
11 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (20.43%) Security Cleared
2 48 (17.20%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.89%) Azure Certification
4 16 (5.73%) Degree
5 15 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.15%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.43%) PhD
10 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.72%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.72%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.36%) CBAP
11 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.36%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (35.48%) Data Quality
2 36 (12.90%) GDPR
3 19 (6.81%) QA
4 6 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.08%) IFRS
6 3 (1.08%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.72%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.72%) PMO
7 2 (0.72%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.36%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.36%) MiFID
8 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (6.45%) Docker
2 5 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 57 (20.43%) Terraform
2 15 (5.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.36%) Grafana
Vendors
1 142 (50.90%) Microsoft
2 136 (48.75%) Databricks
3 20 (7.17%) Informatica
4 11 (3.94%) Google
5 8 (2.87%) Foundry
5 8 (2.87%) SAP
6 6 (2.15%) Oracle
7 5 (1.79%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.79%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.08%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.72%) Infor
9 2 (0.72%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.36%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.36%) Cognos
10 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.36%) SimCorp