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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 372 406
Rank change year-on-year +57 +34 +29
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 284 95 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.39% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.03% 1.04% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 64 114
10th Percentile £400 £358 £416
25th Percentile £459 £388 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £469 £556
Median % change year-on-year +17.27% -15.69% +1.14%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £673
90th Percentile £750 £634 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £473 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -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 13,995 9,174 12,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.58% 37.84% 32.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,640 6,466 8,691
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 180 323
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.43 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.73% +26.19% -18.75%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.23 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.76 £75.05 £61.20
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 +65 187 £550 +15.79% 31
Midlands -34 37 £600 +20.00% 6
West Midlands -37 32 £510 +2.00% 6
North of England -54 24 £475 +29.60% 10
North West -22 15 £550 +57.14% 5
South East -56 8 £575 +22.60% 17
South West -23 6 £525 +7.69% 7
East of England -28 5 £625 +56.25% 3
Yorkshire -53 5 £488 +30.00% 3
North East -14 4 £450 +25.70% 2
East Midlands -33 2 £600 -
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 39 (13.73%) Apache Spark
2 29 (10.21%) Apache
3 8 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.76%) Confluence
5 3 (1.06%) Apache Synapse
5 3 (1.06%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.70%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.41%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 284 (100.00%) Azure
2 181 (63.73%) Azure Data Factory
3 141 (49.65%) Power Platform
4 79 (27.82%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (17.25%) GitHub
6 42 (14.79%) AWS
7 28 (9.86%) GCP
8 27 (9.51%) Microsoft Purview
9 25 (8.80%) Azure Key Vault
10 24 (8.45%) Serverless
11 23 (8.10%) Amazon S3
11 23 (8.10%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (7.04%) Snowflake
13 19 (6.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 19 (6.69%) Collibra
14 18 (6.34%) Amazon SQS
14 18 (6.34%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (5.99%) Azure Machine Learning
16 14 (4.93%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.41%) Firewall
1 4 (1.41%) Network Security
2 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (50.35%) Data Lake
2 131 (46.13%) Power BI
3 99 (34.86%) Data Warehouse
4 71 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 53 (18.66%) Delta Lake
6 41 (14.44%) SQL Server
7 27 (9.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 26 (9.15%) Metadata
9 22 (7.75%) BigQuery
10 21 (7.39%) Spark SQL
11 20 (7.04%) OLAP
11 20 (7.04%) Snowflake Schema
11 20 (7.04%) Star Schema
12 19 (6.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 18 (6.34%) Amazon Athena
13 18 (6.34%) Mixpanel
14 17 (5.99%) OLTP
15 15 (5.28%) Amazon Redshift
16 14 (4.93%) Power Query
17 10 (3.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 40 (14.08%) Git
2 9 (3.17%) MLflow
3 6 (2.11%) JIRA
4 5 (1.76%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.06%) ERwin
5 3 (1.06%) GitLab
6 2 (0.70%) Selenium
7 1 (0.35%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (22.89%) Finance
1 65 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (10.56%) Public Sector
4 10 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (2.46%) Law
6 5 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.41%) Banking
7 4 (1.41%) Retail
8 3 (1.06%) Billing
8 3 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.06%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.06%) Marketing
8 3 (1.06%) Military
9 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Legal
10 1 (0.35%) Local Government
10 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 141 (49.65%) Data Engineer
2 57 (20.07%) Architect
3 47 (16.55%) Senior
4 39 (13.73%) Azure Engineer
5 35 (12.32%) Data Architect
6 31 (10.92%) Senior Data Engineer
7 29 (10.21%) Azure Data Engineer
8 28 (9.86%) Azure Architect
9 21 (7.39%) Lead
10 20 (7.04%) Developer
11 18 (6.34%) Azure Data Architect
12 16 (5.63%) Principal Engineer
13 15 (5.28%) Principal Data Engineer
14 14 (4.93%) Lead Data Engineer
14 14 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
15 12 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
16 11 (3.87%) Microsoft Engineer
17 10 (3.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 8 (2.82%) Principal Software Engineer
18 8 (2.82%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (27.11%) PySpark
2 32 (11.27%) Kafka
3 21 (7.39%) Great Expectations
4 13 (4.58%) JSON
5 10 (3.52%) REST
6 9 (3.17%) Pandas
7 8 (2.82%) XML
7 8 (2.82%) YAML
8 6 (2.11%) .NET
9 5 (1.76%) pytest
10 4 (1.41%) ARM Templates
11 3 (1.06%) GraphQL
12 2 (0.70%) .NET Core
12 2 (0.70%) ADO
12 2 (0.70%) AngularJS
12 2 (0.70%) Playwright
12 2 (0.70%) PyArrow
12 2 (0.70%) React
13 1 (0.35%) Matplotlib
13 1 (0.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 43 (15.14%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.52%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.52%) IoT
4 7 (2.46%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (2.11%) Replication
6 5 (1.76%) Data Fabric
7 4 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.41%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.41%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.41%) SCADA
8 3 (1.06%) Wiki
9 2 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.70%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.70%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.35%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.35%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.06%) VMS
2 2 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (68.31%) Analytics
2 165 (58.10%) Data Modelling
3 159 (55.99%) ETL
4 138 (48.59%) Data Engineering
5 136 (47.89%) CI/CD
6 135 (47.54%) Data Pipeline
7 134 (47.18%) Business Intelligence
8 127 (44.72%) DevOps
9 114 (40.14%) Data Governance
10 80 (28.17%) Data Architecture
11 78 (27.46%) AI
12 67 (23.59%) Infrastructure as Code
13 57 (20.07%) Machine Learning
14 49 (17.25%) Migration
15 48 (16.90%) Agile
15 48 (16.90%) Dimensional Modelling
16 46 (16.20%) Data Science
17 43 (15.14%) Data Integration
18 41 (14.44%) RBAC
19 39 (13.73%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 220 (77.46%) SQL
2 147 (51.76%) Python
3 37 (13.03%) T-SQL
4 33 (11.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 29 (10.21%) C#
6 27 (9.51%) Bicep
7 18 (6.34%) PowerShell
8 15 (5.28%) Scala
9 3 (1.06%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.06%) R
10 2 (0.70%) Java
10 2 (0.70%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.35%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.35%) Bash
11 1 (0.35%) C
Qualifications
1 54 (19.01%) Security Cleared
2 41 (14.44%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.80%) Azure Certification
4 21 (7.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (5.63%) Degree
6 7 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.11%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.41%) PhD
9 3 (1.06%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.70%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.70%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.70%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.35%) CBAP
11 1 (0.35%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (37.32%) Data Quality
2 40 (14.08%) GDPR
3 13 (4.58%) QA
4 6 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.06%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.70%) PMO
6 2 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.35%) Basel II
7 1 (0.35%) Basel III
7 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 18 (6.34%) Docker
2 7 (2.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 76 (26.76%) Terraform
2 18 (6.34%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 167 (58.80%) Databricks
2 134 (47.18%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.69%) Google
4 17 (5.99%) Informatica
5 11 (3.87%) SAP
6 10 (3.52%) Foundry
7 7 (2.46%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.11%) Oracle
9 5 (1.76%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.41%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.70%) Ab Initio
12 1 (0.35%) Ariba
12 1 (0.35%) Brio
12 1 (0.35%) Cognos
12 1 (0.35%) Concur
12 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.35%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.35%) Palantir
12 1 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 1 (0.35%) UiPath