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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 385 412
Rank change year-on-year +75 +27 +9
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 294 100 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.41% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.08% 1.09% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 67 114
10th Percentile £384 £358 £416
25th Percentile £457 £395 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £470 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.02% -14.55% -
75th Percentile £636 £550 £665
90th Percentile £750 £660 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -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 14,147 9,154 12,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.16% 37.61% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,771 6,438 8,636
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
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 434 185 317
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.28 £18.50 £15.85
Median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +61.08% +27.59% -23.78%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.97 £32.75
90th Percentile £80.76 £75.30 £59.97
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.43 £20.97
% change year-on-year +45.85% +30.78% -27.69%

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 11 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 11 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 +47 192 £550 +15.79% 31
Midlands -33 39 £513 +2.50% 6
West Midlands -35 34 £500 - 6
North of England -51 25 £500 +36.43% 10
North West -16 15 £563 +60.71% 5
South West -26 8 £485 -0.51% 7
South East -55 8 £575 +22.86% 17
Yorkshire -47 6 £500 +33.33% 3
East of England -26 5 £625 +56.25% 3
North East -17 4 £450 +25.70% 2
East Midlands -39 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 40 (13.61%) Apache Spark
2 29 (9.86%) Apache
3 10 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.70%) Confluence
5 3 (1.02%) Apache Synapse
5 3 (1.02%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.68%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.36%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 294 (100.00%) Azure
2 188 (63.95%) Azure Data Factory
3 145 (49.32%) Power Platform
4 82 (27.89%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (17.01%) GitHub
6 44 (14.97%) AWS
7 29 (9.86%) GCP
7 29 (9.86%) Microsoft Purview
8 24 (8.16%) Amazon S3
8 24 (8.16%) Azure Key Vault
9 23 (7.82%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (7.48%) Snowflake
11 21 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (7.14%) Serverless
12 19 (6.46%) Collibra
13 18 (6.12%) Amazon SQS
13 18 (6.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 17 (5.78%) Azure Machine Learning
14 17 (5.78%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (4.76%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.36%) Network Security
2 3 (1.02%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (48.98%) Data Lake
2 136 (46.26%) Power BI
3 102 (34.69%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (23.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 54 (18.37%) Delta Lake
6 45 (15.31%) SQL Server
7 29 (9.86%) Metadata
7 29 (9.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 23 (7.82%) Spark SQL
9 22 (7.48%) BigQuery
10 20 (6.80%) OLAP
10 20 (6.80%) Star Schema
11 19 (6.46%) Snowflake Schema
12 18 (6.12%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (6.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 18 (6.12%) Mixpanel
13 17 (5.78%) OLTP
14 16 (5.44%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (4.08%) Power Query
16 11 (3.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 41 (13.95%) Git
2 9 (3.06%) MLflow
3 7 (2.38%) JIRA
4 5 (1.70%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.02%) ERwin
5 3 (1.02%) GitLab
6 2 (0.68%) Selenium
7 1 (0.34%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 71 (24.15%) Finance
2 63 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 38 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.54%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.38%) Law
7 4 (1.36%) Banking
7 4 (1.36%) Retail
8 3 (1.02%) Billing
8 3 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.02%) Marketing
8 3 (1.02%) Military
9 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Legal
10 1 (0.34%) Local Government
10 1 (0.34%) Publishing
10 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 149 (50.68%) Data Engineer
2 56 (19.05%) Architect
3 50 (17.01%) Senior
4 40 (13.61%) Azure Engineer
5 35 (11.90%) Data Architect
6 34 (11.56%) Senior Data Engineer
7 30 (10.20%) Azure Data Engineer
8 27 (9.18%) Azure Architect
9 21 (7.14%) Lead
10 20 (6.80%) Developer
11 18 (6.12%) Azure Data Architect
12 16 (5.44%) Principal Engineer
13 15 (5.10%) Lead Data Engineer
13 15 (5.10%) Principal Data Engineer
14 14 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
15 12 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
16 11 (3.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 11 (3.74%) Microsoft Engineer
17 8 (2.72%) Analyst
17 8 (2.72%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (27.55%) PySpark
2 32 (10.88%) Kafka
3 21 (7.14%) Great Expectations
4 14 (4.76%) JSON
5 10 (3.40%) Pandas
5 10 (3.40%) REST
5 10 (3.40%) XML
6 8 (2.72%) YAML
7 7 (2.38%) .NET
8 5 (1.70%) pytest
9 4 (1.36%) ADO
10 3 (1.02%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.02%) GraphQL
11 2 (0.68%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.68%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.68%) Playwright
11 2 (0.68%) PyArrow
11 2 (0.68%) React
12 1 (0.34%) gRPC
12 1 (0.34%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.06%) IoT
4 8 (2.72%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (2.04%) Replication
7 5 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.36%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.36%) Data Fabric
8 4 (1.36%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.36%) SCADA
9 3 (1.02%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.02%) Wiki
10 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.68%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.34%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.34%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.34%) Pricing Data
11 1 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.68%) Unix
1 2 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (68.37%) Analytics
2 168 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 163 (55.44%) ETL
4 140 (47.62%) Data Engineering
4 140 (47.62%) Data Pipeline
5 139 (47.28%) Business Intelligence
6 137 (46.60%) CI/CD
7 131 (44.56%) DevOps
8 115 (39.12%) Data Governance
9 80 (27.21%) Data Architecture
10 79 (26.87%) AI
11 67 (22.79%) Infrastructure as Code
12 57 (19.39%) Machine Learning
13 51 (17.35%) Migration
14 49 (16.67%) Agile
15 48 (16.33%) Dimensional Modelling
16 47 (15.99%) Data Science
17 43 (14.63%) Data Integration
18 41 (13.95%) Decision-Making
19 39 (13.27%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 227 (77.21%) SQL
2 154 (52.38%) Python
3 38 (12.93%) T-SQL
4 33 (11.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 30 (10.20%) C#
6 27 (9.18%) Bicep
7 18 (6.12%) PowerShell
8 15 (5.10%) Scala
9 3 (1.02%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.02%) R
10 2 (0.68%) Java
10 2 (0.68%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.34%) Bash
11 1 (0.34%) C
Qualifications
1 55 (18.71%) Security Cleared
2 41 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.50%) Azure Certification
4 21 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (5.10%) Degree
6 6 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.36%) PhD
8 3 (1.02%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.68%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.68%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.68%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CBAP
10 1 (0.34%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (38.10%) Data Quality
2 39 (13.27%) GDPR
3 13 (4.42%) QA
4 6 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.68%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.68%) PMO
5 2 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.34%) Basel II
6 1 (0.34%) Basel III
6 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 18 (6.12%) Docker
2 6 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 76 (25.85%) Terraform
2 17 (5.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 169 (57.48%) Databricks
2 140 (47.62%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.46%) Google
4 18 (6.12%) Informatica
5 11 (3.74%) SAP
6 10 (3.40%) Foundry
7 7 (2.38%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.04%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.04%) Oracle
9 4 (1.36%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.68%) Ab Initio
11 1 (0.34%) Ariba
11 1 (0.34%) Brio
11 1 (0.34%) Cognos
11 1 (0.34%) Concur
11 1 (0.34%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.34%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.34%) Palantir
11 1 (0.34%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.34%) UiPath