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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 382 401
Rank change year-on-year +68 +19 +37
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 301 100 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.41% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.12% 1.09% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 69 112
10th Percentile £375 £358 £425
25th Percentile £451 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £468 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -14.91% -
75th Percentile £618 £538 £668
90th Percentile £750 £640 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £470 £525
% change year-on-year +11.70% -10.48% -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 14,185 9,204 11,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.93% 37.58% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,778 6,458 8,560
10th Percentile £313 £313 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 191 315
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.87
Median hourly rate £44.31 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +67.19% +27.59% -25.37%
75th Percentile £67.84 £42.49 £32.63
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £40.64 £27.63 £20.99
% change year-on-year +47.09% +31.67% -33.17%

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 19 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 19 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 +75 196 £550 +18.92% 32
Midlands -36 40 £505 +1.00% 5
West Midlands -34 35 £499 -0.25% 3
North of England -58 27 £500 +36.43% 11
North West -29 17 £563 +60.71% 6
South West -21 9 £470 -3.59% 6
South East -48 8 £575 +22.60% 12
Yorkshire -52 6 £500 +33.33% 4
East of England -27 5 £625 +56.25% 2
North East -16 4 £450 +25.70% 1
East Midlands -30 2 £600 - 2
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 42 (13.95%) Apache Spark
2 31 (10.30%) Apache
3 10 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.66%) Confluence
5 3 (1.00%) Apache Synapse
5 3 (1.00%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.66%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.33%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 301 (100.00%) Azure
2 194 (64.45%) Azure Data Factory
3 150 (49.83%) Power Platform
4 81 (26.91%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (16.28%) GitHub
6 45 (14.95%) AWS
7 31 (10.30%) Microsoft Purview
8 29 (9.63%) GCP
9 25 (8.31%) Amazon S3
10 23 (7.64%) Azure Key Vault
10 23 (7.64%) Snowflake
11 22 (7.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (7.31%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (7.31%) Serverless
12 19 (6.31%) Collibra
13 18 (5.98%) Amazon SQS
13 18 (5.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 17 (5.65%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (5.32%) Azure Machine Learning
16 14 (4.65%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.33%) Network Security
2 3 (1.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (49.17%) Data Lake
2 141 (46.84%) Power BI
3 106 (35.22%) Data Warehouse
4 71 (23.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 56 (18.60%) Delta Lake
6 49 (16.28%) SQL Server
7 32 (10.63%) Metadata
8 30 (9.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 23 (7.64%) Spark SQL
10 21 (6.98%) BigQuery
10 21 (6.98%) Star Schema
11 20 (6.64%) OLAP
11 20 (6.64%) Snowflake Schema
12 18 (5.98%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (5.98%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 18 (5.98%) Mixpanel
13 17 (5.65%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (5.65%) OLTP
14 12 (3.99%) Power Query
15 11 (3.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 45 (14.95%) Git
2 8 (2.66%) MLflow
3 7 (2.33%) JIRA
4 5 (1.66%) ERwin
4 5 (1.66%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.00%) GitLab
6 2 (0.66%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.66%) Selenium
7 1 (0.33%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 71 (23.59%) Finance
2 67 (22.26%) Social Skills
3 41 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (11.30%) Public Sector
5 9 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.33%) Law
7 6 (1.99%) Retail
8 5 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.66%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.33%) Banking
10 3 (1.00%) Billing
10 3 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.00%) Marketing
10 3 (1.00%) Military
11 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.33%) Legal
12 1 (0.33%) Publishing
12 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 153 (50.83%) Data Engineer
2 56 (18.60%) Architect
3 54 (17.94%) Senior
4 38 (12.62%) Azure Engineer
5 36 (11.96%) Data Architect
5 36 (11.96%) Senior Data Engineer
6 30 (9.97%) Azure Data Engineer
7 26 (8.64%) Azure Architect
8 22 (7.31%) Lead
9 20 (6.64%) Developer
10 18 (5.98%) Azure Data Architect
11 16 (5.32%) Principal Engineer
12 15 (4.98%) Lead Data Engineer
12 15 (4.98%) Principal Data Engineer
13 14 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (3.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 11 (3.65%) Microsoft Engineer
15 10 (3.32%) Platform Engineer
16 8 (2.66%) Principal Software Engineer
16 8 (2.66%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (27.57%) PySpark
2 32 (10.63%) Kafka
3 21 (6.98%) Great Expectations
4 14 (4.65%) JSON
5 10 (3.32%) Pandas
5 10 (3.32%) REST
5 10 (3.32%) XML
6 8 (2.66%) YAML
7 7 (2.33%) .NET
8 5 (1.66%) pytest
9 4 (1.33%) ADO
10 3 (1.00%) ARM Templates
11 2 (0.66%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.66%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.66%) GraphQL
11 2 (0.66%) Playwright
11 2 (0.66%) PyArrow
11 2 (0.66%) React
12 1 (0.33%) gRPC
12 1 (0.33%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (2.99%) IoT
4 8 (2.66%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.33%) Data Fabric
5 7 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (1.99%) Replication
7 5 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.33%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.33%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.33%) SCADA
9 3 (1.00%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.00%) Wiki
10 2 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.66%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.33%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.33%) Pricing Data
11 1 (0.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.66%) Unix
1 2 (0.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (67.77%) Analytics
2 172 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 164 (54.49%) ETL
4 145 (48.17%) Business Intelligence
4 145 (48.17%) Data Pipeline
5 142 (47.18%) CI/CD
6 139 (46.18%) Data Engineering
7 131 (43.52%) DevOps
8 121 (40.20%) Data Governance
9 80 (26.58%) Data Architecture
10 78 (25.91%) AI
11 66 (21.93%) Infrastructure as Code
12 58 (19.27%) Migration
13 56 (18.60%) Machine Learning
14 52 (17.28%) Agile
15 50 (16.61%) Dimensional Modelling
16 45 (14.95%) Data Integration
16 45 (14.95%) Data Science
17 43 (14.29%) Decision-Making
18 41 (13.62%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 232 (77.08%) SQL
2 157 (52.16%) Python
3 40 (13.29%) T-SQL
4 34 (11.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 30 (9.97%) C#
6 28 (9.30%) Bicep
7 17 (5.65%) PowerShell
8 15 (4.98%) Scala
9 3 (1.00%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.00%) R
10 2 (0.66%) Java
10 2 (0.66%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.33%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.33%) C
Qualifications
1 57 (18.94%) Security Cleared
2 43 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.31%) Azure Certification
4 21 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (4.98%) Degree
6 6 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.99%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.33%) PhD
8 3 (1.00%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.66%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.66%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.66%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.33%) CBAP
10 1 (0.33%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (37.87%) Data Quality
2 41 (13.62%) GDPR
3 13 (4.32%) QA
4 6 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.66%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.66%) PMO
5 2 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.33%) Basel II
6 1 (0.33%) Basel III
6 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (5.98%) Docker
2 6 (1.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 75 (24.92%) Terraform
2 17 (5.65%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 174 (57.81%) Databricks
2 146 (48.50%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.31%) Google
4 18 (5.98%) Informatica
5 13 (4.32%) SAP
6 10 (3.32%) Foundry
7 7 (2.33%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.33%) Oracle
7 7 (2.33%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.33%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.66%) Ab Initio
9 2 (0.66%) Infor
10 1 (0.33%) Ariba
10 1 (0.33%) Brio
10 1 (0.33%) Cognos
10 1 (0.33%) Concur
10 1 (0.33%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.33%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.33%) Palantir
10 1 (0.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud