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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 383 392
Rank change year-on-year +63 +9 +59
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 278 94 158
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.38% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.04% 1.01% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 60 129
10th Percentile £378 £362 £413
25th Percentile £461 £408 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £588 £665
90th Percentile £709 £638 £765
UK median daily rate £540 £489 £525
% change year-on-year +10.49% -6.90% -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 13,657 9,273 12,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.98% 37.84% 32.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,396 6,461 8,819
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £712 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 410 170 327
10th Percentile £15.61 £15.21 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.84 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.54 £26.81 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +40.01% +25.47% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £41.63
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.58 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.31 £26.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +40.79% +24.01% -16.88%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +80 182 £550 +5.77% 32
Midlands -30 38 £575 +21.05% 13
West Midlands -29 34 £550 +15.79% 11
North of England -48 24 £475 +26.67% 11
North West -26 13 £575 +48.39% 5
South East -53 8 £613 +20.10% 23
South West -21 6 £525 +7.69% 5
Yorkshire -55 6 £488 +30.00% 5
North East -11 5 £438 +22.21% 1
East of England -18 5 £625 +56.25% 2
East Midlands -36 3 £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 37 (13.31%) Apache Spark
2 27 (9.71%) Apache
3 7 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.80%) Confluence
5 3 (1.08%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.72%) Apache Synapse
6 2 (0.72%) CMS
7 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 278 (100.00%) Azure
2 178 (64.03%) Azure Data Factory
3 137 (49.28%) Power Platform
4 80 (28.78%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (16.55%) GitHub
6 42 (15.11%) AWS
7 28 (10.07%) GCP
8 25 (8.99%) Microsoft Purview
8 25 (8.99%) Serverless
9 24 (8.63%) Azure Key Vault
10 23 (8.27%) Amazon S3
11 22 (7.91%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (7.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 21 (7.55%) Snowflake
13 20 (7.19%) AWS CloudFormation
14 19 (6.83%) Collibra
15 18 (6.47%) Amazon SQS
15 18 (6.47%) Azure Machine Learning
15 18 (6.47%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (5.40%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.44%) Firewall
1 4 (1.44%) Network Security
2 1 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 127 (45.68%) Power BI
3 92 (33.09%) Data Warehouse
4 71 (25.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 49 (17.63%) Delta Lake
6 41 (14.75%) SQL Server
7 29 (10.43%) Metadata
8 28 (10.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 22 (7.91%) BigQuery
10 19 (6.83%) OLAP
10 19 (6.83%) Spark SQL
11 18 (6.47%) Amazon Athena
11 18 (6.47%) Mixpanel
12 17 (6.12%) OLTP
12 17 (6.12%) Star Schema
13 16 (5.76%) Snowflake Schema
14 14 (5.04%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (5.04%) Power Query
15 13 (4.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 10 (3.60%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 36 (12.95%) Git
2 10 (3.60%) MLflow
3 6 (2.16%) JIRA
4 4 (1.44%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.08%) ERwin
5 3 (1.08%) GitLab
5 3 (1.08%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 74 (26.62%) Social Skills
2 62 (22.30%) Finance
3 36 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.79%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.44%) Banking
7 4 (1.44%) Retail
8 3 (1.08%) Billing
8 3 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.08%) Law
8 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.08%) Military
9 2 (0.72%) Marketing
9 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.36%) Legal
10 1 (0.36%) Local Government
10 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 139 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 59 (21.22%) Architect
3 44 (15.83%) Senior
4 37 (13.31%) Azure Engineer
5 36 (12.95%) Data Architect
6 29 (10.43%) Senior Data Engineer
7 28 (10.07%) Azure Architect
7 28 (10.07%) Azure Data Engineer
8 26 (9.35%) Lead
9 22 (7.91%) Developer
10 17 (6.12%) Azure Data Architect
11 16 (5.76%) Principal Engineer
12 15 (5.40%) Lead Data Engineer
12 15 (5.40%) Principal Data Engineer
12 15 (5.40%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (4.32%) Platform Engineer
14 10 (3.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 10 (3.60%) Microsoft Engineer
15 9 (3.24%) Enterprise Architect
16 8 (2.88%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (29.50%) PySpark
2 30 (10.79%) Kafka
3 21 (7.55%) Great Expectations
4 12 (4.32%) JSON
5 9 (3.24%) REST
6 8 (2.88%) Pandas
6 8 (2.88%) YAML
7 7 (2.52%) XML
8 4 (1.44%) ARM Templates
8 4 (1.44%) pytest
9 3 (1.08%) .NET
9 3 (1.08%) ADO
9 3 (1.08%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.72%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.72%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.72%) FHIR
10 2 (0.72%) PyArrow
10 2 (0.72%) PyTorch
10 2 (0.72%) React
10 2 (0.72%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 43 (15.47%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (3.96%) Data Structures
4 10 (3.60%) IoT
5 7 (2.52%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (2.16%) Data Fabric
7 5 (1.80%) Replication
8 4 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.44%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.44%) SCADA
9 3 (1.08%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.08%) Wiki
10 2 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.72%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.72%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.36%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.36%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.72%) VMS
2 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (68.35%) Analytics
2 158 (56.83%) Data Modelling
3 151 (54.32%) ETL
4 133 (47.84%) Business Intelligence
5 128 (46.04%) CI/CD
6 126 (45.32%) Data Engineering
6 126 (45.32%) DevOps
7 124 (44.60%) Data Pipeline
8 111 (39.93%) Data Governance
9 78 (28.06%) Data Architecture
10 72 (25.90%) AI
11 64 (23.02%) Infrastructure as Code
12 55 (19.78%) Machine Learning
13 51 (18.35%) Agile
14 49 (17.63%) Migration
15 45 (16.19%) Dimensional Modelling
16 44 (15.83%) Data Science
17 41 (14.75%) Data Integration
18 40 (14.39%) RBAC
19 38 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 216 (77.70%) SQL
2 148 (53.24%) Python
3 33 (11.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 33 (11.87%) T-SQL
4 26 (9.35%) Bicep
4 26 (9.35%) C#
5 17 (6.12%) PowerShell
6 15 (5.40%) Scala
7 3 (1.08%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.08%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.08%) R
8 2 (0.72%) Java
9 1 (0.36%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.36%) Bash
9 1 (0.36%) C
9 1 (0.36%) X++
Qualifications
1 52 (18.71%) Security Cleared
2 38 (13.67%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.99%) Azure Certification
4 20 (7.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (5.76%) Degree
6 6 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.16%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.44%) PhD
9 3 (1.08%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.72%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.72%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.72%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.36%) CBAP
11 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (36.33%) Data Quality
2 44 (15.83%) GDPR
3 14 (5.04%) QA
4 6 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.08%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.72%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.72%) PMO
6 2 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.36%) Basel II
7 1 (0.36%) Basel III
7 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.36%) GRC
7 1 (0.36%) MiFID
System Software
1 13 (4.68%) Docker
2 7 (2.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 73 (26.26%) Terraform
2 13 (4.68%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.36%) Grafana
Vendors
1 166 (59.71%) Databricks
2 129 (46.40%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.83%) Google
4 12 (4.32%) Informatica
5 10 (3.60%) SAP
6 7 (2.52%) Foundry
6 7 (2.52%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.16%) Oracle
8 5 (1.80%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.08%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.72%) Ab Initio
10 2 (0.72%) RedGate
11 1 (0.36%) Ariba
11 1 (0.36%) Brio
11 1 (0.36%) Commvault
11 1 (0.36%) Concur
11 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.36%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.36%) Palantir
11 1 (0.36%) Veeam