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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 344 401
Rank change year-on-year +1 +57 +48
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 192 172 176
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.56% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 1.55% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 106 131
10th Percentile £375 £379 £400
25th Percentile £450 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% -5.68%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £700 £674 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Cloud 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 11,749 11,114 13,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.56% 35.98% 35.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,000 7,372 10,024
10th Percentile £304 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 151 274
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.81
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.93 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.93% +28.04% +17.78%
75th Percentile £49.13 £59.78 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.88 £27.00
% change year-on-year -15.79% +14.35% +22.50%

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 +25 128 £525 - 62
Midlands -25 27 £594 +3.26% 13
West Midlands -21 20 £600 +4.35% 12
North of England -43 13 £500 +15.94% 12
South East -18 8 £500 -20.00% 42
East Midlands - 7 £550 - 1
North West -16 6 £500 +15.94% 10
Yorkshire -29 6 £475 - 2
East of England -11 5 £550 +144.44% 3
South West -5 1 - - 1
North East -10 1 £375 +4.75%
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 17 (8.85%) Apache
2 15 (7.81%) Apache Spark
3 14 (7.29%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.04%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.60%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 192 (100.00%) Azure
2 123 (64.06%) Azure Data Factory
3 88 (45.83%) Power Platform
4 51 (26.56%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
6 19 (9.90%) Azure Machine Learning
7 18 (9.38%) Serverless
8 17 (8.85%) AWS
8 17 (8.85%) Snowflake
9 16 (8.33%) GitHub
10 15 (7.81%) Azure Functions
10 15 (7.81%) Microsoft Purview
11 14 (7.29%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (7.29%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (6.77%) dbt
13 12 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 12 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (5.73%) GCP
14 11 (5.73%) Power Automate
15 10 (5.21%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.04%) Firewall
1 2 (1.04%) VPN
2 1 (0.52%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (49.48%) Data Lake
2 80 (41.67%) Power BI
3 60 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 20 (10.42%) Delta Lake
5 20 (10.42%) Metadata
5 20 (10.42%) SQL Server
6 12 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (5.21%) Power Query
7 10 (5.21%) Snowflake Schema
7 10 (5.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (4.69%) Relational Database
9 8 (4.17%) Big Data
9 8 (4.17%) BigQuery
10 7 (3.65%) Star Schema
11 6 (3.13%) Tableau
12 5 (2.60%) Data Mining
12 5 (2.60%) NoSQL
13 4 (2.08%) Data Vault
13 4 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (7.29%) Git
2 5 (2.60%) MLflow
3 4 (2.08%) ERwin
4 3 (1.56%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.04%) GCC
5 2 (1.04%) JIRA
5 2 (1.04%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.52%) Poetry
6 1 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.52%) Pylint
General
1 68 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 38 (19.79%) Finance
3 24 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.46%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.60%) Retail
7 4 (2.08%) Banking
8 3 (1.56%) Billing
8 3 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.04%) Marketing
10 1 (0.52%) Automotive
10 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Law
10 1 (0.52%) Legal
10 1 (0.52%) Local Government
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Publishing
10 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (39.06%) Data Engineer
2 47 (24.48%) Architect
3 35 (18.23%) Azure Engineer
4 30 (15.63%) Azure Data Engineer
5 27 (14.06%) Data Architect
6 26 (13.54%) Developer
7 23 (11.98%) Azure Architect
8 16 (8.33%) Lead
9 13 (6.77%) Senior
10 12 (6.25%) Azure Data Architect
11 10 (5.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 9 (4.69%) Enterprise Architect
13 8 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
13 8 (4.17%) Dynamics 365 Architect
14 7 (3.65%) Business Architect
14 7 (3.65%) Lead Data Engineer
15 6 (3.13%) Dynamics 365 Developer
16 5 (2.60%) Azure Developer
16 5 (2.60%) Integration Developer
16 5 (2.60%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (26.04%) PySpark
2 9 (4.69%) Kafka
3 6 (3.13%) PyTorch
3 6 (3.13%) TensorFlow
4 5 (2.60%) ARM Templates
4 5 (2.60%) scikit-learn
5 4 (2.08%) Great Expectations
5 4 (2.08%) YAML
6 3 (1.56%) Celery
7 2 (1.04%) .NET
7 2 (1.04%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.04%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.04%) FHIR
7 2 (1.04%) JSON
7 2 (1.04%) pytest
7 2 (1.04%) React
7 2 (1.04%) REST
8 1 (0.52%) ADO
8 1 (0.52%) SOAP
8 1 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.73%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.17%) Data Fabric
5 7 (3.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.65%) IoT
6 5 (2.60%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.56%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.56%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.04%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.04%) NHS
8 2 (1.04%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (57.29%) Analytics
2 89 (46.35%) Data Modelling
3 87 (45.31%) Business Intelligence
4 81 (42.19%) ETL
5 74 (38.54%) DevOps
6 72 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
7 71 (36.98%) Data Engineering
8 65 (33.85%) CI/CD
9 64 (33.33%) Data Governance
10 40 (20.83%) Machine Learning
11 39 (20.31%) Migration
12 38 (19.79%) Data Architecture
13 37 (19.27%) Agile
13 37 (19.27%) AI
14 30 (15.63%) Data Integration
14 30 (15.63%) Data Transformation
15 29 (15.10%) Infrastructure as Code
16 28 (14.58%) Visualisation
17 25 (13.02%) Data Science
18 22 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 135 (70.31%) SQL
2 84 (43.75%) Python
3 19 (9.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 17 (8.85%) T-SQL
5 14 (7.29%) Bicep
6 9 (4.69%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.17%) R
8 7 (3.65%) Scala
9 5 (2.60%) X++
10 4 (2.08%) C#
11 3 (1.56%) Java
11 3 (1.56%) JavaScript
12 2 (1.04%) Korn
13 1 (0.52%) Bash
13 1 (0.52%) C++
13 1 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 37 (19.27%) Security Cleared
2 30 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 8 (4.17%) Degree
5 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.04%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.04%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.04%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.52%) PhD
8 1 (0.52%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 26 (13.54%) GDPR
3 6 (3.13%) QA
4 4 (2.08%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.08%) NIST
5 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.04%) MiFID
5 2 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.52%) GRC
6 1 (0.52%) IFRS
6 1 (0.52%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (7.29%) Docker
2 7 (3.65%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (16.15%) Terraform
2 18 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.56%) Grafana
3 3 (1.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 109 (56.77%) Databricks
2 80 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.17%) Google
4 7 (3.65%) Oracle
5 5 (2.60%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.08%) SAP
7 3 (1.56%) Dataiku
7 3 (1.56%) Informatica
8 2 (1.04%) Foundry
8 2 (1.04%) Palantir
8 2 (1.04%) RedGate
8 2 (1.04%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.04%) Teradata
8 2 (1.04%) Workday
9 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.52%) Brio
9 1 (0.52%) Commvault
9 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.52%) Talend
9 1 (0.52%) Veeam