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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 375 400
Rank change year-on-year +71 +25 +32
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 302 110 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.45% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.11% 1.21% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 79 110
10th Percentile £375 £358 £413
25th Percentile £450 £408 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £614 £550 £665
90th Percentile £750 £655 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +7.89% -13.64% -
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 14,317 9,065 11,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.46% 37.24% 31.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,856 6,343 8,545
10th Percentile £316 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 194 321
10th Percentile £15.99 £15.03 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £46.00 £25.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +80.39% +22.77% -35.70%
75th Percentile £67.84 £40.50 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.38 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +61 193 £533 +12.11% 29
Midlands -42 42 £500 +5.26% 5
West Midlands -32 37 £499 +5.00% 3
North of England -49 28 £500 +33.33% 9
North West -28 17 £563 +36.36% 4
South West -23 10 £485 -7.62% 3
South East -56 9 £575 +22.34% 10
Yorkshire -47 7 £500 +33.33% 4
East of England -24 5 £625 +38.89% 2
North East -20 4 £450 +25.70% 1
East Midlands -29 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 (13.91%) Apache Spark
2 29 (9.60%) Apache
3 8 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.66%) Confluence
5 3 (0.99%) Apache Synapse
5 3 (0.99%) 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 (0.99%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.32%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 302 (100.00%) Azure
2 196 (64.90%) Azure Data Factory
3 150 (49.67%) Power Platform
4 79 (26.16%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (15.89%) GitHub
6 40 (13.25%) AWS
7 32 (10.60%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (8.94%) GCP
9 23 (7.62%) Amazon S3
10 22 (7.28%) Azure Key Vault
10 22 (7.28%) Serverless
11 20 (6.62%) Snowflake
12 19 (6.29%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (5.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 18 (5.96%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (5.63%) Azure Machine Learning
14 17 (5.63%) Collibra
15 16 (5.30%) Amazon SQS
15 16 (5.30%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (4.30%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.32%) Network Security
2 3 (0.99%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (48.68%) Data Lake
2 141 (46.69%) Power BI
3 106 (35.10%) Data Warehouse
4 73 (24.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 54 (17.88%) Delta Lake
6 52 (17.22%) SQL Server
7 30 (9.93%) Metadata
8 28 (9.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 25 (8.28%) Spark SQL
10 19 (6.29%) BigQuery
10 19 (6.29%) Snowflake Schema
10 19 (6.29%) Star Schema
11 18 (5.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 18 (5.96%) OLAP
12 16 (5.30%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (5.30%) Mixpanel
13 15 (4.97%) OLTP
14 14 (4.64%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (3.97%) Power Query
16 11 (3.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 46 (15.23%) Git
2 8 (2.65%) MLflow
3 7 (2.32%) JIRA
4 5 (1.66%) ERwin
5 4 (1.32%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.99%) GitLab
7 2 (0.66%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.66%) Selenium
7 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.33%) ER Studio
General
1 74 (24.50%) Finance
2 64 (21.19%) Social Skills
3 40 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.32%) Law
7 6 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.99%) Retail
8 5 (1.66%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.66%) Marketing
9 4 (1.32%) Banking
10 3 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.99%) Military
11 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.66%) Publishing
12 1 (0.33%) Billing
12 1 (0.33%) Legal
12 1 (0.33%) Local Government
12 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 158 (52.32%) Data Engineer
2 56 (18.54%) Architect
2 56 (18.54%) Senior
3 38 (12.58%) Azure Engineer
3 38 (12.58%) Senior Data Engineer
4 36 (11.92%) Data Architect
5 30 (9.93%) Azure Data Engineer
6 27 (8.94%) Azure Architect
7 21 (6.95%) Lead
8 19 (6.29%) Azure Data Architect
9 16 (5.30%) Developer
10 14 (4.64%) Lead Data Engineer
10 14 (4.64%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (4.30%) Principal Data Engineer
12 12 (3.97%) Microsoft Engineer
13 10 (3.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 10 (3.31%) Informatica Engineer
13 10 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
14 9 (2.98%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (27.48%) PySpark
2 31 (10.26%) Kafka
3 17 (5.63%) Great Expectations
4 12 (3.97%) JSON
5 10 (3.31%) Pandas
5 10 (3.31%) REST
5 10 (3.31%) XML
6 8 (2.65%) YAML
7 6 (1.99%) .NET
8 4 (1.32%) ADO
8 4 (1.32%) pytest
9 2 (0.66%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.66%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.66%) Playwright
9 2 (0.66%) PyArrow
10 1 (0.33%) FHIR
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.33%) OpenAPI
10 1 (0.33%) PyTorch
10 1 (0.33%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 41 (13.58%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (2.65%) Data Structures
3 8 (2.65%) IoT
4 7 (2.32%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (1.99%) Data Fabric
5 6 (1.99%) Replication
6 5 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.66%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.32%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.32%) SCADA
8 3 (0.99%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.99%) Wiki
9 2 (0.66%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.66%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.66%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.33%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.66%) Unix
1 2 (0.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (67.88%) Analytics
2 170 (56.29%) Data Modelling
3 163 (53.97%) ETL
4 148 (49.01%) Data Pipeline
5 145 (48.01%) Business Intelligence
6 139 (46.03%) Data Engineering
7 138 (45.70%) CI/CD
8 125 (41.39%) DevOps
9 117 (38.74%) Data Governance
10 80 (26.49%) AI
11 76 (25.17%) Data Architecture
12 63 (20.86%) Infrastructure as Code
13 59 (19.54%) Migration
14 56 (18.54%) Machine Learning
15 50 (16.56%) Agile
16 48 (15.89%) Dimensional Modelling
17 46 (15.23%) Data Science
18 43 (14.24%) Data Integration
18 43 (14.24%) Decision-Making
19 40 (13.25%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 233 (77.15%) SQL
2 158 (52.32%) Python
3 38 (12.58%) T-SQL
4 32 (10.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 27 (8.94%) C#
6 26 (8.61%) Bicep
7 17 (5.63%) PowerShell
8 14 (4.64%) Scala
9 3 (0.99%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.99%) R
10 2 (0.66%) Java
11 1 (0.33%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.33%) C
11 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 56 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 44 (14.57%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.95%) Azure Certification
4 21 (6.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (4.97%) Degree
6 6 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.99%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.32%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.32%) PhD
8 2 (0.66%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.66%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.33%) CBAP
9 1 (0.33%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (37.09%) Data Quality
2 38 (12.58%) GDPR
3 15 (4.97%) 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%) MiFID
6 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (5.96%) Docker
2 5 (1.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 72 (23.84%) Terraform
2 15 (4.97%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 168 (55.63%) Databricks
2 151 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.62%) Informatica
4 17 (5.63%) Google
5 12 (3.97%) SAP
6 10 (3.31%) Foundry
7 7 (2.32%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.32%) Oracle
7 7 (2.32%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.32%) 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