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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 342 412
Rank change year-on-year -7 +70 +64
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 194 170 173
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.55% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 1.53% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 105 127
10th Percentile £375 £368 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% -4.64%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £700 £687 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
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 11,731 11,147 13,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.40% 36.15% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,018 7,425 9,977
10th Percentile £304 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 150 269
10th Percentile £15.48 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.00 £25.45
Median % change year-on-year -20.41% +25.74% +13.11%
75th Percentile £51.38 £57.44 £58.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £70.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -13.33% +13.21% +20.45%

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 30 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 30 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 +38 133 £525 - 67
Midlands -21 26 £594 +3.26% 9
West Midlands -20 19 £600 +4.35% 8
North of England -47 11 £500 +17.65% 7
South East -21 8 £500 -20.00% 51
East Midlands - 7 £550 - 1
East of England -7 5 £550 +144.44% 3
North West -19 5 £525 +23.53% 5
Yorkshire -29 5 £438 -7.89% 2
South West +5 1 - - 1
North East -11 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 18 (9.28%) Apache
1 18 (9.28%) Apache Spark
2 15 (7.73%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.58%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (2.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.52%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 194 (100.00%) Azure
2 123 (63.40%) Azure Data Factory
3 85 (43.81%) Power Platform
4 50 (25.77%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (11.86%) Dynamics 365
6 20 (10.31%) AWS
7 19 (9.79%) Azure Machine Learning
7 19 (9.79%) Serverless
8 18 (9.28%) GitHub
8 18 (9.28%) Snowflake
9 16 (8.25%) Azure Functions
9 16 (8.25%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (8.25%) Microsoft Purview
10 15 (7.73%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (6.70%) dbt
11 13 (6.70%) GCP
12 12 (6.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 12 (6.19%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (6.19%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (5.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.03%) Firewall
1 2 (1.03%) VPN
2 1 (0.52%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (48.45%) Data Lake
2 76 (39.18%) Power BI
3 60 (30.93%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (17.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 22 (11.34%) Delta Lake
5 22 (11.34%) Metadata
6 19 (9.79%) SQL Server
7 14 (7.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (5.15%) BigQuery
8 10 (5.15%) Power Query
8 10 (5.15%) Snowflake Schema
9 9 (4.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (4.12%) Big Data
10 8 (4.12%) Relational Database
10 8 (4.12%) Star Schema
11 6 (3.09%) Tableau
12 5 (2.58%) Data Mining
12 5 (2.58%) Data Vault
12 5 (2.58%) NoSQL
13 4 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (7.73%) Git
2 6 (3.09%) MLflow
3 3 (1.55%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.55%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.03%) ERwin
4 2 (1.03%) GCC
4 2 (1.03%) JIRA
5 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.52%) Poetry
5 1 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.52%) Pylint
General
1 70 (36.08%) Social Skills
2 37 (19.07%) Finance
3 24 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.82%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.06%) Billing
8 3 (1.55%) Banking
8 3 (1.55%) Marketing
8 3 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.55%) Retail
9 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Automotive
10 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Law
10 1 (0.52%) Legal
10 1 (0.52%) Local Government
10 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Publishing
10 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (38.66%) Data Engineer
2 46 (23.71%) Architect
3 35 (18.04%) Azure Engineer
4 28 (14.43%) Azure Data Engineer
5 25 (12.89%) Data Architect
5 25 (12.89%) Developer
6 21 (10.82%) Azure Architect
7 17 (8.76%) Lead
8 13 (6.70%) Senior
9 10 (5.15%) Azure Data Architect
10 9 (4.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 9 (4.64%) Enterprise Architect
11 8 (4.12%) Dynamics 365 Architect
12 7 (3.61%) Business Architect
12 7 (3.61%) Lead Data Engineer
13 6 (3.09%) Cloud Architect
13 6 (3.09%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 5 (2.58%) Platform Engineer
14 5 (2.58%) TOGAF Architect
14 5 (2.58%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (26.29%) PySpark
2 11 (5.67%) Kafka
3 6 (3.09%) PyTorch
3 6 (3.09%) TensorFlow
4 5 (2.58%) ARM Templates
4 5 (2.58%) Great Expectations
4 5 (2.58%) scikit-learn
5 4 (2.06%) YAML
6 3 (1.55%) Celery
6 3 (1.55%) pytest
6 3 (1.55%) REST
7 2 (1.03%) .NET
7 2 (1.03%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.03%) ADO
7 2 (1.03%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.03%) FHIR
7 2 (1.03%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.03%) JSON
7 2 (1.03%) React
8 1 (0.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.76%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.19%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.12%) Data Fabric
5 7 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.61%) IoT
6 5 (2.58%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.55%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.03%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.03%) NHS
8 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.03%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.52%) Life Science
9 1 (0.52%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (57.73%) Analytics
2 89 (45.88%) Data Modelling
3 82 (42.27%) Business Intelligence
3 82 (42.27%) ETL
4 77 (39.69%) DevOps
5 76 (39.18%) Data Pipeline
6 72 (37.11%) Data Engineering
7 70 (36.08%) CI/CD
8 69 (35.57%) Data Governance
9 42 (21.65%) Machine Learning
10 40 (20.62%) AI
11 37 (19.07%) Migration
12 36 (18.56%) Agile
12 36 (18.56%) Data Architecture
13 33 (17.01%) Data Integration
14 31 (15.98%) Infrastructure as Code
15 30 (15.46%) Data Transformation
16 27 (13.92%) Visualisation
17 25 (12.89%) Data Science
18 22 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 135 (69.59%) SQL
2 85 (43.81%) Python
3 20 (10.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 15 (7.73%) T-SQL
5 14 (7.22%) Bicep
6 9 (4.64%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.12%) R
7 8 (4.12%) Scala
8 5 (2.58%) C#
8 5 (2.58%) X++
9 4 (2.06%) Java
10 3 (1.55%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.03%) Korn
12 1 (0.52%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.52%) Bash
12 1 (0.52%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 31 (15.98%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.37%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.34%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.61%) Degree
5 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.03%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.03%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.03%) 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 36 (18.56%) Data Quality
2 26 (13.40%) GDPR
3 6 (3.09%) QA
4 4 (2.06%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.06%) NIST
5 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.03%) MiFID
5 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.52%) GRC
6 1 (0.52%) IFRS
6 1 (0.52%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 14 (7.22%) Docker
2 6 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (16.49%) Terraform
2 18 (9.28%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.55%) Grafana
3 3 (1.55%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 116 (59.79%) Databricks
2 75 (38.66%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.64%) Google
4 7 (3.61%) Oracle
5 6 (3.09%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.58%) SAP
7 3 (1.55%) Foundry
7 3 (1.55%) Informatica
8 2 (1.03%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.03%) Palantir
8 2 (1.03%) RedGate
8 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.03%) Teradata
8 2 (1.03%) Workday
9 1 (0.52%) Brio
9 1 (0.52%) Commvault
9 1 (0.52%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.52%) Sparx
9 1 (0.52%) UiPath