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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 366 388
Rank change year-on-year +22 +22 +79
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 224 120 173
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.45% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 1.23% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 67 133
10th Percentile £363 £363 £403
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £638
90th Percentile £680 £707 £735
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 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 12,417 9,792 12,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.85% 37.01% 33.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,624 6,490 9,147
10th Percentile £304 £313 £272
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 136 289
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.51 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.41 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +18.46% -3.27%
75th Percentile £58.75 £44.71 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.35 £68.75 £66.11
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.35 £23.24
% change year-on-year +18.83% +17.69% +0.39%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 +49 143 £550 - 44
Midlands -37 28 £600 +11.63% 28
West Midlands -29 24 £600 +11.63% 10
North of England -46 19 £463 +23.33% 33
South East -30 9 £525 -16.00% 74
North West -23 8 £500 +17.65% 15
Yorkshire -44 6 £500 +33.33% 13
North East -14 5 £438 +22.21% 5
South West -19 4 £550 +22.22% 22
East Midlands - 4 £575 - 18
East of England -10 2 £625 +56.25% 28
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 28 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 19 (8.48%) Apache
3 7 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.89%) Apache Synapse
4 2 (0.89%) CMS
5 1 (0.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.45%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.45%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 224 (100.00%) Azure
2 147 (65.63%) Azure Data Factory
3 112 (50.00%) Power Platform
4 64 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (14.29%) AWS
6 30 (13.39%) GitHub
7 23 (10.27%) GCP
7 23 (10.27%) Microsoft Purview
8 22 (9.82%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (8.93%) Serverless
9 20 (8.93%) Snowflake
10 19 (8.48%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (8.04%) Azure Key Vault
12 16 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
12 16 (7.14%) dbt
13 15 (6.70%) Amazon S3
14 14 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (6.25%) Collibra
15 13 (5.80%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.45%) Firewall
1 1 (0.45%) Network Security
1 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (51.34%) Data Lake
2 104 (46.43%) Power BI
3 66 (29.46%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (21.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 32 (14.29%) SQL Server
6 30 (13.39%) Metadata
7 27 (12.05%) Delta Lake
8 17 (7.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 16 (7.14%) BigQuery
10 14 (6.25%) Power Query
11 12 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (5.36%) Mixpanel
11 12 (5.36%) Snowflake Schema
12 11 (4.91%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (4.91%) OLAP
12 11 (4.91%) OLTP
13 10 (4.46%) Spark SQL
14 9 (4.02%) Star Schema
15 7 (3.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 7 (3.13%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 21 (9.38%) Git
2 6 (2.68%) MLflow
3 3 (1.34%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.34%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.89%) ERwin
4 2 (0.89%) JIRA
5 1 (0.45%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.45%) Poetry
5 1 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.45%) Pylint
General
1 67 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 43 (19.20%) Finance
3 24 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.82%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.79%) Billing
6 4 (1.79%) Retail
7 3 (1.34%) Banking
7 3 (1.34%) Marketing
7 3 (1.34%) Military
8 2 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.89%) Law
8 2 (0.89%) Legal
8 2 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 108 (48.21%) Data Engineer
2 46 (20.54%) Architect
3 35 (15.63%) Azure Engineer
4 28 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
5 24 (10.71%) Data Architect
6 22 (9.82%) Developer
7 21 (9.38%) Lead
8 20 (8.93%) Senior
9 18 (8.04%) Azure Architect
10 15 (6.70%) Senior Data Engineer
11 11 (4.91%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (4.46%) Principal Data Engineer
12 10 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (4.02%) Azure Data Architect
13 9 (4.02%) Enterprise Architect
13 9 (4.02%) Lead Data Engineer
14 8 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 8 (3.57%) Data Analytics Engineer
14 8 (3.57%) Principal Software Engineer
14 8 (3.57%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (31.25%) PySpark
2 20 (8.93%) Kafka
3 14 (6.25%) Great Expectations
4 8 (3.57%) REST
5 6 (2.68%) PyTorch
5 6 (2.68%) TensorFlow
6 5 (2.23%) Pandas
6 5 (2.23%) scikit-learn
7 4 (1.79%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.79%) JSON
8 3 (1.34%) ADO
8 3 (1.34%) pytest
9 2 (0.89%) .NET
9 2 (0.89%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.89%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.89%) FHIR
9 2 (0.89%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.89%) React
9 2 (0.89%) YAML
10 1 (0.45%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.05%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.80%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.91%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.57%) Data Fabric
5 6 (2.68%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (2.23%) IoT
7 3 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.34%) Replication
8 2 (0.89%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.89%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.45%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.45%) NHS
9 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (69.20%) Analytics
2 125 (55.80%) Data Modelling
3 112 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 106 (47.32%) ETL
5 98 (43.75%) CI/CD
6 96 (42.86%) Data Governance
7 95 (42.41%) Data Engineering
8 94 (41.96%) DevOps
9 91 (40.63%) Data Pipeline
10 60 (26.79%) Data Architecture
11 50 (22.32%) AI
12 48 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
13 43 (19.20%) Machine Learning
14 41 (18.30%) Agile
15 40 (17.86%) Migration
16 34 (15.18%) RBAC
17 33 (14.73%) Data Integration
18 32 (14.29%) Data Science
19 28 (12.50%) Dimensional Modelling
19 28 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 174 (77.68%) SQL
2 117 (52.23%) Python
3 26 (11.61%) T-SQL
4 24 (10.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 18 (8.04%) Bicep
6 14 (6.25%) C#
7 10 (4.46%) PowerShell
7 10 (4.46%) Scala
8 8 (3.57%) R
9 3 (1.34%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.34%) X++
10 2 (0.89%) Java
10 2 (0.89%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.45%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.45%) Bash
11 1 (0.45%) C++
11 1 (0.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 37 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.05%) Azure Certification
3 26 (11.61%) SC Cleared
4 17 (7.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.23%) Degree
6 3 (1.34%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.89%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.45%) PhD
8 1 (0.45%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.45%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.45%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (31.25%) Data Quality
2 35 (15.63%) GDPR
3 7 (3.13%) QA
4 4 (1.79%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.89%) MiFID
6 2 (0.89%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.45%) Basel II
7 1 (0.45%) Basel III
7 1 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.45%) GRC
7 1 (0.45%) IFRS
7 1 (0.45%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 12 (5.36%) Docker
2 7 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (23.66%) Terraform
2 12 (5.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 134 (59.82%) Databricks
2 97 (43.30%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.25%) Google
4 6 (2.68%) SAP
4 6 (2.68%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.23%) Oracle
6 3 (1.34%) Foundry
6 3 (1.34%) Informatica
6 3 (1.34%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.89%) Ab Initio
7 2 (0.89%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.89%) RedGate
7 2 (0.89%) Workday
8 1 (0.45%) Brio
8 1 (0.45%) Concur
8 1 (0.45%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.45%) IBM
8 1 (0.45%) Palantir
8 1 (0.45%) Sparx
8 1 (0.45%) UiPath