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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 352 396
Rank change year-on-year +36 +44 +36
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 302 117 143
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.48% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.11% 1.29% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 83 114
10th Percentile £375 £358 £413
25th Percentile £441 £403 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.74% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £614 £584 £661
90th Percentile £748 £670 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £529
% change year-on-year +7.89% -10.17% -3.86%
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 14,281 9,045 11,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.18% 37.21% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,789 6,305 8,477
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 462 197 323
10th Percentile £15.94 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.36 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.47% +21.43% -36.84%
75th Percentile £68.33 £40.00 £34.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.00 £65.10
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +43.64% +28.69% -38.94%

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 12 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 12 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 +58 191 £533 +12.11% 28
Midlands -28 41 £500 +5.26% 4
West Midlands -40 37 £499 +5.00% 2
North of England -52 27 £500 +33.33% 8
North West -25 17 £563 +40.63% 3
South West -23 12 £500 -4.76% 2
South East -56 9 £575 +22.60% 14
Yorkshire -50 6 £488 +30.00% 5
East of England -25 5 £625 +38.89% 1
North East -19 4 £450 +25.70%
East Midlands -33 1 £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 39 (12.91%) Apache Spark
2 27 (8.94%) Apache
3 8 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.66%) Confluence
5 3 (0.99%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.66%) Apache Synapse
6 2 (0.66%) CMS
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
2 195 (64.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 150 (49.67%) Power Platform
4 77 (25.50%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (16.23%) GitHub
6 39 (12.91%) AWS
7 31 (10.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (8.94%) GCP
9 22 (7.28%) Amazon S3
10 20 (6.62%) Azure Key Vault
10 20 (6.62%) Serverless
11 19 (6.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (6.29%) Snowflake
12 17 (5.63%) Collibra
12 17 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (5.30%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (5.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 15 (4.97%) Azure Machine Learning
14 15 (4.97%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (4.30%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.99%) Firewall
1 3 (0.99%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (48.01%) Data Lake
2 141 (46.69%) Power BI
3 108 (35.76%) Data Warehouse
4 73 (24.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 53 (17.55%) Delta Lake
6 52 (17.22%) SQL Server
7 30 (9.93%) Metadata
8 28 (9.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 24 (7.95%) Spark SQL
10 19 (6.29%) BigQuery
10 19 (6.29%) Snowflake Schema
10 19 (6.29%) Star Schema
11 18 (5.96%) OLAP
12 17 (5.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 16 (5.30%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (5.30%) Mixpanel
14 15 (4.97%) OLTP
15 13 (4.30%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (3.97%) Power Query
17 11 (3.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 46 (15.23%) Git
2 7 (2.32%) JIRA
2 7 (2.32%) MLflow
3 5 (1.66%) ERwin
4 4 (1.32%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.99%) GitLab
6 2 (0.66%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.66%) Selenium
6 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.33%) ER Studio
General
1 74 (24.50%) Finance
2 66 (21.85%) Social Skills
3 42 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (10.60%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.32%) Law
7 6 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.99%) Marketing
7 6 (1.99%) Retail
8 5 (1.66%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.32%) Banking
9 4 (1.32%) Military
10 3 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
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
1 159 (52.65%) Data Engineer
2 56 (18.54%) Senior
3 54 (17.88%) Architect
4 38 (12.58%) Senior Data Engineer
5 36 (11.92%) Azure Engineer
6 35 (11.59%) Data Architect
7 29 (9.60%) Azure Data Engineer
8 27 (8.94%) Azure Architect
9 20 (6.62%) Lead
10 19 (6.29%) Azure Data Architect
11 15 (4.97%) Developer
12 14 (4.64%) Lead Data Engineer
12 14 (4.64%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (4.30%) Microsoft Engineer
13 13 (4.30%) Principal Data Engineer
13 13 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (3.97%) Analyst
15 10 (3.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 10 (3.31%) Informatica Engineer
15 10 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (27.15%) 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 5 (1.66%) .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%) gRPC
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.33%) OpenAPI
10 1 (0.33%) Seaborn
10 1 (0.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.91%) 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
7 4 (1.32%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.32%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.32%) SCADA
8 3 (0.99%) NHS
8 3 (0.99%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.99%) Wiki
9 2 (0.66%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.66%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.66%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.66%) Unix
1 2 (0.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (68.21%) Analytics
2 169 (55.96%) Data Modelling
3 161 (53.31%) ETL
4 148 (49.01%) Data Pipeline
5 145 (48.01%) Business Intelligence
6 140 (46.36%) Data Engineering
7 137 (45.36%) CI/CD
8 124 (41.06%) DevOps
9 117 (38.74%) Data Governance
10 78 (25.83%) AI
11 73 (24.17%) Data Architecture
12 61 (20.20%) Infrastructure as Code
13 57 (18.87%) Migration
14 54 (17.88%) Machine Learning
15 49 (16.23%) Agile
15 49 (16.23%) Dimensional Modelling
16 48 (15.89%) Data Integration
17 44 (14.57%) Data Science
17 44 (14.57%) Decision-Making
18 41 (13.58%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 231 (76.49%) SQL
2 156 (51.66%) Python
3 38 (12.58%) T-SQL
4 32 (10.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 26 (8.61%) C#
6 25 (8.28%) Bicep
7 17 (5.63%) PowerShell
8 13 (4.30%) 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%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 58 (19.21%) Security Cleared
2 46 (15.23%) 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%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.33%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (36.75%) Data Quality
2 39 (12.91%) GDPR
3 16 (5.30%) 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%) IFRS
6 1 (0.33%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.33%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.33%) MiFID
6 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (5.30%) Docker
2 4 (1.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 68 (22.52%) Terraform
2 13 (4.30%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 164 (54.30%) Databricks
2 152 (50.33%) Microsoft
3 21 (6.95%) Informatica
4 17 (5.63%) Google
5 12 (3.97%) SAP
6 9 (2.98%) Foundry
7 7 (2.32%) Oracle
7 7 (2.32%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.99%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.32%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.66%) Ab Initio
10 2 (0.66%) Infor
11 1 (0.33%) Ariba
11 1 (0.33%) Cognos
11 1 (0.33%) Concur
11 1 (0.33%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.33%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.33%) UiPath