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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 364 396
Rank change year-on-year +29 +32 +63
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 219 134 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.48% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 1.32% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 80 119
10th Percentile £363 £363 £410
25th Percentile £425 £472 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £638
90th Percentile £673 £695 £700
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 12,075 10,180 12,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.10% 36.56% 34.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,349 6,809 9,207
10th Percentile £304 £313 £281
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 135 246
10th Percentile £14.68 £16.46 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.36 £28.50 £23.43
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% +21.66% +3.51%
75th Percentile £57.06 £46.84 £53.44
90th Percentile £77.70 £67.65 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.19
% change year-on-year -1.05% +9.17% +11.96%

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 2 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 2 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 +52 149 £525 - 50
Midlands -31 25 £600 +4.35% 17
West Midlands -35 21 £600 +4.35% 7
North of England -31 17 £463 +20.92% 10
South East -26 10 £575 -8.00% 25
North West -27 7 £525 +23.53% 4
North East -7 5 £438 +22.21% 4
Yorkshire -46 5 £438 -12.50% 2
East Midlands - 4 £575 - 9
East of England - 3 £625 - 7
South West -11 2 £550 +27.54% 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 25 (11.42%) Apache Spark
2 19 (8.68%) Apache
3 12 (5.48%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.46%) CMS
4 1 (0.46%) Confluence
4 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.37%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.46%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.46%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 219 (100.00%) Azure
2 141 (64.38%) Azure Data Factory
3 105 (47.95%) Power Platform
4 61 (27.85%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (13.24%) AWS
6 24 (10.96%) GitHub
7 23 (10.50%) Microsoft Purview
8 22 (10.05%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (9.59%) GCP
9 21 (9.59%) Serverless
9 21 (9.59%) Snowflake
10 18 (8.22%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (7.76%) Azure Machine Learning
12 15 (6.85%) Azure Functions
12 15 (6.85%) Azure Key Vault
12 15 (6.85%) dbt
13 13 (5.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 12 (5.48%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (5.48%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (5.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.91%) Firewall
1 2 (0.91%) VPN
2 1 (0.46%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (50.68%) Data Lake
2 98 (44.75%) Power BI
3 72 (32.88%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (21.46%) Azure SQL Database
5 35 (15.98%) SQL Server
6 29 (13.24%) Metadata
7 26 (11.87%) Delta Lake
8 18 (8.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (6.39%) BigQuery
10 13 (5.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (5.94%) Snowflake Schema
11 12 (5.48%) Power Query
12 9 (4.11%) Spark SQL
13 8 (3.65%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (3.65%) Mixpanel
13 8 (3.65%) OLAP
13 8 (3.65%) OLTP
13 8 (3.65%) Star Schema
14 7 (3.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 7 (3.20%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 23 (10.50%) Git
2 5 (2.28%) MLflow
3 3 (1.37%) JIRA
3 3 (1.37%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.37%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.91%) ERwin
4 2 (0.91%) GCC
5 1 (0.46%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.46%) Poetry
5 1 (0.46%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.46%) Pylint
General
1 70 (31.96%) Social Skills
2 41 (18.72%) Finance
3 29 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.05%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.83%) Billing
7 4 (1.83%) Marketing
8 3 (1.37%) Banking
8 3 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.37%) Retail
9 2 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.91%) Law
9 2 (0.91%) Military
9 2 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Automotive
10 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.46%) Legal
10 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 98 (44.75%) Data Engineer
2 47 (21.46%) Architect
3 36 (16.44%) Azure Engineer
4 29 (13.24%) Azure Data Engineer
5 28 (12.79%) Data Architect
6 22 (10.05%) Developer
7 20 (9.13%) Senior
8 19 (8.68%) Azure Architect
8 19 (8.68%) Lead
9 14 (6.39%) Senior Data Engineer
10 10 (4.57%) Azure Data Architect
11 8 (3.65%) Dynamics 365 Architect
11 8 (3.65%) Enterprise Architect
12 7 (3.20%) Business Architect
12 7 (3.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 7 (3.20%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 7 (3.20%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (3.20%) Principal Data Engineer
12 7 (3.20%) Principal Engineer
13 6 (2.74%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (28.77%) PySpark
2 17 (7.76%) Kafka
3 10 (4.57%) Great Expectations
4 7 (3.20%) REST
5 6 (2.74%) PyTorch
5 6 (2.74%) TensorFlow
6 5 (2.28%) ARM Templates
6 5 (2.28%) scikit-learn
6 5 (2.28%) YAML
7 4 (1.83%) Pandas
8 3 (1.37%) ADO
8 3 (1.37%) Celery
8 3 (1.37%) JSON
8 3 (1.37%) pytest
9 2 (0.91%) .NET
9 2 (0.91%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.91%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.91%) FHIR
9 2 (0.91%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.91%) React
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.05%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.48%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.02%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.65%) Data Fabric
4 8 (3.65%) IoT
5 5 (2.28%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.37%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.37%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.37%) Replication
6 3 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.91%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.46%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.46%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (65.30%) Analytics
2 115 (52.51%) Data Modelling
3 105 (47.95%) Business Intelligence
4 104 (47.49%) ETL
5 94 (42.92%) Data Engineering
6 93 (42.47%) CI/CD
7 92 (42.01%) DevOps
8 89 (40.64%) Data Governance
9 87 (39.73%) Data Pipeline
10 55 (25.11%) Data Architecture
11 46 (21.00%) AI
12 42 (19.18%) Agile
13 41 (18.72%) Machine Learning
14 39 (17.81%) Data Integration
14 39 (17.81%) Migration
15 37 (16.89%) Infrastructure as Code
16 30 (13.70%) RBAC
17 29 (13.24%) Data Science
18 26 (11.87%) Visualisation
19 25 (11.42%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 161 (73.52%) SQL
2 109 (49.77%) Python
3 23 (10.50%) T-SQL
4 22 (10.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 18 (8.22%) Bicep
6 10 (4.57%) C#
7 9 (4.11%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.65%) R
9 7 (3.20%) Scala
10 3 (1.37%) Java
10 3 (1.37%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.37%) X++
11 2 (0.91%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.46%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.46%) Bash
12 1 (0.46%) C++
12 1 (0.46%) Go
12 1 (0.46%) Korn
Qualifications
1 34 (15.53%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.42%) Azure Certification
3 24 (10.96%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.20%) Degree
6 3 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.37%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.91%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.46%) PhD
8 1 (0.46%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.46%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.46%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (26.48%) Data Quality
2 31 (14.16%) GDPR
3 6 (2.74%) QA
4 4 (1.83%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.91%) MiFID
6 2 (0.91%) NIST
6 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.46%) Basel II
7 1 (0.46%) Basel III
7 1 (0.46%) GRC
7 1 (0.46%) IFRS
7 1 (0.46%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 14 (6.39%) Docker
2 6 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (18.72%) Terraform
2 18 (8.22%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.37%) Grafana
3 3 (1.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 131 (59.82%) Databricks
2 91 (41.55%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.48%) Google
4 6 (2.74%) SAP
5 5 (2.28%) Oracle
5 5 (2.28%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.83%) Informatica
6 4 (1.83%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.91%) Ab Initio
7 2 (0.91%) Foundry
7 2 (0.91%) RedGate
7 2 (0.91%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.91%) Workday
8 1 (0.46%) Ariba
8 1 (0.46%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.46%) Commvault
8 1 (0.46%) Concur
8 1 (0.46%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.46%) Palantir
8 1 (0.46%) Veeam