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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 327 368
Rank change year-on-year -53 +41 +31
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 270 186 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.68% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 1.81% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 149 103
10th Percentile £369 £363 £413
25th Percentile £425 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -5.83%
75th Percentile £598 £625 £613
90th Percentile £738 £715 £666
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £21.50 - -
75th Percentile £21.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.50 - -

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 15,948 10,289 11,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.49% 37.60% 34.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,643 6,957 7,707
10th Percentile £320 £306 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £720 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 545 249 180
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.45 £14.24
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £62.81
90th Percentile £82.75 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.88
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -11.79%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -45 173 £500 -4.76% 124
Midlands -22 42 £493 -17.92% 17
West Midlands -37 31 £450 -25.00% 10
North of England -52 27 £495 +4.21% 29
North West -37 13 £550 +15.79% 17
Yorkshire -24 12 £420 -1.18% 8
East Midlands -5 9 £500 +21.95% 7
South West -41 9 £485 - 9
South East -69 8 £525 +10.53% 25
North East - 2 - - 4
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 29 (10.74%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (7.41%) Apache Spark
3 13 (4.81%) Apache
4 7 (2.59%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.74%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.37%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.48%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) SAP BPC
1 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.37%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 270 (100.00%) Azure
2 170 (62.96%) Azure Data Factory
3 111 (41.11%) Power Platform
4 78 (28.89%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (14.81%) AWS
6 33 (12.22%) GitHub
7 31 (11.48%) Microsoft Purview
8 28 (10.37%) Snowflake
9 27 (10.00%) dbt
10 23 (8.52%) Azure Databricks
11 17 (6.30%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (6.30%) Serverless
12 15 (5.56%) GCP
13 14 (5.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 14 (5.19%) Azure Machine Learning
14 13 (4.81%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (4.81%) Entra ID
14 13 (4.81%) Power Automate
14 13 (4.81%) SaaS
15 11 (4.07%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.70%) Firewall
2 2 (0.74%) DNS
3 1 (0.37%) Network Security
3 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (39.26%) Power BI
2 97 (35.93%) Data Lake
3 90 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (15.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 37 (13.70%) Metadata
6 36 (13.33%) SQL Server
7 33 (12.22%) Delta Lake
8 26 (9.63%) Star Schema
9 21 (7.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (7.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (5.19%) Data Vault
11 14 (5.19%) Spark SQL
12 13 (4.81%) NoSQL
13 12 (4.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 12 (4.44%) Snowflake Schema
14 11 (4.07%) Power Query
15 10 (3.70%) BigQuery
15 10 (3.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 10 (3.70%) Parquet
15 10 (3.70%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 23 (8.52%) Git
2 7 (2.59%) GitLab
3 6 (2.22%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.85%) MLflow
5 4 (1.48%) Terragrunt
6 3 (1.11%) JIRA
7 2 (0.74%) ERwin
7 2 (0.74%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.37%) Postman
8 1 (0.37%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.37%) Selenium
8 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 63 (23.33%) Finance
2 62 (22.96%) Social Skills
3 46 (17.04%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (14.44%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.56%) Retail
6 12 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.70%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.59%) Law
9 4 (1.48%) Banking
9 4 (1.48%) Billing
9 4 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.48%) Legal
9 4 (1.48%) Local Government
9 4 (1.48%) Marketing
10 3 (1.11%) Military
10 3 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Publishing
12 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.37%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 120 (44.44%) Data Engineer
2 58 (21.48%) Architect
3 46 (17.04%) Azure Engineer
4 44 (16.30%) Data Architect
5 39 (14.44%) Senior
6 36 (13.33%) Azure Data Engineer
7 26 (9.63%) Lead
7 26 (9.63%) Senior Data Engineer
8 17 (6.30%) Analyst
8 17 (6.30%) Developer
9 15 (5.56%) Azure Architect
9 15 (5.56%) Data Analyst
10 13 (4.81%) Azure Data Architect
11 11 (4.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 11 (4.07%) Lead Data Engineer
11 11 (4.07%) Power BI Developer
12 10 (3.70%) Informatica Engineer
13 9 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
14 8 (2.96%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (2.96%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (23.70%) PySpark
2 45 (16.67%) Terraform
3 24 (8.89%) Kafka
4 11 (4.07%) JSON
5 8 (2.96%) .NET
6 7 (2.59%) pytest
7 6 (2.22%) REST
8 5 (1.85%) Pandas
8 5 (1.85%) YAML
9 3 (1.11%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.11%) JSON-LD
9 3 (1.11%) NetworkX
9 3 (1.11%) XML
10 2 (0.74%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.74%) ADO
10 2 (0.74%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.74%) Great Expectations
10 2 (0.74%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.74%) TensorFlow
10 2 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.85%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.96%) Reinsurance
5 7 (2.59%) IoT
5 7 (2.59%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.59%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.59%) SCADA
6 6 (2.22%) Data Fabric
6 6 (2.22%) Reference Data
7 5 (1.85%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.85%) NHS
8 3 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.11%) Housing Association
8 3 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.11%) Replication
8 3 (1.11%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.48%) Linux
2 3 (1.11%) Unix
3 2 (0.74%) Windows
4 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (67.04%) Analytics
2 141 (52.22%) Data Modelling
3 139 (51.48%) Data Pipeline
4 121 (44.81%) Data Engineering
4 121 (44.81%) ETL
5 113 (41.85%) Business Intelligence
6 109 (40.37%) DevOps
7 108 (40.00%) CI/CD
8 86 (31.85%) Data Governance
9 80 (29.63%) Migration
10 59 (21.85%) AI
10 59 (21.85%) Data Architecture
11 55 (20.37%) Lakehouse
12 51 (18.89%) Data Integration
12 51 (18.89%) Infrastructure as Code
13 47 (17.41%) Agile
13 47 (17.41%) Data Transformation
14 44 (16.30%) Machine Learning
14 44 (16.30%) Stakeholder Management
15 43 (15.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 191 (70.74%) SQL
2 116 (42.96%) Python
3 29 (10.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 23 (8.52%) T-SQL
5 17 (6.30%) Bicep
6 13 (4.81%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.70%) Bash
7 10 (3.70%) C#
8 5 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.11%) Cypher
9 3 (1.11%) Gremlin
9 3 (1.11%) R
9 3 (1.11%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.11%) SPARQL
10 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.37%) COBOL
11 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (24.07%) Security Cleared
2 57 (21.11%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.52%) Azure Certification
4 11 (4.07%) Degree
5 10 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.48%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.74%) PhD
9 2 (0.74%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.37%) CCSP
10 1 (0.37%) CISSP
10 1 (0.37%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.37%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (33.70%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.15%) GDPR
3 16 (5.93%) QA
4 9 (3.33%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.11%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (1.11%) IFRS
6 3 (1.11%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.74%) GRC
7 2 (0.74%) NIST
7 2 (0.74%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.37%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.37%) MiFID
8 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (9.63%) Docker
2 3 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (10.37%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.48%) Grafana
2 4 (1.48%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.37%) Ansible
3 1 (0.37%) Control-M
3 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 136 (50.37%) Microsoft
2 125 (46.30%) Databricks
3 26 (9.63%) Informatica
4 11 (4.07%) SAP
5 10 (3.70%) Oracle
6 5 (1.85%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.85%) Talend
7 4 (1.48%) Foundry
7 4 (1.48%) Google
7 4 (1.48%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (0.74%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.74%) GoldenSource
8 2 (0.74%) Infor
8 2 (0.74%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.74%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.37%) Cognos
9 1 (0.37%) IBM
9 1 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.37%) Workday