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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 368 390
Rank change year-on-year +30 +22 +27
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 280 127 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.51% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.87% 1.36% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 97 116
10th Percentile £377 £363 £409
25th Percentile £434 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £594 £616
90th Percentile £750 £675 £769
UK median daily rate £523 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.52% -4.55%

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 14,977 9,328 12,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.97% 37.77% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,153 6,351 8,591
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £512 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 526 228 333
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.68 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.33 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.97% +17.79% -36.10%
75th Percentile £68.75 £38.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £28.55 £21.64
% change year-on-year +29.60% +31.93% -38.17%

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 June 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 June 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 +16 169 £545 +11.22% 28
Midlands -29 40 £499 +31.25% 8
West Midlands -35 36 £495 +41.43% 8
North of England -53 31 £500 +5.26% 12
North West -29 17 £550 +15.79% 5
South West -15 13 £500 -13.04% 7
Yorkshire -46 9 £500 +33.33% 4
South East -62 9 £575 +22.34% 17
East of England -29 5 £625 +23.76% 2
North East - 5 £450 - 3
East Midlands -25 1 £600 +46.34%
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 31 (11.07%) Apache Spark
2 22 (7.86%) Apache
3 10 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.79%) Confluence
5 3 (1.07%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.71%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.36%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.07%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 280 (100.00%) Azure
2 176 (62.86%) Azure Data Factory
3 135 (48.21%) Power Platform
4 77 (27.50%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (17.14%) GitHub
6 33 (11.79%) AWS
7 30 (10.71%) Microsoft Purview
8 20 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
8 20 (7.14%) Serverless
9 19 (6.79%) GCP
10 18 (6.43%) Amazon S3
11 17 (6.07%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (6.07%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (5.36%) Azure Machine Learning
12 15 (5.36%) dbt
12 15 (5.36%) Snowflake
13 14 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 13 (4.64%) Collibra
15 12 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.43%) Firewall
1 4 (1.43%) Network Security
2 1 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (46.79%) Data Lake
2 127 (45.36%) Power BI
3 91 (32.50%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (24.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 53 (18.93%) Delta Lake
6 47 (16.79%) SQL Server
7 26 (9.29%) Metadata
7 26 (9.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 25 (8.93%) Spark SQL
9 19 (6.79%) Star Schema
10 15 (5.36%) Snowflake Schema
11 14 (5.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 14 (5.00%) BigQuery
11 14 (5.00%) OLAP
12 13 (4.64%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (4.29%) Mixpanel
14 11 (3.93%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (3.93%) OLTP
15 10 (3.57%) Power Query
16 9 (3.21%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 43 (15.36%) Git
2 6 (2.14%) JIRA
2 6 (2.14%) MLflow
3 4 (1.43%) ERwin
3 4 (1.43%) GitLab
4 3 (1.07%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.71%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.71%) Selenium
5 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.36%) Postman
6 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 66 (23.57%) Finance
2 59 (21.07%) Social Skills
3 39 (13.93%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (11.79%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.86%) Retail
6 7 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.14%) Law
8 5 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.79%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.79%) Marketing
9 4 (1.43%) Military
10 3 (1.07%) Banking
10 3 (1.07%) Legal
11 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Local Government
11 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Publishing
12 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 146 (52.14%) Data Engineer
2 58 (20.71%) Senior
3 53 (18.93%) Architect
4 38 (13.57%) Senior Data Engineer
5 36 (12.86%) Data Architect
6 32 (11.43%) Azure Engineer
7 28 (10.00%) Azure Architect
8 26 (9.29%) Azure Data Engineer
9 20 (7.14%) Azure Data Architect
10 18 (6.43%) Lead
11 14 (5.00%) Lead Data Engineer
12 13 (4.64%) Analyst
12 13 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (4.29%) Developer
13 12 (4.29%) Principal Engineer
14 11 (3.93%) Microsoft Engineer
14 11 (3.93%) Principal Data Engineer
15 10 (3.57%) Informatica Engineer
16 9 (3.21%) Data Analyst
16 9 (3.21%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (28.93%) PySpark
2 29 (10.36%) Kafka
3 14 (5.00%) Great Expectations
4 13 (4.64%) JSON
5 12 (4.29%) Pandas
6 9 (3.21%) REST
6 9 (3.21%) XML
7 7 (2.50%) .NET
8 6 (2.14%) YAML
9 4 (1.43%) pytest
10 3 (1.07%) NumPy
11 2 (0.71%) ADO
11 2 (0.71%) ARM Templates
11 2 (0.71%) Matplotlib
11 2 (0.71%) Playwright
11 2 (0.71%) scikit-learn
11 2 (0.71%) Seaborn
11 2 (0.71%) Swagger
11 2 (0.71%) TensorFlow
11 2 (0.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.57%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.21%) IoT
4 6 (2.14%) SCADA
5 5 (1.79%) Data Fabric
5 5 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.43%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.43%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.43%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.07%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.07%) NHS
7 3 (1.07%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.07%) Replication
7 3 (1.07%) Wiki
8 2 (0.71%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.71%) BYOD
8 2 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.71%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.71%) Unix
1 2 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (66.07%) Analytics
2 147 (52.50%) Data Modelling
2 147 (52.50%) ETL
3 138 (49.29%) Data Pipeline
4 130 (46.43%) Business Intelligence
5 127 (45.36%) Data Engineering
6 125 (44.64%) CI/CD
7 113 (40.36%) DevOps
8 98 (35.00%) Data Governance
9 72 (25.71%) AI
10 65 (23.21%) Data Architecture
11 59 (21.07%) Migration
12 55 (19.64%) Infrastructure as Code
13 50 (17.86%) Machine Learning
14 47 (16.79%) Agile
15 43 (15.36%) Decision-Making
16 42 (15.00%) Data Science
17 41 (14.64%) Dimensional Modelling
18 40 (14.29%) Data Transformation
19 37 (13.21%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 210 (75.00%) SQL
2 148 (52.86%) Python
3 35 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 25 (8.93%) C#
4 25 (8.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 24 (8.57%) Bicep
6 17 (6.07%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.29%) Scala
8 3 (1.07%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.07%) R
9 1 (0.36%) C
9 1 (0.36%) Java
9 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 63 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 52 (18.57%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.57%) Azure Certification
4 21 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (5.71%) Degree
6 7 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.14%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.43%) PhD
9 2 (0.71%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.71%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.71%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.36%) CBAP
10 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (36.79%) Data Quality
2 34 (12.14%) GDPR
3 18 (6.43%) QA
4 6 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.71%) IFRS
5 2 (0.71%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.71%) PMO
6 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.36%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.36%) MiFID
6 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.36%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (5.71%) Docker
2 5 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (21.43%) Terraform
2 13 (4.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.36%) Grafana
Vendors
1 150 (53.57%) Microsoft
2 142 (50.71%) Databricks
3 22 (7.86%) Informatica
4 13 (4.64%) Google
5 9 (3.21%) SAP
6 8 (2.86%) Foundry
7 7 (2.50%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.14%) Oracle
9 5 (1.79%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.07%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.71%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.71%) Infor
11 2 (0.71%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.36%) Ariba
12 1 (0.36%) Cognos
12 1 (0.36%) Concur
12 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 1 (0.36%) SimCorp