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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 338 380
Rank change year-on-year -39 +42 +20
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 272 177 151
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.64% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 1.72% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 142 97
10th Percentile £369 £363 £413
25th Percentile £425 £425 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £612
90th Percentile £738 £711 £630
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 15,878 10,301 11,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.77% 37.35% 34.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,601 6,975 7,846
10th Percentile £325 £310 £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 £644
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 268 196
10th Percentile £15.46 £15.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £18.42
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £59.66
90th Percentile £82.49 £68.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%

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 1 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 1 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 -34 169 £500 -4.76% 74
Midlands -24 47 £493 -10.45% 8
West Midlands -26 37 £450 -21.74% 7
North of England -49 28 £495 +4.21% 16
North West -46 14 £550 +15.79% 10
Yorkshire -28 12 £420 -1.18% 6
South West - 9 £485 - 5
East Midlands -10 7 £500 +21.95% 1
South East -68 7 £613 +28.95% 26
North East - 2 - -
East of England -26 1 £575 +8.49% 1
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 24 (8.82%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (8.09%) Apache Spark
3 15 (5.51%) Apache
4 6 (2.21%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.74%) Jupyter
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 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.47%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.37%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.37%) SAP BPC
1 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 272 (100.00%) Azure
2 169 (62.13%) Azure Data Factory
3 115 (42.28%) Power Platform
4 78 (28.68%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (14.34%) AWS
6 35 (12.87%) GitHub
7 32 (11.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (9.93%) Azure Databricks
9 24 (8.82%) dbt
10 22 (8.09%) Snowflake
11 21 (7.72%) Serverless
12 17 (6.25%) Azure Machine Learning
12 17 (6.25%) GCP
12 17 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (5.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 14 (5.15%) Power Automate
15 13 (4.78%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (4.41%) Amazon S3
16 12 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
17 11 (4.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.68%) Firewall
2 2 (0.74%) DNS
3 1 (0.37%) Network Security
3 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (40.07%) Power BI
2 95 (34.93%) Data Lake
3 90 (33.09%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (17.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 38 (13.97%) Delta Lake
6 35 (12.87%) Metadata
7 33 (12.13%) SQL Server
8 27 (9.93%) Star Schema
9 19 (6.99%) Amazon Redshift
10 18 (6.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (5.88%) Spark SQL
12 15 (5.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 15 (5.51%) Snowflake Schema
13 13 (4.78%) Data Vault
13 13 (4.78%) NoSQL
14 11 (4.04%) BigQuery
15 10 (3.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 10 (3.68%) Power Query
16 9 (3.31%) Relational Database
16 9 (3.31%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 22 (8.09%) Git
2 7 (2.57%) MLflow
3 5 (1.84%) GitLab
4 4 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.47%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.10%) JIRA
5 3 (1.10%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.74%) ERwin
6 2 (0.74%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.37%) Postman
7 1 (0.37%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.37%) Selenium
7 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (22.06%) Finance
2 58 (21.32%) Social Skills
3 44 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (15.44%) Public Sector
5 13 (4.78%) Retail
6 12 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.04%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.94%) Law
9 4 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.47%) Legal
9 4 (1.47%) Local Government
9 4 (1.47%) Marketing
10 3 (1.10%) Billing
10 3 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.10%) Military
11 2 (0.74%) Banking
11 2 (0.74%) Publishing
12 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.37%) Police
12 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 126 (46.32%) Data Engineer
2 57 (20.96%) Architect
3 46 (16.91%) Azure Engineer
4 43 (15.81%) Data Architect
5 41 (15.07%) Senior
6 36 (13.24%) Azure Data Engineer
7 27 (9.93%) Senior Data Engineer
8 25 (9.19%) Lead
9 17 (6.25%) Analyst
10 15 (5.51%) Azure Architect
10 15 (5.51%) Data Analyst
10 15 (5.51%) Developer
11 13 (4.78%) Azure Data Architect
12 11 (4.04%) Informatica Engineer
12 11 (4.04%) Lead Data Engineer
12 11 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (3.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 10 (3.68%) Power BI Developer
14 9 (3.31%) Migration Engineer
15 8 (2.94%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (23.90%) PySpark
2 49 (18.01%) Terraform
3 28 (10.29%) Kafka
4 12 (4.41%) JSON
5 7 (2.57%) .NET
5 7 (2.57%) REST
6 5 (1.84%) Pandas
6 5 (1.84%) pytest
6 5 (1.84%) YAML
7 4 (1.47%) Great Expectations
7 4 (1.47%) XML
8 3 (1.10%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.10%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.10%) JSON-LD
8 3 (1.10%) NetworkX
9 2 (0.74%) ADO
9 2 (0.74%) scikit-learn
9 2 (0.74%) Spark Streaming
9 2 (0.74%) TensorFlow
9 2 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.04%) IoT
4 10 (3.68%) SCADA
5 8 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.57%) Data Fabric
6 7 (2.57%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.57%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.21%) Reference Data
7 6 (2.21%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.84%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.84%) NHS
8 5 (1.84%) Replication
9 3 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.10%) Housing Association
9 3 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.10%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.10%) Linux
2 2 (0.74%) Unix
3 1 (0.37%) VMS
3 1 (0.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (66.54%) Analytics
2 140 (51.47%) Data Modelling
3 137 (50.37%) Data Pipeline
4 126 (46.32%) Data Engineering
5 125 (45.96%) ETL
6 115 (42.28%) Business Intelligence
7 109 (40.07%) DevOps
8 108 (39.71%) CI/CD
9 88 (32.35%) Data Governance
10 74 (27.21%) Migration
11 63 (23.16%) AI
12 61 (22.43%) Data Architecture
13 57 (20.96%) Lakehouse
14 54 (19.85%) Infrastructure as Code
15 49 (18.01%) Data Integration
15 49 (18.01%) Machine Learning
16 48 (17.65%) Data Transformation
17 46 (16.91%) Agile
18 43 (15.81%) Validation
19 40 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 195 (71.69%) SQL
2 122 (44.85%) Python
3 28 (10.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 23 (8.46%) T-SQL
5 19 (6.99%) Bicep
6 12 (4.41%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.68%) C#
8 8 (2.94%) Bash
9 4 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.10%) Cypher
10 3 (1.10%) Gremlin
10 3 (1.10%) R
10 3 (1.10%) Scala
10 3 (1.10%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.10%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.37%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 67 (24.63%) Security Cleared
2 58 (21.32%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.72%) Azure Certification
4 14 (5.15%) Degree
5 10 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.21%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.47%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.47%) PhD
9 2 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.37%) CCSP
10 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.37%) CISSP
10 1 (0.37%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (34.19%) Data Quality
2 26 (9.56%) GDPR
3 17 (6.25%) QA
4 9 (3.31%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.10%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (1.10%) IFRS
6 3 (1.10%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.74%) NIST
7 2 (0.74%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.37%) GRC
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 24 (8.82%) Docker
2 3 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (9.56%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.47%) Grafana
3 3 (1.10%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.37%) Ansible
4 1 (0.37%) Control-M
4 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 137 (50.37%) Microsoft
2 121 (44.49%) Databricks
3 28 (10.29%) Informatica
4 12 (4.41%) Oracle
5 10 (3.68%) SAP
6 6 (2.21%) Google
7 5 (1.84%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.47%) Foundry
9 3 (1.10%) MicroStrategy
9 3 (1.10%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.10%) Talend
10 2 (0.74%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.74%) GoldenSource
10 2 (0.74%) Infor
10 2 (0.74%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.74%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.37%) Cognos
11 1 (0.37%) IBM
11 1 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.37%) SimCorp