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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 380 400
Rank change year-on-year +54 +20 +58
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 248 109 158
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 0.42% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.91% 1.13% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 66 126
10th Percentile £374 £363 £419
25th Percentile £463 £427 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £695 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% -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 13,018 9,667 12,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.64% 37.45% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,988 6,472 9,007
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 143 308
10th Percentile £14.80 £15.60 £14.09
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +25.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.15 £67.17
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +60 159 £550 - 35
Midlands -37 29 £600 +20.00% 15
West Midlands -34 25 £600 +20.00% 5
North of England -46 22 £475 +26.67% 11
South East -32 13 £575 -8.00% 33
North West -22 11 £575 +35.29% 7
Yorkshire -48 6 £500 +33.33% 3
North East -12 5 £438 +22.21% 1
South West -19 5 £550 +12.82% 6
East of England -21 5 £638 +59.38% 5
East Midlands - 4 £575 - 10
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 30 (12.10%) Apache Spark
2 22 (8.87%) Apache
3 5 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.02%) Confluence
4 2 (0.81%) Apache Synapse
4 2 (0.81%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.40%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 248 (100.00%) Azure
2 159 (64.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 120 (48.39%) Power Platform
4 68 (27.42%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (14.11%) AWS
6 33 (13.31%) GitHub
7 25 (10.08%) GCP
8 22 (8.87%) Azure Key Vault
8 22 (8.87%) Serverless
9 21 (8.47%) Microsoft Purview
9 21 (8.47%) Snowflake
10 20 (8.06%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (7.66%) Azure Monitor
12 18 (7.26%) Amazon S3
12 18 (7.26%) dbt
12 18 (7.26%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (6.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 17 (6.85%) Azure Machine Learning
14 16 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (6.05%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.21%) Network Security
2 1 (0.40%) Firewall
2 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (51.21%) Data Lake
2 110 (44.35%) Power BI
3 79 (31.85%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (22.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 37 (14.92%) SQL Server
6 36 (14.52%) Delta Lake
7 31 (12.50%) Metadata
8 22 (8.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 18 (7.26%) BigQuery
10 14 (5.65%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (5.65%) Mixpanel
11 13 (5.24%) OLAP
11 13 (5.24%) OLTP
11 13 (5.24%) Spark SQL
12 12 (4.84%) Power Query
13 11 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (4.44%) Snowflake Schema
14 9 (3.63%) Star Schema
15 8 (3.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 7 (2.82%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 33 (13.31%) Git
2 6 (2.42%) JIRA
2 6 (2.42%) MLflow
3 3 (1.21%) GitLab
3 3 (1.21%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.21%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.81%) ERwin
5 1 (0.40%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.40%) Poetry
5 1 (0.40%) Pylint
General
1 72 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 53 (21.37%) Finance
3 29 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (10.48%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (2.42%) Retail
6 4 (1.61%) Billing
7 3 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.21%) Marketing
7 3 (1.21%) Military
8 2 (0.81%) Banking
8 2 (0.81%) Law
8 2 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.40%) Legal
9 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 123 (49.60%) Data Engineer
2 54 (21.77%) Architect
3 35 (14.11%) Azure Engineer
4 32 (12.90%) Senior
5 29 (11.69%) Data Architect
6 28 (11.29%) Azure Data Engineer
7 26 (10.48%) Lead
8 24 (9.68%) Azure Architect
9 23 (9.27%) Senior Data Engineer
10 21 (8.47%) Developer
11 14 (5.65%) Lead Data Engineer
12 13 (5.24%) Azure Data Architect
12 13 (5.24%) Principal Engineer
13 12 (4.84%) Enterprise Architect
13 12 (4.84%) Principal Data Engineer
13 12 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (4.03%) Microsoft Engineer
15 9 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
16 8 (3.23%) Principal Software Engineer
16 8 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (33.06%) PySpark
2 21 (8.47%) Kafka
3 16 (6.45%) Great Expectations
4 9 (3.63%) REST
5 8 (3.23%) JSON
6 7 (2.82%) YAML
7 6 (2.42%) Pandas
7 6 (2.42%) PyTorch
7 6 (2.42%) TensorFlow
8 5 (2.02%) scikit-learn
8 5 (2.02%) XML
9 4 (1.61%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.21%) ADO
10 3 (1.21%) GraphQL
10 3 (1.21%) pytest
11 2 (0.81%) .NET
11 2 (0.81%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.81%) Middleware
11 2 (0.81%) PyArrow
11 2 (0.81%) React
Miscellaneous
1 34 (13.71%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.65%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.82%) Data Fabric
4 7 (2.82%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (2.42%) IoT
6 4 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.61%) Wiki
7 3 (1.21%) Replication
8 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.81%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.40%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.40%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.40%) Pricing Data
9 1 (0.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (68.15%) Analytics
2 137 (55.24%) Data Modelling
3 123 (49.60%) ETL
4 119 (47.98%) Business Intelligence
5 113 (45.56%) CI/CD
6 107 (43.15%) Data Engineering
6 107 (43.15%) DevOps
7 106 (42.74%) Data Pipeline
8 104 (41.94%) Data Governance
9 67 (27.02%) Data Architecture
10 57 (22.98%) Infrastructure as Code
11 56 (22.58%) AI
12 49 (19.76%) Agile
13 48 (19.35%) Migration
14 47 (18.95%) Machine Learning
15 37 (14.92%) Data Integration
16 36 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
17 35 (14.11%) Data Science
17 35 (14.11%) Dimensional Modelling
18 33 (13.31%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 190 (76.61%) SQL
2 134 (54.03%) Python
3 31 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 26 (10.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 23 (9.27%) Bicep
6 20 (8.06%) C#
7 15 (6.05%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.44%) Scala
9 5 (2.02%) R
10 3 (1.21%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.21%) X++
11 2 (0.81%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.40%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.40%) Bash
12 1 (0.40%) Java
12 1 (0.40%) Korn
Qualifications
1 42 (16.94%) Security Cleared
2 31 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.69%) Azure Certification
4 18 (7.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.61%) Degree
6 3 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.21%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.81%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.40%) CBAP
8 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.40%) PhD
8 1 (0.40%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.40%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (33.47%) Data Quality
2 40 (16.13%) GDPR
3 10 (4.03%) QA
4 4 (1.61%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.40%) Basel II
7 1 (0.40%) Basel III
7 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.40%) GRC
7 1 (0.40%) MiFID
System Software
1 11 (4.44%) Docker
2 7 (2.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 63 (25.40%) Terraform
2 11 (4.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 151 (60.89%) Databricks
2 108 (43.55%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.45%) Google
4 6 (2.42%) Foundry
4 6 (2.42%) SAP
4 6 (2.42%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.02%) Oracle
6 4 (1.61%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.21%) Informatica
7 3 (1.21%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.81%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.81%) RedGate
8 2 (0.81%) Workday
9 1 (0.40%) Brio
9 1 (0.40%) Concur
9 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.40%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.40%) Palantir
9 1 (0.40%) UiPath
9 1 (0.40%) Veeam