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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 346 386
Rank change year-on-year +8 +40 +47
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 283 167 161
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.61% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 1.64% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 130 119
10th Percentile £381 £363 £418
25th Percentile £428 £427 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -5.24% -6.67%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £613
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +4.59% -6.67% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 15,661 10,188 11,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.38% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,470 6,885 8,378
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 268 287
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.04 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.27 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.14% +14.32% -36.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £47.47
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.49% +25.00% -37.14%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 £524 +2.70% 22
Midlands -12 50 £493 +20.12% 6
West Midlands -21 43 £493 +6.49% 6
North of England -53 28 £518 +8.95% 7
North West -34 18 £550 +15.79% 3
South West -27 11 £500 -13.04%
South East -71 11 £613 +28.95% 17
Yorkshire -48 8 £500 +17.65% 3
East of England -22 5 £625 +17.92% 2
East Midlands -12 4 £600 +46.34%
North East - 2 - - 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 (8.83%) Apache Spark
2 21 (7.42%) Apache
3 14 (4.95%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.77%) Confluence
5 3 (1.06%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.71%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.35%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 283 (100.00%) Azure
2 173 (61.13%) Azure Data Factory
3 117 (41.34%) Power Platform
4 71 (25.09%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (13.07%) AWS
6 36 (12.72%) GitHub
7 29 (10.25%) Microsoft Purview
8 21 (7.42%) Serverless
9 20 (7.07%) Azure Machine Learning
10 19 (6.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 19 (6.71%) dbt
11 18 (6.36%) Amazon S3
11 18 (6.36%) GCP
12 16 (5.65%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (5.30%) Snowflake
14 14 (4.95%) Azure Key Vault
15 11 (3.89%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
17 9 (3.18%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.77%) Firewall
2 4 (1.41%) Network Security
3 1 (0.35%) DNS
3 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (39.58%) Data Lake
2 111 (39.22%) Power BI
3 95 (33.57%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (19.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 47 (16.61%) Delta Lake
6 31 (10.95%) SQL Server
7 27 (9.54%) Metadata
8 24 (8.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (7.07%) Star Schema
10 17 (6.01%) Spark SQL
11 15 (5.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 15 (5.30%) Snowflake Schema
12 13 (4.59%) BigQuery
13 12 (4.24%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (3.89%) OLAP
15 10 (3.53%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (3.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 8 (2.83%) Data Vault
16 8 (2.83%) Mixpanel
16 8 (2.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (13.43%) Git
2 8 (2.83%) JIRA
3 6 (2.12%) MLflow
4 4 (1.41%) ERwin
4 4 (1.41%) GitLab
5 3 (1.06%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.71%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.71%) Selenium
6 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.35%) Postman
7 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 68 (24.03%) Finance
2 59 (20.85%) Social Skills
3 47 (16.61%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (14.13%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.53%) Retail
7 8 (2.83%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.47%) Law
9 4 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.41%) Legal
9 4 (1.41%) Marketing
10 3 (1.06%) Banking
10 3 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.06%) Local Government
10 3 (1.06%) Military
11 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Publishing
12 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 143 (50.53%) Data Engineer
2 57 (20.14%) Architect
3 55 (19.43%) Senior
4 41 (14.49%) Azure Engineer
5 40 (14.13%) Data Architect
6 36 (12.72%) Azure Data Engineer
7 35 (12.37%) Senior Data Engineer
8 25 (8.83%) Azure Architect
9 22 (7.77%) Lead
10 19 (6.71%) Azure Data Architect
11 18 (6.36%) Analyst
12 17 (6.01%) Lead Data Engineer
13 14 (4.95%) Data Analyst
13 14 (4.95%) Developer
14 11 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (3.53%) Informatica Engineer
16 9 (3.18%) Business Analyst
16 9 (3.18%) Data Business Analyst
16 9 (3.18%) Migration Engineer
17 8 (2.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (25.09%) PySpark
2 29 (10.25%) Kafka
3 17 (6.01%) JSON
4 10 (3.53%) Great Expectations
5 9 (3.18%) XML
5 9 (3.18%) YAML
6 8 (2.83%) Pandas
6 8 (2.83%) REST
7 7 (2.47%) .NET
8 4 (1.41%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.41%) pytest
9 3 (1.06%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.06%) JSON-LD
9 3 (1.06%) NetworkX
9 3 (1.06%) NumPy
10 2 (0.71%) ADO
10 2 (0.71%) Matplotlib
10 2 (0.71%) Swagger
10 2 (0.71%) TensorFlow
10 2 (0.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.07%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.36%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (3.89%) IoT
4 8 (2.83%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.83%) SCADA
5 7 (2.47%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.12%) Data Fabric
7 5 (1.77%) NHS
7 5 (1.77%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.41%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.41%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.41%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.41%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.06%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.06%) Housing Association
9 3 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.06%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.06%) Replication
9 3 (1.06%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.71%) Unix
1 2 (0.71%) VMS
2 1 (0.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (65.37%) Analytics
2 146 (51.59%) Data Modelling
2 146 (51.59%) Data Pipeline
3 140 (49.47%) ETL
4 136 (48.06%) Data Engineering
5 119 (42.05%) Business Intelligence
6 109 (38.52%) CI/CD
7 105 (37.10%) DevOps
8 91 (32.16%) Data Governance
9 69 (24.38%) Migration
10 64 (22.61%) AI
11 62 (21.91%) Data Architecture
12 56 (19.79%) Machine Learning
13 53 (18.73%) Infrastructure as Code
14 50 (17.67%) Data Transformation
15 49 (17.31%) Agile
16 43 (15.19%) Data Integration
16 43 (15.19%) Data Science
16 43 (15.19%) Validation
17 38 (13.43%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 201 (71.02%) SQL
2 139 (49.12%) Python
3 26 (9.19%) T-SQL
4 24 (8.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 21 (7.42%) Bicep
5 21 (7.42%) C#
6 12 (4.24%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.53%) Scala
8 4 (1.41%) R
9 3 (1.06%) Bash
9 3 (1.06%) Cypher
9 3 (1.06%) Gremlin
9 3 (1.06%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.06%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.35%) C
10 1 (0.35%) Java
10 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (21.55%) Security Cleared
2 54 (19.08%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.07%) Azure Certification
4 18 (6.36%) Degree
5 8 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.41%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.41%) PhD
8 2 (0.71%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.71%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.71%) Tableau Certification
8 2 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.35%) CISSP
9 1 (0.35%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (32.86%) Data Quality
2 35 (12.37%) GDPR
3 21 (7.42%) QA
4 9 (3.18%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.06%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (1.06%) IFRS
6 3 (1.06%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.71%) PMO
7 2 (0.71%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.35%) GRC
8 1 (0.35%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.35%) MiFID
8 1 (0.35%) NIST
8 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (6.36%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 54 (19.08%) Terraform
2 19 (6.71%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.71%) Grafana
4 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 141 (49.82%) Microsoft
2 125 (44.17%) Databricks
3 21 (7.42%) Informatica
4 9 (3.18%) Google
4 9 (3.18%) SAP
5 7 (2.47%) Foundry
5 7 (2.47%) Oracle
6 5 (1.77%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.71%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.71%) Infor
7 2 (0.71%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.71%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.71%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.35%) Cognos
8 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.35%) IBM
8 1 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.35%) SimCorp