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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 346 397
Rank change year-on-year -8 +51 +65
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 195 164 175
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.54% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 1.49% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 100 128
10th Percentile £375 £382 £400
25th Percentile £453 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -3.67% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £695 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Cloud 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 11,806 11,023 13,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.13% 36.35% 35.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,086 7,372 9,861
10th Percentile £304 £313 £290
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 142 270
10th Percentile £14.83 £17.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £50.94 £55.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.38 £69.98 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £25.74 £29.00 £25.69
% change year-on-year -11.26% +12.88% +14.18%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025. 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 +25 133 £525 - 66
Midlands -26 25 £600 +4.35% 60
West Midlands -26 19 £600 +4.35% 32
North of England -39 13 £500 +17.65% 69
South East -25 9 £525 -16.00% 119
North West -12 7 £525 +23.53% 30
East Midlands - 6 £575 - 25
Yorkshire -38 5 £438 -7.89% 34
East of England - 5 £550 - 45
North East -7 1 £375 +4.75% 5
South West -16 1 - - 32
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 20 (10.26%) Apache Spark
2 19 (9.74%) Apache
3 15 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.56%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.51%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 195 (100.00%) Azure
2 122 (62.56%) Azure Data Factory
3 85 (43.59%) Power Platform
4 50 (25.64%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (11.79%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (11.28%) AWS
7 20 (10.26%) Serverless
8 19 (9.74%) Azure Machine Learning
8 19 (9.74%) Snowflake
9 18 (9.23%) GitHub
10 17 (8.72%) Azure Functions
11 16 (8.21%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (8.21%) Microsoft Purview
12 15 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (7.69%) GCP
13 14 (7.18%) dbt
14 13 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
14 13 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (6.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 12 (6.15%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.03%) Firewall
1 2 (1.03%) VPN
2 1 (0.51%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (46.67%) Data Lake
2 76 (38.97%) Power BI
3 59 (30.26%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (16.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 23 (11.79%) Metadata
6 22 (11.28%) Delta Lake
7 18 (9.23%) SQL Server
8 14 (7.18%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
10 12 (6.15%) BigQuery
11 10 (5.13%) Power Query
12 8 (4.10%) Relational Database
12 8 (4.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (3.59%) Big Data
13 7 (3.59%) Star Schema
14 5 (2.56%) Data Mining
14 5 (2.56%) NoSQL
14 5 (2.56%) OLAP
14 5 (2.56%) OLTP
14 5 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (8.21%) Git
2 6 (3.08%) MLflow
3 3 (1.54%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.54%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.03%) GCC
4 2 (1.03%) JIRA
5 1 (0.51%) ERwin
5 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.51%) Poetry
5 1 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.51%) Pylint
General
1 69 (35.38%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.46%) Finance
3 25 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.74%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.05%) Billing
8 3 (1.54%) Marketing
8 3 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.54%) Retail
9 2 (1.03%) Banking
9 2 (1.03%) Law
9 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Automotive
10 1 (0.51%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Legal
10 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Publishing
10 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (38.46%) Data Engineer
2 46 (23.59%) Architect
3 33 (16.92%) Azure Engineer
4 26 (13.33%) Azure Data Engineer
4 26 (13.33%) Developer
5 25 (12.82%) Data Architect
6 20 (10.26%) Azure Architect
7 18 (9.23%) Lead
8 13 (6.67%) Senior
9 9 (4.62%) Azure Data Architect
9 9 (4.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 9 (4.62%) Enterprise Architect
10 8 (4.10%) Dynamics 365 Architect
11 7 (3.59%) Business Architect
11 7 (3.59%) Lead Data Engineer
12 6 (3.08%) Azure Developer
12 6 (3.08%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 5 (2.56%) Principal Data Engineer
13 5 (2.56%) TOGAF Architect
13 5 (2.56%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (25.13%) PySpark
2 13 (6.67%) Kafka
3 7 (3.59%) Great Expectations
4 6 (3.08%) PyTorch
4 6 (3.08%) TensorFlow
5 5 (2.56%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.56%) scikit-learn
5 5 (2.56%) YAML
6 3 (1.54%) Celery
6 3 (1.54%) pytest
6 3 (1.54%) REST
7 2 (1.03%) .NET
7 2 (1.03%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.03%) ADO
7 2 (1.03%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.03%) FHIR
7 2 (1.03%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.03%) JSON
7 2 (1.03%) React
8 1 (0.51%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.23%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.15%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.62%) Data Fabric
5 8 (4.10%) IoT
6 7 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.56%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.54%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.03%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.03%) Replication
9 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.03%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.51%) Life Science
10 1 (0.51%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (58.97%) Analytics
2 92 (47.18%) Data Modelling
3 83 (42.56%) ETL
4 82 (42.05%) Business Intelligence
5 79 (40.51%) DevOps
6 76 (38.97%) Data Pipeline
7 75 (38.46%) Data Engineering
8 73 (37.44%) CI/CD
9 72 (36.92%) Data Governance
10 42 (21.54%) Machine Learning
11 41 (21.03%) AI
12 38 (19.49%) Data Architecture
13 37 (18.97%) Agile
14 36 (18.46%) Migration
15 33 (16.92%) Data Integration
15 33 (16.92%) Infrastructure as Code
16 28 (14.36%) Data Transformation
17 26 (13.33%) Data Science
17 26 (13.33%) Visualisation
18 25 (12.82%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 137 (70.26%) SQL
2 89 (45.64%) Python
3 20 (10.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 16 (8.21%) T-SQL
5 14 (7.18%) Bicep
6 9 (4.62%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.10%) R
7 8 (4.10%) Scala
8 7 (3.59%) C#
9 5 (2.56%) X++
10 4 (2.05%) Java
11 3 (1.54%) JavaScript
12 2 (1.03%) Korn
13 1 (0.51%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.51%) Bash
13 1 (0.51%) C++
13 1 (0.51%) Go
Qualifications
1 28 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.28%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.77%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.59%) Degree
5 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.54%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.03%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.51%) PhD
8 1 (0.51%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 28 (14.36%) GDPR
3 6 (3.08%) QA
4 4 (2.05%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.05%) NIST
5 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.03%) MiFID
5 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.51%) GRC
6 1 (0.51%) IFRS
6 1 (0.51%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.51%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 14 (7.18%) Docker
2 6 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (16.92%) Terraform
2 18 (9.23%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.54%) Grafana
3 3 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 117 (60.00%) Databricks
2 75 (38.46%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.64%) Google
4 7 (3.59%) Oracle
5 6 (3.08%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.56%) SAP
7 3 (1.54%) Informatica
8 2 (1.03%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.03%) Foundry
8 2 (1.03%) RedGate
8 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.03%) Teradata
8 2 (1.03%) Workday
9 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.51%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.51%) Palantir
9 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.51%) Sparx
9 1 (0.51%) Talend
9 1 (0.51%) UiPath