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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 357 395
Rank change year-on-year +21 +38 +31
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 276 130 161
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.52% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.82% 1.38% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 101 119
10th Percentile £375 £363 £411
25th Percentile £425 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £600 £613
90th Percentile £750 £675 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £481 £525
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -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 15,154 9,411 12,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.01% 37.70% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,260 6,394 8,641
10th Percentile £325 £310 £303
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £718 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 234 338
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.12 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.39% +15.91% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £39.69 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.03 £70.13 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year +31.12% +30.00% -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 22 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 22 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 +8 166 £540 +8.00% 21
Midlands -27 42 £499 +31.25% 7
West Midlands -31 37 £494 +41.07% 6
North of England -54 28 £506 +6.58% 7
North West -26 17 £550 +15.79% 6
South West -21 13 £500 -13.04% 2
Yorkshire -48 9 £500 +33.33%
South East -63 9 £575 +22.34% 12
East of England -23 5 £625 +23.76% 3
East Midlands -20 2 £600 +46.34% 1
North East - 2 - - 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 30 (10.87%) Apache Spark
2 22 (7.97%) Apache
3 11 (3.99%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.81%) Confluence
5 3 (1.09%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.72%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.36%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.72%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 276 (100.00%) Azure
2 173 (62.68%) Azure Data Factory
3 132 (47.83%) Power Platform
4 74 (26.81%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (16.67%) GitHub
6 34 (12.32%) AWS
7 29 (10.51%) Microsoft Purview
8 20 (7.25%) Serverless
9 19 (6.88%) GCP
10 18 (6.52%) Amazon S3
10 18 (6.52%) Azure Key Vault
11 17 (6.16%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (5.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 15 (5.43%) Azure Machine Learning
12 15 (5.43%) dbt
12 15 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (4.71%) Snowflake
14 12 (4.35%) Collibra
15 11 (3.99%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.45%) Firewall
1 4 (1.45%) Network Security
2 1 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (45.29%) Power BI
2 123 (44.57%) Data Lake
3 93 (33.70%) Data Warehouse
4 67 (24.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 50 (18.12%) Delta Lake
6 42 (15.22%) SQL Server
7 27 (9.78%) Metadata
8 24 (8.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 22 (7.97%) Spark SQL
10 18 (6.52%) Star Schema
11 14 (5.07%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 14 (5.07%) BigQuery
11 14 (5.07%) Snowflake Schema
12 13 (4.71%) OLAP
13 12 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (3.99%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (3.99%) Mixpanel
15 10 (3.62%) OLTP
15 10 (3.62%) Power Query
16 9 (3.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 41 (14.86%) Git
2 7 (2.54%) JIRA
3 6 (2.17%) MLflow
4 4 (1.45%) ERwin
4 4 (1.45%) GitLab
5 3 (1.09%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.72%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.72%) Selenium
6 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.36%) Postman
7 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 66 (23.91%) Finance
2 59 (21.38%) Social Skills
3 39 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.23%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (2.90%) Retail
6 6 (2.17%) Law
6 6 (2.17%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.45%) Marketing
7 4 (1.45%) Military
8 3 (1.09%) Banking
8 3 (1.09%) Legal
9 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.72%) Local Government
9 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.72%) Publishing
10 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 141 (51.09%) Data Engineer
2 57 (20.65%) Senior
3 52 (18.84%) Architect
4 37 (13.41%) Senior Data Engineer
5 35 (12.68%) Data Architect
6 30 (10.87%) Azure Engineer
7 28 (10.14%) Azure Architect
8 24 (8.70%) Azure Data Engineer
9 20 (7.25%) Azure Data Architect
10 18 (6.52%) Lead
11 14 (5.07%) Analyst
11 14 (5.07%) Lead Data Engineer
12 13 (4.71%) Developer
13 12 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (3.99%) Microsoft Engineer
14 11 (3.99%) Principal Engineer
15 10 (3.62%) Data Analyst
15 10 (3.62%) Informatica Engineer
15 10 (3.62%) Principal Data Engineer
16 9 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (28.26%) PySpark
2 29 (10.51%) Kafka
3 14 (5.07%) JSON
4 13 (4.71%) Great Expectations
5 11 (3.99%) Pandas
6 9 (3.26%) XML
7 8 (2.90%) REST
8 7 (2.54%) .NET
9 6 (2.17%) YAML
10 4 (1.45%) pytest
11 3 (1.09%) NumPy
12 2 (0.72%) ADO
12 2 (0.72%) ARM Templates
12 2 (0.72%) GraphQL
12 2 (0.72%) Matplotlib
12 2 (0.72%) Playwright
12 2 (0.72%) scikit-learn
12 2 (0.72%) Swagger
12 2 (0.72%) TensorFlow
12 2 (0.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.26%) IoT
4 6 (2.17%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.17%) SCADA
5 5 (1.81%) Data Fabric
6 4 (1.45%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.45%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.45%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.45%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.45%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.09%) NHS
7 3 (1.09%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.09%) Replication
7 3 (1.09%) Wiki
8 2 (0.72%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.72%) BYOD
8 2 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.72%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.72%) Unix
1 2 (0.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (65.94%) Analytics
2 145 (52.54%) Data Modelling
2 145 (52.54%) ETL
3 137 (49.64%) Data Pipeline
4 128 (46.38%) Business Intelligence
5 126 (45.65%) Data Engineering
6 121 (43.84%) CI/CD
7 109 (39.49%) DevOps
8 94 (34.06%) Data Governance
9 72 (26.09%) AI
10 63 (22.83%) Data Architecture
11 60 (21.74%) Migration
12 54 (19.57%) Infrastructure as Code
13 52 (18.84%) Machine Learning
14 47 (17.03%) Agile
15 43 (15.58%) Decision-Making
16 42 (15.22%) Data Science
17 41 (14.86%) Data Transformation
18 37 (13.41%) Data Integration
19 36 (13.04%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 207 (75.00%) SQL
2 143 (51.81%) Python
3 31 (11.23%) T-SQL
4 24 (8.70%) C#
4 24 (8.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 22 (7.97%) Bicep
6 15 (5.43%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.35%) Scala
8 3 (1.09%) R
9 1 (0.36%) Bash
9 1 (0.36%) C
9 1 (0.36%) Cypher
9 1 (0.36%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.36%) Java
9 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.36%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 61 (22.10%) Security Cleared
2 50 (18.12%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.97%) Azure Certification
4 18 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (5.80%) Degree
6 7 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.17%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.45%) PhD
9 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.72%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.72%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.36%) CBAP
10 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (37.68%) Data Quality
2 35 (12.68%) GDPR
3 18 (6.52%) QA
4 6 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.09%) IFRS
5 3 (1.09%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.72%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.72%) PMO
6 2 (0.72%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.36%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.36%) MiFID
7 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (6.16%) Docker
2 5 (1.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 58 (21.01%) Terraform
2 14 (5.07%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.36%) Grafana
Vendors
1 148 (53.62%) Microsoft
2 137 (49.64%) Databricks
3 20 (7.25%) Informatica
4 12 (4.35%) Google
5 8 (2.90%) Foundry
5 8 (2.90%) SAP
6 7 (2.54%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.17%) Oracle
8 5 (1.81%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.09%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.72%) Infor
10 2 (0.72%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.36%) Cognos
11 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.36%) SimCorp