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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 377 401
Rank change year-on-year +85 +24 +32
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 303 107 137
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.44% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.12% 1.18% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 77 107
10th Percentile £374 £358 £413
25th Percentile £450 £408 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £614 £550 £665
90th Percentile £740 £643 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £529
% change year-on-year +5.26% -10.17% -3.86%
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 14,305 9,067 11,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.54% 37.31% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,853 6,353 8,480
10th Percentile £319 £313 £290
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £743 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 445 193 321
10th Percentile £15.96 £15.17 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -35.70%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £27.50 £20.99
% change year-on-year +46.36% +31.05% -40.04%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +47 194 £525 +10.53% 17
Midlands -28 43 £500 +5.26% 7
West Midlands -27 38 £499 +5.00% 4
North of England -56 28 £500 +33.33% 8
North West -20 17 £563 +36.36% 4
South West -25 10 £485 -7.62% 6
South East -59 8 £575 +22.34% 10
Yorkshire -55 7 £500 +33.33% 3
East of England -33 5 £625 +38.89% 2
North East -16 4 £450 +25.70% 1
East Midlands -37 2 £600 - 3
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 40 (13.20%) Apache Spark
2 29 (9.57%) Apache
3 10 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.65%) Confluence
5 3 (0.99%) Apache Synapse
5 3 (0.99%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.66%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.99%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.32%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 303 (100.00%) Azure
2 199 (65.68%) Azure Data Factory
3 151 (49.83%) Power Platform
4 82 (27.06%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (15.51%) GitHub
6 41 (13.53%) AWS
7 31 (10.23%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (8.91%) GCP
9 23 (7.59%) Amazon S3
10 22 (7.26%) Azure Key Vault
10 22 (7.26%) Serverless
11 21 (6.93%) Snowflake
12 19 (6.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 19 (6.27%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (5.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 18 (5.94%) Azure Machine Learning
14 17 (5.61%) Collibra
15 16 (5.28%) Amazon SQS
15 16 (5.28%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (4.95%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.32%) Network Security
2 3 (0.99%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (47.85%) Data Lake
2 142 (46.86%) Power BI
3 109 (35.97%) Data Warehouse
4 72 (23.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 54 (17.82%) Delta Lake
6 51 (16.83%) SQL Server
7 30 (9.90%) Metadata
7 30 (9.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 23 (7.59%) Spark SQL
9 21 (6.93%) Star Schema
10 20 (6.60%) Snowflake Schema
11 19 (6.27%) BigQuery
12 18 (5.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 18 (5.94%) OLAP
13 16 (5.28%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (5.28%) Mixpanel
14 15 (4.95%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (4.95%) OLTP
15 12 (3.96%) Power Query
16 11 (3.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 46 (15.18%) Git
2 9 (2.97%) MLflow
3 7 (2.31%) JIRA
4 5 (1.65%) ERwin
4 5 (1.65%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.99%) GitLab
6 2 (0.66%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.66%) Selenium
6 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.33%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 74 (24.42%) Finance
2 65 (21.45%) Social Skills
3 41 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.23%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.31%) Law
7 6 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.98%) Retail
8 5 (1.65%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.32%) Banking
9 4 (1.32%) Marketing
10 3 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.99%) Military
11 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Billing
12 1 (0.33%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.33%) Legal
12 1 (0.33%) Publishing
12 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 156 (51.49%) Data Engineer
2 56 (18.48%) Senior
3 55 (18.15%) Architect
4 38 (12.54%) Azure Engineer
5 37 (12.21%) Senior Data Engineer
6 35 (11.55%) Data Architect
7 30 (9.90%) Azure Data Engineer
8 26 (8.58%) Azure Architect
9 23 (7.59%) Lead
10 18 (5.94%) Azure Data Architect
10 18 (5.94%) Developer
11 15 (4.95%) Lead Data Engineer
12 14 (4.62%) Principal Engineer
12 14 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (4.29%) Principal Data Engineer
14 12 (3.96%) Microsoft Engineer
15 11 (3.63%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 10 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
17 9 (2.97%) Analyst
17 9 (2.97%) Informatica Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (27.72%) PySpark
2 31 (10.23%) Kafka
3 17 (5.61%) Great Expectations
4 12 (3.96%) JSON
5 10 (3.30%) Pandas
5 10 (3.30%) REST
5 10 (3.30%) XML
6 8 (2.64%) YAML
7 6 (1.98%) .NET
8 5 (1.65%) pytest
9 4 (1.32%) ADO
10 2 (0.66%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.66%) GraphQL
10 2 (0.66%) Playwright
10 2 (0.66%) PyArrow
11 1 (0.33%) FHIR
11 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Graph
11 1 (0.33%) OpenAPI
11 1 (0.33%) PyTorch
11 1 (0.33%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 41 (13.53%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (2.64%) Data Structures
3 8 (2.64%) IoT
4 7 (2.31%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (1.98%) Data Fabric
5 6 (1.98%) Replication
6 5 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.32%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.32%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.32%) SCADA
8 3 (0.99%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.99%) Wiki
9 2 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.66%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.66%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.33%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.33%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.66%) Unix
1 2 (0.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (67.66%) Analytics
2 171 (56.44%) Data Modelling
3 161 (53.14%) ETL
4 149 (49.17%) Data Pipeline
5 146 (48.18%) Business Intelligence
6 141 (46.53%) CI/CD
7 138 (45.54%) Data Engineering
8 129 (42.57%) DevOps
9 119 (39.27%) Data Governance
10 79 (26.07%) AI
11 77 (25.41%) Data Architecture
12 64 (21.12%) Infrastructure as Code
13 61 (20.13%) Migration
14 55 (18.15%) Machine Learning
15 53 (17.49%) Agile
16 49 (16.17%) Dimensional Modelling
17 48 (15.84%) Data Science
18 45 (14.85%) Decision-Making
19 43 (14.19%) Data Integration
20 42 (13.86%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 234 (77.23%) SQL
2 158 (52.15%) Python
3 40 (13.20%) T-SQL
4 34 (11.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 28 (9.24%) Bicep
6 27 (8.91%) C#
7 17 (5.61%) PowerShell
8 14 (4.62%) Scala
9 3 (0.99%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.99%) R
10 2 (0.66%) Java
11 1 (0.33%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.33%) C
11 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 56 (18.48%) Security Cleared
2 44 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.25%) Azure Certification
4 21 (6.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (5.28%) Degree
6 7 (2.31%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.65%) PhD
9 4 (1.32%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.66%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.66%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.33%) CBAP
11 1 (0.33%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (37.62%) Data Quality
2 39 (12.87%) GDPR
3 14 (4.62%) QA
4 6 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.66%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.66%) PMO
5 2 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.33%) Basel II
6 1 (0.33%) Basel III
6 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (6.27%) Docker
2 5 (1.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 73 (24.09%) Terraform
2 16 (5.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 169 (55.78%) Databricks
2 151 (49.83%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.27%) Informatica
4 17 (5.61%) Google
5 13 (4.29%) SAP
6 10 (3.30%) Foundry
7 7 (2.31%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.31%) Oracle
7 7 (2.31%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.32%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.66%) Ab Initio
9 2 (0.66%) Infor
10 1 (0.33%) Ariba
10 1 (0.33%) Brio
10 1 (0.33%) Cognos
10 1 (0.33%) Concur
10 1 (0.33%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.33%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.33%) Palantir
10 1 (0.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud