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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 362 399
Rank change year-on-year +14 +37 +46
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 282 145 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.55% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.82% 1.45% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 115 118
10th Percentile £385 £363 £413
25th Percentile £435 £427 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -5.62%
75th Percentile £625 £609 £613
90th Percentile £750 £690 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.71% -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 15,508 9,997 12,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.62% 32.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,421 6,737 8,671
10th Percentile £325 £313 £308
25th Percentile £415 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 258 330
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £23.00 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £39.69 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.10 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.63 £22.00
% change year-on-year +35.72% +25.59% -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 7 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 7 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 -16 167 £538 +2.87% 39
Midlands -21 50 £495 +30.26% 9
West Midlands -27 43 £493 +40.71% 7
North of England -47 29 £506 +6.58% 10
North West -29 18 £550 +15.79% 5
South West -23 11 £500 -13.04% 3
Yorkshire -41 9 £500 +17.65% 5
South East -68 9 £575 +21.05% 25
East of England -27 5 £625 +23.76% 2
East Midlands -15 4 £600 +46.34% 2
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 28 (9.93%) Apache Spark
2 22 (7.80%) Apache
3 12 (4.26%) 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 5 (1.77%) 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
Cloud Services
1 282 (100.00%) Azure
2 171 (60.64%) Azure Data Factory
3 120 (42.55%) Power Platform
4 70 (24.82%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (14.54%) GitHub
6 36 (12.77%) AWS
7 27 (9.57%) Microsoft Purview
8 21 (7.45%) Serverless
9 19 (6.74%) Amazon S3
9 19 (6.74%) Azure Machine Learning
10 18 (6.38%) Azure Monitor
10 18 (6.38%) GCP
11 17 (6.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 16 (5.67%) Azure Key Vault
12 16 (5.67%) dbt
13 15 (5.32%) Snowflake
14 14 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (3.90%) Collibra
17 10 (3.55%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.77%) Firewall
2 4 (1.42%) Network Security
3 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (40.78%) Data Lake
2 113 (40.07%) Power BI
3 89 (31.56%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (20.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 49 (17.38%) Delta Lake
6 32 (11.35%) SQL Server
7 27 (9.57%) Metadata
8 21 (7.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 19 (6.74%) Star Schema
10 18 (6.38%) Spark SQL
11 15 (5.32%) Snowflake Schema
12 14 (4.96%) BigQuery
13 13 (4.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 12 (4.26%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (4.26%) OLAP
15 11 (3.90%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (3.55%) Mixpanel
17 9 (3.19%) OLTP
17 9 (3.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 7 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 39 (13.83%) Git
2 7 (2.48%) JIRA
2 7 (2.48%) MLflow
3 4 (1.42%) ERwin
3 4 (1.42%) GitLab
4 3 (1.06%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.71%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.71%) Selenium
5 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.35%) Postman
6 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 69 (24.47%) Finance
2 58 (20.57%) Social Skills
3 42 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (12.77%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (3.55%) Retail
6 8 (2.84%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.13%) Law
8 5 (1.77%) Legal
9 4 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.42%) Marketing
9 4 (1.42%) Military
10 3 (1.06%) Banking
10 3 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Local Government
11 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Publishing
12 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 141 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 58 (20.57%) Architect
3 55 (19.50%) Senior
4 40 (14.18%) Data Architect
5 38 (13.48%) Azure Engineer
6 35 (12.41%) Senior Data Engineer
7 32 (11.35%) Azure Data Engineer
8 28 (9.93%) Azure Architect
9 21 (7.45%) Lead
10 20 (7.09%) Azure Data Architect
11 17 (6.03%) Lead Data Engineer
12 16 (5.67%) Analyst
13 14 (4.96%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (4.61%) Developer
15 12 (4.26%) Data Analyst
16 10 (3.55%) Informatica Engineer
16 10 (3.55%) Principal Engineer
17 9 (3.19%) Microsoft Engineer
17 9 (3.19%) Migration Engineer
17 9 (3.19%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (26.60%) PySpark
2 28 (9.93%) Kafka
3 16 (5.67%) JSON
4 12 (4.26%) Great Expectations
5 9 (3.19%) Pandas
5 9 (3.19%) XML
6 8 (2.84%) REST
6 8 (2.84%) YAML
7 7 (2.48%) .NET
8 4 (1.42%) pytest
9 3 (1.06%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.06%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.06%) NumPy
10 2 (0.71%) ADO
10 2 (0.71%) JSON-LD
10 2 (0.71%) Matplotlib
10 2 (0.71%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.71%) Swagger
10 2 (0.71%) TensorFlow
10 2 (0.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.48%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (3.90%) IoT
4 8 (2.84%) SCADA
5 6 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.77%) Data Fabric
6 5 (1.77%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.77%) NHS
6 5 (1.77%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.42%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.42%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.42%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.06%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.06%) Replication
8 3 (1.06%) Taxonomies
8 3 (1.06%) Wiki
9 2 (0.71%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.71%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.71%) Unix
1 2 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (64.89%) Analytics
2 143 (50.71%) Data Modelling
3 142 (50.35%) Data Pipeline
4 141 (50.00%) ETL
5 129 (45.74%) Data Engineering
6 118 (41.84%) Business Intelligence
7 115 (40.78%) CI/CD
8 105 (37.23%) DevOps
9 92 (32.62%) Data Governance
10 71 (25.18%) AI
11 69 (24.47%) Migration
12 61 (21.63%) Data Architecture
13 57 (20.21%) Infrastructure as Code
13 57 (20.21%) Machine Learning
14 50 (17.73%) Agile
15 47 (16.67%) Data Transformation
16 42 (14.89%) Data Science
16 42 (14.89%) Decision-Making
17 41 (14.54%) Data Integration
18 39 (13.83%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 206 (73.05%) SQL
2 145 (51.42%) Python
3 26 (9.22%) T-SQL
4 24 (8.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 23 (8.16%) Bicep
5 23 (8.16%) C#
6 14 (4.96%) PowerShell
7 11 (3.90%) Scala
8 4 (1.42%) R
9 2 (0.71%) Bash
9 2 (0.71%) Cypher
9 2 (0.71%) Gremlin
9 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.71%) 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 55 (19.50%) Security Cleared
2 47 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.45%) Azure Certification
4 18 (6.38%) Degree
5 12 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.13%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.42%) PhD
9 2 (0.71%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.71%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.71%) Tableau Certification
9 2 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.35%) CBAP
10 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (34.40%) Data Quality
2 37 (13.12%) GDPR
3 21 (7.45%) QA
4 6 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.06%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (1.06%) IFRS
5 3 (1.06%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.71%) PMO
6 2 (0.71%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.35%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.35%) MiFID
7 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (6.74%) Docker
2 5 (1.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (20.92%) Terraform
2 16 (5.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 139 (49.29%) Microsoft
2 132 (46.81%) Databricks
3 21 (7.45%) Informatica
4 11 (3.90%) Google
5 9 (3.19%) SAP
6 8 (2.84%) Foundry
7 7 (2.48%) Oracle
8 5 (1.77%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.06%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.71%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.71%) Infor
10 2 (0.71%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.35%) Cognos
11 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.35%) SimCorp