Azure Synapse Analytics Contracts in England

Azure Synapse Analytics
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Azure Synapse Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Synapse Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 400 432
Rank change year-on-year +25 +32 +56
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 110 142 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.38% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.21% 1.20% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 110 190
10th Percentile £358 £413 £418
25th Percentile £408 £475 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £550 £665 £650
90th Percentile £655 £775 £813
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £35.00

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 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure Synapse Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Synapse Analytics in England

Azure Synapse Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Synapse Analytics in England

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in England

Azure Synapse Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Synapse Analytics in England

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 1 May 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 +22 72 £475 -17.39% 82
North of England +17 11 £375 -21.05% 15
South East +47 9 £470 -6.00% 35
Midlands +13 8 £475 -17.39% 23
West Midlands +7 7 £475 -20.83% 14
North East - 5 £358 -
North West +14 4 £413 -7.30% 7
South West +42 3 £525 -6.67% 7
East of England +30 2 £450 -13.04% 8
Yorkshire +4 2 £375 -21.05% 8
East Midlands +8 1 - - 7
Azure Synapse Analytics
UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (7.27%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.55%) Apache
3 4 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.91%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 110 (100.00%) Azure
2 71 (64.55%) Azure Data Factory
3 45 (40.91%) Power Platform
4 21 (19.09%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 10 (9.09%) Snowflake
7 6 (5.45%) Azure AKS
7 6 (5.45%) Azure Machine Learning
7 6 (5.45%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (5.45%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (5.45%) GitHub
7 6 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.55%) dbt
9 4 (3.64%) AWS
9 4 (3.64%) Serverless
10 3 (2.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (2.73%) Azure Functions
10 3 (2.73%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (2.73%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.73%) DNS
1 3 (2.73%) FTP
1 3 (2.73%) HTTP
1 3 (2.73%) SMTP
1 3 (2.73%) SSL
1 3 (2.73%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.91%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (40.00%) Power BI
2 42 (38.18%) Data Lake
3 23 (20.91%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (14.55%) SQL Server
5 15 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (8.18%) Metadata
6 9 (8.18%) Snowflake Schema
7 8 (7.27%) Big Data
7 8 (7.27%) NoSQL
8 7 (6.36%) Tableau
9 5 (4.55%) Delta Lake
9 5 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (3.64%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.82%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.82%) Metadata Repository
11 2 (1.82%) MySQL
11 2 (1.82%) NewSQL
11 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Git
1 3 (2.73%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.82%) JIRA
2 2 (1.82%) Postman
2 2 (1.82%) Selenium
2 2 (1.82%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.91%) GitLab
3 1 (0.91%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.91%) JMeter
3 1 (0.91%) Locust
3 1 (0.91%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.91%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.36%) Finance
3 17 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.82%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.55%) Banking
5 5 (4.55%) Retail
6 4 (3.64%) Local Government
7 2 (1.82%) Billing
7 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.82%) Electronics
7 2 (1.82%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.82%) Marketing
7 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.82%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.82%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.91%) Back Office
8 1 (0.91%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.91%) Military
8 1 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 58 (52.73%) Data Engineer
2 25 (22.73%) Azure Engineer
3 16 (14.55%) Architect
3 16 (14.55%) Azure Data Engineer
4 13 (11.82%) Senior
5 9 (8.18%) Data Architect
6 8 (7.27%) Senior Data Engineer
7 7 (6.36%) Analyst
8 6 (5.45%) Developer
9 5 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 4 (3.64%) Azure Architect
11 3 (2.73%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 3 (2.73%) Consultant
11 3 (2.73%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.73%) IT Manager
11 3 (2.73%) IT Project Manager
11 3 (2.73%) Senior IT Manager
11 3 (2.73%) Senior IT Project Manager
11 3 (2.73%) Senior Manager
11 3 (2.73%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (29.09%) PySpark
2 7 (6.36%) YAML
3 4 (3.64%) .NET
3 4 (3.64%) JSON
4 3 (2.73%) Kafka
4 3 (2.73%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (2.73%) pytest
4 3 (2.73%) PyTorch
4 3 (2.73%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.82%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.82%) Pandas
5 2 (1.82%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.91%) Middleware
6 1 (0.91%) NumPy
6 1 (0.91%) REST
6 1 (0.91%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (3.64%) Replication
2 3 (2.73%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (2.73%) Housing Association
3 2 (1.82%) Data Fabric
3 2 (1.82%) Educational Technology
3 2 (1.82%) IoT
3 2 (1.82%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.91%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (0.91%) FMCG
4 1 (0.91%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.91%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.91%) Smart City
4 1 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (55.45%) Analytics
2 56 (50.91%) Data Modelling
3 50 (45.45%) ETL
4 46 (41.82%) Data Pipeline
5 41 (37.27%) Business Intelligence
6 35 (31.82%) Data Engineering
6 35 (31.82%) DevOps
7 32 (29.09%) CI/CD
8 25 (22.73%) Visualisation
9 21 (19.09%) Agile
10 20 (18.18%) Data Transformation
11 19 (17.27%) Data Governance
11 19 (17.27%) Machine Learning
12 18 (16.36%) Data Ingestion
12 18 (16.36%) Data Integration
13 16 (14.55%) Data Science
14 14 (12.73%) Dimensional Modelling
14 14 (12.73%) ERP
15 13 (11.82%) Decision-Making
15 13 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 84 (76.36%) SQL
2 53 (48.18%) Python
3 9 (8.18%) PowerShell
3 9 (8.18%) T-SQL
4 7 (6.36%) C#
5 6 (5.45%) Scala
6 5 (4.55%) Bicep
6 5 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (4.55%) R
7 3 (2.73%) Java
7 3 (2.73%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.82%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.91%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.91%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 20 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.45%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.82%) Degree
7 1 (0.91%) CITP
7 1 (0.91%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.36%) Data Quality
2 14 (12.73%) Accessibility
3 8 (7.27%) GDPR
4 7 (6.36%) QA
5 2 (1.82%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (9.09%) Docker
2 3 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (11.82%) Terraform
2 10 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.73%) Grafana
Vendors
1 38 (34.55%) Databricks
2 37 (33.64%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.36%) SAP
4 4 (3.64%) Palantir
5 3 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.82%) Aareon
6 2 (1.82%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.82%) Brio
6 2 (1.82%) Civica
6 2 (1.82%) Informatica
6 2 (1.82%) Liquidlogic
6 2 (1.82%) Northgate
7 1 (0.91%) GoldenSource
7 1 (0.91%) Google
7 1 (0.91%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.91%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.91%) Oracle
7 1 (0.91%) Qualys
7 1 (0.91%) Splunk
7 1 (0.91%) TOWER Software