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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 343 393
Rank change year-on-year -12 +50 +28
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 283 169 154
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.62% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.79% 1.65% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 132 112
10th Percentile £381 £363 £413
25th Percentile £425 £425 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -5.24% -7.08%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £605
90th Percentile £750 £700 £686
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £525
% change year-on-year +3.63% -8.10% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £21.50 - -
75th Percentile £21.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.50 - -

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 15,795 10,260 11,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.39% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,541 6,939 8,158
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 270 261
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.27 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.58 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.63% +16.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £84.88 £67.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
% change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%

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 28 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 28 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 -22 169 £513 +2.50% 23
Midlands -13 52 £493 +20.12% 7
West Midlands -17 45 £493 +6.49% 7
North of England -51 30 £506 +6.58% 6
North West -34 18 £550 +15.79% 2
South East -70 11 £613 +28.95% 12
South West -26 10 £500 -13.04%
Yorkshire -34 10 £490 +15.29% 4
East Midlands -12 4 £600 +46.34%
East of England -21 4 £613 +15.57% 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 24 (8.48%) Apache Spark
2 20 (7.07%) Apache
3 15 (5.30%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.77%) Confluence
5 3 (1.06%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 6 (2.12%) 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
2 1 (0.35%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 283 (100.00%) Azure
2 170 (60.07%) Azure Data Factory
3 117 (41.34%) Power Platform
4 72 (25.44%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (13.07%) AWS
6 33 (11.66%) GitHub
7 30 (10.60%) Microsoft Purview
8 21 (7.42%) Azure Machine Learning
8 21 (7.42%) Serverless
9 20 (7.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 19 (6.71%) dbt
11 17 (6.01%) GCP
12 16 (5.65%) Amazon S3
13 15 (5.30%) Snowflake
14 14 (4.95%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (4.59%) Azure Key Vault
16 11 (3.89%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
18 9 (3.18%) Azure Functions
19 8 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.77%) Firewall
2 4 (1.41%) Network Security
3 1 (0.35%) DNS
3 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (39.22%) Power BI
2 108 (38.16%) Data Lake
3 97 (34.28%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (19.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 44 (15.55%) Delta Lake
6 31 (10.95%) SQL Server
7 26 (9.19%) Metadata
7 26 (9.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 23 (8.13%) Star Schema
9 17 (6.01%) Spark SQL
10 16 (5.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 15 (5.30%) Snowflake Schema
12 13 (4.59%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (4.24%) BigQuery
14 10 (3.53%) OLAP
14 10 (3.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 9 (3.18%) Data Vault
15 9 (3.18%) Relational Database
15 9 (3.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 8 (2.83%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 36 (12.72%) Git
2 8 (2.83%) JIRA
3 6 (2.12%) MLflow
4 4 (1.41%) ERwin
4 4 (1.41%) GitLab
5 3 (1.06%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.71%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.71%) Selenium
6 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.35%) Postman
7 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 63 (22.26%) Finance
2 60 (21.20%) Social Skills
3 48 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (15.19%) Public Sector
5 13 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.18%) Retail
7 8 (2.83%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.47%) Law
9 4 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.41%) Legal
9 4 (1.41%) Marketing
10 3 (1.06%) Banking
10 3 (1.06%) Local Government
10 3 (1.06%) Military
11 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Publishing
12 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 143 (50.53%) Data Engineer
2 58 (20.49%) Architect
3 53 (18.73%) Senior
4 42 (14.84%) Azure Engineer
5 41 (14.49%) Data Architect
6 36 (12.72%) Azure Data Engineer
7 34 (12.01%) Senior Data Engineer
8 25 (8.83%) Azure Architect
9 23 (8.13%) Lead
10 19 (6.71%) Azure Data Architect
11 18 (6.36%) Analyst
12 16 (5.65%) Lead Data Engineer
13 14 (4.95%) Data Analyst
14 13 (4.59%) Developer
15 12 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
16 10 (3.53%) Informatica Engineer
17 9 (3.18%) Business Analyst
17 9 (3.18%) Data Business Analyst
17 9 (3.18%) Migration Engineer
18 7 (2.47%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (24.73%) PySpark
2 28 (9.89%) Kafka
3 17 (6.01%) JSON
4 9 (3.18%) XML
4 9 (3.18%) YAML
5 8 (2.83%) Great Expectations
5 8 (2.83%) Pandas
5 8 (2.83%) REST
6 7 (2.47%) .NET
7 4 (1.41%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.41%) pytest
8 3 (1.06%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.06%) JSON-LD
8 3 (1.06%) NetworkX
8 3 (1.06%) NumPy
9 2 (0.71%) ADO
9 2 (0.71%) Matplotlib
9 2 (0.71%) Playwright
9 2 (0.71%) scikit-learn
9 2 (0.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.07%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.36%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (3.89%) IoT
4 8 (2.83%) SCADA
5 7 (2.47%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.47%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.12%) Data Fabric
6 6 (2.12%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.77%) NHS
8 4 (1.41%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.41%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.41%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.41%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.06%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.06%) Housing Association
9 3 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.06%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.06%) Replication
9 3 (1.06%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.71%) Unix
1 2 (0.71%) VMS
2 1 (0.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (65.02%) Analytics
2 147 (51.94%) Data Modelling
3 145 (51.24%) Data Pipeline
4 140 (49.47%) Data Engineering
5 138 (48.76%) ETL
6 119 (42.05%) Business Intelligence
7 108 (38.16%) CI/CD
8 105 (37.10%) DevOps
9 88 (31.10%) Data Governance
10 74 (26.15%) Migration
11 63 (22.26%) AI
12 61 (21.55%) Data Architecture
13 54 (19.08%) Machine Learning
14 51 (18.02%) Infrastructure as Code
15 49 (17.31%) Agile
15 49 (17.31%) Data Transformation
16 44 (15.55%) Data Integration
16 44 (15.55%) Validation
17 41 (14.49%) Data Science
18 39 (13.78%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 201 (71.02%) SQL
2 138 (48.76%) Python
3 27 (9.54%) T-SQL
4 25 (8.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 21 (7.42%) Bicep
6 19 (6.71%) C#
7 12 (4.24%) PowerShell
8 8 (2.83%) Scala
9 4 (1.41%) R
10 3 (1.06%) Bash
10 3 (1.06%) Cypher
10 3 (1.06%) Gremlin
10 3 (1.06%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.06%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.35%) C
11 1 (0.35%) Java
11 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (22.61%) Security Cleared
2 56 (19.79%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.77%) Azure Certification
4 18 (6.36%) Degree
5 8 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.41%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.41%) PhD
8 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.71%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.71%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.71%) Tableau Certification
8 2 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.35%) CBAP
9 1 (0.35%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (32.16%) Data Quality
2 34 (12.01%) GDPR
3 20 (7.07%) QA
4 9 (3.18%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.06%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (1.06%) IFRS
6 3 (1.06%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.71%) PMO
7 2 (0.71%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.35%) GRC
8 1 (0.35%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.35%) MiFID
8 1 (0.35%) NIST
8 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (6.71%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (18.37%) Terraform
2 20 (7.07%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.71%) Grafana
4 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 142 (50.18%) Microsoft
2 120 (42.40%) Databricks
3 21 (7.42%) Informatica
4 9 (3.18%) SAP
5 8 (2.83%) Google
6 7 (2.47%) Foundry
6 7 (2.47%) Oracle
7 6 (2.12%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.71%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.71%) Infor
8 2 (0.71%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.71%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.71%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.35%) Cognos
9 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.35%) IBM
9 1 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.35%) SimCorp