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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 336 381
Rank change year-on-year -21 +45 +34
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 284 172 152
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.62% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 1.68% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 134 104
10th Percentile £378 £363 £407
25th Percentile £425 £425 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.87%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £612
90th Percentile £744 £700 £646
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% -4.55%
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 15,927 10,265 11,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.15% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,624 6,963 7,943
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 268 232
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.08 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.72 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.76 £24.84
% change year-on-year +26.08% +11.76% -29.03%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -36 174 £500 +0.50% 37
Midlands -17 54 £493 -6.19% 6
West Midlands -21 47 £493 -10.45% 5
North of England -55 27 £500 +5.26% 10
North West -27 16 £550 +15.79% 3
South West - 10 £500 - 2
Yorkshire -38 9 £495 +4.21% 6
South East -78 7 £613 +28.95% 20
East Midlands -10 4 £600 +46.34% 1
East of England -23 2 £575 +8.49% 3
North East - 2 - - 2
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 21 (7.39%) Apache Airflow
1 21 (7.39%) Apache Spark
2 17 (5.99%) Apache
3 5 (1.76%) Confluence
4 4 (1.41%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.06%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 8 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.41%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.35%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 284 (100.00%) Azure
2 176 (61.97%) Azure Data Factory
3 120 (42.25%) Power Platform
4 78 (27.46%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (13.03%) AWS
5 37 (13.03%) GitHub
6 33 (11.62%) Microsoft Purview
7 22 (7.75%) dbt
8 19 (6.69%) Serverless
9 18 (6.34%) Azure Machine Learning
9 18 (6.34%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.34%) Snowflake
10 16 (5.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 14 (4.93%) Amazon S3
11 14 (4.93%) GCP
12 12 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (3.87%) Power Automate
14 10 (3.52%) Azure Stack
14 10 (3.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.76%) Firewall
2 2 (0.70%) Network Security
3 1 (0.35%) DNS
3 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (40.85%) Power BI
2 102 (35.92%) Data Lake
3 100 (35.21%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (19.01%) Azure SQL Database
5 43 (15.14%) Delta Lake
6 34 (11.97%) SQL Server
7 29 (10.21%) Star Schema
8 26 (9.15%) Metadata
9 23 (8.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 18 (6.34%) Spark SQL
11 16 (5.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (5.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 15 (5.28%) Snowflake Schema
13 11 (3.87%) Data Vault
13 11 (3.87%) Power Query
14 10 (3.52%) BigQuery
14 10 (3.52%) Relational Database
15 9 (3.17%) NoSQL
16 8 (2.82%) OLAP
16 8 (2.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 31 (10.92%) Git
2 8 (2.82%) JIRA
3 6 (2.11%) GitLab
3 6 (2.11%) MLflow
3 6 (2.11%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.41%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.06%) ERwin
5 3 (1.06%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.70%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.70%) Selenium
6 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.35%) Postman
7 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 66 (23.24%) Finance
2 63 (22.18%) Social Skills
3 46 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (14.79%) Public Sector
5 13 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.23%) Retail
7 9 (3.17%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.46%) Law
9 5 (1.76%) Local Government
10 4 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.41%) Legal
10 4 (1.41%) Marketing
11 3 (1.06%) Banking
11 3 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.06%) Military
12 2 (0.70%) Publishing
13 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.35%) Police
13 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 142 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 52 (18.31%) Architect
3 50 (17.61%) Senior
4 46 (16.20%) Azure Engineer
5 40 (14.08%) Azure Data Engineer
6 39 (13.73%) Data Architect
7 31 (10.92%) Senior Data Engineer
8 27 (9.51%) Lead
9 18 (6.34%) Azure Architect
9 18 (6.34%) Developer
10 17 (5.99%) Analyst
11 15 (5.28%) Azure Data Architect
11 15 (5.28%) Lead Data Engineer
12 14 (4.93%) Data Analyst
13 12 (4.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 11 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (3.52%) Informatica Engineer
16 9 (3.17%) Migration Engineer
17 8 (2.82%) Business Analyst
17 8 (2.82%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (24.30%) PySpark
2 27 (9.51%) Kafka
3 15 (5.28%) JSON
4 8 (2.82%) REST
5 7 (2.46%) .NET
5 7 (2.46%) Pandas
5 7 (2.46%) pytest
5 7 (2.46%) XML
5 7 (2.46%) YAML
6 6 (2.11%) Great Expectations
7 4 (1.41%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.06%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.06%) JSON-LD
8 3 (1.06%) NetworkX
8 3 (1.06%) NumPy
9 2 (0.70%) ADO
9 2 (0.70%) Matplotlib
9 2 (0.70%) Playwright
9 2 (0.70%) Swagger
9 2 (0.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.97%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.34%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (3.87%) IoT
4 10 (3.52%) SCADA
5 7 (2.46%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.46%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.11%) Data Fabric
6 6 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.76%) NHS
8 4 (1.41%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.41%) Product Ownership
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%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.06%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.06%) Replication
10 2 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.70%) Unix
1 2 (0.70%) VMS
2 1 (0.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (66.20%) Analytics
2 151 (53.17%) Data Modelling
3 146 (51.41%) Data Pipeline
4 140 (49.30%) Data Engineering
5 136 (47.89%) ETL
6 124 (43.66%) Business Intelligence
7 112 (39.44%) CI/CD
8 108 (38.03%) DevOps
9 87 (30.63%) Data Governance
10 71 (25.00%) Migration
11 65 (22.89%) AI
12 56 (19.72%) Data Architecture
13 53 (18.66%) Machine Learning
14 51 (17.96%) Infrastructure as Code
15 50 (17.61%) Data Transformation
16 48 (16.90%) Agile
17 47 (16.55%) Data Integration
18 45 (15.85%) Validation
19 44 (15.49%) Decision-Making
20 39 (13.73%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 202 (71.13%) SQL
2 136 (47.89%) Python
3 31 (10.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 27 (9.51%) T-SQL
5 20 (7.04%) Bicep
6 15 (5.28%) C#
7 10 (3.52%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.76%) Bash
8 5 (1.76%) Scala
9 4 (1.41%) R
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 66 (23.24%) Security Cleared
2 57 (20.07%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.04%) Azure Certification
4 18 (6.34%) Degree
5 8 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.41%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.41%) PhD
8 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.70%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.70%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.35%) CISSP
9 1 (0.35%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.35%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (32.75%) Data Quality
2 31 (10.92%) GDPR
3 18 (6.34%) QA
4 9 (3.17%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.06%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (1.06%) IFRS
6 3 (1.06%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.70%) PMO
7 2 (0.70%) 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 22 (7.75%) Docker
2 2 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 51 (17.96%) Terraform
2 23 (8.10%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.70%) Grafana
4 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 145 (51.06%) Microsoft
2 120 (42.25%) Databricks
3 23 (8.10%) Informatica
4 10 (3.52%) SAP
5 8 (2.82%) Oracle
6 6 (2.11%) Google
7 4 (1.41%) Foundry
7 4 (1.41%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.06%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (0.70%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.70%) Infor
9 2 (0.70%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.70%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.35%) Cognos
10 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.35%) IBM
10 1 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.35%) SimCorp