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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 357 402
Rank change year-on-year +25 +45 +63
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 212 148 163
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.51% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 1.39% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 88 122
10th Percentile £375 £371 £401
25th Percentile £430 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% -4.64%
75th Percentile £614 £628 £638
90th Percentile £673 £695 £699
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 -

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 11,998 10,622 13,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.15% 36.66% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,240 7,102 9,536
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 134 249
10th Percentile £14.93 £17.13 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.21 £30.00 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +29.09% +3.29%
75th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.50 £68.75 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £26.86 £27.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.23% +11.00% +11.11%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 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 +46 145 £525 -1.41% 48
Midlands -34 25 £600 +4.35% 22
West Midlands -30 21 £600 +4.35% 11
North of England -44 17 £463 +8.82% 28
South East -33 11 £550 -12.00% 41
North West -23 7 £525 +23.53% 17
North East -6 5 £438 +22.21% 3
Yorkshire -39 5 £438 -7.89% 8
East Midlands - 4 £575 - 11
East of England - 3 £625 - 19
South West -11 1 - - 9
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 23 (10.85%) Apache Spark
2 21 (9.91%) Apache
3 15 (7.08%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.94%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.47%) CMS
5 1 (0.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.42%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.47%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.47%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 212 (100.00%) Azure
2 133 (62.74%) Azure Data Factory
3 90 (42.45%) Power Platform
4 57 (26.89%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (13.21%) AWS
6 23 (10.85%) Dynamics 365
6 23 (10.85%) Snowflake
7 20 (9.43%) GCP
7 20 (9.43%) GitHub
8 19 (8.96%) Azure Machine Learning
8 19 (8.96%) Microsoft Purview
8 19 (8.96%) Serverless
9 18 (8.49%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (8.02%) dbt
11 15 (7.08%) Azure Functions
12 13 (6.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 13 (6.13%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (5.66%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (5.66%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (5.66%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.94%) Firewall
1 2 (0.94%) VPN
2 1 (0.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (47.17%) Data Lake
2 82 (38.68%) Power BI
3 65 (30.66%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (16.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (11.79%) Delta Lake
5 25 (11.79%) Metadata
6 24 (11.32%) SQL Server
7 14 (6.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (6.60%) BigQuery
7 14 (6.60%) Snowflake Schema
8 12 (5.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (4.72%) Power Query
10 8 (3.77%) Star Schema
11 7 (3.30%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (3.30%) Data Vault
11 7 (3.30%) Mixpanel
11 7 (3.30%) OLAP
11 7 (3.30%) OLTP
12 6 (2.83%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.83%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (9.91%) Git
2 6 (2.83%) MLflow
3 3 (1.42%) JIRA
3 3 (1.42%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.42%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.94%) ERwin
4 2 (0.94%) GCC
5 1 (0.47%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.47%) Poetry
5 1 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.47%) Pylint
General
1 70 (33.02%) Social Skills
2 41 (19.34%) Finance
3 30 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.91%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.89%) Billing
6 4 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.89%) Marketing
7 3 (1.42%) Banking
7 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.42%) Retail
8 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.94%) Law
9 1 (0.47%) Automotive
9 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.47%) Legal
9 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Publishing
9 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (41.04%) Data Engineer
2 49 (23.11%) Architect
3 35 (16.51%) Azure Engineer
4 28 (13.21%) Azure Data Engineer
5 27 (12.74%) Data Architect
6 22 (10.38%) Developer
7 19 (8.96%) Azure Architect
7 19 (8.96%) Lead
8 13 (6.13%) Senior
9 9 (4.25%) Enterprise Architect
10 8 (3.77%) Azure Data Architect
10 8 (3.77%) Dynamics 365 Architect
11 7 (3.30%) Business Architect
11 7 (3.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (3.30%) Lead Data Engineer
12 6 (2.83%) Azure Developer
12 6 (2.83%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 6 (2.83%) Principal Data Engineer
12 6 (2.83%) Principal Engineer
12 6 (2.83%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (27.36%) PySpark
2 15 (7.08%) Kafka
3 9 (4.25%) Great Expectations
4 6 (2.83%) PyTorch
4 6 (2.83%) TensorFlow
5 5 (2.36%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.36%) REST
5 5 (2.36%) scikit-learn
5 5 (2.36%) YAML
6 3 (1.42%) ADO
6 3 (1.42%) Celery
6 3 (1.42%) JSON
6 3 (1.42%) pytest
7 2 (0.94%) .NET
7 2 (0.94%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.94%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.94%) FHIR
7 2 (0.94%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.94%) Pandas
7 2 (0.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.43%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.66%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.77%) Data Fabric
4 8 (3.77%) IoT
5 7 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.36%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (2.36%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.42%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.42%) Replication
7 3 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.94%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.47%) Life Science
9 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (59.91%) Analytics
2 103 (48.58%) Data Modelling
3 95 (44.81%) ETL
4 90 (42.45%) Business Intelligence
4 90 (42.45%) DevOps
5 88 (41.51%) Data Engineering
6 86 (40.57%) Data Pipeline
7 85 (40.09%) CI/CD
8 84 (39.62%) Data Governance
9 48 (22.64%) Data Architecture
10 45 (21.23%) AI
11 44 (20.75%) Machine Learning
12 41 (19.34%) Migration
13 39 (18.40%) Agile
13 39 (18.40%) Data Integration
14 38 (17.92%) Infrastructure as Code
15 33 (15.57%) Data Transformation
16 29 (13.68%) RBAC
17 27 (12.74%) Performance Tuning
18 26 (12.26%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 147 (69.34%) SQL
2 98 (46.23%) Python
3 20 (9.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 19 (8.96%) T-SQL
5 16 (7.55%) Bicep
6 9 (4.25%) C#
6 9 (4.25%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.77%) R
8 7 (3.30%) Scala
9 3 (1.42%) Java
9 3 (1.42%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.42%) X++
10 2 (0.94%) Korn
10 2 (0.94%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.47%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.47%) Bash
11 1 (0.47%) C++
11 1 (0.47%) Go
Qualifications
1 29 (13.68%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.79%) Azure Certification
3 22 (10.38%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.30%) Degree
4 7 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.89%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.94%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.47%) PhD
8 1 (0.47%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.47%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (21.70%) Data Quality
2 31 (14.62%) GDPR
3 6 (2.83%) QA
4 4 (1.89%) HIPAA
4 4 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.89%) NIST
5 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.94%) MiFID
5 2 (0.94%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.47%) Basel II
6 1 (0.47%) Basel III
6 1 (0.47%) GRC
6 1 (0.47%) IFRS
6 1 (0.47%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 14 (6.60%) Docker
2 6 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (18.87%) Terraform
2 18 (8.49%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.42%) Grafana
3 3 (1.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 130 (61.32%) Databricks
2 79 (37.26%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.66%) Google
4 7 (3.30%) Oracle
5 6 (2.83%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.36%) Informatica
6 5 (2.36%) SAP
7 2 (0.94%) Ab Initio
7 2 (0.94%) Foundry
7 2 (0.94%) RedGate
7 2 (0.94%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.94%) Teradata
7 2 (0.94%) Workday
8 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.47%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.47%) Palantir
8 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.47%) Sparx
8 1 (0.47%) UiPath
8 1 (0.47%) Veeam