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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 321 365
Rank change year-on-year -76 +44 +54
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 252 187 167
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.68% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 1.78% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 149 104
10th Percentile £363 £363 £413
25th Percentile £425 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £589 £625 £613
90th Percentile £710 £715 £662
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -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 15,949 10,507 11,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.43% 38.13% 34.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,636 7,122 7,511
10th Percentile £319 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £532
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.83% -3.36%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 550 245 162
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.09 £15.98
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%
75th Percentile £69.80 £43.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.30 £33.54
% change year-on-year +14.07% -21.59% +1.64%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -45 162 £500 -9.09% 71
Midlands -34 36 £463 -20.43% 19
North of England -56 28 £495 +4.21% 25
West Midlands -41 26 £450 -24.21% 13
North West -41 14 £550 +15.79% 13
Yorkshire -32 12 £420 -1.18% 8
East Midlands -12 10 £500 +4.17% 6
South West -32 8 £500 - 8
South East -74 8 £613 +28.95% 18
North East -39 2 - - 5
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 29 (11.51%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (7.54%) Apache Spark
3 12 (4.76%) Apache
4 7 (2.78%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.79%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.59%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) SAP BPC
1 2 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.40%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 252 (100.00%) Azure
2 163 (64.68%) Azure Data Factory
3 106 (42.06%) Power Platform
4 72 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (15.48%) AWS
6 31 (12.30%) Microsoft Purview
7 29 (11.51%) Snowflake
8 28 (11.11%) dbt
8 28 (11.11%) GitHub
9 20 (7.94%) Azure Databricks
10 17 (6.75%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (6.75%) Serverless
11 16 (6.35%) Entra ID
12 14 (5.56%) GCP
12 14 (5.56%) SaaS
13 13 (5.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 13 (5.16%) Azure Machine Learning
13 13 (5.16%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (5.16%) Power Automate
14 12 (4.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.97%) Firewall
2 2 (0.79%) DNS
3 1 (0.40%) Network Security
3 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (39.68%) Power BI
2 87 (34.52%) Data Lake
3 82 (32.54%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (15.87%) Metadata
5 36 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 31 (12.30%) SQL Server
7 30 (11.90%) Delta Lake
8 20 (7.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (7.94%) Star Schema
9 19 (7.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 15 (5.95%) Data Vault
11 14 (5.56%) NoSQL
12 11 (4.37%) Spark SQL
13 10 (3.97%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 10 (3.97%) Semantic Layer
14 9 (3.57%) BigQuery
14 9 (3.57%) Parquet
14 9 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (3.57%) Power Query
14 9 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (9.52%) Git
2 7 (2.78%) GitLab
3 6 (2.38%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.98%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.59%) MLflow
5 4 (1.59%) Terragrunt
6 3 (1.19%) JIRA
7 2 (0.79%) ERwin
7 2 (0.79%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.40%) Postman
8 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 61 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 51 (20.24%) Finance
3 39 (15.48%) Public Sector
4 38 (15.08%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.95%) Retail
6 11 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.37%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.38%) Law
8 5 (1.98%) Local Government
9 4 (1.59%) Banking
9 4 (1.59%) Billing
9 4 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.59%) Legal
10 3 (1.19%) Marketing
10 3 (1.19%) Military
10 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.79%) Publishing
12 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.40%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 110 (43.65%) Data Engineer
2 56 (22.22%) Architect
3 44 (17.46%) Azure Engineer
4 41 (16.27%) Data Architect
5 36 (14.29%) Senior
6 33 (13.10%) Azure Data Engineer
7 26 (10.32%) Lead
8 25 (9.92%) Senior Data Engineer
9 19 (7.54%) Developer
10 17 (6.75%) Analyst
11 15 (5.95%) Data Analyst
12 13 (5.16%) Azure Architect
12 13 (5.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 12 (4.76%) Power BI Developer
14 11 (4.37%) Azure Data Architect
15 9 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
15 9 (3.57%) Lead Data Engineer
16 8 (3.17%) Migration Engineer
16 8 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
17 7 (2.78%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (24.21%) PySpark
2 41 (16.27%) Terraform
3 22 (8.73%) Kafka
4 9 (3.57%) JSON
5 7 (2.78%) pytest
6 6 (2.38%) YAML
7 5 (1.98%) .NET
7 5 (1.98%) REST
8 4 (1.59%) Pandas
9 3 (1.19%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.19%) JSON-LD
9 3 (1.19%) NetworkX
9 3 (1.19%) XML
10 2 (0.79%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.79%) ADO
10 2 (0.79%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.79%) NumPy
10 2 (0.79%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.79%) TensorFlow
10 2 (0.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.30%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.37%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.57%) Reinsurance
5 8 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.78%) Reference Data
7 6 (2.38%) Data Fabric
7 6 (2.38%) IoT
7 6 (2.38%) SCADA
8 5 (1.98%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.98%) NHS
8 5 (1.98%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.19%) Housing Association
9 3 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.19%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.79%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.59%) Linux
2 2 (0.79%) Unix
2 2 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (67.86%) Analytics
2 133 (52.78%) Data Modelling
3 126 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 112 (44.44%) Data Engineering
5 107 (42.46%) Business Intelligence
6 104 (41.27%) CI/CD
6 104 (41.27%) ETL
7 103 (40.87%) DevOps
8 85 (33.73%) Data Governance
8 85 (33.73%) Migration
9 55 (21.83%) Data Architecture
10 53 (21.03%) Lakehouse
11 51 (20.24%) Data Integration
12 50 (19.84%) AI
13 48 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
14 47 (18.65%) Agile
15 45 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
16 41 (16.27%) Data Transformation
16 41 (16.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 39 (15.48%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 181 (71.83%) SQL
2 111 (44.05%) Python
3 25 (9.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 17 (6.75%) T-SQL
5 16 (6.35%) Bicep
6 10 (3.97%) Bash
6 10 (3.97%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.38%) C#
7 6 (2.38%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.19%) Cypher
8 3 (1.19%) Gremlin
8 3 (1.19%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.19%) SPARQL
9 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.79%) R
9 2 (0.79%) Scala
10 1 (0.40%) C
10 1 (0.40%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 57 (22.62%) Security Cleared
2 49 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.13%) Azure Certification
4 9 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (3.17%) Degree
6 4 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.59%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.79%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.79%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.40%) CCSP
9 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.40%) CISSP
9 1 (0.40%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (35.32%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.73%) GDPR
3 10 (3.97%) QA
4 9 (3.57%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.19%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (1.19%) IFRS
6 3 (1.19%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.79%) GRC
7 2 (0.79%) NIST
7 2 (0.79%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.40%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.40%) MiFID
8 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (9.13%) Docker
2 3 (1.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (9.92%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.59%) Grafana
2 4 (1.59%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.40%) Ansible
3 1 (0.40%) Control-M
3 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 123 (48.81%) Databricks
2 121 (48.02%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.35%) Informatica
4 10 (3.97%) SAP
5 9 (3.57%) Oracle
6 5 (1.98%) MicroStrategy
6 5 (1.98%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.98%) Talend
7 3 (1.19%) Google
8 2 (0.79%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.79%) GoldenSource
8 2 (0.79%) Infor
8 2 (0.79%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.79%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.40%) Foundry
9 1 (0.40%) IBM
9 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.40%) SimCorp
9 1 (0.40%) Workday