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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 363 387
Rank change year-on-year +29 +24 +74
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 208 129 163
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.48% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 1.30% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 76 122
10th Percentile £363 £363 £401
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £666 £695 £700
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 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 11,846 9,889 12,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.06% 36.71% 34.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,191 6,593 9,074
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 132 239
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.31 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +26.47% -
75th Percentile £56.50 £46.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.45 £65.00 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year - +20.88% +1.11%

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 11 January 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 January 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 +57 139 £525 -1.41% 29
Midlands -32 25 £600 +6.67% 18
West Midlands -26 21 £600 +6.67% 6
North of England -33 17 £463 +20.92% 14
South East -18 9 £525 -16.00% 42
North West -22 7 £525 +23.53% 3
North East -8 5 £438 +22.21% 4
Yorkshire -43 5 £438 -12.50% 7
East Midlands - 4 £575 - 12
South West -16 3 £550 +27.54% 8
East of England - 1 - - 12
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 (11.06%) Apache Spark
2 18 (8.65%) Apache
3 11 (5.29%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.48%) CMS
4 1 (0.48%) Confluence
4 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.48%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.48%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 208 (100.00%) Azure
2 136 (65.38%) Azure Data Factory
3 103 (49.52%) Power Platform
4 58 (27.88%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (13.94%) AWS
6 23 (11.06%) GitHub
7 20 (9.62%) Dynamics 365
7 20 (9.62%) GCP
7 20 (9.62%) Microsoft Purview
7 20 (9.62%) Snowflake
8 19 (9.13%) Serverless
9 17 (8.17%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (7.21%) Azure Key Vault
10 15 (7.21%) Azure Machine Learning
10 15 (7.21%) dbt
11 13 (6.25%) Azure Functions
12 12 (5.77%) SaaS
13 11 (5.29%) Amazon S3
13 11 (5.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (5.29%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.48%) Firewall
1 1 (0.48%) Network Security
1 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (50.96%) Data Lake
2 96 (46.15%) Power BI
3 66 (31.73%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (21.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 33 (15.87%) SQL Server
6 28 (13.46%) Metadata
7 23 (11.06%) Delta Lake
8 17 (8.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (6.25%) BigQuery
10 12 (5.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (5.77%) Power Query
10 12 (5.77%) Snowflake Schema
11 10 (4.81%) Spark SQL
12 8 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (3.85%) Mixpanel
12 8 (3.85%) OLAP
12 8 (3.85%) OLTP
12 8 (3.85%) Star Schema
13 7 (3.37%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 7 (3.37%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 20 (9.62%) Git
2 5 (2.40%) MLflow
3 3 (1.44%) JIRA
3 3 (1.44%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.44%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.96%) ERwin
5 1 (0.48%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.48%) GCC
5 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.48%) Poetry
5 1 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.48%) Pylint
General
1 65 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.75%) Finance
3 26 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.10%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.92%) Billing
8 3 (1.44%) Banking
8 3 (1.44%) Marketing
8 3 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.44%) Retail
9 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.96%) Law
9 2 (0.96%) Military
9 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.48%) Legal
10 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 98 (47.12%) Data Engineer
2 42 (20.19%) Architect
3 35 (16.83%) Azure Engineer
4 28 (13.46%) Azure Data Engineer
5 26 (12.50%) Data Architect
6 21 (10.10%) Developer
7 19 (9.13%) Senior
8 18 (8.65%) Lead
9 16 (7.69%) Azure Architect
10 15 (7.21%) Senior Data Engineer
11 10 (4.81%) Azure Data Architect
12 8 (3.85%) Enterprise Architect
13 7 (3.37%) Business Architect
13 7 (3.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 7 (3.37%) Data Analytics Engineer
13 7 (3.37%) Dynamics 365 Architect
13 7 (3.37%) Lead Data Engineer
13 7 (3.37%) Principal Data Engineer
13 7 (3.37%) Principal Engineer
14 6 (2.88%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (30.29%) PySpark
2 15 (7.21%) Kafka
3 10 (4.81%) Great Expectations
4 8 (3.85%) REST
5 6 (2.88%) PyTorch
5 6 (2.88%) TensorFlow
6 5 (2.40%) ARM Templates
6 5 (2.40%) Pandas
6 5 (2.40%) scikit-learn
6 5 (2.40%) YAML
7 3 (1.44%) ADO
7 3 (1.44%) Celery
7 3 (1.44%) JSON
7 3 (1.44%) pytest
8 2 (0.96%) .NET
8 2 (0.96%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.96%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.96%) FHIR
8 2 (0.96%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.96%) React
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.58%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.77%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.29%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.85%) Data Fabric
5 6 (2.88%) IoT
6 5 (2.40%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.44%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.44%) Replication
8 2 (0.96%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.48%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.48%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.48%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (66.83%) Analytics
2 111 (53.37%) Data Modelling
3 103 (49.52%) Business Intelligence
4 99 (47.60%) ETL
5 88 (42.31%) Data Engineering
6 87 (41.83%) CI/CD
6 87 (41.83%) DevOps
7 85 (40.87%) Data Pipeline
8 83 (39.90%) Data Governance
9 54 (25.96%) Data Architecture
10 44 (21.15%) AI
11 39 (18.75%) Agile
12 38 (18.27%) Machine Learning
13 35 (16.83%) Data Integration
13 35 (16.83%) Migration
14 34 (16.35%) Infrastructure as Code
15 29 (13.94%) RBAC
16 28 (13.46%) Data Science
17 24 (11.54%) Data Transformation
17 24 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 155 (74.52%) SQL
2 110 (52.88%) Python
3 24 (11.54%) T-SQL
4 22 (10.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 16 (7.69%) Bicep
6 10 (4.81%) C#
7 8 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.85%) R
8 7 (3.37%) Scala
9 3 (1.44%) Java
9 3 (1.44%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.44%) X++
10 2 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.48%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.48%) Bash
11 1 (0.48%) C++
11 1 (0.48%) Go
11 1 (0.48%) Korn
Qualifications
1 33 (15.87%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.06%) Azure Certification
2 23 (11.06%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (2.88%) Degree
5 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.44%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.96%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (0.96%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.48%) PhD
7 1 (0.48%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.48%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.48%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (27.88%) Data Quality
2 29 (13.94%) GDPR
3 5 (2.40%) QA
4 4 (1.92%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.96%) MiFID
5 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.48%) Basel II
6 1 (0.48%) Basel III
6 1 (0.48%) GRC
6 1 (0.48%) IFRS
6 1 (0.48%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (6.25%) Docker
2 3 (1.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (18.75%) Terraform
2 17 (8.17%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.44%) Grafana
3 3 (1.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 126 (60.58%) Databricks
2 86 (41.35%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.29%) Google
4 6 (2.88%) SAP
5 5 (2.40%) Oracle
5 5 (2.40%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.44%) Informatica
7 2 (0.96%) Ab Initio
7 2 (0.96%) Foundry
7 2 (0.96%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.96%) RedGate
7 2 (0.96%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.96%) Workday
8 1 (0.48%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.48%) Concur
8 1 (0.48%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.48%) Palantir
8 1 (0.48%) Sparx
8 1 (0.48%) UiPath
8 1 (0.48%) Veeam