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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 367 405
Rank change year-on-year +41 +38 +91
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 190 162 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.68% 0.49% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.82% 1.42% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 104 144
10th Percentile £363 £413 £413
25th Percentile £418 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £652
90th Percentile £713 £662 £796
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%

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 10,461 11,377 15,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.65% 34.54% 35.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,080 7,754 11,046
10th Percentile £305 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 175 298
10th Percentile £15.35 £14.31 £14.44
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.24 £68.75
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.68% -11.43% +62.79%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure Synapse Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Synapse Analytics 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +43 128 £525 - 59
Midlands -4 24 £581 -4.08% 12
West Midlands -3 19 £594 -2.02% 10
South East +12 14 £475 -11.63% 36
North of England -15 9 £475 +5.56% 16
East of England +10 6 £530 +135.56% 8
North West -16 5 £475 +8.57% 11
East Midlands - 5 £480 - 2
Yorkshire -15 4 £425 -22.73% 1
South West +22 1 - - 5
Azure Synapse Analytics
UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (7.89%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (6.84%) Apache
3 11 (5.79%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.58%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.63%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.11%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.53%) Endur
3 1 (0.53%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.53%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 190 (100.00%) Azure
2 124 (65.26%) Azure Data Factory
3 91 (47.89%) Power Platform
4 47 (24.74%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (11.58%) Microsoft Purview
6 21 (11.05%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (8.42%) Snowflake
8 15 (7.89%) Azure Machine Learning
9 14 (7.37%) GitHub
9 14 (7.37%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (6.84%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (6.84%) dbt
10 13 (6.84%) Serverless
11 11 (5.79%) AWS
11 11 (5.79%) Azure AKS
11 11 (5.79%) GCP
12 10 (5.26%) Azure Functions
13 9 (4.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (3.68%) Azure Logic Apps
15 6 (3.16%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.58%) DNS
1 3 (1.58%) Firewall
1 3 (1.58%) FTP
1 3 (1.58%) HTTP
1 3 (1.58%) SMTP
1 3 (1.58%) SSL
1 3 (1.58%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (45.26%) Power BI
2 83 (43.68%) Data Lake
3 49 (25.79%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 22 (11.58%) Delta Lake
5 22 (11.58%) SQL Server
6 12 (6.32%) Metadata
7 11 (5.79%) Snowflake Schema
8 10 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (4.74%) Big Data
9 9 (4.74%) NoSQL
10 7 (3.68%) BigQuery
10 7 (3.68%) Relational Database
10 7 (3.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (3.16%) Tableau
12 5 (2.63%) Power Query
13 4 (2.11%) GIS
13 4 (2.11%) InfluxDB
13 4 (2.11%) Star Schema
14 3 (1.58%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 13 (6.84%) Git
2 4 (2.11%) ERwin
3 3 (1.58%) JIRA
4 2 (1.05%) GCC
4 2 (1.05%) MLflow
4 2 (1.05%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.53%) JMeter
5 1 (0.53%) Locust
5 1 (0.53%) Poetry
5 1 (0.53%) Postman
5 1 (0.53%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.53%) Pylint
5 1 (0.53%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.53%) Selenium
General
1 56 (29.47%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.84%) Finance
3 18 (9.47%) Public Sector
4 16 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.79%) Retail
6 6 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.63%) Banking
8 4 (2.11%) Local Government
9 3 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.05%) Marketing
10 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Automotive
11 1 (0.53%) Back Office
11 1 (0.53%) Billing
11 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Legal
11 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 78 (41.05%) Data Engineer
2 43 (22.63%) Azure Engineer
3 41 (21.58%) Architect
4 38 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
5 24 (12.63%) Data Architect
6 20 (10.53%) Azure Architect
7 18 (9.47%) Developer
7 18 (9.47%) Senior
8 15 (7.89%) Analyst
9 12 (6.32%) Azure Data Architect
10 11 (5.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 9 (4.74%) Data Analyst
11 9 (4.74%) Lead
12 7 (3.68%) Cloud Architect
13 6 (3.16%) Senior Data Engineer
14 5 (2.63%) Business Architect
14 5 (2.63%) Dynamics 365 Architect
14 5 (2.63%) Enterprise Architect
14 5 (2.63%) Lead Data Engineer
14 5 (2.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (22.63%) PySpark
2 13 (6.84%) Kafka
3 8 (4.21%) YAML
4 7 (3.68%) PyTorch
4 7 (3.68%) TensorFlow
5 5 (2.63%) scikit-learn
6 4 (2.11%) JSON
7 3 (1.58%) .NET
7 3 (1.58%) Celery
7 3 (1.58%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.58%) pytest
8 2 (1.05%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.05%) REST
9 1 (0.53%) Anaconda
9 1 (0.53%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (0.53%) BentoML
9 1 (0.53%) MERN Stack
9 1 (0.53%) Middleware
9 1 (0.53%) SOAP
9 1 (0.53%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.26%) IoT
1 10 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (4.74%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.21%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.16%) Data Fabric
4 6 (3.16%) Reinsurance
5 5 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.11%) SCADA
6 4 (2.11%) Smart Meter
7 3 (1.58%) Housing Association
7 3 (1.58%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.05%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.05%) Replication
8 2 (1.05%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.53%) Life Science
9 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.53%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (52.11%) Analytics
2 92 (48.42%) Data Modelling
3 85 (44.74%) Business Intelligence
4 78 (41.05%) ETL
5 72 (37.89%) Data Pipeline
5 72 (37.89%) DevOps
6 68 (35.79%) Data Engineering
7 59 (31.05%) CI/CD
8 58 (30.53%) Data Governance
9 35 (18.42%) Visualisation
10 34 (17.89%) Agile
10 34 (17.89%) Data Integration
10 34 (17.89%) Machine Learning
11 32 (16.84%) Artificial Intelligence
12 30 (15.79%) Migration
13 27 (14.21%) Data Transformation
13 27 (14.21%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (13.68%) Data Architecture
15 22 (11.58%) Data Ingestion
16 21 (11.05%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 130 (68.42%) SQL
2 86 (45.26%) Python
3 16 (8.42%) Bicep
4 14 (7.37%) T-SQL
5 13 (6.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 11 (5.79%) PowerShell
6 11 (5.79%) R
7 7 (3.68%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (3.16%) C#
8 6 (3.16%) Scala
9 4 (2.11%) Java
9 4 (2.11%) X++
10 2 (1.05%) Korn
11 1 (0.53%) C++
11 1 (0.53%) Go
Qualifications
1 42 (22.11%) Security Cleared
2 34 (17.89%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.63%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.63%) Degree
6 4 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.53%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.53%) PMP
8 1 (0.53%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.53%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (20.53%) Data Quality
2 21 (11.05%) GDPR
3 16 (8.42%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.11%) NIST
5 4 (2.11%) QA
6 2 (1.05%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.53%) IFRS
7 1 (0.53%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.53%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.53%) MiFID
7 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (8.95%) Docker
2 4 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (15.79%) Terraform
2 17 (8.95%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.16%) Grafana
4 3 (1.58%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.53%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (46.84%) Databricks
2 77 (40.53%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.74%) Oracle
4 8 (4.21%) Informatica
5 7 (3.68%) Google
5 7 (3.68%) SAP
6 5 (2.63%) Palantir
7 4 (2.11%) Dataiku
7 4 (2.11%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.58%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.58%) Teradata
9 2 (1.05%) Aareon
9 2 (1.05%) Civica
9 2 (1.05%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.05%) Northgate
10 1 (0.53%) DataRobot
10 1 (0.53%) IBM
10 1 (0.53%) Sparx
10 1 (0.53%) VMware
10 1 (0.53%) Workday