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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 336 368
Rank change year-on-year -40 +32 +46
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 279 181 156
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.66% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 1.77% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 145 102
10th Percentile £364 £363 £413
25th Percentile £425 £413 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £589 £625 £612
90th Percentile £738 £720 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £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 15,954 10,236 11,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.70% 37.42% 34.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,675 6,912 7,736
10th Percentile £323 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -4.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £723 £732 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 545 257 187
10th Percentile £15.39 £15.40 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £19.97
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.45 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year +29.02% -13.53% -7.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £46.18 £60.83
90th Percentile £82.75 £71.67 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.31 £30.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.03% - -14.29%

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 8 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 8 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 -23 176 £500 - 69
Midlands -27 46 £493 -10.45% 11
West Midlands -25 35 £450 -21.74% 6
North of England -53 29 £490 +3.16% 15
North West -45 14 £550 +15.79% 9
Yorkshire -31 13 £410 -3.53% 5
South West - 9 £485 - 5
East Midlands -8 8 £500 +21.95% 5
South East -77 8 £525 +10.53% 20
North East - 2 - - 1
East of England -27 1 £575 +8.49% 6
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 (10.39%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (8.24%) Apache Spark
3 14 (5.02%) Apache
4 7 (2.51%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.72%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.43%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) SAP BPC
1 2 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.36%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.36%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 279 (100.00%) Azure
2 175 (62.72%) Azure Data Factory
3 117 (41.94%) Power Platform
4 82 (29.39%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (15.05%) AWS
6 38 (13.62%) GitHub
7 32 (11.47%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (9.68%) Azure Databricks
8 27 (9.68%) dbt
8 27 (9.68%) Snowflake
9 21 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (7.53%) Serverless
10 17 (6.09%) GCP
11 16 (5.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 16 (5.73%) Azure Machine Learning
12 14 (5.02%) Power Automate
13 13 (4.66%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (4.66%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (4.30%) Amazon S3
14 12 (4.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.94%) Firewall
2 2 (0.72%) DNS
3 1 (0.36%) Network Security
3 1 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (39.78%) Power BI
2 99 (35.48%) Data Lake
3 93 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (17.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 38 (13.62%) Delta Lake
5 38 (13.62%) Metadata
5 38 (13.62%) SQL Server
6 28 (10.04%) Star Schema
7 22 (7.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (7.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (5.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 15 (5.38%) NoSQL
9 15 (5.38%) Spark SQL
10 14 (5.02%) Data Vault
10 14 (5.02%) Snowflake Schema
11 11 (3.94%) BigQuery
11 11 (3.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 11 (3.94%) Parquet
11 11 (3.94%) Power Query
12 10 (3.58%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 24 (8.60%) Git
2 6 (2.15%) GitLab
2 6 (2.15%) MLflow
2 6 (2.15%) SonarQube
3 5 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.43%) Terragrunt
5 3 (1.08%) JIRA
6 2 (0.72%) ERwin
6 2 (0.72%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.36%) Postman
7 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.36%) Selenium
7 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (22.94%) Finance
2 61 (21.86%) Social Skills
3 47 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (14.34%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.38%) Retail
6 12 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.58%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.87%) Law
9 4 (1.43%) Banking
9 4 (1.43%) Billing
9 4 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.43%) Legal
9 4 (1.43%) Local Government
9 4 (1.43%) Marketing
10 3 (1.08%) Military
10 3 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.72%) Publishing
12 1 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 126 (45.16%) Data Engineer
2 60 (21.51%) Architect
3 47 (16.85%) Azure Engineer
4 46 (16.49%) Data Architect
5 43 (15.41%) Senior
6 37 (13.26%) Azure Data Engineer
7 29 (10.39%) Senior Data Engineer
8 26 (9.32%) Lead
9 18 (6.45%) Analyst
10 16 (5.73%) Data Analyst
10 16 (5.73%) Developer
11 15 (5.38%) Azure Architect
12 13 (4.66%) Azure Data Architect
13 11 (3.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 11 (3.94%) Informatica Engineer
13 11 (3.94%) Lead Data Engineer
13 11 (3.94%) Power BI Developer
13 11 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (3.23%) Migration Engineer
15 8 (2.87%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (23.66%) PySpark
2 50 (17.92%) Terraform
3 28 (10.04%) Kafka
4 12 (4.30%) JSON
5 8 (2.87%) .NET
5 8 (2.87%) REST
6 7 (2.51%) pytest
7 5 (1.79%) Pandas
7 5 (1.79%) YAML
8 4 (1.43%) Great Expectations
8 4 (1.43%) XML
9 3 (1.08%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.08%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.08%) JSON-LD
9 3 (1.08%) NetworkX
10 2 (0.72%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.72%) NumPy
10 2 (0.72%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.72%) Spark Streaming
10 2 (0.72%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.02%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (3.94%) IoT
4 10 (3.58%) SCADA
5 9 (3.23%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.87%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.87%) Reinsurance
7 7 (2.51%) Data Fabric
7 7 (2.51%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.51%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.15%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.79%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.79%) NHS
9 5 (1.79%) Replication
10 3 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.08%) Housing Association
10 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.08%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.08%) Linux
2 2 (0.72%) Unix
3 1 (0.36%) VMS
3 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (66.67%) Analytics
2 147 (52.69%) Data Modelling
3 142 (50.90%) Data Pipeline
4 128 (45.88%) ETL
5 127 (45.52%) Data Engineering
6 118 (42.29%) Business Intelligence
7 115 (41.22%) DevOps
8 114 (40.86%) CI/CD
9 92 (32.97%) Data Governance
10 79 (28.32%) Migration
11 64 (22.94%) AI
12 63 (22.58%) Data Architecture
13 57 (20.43%) Lakehouse
14 56 (20.07%) Infrastructure as Code
15 52 (18.64%) Data Integration
16 49 (17.56%) Data Transformation
16 49 (17.56%) Machine Learning
17 46 (16.49%) Agile
18 43 (15.41%) Stakeholder Management
18 43 (15.41%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 200 (71.68%) SQL
2 123 (44.09%) Python
3 30 (10.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 24 (8.60%) T-SQL
5 20 (7.17%) Bicep
6 13 (4.66%) PowerShell
7 11 (3.94%) C#
8 10 (3.58%) Bash
9 5 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.08%) Cypher
10 3 (1.08%) Gremlin
10 3 (1.08%) R
10 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.08%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.72%) Scala
12 1 (0.36%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 66 (23.66%) Security Cleared
2 57 (20.43%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.24%) Azure Certification
4 13 (4.66%) Degree
5 10 (3.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.43%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.08%) PhD
11 2 (0.72%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.36%) CCSP
12 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.36%) CISSP
12 1 (0.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 1 (0.36%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (35.13%) Data Quality
2 26 (9.32%) GDPR
3 17 (6.09%) QA
4 9 (3.23%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.08%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (1.08%) IFRS
6 3 (1.08%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.72%) GRC
7 2 (0.72%) NIST
7 2 (0.72%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.36%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.36%) MiFID
8 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (9.68%) Docker
2 3 (1.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (10.39%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.43%) Grafana
3 3 (1.08%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.36%) Ansible
4 1 (0.36%) Control-M
4 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 139 (49.82%) Microsoft
2 128 (45.88%) Databricks
3 30 (10.75%) Informatica
4 12 (4.30%) Oracle
4 12 (4.30%) SAP
5 6 (2.15%) Google
6 5 (1.79%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.79%) Talend
7 4 (1.43%) Foundry
7 4 (1.43%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (0.72%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.72%) GoldenSource
8 2 (0.72%) Infor
8 2 (0.72%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.72%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.72%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.36%) Cognos
9 1 (0.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.36%) SimCorp
9 1 (0.36%) Workday