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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 327 372
Rank change year-on-year -67 +45 +39
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 262 178 161
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.65% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.64% 1.72% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 141 103
10th Percentile £363 £363 £413
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £738 £725 £638
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 15,934 10,377 11,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.42% 37.85% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,619 7,014 7,631
10th Percentile £320 £306 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 244 172
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.33 £15.55
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.13
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.73% -21.21% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £64.73
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.18 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% -7.14%

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 22 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 22 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 -29 167 £500 -9.09% 83
Midlands -34 40 £493 -15.27% 16
West Midlands -38 29 £450 -24.21% 10
North of England -51 28 £495 +4.21% 22
North West -42 14 £550 +15.79% 12
Yorkshire -36 12 £420 -1.18% 7
East Midlands -9 10 £500 +4.17% 6
South West -30 8 £500 - 9
South East -69 8 £525 +10.53% 25
North East -34 2 - - 3
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 (11.07%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (7.25%) Apache Spark
3 12 (4.58%) Apache
4 7 (2.67%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.76%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.53%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) SAP BPC
1 2 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.38%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 262 (100.00%) Azure
2 169 (64.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 106 (40.46%) Power Platform
4 73 (27.86%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (14.89%) AWS
6 31 (11.83%) Microsoft Purview
7 30 (11.45%) Snowflake
8 29 (11.07%) GitHub
9 28 (10.69%) dbt
10 21 (8.02%) Azure Databricks
11 17 (6.49%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (6.11%) Entra ID
12 16 (6.11%) Serverless
13 14 (5.34%) GCP
13 14 (5.34%) SaaS
14 13 (4.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 13 (4.96%) Azure Machine Learning
14 13 (4.96%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (4.96%) Power Automate
15 12 (4.58%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.82%) Firewall
2 2 (0.76%) DNS
3 1 (0.38%) Network Security
3 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (38.93%) Power BI
2 91 (34.73%) Data Lake
3 86 (32.82%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (14.89%) Metadata
5 38 (14.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 32 (12.21%) SQL Server
7 31 (11.83%) Delta Lake
8 21 (8.02%) Star Schema
9 20 (7.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (7.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (5.73%) Data Vault
12 13 (4.96%) NoSQL
13 12 (4.58%) Spark SQL
14 10 (3.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 10 (3.82%) Semantic Layer
14 10 (3.82%) Snowflake Schema
15 9 (3.44%) BigQuery
15 9 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
15 9 (3.44%) Power Query
16 8 (3.05%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 24 (9.16%) Git
2 7 (2.67%) GitLab
3 6 (2.29%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.91%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.53%) MLflow
5 4 (1.53%) Terragrunt
6 3 (1.15%) JIRA
7 2 (0.76%) ERwin
7 2 (0.76%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.38%) Postman
8 1 (0.38%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.38%) Selenium
8 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 54 (20.61%) Finance
3 41 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (14.89%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.73%) Retail
6 12 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.20%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.05%) Law
9 5 (1.91%) Local Government
10 4 (1.53%) Banking
10 4 (1.53%) Billing
10 4 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.53%) Legal
11 3 (1.15%) Marketing
11 3 (1.15%) Military
11 3 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.76%) Publishing
13 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.38%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 114 (43.51%) Data Engineer
2 59 (22.52%) Architect
3 46 (17.56%) Azure Engineer
4 43 (16.41%) Data Architect
5 36 (13.74%) Senior
6 35 (13.36%) Azure Data Engineer
7 26 (9.92%) Lead
8 25 (9.54%) Senior Data Engineer
9 18 (6.87%) Developer
10 17 (6.49%) Analyst
11 15 (5.73%) Azure Architect
11 15 (5.73%) Data Analyst
12 13 (4.96%) Azure Data Architect
13 12 (4.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 11 (4.20%) Power BI Developer
15 10 (3.82%) Lead Data Engineer
16 9 (3.44%) Cloud Engineer
17 8 (3.05%) Business Intelligence Architect
17 8 (3.05%) Migration Engineer
17 8 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (23.66%) PySpark
2 43 (16.41%) Terraform
3 22 (8.40%) Kafka
4 9 (3.44%) JSON
5 8 (3.05%) .NET
6 7 (2.67%) pytest
7 6 (2.29%) YAML
8 5 (1.91%) Pandas
8 5 (1.91%) REST
9 3 (1.15%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.15%) JSON-LD
9 3 (1.15%) NetworkX
9 3 (1.15%) XML
10 2 (0.76%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.76%) ADO
10 2 (0.76%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.76%) NumPy
10 2 (0.76%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.76%) TensorFlow
10 2 (0.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.83%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.34%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.82%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.05%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.05%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.05%) Reinsurance
5 7 (2.67%) Reference Data
6 6 (2.29%) Data Fabric
6 6 (2.29%) IoT
6 6 (2.29%) SCADA
7 5 (1.91%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.91%) NHS
7 5 (1.91%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.15%) Housing Association
8 3 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.15%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.76%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.53%) Linux
2 3 (1.15%) Unix
3 2 (0.76%) Windows
4 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (66.79%) Analytics
2 137 (52.29%) Data Modelling
3 133 (50.76%) Data Pipeline
4 117 (44.66%) Data Engineering
5 109 (41.60%) Business Intelligence
5 109 (41.60%) ETL
6 107 (40.84%) CI/CD
7 105 (40.08%) DevOps
8 87 (33.21%) Data Governance
9 85 (32.44%) Migration
10 57 (21.76%) Data Architecture
11 56 (21.37%) Lakehouse
12 53 (20.23%) AI
13 51 (19.47%) Data Integration
14 50 (19.08%) Infrastructure as Code
15 48 (18.32%) Agile
16 46 (17.56%) Stakeholder Management
17 42 (16.03%) Data Transformation
17 42 (16.03%) Machine Learning
18 41 (15.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 183 (69.85%) SQL
2 115 (43.89%) Python
3 25 (9.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 19 (7.25%) T-SQL
5 17 (6.49%) Bicep
6 10 (3.82%) Bash
6 10 (3.82%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.44%) C#
8 6 (2.29%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.15%) Cypher
9 3 (1.15%) Gremlin
9 3 (1.15%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.15%) SPARQL
10 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.76%) R
10 2 (0.76%) Scala
11 1 (0.38%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 59 (22.52%) Security Cleared
2 51 (19.47%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.78%) Azure Certification
4 10 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (3.05%) Degree
6 4 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.53%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.15%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.76%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.76%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.76%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.38%) CCSP
9 1 (0.38%) CISM
9 1 (0.38%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.38%) PhD
9 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (33.97%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.40%) GDPR
3 12 (4.58%) QA
4 9 (3.44%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.15%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (1.15%) IFRS
6 3 (1.15%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.76%) GRC
7 2 (0.76%) NIST
7 2 (0.76%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.38%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.38%) MiFID
8 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (10.31%) Docker
2 3 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (11.07%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.53%) Grafana
2 4 (1.53%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.38%) Ansible
3 1 (0.38%) Control-M
3 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 129 (49.24%) Microsoft
2 124 (47.33%) Databricks
3 19 (7.25%) Informatica
4 10 (3.82%) SAP
5 9 (3.44%) Oracle
6 5 (1.91%) MicroStrategy
6 5 (1.91%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.91%) Talend
7 4 (1.53%) Foundry
8 3 (1.15%) Google
9 2 (0.76%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.76%) GoldenSource
9 2 (0.76%) Infor
9 2 (0.76%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.76%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.38%) Cognos
10 1 (0.38%) IBM
10 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.38%) SimCorp
10 1 (0.38%) Workday