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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 379 387
Rank change year-on-year +59 +8 +66
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 267 104 157
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.41% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.99% 1.09% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 65 127
10th Percentile £363 £363 £410
25th Percentile £463 £408 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £665
90th Percentile £701 £687 £768
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -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 13,431 9,509 12,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.35% 37.78% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,261 6,488 8,860
10th Percentile £310 £313 £274
25th Percentile £409 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 377 145 325
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.26 £14.18
25th Percentile £20.32 £21.05 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.25 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +46.79% +27.52% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £79.05 £71.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £39.47 £27.13 £21.37
% change year-on-year +45.49% +26.93% -14.52%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 +58 173 £550 - 42
Midlands -34 36 £600 +26.32% 19
West Midlands -32 31 £600 +26.32% 12
North of England -50 22 £475 +26.67% 16
North West -31 12 £575 +35.29% 8
South East -33 10 £613 -2.00% 33
South West -25 6 £550 +12.82% 7
North East -13 5 £438 +22.21% 2
East of England -20 5 £638 +59.38% 6
East Midlands -26 5 £600 - 7
Yorkshire -58 5 £500 +33.33% 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 32 (11.99%) Apache Spark
2 24 (8.99%) Apache
3 7 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.87%) Confluence
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Synapse
5 2 (0.75%) CMS
6 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.12%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.37%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 267 (100.00%) Azure
2 173 (64.79%) Azure Data Factory
3 133 (49.81%) Power Platform
4 72 (26.97%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (14.98%) AWS
6 36 (13.48%) GitHub
7 26 (9.74%) GCP
8 24 (8.99%) Microsoft Purview
9 23 (8.61%) Serverless
10 22 (8.24%) Azure Key Vault
11 21 (7.87%) Snowflake
12 20 (7.49%) Amazon S3
12 20 (7.49%) Azure Monitor
12 20 (7.49%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (7.12%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (6.74%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (6.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 18 (6.74%) dbt
15 17 (6.37%) Collibra
16 16 (5.99%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.50%) Network Security
2 1 (0.37%) Firewall
2 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (50.19%) Data Lake
2 122 (45.69%) Power BI
3 92 (34.46%) Data Warehouse
4 59 (22.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 38 (14.23%) SQL Server
6 37 (13.86%) Delta Lake
7 30 (11.24%) Metadata
8 28 (10.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 21 (7.87%) BigQuery
10 16 (5.99%) Amazon Athena
10 16 (5.99%) Mixpanel
10 16 (5.99%) OLAP
11 15 (5.62%) OLTP
12 14 (5.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 14 (5.24%) Spark SQL
13 13 (4.87%) Power Query
13 13 (4.87%) Snowflake Schema
14 12 (4.49%) Star Schema
15 10 (3.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 10 (3.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 36 (13.48%) Git
2 7 (2.62%) MLflow
3 6 (2.25%) JIRA
4 4 (1.50%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.12%) ERwin
5 3 (1.12%) GitLab
5 3 (1.12%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.37%) Selenium
General
1 79 (29.59%) Social Skills
2 58 (21.72%) Finance
3 32 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (10.49%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.25%) Retail
7 4 (1.50%) Banking
7 4 (1.50%) Billing
8 3 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.12%) Marketing
8 3 (1.12%) Military
9 2 (0.75%) Law
9 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.37%) Legal
10 1 (0.37%) Local Government
10 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 129 (48.31%) Data Engineer
2 60 (22.47%) Architect
3 36 (13.48%) Azure Engineer
3 36 (13.48%) Senior
4 33 (12.36%) Data Architect
5 29 (10.86%) Azure Architect
6 28 (10.49%) Azure Data Engineer
7 26 (9.74%) Developer
7 26 (9.74%) Lead
8 25 (9.36%) Senior Data Engineer
9 16 (5.99%) Azure Data Architect
10 15 (5.62%) Lead Data Engineer
11 14 (5.24%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (4.87%) Principal Data Engineer
13 12 (4.49%) Enterprise Architect
13 12 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
15 10 (3.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 10 (3.75%) Microsoft Engineer
16 8 (3.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (29.59%) PySpark
2 22 (8.24%) Kafka
3 18 (6.74%) Great Expectations
4 9 (3.37%) JSON
5 8 (3.00%) Pandas
5 8 (3.00%) REST
5 8 (3.00%) YAML
6 6 (2.25%) XML
7 4 (1.50%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.50%) pytest
7 4 (1.50%) PyTorch
7 4 (1.50%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.12%) .NET
8 3 (1.12%) ADO
8 3 (1.12%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.12%) scikit-learn
9 2 (0.75%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.75%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.75%) PyArrow
9 2 (0.75%) React
Miscellaneous
1 38 (14.23%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.87%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (4.49%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.62%) Data Fabric
4 7 (2.62%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (2.25%) IoT
6 4 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.12%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.12%) Replication
7 3 (1.12%) Wiki
8 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.75%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.37%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.37%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.37%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.75%) VMS
2 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (68.91%) Analytics
2 154 (57.68%) Data Modelling
3 135 (50.56%) ETL
4 130 (48.69%) Business Intelligence
5 122 (45.69%) CI/CD
6 117 (43.82%) DevOps
7 116 (43.45%) Data Engineering
7 116 (43.45%) Data Pipeline
8 110 (41.20%) Data Governance
9 72 (26.97%) Data Architecture
10 64 (23.97%) AI
11 61 (22.85%) Infrastructure as Code
12 52 (19.48%) Migration
13 50 (18.73%) Agile
14 49 (18.35%) Machine Learning
15 40 (14.98%) Data Integration
15 40 (14.98%) Data Science
15 40 (14.98%) Dimensional Modelling
16 37 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
17 36 (13.48%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 201 (75.28%) SQL
2 137 (51.31%) Python
3 32 (11.99%) T-SQL
4 30 (11.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 24 (8.99%) C#
6 23 (8.61%) Bicep
7 15 (5.62%) PowerShell
8 13 (4.87%) Scala
9 4 (1.50%) R
10 3 (1.12%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.12%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.12%) X++
11 2 (0.75%) Java
12 1 (0.37%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.37%) Bash
12 1 (0.37%) C
Qualifications
1 45 (16.85%) Security Cleared
2 34 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 29 (10.86%) Azure Certification
4 19 (7.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (3.75%) Degree
6 4 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.12%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.75%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.75%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.37%) CBAP
9 1 (0.37%) PhD
9 1 (0.37%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.37%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 41 (15.36%) GDPR
3 9 (3.37%) QA
4 4 (1.50%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.75%) PMO
7 1 (0.37%) Basel II
7 1 (0.37%) Basel III
7 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.37%) GRC
7 1 (0.37%) MiFID
System Software
1 11 (4.12%) Docker
2 7 (2.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 68 (25.47%) Terraform
2 11 (4.12%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 156 (58.43%) Databricks
2 122 (45.69%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.37%) Google
4 8 (3.00%) SAP
5 7 (2.62%) Foundry
6 6 (2.25%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.87%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.87%) Oracle
8 4 (1.50%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.12%) Informatica
10 2 (0.75%) Ab Initio
10 2 (0.75%) RedGate
10 2 (0.75%) Workday
11 1 (0.37%) Brio
11 1 (0.37%) Concur
11 1 (0.37%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.37%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.37%) Palantir
11 1 (0.37%) UiPath
11 1 (0.37%) Veeam