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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 327 383
Rank change year-on-year -42 +56 +22
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 284 175 146
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.63% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 1.70% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 139 98
10th Percentile £368 £363 £404
25th Percentile £425 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £612
90th Percentile £750 £703 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% -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 15,975 10,267 11,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.18% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,666 6,947 7,935
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £723 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 271 219
10th Percentile £15.55 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.31 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +4.00% -22.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £83.54 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £25.00
% change year-on-year +25.54% +11.52% -28.15%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -19 178 £500 - 23
Midlands -18 52 £493 -10.45% 5
West Midlands -17 43 £471 -18.04% 5
North of England -61 26 £500 +5.26% 6
North West -37 15 £550 +15.79% 2
South West - 10 £500 - 1
Yorkshire -38 9 £495 +16.47% 3
South East -80 7 £613 +28.95% 20
East Midlands -16 6 £500 +21.95%
North East - 2 - - 1
East of England -27 1 £575 +8.49% 1
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 (8.10%) Apache Airflow
1 23 (8.10%) Apache Spark
2 17 (5.99%) Apache
3 5 (1.76%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.70%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.70%) PowerExchange
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 8 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.41%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.35%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 284 (100.00%) Azure
2 179 (63.03%) Azure Data Factory
3 121 (42.61%) Power Platform
4 80 (28.17%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (14.44%) AWS
6 37 (13.03%) GitHub
7 34 (11.97%) Microsoft Purview
8 21 (7.39%) dbt
8 21 (7.39%) Serverless
9 18 (6.34%) Azure Machine Learning
9 18 (6.34%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (5.99%) GCP
10 17 (5.99%) Snowflake
11 15 (5.28%) Amazon S3
12 14 (4.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 13 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (4.58%) Power Automate
14 11 (3.87%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (3.87%) PowerApps
15 10 (3.52%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.46%) Firewall
2 2 (0.70%) Network Security
3 1 (0.35%) DNS
3 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (40.14%) Power BI
2 98 (34.51%) Data Lake
3 97 (34.15%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (18.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 39 (13.73%) Delta Lake
6 31 (10.92%) SQL Server
7 30 (10.56%) Star Schema
8 29 (10.21%) Metadata
9 21 (7.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 19 (6.69%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (5.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 17 (5.99%) Snowflake Schema
12 16 (5.63%) Spark SQL
13 13 (4.58%) BigQuery
13 13 (4.58%) Data Vault
14 12 (4.23%) Power Query
15 11 (3.87%) NoSQL
16 10 (3.52%) Relational Database
17 9 (3.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 9 (3.17%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 25 (8.80%) Git
2 7 (2.46%) MLflow
3 6 (2.11%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.41%) GitLab
4 4 (1.41%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.06%) ERwin
5 3 (1.06%) JIRA
5 3 (1.06%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.70%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.70%) Selenium
6 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.35%) Postman
7 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 63 (22.18%) Finance
2 61 (21.48%) Social Skills
3 44 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (15.49%) Public Sector
4 14 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (4.23%) Retail
6 9 (3.17%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.82%) Law
8 5 (1.76%) Local Government
9 4 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.41%) Legal
9 4 (1.41%) Marketing
10 3 (1.06%) Banking
10 3 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.06%) Military
11 2 (0.70%) Publishing
12 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.35%) Police
12 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 134 (47.18%) Data Engineer
2 58 (20.42%) Architect
3 46 (16.20%) Azure Engineer
4 44 (15.49%) Senior
5 43 (15.14%) Data Architect
6 38 (13.38%) Azure Data Engineer
7 27 (9.51%) Lead
7 27 (9.51%) Senior Data Engineer
8 20 (7.04%) Azure Architect
8 20 (7.04%) Developer
9 16 (5.63%) Analyst
9 16 (5.63%) Azure Data Architect
10 13 (4.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 13 (4.58%) Data Analyst
10 13 (4.58%) Lead Data Engineer
11 12 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (3.87%) Informatica Engineer
13 10 (3.52%) Migration Engineer
14 9 (3.17%) Power BI Developer
15 8 (2.82%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (23.24%) PySpark
2 28 (9.86%) Kafka
3 13 (4.58%) JSON
4 8 (2.82%) .NET
5 7 (2.46%) Pandas
5 7 (2.46%) pytest
5 7 (2.46%) REST
6 6 (2.11%) Great Expectations
6 6 (2.11%) YAML
7 5 (1.76%) XML
8 3 (1.06%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.06%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.06%) JSON-LD
8 3 (1.06%) NetworkX
8 3 (1.06%) NumPy
9 2 (0.70%) Matplotlib
9 2 (0.70%) Playwright
9 2 (0.70%) scikit-learn
9 2 (0.70%) Seaborn
9 2 (0.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.27%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.34%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (3.87%) IoT
4 10 (3.52%) SCADA
5 7 (2.46%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.46%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.11%) Data Fabric
6 6 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.76%) NHS
8 4 (1.41%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.41%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.41%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.41%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.06%) Housing Association
9 3 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.06%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.06%) Replication
9 3 (1.06%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.70%) Unix
1 2 (0.70%) VMS
2 1 (0.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (66.20%) Analytics
2 151 (53.17%) Data Modelling
3 140 (49.30%) Data Pipeline
4 135 (47.54%) Data Engineering
5 132 (46.48%) ETL
6 121 (42.61%) Business Intelligence
7 108 (38.03%) CI/CD
8 107 (37.68%) DevOps
9 88 (30.99%) Data Governance
10 74 (26.06%) Migration
11 67 (23.59%) AI
12 59 (20.77%) Data Architecture
13 53 (18.66%) Data Transformation
13 53 (18.66%) Infrastructure as Code
14 52 (18.31%) Machine Learning
15 48 (16.90%) Data Integration
16 44 (15.49%) Agile
16 44 (15.49%) Decision-Making
16 44 (15.49%) Validation
17 40 (14.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 202 (71.13%) SQL
2 127 (44.72%) Python
3 31 (10.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 25 (8.80%) T-SQL
5 19 (6.69%) Bicep
6 14 (4.93%) C#
7 9 (3.17%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.76%) Bash
9 4 (1.41%) R
9 4 (1.41%) Scala
10 3 (1.06%) Cypher
10 3 (1.06%) Gremlin
10 3 (1.06%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.06%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.06%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.35%) C
11 1 (0.35%) COBOL
11 1 (0.35%) Java
11 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 70 (24.65%) Security Cleared
2 61 (21.48%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.04%) Azure Certification
4 19 (6.69%) Degree
5 10 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.11%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.41%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.41%) PhD
9 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.70%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.70%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.35%) CISSP
10 1 (0.35%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.35%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (32.04%) Data Quality
2 28 (9.86%) GDPR
3 17 (5.99%) QA
4 9 (3.17%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.06%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (1.06%) IFRS
6 3 (1.06%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.70%) PMO
7 2 (0.70%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.35%) GRC
8 1 (0.35%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.35%) MiFID
8 1 (0.35%) NIST
8 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (8.10%) Docker
2 2 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (18.31%) Terraform
2 25 (8.80%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.70%) Grafana
4 1 (0.35%) Control-M
4 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 143 (50.35%) Microsoft
2 122 (42.96%) Databricks
3 25 (8.80%) Informatica
4 10 (3.52%) Oracle
4 10 (3.52%) SAP
5 6 (2.11%) Google
6 5 (1.76%) Foundry
6 5 (1.76%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.06%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (0.70%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.70%) Infor
8 2 (0.70%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.70%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.35%) Cognos
9 1 (0.35%) IBM
9 1 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.35%) SimCorp