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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 373 403
Rank change year-on-year +59 +30 +37
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 289 98 141
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.40% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.04% 1.07% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 66 114
10th Percentile £400 £358 £416
25th Percentile £463 £393 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £469 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.27% -14.73% -
75th Percentile £629 £538 £665
90th Percentile £750 £638 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £473 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -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 14,201 9,200 11,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.33% 37.78% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,803 6,477 8,620
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 185 321
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.50 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +60.73% +27.59% -23.07%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.97 £33.75
90th Percentile £80.60 £75.30 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +46.25% +30.24% -27.59%

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 April 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 April 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 +51 190 £550 +15.79% 31
Midlands -33 37 £513 +2.50% 6
West Midlands -39 32 £500 - 6
North of England -47 25 £500 +36.43% 10
North West -19 15 £563 +60.71% 5
South East -46 8 £575 +22.60% 17
South West -28 7 £500 +2.56% 7
Yorkshire -48 6 £500 +33.33% 3
East of England -27 5 £625 +56.25% 3
North East -18 4 £450 +25.70% 2
East Midlands -29 2 £600 -
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 40 (13.84%) Apache Spark
2 29 (10.03%) Apache
3 9 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.73%) Confluence
5 3 (1.04%) Apache Synapse
5 3 (1.04%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.69%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 289 (100.00%) Azure
2 186 (64.36%) Azure Data Factory
3 141 (48.79%) Power Platform
4 80 (27.68%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (16.96%) GitHub
6 43 (14.88%) AWS
7 29 (10.03%) Microsoft Purview
8 28 (9.69%) GCP
9 25 (8.65%) Azure Key Vault
10 24 (8.30%) Amazon S3
11 23 (7.96%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (7.96%) Serverless
12 21 (7.27%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (6.92%) Snowflake
14 19 (6.57%) Azure Monitor
14 19 (6.57%) Collibra
15 18 (6.23%) Amazon SQS
15 18 (6.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 18 (6.23%) Azure Machine Learning
16 14 (4.84%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.38%) Firewall
1 4 (1.38%) Network Security
2 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (50.87%) Data Lake
2 132 (45.67%) Power BI
3 101 (34.95%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (24.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 53 (18.34%) Delta Lake
6 44 (15.22%) SQL Server
7 29 (10.03%) Metadata
7 29 (10.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 22 (7.61%) BigQuery
8 22 (7.61%) Spark SQL
9 21 (7.27%) Star Schema
10 20 (6.92%) OLAP
10 20 (6.92%) Snowflake Schema
11 18 (6.23%) Amazon Athena
11 18 (6.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 18 (6.23%) Mixpanel
12 17 (5.88%) OLTP
13 16 (5.54%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (4.15%) Power Query
15 11 (3.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 39 (13.49%) Git
2 9 (3.11%) MLflow
3 7 (2.42%) JIRA
4 5 (1.73%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.04%) ERwin
5 3 (1.04%) GitLab
6 2 (0.69%) Selenium
7 1 (0.35%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 68 (23.53%) Finance
2 64 (22.15%) Social Skills
3 39 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.73%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.08%) Law
7 4 (1.38%) Banking
7 4 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.38%) Retail
8 3 (1.04%) Billing
8 3 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.04%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.04%) Marketing
8 3 (1.04%) Military
9 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Legal
10 1 (0.35%) Local Government
10 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Publishing
10 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 145 (50.17%) Data Engineer
2 58 (20.07%) Architect
3 49 (16.96%) Senior
4 39 (13.49%) Azure Engineer
5 36 (12.46%) Data Architect
6 33 (11.42%) Senior Data Engineer
7 29 (10.03%) Azure Architect
7 29 (10.03%) Azure Data Engineer
8 22 (7.61%) Lead
9 20 (6.92%) Developer
10 19 (6.57%) Azure Data Architect
11 16 (5.54%) Principal Engineer
12 15 (5.19%) Lead Data Engineer
12 15 (5.19%) Principal Data Engineer
13 14 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 11 (3.81%) Microsoft Engineer
16 8 (2.77%) Principal Software Engineer
16 8 (2.77%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (26.64%) PySpark
2 32 (11.07%) Kafka
3 21 (7.27%) Great Expectations
4 13 (4.50%) JSON
5 10 (3.46%) REST
6 9 (3.11%) Pandas
7 8 (2.77%) XML
7 8 (2.77%) YAML
8 6 (2.08%) .NET
9 5 (1.73%) pytest
10 4 (1.38%) ARM Templates
11 3 (1.04%) GraphQL
12 2 (0.69%) .NET Core
12 2 (0.69%) ADO
12 2 (0.69%) AngularJS
12 2 (0.69%) Playwright
12 2 (0.69%) PyArrow
12 2 (0.69%) React
13 1 (0.35%) .NET Framework
13 1 (0.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 44 (15.22%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.46%) IoT
4 9 (3.11%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.42%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (2.08%) Replication
7 5 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.38%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.38%) Data Fabric
8 4 (1.38%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.38%) SCADA
9 3 (1.04%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.04%) Wiki
10 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.69%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.35%) Pricing Data
11 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.04%) VMS
2 2 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (67.82%) Analytics
2 166 (57.44%) Data Modelling
3 163 (56.40%) ETL
4 140 (48.44%) Data Engineering
5 139 (48.10%) CI/CD
5 139 (48.10%) Data Pipeline
6 135 (46.71%) Business Intelligence
7 130 (44.98%) DevOps
8 116 (40.14%) Data Governance
9 81 (28.03%) Data Architecture
10 80 (27.68%) AI
11 68 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
12 59 (20.42%) Machine Learning
13 51 (17.65%) Migration
14 48 (16.61%) Agile
14 48 (16.61%) Dimensional Modelling
15 46 (15.92%) Data Science
16 44 (15.22%) Data Integration
17 41 (14.19%) Decision-Making
18 40 (13.84%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 225 (77.85%) SQL
2 150 (51.90%) Python
3 38 (13.15%) T-SQL
4 33 (11.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 29 (10.03%) C#
6 28 (9.69%) Bicep
7 19 (6.57%) PowerShell
8 15 (5.19%) Scala
9 3 (1.04%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.04%) R
10 2 (0.69%) Java
10 2 (0.69%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.35%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.35%) Bash
11 1 (0.35%) C
Qualifications
1 54 (18.69%) Security Cleared
2 41 (14.19%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.00%) Azure Certification
4 22 (7.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (5.54%) Degree
6 7 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.08%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.38%) PhD
9 3 (1.04%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.69%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.69%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.69%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.35%) CBAP
11 1 (0.35%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (38.06%) Data Quality
2 41 (14.19%) GDPR
3 13 (4.50%) QA
4 6 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.04%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.69%) PMO
6 2 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.35%) Basel II
7 1 (0.35%) Basel III
7 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 18 (6.23%) Docker
2 7 (2.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 77 (26.64%) Terraform
2 18 (6.23%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 168 (58.13%) Databricks
2 138 (47.75%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.57%) Google
4 18 (6.23%) Informatica
5 11 (3.81%) SAP
6 10 (3.46%) Foundry
7 7 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.08%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.08%) Oracle
9 4 (1.38%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.69%) Ab Initio
11 1 (0.35%) Ariba
11 1 (0.35%) Brio
11 1 (0.35%) Cognos
11 1 (0.35%) Concur
11 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.35%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.35%) Palantir
11 1 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.35%) UiPath