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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 336 377
Rank change year-on-year -14 +41 +47
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 287 170 157
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.62% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.82% 1.65% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 132 109
10th Percentile £381 £363 £411
25th Percentile £425 £426 £468
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 £700 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% -5.62%
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 15,802 10,273 11,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.01% 37.21% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,537 6,977 8,026
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 266 238
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.08 £18.13 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.24 £25.15 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +48.07% +5.67% -29.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.56
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.40 £24.15
% change year-on-year +29.56% +13.46% -31.00%

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 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 4 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 -14 174 £500 +0.50% 27
Midlands -14 54 £493 -6.19% 7
West Midlands -22 47 £493 -10.45% 7
North of England -37 28 £500 +5.26% 10
North West -40 16 £550 +15.79% 4
Yorkshire -34 10 £490 +3.16% 5
South East -69 9 £550 +15.79% 16
South West - 9 £500 -
East Midlands -8 4 £600 +46.34%
East of England -20 2 £575 +8.49% 3
North East - 2 - - 2
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 (8.01%) Apache Spark
2 20 (6.97%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (6.62%) Apache
4 5 (1.74%) Confluence
5 4 (1.39%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.05%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 8 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.05%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.35%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 287 (100.00%) Azure
2 176 (61.32%) Azure Data Factory
3 122 (42.51%) Power Platform
4 78 (27.18%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (13.24%) AWS
6 37 (12.89%) GitHub
7 31 (10.80%) Microsoft Purview
8 22 (7.67%) Serverless
9 21 (7.32%) dbt
10 19 (6.62%) Azure Machine Learning
11 18 (6.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 17 (5.92%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (5.92%) Snowflake
13 16 (5.57%) GCP
14 15 (5.23%) Amazon S3
15 13 (4.53%) Azure Monitor
16 11 (3.83%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (3.83%) Azure Key Vault
16 11 (3.83%) Power Automate
17 10 (3.48%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.74%) Firewall
2 2 (0.70%) Network Security
3 1 (0.35%) DNS
3 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (41.11%) Power BI
2 105 (36.59%) Data Lake
3 102 (35.54%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (19.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 44 (15.33%) Delta Lake
6 36 (12.54%) SQL Server
7 27 (9.41%) Star Schema
8 26 (9.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 24 (8.36%) Metadata
10 17 (5.92%) Spark SQL
11 16 (5.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (5.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 15 (5.23%) Snowflake Schema
13 11 (3.83%) BigQuery
13 11 (3.83%) Data Vault
13 11 (3.83%) Power Query
14 10 (3.48%) Relational Database
14 10 (3.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 9 (3.14%) NoSQL
15 9 (3.14%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 35 (12.20%) Git
2 8 (2.79%) JIRA
3 6 (2.09%) GitLab
3 6 (2.09%) MLflow
3 6 (2.09%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.39%) ERwin
5 3 (1.05%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.70%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.70%) Selenium
6 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.70%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.35%) Postman
7 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 67 (23.34%) Finance
2 64 (22.30%) Social Skills
3 49 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (14.63%) Public Sector
5 13 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (4.53%) Retail
6 8 (2.79%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.44%) Law
8 4 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.39%) Legal
8 4 (1.39%) Marketing
9 3 (1.05%) Banking
9 3 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.05%) Local Government
9 3 (1.05%) Military
10 2 (0.70%) Publishing
11 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.35%) Police
11 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 145 (50.52%) Data Engineer
2 53 (18.47%) Architect
2 53 (18.47%) Senior
3 44 (15.33%) Azure Engineer
4 38 (13.24%) Azure Data Engineer
4 38 (13.24%) Data Architect
5 34 (11.85%) Senior Data Engineer
6 26 (9.06%) Lead
7 19 (6.62%) Azure Architect
8 18 (6.27%) Analyst
9 17 (5.92%) Developer
10 16 (5.57%) Lead Data Engineer
11 15 (5.23%) Azure Data Architect
12 14 (4.88%) Data Analyst
13 13 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (3.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 10 (3.48%) Informatica Engineer
16 9 (3.14%) Business Analyst
16 9 (3.14%) Data Business Analyst
16 9 (3.14%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (24.74%) PySpark
2 28 (9.76%) Kafka
3 17 (5.92%) JSON
4 9 (3.14%) XML
4 9 (3.14%) YAML
5 8 (2.79%) Pandas
5 8 (2.79%) REST
6 7 (2.44%) .NET
6 7 (2.44%) Great Expectations
6 7 (2.44%) pytest
7 4 (1.39%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.05%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.05%) JSON-LD
8 3 (1.05%) NetworkX
8 3 (1.05%) NumPy
9 2 (0.70%) ADO
9 2 (0.70%) Matplotlib
9 2 (0.70%) Playwright
9 2 (0.70%) Seaborn
9 2 (0.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.24%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.27%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.48%) IoT
4 9 (3.14%) SCADA
5 8 (2.79%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.09%) Data Fabric
7 6 (2.09%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.74%) NHS
9 4 (1.39%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.39%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.39%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.39%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.05%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.05%) Housing Association
10 3 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.05%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.05%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.70%) Unix
1 2 (0.70%) VMS
2 1 (0.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (65.51%) Analytics
2 152 (52.96%) Data Modelling
3 148 (51.57%) Data Pipeline
4 141 (49.13%) Data Engineering
5 140 (48.78%) ETL
6 126 (43.90%) Business Intelligence
7 113 (39.37%) CI/CD
8 109 (37.98%) DevOps
9 89 (31.01%) Data Governance
10 74 (25.78%) Migration
11 65 (22.65%) AI
12 57 (19.86%) Data Architecture
13 53 (18.47%) Machine Learning
14 51 (17.77%) Infrastructure as Code
15 50 (17.42%) Agile
16 49 (17.07%) Data Transformation
17 47 (16.38%) Data Integration
18 44 (15.33%) Decision-Making
18 44 (15.33%) Validation
19 40 (13.94%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 206 (71.78%) SQL
2 142 (49.48%) Python
3 31 (10.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 29 (10.10%) T-SQL
5 22 (7.67%) Bicep
6 18 (6.27%) C#
7 12 (4.18%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.09%) Scala
9 4 (1.39%) Bash
9 4 (1.39%) R
10 3 (1.05%) Cypher
10 3 (1.05%) Gremlin
10 3 (1.05%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.05%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.35%) C
11 1 (0.35%) Java
11 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (23.00%) Security Cleared
2 57 (19.86%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.97%) Azure Certification
4 18 (6.27%) Degree
5 9 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.09%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.39%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.39%) 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 92 (32.06%) Data Quality
2 32 (11.15%) GDPR
3 20 (6.97%) QA
4 9 (3.14%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.05%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (1.05%) IFRS
6 3 (1.05%) 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 21 (7.32%) Docker
2 2 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (18.12%) Terraform
2 22 (7.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.70%) Grafana
4 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 146 (50.87%) Microsoft
2 123 (42.86%) Databricks
3 22 (7.67%) Informatica
4 10 (3.48%) SAP
5 8 (2.79%) Oracle
6 7 (2.44%) Google
7 5 (1.74%) Foundry
8 4 (1.39%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.70%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.70%) Infor
9 2 (0.70%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (0.70%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.70%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.35%) Cognos
10 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.35%) IBM
10 1 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.35%) SimCorp