Azure Synapse Analytics Contracts in England

Azure Synapse Analytics
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Azure Synapse Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Synapse Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 391 432
Rank change year-on-year +28 +41 +71
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 133 163 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.44% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 1.35% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 120 178
10th Percentile £363 £412 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £556
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -5.62% +1.14%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £684
90th Percentile £675 £763 £816
UK median daily rate £490 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% -4.55% -

All Cloud 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 9,590 12,039 17,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.59% 32.42% 36.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,480 8,596 12,581
10th Percentile £311 £306 £321
25th Percentile £413 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 328 289
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +52.81%
75th Percentile £38.75 £43.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.75 £70.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.73% -37.14% +59.09%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure Synapse Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Synapse Analytics in England

Azure Synapse Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Synapse Analytics in England

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in England over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in England

Azure Synapse Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Synapse Analytics in England

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 30 June 2025. 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 +31 87 £520 -5.45% 264
Midlands +16 14 £380 -36.67% 67
South East +51 10 £470 -6.00% 85
West Midlands +11 10 £350 -41.67% 38
North of England -2 8 £475 +5.56% 81
North West +7 5 £475 +6.74% 49
East of England +27 4 £505 +23.17% 33
East Midlands +4 4 £410 +2.18% 29
Yorkshire -2 3 £375 -21.05% 24
South West +35 1 £575 +1.10% 41
Azure Synapse Analytics
UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.51%) Apache
2 6 (4.51%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.75%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.01%) SAP PM
2 3 (2.26%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.50%) SAP BPC
3 2 (1.50%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.75%) Endur
4 1 (0.75%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 133 (100.00%) Azure
2 90 (67.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 71 (53.38%) Power Platform
4 32 (24.06%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (11.28%) Microsoft Purview
6 11 (8.27%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (8.27%) Snowflake
7 9 (6.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (6.02%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (6.02%) dbt
8 8 (6.02%) GitHub
8 8 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.51%) AWS
9 6 (4.51%) Serverless
10 5 (3.76%) Azure AKS
10 5 (3.76%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (3.76%) Collibra
11 4 (3.01%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (3.01%) GCP
12 3 (2.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.26%) DNS
1 3 (2.26%) Firewall
1 3 (2.26%) FTP
1 3 (2.26%) HTTP
1 3 (2.26%) SMTP
1 3 (2.26%) SSL
1 3 (2.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (51.13%) Power BI
2 53 (39.85%) Data Lake
3 32 (24.06%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (17.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 21 (15.79%) SQL Server
6 15 (11.28%) Delta Lake
7 11 (8.27%) Metadata
8 10 (7.52%) Big Data
8 10 (7.52%) NoSQL
9 9 (6.77%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (6.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (4.51%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (4.51%) Tableau
12 4 (3.01%) GIS
12 4 (3.01%) InfluxDB
12 4 (3.01%) Relational Database
13 3 (2.26%) BigQuery
13 3 (2.26%) Oracle Database
13 3 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (2.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Git
2 3 (2.26%) ERwin
3 2 (1.50%) Postman
3 2 (1.50%) Selenium
3 2 (1.50%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.75%) JIRA
4 1 (0.75%) JMeter
4 1 (0.75%) Locust
4 1 (0.75%) MLflow
4 1 (0.75%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (24.81%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.29%) Finance
3 10 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.77%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.02%) Retail
6 7 (5.26%) Banking
7 4 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.01%) Local Government
8 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.50%) Billing
9 2 (1.50%) Publishing
9 2 (1.50%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Back Office
10 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 59 (44.36%) Data Engineer
2 31 (23.31%) Azure Engineer
3 28 (21.05%) Architect
4 27 (20.30%) Azure Data Engineer
5 21 (15.79%) Data Architect
6 14 (10.53%) Senior
7 13 (9.77%) Analyst
7 13 (9.77%) Developer
8 12 (9.02%) Azure Architect
9 11 (8.27%) Azure Data Architect
10 10 (7.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (5.26%) Data Analyst
12 6 (4.51%) Senior Data Engineer
13 4 (3.01%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 4 (3.01%) Cloud Architect
13 4 (3.01%) Project Manager
13 4 (3.01%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
13 4 (3.01%) Senior Developer
13 4 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
14 3 (2.26%) Senior IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (19.55%) PySpark
2 8 (6.02%) Kafka
3 5 (3.76%) YAML
4 4 (3.01%) .NET
4 4 (3.01%) JSON
4 4 (3.01%) pytest
5 3 (2.26%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (2.26%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.26%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.75%) Anaconda
6 1 (0.75%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.75%) BentoML
6 1 (0.75%) Middleware
6 1 (0.75%) Pandas
6 1 (0.75%) REST
6 1 (0.75%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.75%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.51%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (3.76%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.76%) IoT
3 4 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.01%) Replication
3 4 (3.01%) SCADA
3 4 (3.01%) Smart Meter
4 3 (2.26%) Data Fabric
4 3 (2.26%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.26%) Housing Association
4 3 (2.26%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.50%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.75%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (0.75%) FMCG
6 1 (0.75%) NHS
6 1 (0.75%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.75%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (57.89%) Analytics
2 69 (51.88%) Data Modelling
3 63 (47.37%) Business Intelligence
4 60 (45.11%) ETL
5 52 (39.10%) Data Pipeline
6 48 (36.09%) DevOps
7 42 (31.58%) Data Engineering
8 36 (27.07%) CI/CD
9 33 (24.81%) Data Governance
10 32 (24.06%) Visualisation
11 26 (19.55%) Agile
12 23 (17.29%) Data Integration
13 21 (15.79%) Data Ingestion
14 19 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
14 19 (14.29%) Data Architecture
14 19 (14.29%) Migration
15 18 (13.53%) Machine Learning
16 14 (10.53%) Data Analysis
16 14 (10.53%) Data Transformation
16 14 (10.53%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 101 (75.94%) SQL
2 65 (48.87%) Python
3 12 (9.02%) T-SQL
4 10 (7.52%) Bicep
4 10 (7.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (6.02%) C#
5 8 (6.02%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (4.51%) Scala
8 5 (3.76%) R
9 4 (3.01%) Java
10 2 (1.50%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.50%) X++
11 1 (0.75%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 34 (25.56%) Security Cleared
2 28 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.77%) Azure Certification
4 8 (6.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.01%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.50%) Degree
8 1 (0.75%) CITP
8 1 (0.75%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (25.56%) Data Quality
2 16 (12.03%) Accessibility
3 13 (9.77%) GDPR
4 5 (3.76%) QA
5 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.50%) HIPAA
System Software
1 9 (6.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (15.79%) Terraform
2 7 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.26%) Grafana
4 1 (0.75%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (45.86%) Databricks
2 56 (42.11%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.52%) SAP
4 7 (5.26%) Informatica
5 6 (4.51%) Oracle
6 5 (3.76%) Palantir
7 4 (3.01%) Dataiku
7 4 (3.01%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.50%) Aareon
8 2 (1.50%) Civica
8 2 (1.50%) Google
8 2 (1.50%) Liquidlogic
8 2 (1.50%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.50%) Northgate
9 1 (0.75%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.75%) Foundry
9 1 (0.75%) GoldenSource
9 1 (0.75%) Teradata
9 1 (0.75%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.75%) VMware