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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 384 399
Rank change year-on-year +61 +15 +50
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 256 106 159
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.41% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.93% 1.10% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 66 128
10th Percentile £363 £363 £421
25th Percentile £463 £427 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £621 £638 £658
90th Percentile £688 £695 £754
UK median daily rate £550 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% -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 13,242 9,623 12,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.55% 37.62% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,147 6,507 8,922
10th Percentile £307 £313 £275
25th Percentile £407 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £602 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 148 318
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.38 £14.21
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.48
Median % change year-on-year +43.64% +28.03% -14.08%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.98 £74.28 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.58 £27.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +36.65% +27.91% -14.00%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 +54 168 £550 - 28
Midlands -35 31 £600 +26.32% 16
West Midlands -36 26 £594 +25.00% 10
North of England -52 21 £475 +26.67% 12
North West -31 11 £575 +35.29% 6
South East -43 10 £613 -2.00% 25
South West -23 6 £550 +12.82% 5
North East -15 5 £438 +22.21% 1
East of England -17 5 £638 +59.38% 4
Yorkshire -56 5 £500 +33.33% 5
East Midlands - 5 £600 - 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 31 (12.11%) Apache Spark
2 23 (8.98%) Apache
3 6 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.95%) Confluence
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Synapse
5 2 (0.78%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.17%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.39%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 256 (100.00%) Azure
2 166 (64.84%) Azure Data Factory
3 126 (49.22%) Power Platform
4 71 (27.73%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (14.45%) AWS
6 35 (13.67%) GitHub
7 24 (9.38%) GCP
8 23 (8.98%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (8.98%) Serverless
9 22 (8.59%) Azure Key Vault
10 20 (7.81%) Dynamics 365
10 20 (7.81%) Snowflake
11 19 (7.42%) Azure Monitor
11 19 (7.42%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (7.03%) Amazon S3
12 18 (7.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 18 (7.03%) dbt
13 17 (6.64%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (6.25%) Azure Functions
14 16 (6.25%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.17%) Network Security
2 1 (0.39%) Firewall
2 1 (0.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (51.17%) Data Lake
2 115 (44.92%) Power BI
3 84 (32.81%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (21.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 37 (14.45%) Delta Lake
5 37 (14.45%) SQL Server
6 30 (11.72%) Metadata
7 26 (10.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 19 (7.42%) BigQuery
9 15 (5.86%) Amazon Athena
9 15 (5.86%) Mixpanel
10 14 (5.47%) OLAP
10 14 (5.47%) OLTP
10 14 (5.47%) Spark SQL
11 12 (4.69%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (4.69%) Power Query
11 12 (4.69%) Snowflake Schema
12 10 (3.91%) Star Schema
13 9 (3.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 9 (3.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 35 (13.67%) Git
2 7 (2.73%) MLflow
3 6 (2.34%) JIRA
4 4 (1.56%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.17%) GitLab
5 3 (1.17%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.78%) ERwin
7 1 (0.39%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 75 (29.30%) Social Skills
2 55 (21.48%) Finance
3 29 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (10.16%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (2.34%) Retail
6 4 (1.56%) Billing
7 3 (1.17%) Banking
7 3 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.17%) Marketing
7 3 (1.17%) Military
8 2 (0.78%) Law
8 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.39%) Legal
9 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 129 (50.39%) Data Engineer
2 54 (21.09%) Architect
3 38 (14.84%) Azure Engineer
4 32 (12.50%) Senior
5 30 (11.72%) Azure Data Engineer
6 29 (11.33%) Data Architect
7 26 (10.16%) Lead
8 24 (9.38%) Azure Architect
8 24 (9.38%) Developer
8 24 (9.38%) Senior Data Engineer
9 15 (5.86%) Lead Data Engineer
10 13 (5.08%) Azure Data Architect
10 13 (5.08%) Principal Engineer
11 12 (4.69%) Enterprise Architect
11 12 (4.69%) Principal Data Engineer
11 12 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (4.30%) Microsoft Engineer
13 10 (3.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 10 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (3.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (32.03%) PySpark
2 21 (8.20%) Kafka
3 17 (6.64%) Great Expectations
4 9 (3.52%) JSON
4 9 (3.52%) REST
5 8 (3.13%) Pandas
5 8 (3.13%) YAML
6 6 (2.34%) XML
7 4 (1.56%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.56%) pytest
7 4 (1.56%) PyTorch
7 4 (1.56%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.17%) .NET
8 3 (1.17%) ADO
8 3 (1.17%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.17%) scikit-learn
9 2 (0.78%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.78%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.78%) Middleware
9 2 (0.78%) React
Miscellaneous
1 36 (14.06%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.47%) Data Structures
3 13 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.73%) Data Fabric
4 7 (2.73%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (2.34%) IoT
6 4 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.56%) Wiki
7 3 (1.17%) Replication
8 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.39%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.39%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.39%) Pricing Data
9 1 (0.39%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.78%) VMS
2 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (69.92%) Analytics
2 146 (57.03%) Data Modelling
3 129 (50.39%) ETL
4 124 (48.44%) Business Intelligence
5 118 (46.09%) CI/CD
6 114 (44.53%) Data Pipeline
7 113 (44.14%) DevOps
8 109 (42.58%) Data Engineering
9 106 (41.41%) Data Governance
10 69 (26.95%) Data Architecture
11 62 (24.22%) AI
12 59 (23.05%) Infrastructure as Code
13 50 (19.53%) Agile
13 50 (19.53%) Migration
14 48 (18.75%) Machine Learning
15 39 (15.23%) Data Science
16 38 (14.84%) Data Integration
17 37 (14.45%) Dimensional Modelling
18 36 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
19 34 (13.28%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 195 (76.17%) SQL
2 135 (52.73%) Python
3 31 (12.11%) T-SQL
4 26 (10.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 23 (8.98%) C#
6 22 (8.59%) Bicep
7 15 (5.86%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.69%) Scala
9 3 (1.17%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.17%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.17%) R
9 3 (1.17%) X++
10 2 (0.78%) Java
11 1 (0.39%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.39%) Bash
Qualifications
1 41 (16.02%) Security Cleared
2 30 (11.72%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.94%) Azure Certification
4 18 (7.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.52%) Degree
6 4 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.17%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.78%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.78%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.39%) CBAP
9 1 (0.39%) PhD
9 1 (0.39%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (34.38%) Data Quality
2 40 (15.63%) GDPR
3 9 (3.52%) QA
4 4 (1.56%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.78%) PMO
7 1 (0.39%) Basel II
7 1 (0.39%) Basel III
7 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.39%) GRC
7 1 (0.39%) MiFID
System Software
1 10 (3.91%) Docker
2 7 (2.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 65 (25.39%) Terraform
2 10 (3.91%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 156 (60.94%) Databricks
2 114 (44.53%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.25%) Google
4 8 (3.13%) SAP
5 7 (2.73%) Foundry
6 6 (2.34%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.95%) Oracle
8 4 (1.56%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.56%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.17%) Informatica
10 2 (0.78%) Ab Initio
10 2 (0.78%) RedGate
10 2 (0.78%) Workday
11 1 (0.39%) Brio
11 1 (0.39%) Concur
11 1 (0.39%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.39%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.39%) Palantir
11 1 (0.39%) UiPath
11 1 (0.39%) Veeam