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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 373 401
Rank change year-on-year +42 +28 +37
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 289 119 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.49% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.97% 1.30% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 92 111
10th Percentile £376 £363 £413
25th Percentile £425 £420 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £614 £589 £644
90th Percentile £750 £673 £775
UK median daily rate £523 £475 £533
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.80% -3.18%

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 14,682 9,122 11,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.10% 37.63% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,999 6,249 8,504
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £509 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.34% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 505 217 324
10th Percentile £15.55 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.33 £17.80 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +58.00% +16.99% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.50 £39.13
90th Percentile £81.15 £68.00 £69.85
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £27.76 £21.46
% change year-on-year +29.36% +29.36% -43.15%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +24 176 £540 +10.20% 45
Midlands -22 42 £500 +42.86% 8
West Midlands -27 38 £498 +42.14% 8
North of England -51 30 £500 +5.26% 14
North West -31 18 £550 +15.79% 5
South West -17 12 £500 -9.09% 9
South East -63 9 £575 +22.34% 21
Yorkshire -54 8 £495 +32.00% 6
East of England -29 5 £625 +38.89% 2
North East - 4 £450 - 3
East Midlands -27 1 £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 34 (11.76%) Apache Spark
2 25 (8.65%) Apache
3 7 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.73%) Confluence
5 3 (1.04%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.69%) Apache Synapse
6 2 (0.69%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.04%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.04%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 289 (100.00%) Azure
2 185 (64.01%) Azure Data Factory
3 139 (48.10%) Power Platform
4 77 (26.64%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (16.26%) GitHub
6 37 (12.80%) AWS
7 31 (10.73%) Microsoft Purview
8 24 (8.30%) GCP
9 20 (6.92%) Amazon S3
9 20 (6.92%) Azure Key Vault
9 20 (6.92%) Serverless
10 18 (6.23%) Snowflake
11 16 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (5.54%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (5.54%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (5.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 15 (5.19%) Azure Machine Learning
12 15 (5.19%) dbt
13 14 (4.84%) Amazon SQS
13 14 (4.84%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.04%) Firewall
1 3 (1.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (47.40%) Data Lake
2 131 (45.33%) Power BI
3 97 (33.56%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (24.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 53 (18.34%) Delta Lake
6 49 (16.96%) SQL Server
7 28 (9.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 27 (9.34%) Metadata
9 25 (8.65%) Spark SQL
10 18 (6.23%) Star Schema
11 17 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
12 16 (5.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 16 (5.54%) BigQuery
12 16 (5.54%) OLAP
13 15 (5.19%) Amazon Athena
14 14 (4.84%) Mixpanel
15 13 (4.50%) OLTP
16 10 (3.46%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (3.46%) Power Query
16 10 (3.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 45 (15.57%) Git
2 7 (2.42%) JIRA
3 6 (2.08%) MLflow
4 5 (1.73%) ERwin
5 4 (1.38%) GitLab
6 3 (1.04%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.69%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.69%) Selenium
7 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.35%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.35%) Postman
8 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 69 (23.88%) Finance
2 57 (19.72%) Social Skills
3 41 (14.19%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.73%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.77%) Retail
6 7 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.42%) Law
7 5 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.73%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.73%) Marketing
8 4 (1.38%) Military
9 3 (1.04%) Banking
10 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Publishing
11 1 (0.35%) Legal
11 1 (0.35%) Local Government
11 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 153 (52.94%) Data Engineer
2 59 (20.42%) Senior
3 51 (17.65%) Architect
4 39 (13.49%) Senior Data Engineer
5 34 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
5 34 (11.76%) Data Architect
6 28 (9.69%) Azure Data Engineer
7 26 (9.00%) Azure Architect
8 20 (6.92%) Lead
9 18 (6.23%) Azure Data Architect
10 14 (4.84%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (4.50%) Developer
12 12 (4.15%) Analyst
12 12 (4.15%) Microsoft Engineer
12 12 (4.15%) Principal Engineer
12 12 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (3.81%) Principal Data Engineer
14 10 (3.46%) Informatica Engineer
15 9 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
16 8 (2.77%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (27.34%) PySpark
2 30 (10.38%) Kafka
3 16 (5.54%) Great Expectations
4 13 (4.50%) JSON
4 13 (4.50%) Pandas
5 9 (3.11%) REST
5 9 (3.11%) XML
6 7 (2.42%) .NET
6 7 (2.42%) YAML
7 4 (1.38%) pytest
8 3 (1.04%) ADO
8 3 (1.04%) NumPy
9 2 (0.69%) Matplotlib
9 2 (0.69%) Playwright
9 2 (0.69%) PyArrow
9 2 (0.69%) scikit-learn
9 2 (0.69%) Seaborn
9 2 (0.69%) Swagger
9 2 (0.69%) TensorFlow
9 2 (0.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.80%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (2.77%) IoT
4 6 (2.08%) Data Fabric
5 5 (1.73%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.73%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (1.73%) Replication
6 4 (1.38%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.38%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.38%) SCADA
7 3 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.04%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.04%) NHS
7 3 (1.04%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.04%) Wiki
8 2 (0.69%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.69%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.69%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.35%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.69%) Unix
1 2 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (66.44%) Analytics
2 153 (52.94%) ETL
3 152 (52.60%) Data Modelling
4 142 (49.13%) Data Pipeline
5 135 (46.71%) Business Intelligence
6 133 (46.02%) Data Engineering
7 131 (45.33%) CI/CD
8 119 (41.18%) DevOps
9 102 (35.29%) Data Governance
10 74 (25.61%) AI
11 70 (24.22%) Data Architecture
12 58 (20.07%) Migration
13 56 (19.38%) Infrastructure as Code
14 52 (17.99%) Machine Learning
15 49 (16.96%) Agile
16 44 (15.22%) Dimensional Modelling
17 42 (14.53%) Data Integration
17 42 (14.53%) Data Science
17 42 (14.53%) Decision-Making
18 40 (13.84%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 218 (75.43%) SQL
2 151 (52.25%) Python
3 38 (13.15%) T-SQL
4 27 (9.34%) C#
4 27 (9.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 23 (7.96%) Bicep
6 17 (5.88%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.15%) Scala
8 3 (1.04%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.69%) R
10 1 (0.35%) C
10 1 (0.35%) Java
10 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 61 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 50 (17.30%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.96%) Azure Certification
4 21 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (4.84%) Degree
6 6 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.73%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.38%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.38%) PhD
9 2 (0.69%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.69%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.35%) CBAP
10 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.35%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (36.68%) Data Quality
2 34 (11.76%) GDPR
3 16 (5.54%) QA
4 6 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.69%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.69%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.69%) PMO
6 1 (0.35%) Basel II
6 1 (0.35%) Basel III
6 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.35%) MiFID
6 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (5.54%) Docker
2 4 (1.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (21.45%) Terraform
2 13 (4.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 151 (52.25%) Microsoft
2 150 (51.90%) Databricks
3 23 (7.96%) Informatica
4 15 (5.19%) Google
5 9 (3.11%) SAP
6 8 (2.77%) Foundry
7 7 (2.42%) Oracle
7 7 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.73%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.04%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.69%) Ab Initio
10 2 (0.69%) Infor
10 2 (0.69%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.35%) Ariba
11 1 (0.35%) Cognos
11 1 (0.35%) Concur
11 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.35%) SimCorp