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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 375 398
Rank change year-on-year +57 +23 +67
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 250 107 156
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 0.41% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.92% 1.10% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 67 125
10th Percentile £375 £363 £425
25th Percentile £463 £416 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £655
90th Percentile £690 £695 £758
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 13,018 9,725 12,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.42% 37.62% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,985 6,546 9,062
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £417 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 148 309
10th Percentile £14.95 £15.38 £14.10
25th Percentile £19.14 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.54 £27.63 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.49% +28.51% -14.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £79.55 £74.28 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year +36.36% +27.08% -13.44%

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 22 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 22 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 +68 164 £550 - 31
Midlands -30 29 £600 +26.32% 17
West Midlands -44 25 £600 +26.32% 9
North of England -52 22 £475 +26.67% 11
North West -21 11 £575 +35.29% 6
South East -34 10 £613 -2.00% 25
Yorkshire -56 6 £500 +33.33% 4
North East -20 5 £438 +22.21% 1
East of England -20 5 £638 +59.38% 4
South West -22 5 £550 +12.82% 6
East Midlands - 4 £575 - 8
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 (12.40%) Apache Spark
2 23 (9.20%) Apache
3 6 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.00%) Confluence
5 2 (0.80%) Apache Synapse
5 2 (0.80%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.20%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.40%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 250 (100.00%) Azure
2 162 (64.80%) Azure Data Factory
3 121 (48.40%) Power Platform
4 70 (28.00%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (15.20%) AWS
6 35 (14.00%) GitHub
7 25 (10.00%) GCP
8 22 (8.80%) Azure Key Vault
8 22 (8.80%) Serverless
9 21 (8.40%) Microsoft Purview
9 21 (8.40%) Snowflake
10 20 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (7.60%) Amazon S3
11 19 (7.60%) Azure Monitor
11 19 (7.60%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (7.20%) dbt
13 17 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (6.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 16 (6.40%) Azure Machine Learning
14 16 (6.40%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.20%) Network Security
2 1 (0.40%) Firewall
2 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (51.20%) Data Lake
2 110 (44.00%) Power BI
3 80 (32.00%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (22.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 37 (14.80%) Delta Lake
5 37 (14.80%) SQL Server
6 30 (12.00%) Metadata
7 22 (8.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 19 (7.60%) BigQuery
9 15 (6.00%) Amazon Athena
9 15 (6.00%) Mixpanel
10 14 (5.60%) OLAP
10 14 (5.60%) OLTP
11 13 (5.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (5.20%) Spark SQL
12 12 (4.80%) Power Query
13 11 (4.40%) Snowflake Schema
14 9 (3.60%) Star Schema
15 8 (3.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 7 (2.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 33 (13.20%) Git
2 7 (2.80%) MLflow
3 6 (2.40%) JIRA
4 4 (1.60%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.20%) GitLab
5 3 (1.20%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.80%) ERwin
7 1 (0.40%) ER Studio
General
1 73 (29.20%) Social Skills
2 54 (21.60%) Finance
3 29 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (10.40%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (2.40%) Retail
6 4 (1.60%) Billing
7 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.20%) Marketing
7 3 (1.20%) Military
8 2 (0.80%) Banking
8 2 (0.80%) Law
8 2 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.40%) Legal
9 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 126 (50.40%) Data Engineer
2 54 (21.60%) Architect
3 38 (15.20%) Azure Engineer
4 32 (12.80%) Senior
5 30 (12.00%) Azure Data Engineer
6 29 (11.60%) Data Architect
7 26 (10.40%) Lead
8 24 (9.60%) Azure Architect
9 23 (9.20%) Senior Data Engineer
10 21 (8.40%) Developer
11 15 (6.00%) Lead Data Engineer
12 13 (5.20%) Azure Data Architect
12 13 (5.20%) Principal Engineer
13 12 (4.80%) Enterprise Architect
13 12 (4.80%) Principal Data Engineer
13 12 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (4.00%) Microsoft Engineer
14 10 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
15 8 (3.20%) Data Analytics Engineer
15 8 (3.20%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (32.40%) PySpark
2 21 (8.40%) Kafka
3 17 (6.80%) Great Expectations
4 9 (3.60%) REST
5 8 (3.20%) JSON
6 7 (2.80%) YAML
7 6 (2.40%) Pandas
8 5 (2.00%) XML
9 4 (1.60%) ARM Templates
9 4 (1.60%) pytest
9 4 (1.60%) PyTorch
9 4 (1.60%) TensorFlow
10 3 (1.20%) ADO
10 3 (1.20%) GraphQL
10 3 (1.20%) scikit-learn
11 2 (0.80%) .NET
11 2 (0.80%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.80%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.80%) Middleware
11 2 (0.80%) React
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.80%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.60%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.80%) Data Fabric
4 7 (2.80%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (2.40%) IoT
6 4 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.60%) Wiki
7 3 (1.20%) Replication
8 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.40%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.40%) Pricing Data
9 1 (0.40%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.40%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (69.60%) Analytics
2 141 (56.40%) Data Modelling
3 126 (50.40%) ETL
4 119 (47.60%) Business Intelligence
5 116 (46.40%) CI/CD
6 111 (44.40%) DevOps
7 109 (43.60%) Data Pipeline
8 107 (42.80%) Data Engineering
9 105 (42.00%) Data Governance
10 67 (26.80%) Data Architecture
11 59 (23.60%) Infrastructure as Code
12 58 (23.20%) AI
13 49 (19.60%) Agile
14 47 (18.80%) Machine Learning
14 47 (18.80%) Migration
15 38 (15.20%) Data Integration
16 36 (14.40%) Data Science
16 36 (14.40%) Dimensional Modelling
16 36 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
17 33 (13.20%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 190 (76.00%) SQL
2 132 (52.80%) Python
3 30 (12.00%) T-SQL
4 26 (10.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 22 (8.80%) Bicep
5 22 (8.80%) C#
6 15 (6.00%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.80%) Scala
8 3 (1.20%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.20%) R
8 3 (1.20%) X++
9 2 (0.80%) Java
9 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.40%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.40%) Bash
10 1 (0.40%) Korn
Qualifications
1 41 (16.40%) Security Cleared
2 30 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 28 (11.20%) Azure Certification
4 18 (7.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.60%) Degree
6 3 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.20%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.80%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.40%) CBAP
8 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.40%) PhD
8 1 (0.40%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.40%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (34.00%) Data Quality
2 40 (16.00%) GDPR
3 9 (3.60%) QA
4 4 (1.60%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.40%) Basel II
7 1 (0.40%) Basel III
7 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.40%) GRC
7 1 (0.40%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (3.60%) Docker
2 7 (2.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 64 (25.60%) Terraform
2 9 (3.60%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 154 (61.60%) Databricks
2 108 (43.20%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.40%) Google
4 8 (3.20%) SAP
5 6 (2.40%) Foundry
5 6 (2.40%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.00%) Oracle
7 4 (1.60%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.20%) Informatica
8 3 (1.20%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.80%) Ab Initio
9 2 (0.80%) RedGate
9 2 (0.80%) Workday
10 1 (0.40%) Brio
10 1 (0.40%) Concur
10 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.40%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.40%) Palantir
10 1 (0.40%) UiPath
10 1 (0.40%) Veeam