Azure Synapse Analytics Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Azure Synapse Analytics
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Azure Synapse Analytics skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 112 150
Rank change year-on-year -3 +38 +31
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 6 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.38% 0.21% 0.040%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.05% 0.65% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £415 - -
25th Percentile £513 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.71%
75th Percentile £725 - £638
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.87%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 574 611 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.33% 32.76% 33.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 403 592
10th Percentile £351 £215 £300
25th Percentile £425 £381 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.22% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £611 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile £19.58 £16.69 £14.53
25th Percentile £26.32 £18.42 £16.58
Median hourly rate £37.55 £21.14 £23.86
Median % change year-on-year +77.58% -11.39% +34.65%
75th Percentile £48.77 £24.18 £39.06
90th Percentile £55.51 - £50.88
UK median hourly rate £29.04 £30.73 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.52% -12.19% +62.79%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Synapse Analytics in Scotland

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Azure Synapse Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in Scotland

Azure Synapse Analytics
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Glasgow -16 3 £700 -
Edinburgh - 3 £350 - 1
Azure Synapse Analytics
UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Pipelines
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Stack
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (33.33%) Metadata
2 2 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 3 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (33.33%) Data Science
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) Change Data Capture
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft