Azure Synapse Analytics Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Azure Synapse Analytics
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Azure Synapse Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.65% - 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.38% - 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - £476
25th Percentile £405 - £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.33%
75th Percentile £725 - £519
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -16.33%

All Cloud Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 93 91 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 30.69% 25.78% 34.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 61 103
10th Percentile £222 £163 £153
25th Percentile £304 £250 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% -19.05%
75th Percentile £530 £575 £550
90th Percentile £703 £638 £638
Wales median daily rate £448 £500 £413
% change year-on-year -10.50% +21.21% -17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 8
10th Percentile £15.09 - £13.11
25th Percentile £15.22 £20.30 £15.33
Median hourly rate £22.84 £21.59 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% +19.94% -8.86%
75th Percentile £30.00 £22.89 £24.31
90th Percentile £32.25 - £65.00
Wales median hourly rate £21.00 £26.25 £18.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +45.83% +20.00%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Synapse Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Azure Synapse Analytics job vacancy trend in South Wales

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in South Wales over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in South Wales

Azure Synapse Analytics
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 21 October 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
Cardiff - 5 £500 - 3
Azure Synapse Analytics
Wales

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Pipelines
4 2 (40.00%) GCP
4 2 (40.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (40.00%) Metadata
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ADO
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft