Azure Synapse Analytics Contracts in the Thames Valley

Azure Synapse Analytics
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Azure Synapse Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Synapse Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 142 137
Rank change year-on-year +46 -5 +10
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 6 3 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.40% 0.11% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 0.40% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 12
10th Percentile £370 - £514
25th Percentile £400 - £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -28.57% +33.33%
75th Percentile £500 - £742
90th Percentile £530 - £831
South East median daily rate £470 £500 £556
% change year-on-year -6.00% -10.11% +7.23%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 511 755 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.82% 28.11% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 515 615
10th Percentile £304 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile £20.96 £15.99 £18.42
25th Percentile £28.05 £19.37 £21.49
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +40.59% +43.95%
75th Percentile £47.15 £59.95 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.51 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Synapse Analytics in the Thames Valley

Azure Synapse Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Azure Synapse Analytics in the Thames Valley

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in the Thames Valley

Azure Synapse Analytics
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +35 5 £450 -10.00% 7
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 4
Azure Synapse Analytics
South East

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Azure AI
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (33.33%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) Metadata
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) Power Query
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) SpecFlow
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Electronics
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 2 (33.33%) Marketing
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Automation Tester
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Automation Tester
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Tester
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Tester
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 2 (33.33%) PySpark
1 2 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 2 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 2 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) ETL
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (33.33%) Data Validation
4 2 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 2 (33.33%) MLOps
4 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
4 2 (33.33%) System Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) R
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
1 2 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Alteryx
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft