Azure Synapse Analytics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Azure Synapse Analytics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 296 348 405
Rank change year-on-year +52 +57 +21
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 40 51 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.25% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.98% 0.94% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 37 44
10th Percentile £358 £393 £413
25th Percentile £369 £425 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% -8.05% +8.75%
75th Percentile £534 £600 £650
90th Percentile £550 £630 £701
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £35.00

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Synapse Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK excluding London

Azure Synapse Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK excluding London

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK excluding London

Azure Synapse Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK excluding London

Azure Synapse Analytics
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +17 11 £375 -21.05% 15
South East +47 9 £470 -6.00% 35
Scotland +18 9 £416 -12.53% 5
Midlands +13 8 £475 -17.39% 23
West Midlands +7 7 £475 -20.83% 14
North East - 5 £358 -
North West +14 4 £413 -7.30% 7
South West +42 3 £525 -6.67% 7
East of England +30 2 £450 -13.04% 8
Yorkshire +4 2 £375 -21.05% 8
East Midlands +8 1 - - 7
Wales - 1 £550 - 3
Azure Synapse Analytics
UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (5.00%) Apache
1 2 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) Azure
2 21 (52.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 11 (27.50%) Power Platform
4 6 (15.00%) GitHub
5 5 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Functions
6 3 (7.50%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (7.50%) Serverless
7 2 (5.00%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.50%) Azure AI
8 1 (2.50%) Azure API Management
8 1 (2.50%) GCP
8 1 (2.50%) IaaS
8 1 (2.50%) PaaS
8 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.00%) Data Lake
2 12 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (25.00%) Power BI
4 9 (22.50%) SQL Server
5 8 (20.00%) Metadata
6 5 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (10.00%) Big Data
8 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
8 3 (7.50%) Tableau
9 2 (5.00%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (5.00%) MySQL
9 2 (5.00%) NewSQL
9 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
10 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (2.50%) Power Query
10 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.00%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (2.50%) GitLab
3 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (17.50%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Billing
4 2 (5.00%) Electronics
4 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.00%) Marketing
4 2 (5.00%) Retail
4 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.50%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) General Ledger
5 1 (2.50%) Local Government
5 1 (2.50%) Military
5 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Publishing
5 1 (2.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (55.00%) Data Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Azure Data Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Architect
5 5 (12.50%) Data Architect
6 4 (10.00%) Consultant
6 4 (10.00%) Senior
7 3 (7.50%) Azure Architect
7 3 (7.50%) Azure Data Architect
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Automation Tester
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Consultant
8 2 (5.00%) Platform Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Report Specialist
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Automation Tester
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Test Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Tester
8 2 (5.00%) Test Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) PySpark
2 2 (5.00%) Gherkin
2 2 (5.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (5.00%) scikit-learn
2 2 (5.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.50%) .NET
3 1 (2.50%) Middleware
3 1 (2.50%) NumPy
3 1 (2.50%) Pandas
3 1 (2.50%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (5.00%) Replication
2 1 (2.50%) IoT
2 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (2.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) ETL
2 22 (55.00%) Analytics
3 18 (45.00%) Data Modelling
4 14 (35.00%) Data Transformation
5 12 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (30.00%) CI/CD
6 11 (27.50%) DevOps
7 10 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (22.50%) Data Engineering
9 8 (20.00%) Machine Learning
10 7 (17.50%) Data Analytics
10 7 (17.50%) Data Governance
10 7 (17.50%) Data Science
10 7 (17.50%) ERP
11 6 (15.00%) Agile
12 5 (12.50%) API Integration
12 5 (12.50%) Data Integration
12 5 (12.50%) Data Security
12 5 (12.50%) Migration
12 5 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 36 (90.00%) SQL
2 14 (35.00%) Python
3 5 (12.50%) R
3 5 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 3 (7.50%) Scala
5 2 (5.00%) Java
5 2 (5.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.50%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.50%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.50%) CITP
3 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.50%) GDPR
2 3 (7.50%) QA
3 2 (5.00%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (32.50%) Databricks
3 5 (12.50%) SAP
4 2 (5.00%) Brio
4 2 (5.00%) Liquidlogic
4 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.50%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.50%) OpenAI