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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 329 380
Rank change year-on-year +35 +51 +52
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 41 56 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% 1.06% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 42 46
10th Percentile £352 £405 £416
25th Percentile £363 £420 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £531 £600 £656
90th Percentile £598 £624 £707
UK median daily rate £475 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -12.24% -1.59% -

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 4,089 5,269 7,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.61% 25.96% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,858 3,741 5,627
10th Percentile £237 £213 £250
25th Percentile £381 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 262 220
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.00 £16.44
Median hourly rate £20.37 £17.72 £25.87
Median % change year-on-year +14.95% -31.49% +34.38%
75th Percentile £33.80 £27.25 £64.63
90th Percentile £69.50 £65.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.69% -38.94% +57.73%

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 19 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 19 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
Midlands +14 13 £458 -20.43% 34
West Midlands +3 12 £458 -23.75% 25
North of England +10 11 £375 -16.67% 73
South East +38 9 £469 -6.20% 66
Scotland +9 7 £416 -12.53% 25
North East - 5 £358 - 12
North West +6 4 £400 -9.35% 41
South West +36 3 £525 -6.67% 14
East of England +22 2 £450 -13.04% 6
Yorkshire +9 2 £375 -21.05% 22
East Midlands +10 1 - - 7
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:

Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (9.76%) SAP PM
2 2 (4.88%) SAP ERP
3 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (56.10%) Azure Data Factory
3 15 (36.59%) Power Platform
4 9 (21.95%) GitHub
5 8 (19.51%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (12.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (9.76%) Collibra
8 4 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (7.32%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (7.32%) Serverless
10 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (4.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (2.44%) Azure Functions
11 1 (2.44%) GCP
11 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (34.15%) Power BI
2 12 (29.27%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (26.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (24.39%) Data Lake
5 8 (19.51%) Metadata
5 8 (19.51%) SQL Server
6 6 (14.63%) NoSQL
7 5 (12.20%) Delta Lake
8 4 (9.76%) GIS
9 3 (7.32%) Oracle Database
10 2 (4.88%) Big Data
10 2 (4.88%) Metadata Repository
10 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (4.88%) NewSQL
10 2 (4.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (4.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (4.88%) Tableau
11 1 (2.44%) MySQL
11 1 (2.44%) Power Query
11 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) SpecFlow
1 2 (4.88%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.07%) Finance
3 6 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.88%) Billing
5 2 (4.88%) Electronics
5 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.88%) Marketing
5 2 (4.88%) Retail
5 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.44%) Banking
6 1 (2.44%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.44%) Local Government
6 1 (2.44%) Military
6 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Publishing
6 1 (2.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (48.78%) Data Engineer
2 10 (24.39%) Architect
3 9 (21.95%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (21.95%) Data Architect
4 6 (14.63%) Azure Data Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Senior
6 4 (9.76%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (7.32%) Azure Architect
7 3 (7.32%) Azure Data Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Consultant
8 2 (4.88%) Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Platform Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Power BI Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Report Specialist
8 2 (4.88%) Senior Test Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Senior Tester
8 2 (4.88%) Test Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) PySpark
2 4 (9.76%) Kafka
3 2 (4.88%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.44%) .NET
4 1 (2.44%) Middleware
4 1 (2.44%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) IoT
1 4 (9.76%) SCADA
2 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.32%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.88%) Replication
4 1 (2.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.44%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (63.41%) ETL
2 25 (60.98%) Analytics
3 21 (51.22%) Data Modelling
4 16 (39.02%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (31.71%) Data Governance
5 13 (31.71%) DevOps
6 12 (29.27%) Data Transformation
7 11 (26.83%) CI/CD
7 11 (26.83%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (26.83%) Machine Learning
8 7 (17.07%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (17.07%) Data Integration
8 7 (17.07%) ERP
9 6 (14.63%) Data Analytics
9 6 (14.63%) Data Engineering
9 6 (14.63%) Data Science
9 6 (14.63%) Data Security
9 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (12.20%) API Integration
10 5 (12.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 36 (87.80%) SQL
2 15 (36.59%) Python
3 4 (9.76%) Bicep
3 4 (9.76%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (9.76%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.88%) Java
4 2 (4.88%) PL/SQL
4 2 (4.88%) R
4 2 (4.88%) Scala
5 1 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.44%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.44%) CITP
5 1 (2.44%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (26.83%) Data Quality
2 6 (14.63%) GDPR
3 3 (7.32%) QA
4 2 (4.88%) HIPAA
4 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.44%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 5 (12.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (46.34%) Microsoft
2 15 (36.59%) Databricks
3 9 (21.95%) SAP
4 4 (9.76%) Informatica
5 3 (7.32%) Oracle
6 2 (4.88%) Liquidlogic
6 2 (4.88%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.44%) Alteryx
7 1 (2.44%) Brio
7 1 (2.44%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.44%) Veeam
7 1 (2.44%) VMware