Azure Synapse Analytics Contracts

Azure Synapse Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Synapse Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Synapse Analytics over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 425 440 480
Rank change year-on-year +15 +40 -30
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 161 264 423
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.45% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.16% 1.23% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 214 290
10th Percentile £413 £425 £412
25th Percentile £473 £487 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £650
90th Percentile £775 £809 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00
75th Percentile - - £62.95
90th Percentile - - £79.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Synapse Analytics is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,925 21,380 33,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.80% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,896 15,449 24,739
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 343 416
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £15.95 £18.25 £15.31
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £50.19
90th Percentile £62.40 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -29.24% +31.58% -3.80%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Synapse Analytics in the UK

Azure Synapse Analytics
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
England +9 141 £550 - 112
London +26 88 £575 +2.22% 58
Work from Home +43 63 £525 -4.55% 67
UK excluding London +65 52 £500 -9.09% 57
Midlands +35 17 £575 +8.24% 9
North of England +35 14 £463 -11.90% 13
West Midlands +28 14 £600 +11.63% 6
North West +25 8 £441 -15.95% 8
South East -6 8 £500 -10.11% 16
South West +22 7 £563 -4.26% 9
Yorkshire +31 6 £475 -5.00% 4
Scotland +42 4 £475 -24.00% 4
East Midlands +21 3 £401 -15.53% 3
East of England +4 2 £518 +59.23% 1

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 24 (14.91%) Apache Spark
2 14 (8.70%) Apache
3 4 (2.48%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.62%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 161 (100.00%) Azure
2 103 (63.98%) Azure Data Factory
3 70 (43.48%) Power Platform
4 28 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (14.91%) Serverless
6 20 (12.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 20 (12.42%) Azure Functions
7 17 (10.56%) GCP
8 12 (7.45%) AWS
8 12 (7.45%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (7.45%) Power Automate
9 10 (6.21%) PowerApps
10 9 (5.59%) Snowflake
11 7 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (3.73%) Entra ID
13 5 (3.11%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (2.48%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.83%) Firewall
2 3 (1.86%) VPN
3 1 (0.62%) LAN
3 1 (0.62%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (43.48%) Data Lake
2 64 (39.75%) Power BI
3 58 (36.02%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 23 (14.29%) Big Data
5 23 (14.29%) SQL Server
6 14 (8.70%) Tableau
7 13 (8.07%) NoSQL
8 12 (7.45%) Relational Database
8 12 (7.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (6.21%) Delta Lake
10 9 (5.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 9 (5.59%) Power Query
11 8 (4.97%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 8 (4.97%) Parquet
12 7 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (3.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 5 (3.11%) Hadoop
14 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 5 (3.11%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Deequ
1 4 (2.48%) Git
2 1 (0.62%) JIRA
2 1 (0.62%) MLflow
General
1 50 (31.06%) Social Skills
2 21 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (11.18%) Finance
4 9 (5.59%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.35%) Marketing
5 7 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.11%) Banking
6 5 (3.11%) German Language
7 3 (1.86%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.24%) Back Office
8 2 (1.24%) Law
8 2 (1.24%) Local Government
8 2 (1.24%) Police
9 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Legal
9 1 (0.62%) Publishing
9 1 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 73 (45.34%) Data Engineer
2 49 (30.43%) Azure Engineer
3 44 (27.33%) Architect
4 43 (26.71%) Azure Data Engineer
5 21 (13.04%) Azure Architect
6 20 (12.42%) Data Architect
7 17 (10.56%) Developer
8 13 (8.07%) Lead
9 11 (6.83%) Senior
10 10 (6.21%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (5.59%) Azure Data Architect
12 8 (4.97%) Lead Data Engineer
13 6 (3.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 5 (3.11%) Analyst
14 5 (3.11%) Data Analyst
14 5 (3.11%) Integration Developer
14 5 (3.11%) Project Manager
15 4 (2.48%) Business Intelligence Architect
15 4 (2.48%) Business Solution Architect
15 4 (2.48%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (24.84%) PySpark
2 9 (5.59%) JSON
3 7 (4.35%) Apache Avro
4 6 (3.73%) ARM Templates
4 6 (3.73%) Microsoft Graph
5 5 (3.11%) JSON Schema
5 5 (3.11%) Kafka
6 4 (2.48%) .NET
6 4 (2.48%) ADO
6 4 (2.48%) Great Expectations
6 4 (2.48%) XML
7 3 (1.86%) Middleware
7 3 (1.86%) Node.js
7 3 (1.86%) pytest
7 3 (1.86%) React
8 2 (1.24%) NumPy
8 2 (1.24%) Pandas
8 2 (1.24%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (1.24%) Unity DI Container
8 2 (1.24%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.73%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.11%) Data Structures
2 5 (3.11%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (2.48%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.86%) Grid Computing
4 3 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.86%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.24%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.24%) NHS
5 2 (1.24%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.62%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.62%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.62%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.62%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (52.17%) Analytics
2 69 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 67 (41.61%) Business Intelligence
4 61 (37.89%) ETL
5 43 (26.71%) DevOps
6 40 (24.84%) Agile
7 39 (24.22%) Data Engineering
8 38 (23.60%) Data Pipeline
9 34 (21.12%) Data Integration
10 31 (19.25%) CI/CD
11 30 (18.63%) Migration
12 26 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (14.91%) Data Architecture
13 24 (14.91%) Data Migration
14 22 (13.66%) Data Governance
15 21 (13.04%) Data Science
15 21 (13.04%) Visualisation
16 18 (11.18%) Data Transformation
17 17 (10.56%) Data Analytics
17 17 (10.56%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 111 (68.94%) SQL
2 68 (42.24%) Python
3 18 (11.18%) T-SQL
4 17 (10.56%) Scala
5 10 (6.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (4.97%) C#
7 7 (4.35%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.73%) Java
9 5 (3.11%) Bicep
10 4 (2.48%) X++
11 3 (1.86%) R
12 2 (1.24%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.62%) Bash
Qualifications
1 20 (12.42%) Azure Certification
2 15 (9.32%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.70%) Degree
3 14 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.11%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (16.77%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.11%) QA
3 1 (0.62%) COBIT
3 1 (0.62%) ISO 22301
3 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (5.59%) Docker
2 8 (4.97%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (3.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (7.45%) Terraform
2 7 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.62%) Kibana
3 1 (0.62%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 83 (51.55%) Databricks
2 65 (40.37%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.59%) SAP
4 8 (4.97%) Informatica
5 7 (4.35%) Google
5 7 (4.35%) Oracle
6 4 (2.48%) Foundry
6 4 (2.48%) Palantir
7 3 (1.86%) JD Edwards
7 3 (1.86%) QAD
8 2 (1.24%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.24%) Talend
9 1 (0.62%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.62%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.62%) DataRobot
9 1 (0.62%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.62%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.62%) RedGate
9 1 (0.62%) Sparx
9 1 (0.62%) Wrike