Azure Synapse Analytics Contracts

Azure Synapse Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 440 453
Rank change year-on-year +49 +13 +21
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 128 161 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.37% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.16% 1.14% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 125 217
10th Percentile £360 £413 £425
25th Percentile £408 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% -3.18% -
75th Percentile £538 £650 £650
90th Percentile £640 £775 £805
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £544
% change year-on-year -10.10% -8.05% +8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

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 30 April 2025.

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 16 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 30 April 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
England +30 107 £475 -13.64% 134
London +17 69 £475 -17.39% 65
Work from Home +33 47 £465 -11.43% 97
UK excluding London +44 40 £450 -10.10% 71
North of England +26 11 £375 -21.05% 14
South East +44 9 £470 -6.00% 17
Scotland +14 9 £416 -12.53% 5
Midlands +15 8 £475 -17.39% 17
West Midlands +9 7 £475 -20.83% 12
North East - 5 £358 -
North West +8 4 £413 -7.30% 7
South West +42 3 £525 -4.11% 5
East of England +33 2 £450 -13.04% 8
Yorkshire +11 2 £375 -21.05% 7
East Midlands +8 1 - - 5
Wales - 1 £550 - 3

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 9 (7.03%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.91%) Apache
3 4 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.56%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.78%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 128 (100.00%) Azure
2 77 (60.16%) Azure Data Factory
3 50 (39.06%) Power Platform
4 23 (17.97%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (9.38%) GitHub
6 11 (8.59%) Microsoft Purview
7 10 (7.81%) Snowflake
8 7 (5.47%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (4.69%) Azure AKS
9 6 (4.69%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.91%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.91%) dbt
10 5 (3.91%) Serverless
11 4 (3.13%) AWS
11 4 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (3.13%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.34%) Entra ID
12 3 (2.34%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.34%) DNS
1 3 (2.34%) FTP
1 3 (2.34%) HTTP
1 3 (2.34%) SMTP
1 3 (2.34%) SSL
1 3 (2.34%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (38.28%) Power BI
2 46 (35.94%) Data Lake
3 26 (20.31%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (14.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 15 (11.72%) SQL Server
6 10 (7.81%) Metadata
6 10 (7.81%) Snowflake Schema
7 8 (6.25%) Big Data
7 8 (6.25%) NoSQL
8 7 (5.47%) Tableau
9 5 (3.91%) Delta Lake
9 5 (3.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (3.13%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.56%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.56%) Metadata Repository
11 2 (1.56%) MySQL
11 2 (1.56%) NewSQL
11 2 (1.56%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Git
1 3 (2.34%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.56%) JIRA
2 2 (1.56%) Postman
2 2 (1.56%) Selenium
2 2 (1.56%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.78%) GitLab
3 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.78%) JMeter
3 1 (0.78%) Locust
3 1 (0.78%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (16.41%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.63%) Finance
3 18 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.16%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.69%) Banking
6 5 (3.91%) Retail
7 4 (3.13%) Local Government
8 3 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.34%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.56%) Billing
9 2 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.56%) Electronics
9 2 (1.56%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.56%) Marketing
9 2 (1.56%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.78%) Back Office
10 1 (0.78%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.78%) Military
10 1 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (56.25%) Data Engineer
2 36 (28.13%) Azure Engineer
3 27 (21.09%) Azure Data Engineer
4 20 (15.63%) Architect
5 14 (10.94%) Senior
6 13 (10.16%) Data Architect
7 9 (7.03%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (5.47%) Analyst
9 6 (4.69%) Developer
10 5 (3.91%) Azure Architect
10 5 (3.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 4 (3.13%) Azure Data Architect
11 4 (3.13%) Consultant
12 3 (2.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 3 (2.34%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 3 (2.34%) Data Analyst
12 3 (2.34%) DevOps Engineer
12 3 (2.34%) Lead
12 3 (2.34%) Technical Architect
12 3 (2.34%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (30.47%) PySpark
2 8 (6.25%) JSON
3 7 (5.47%) YAML
4 4 (3.13%) .NET
5 3 (2.34%) Kafka
5 3 (2.34%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (2.34%) pytest
5 3 (2.34%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.34%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.56%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.56%) Pandas
6 2 (1.56%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.78%) Middleware
7 1 (0.78%) NumPy
7 1 (0.78%) REST
7 1 (0.78%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.13%) Cloud Native
1 4 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (3.13%) Replication
2 3 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.56%) Data Fabric
3 2 (1.56%) Educational Technology
3 2 (1.56%) Housing Association
3 2 (1.56%) IoT
3 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.56%) Reinsurance
3 2 (1.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (0.78%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.78%) FMCG
4 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.78%) Smart City
4 1 (0.78%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (52.34%) Analytics
2 66 (51.56%) Data Modelling
3 62 (48.44%) ETL
4 48 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
5 46 (35.94%) Business Intelligence
6 40 (31.25%) Data Engineering
7 38 (29.69%) CI/CD
8 36 (28.13%) DevOps
9 32 (25.00%) Data Transformation
10 28 (21.88%) Visualisation
11 23 (17.97%) Agile
12 22 (17.19%) Data Governance
13 20 (15.63%) Data Ingestion
13 20 (15.63%) Machine Learning
14 19 (14.84%) Data Integration
14 19 (14.84%) Data Science
15 16 (12.50%) Dimensional Modelling
16 15 (11.72%) Decision-Making
17 14 (10.94%) Data Analytics
17 14 (10.94%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 101 (78.91%) SQL
2 57 (44.53%) Python
3 10 (7.81%) T-SQL
4 9 (7.03%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.47%) C#
6 6 (4.69%) Bicep
6 6 (4.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (4.69%) Scala
7 5 (3.91%) R
8 3 (2.34%) Java
8 3 (2.34%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.56%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.78%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.78%) Formula Language
10 1 (0.78%) Go
10 1 (0.78%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 25 (19.53%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.84%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.47%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.13%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.56%) Degree
7 1 (0.78%) CITP
7 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 13 (10.16%) Accessibility
3 8 (6.25%) GDPR
4 7 (5.47%) QA
5 2 (1.56%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (7.81%) Docker
2 3 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (10.94%) Terraform
2 10 (7.81%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 49 (38.28%) Databricks
2 40 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.47%) SAP
4 3 (2.34%) Palantir
4 3 (2.34%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.56%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.56%) Brio
5 2 (1.56%) Informatica
5 2 (1.56%) Liquidlogic
6 1 (0.78%) Aareon
6 1 (0.78%) Civica
6 1 (0.78%) GoldenSource
6 1 (0.78%) Google
6 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.78%) Northgate
6 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle
6 1 (0.78%) Qualys
6 1 (0.78%) Teradata
6 1 (0.78%) TOWER Software