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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 425 450 483
Rank change year-on-year +25 +33 -29
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 159 257 413
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.45% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 1.22% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 208 296
10th Percentile £413 £425 £411
25th Percentile £463 £497 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £775 £813 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
75th Percentile - - £62.95
90th Percentile - - £79.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £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 13,861 21,047 33,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.57% 36.74% 38.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,856 15,234 24,645
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 £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 335 407
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.50 £15.44
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £36.16 £66.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £68.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.63
% change year-on-year -31.49% +31.80% -1.88%

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 19 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 19 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 +34 140 £550 - 133
London +26 83 £575 +2.22% 72
Work from Home +31 60 £525 -4.55% 64
UK excluding London +48 56 £500 -9.09% 75
North of England +39 18 £450 -12.20% 19
Midlands +24 17 £575 +6.98% 11
West Midlands +25 14 £600 +11.63% 7
North West +18 12 £441 -13.90% 12
South East +5 8 £500 -6.98% 25
South West +15 7 £563 -4.26% 10
Yorkshire +21 6 £475 -5.00% 6
Scotland +40 4 £475 -24.00% 4
East Midlands +18 3 £401 -40.56% 4
East of England +13 2 £518 +59.23% 2

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 25 (15.72%) Apache Spark
2 14 (8.81%) Apache
3 4 (2.52%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.63%) Shopify
2 1 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 159 (100.00%) Azure
2 102 (64.15%) Azure Data Factory
3 70 (44.03%) Power Platform
4 27 (16.98%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (13.84%) Serverless
6 20 (12.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 19 (11.95%) Azure Functions
8 15 (9.43%) GCP
9 12 (7.55%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (7.55%) Power Automate
10 10 (6.29%) AWS
10 10 (6.29%) PowerApps
11 7 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (4.40%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (4.40%) Entra ID
11 7 (4.40%) Snowflake
12 6 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (3.14%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (2.52%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.92%) Firewall
2 3 (1.89%) VPN
3 1 (0.63%) LAN
3 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (43.40%) Data Lake
2 64 (40.25%) Power BI
3 60 (37.74%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (28.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 23 (14.47%) Big Data
6 21 (13.21%) SQL Server
7 14 (8.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (8.81%) Tableau
8 13 (8.18%) NoSQL
9 10 (6.29%) Delta Lake
9 10 (6.29%) Relational Database
10 9 (5.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 8 (5.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 8 (5.03%) Parquet
12 7 (4.40%) Power Query
12 7 (4.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 5 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (3.14%) Hadoop
14 5 (3.14%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Git
2 4 (2.52%) Deequ
3 2 (1.26%) JIRA
4 1 (0.63%) MLflow
General
1 47 (29.56%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.84%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (11.32%) Finance
4 10 (6.29%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.03%) Marketing
6 7 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.14%) German Language
8 4 (2.52%) Banking
9 3 (1.89%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.26%) Back Office
10 2 (1.26%) Law
10 2 (1.26%) Local Government
10 2 (1.26%) Police
10 2 (1.26%) Retail
11 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Legal
11 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (43.40%) Data Engineer
2 47 (29.56%) Azure Engineer
3 44 (27.67%) Architect
4 41 (25.79%) Azure Data Engineer
5 21 (13.21%) Azure Architect
6 20 (12.58%) Data Architect
7 18 (11.32%) Developer
8 13 (8.18%) Lead
9 11 (6.92%) Senior
10 10 (6.29%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (5.66%) Azure Data Architect
12 8 (5.03%) Lead Data Engineer
13 7 (4.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 6 (3.77%) Integration Developer
15 5 (3.14%) Analyst
15 5 (3.14%) Data Analyst
16 4 (2.52%) Business Architect
16 4 (2.52%) Business Solution Architect
16 4 (2.52%) Data Scientist
16 4 (2.52%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (26.42%) PySpark
2 9 (5.66%) JSON
3 7 (4.40%) Apache Avro
4 6 (3.77%) ARM Templates
4 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Graph
5 5 (3.14%) JSON Schema
5 5 (3.14%) Kafka
6 4 (2.52%) .NET
6 4 (2.52%) ADO
6 4 (2.52%) Great Expectations
6 4 (2.52%) XML
7 3 (1.89%) Middleware
7 3 (1.89%) Node.js
7 3 (1.89%) pytest
7 3 (1.89%) React
8 2 (1.26%) NumPy
8 2 (1.26%) Pandas
8 2 (1.26%) TensorFlow
8 2 (1.26%) Unity DI Container
8 2 (1.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.77%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.14%) Data Structures
2 5 (3.14%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (2.52%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.89%) Grid Computing
4 3 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.89%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.26%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.26%) NHS
5 2 (1.26%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.63%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.63%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.63%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (52.20%) Analytics
2 68 (42.77%) Data Modelling
3 65 (40.88%) Business Intelligence
4 61 (38.36%) ETL
5 42 (26.42%) DevOps
6 41 (25.79%) Data Engineering
7 39 (24.53%) Agile
8 36 (22.64%) Data Integration
8 36 (22.64%) Data Pipeline
9 32 (20.13%) CI/CD
10 28 (17.61%) Migration
11 27 (16.98%) Data Architecture
12 26 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (14.47%) Data Science
14 22 (13.84%) Data Governance
14 22 (13.84%) Data Migration
15 20 (12.58%) Visualisation
16 17 (10.69%) Data Transformation
17 16 (10.06%) Data Analytics
17 16 (10.06%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 109 (68.55%) SQL
2 69 (43.40%) Python
3 18 (11.32%) T-SQL
4 17 (10.69%) Scala
5 8 (5.03%) C#
5 8 (5.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (4.40%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.77%) Java
8 5 (3.14%) Bicep
9 4 (2.52%) X++
10 3 (1.89%) R
11 2 (1.26%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.63%) Bash
Qualifications
1 20 (12.58%) Azure Certification
2 14 (8.81%) Degree
2 14 (8.81%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.18%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.14%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.26%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.35%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.14%) QA
3 1 (0.63%) COBIT
3 1 (0.63%) ISO 22301
3 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (5.66%) Docker
2 8 (5.03%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (3.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (8.18%) Terraform
2 7 (4.40%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.63%) Kibana
3 1 (0.63%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 82 (51.57%) Databricks
2 65 (40.88%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.03%) Informatica
3 8 (5.03%) SAP
4 7 (4.40%) Google
5 5 (3.14%) Oracle
6 4 (2.52%) Foundry
6 4 (2.52%) Palantir
7 3 (1.89%) JD Edwards
7 3 (1.89%) QAD
7 3 (1.89%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.63%) Adobe
8 1 (0.63%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.63%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.63%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.63%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.63%) RedGate
8 1 (0.63%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.63%) Sparx
8 1 (0.63%) Wrike