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

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 422 451
Rank change year-on-year +26 +29 +16
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 130 164 266
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.38% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.18% 1.17% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 129 216
10th Percentile £360 £413 £425
25th Percentile £409 £468 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% -3.18% -
75th Percentile £547 £638 £650
90th Percentile £653 £775 £806
UK excluding London median daily rate £422 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -15.65% -6.98% +7.50%
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 11,009 14,039 21,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.57% 32.34% 36.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,641 9,976 15,834
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 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 343 346
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £20.97 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.78% -40.09% +62.79%
75th Percentile £46.30 £33.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.31% -28.15% +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 3 May 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 15 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 3 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
England +35 110 £475 -13.64% 170
London +29 74 £475 -17.39% 85
Work from Home +23 45 £455 -13.33% 113
UK excluding London +45 37 £422 -15.65% 109
North of England +8 11 £375 -18.92% 20
Scotland +16 9 £416 -12.53% 8
Midlands +9 8 £475 -17.39% 24
South East +35 7 £469 -6.20% 35
West Midlands +6 7 £475 -20.83% 16
North East - 5 £358 -
North West +6 4 £413 -6.52% 9
South West +26 3 £525 -6.67% 7
East of England +38 2 £450 -13.04% 9
Yorkshire +4 2 £375 -21.05% 11
East Midlands +12 1 - - 6

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 7 (5.38%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.31%) Apache
4 1 (0.77%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.77%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 130 (100.00%) Azure
2 79 (60.77%) Azure Data Factory
3 52 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 23 (17.69%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (9.23%) GitHub
5 12 (9.23%) Microsoft Purview
6 10 (7.69%) Snowflake
7 7 (5.38%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (4.62%) dbt
8 6 (4.62%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (3.08%) AWS
10 4 (3.08%) Azure AKS
10 4 (3.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (3.08%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (3.08%) Serverless
11 3 (2.31%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.31%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.31%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.31%) DNS
1 3 (2.31%) FTP
1 3 (2.31%) HTTP
1 3 (2.31%) SMTP
1 3 (2.31%) SSL
1 3 (2.31%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.77%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (39.23%) Power BI
2 47 (36.15%) Data Lake
3 26 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (13.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (12.31%) SQL Server
6 10 (7.69%) Metadata
6 10 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
7 8 (6.15%) NoSQL
8 7 (5.38%) Tableau
9 6 (4.62%) Big Data
9 6 (4.62%) Delta Lake
10 5 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (3.08%) InfluxDB
12 2 (1.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.54%) BigQuery
12 2 (1.54%) NewSQL
12 2 (1.54%) Parquet
12 2 (1.54%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Git
1 3 (2.31%) JIRA
1 3 (2.31%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.54%) Postman
2 2 (1.54%) Selenium
2 2 (1.54%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.77%) JMeter
3 1 (0.77%) Locust
3 1 (0.77%) MLflow
3 1 (0.77%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.77%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (16.15%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.38%) Finance
3 18 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.62%) Banking
6 5 (3.85%) Retail
7 4 (3.08%) Local Government
8 3 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.31%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.54%) Billing
9 2 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.54%) Electronics
9 2 (1.54%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.54%) Marketing
9 2 (1.54%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.77%) Back Office
10 1 (0.77%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.77%) Military
10 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 74 (56.92%) Data Engineer
2 37 (28.46%) Azure Engineer
3 29 (22.31%) Azure Data Engineer
4 20 (15.38%) Architect
5 15 (11.54%) Senior
6 13 (10.00%) Data Architect
7 9 (6.92%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Analyst
9 6 (4.62%) Developer
10 5 (3.85%) Azure Architect
10 5 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 4 (3.08%) Azure Data Architect
11 4 (3.08%) Project Manager
12 3 (2.31%) Consultant
12 3 (2.31%) Data Analyst
12 3 (2.31%) IT Manager
12 3 (2.31%) Senior Manager
12 3 (2.31%) Senior Project Manager
12 3 (2.31%) Technical Architect
12 3 (2.31%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (30.77%) PySpark
2 8 (6.15%) JSON
3 7 (5.38%) YAML
4 4 (3.08%) .NET
5 3 (2.31%) Kafka
5 3 (2.31%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (2.31%) pytest
6 2 (1.54%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.54%) Pandas
6 2 (1.54%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.54%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.77%) Anaconda
7 1 (0.77%) BentoML
7 1 (0.77%) Middleware
7 1 (0.77%) NumPy
7 1 (0.77%) REST
7 1 (0.77%) Shiny
7 1 (0.77%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.08%) Cloud Native
1 4 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (3.08%) Replication
2 3 (2.31%) Data Fabric
2 3 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (2.31%) Housing Association
3 2 (1.54%) Educational Technology
3 2 (1.54%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.54%) Reinsurance
3 2 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (0.77%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.77%) FMCG
4 1 (0.77%) IoT
4 1 (0.77%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.77%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.77%) Smart City
4 1 (0.77%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (52.31%) Analytics
2 66 (50.77%) Data Modelling
3 62 (47.69%) ETL
4 53 (40.77%) Data Pipeline
5 48 (36.92%) Business Intelligence
6 40 (30.77%) Data Engineering
7 37 (28.46%) CI/CD
7 37 (28.46%) DevOps
8 32 (24.62%) Data Transformation
9 28 (21.54%) Visualisation
10 23 (17.69%) Agile
11 21 (16.15%) Data Governance
11 21 (16.15%) Data Ingestion
12 20 (15.38%) Data Integration
13 19 (14.62%) Data Science
13 19 (14.62%) Machine Learning
14 17 (13.08%) Dimensional Modelling
15 15 (11.54%) Decision-Making
16 14 (10.77%) Data Analytics
16 14 (10.77%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 100 (76.92%) SQL
2 56 (43.08%) Python
3 10 (7.69%) T-SQL
4 9 (6.92%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.38%) C#
5 7 (5.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (4.62%) Bicep
6 6 (4.62%) Scala
7 3 (2.31%) Java
7 3 (2.31%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (2.31%) R
8 2 (1.54%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.77%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.77%) Formula Language
9 1 (0.77%) Go
9 1 (0.77%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 25 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.85%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.38%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.54%) Degree
6 1 (0.77%) CITP
6 1 (0.77%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.77%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.77%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.15%) Data Quality
2 14 (10.77%) Accessibility
3 8 (6.15%) GDPR
4 7 (5.38%) QA
5 2 (1.54%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.77%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (6.15%) Docker
2 3 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (10.77%) Terraform
2 8 (6.15%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.31%) Grafana
4 1 (0.77%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 51 (39.23%) Databricks
2 40 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.38%) SAP
4 4 (3.08%) Palantir
5 3 (2.31%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.54%) Aareon
6 2 (1.54%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.54%) Brio
6 2 (1.54%) Civica
6 2 (1.54%) Informatica
6 2 (1.54%) Liquidlogic
6 2 (1.54%) Northgate
7 1 (0.77%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.77%) DataRobot
7 1 (0.77%) Google
7 1 (0.77%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.77%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.77%) Oracle
7 1 (0.77%) Qualys
7 1 (0.77%) Splunk