Azure Synapse Analytics Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Azure Synapse Analytics
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 281 335
Rank change year-on-year +24 +54 +50
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 47 64 143
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.42% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.19% 1.15% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 53 125
10th Percentile £371 £413 £425
25th Percentile £425 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £524 £638 £628
90th Percentile £588 £751 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £35.00

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Synapse Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Synapse Analytics trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Synapse Analytics.

Azure Synapse Analytics daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Azure Synapse Analytics over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Azure Synapse Analytics daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.26%) Apache
2 2 (4.26%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 47 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (51.06%) Power Platform
3 23 (48.94%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (19.15%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (8.51%) dbt
6 4 (8.51%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (8.51%) Snowflake
7 3 (6.38%) Azure AKS
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (6.38%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.26%) AWS
8 2 (4.26%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (4.26%) Serverless
9 1 (2.13%) Azure AI
9 1 (2.13%) Azure API Management
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) DNS
1 2 (4.26%) FTP
1 2 (4.26%) HTTP
1 2 (4.26%) SMTP
1 2 (4.26%) SSL
1 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (48.94%) Power BI
2 15 (31.91%) Data Lake
3 7 (14.89%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (12.77%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
6 3 (6.38%) Metadata
6 3 (6.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (6.38%) Tableau
7 2 (4.26%) Metabase
7 2 (4.26%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (2.13%) Big Data
8 1 (2.13%) BigQuery
8 1 (2.13%) Data Mining
8 1 (2.13%) InfluxDB
8 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.13%) Parquet
8 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) GitLab
1 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Public Sector
2 7 (14.89%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.51%) Finance
4 3 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Retail
5 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Local Government
6 1 (2.13%) Banking
6 1 (2.13%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (53.19%) Data Engineer
2 15 (31.91%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (23.40%) Azure Data Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) Architect
5 6 (12.77%) Senior
6 5 (10.64%) Data Architect
7 4 (8.51%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Lead
8 2 (4.26%) Python Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Report Specialist
8 2 (4.26%) Site Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Snowflake Developer
9 1 (2.13%) Business Intelligence Architect
9 1 (2.13%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (2.13%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.13%) Data Analytics Architect
9 1 (2.13%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.66%) PySpark
2 6 (12.77%) JSON
3 2 (4.26%) .NET
3 2 (4.26%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (4.26%) YAML
4 1 (2.13%) Middleware
4 1 (2.13%) NumPy
4 1 (2.13%) Pandas
4 1 (2.13%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.13%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Educational Technology
1 2 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.13%) IoT
2 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.13%) Reinsurance
2 1 (2.13%) Smart City
2 1 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (63.83%) Data Modelling
2 21 (44.68%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (44.68%) ETL
3 19 (40.43%) Analytics
4 12 (25.53%) Data Engineering
4 12 (25.53%) Data Pipeline
4 12 (25.53%) Data Transformation
5 11 (23.40%) DevOps
6 10 (21.28%) Data Governance
6 10 (21.28%) Data Ingestion
7 6 (12.77%) Agile
7 6 (12.77%) CI/CD
7 6 (12.77%) Data Architecture
7 6 (12.77%) Machine Learning
7 6 (12.77%) Migration
7 6 (12.77%) Visualisation
8 5 (10.64%) Data Analytics
8 5 (10.64%) Dimensional Modelling
8 5 (10.64%) ERP
8 5 (10.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 36 (76.60%) SQL
2 14 (29.79%) Python
3 5 (10.64%) Bicep
4 4 (8.51%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.26%) C#
5 2 (4.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.26%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (4.26%) PL/SQL
5 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.26%) R
5 2 (4.26%) Scala
6 1 (2.13%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (2.13%) Formula Language
6 1 (2.13%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (27.66%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.13%) CITP
4 1 (2.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.51%) Accessibility
2 4 (8.51%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (12.77%) Terraform
2 3 (6.38%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (46.81%) Microsoft
2 18 (38.30%) Databricks
3 2 (4.26%) Liquidlogic
3 2 (4.26%) SAP
4 1 (2.13%) Google
4 1 (2.13%) Informatica
4 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.13%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.13%) Teradata