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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 420 444 479
Rank change year-on-year +24 +35 -30
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 159 246 415
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.44% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.14% 1.20% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 201 307
10th Percentile £413 £425 £410
25th Percentile £468 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% - +3.77%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £770 £813 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £68.54
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 13,976 20,555 33,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.43% 36.46% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,930 14,875 24,662
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% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 330 390
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.40
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%
75th Percentile £42.50 £69.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.12 £69.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.50 £19.17
% change year-on-year -35.27% +43.47% -4.16%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +37 142 £550 - 130
London +51 89 £575 +3.37% 66
Work from Home +29 58 £525 -4.55% 68
UK excluding London +37 52 £500 -9.09% 63
North of England +37 18 £450 -14.29% 13
North West +20 12 £441 -13.90% 7
Midlands +18 11 £600 +11.63% 11
South East -8 9 £500 -6.98% 21
West Midlands +8 8 £600 +11.63% 6
South West +14 7 £563 -10.00% 8
Yorkshire +23 6 £475 -5.00% 5
Scotland +42 4 £475 -24.00% 3
East Midlands +10 3 £401 -40.56% 5
East of England +9 3 £410 +26.15% 4

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 27 (16.98%) Apache Spark
2 15 (9.43%) Apache
3 3 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.26%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (3.14%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
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 96 (60.38%) Azure Data Factory
3 71 (44.65%) Power Platform
4 26 (16.35%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (13.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 20 (12.58%) Serverless
7 18 (11.32%) Azure Functions
8 12 (7.55%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (7.55%) GCP
9 10 (6.29%) PowerApps
10 9 (5.66%) AWS
10 9 (5.66%) Power Automate
11 8 (5.03%) Snowflake
12 7 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (4.40%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (4.40%) Entra ID
13 6 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (3.14%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (3.14%) Azure Machine Learning
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 65 (40.88%) Power BI
3 52 (32.70%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (28.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 23 (14.47%) Big Data
6 19 (11.95%) SQL Server
7 18 (11.32%) Tableau
8 17 (10.69%) NoSQL
9 13 (8.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (7.55%) Relational Database
11 8 (5.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 8 (5.03%) Delta Lake
11 8 (5.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 8 (5.03%) Parquet
12 7 (4.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 6 (3.77%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (3.77%) Hadoop
13 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 6 (3.77%) Power Query
13 6 (3.77%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (5.03%) Git
2 4 (2.52%) Deequ
3 2 (1.26%) JIRA
4 1 (0.63%) MLflow
General
1 46 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (11.32%) Finance
4 11 (6.92%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.40%) Marketing
5 7 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.14%) Banking
6 5 (3.14%) German Language
7 2 (1.26%) Law
7 2 (1.26%) Local Government
7 2 (1.26%) Police
7 2 (1.26%) Retail
8 1 (0.63%) Back Office
8 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Legal
8 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 71 (44.65%) Data Engineer
2 46 (28.93%) Azure Engineer
3 41 (25.79%) Architect
3 41 (25.79%) Azure Data Engineer
4 21 (13.21%) Azure Architect
5 19 (11.95%) Data Architect
6 16 (10.06%) Developer
7 13 (8.18%) Lead
8 10 (6.29%) Senior
9 9 (5.66%) Azure Data Architect
10 8 (5.03%) Lead Data Engineer
10 8 (5.03%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (4.40%) Analyst
11 7 (4.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 6 (3.77%) Data Analyst
12 6 (3.77%) Integration Developer
13 4 (2.52%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 4 (2.52%) Python Data Engineer
13 4 (2.52%) Python Engineer
13 4 (2.52%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (24.53%) PySpark
2 9 (5.66%) JSON
3 7 (4.40%) Apache Avro
4 6 (3.77%) ARM Templates
5 5 (3.14%) JSON Schema
5 5 (3.14%) Kafka
6 4 (2.52%) ADO
6 4 (2.52%) Great Expectations
6 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (2.52%) XML
7 3 (1.89%) .NET
7 3 (1.89%) Middleware
7 3 (1.89%) Node.js
7 3 (1.89%) pytest
7 3 (1.89%) React
7 3 (1.89%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (1.26%) NumPy
8 2 (1.26%) Pandas
8 2 (1.26%) TensorFlow
8 2 (1.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.14%) Data Structures
1 5 (3.14%) Distributed Computing
1 5 (3.14%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.52%) Algorithms
3 3 (1.89%) Grid Computing
3 3 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (1.89%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.26%) NHS
4 2 (1.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.63%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.63%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.63%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.63%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (50.94%) Analytics
2 68 (42.77%) Data Modelling
3 66 (41.51%) Business Intelligence
4 57 (35.85%) ETL
5 42 (26.42%) Agile
5 42 (26.42%) Data Engineering
6 40 (25.16%) DevOps
7 36 (22.64%) Data Pipeline
8 33 (20.75%) CI/CD
8 33 (20.75%) Data Integration
9 27 (16.98%) Migration
10 25 (15.72%) Data Architecture
11 24 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (14.47%) Data Science
13 22 (13.84%) Data Migration
13 22 (13.84%) Visualisation
14 21 (13.21%) Data Governance
15 18 (11.32%) Data Transformation
16 15 (9.43%) Machine Learning
16 15 (9.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 102 (64.15%) SQL
2 64 (40.25%) Python
3 18 (11.32%) Scala
4 15 (9.43%) T-SQL
5 7 (4.40%) C#
5 7 (4.40%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.14%) Bicep
6 5 (3.14%) Java
7 4 (2.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (2.52%) X++
8 3 (1.89%) R
9 1 (0.63%) Bash
9 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (13.21%) Azure Certification
2 16 (10.06%) Degree
3 13 (8.18%) Security Cleared
4 12 (7.55%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.52%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.26%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (20.75%) 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 8 (5.03%) Docker
1 8 (5.03%) Virtual Machines
2 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 80 (50.31%) Databricks
2 62 (38.99%) Microsoft
3 13 (8.18%) SAP
4 8 (5.03%) Informatica
5 6 (3.77%) Google
6 5 (3.14%) Oracle
7 4 (2.52%) Foundry
7 4 (2.52%) Palantir
8 3 (1.89%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.63%) Adobe
9 1 (0.63%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.63%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.63%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.63%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.63%) QAD
9 1 (0.63%) RedGate
9 1 (0.63%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.63%) Solace
9 1 (0.63%) Sparx
9 1 (0.63%) Wrike