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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 441 456 491
Rank change year-on-year +15 +35 -59
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 162 246 409
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.44% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 1.21% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 201 302
10th Percentile £413 £425 £406
25th Percentile £465 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £658
90th Percentile £763 £813 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -11.36% +10.00% -3.61%
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 14,030 20,255 33,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.39% 36.45% 38.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,915 14,661 24,591
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 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 326 382
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £37.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.28% +69.32% +0.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 £19.09
% change year-on-year -30.91% +44.05% -4.55%

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 9 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 9 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 +41 145 £550 - 113
London +39 91 £550 -2.22% 59
Work from Home +34 57 £525 -4.55% 61
UK excluding London +29 53 £488 -11.36% 57
North of England +32 18 £450 -16.28% 13
North West +17 12 £441 -13.90% 6
South East -1 11 £500 -9.09% 18
Midlands +14 10 £600 +11.63% 11
South West +13 7 £563 -4.26% 6
West Midlands +5 7 £600 +11.63% 6
Yorkshire +13 6 £475 -24.00% 6
Scotland +41 4 £475 -24.00% 4
East Midlands +12 3 £401 -40.56% 5
East of England +3 3 £410 +26.15% 1

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 28 (17.28%) Apache Spark
2 16 (9.88%) Apache
3 3 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.23%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (3.09%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.62%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.62%) Shopify
2 1 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 162 (100.00%) Azure
2 95 (58.64%) Azure Data Factory
3 73 (45.06%) Power Platform
4 25 (15.43%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (12.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 21 (12.96%) Serverless
6 20 (12.35%) Azure Functions
7 12 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (7.41%) GCP
8 10 (6.17%) PowerApps
9 9 (5.56%) AWS
9 9 (5.56%) Power Automate
10 8 (4.94%) Snowflake
11 7 (4.32%) Azure Machine Learning
11 7 (4.32%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (4.32%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (4.32%) Entra ID
12 6 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (3.09%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.79%) Firewall
2 3 (1.85%) VPN
3 1 (0.62%) LAN
3 1 (0.62%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (44.44%) Data Lake
2 67 (41.36%) Power BI
3 51 (31.48%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (27.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 24 (14.81%) Big Data
6 20 (12.35%) Tableau
7 19 (11.73%) NoSQL
7 19 (11.73%) SQL Server
8 13 (8.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (7.41%) Relational Database
10 8 (4.94%) BusinessObjects
10 8 (4.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 8 (4.94%) Parquet
11 7 (4.32%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 7 (4.32%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 7 (4.32%) Delta Lake
11 7 (4.32%) Hadoop
11 7 (4.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 7 (4.32%) Tableau Server
12 6 (3.70%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (5.56%) Git
2 4 (2.47%) Deequ
3 3 (1.85%) MLflow
4 2 (1.23%) JIRA
General
1 46 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (11.11%) Finance
4 10 (6.17%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.32%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.70%) Banking
6 6 (3.70%) Marketing
7 5 (3.09%) German Language
8 3 (1.85%) Legal
9 2 (1.23%) Law
9 2 (1.23%) Local Government
9 2 (1.23%) Police
9 2 (1.23%) Retail
10 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (42.59%) Data Engineer
2 44 (27.16%) Azure Engineer
3 40 (24.69%) Architect
3 40 (24.69%) Azure Data Engineer
4 21 (12.96%) Azure Architect
5 20 (12.35%) Developer
6 18 (11.11%) Data Architect
7 13 (8.02%) Lead
7 13 (8.02%) Senior
8 11 (6.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 9 (5.56%) Analyst
9 9 (5.56%) Azure Data Architect
10 8 (4.94%) Lead Data Engineer
11 7 (4.32%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.70%) Data Analyst
12 6 (3.70%) Data Scientist
12 6 (3.70%) Integration Developer
13 5 (3.09%) Senior Developer
14 4 (2.47%) Power BI Developer
14 4 (2.47%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (23.46%) PySpark
2 9 (5.56%) JSON
3 7 (4.32%) Apache Avro
4 6 (3.70%) ARM Templates
5 5 (3.09%) JSON Schema
6 4 (2.47%) ADO
6 4 (2.47%) Great Expectations
6 4 (2.47%) Kafka
6 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (2.47%) XML
7 3 (1.85%) Middleware
7 3 (1.85%) Node.js
7 3 (1.85%) pytest
7 3 (1.85%) React
7 3 (1.85%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (1.23%) .NET
8 2 (1.23%) NumPy
8 2 (1.23%) Pandas
8 2 (1.23%) TensorFlow
8 2 (1.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.70%) Algorithms
2 5 (3.09%) Data Structures
2 5 (3.09%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (3.09%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.85%) Grid Computing
3 3 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (1.85%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.23%) NHS
4 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (0.62%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.62%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.62%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.62%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (50.00%) Analytics
2 69 (42.59%) Data Modelling
3 67 (41.36%) Business Intelligence
4 55 (33.95%) ETL
5 45 (27.78%) Data Engineering
6 43 (26.54%) Agile
7 38 (23.46%) DevOps
8 37 (22.84%) Data Pipeline
9 34 (20.99%) CI/CD
10 32 (19.75%) Data Integration
11 27 (16.67%) Migration
12 25 (15.43%) Data Architecture
12 25 (15.43%) Data Science
13 24 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (14.81%) Visualisation
14 22 (13.58%) Data Migration
15 21 (12.96%) Data Governance
16 18 (11.11%) Data Transformation
16 18 (11.11%) Machine Learning
17 17 (10.49%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 102 (62.96%) SQL
2 64 (39.51%) Python
3 18 (11.11%) Scala
4 14 (8.64%) T-SQL
5 7 (4.32%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.70%) C#
7 5 (3.09%) Bicep
7 5 (3.09%) R
8 4 (2.47%) Java
8 4 (2.47%) X++
9 3 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.62%) Bash
Qualifications
1 22 (13.58%) Azure Certification
2 16 (9.88%) Degree
3 12 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 11 (6.79%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.47%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (20.99%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.09%) QA
3 1 (0.62%) COBIT
3 1 (0.62%) ISO 22301
3 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (4.94%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (4.32%) Docker
3 6 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (8.02%) Terraform
2 7 (4.32%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.62%) Kibana
3 1 (0.62%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 79 (48.77%) Databricks
2 62 (38.27%) Microsoft
3 15 (9.26%) SAP
4 8 (4.94%) Informatica
5 6 (3.70%) Google
6 5 (3.09%) Oracle
7 4 (2.47%) Foundry
7 4 (2.47%) Palantir
8 3 (1.85%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.62%) Adobe
9 1 (0.62%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.62%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.62%) DataRobot
9 1 (0.62%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.62%) RedGate
9 1 (0.62%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.62%) Solace
9 1 (0.62%) Sparx
9 1 (0.62%) Wrike