Azure Synapse Analytics Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Azure Synapse Analytics
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Azure Synapse Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 52 63
Rank change year-on-year -33 +11 +21
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.19% 0.19% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.62% 0.70% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £352
25th Percentile - - £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £401
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.53%
75th Percentile - - £437
90th Percentile - - £456
England median daily rate £525 £473 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.09% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
East Midlands

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 in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 323 142 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.56% 27.15% 27.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 104 150
10th Percentile £199 £238 £166
25th Percentile £355 £356 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +5.88% -4.49%
75th Percentile £543 £519 £538
90th Percentile £613 £559 £665
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 14
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £13.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £14.48 £15.09 £17.17
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% -12.11% -8.96%
75th Percentile £23.50 £19.50 £27.25
90th Percentile £26.27 £21.60 £31.53
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.97
% change year-on-year +70.13% +26.13% -28.92%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Synapse Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Azure Synapse Analytics job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure Synapse Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 April 2026. 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
Leicestershire -5 1 £600 -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £600 -
Azure Synapse Analytics
England

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks