Azure Synapse Analytics Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Azure Synapse Analytics
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Azure Synapse Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 79 92
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 +41
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 5 6 12
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.50% 0.51% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 1.51% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 9
10th Percentile £390 - £413
25th Percentile £396 £419 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -30.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £538 £470 £650
90th Percentile £560 £488 £655
North West median daily rate £475 £438 £588
% change year-on-year +8.57% -25.53% -2.08%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 396 397 721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 39.29% 33.73% 43.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 254 567
10th Percentile £322 £356 £298
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £641 £675 £670
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 20
10th Percentile £17.92 £40.90 £15.72
25th Percentile £31.56 £58.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £49.00 £66.50 £17.93
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +270.89% -74.39%
75th Percentile £66.88 £71.50 £35.31
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.30 £77.63
North West median hourly rate £18.87 £36.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -47.58% +9.09% -43.05%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Azure Synapse Analytics job vacancy trend in Manchester

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Azure Synapse Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in Manchester

Azure Synapse Analytics
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Salford - 1 £400 -
Stockport - 1 £400 -
Azure Synapse Analytics
North West

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Stack
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) Power Query
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) RBAC
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (20.00%) Scala
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Veeam
3 1 (20.00%) VMware