Azure Synapse Analytics Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Azure Synapse Analytics
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Azure Synapse Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 152 167
Rank change year-on-year -35 +15 +44
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 14 12 20
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.30% 0.33% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.79% 0.99% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 16
10th Percentile £370 £356 £394
25th Percentile £380 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £480
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -11.46% -20.00%
75th Percentile £550 £475 £628
90th Percentile £595 £518 £650
England median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -6.52%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,765 1,218 1,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 38.10% 33.66% 34.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,282 796 1,212
10th Percentile £220 £275 £260
25th Percentile £363 £384 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £656 £650
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 25 58
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.66 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.87 £36.00 £23.06
Median % change year-on-year +16.31% +56.15% -0.67%
75th Percentile £60.25 £58.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.02 £92.99 £55.00
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.94 £23.24
% change year-on-year -14.99% +33.12% +3.29%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Azure Synapse Analytics job vacancy trend in the North of England

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure Synapse Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in the North of England

Azure Synapse Analytics
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
North West -17 7 £525 +23.53% 14
Yorkshire -42 5 £438 -7.89% 9
North East -13 2 £375 +4.75% 4
Azure Synapse Analytics
England

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 2 (14.29%) Apache
2 2 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (71.43%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (57.14%) Power Platform
4 2 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Stack
5 1 (7.14%) dbt
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) Power BI
2 7 (50.00%) Data Lake
3 6 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (35.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (28.57%) Tableau
6 3 (21.43%) Power Query
7 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (14.29%) Big Data
7 2 (14.29%) Metadata
7 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
7 2 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
8 1 (7.14%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
8 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
8 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
8 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
8 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
8 1 (7.14%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Health Technology
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Power BI Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Implementation Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) PySpark
2 1 (7.14%) FHIR
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Fabric
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (7.14%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Data Modelling
1 8 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
2 7 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (50.00%) ETL
3 6 (42.86%) Analytics
3 6 (42.86%) Data Engineering
3 6 (42.86%) Data Governance
3 6 (42.86%) Visualisation
4 5 (35.71%) Data Visualisation
4 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (28.57%) Data Architecture
5 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (21.43%) Agile
6 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
6 3 (21.43%) Data Integration
6 3 (21.43%) Data Lineage
6 3 (21.43%) Data Transformation
6 3 (21.43%) Translating Business Requirements
7 2 (14.29%) ETL Development
7 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) SQL
2 6 (42.86%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
5 1 (7.14%) Bicep
5 1 (7.14%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) Basel II
2 1 (7.14%) Basel III
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Databricks
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Brio
3 1 (7.14%) Google