Azure Synapse Analytics Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Azure Synapse Analytics
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Azure Synapse Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 88 106
Rank change year-on-year -31 +18 +41
Contract jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics 21 19 12
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.93% 1.14% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.70% 3.42% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 8
10th Percentile £505 £405 £371
25th Percentile £531 £513 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £631 £612 £547
90th Percentile £659 £613 £613
England median daily rate £550 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% -4.64%

All Cloud Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 779 556 613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.61% 33.27% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 377 457
10th Percentile £303 £228 £200
25th Percentile £413 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £588
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 8
10th Percentile £25.12 £16.46 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £17.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £28.61 £30.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% +66.89% +8.12%
75th Percentile £41.56 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £63.95 - £30.33
England median hourly rate £26.50 £30.88 £23.24
% change year-on-year -14.17% +32.85% +3.29%

Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Azure Synapse Analytics job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Azure Synapse Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Synapse Analytics in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Synapse Analytics in the West Midlands

Azure Synapse Analytics
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 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
Birmingham +1 15 £600 +14.29% 5
Warwickshire -14 2 £550 -4.35% 1
Coventry -16 1 - -
Solihull - 1 £625 -
Azure Synapse Analytics
England

Azure Synapse Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.76%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (71.43%) Azure Data Factory
3 14 (66.67%) Power Platform
4 10 (47.62%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (23.81%) SaaS
7 2 (9.52%) AWS
7 2 (9.52%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (4.76%) Azure Stack
8 1 (4.76%) GitHub
8 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (61.90%) Power BI
2 8 (38.10%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (23.81%) Data Mining
4 4 (19.05%) Data Lake
5 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
5 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.76%) Data Hub
6 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) MLflow
General
1 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Architect
2 8 (38.10%) Enterprise Architect
3 7 (33.33%) Azure Architect
3 7 (33.33%) Business Architect
4 6 (28.57%) Data Engineer
4 6 (28.57%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 5 (23.81%) TOGAF Architect
5 5 (23.81%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
6 3 (14.29%) Data Architect
6 3 (14.29%) Data Scientist
7 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Architect
7 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 2 (9.52%) Lead
7 2 (9.52%) Senior
8 1 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Lead
8 1 (4.76%) Lead Data Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) PySpark
2 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) IoT
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (66.67%) Analytics
3 13 (61.90%) Data Modelling
4 9 (42.86%) AI
4 9 (42.86%) DevOps
5 8 (38.10%) Agile
6 6 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (23.81%) Business Analysis
7 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
7 5 (23.81%) ETL
7 5 (23.81%) Records Management
7 5 (23.81%) TOGAF
7 5 (23.81%) Zachman Framework
8 4 (19.05%) Data Architecture
8 4 (19.05%) Data Engineering
8 4 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (19.05%) Machine Learning
9 3 (14.29%) Data Science
9 3 (14.29%) Mathematics
10 2 (9.52%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) SQL
2 6 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (9.52%) R
4 1 (4.76%) C++
4 1 (4.76%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (76.19%) Microsoft
2 7 (33.33%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Atlassian