Data Integration Contracts

Data Integration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Integration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Integration over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 275 275
Rank change year-on-year +81 0 -13
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 518 580 896
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.20% 0.97% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.08% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 450 621
10th Percentile £385 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +11.65%
75th Percentile £709 £663 £675
90th Percentile £813 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% +8.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £46.35 £19.43 -
25th Percentile £46.50 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 £20.44 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +137.28% -41.60% +64.71%
75th Percentile £59.50 £28.75 -
90th Percentile £65.05 £37.60 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +109.09% -21.43% -1.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Integration is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Data Integration
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Integration in the UK

Data Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Integration.

Daily rate trend for Data Integration in the UK

Data Integration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Integration over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Integration in the UK

Data Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Integration.

Hourly rate trend for Data Integration in the UK

Data Integration
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Integration over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Integration in the UK

Data Integration
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Integration within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +77 463 £550 - 171
London +108 294 £625 +4.17% 99
Work from Home +67 187 £513 -6.82% 84
UK excluding London +25 172 £500 -4.76% 73
North of England +48 51 £500 -1.96% 26
North West +53 39 £525 - 16
Midlands -4 39 £513 -4.74% 14
South East +10 36 £500 -4.76% 19
West Midlands -3 30 £570 +5.75% 13
South West +2 17 £413 -15.38% 10
Scotland +23 16 £525 -4.55% 4
East of England +13 14 £525 -23.64% 2
Yorkshire +9 10 £475 -5.94% 9
East Midlands +22 8 £494 +16.18% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £400 - 3
North East +20 1 - - 2

Data Integration
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 24 (4.63%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.12%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.74%) Apache
4 6 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.77%) Confluence
5 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.39%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) Luigi
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 23 (4.44%) MS Visio
2 13 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 28 (5.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (4.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 17 (3.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.97%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.77%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.58%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.39%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.39%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.19%) Hyperion Planning
8 1 (0.19%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.19%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 141 (27.22%) Azure
2 89 (17.18%) AWS
3 86 (16.60%) Power Platform
4 50 (9.65%) Azure Data Factory
5 43 (8.30%) Snowflake
6 33 (6.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 30 (5.79%) GCP
8 28 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (4.83%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (4.83%) Serverless
10 23 (4.44%) Amazon S3
11 18 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (2.90%) OCI
12 15 (2.90%) PaaS
13 13 (2.51%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (2.51%) Collibra
14 12 (2.32%) SaaS
15 10 (1.93%) IaaS
16 9 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (1.74%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.39%) Firewall
1 2 (0.39%) SAN
2 1 (0.19%) Network Security
2 1 (0.19%) SSL
2 1 (0.19%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (27.22%) Data Warehouse
2 79 (15.25%) Power BI
3 66 (12.74%) SQL Server
4 51 (9.85%) Metadata
5 44 (8.49%) Data Lake
5 44 (8.49%) NoSQL
6 36 (6.95%) Big Data
7 35 (6.76%) Relational Database
7 35 (6.76%) Tableau
8 34 (6.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 31 (5.98%) Data Vault
10 23 (4.44%) Metadata Repository
11 19 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (2.90%) MySQL
13 15 (2.90%) QlikView
14 14 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (2.70%) Oracle ODI
15 13 (2.51%) Hadoop
15 13 (2.51%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 26 (5.02%) ERwin
2 21 (4.05%) Git
3 16 (3.09%) ER Studio
4 12 (2.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 11 (2.12%) JIRA
6 9 (1.74%) GitLab
7 6 (1.16%) MLflow
8 4 (0.77%) kappa
9 3 (0.58%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.58%) Maven
9 3 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.19%) Gerrit
10 1 (0.19%) Hudson
10 1 (0.19%) JUnit
10 1 (0.19%) LSMW
10 1 (0.19%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.19%) Selenium
10 1 (0.19%) TestNG
10 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.19%) WebDriver
General
1 136 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 133 (25.68%) Finance
3 101 (19.50%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.49%) Public Sector
5 43 (8.30%) Marketing
6 38 (7.34%) Manufacturing
7 32 (6.18%) Banking
8 23 (4.44%) Telecoms
9 22 (4.25%) Electronics
10 20 (3.86%) Retail
11 16 (3.09%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.74%) Front Office
13 9 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.74%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.54%) Back Office
14 8 (1.54%) Publishing
15 7 (1.35%) Financial Institution
16 6 (1.16%) Automotive
17 4 (0.77%) Legal
Job Titles
1 162 (31.27%) Architect
2 97 (18.73%) Data Architect
3 96 (18.53%) Data Engineer
4 79 (15.25%) Developer
5 57 (11.00%) Analyst
6 41 (7.92%) Lead
7 38 (7.34%) Solutions Architect
8 31 (5.98%) Data Analyst
9 30 (5.79%) Senior
10 26 (5.02%) Consultant
11 22 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
12 21 (4.05%) Integration Engineer
13 20 (3.86%) Business Analyst
13 20 (3.86%) Chief Architect
13 20 (3.86%) Chief Data Architect
14 18 (3.47%) Project Manager
15 17 (3.28%) Azure Data Engineer
16 14 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
17 12 (2.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 11 (2.12%) Data Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.86%) REST
2 19 (3.67%) .NET
3 18 (3.47%) PySpark
4 14 (2.70%) XML
5 12 (2.32%) SOAP
6 11 (2.12%) JSON
6 11 (2.12%) Middleware
7 10 (1.93%) Kafka
8 8 (1.54%) YAML
9 7 (1.35%) .NET Framework
9 7 (1.35%) Entity Framework
9 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
9 7 (1.35%) WCF
10 6 (1.16%) AWS CDK
10 6 (1.16%) GraphQL
10 6 (1.16%) Visualforce
11 5 (0.97%) .NET Core
11 5 (0.97%) HTML
12 4 (0.77%) Catalyst
12 4 (0.77%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.37%) Reference Data
2 23 (4.44%) Data Structures
3 18 (3.47%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.12%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (1.74%) Derivative
6 8 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.54%) Taxonomies
7 7 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.16%) IoT
8 6 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.97%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.97%) Industry 4.0
9 5 (0.97%) Operational Technology
10 4 (0.77%) Market Risk
10 4 (0.77%) NHS
10 4 (0.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (0.58%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.54%) Linux
2 6 (1.16%) Unix
2 6 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (46.33%) Data Modelling
2 175 (33.78%) ETL
3 137 (26.45%) Data Governance
4 123 (23.75%) Analytics
4 123 (23.75%) Business Intelligence
5 114 (22.01%) Problem-Solving
6 113 (21.81%) Agile
7 97 (18.73%) Data Architecture
8 81 (15.64%) Migration
9 78 (15.06%) Data Pipeline
10 77 (14.86%) DevOps
11 62 (11.97%) Data Management
12 59 (11.39%) Data Strategy
13 58 (11.20%) Data Engineering
14 52 (10.04%) Data Analysis
15 49 (9.46%) Data Migration
16 47 (9.07%) CRM
17 46 (8.88%) Computer Science
18 44 (8.49%) Data Transformation
19 42 (8.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 204 (39.38%) SQL
2 102 (19.69%) Python
3 32 (6.18%) C#
4 30 (5.79%) Java
5 26 (5.02%) T-SQL
6 23 (4.44%) JavaScript
7 20 (3.86%) Scala
8 17 (3.28%) PL/SQL
9 12 (2.32%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.54%) Perl
11 7 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.35%) R
12 6 (1.16%) Apex Code
12 6 (1.16%) Bicep
12 6 (1.16%) TypeScript
12 6 (1.16%) VBScript
13 3 (0.58%) VBA
14 2 (0.39%) ABAP
14 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 81 (15.64%) Security Cleared
2 68 (13.13%) SC Cleared
3 66 (12.74%) Degree
4 40 (7.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.25%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.35%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.35%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.58%) PhD
8 2 (0.39%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.39%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (22.01%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.41%) GDPR
3 23 (4.44%) QA
4 6 (1.16%) PMO
5 5 (0.97%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.77%) ISO 15022
7 3 (0.58%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
System Software
1 12 (2.32%) Docker
2 5 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (2.51%) Terraform
2 6 (1.16%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.58%) Grafana
3 3 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.39%) Control-M
5 1 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.19%) Podman
5 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 95 (18.34%) Microsoft
2 86 (16.60%) Oracle
3 75 (14.48%) SAP
4 68 (13.13%) Informatica
5 57 (11.00%) Databricks
6 27 (5.21%) Salesforce
7 25 (4.83%) Sparx
8 14 (2.70%) Google
9 13 (2.51%) ServiceNow
10 12 (2.32%) Talend
11 11 (2.12%) Palantir
12 10 (1.93%) Foundry
13 8 (1.54%) Ariba
14 5 (0.97%) IFS
15 4 (0.77%) CA
16 3 (0.58%) Concur
16 3 (0.58%) Murex
16 3 (0.58%) VMware
17 2 (0.39%) IDERA
17 2 (0.39%) Optimizely