Data Integration Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Integration
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Integration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 87 104
Rank change year-on-year -1 +17 +51
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 37 31 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.97% 1.65% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 1.80% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 17 20
10th Percentile £313 £438 £450
25th Percentile £385 £463 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £619
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -11.11% +3.13%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £706
90th Percentile £840 £753 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £670 £625
% change year-on-year -17.91% +7.20% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £48.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Data Integration falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,670 1,726 2,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.02% 91.86% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,168 1,049 1,540
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £426 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +1.19% -4.50%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £543 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -5.65% +2.22% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 13
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.45 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +18.18% -21.43%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £49.83 £112.00 £69.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%

Data Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Integration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Data Integration job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Integration
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Integration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Integration

Data Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Integration in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Integration in the City of London

Data Integration
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Integration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Integration

Data Integration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 (10.81%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (8.11%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.70%) CMS
3 1 (2.70%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.70%) SAS
3 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.70%) Endur
2 1 (2.70%) Maximo
2 1 (2.70%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (37.84%) AWS
1 14 (37.84%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) GCP
3 7 (18.92%) Power Platform
4 5 (13.51%) Snowflake
5 4 (10.81%) dbt
5 4 (10.81%) SaaS
6 3 (8.11%) iPaaS
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (5.41%) Boomi
7 2 (5.41%) Serverless
7 2 (5.41%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (5.41%) Textract
8 1 (2.70%) Collibra
8 1 (2.70%) Dagster
8 1 (2.70%) Dataform
8 1 (2.70%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (35.14%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (18.92%) Metadata
3 6 (16.22%) Power BI
4 4 (10.81%) Data Lake
5 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
5 3 (8.11%) Tableau
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (5.41%) CockroachDB
6 2 (5.41%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.70%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.70%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.70%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.70%) Looker
7 1 (2.70%) MySQL
7 1 (2.70%) OLAP
7 1 (2.70%) PowerCenter
7 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Git
2 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.11%) JIRA
3 1 (2.70%) ERwin
General
1 17 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 13 (35.14%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Banking
4 2 (5.41%) Back Office
4 2 (5.41%) Front Office
4 2 (5.41%) General Ledger
4 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Legal
5 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.70%) Retail
5 1 (2.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Architect
1 10 (27.03%) Data Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Analyst
3 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (10.81%) Senior
3 4 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Business Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Consultant
4 3 (8.11%) Data Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Data Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Lead
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Data Modeller
5 2 (5.41%) Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Technical Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Endur Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) Kafka
2 3 (8.11%) REST
3 2 (5.41%) boto
3 2 (5.41%) NumPy
3 2 (5.41%) Pandas
4 1 (2.70%) EDI
4 1 (2.70%) HTML
4 1 (2.70%) Hugging Face
4 1 (2.70%) JSON
4 1 (2.70%) Node.js
4 1 (2.70%) PySpark
4 1 (2.70%) SOAP
4 1 (2.70%) Web Services
4 1 (2.70%) XML
4 1 (2.70%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Data Structures
2 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.70%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.70%) Derivative
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Equities
5 1 (2.70%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.70%) FMCG
5 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (2.70%) IoT
5 1 (2.70%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.70%) Pricing Data
5 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.70%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (45.95%) Data Modelling
2 13 (35.14%) ETL
3 12 (32.43%) Analytics
3 12 (32.43%) Data Governance
3 12 (32.43%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (29.73%) AI
5 10 (27.03%) Machine Learning
6 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (18.92%) Event-Driven
7 7 (18.92%) Generative AI
8 6 (16.22%) Agile
8 6 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (16.22%) Integration Patterns
8 6 (16.22%) Migration
8 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
9 5 (13.51%) Data Architecture
9 5 (13.51%) Data Transformation
9 5 (13.51%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (13.51%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (48.65%) SQL
2 13 (35.14%) Python
3 1 (2.70%) C#
3 1 (2.70%) Go
3 1 (2.70%) Java
3 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.70%) LookML
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.70%) PMP
4 1 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (37.84%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.41%) GDPR
2 2 (5.41%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) GRC
3 1 (2.70%) IFRS
3 1 (2.70%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (43.24%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.92%) Databricks
3 3 (8.11%) Google
3 3 (8.11%) Informatica
3 3 (8.11%) Salesforce
3 3 (8.11%) SAP
4 2 (5.41%) MuleSoft
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle
4 2 (5.41%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.70%) AVEVA
5 1 (2.70%) Axway
5 1 (2.70%) Charles River
5 1 (2.70%) eFront
5 1 (2.70%) IBM
5 1 (2.70%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.70%) OpenLink
5 1 (2.70%) Palantir
5 1 (2.70%) SimCorp
5 1 (2.70%) Teradata
5 1 (2.70%) webMethods