Data Integration Contract Job Trends in England

Data Integration
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Integration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 166 209
Rank change year-on-year +10 +43 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 790 457 392
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.73% 1.66% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 1.82% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 316 276
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £436 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £546
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -3.89% -0.68%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £678
90th Percentile £738 £725 £794
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 4
10th Percentile - £48.19 -
25th Percentile £30.96 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £65.85 £55.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.72% +83.33% -40.00%
75th Percentile £76.13 £57.50 £39.69
90th Percentile £84.81 - £57.13
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -4.55% +83.33% -40.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,860 25,068 28,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.79% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,530
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,442 1,597
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.20 £14.15
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% +0.86%

Data Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Data Integration job vacancy trend in England

Data Integration
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Integration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Integration

Data Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Integration in England over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Integration in England

Data Integration
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Integration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Integration

Data Integration
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Integration in England over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Integration in England

Data Integration
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 August 2026. 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
London -15 361 £600 +9.09% 216
Midlands +29 169 £469 -9.55% 38
West Midlands +30 152 £469 -9.55% 30
North of England -11 108 £520 +4.00% 56
South East -52 78 £525 +1.94% 75
North West -10 62 £525 +4.58% 44
South West -26 29 £516 +8.53% 24
Yorkshire -30 26 £475 - 7
North East -19 21 £525 -4.55% 5
East of England -14 19 £600 +9.09% 21
East Midlands -14 17 £455 +18.18% 8
Data Integration
UK

Data Integration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 88 (11.14%) SAS
2 39 (4.94%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.53%) Apache Spark
4 19 (2.41%) Confluence
5 16 (2.03%) Apache
6 10 (1.27%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.51%) Camunda
7 4 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.25%) ThingWorx
8 2 (0.25%) WordPress
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.13%) Luigi
9 1 (0.13%) Mule
9 1 (0.13%) nginx
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 11 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.38%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.38%) Revit
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 33 (4.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 7 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.63%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.51%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.51%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.51%) SAP IBP
5 4 (0.51%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (0.38%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.25%) Endur
7 2 (0.25%) Maximo
7 2 (0.25%) SAP APO
7 2 (0.25%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.25%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.25%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 303 (38.35%) Azure
2 205 (25.95%) AWS
3 114 (14.43%) Power Platform
4 82 (10.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 75 (9.49%) GCP
6 55 (6.96%) Serverless
7 54 (6.84%) Snowflake
8 48 (6.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 45 (5.70%) Amazon S3
10 42 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
11 40 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
12 34 (4.30%) GitHub
13 23 (2.91%) OCI
14 22 (2.78%) dbt
15 19 (2.41%) SaaS
16 18 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (2.28%) Power Automate
17 17 (2.15%) PowerApps
18 14 (1.77%) Microsoft Copilot
18 14 (1.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.63%) Firewall
1 5 (0.63%) VPN
2 4 (0.51%) FTP
2 4 (0.51%) SMS
3 3 (0.38%) DNS
3 3 (0.38%) MQTT
3 3 (0.38%) Network Security
4 2 (0.25%) DHCP
4 2 (0.25%) SSL
4 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.13%) DMZ
5 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (16.71%) Data Warehouse
2 103 (13.04%) Power BI
3 76 (9.62%) Metadata
4 75 (9.49%) SQL Server
5 69 (8.73%) Data Lake
6 59 (7.47%) Pentaho
7 49 (6.20%) Relational Database
8 40 (5.06%) Oracle Database
9 39 (4.94%) Tableau
10 34 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
11 29 (3.67%) Amazon Redshift
12 25 (3.16%) NoSQL
13 24 (3.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 22 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
15 21 (2.66%) Big Data
15 21 (2.66%) BigQuery
15 21 (2.66%) DataStage
15 21 (2.66%) MySQL
16 19 (2.41%) SAS Enterprise Guide
17 18 (2.28%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 66 (8.35%) Git
2 35 (4.43%) Jenkins
2 35 (4.43%) JIRA
3 23 (2.91%) GitLab
4 11 (1.39%) ERwin
5 7 (0.89%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.63%) Postman
7 4 (0.51%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.51%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.25%) TestRail
9 2 (0.25%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.13%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.13%) eggPlant
10 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.13%) Toad
10 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 246 (31.14%) Social Skills
2 173 (21.90%) Finance
3 142 (17.97%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (16.46%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.09%) Banking
6 28 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (3.29%) Marketing
7 26 (3.29%) Retail
8 22 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (1.77%) Legal
9 14 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (1.52%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.52%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.01%) Front Office
13 7 (0.89%) Aerospace
13 7 (0.89%) Automotive
13 7 (0.89%) Military
14 6 (0.76%) Billing
15 5 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 224 (28.35%) Architect
2 205 (25.95%) Data Engineer
3 100 (12.66%) Developer
4 86 (10.89%) Senior
5 79 (10.00%) Data Architect
6 73 (9.24%) Solutions Architect
7 66 (8.35%) Lead
8 65 (8.23%) Analyst
9 35 (4.43%) Senior Data Engineer
10 26 (3.29%) Technical Leader
11 25 (3.16%) Integration Engineer
12 24 (3.04%) Consultant
12 24 (3.04%) Data Analyst
12 24 (3.04%) Integration Architect
13 23 (2.91%) Technical Architect
14 22 (2.78%) Business Analyst
15 19 (2.41%) Project Manager
15 19 (2.41%) SQL Developer
16 18 (2.28%) Azure Engineer
17 17 (2.15%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.46%) REST
2 44 (5.57%) Kafka
3 33 (4.18%) JSON
4 32 (4.05%) Middleware
5 31 (3.92%) React
6 26 (3.29%) PySpark
7 23 (2.91%) .NET
8 20 (2.53%) Node.js
8 20 (2.53%) RESTful
9 18 (2.28%) XML
10 14 (1.77%) YAML
11 13 (1.65%) FastAPI
11 13 (1.65%) SOAP
12 12 (1.52%) AngularJS
13 11 (1.39%) Django
14 10 (1.27%) Flask
15 9 (1.14%) GraphQL
15 9 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
16 7 (0.89%) pytest
16 7 (0.89%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 65 (8.23%) Cloud Native
2 54 (6.84%) Legacy Systems
3 43 (5.44%) Data Structures
4 29 (3.67%) Onboarding
5 24 (3.04%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.53%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.53%) Reference Data
7 18 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.77%) AI Agents
10 14 (1.77%) Life Science
11 12 (1.52%) Replication
12 10 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.01%) Clustering
13 8 (1.01%) IoT
13 8 (1.01%) Mainframe
13 8 (1.01%) NHS
14 7 (0.89%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.41%) Unix
2 17 (2.15%) Linux
3 7 (0.89%) Windows
4 3 (0.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (41.90%) ETL
2 321 (40.63%) Data Modelling
3 310 (39.24%) Analytics
4 229 (28.99%) Data Pipeline
5 227 (28.73%) Agile
6 195 (24.68%) CI/CD
7 183 (23.16%) Migration
8 176 (22.28%) DevOps
9 164 (20.76%) Data Engineering
10 158 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
11 156 (19.75%) Stakeholder Management
12 151 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
13 144 (18.23%) Data Governance
14 138 (17.47%) AI
15 133 (16.84%) Data Architecture
16 131 (16.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 115 (14.56%) Integration Patterns
17 115 (14.56%) Validation
18 102 (12.91%) Data Migration
19 99 (12.53%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 343 (43.42%) SQL
2 193 (24.43%) Python
3 42 (5.32%) Java
4 35 (4.43%) PL/SQL
5 22 (2.78%) TypeScript
6 20 (2.53%) T-SQL
7 18 (2.28%) Bash
7 18 (2.28%) C#
7 18 (2.28%) JavaScript
8 14 (1.77%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.77%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.27%) Scala
10 9 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (1.01%) Bicep
12 5 (0.63%) R
13 4 (0.51%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.51%) Gremlin
13 4 (0.51%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.38%) ABAP
14 3 (0.38%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 259 (32.78%) Security Cleared
2 220 (27.85%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.06%) Degree
4 21 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (2.41%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.03%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (1.14%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.89%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.76%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.51%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.38%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.38%) PMP
14 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 1 (0.13%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.13%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (27.34%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.68%) GDPR
3 31 (3.92%) GRC
4 26 (3.29%) QA
5 19 (2.41%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.89%) PMO
6 7 (0.89%) SLA
7 6 (0.76%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.51%) IFRS
9 4 (0.51%) SNOMED CT
10 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.38%) GxP
10 3 (0.38%) HL7
10 3 (0.38%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.25%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.25%) NCSC
11 2 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (6.84%) Docker
2 9 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (8.10%) Kubernetes
2 41 (5.19%) Terraform
3 17 (2.15%) Grafana
4 8 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.89%) Ansible
6 6 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.63%) Control-M
8 4 (0.51%) Argo
9 2 (0.25%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.13%) Puppet
10 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 177 (22.41%) Oracle
2 113 (14.30%) Microsoft
3 110 (13.92%) Databricks
4 79 (10.00%) SAP
5 65 (8.23%) Talend
6 60 (7.59%) Informatica
7 40 (5.06%) Salesforce
8 36 (4.56%) Denodo
9 32 (4.05%) Google
10 18 (2.28%) IBM
11 17 (2.15%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.39%) MuleSoft
13 10 (1.27%) Cloudera
14 9 (1.14%) NEC
14 9 (1.14%) Workday
15 8 (1.01%) Sparx
15 8 (1.01%) Teradata
16 7 (0.89%) Palantir
17 5 (0.63%) Alteryx
17 5 (0.63%) Ariba