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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 178 201
Rank change year-on-year +8 +23 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 702 426 450
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.57% 1.57% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 1.73% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 291 327
10th Percentile £400 £350 £375
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £626 £638 £723
90th Percentile £731 £725 £813
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 4
10th Percentile £30.96 - -
25th Percentile £42.50 £72.50 £30.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +91.08% +92.03%
75th Percentile £84.25 £77.50 £54.88
90th Percentile £86.00 - £63.20
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £75.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year -14.67% +91.08% +92.03%

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 38,249 24,669 31,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.41% 90.67% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,059 15,837 20,183
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,307 2,114
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.26 £13.18
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £53.75 £63.67
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.33 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -25 314 £600 +9.09% 79
Midlands +40 170 £469 -6.90% 22
West Midlands +33 149 £469 -8.49% 13
North of England -21 91 £520 +4.00% 22
South East -52 62 £525 - 32
North West -22 53 £513 +1.69% 9
South West -38 28 £506 +17.69% 17
Yorkshire -29 25 £510 +7.37% 10
East Midlands -6 21 £447 +2.88% 9
East of England -15 17 £578 +0.43% 6
North East - 14 £525 - 3
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 70 (9.97%) SAS
2 34 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 18 (2.56%) Confluence
5 14 (1.99%) Apache
6 10 (1.42%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.71%) Camunda
8 4 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.28%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.14%) Appian
10 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) Luigi
10 1 (0.14%) Mendix
10 1 (0.14%) Mule
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.43%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.43%) Revit
3 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (3.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.71%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.71%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.71%) SAP HCM
3 5 (0.71%) SAP Payroll
3 5 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.57%) SAP BPC
4 4 (0.57%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.43%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.28%) Endur
6 2 (0.28%) Maximo
6 2 (0.28%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.28%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.14%) iTrent
7 1 (0.14%) SAP CAR
Cloud Services
1 269 (38.32%) Azure
2 196 (27.92%) AWS
3 103 (14.67%) Power Platform
4 70 (9.97%) GCP
5 62 (8.83%) Azure Data Factory
6 51 (7.26%) Snowflake
7 46 (6.55%) Serverless
8 41 (5.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 37 (5.27%) Amazon S3
10 35 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
11 33 (4.70%) AWS Lambda
12 29 (4.13%) GitHub
13 28 (3.99%) SaaS
14 20 (2.85%) dbt
15 16 (2.28%) Power Automate
16 15 (2.14%) iPaaS
17 14 (1.99%) PaaS
17 14 (1.99%) PowerApps
18 13 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
19 12 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.85%) FTP
2 4 (0.57%) SMS
3 3 (0.43%) Firewall
3 3 (0.43%) MQTT
3 3 (0.43%) Network Security
3 3 (0.43%) VPN
4 1 (0.14%) DMZ
4 1 (0.14%) DNS
4 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (15.81%) Data Warehouse
2 97 (13.82%) Power BI
3 73 (10.40%) SQL Server
4 65 (9.26%) Data Lake
4 65 (9.26%) Metadata
5 55 (7.83%) Pentaho
6 41 (5.84%) Relational Database
7 40 (5.70%) Tableau
8 33 (4.70%) Oracle Database
9 31 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
10 26 (3.70%) NoSQL
10 26 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 23 (3.28%) Big Data
12 22 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 22 (3.13%) MySQL
13 18 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
13 18 (2.56%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 17 (2.42%) SAS Visual Analytics
15 15 (2.14%) BigQuery
15 15 (2.14%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 50 (7.12%) Git
2 30 (4.27%) JIRA
3 26 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 20 (2.85%) GitLab
5 14 (1.99%) ERwin
6 5 (0.71%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.71%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.57%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.57%) Postman
7 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.28%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.14%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.14%) MLflow
9 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.14%) RStudio
9 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 222 (31.62%) Social Skills
2 165 (23.50%) Finance
3 132 (18.80%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (16.38%) Public Sector
5 50 (7.12%) Banking
6 26 (3.70%) Marketing
7 25 (3.56%) Retail
8 23 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.71%) Legal
10 12 (1.71%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (1.42%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.00%) Automotive
13 6 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.71%) Aviation
14 5 (0.71%) Billing
14 5 (0.71%) Front Office
14 5 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 198 (28.21%) Architect
2 183 (26.07%) Data Engineer
3 98 (13.96%) Developer
4 80 (11.40%) Senior
5 79 (11.25%) Data Architect
6 70 (9.97%) Solutions Architect
7 57 (8.12%) Lead
8 55 (7.83%) Analyst
9 30 (4.27%) Senior Data Engineer
10 25 (3.56%) Consultant
11 24 (3.42%) Technical Leader
12 22 (3.13%) Project Manager
13 21 (2.99%) Integration Architect
13 21 (2.99%) Technical Architect
14 20 (2.85%) Business Analyst
15 19 (2.71%) Data Analyst
15 19 (2.71%) SQL Developer
16 17 (2.42%) Azure Engineer
16 17 (2.42%) Integration Engineer
16 17 (2.42%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.84%) REST
2 39 (5.56%) Kafka
3 31 (4.42%) React
4 30 (4.27%) Middleware
5 29 (4.13%) JSON
6 25 (3.56%) Node.js
7 22 (3.13%) .NET
8 20 (2.85%) XML
9 19 (2.71%) PySpark
9 19 (2.71%) RESTful
10 17 (2.42%) YAML
11 14 (1.99%) Django
11 14 (1.99%) Flask
11 14 (1.99%) SOAP
12 13 (1.85%) AngularJS
13 12 (1.71%) FastAPI
14 9 (1.28%) GraphQL
15 7 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
15 7 (1.00%) Spring Boot
16 6 (0.85%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 56 (7.98%) Cloud Native
2 50 (7.12%) Legacy Systems
3 38 (5.41%) Data Structures
4 29 (4.13%) Onboarding
5 28 (3.99%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.56%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (2.28%) Reference Data
8 14 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.71%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.71%) Life Science
10 11 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.42%) IoT
12 9 (1.28%) NHS
12 9 (1.28%) Taxonomies
13 8 (1.14%) Mainframe
14 7 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (0.85%) Data Fabric
15 6 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
15 6 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.85%) Unix
2 8 (1.14%) Linux
3 4 (0.57%) Windows
4 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (40.74%) Data Modelling
2 275 (39.17%) ETL
3 260 (37.04%) Analytics
4 212 (30.20%) Data Pipeline
5 203 (28.92%) Agile
6 163 (23.22%) CI/CD
7 156 (22.22%) Migration
8 146 (20.80%) DevOps
9 145 (20.66%) Data Engineering
10 143 (20.37%) Business Intelligence
11 138 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
12 134 (19.09%) Stakeholder Management
13 127 (18.09%) Data Governance
14 123 (17.52%) Data Architecture
15 112 (15.95%) AI
16 111 (15.81%) Integration Patterns
17 105 (14.96%) Validation
18 101 (14.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 87 (12.39%) Decision-Making
20 84 (11.97%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 311 (44.30%) SQL
2 164 (23.36%) Python
3 45 (6.41%) Java
4 28 (3.99%) PL/SQL
5 21 (2.99%) TypeScript
6 20 (2.85%) C#
6 20 (2.85%) JavaScript
7 18 (2.56%) T-SQL
8 15 (2.14%) Bash
9 14 (1.99%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.57%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (1.14%) Scala
13 6 (0.85%) ABAP
13 6 (0.85%) Bicep
14 4 (0.57%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.57%) R
15 3 (0.43%) Gremlin
15 3 (0.43%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.43%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 210 (29.91%) Security Cleared
2 176 (25.07%) SC Cleared
3 41 (5.84%) Degree
4 21 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.42%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (1.14%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.57%) SAS Certification
12 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.28%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.28%) PMP
13 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.14%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.14%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (25.93%) Data Quality
2 43 (6.13%) GDPR
3 22 (3.13%) QA
4 17 (2.42%) GRC
5 13 (1.85%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.14%) Solvency II
7 7 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (1.00%) SLA
8 6 (0.85%) PMO
9 4 (0.57%) HL7
9 4 (0.57%) IFRS
9 4 (0.57%) SNOMED CT
10 3 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.43%) GxP
10 3 (0.43%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.43%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.43%) NCSC
11 2 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.28%) FATCA
11 2 (0.28%) GMP
System Software
1 42 (5.98%) Docker
2 7 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (6.84%) Kubernetes
2 29 (4.13%) Terraform
3 11 (1.57%) Grafana
4 4 (0.57%) Control-M
4 4 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.43%) Ansible
5 3 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.28%) Argo
7 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 141 (20.09%) Oracle
2 101 (14.39%) Microsoft
3 93 (13.25%) Databricks
4 78 (11.11%) SAP
5 65 (9.26%) Talend
6 61 (8.69%) Informatica
7 38 (5.41%) Salesforce
8 28 (3.99%) Denodo
9 23 (3.28%) Google
10 16 (2.28%) ServiceNow
11 15 (2.14%) MuleSoft
12 13 (1.85%) Cloudera
13 12 (1.71%) NEC
14 11 (1.57%) IBM
15 7 (1.00%) Teradata
16 6 (0.85%) Workday
17 5 (0.71%) Alteryx
17 5 (0.71%) Palantir
17 5 (0.71%) SimCorp
17 5 (0.71%) Sparx