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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 175 203
Rank change year-on-year +10 +28 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 779 431 410
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.72% 1.56% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.72% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 301 292
10th Percentile £400 £360 £364
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £541
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -3.00% -1.59%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £688
90th Percentile £738 £725 £811
UK median daily rate £545 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 4
10th Percentile £30.96 - -
25th Percentile £31.66 - -
Median hourly rate £68.61 - £30.00
75th Percentile £83.25 - £39.69
90th Percentile £85.48 - £57.13
UK median hourly rate £57.99 - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - -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 38,695 25,047 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.19% 90.72% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,133 16,039 18,801
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,478 1,391 1,685
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -6 356 £600 +8.30% 214
Midlands +40 174 £469 -10.67% 37
West Midlands +35 155 £469 -10.67% 25
North of England 0 101 £520 +4.00% 47
South East -41 76 £533 +3.40% 66
North West -16 62 £550 +9.56% 27
South West -33 29 £525 +10.53% 28
Yorkshire -35 23 £475 - 14
East Midlands -3 19 £455 +4.72% 12
East of England -8 18 £578 -3.75% 6
North East - 17 £520 - 6
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 92 (11.81%) SAS
2 38 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 19 (2.44%) Confluence
5 16 (2.05%) Apache
6 10 (1.28%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.51%) Camunda
7 4 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.26%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.26%) ThingWorx
8 2 (0.26%) WordPress
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.13%) CMS
9 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.13%) Luigi
9 1 (0.13%) Mule
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.39%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.39%) Revit
3 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 31 (3.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.77%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.64%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.64%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.51%) SAP BPC
6 4 (0.51%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.51%) SAP IBP
6 4 (0.51%) SAP Payroll
7 3 (0.39%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.39%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.26%) Endur
8 2 (0.26%) Maximo
8 2 (0.26%) SAP MDM
9 1 (0.13%) SAP APO
9 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 295 (37.87%) Azure
2 202 (25.93%) AWS
3 115 (14.76%) Power Platform
4 76 (9.76%) GCP
5 74 (9.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 56 (7.19%) Snowflake
7 52 (6.68%) Serverless
8 47 (6.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 42 (5.39%) Amazon S3
10 40 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
11 39 (5.01%) AWS Lambda
12 35 (4.49%) GitHub
13 23 (2.95%) SaaS
14 20 (2.57%) dbt
15 18 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (2.31%) Power Automate
16 17 (2.18%) OCI
17 16 (2.05%) PowerApps
18 14 (1.80%) iPaaS
18 14 (1.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.77%) FTP
2 5 (0.64%) Firewall
2 5 (0.64%) VPN
3 4 (0.51%) SMS
4 3 (0.39%) DNS
4 3 (0.39%) MQTT
4 3 (0.39%) Network Security
5 2 (0.26%) DHCP
5 2 (0.26%) SSL
5 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.13%) DMZ
6 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (15.92%) Data Warehouse
2 107 (13.74%) Power BI
3 72 (9.24%) Metadata
3 72 (9.24%) SQL Server
4 66 (8.47%) Data Lake
5 62 (7.96%) Pentaho
6 43 (5.52%) Relational Database
7 40 (5.13%) Tableau
8 38 (4.88%) Oracle Database
9 30 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
10 29 (3.72%) NoSQL
11 27 (3.47%) Amazon Redshift
12 25 (3.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 21 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (2.70%) Big Data
14 20 (2.57%) MySQL
15 19 (2.44%) BigQuery
15 19 (2.44%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 18 (2.31%) SAS Visual Analytics
17 17 (2.18%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 66 (8.47%) Git
2 35 (4.49%) Jenkins
3 34 (4.36%) JIRA
4 23 (2.95%) GitLab
5 13 (1.67%) ERwin
6 7 (0.90%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.64%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.64%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.51%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.51%) Postman
9 2 (0.26%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.13%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.13%) eggPlant
10 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.13%) RStudio
10 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.13%) TestRail
10 1 (0.13%) Toad
General
1 243 (31.19%) Social Skills
2 169 (21.69%) Finance
3 141 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (15.79%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.19%) Banking
6 28 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (3.59%) Marketing
7 26 (3.34%) Retail
8 23 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (1.93%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (1.67%) Legal
11 12 (1.54%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.41%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.03%) Front Office
15 7 (0.90%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.90%) Automotive
16 6 (0.77%) Billing
16 6 (0.77%) Military
17 5 (0.64%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 225 (28.88%) Architect
2 208 (26.70%) Data Engineer
3 100 (12.84%) Developer
4 84 (10.78%) Senior
5 81 (10.40%) Data Architect
6 72 (9.24%) Solutions Architect
7 65 (8.34%) Lead
8 58 (7.45%) Analyst
9 32 (4.11%) Senior Data Engineer
10 26 (3.34%) Consultant
10 26 (3.34%) Technical Leader
11 24 (3.08%) Integration Architect
11 24 (3.08%) Integration Engineer
12 23 (2.95%) Technical Architect
13 22 (2.82%) Business Analyst
14 20 (2.57%) Project Manager
15 19 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
15 19 (2.44%) Data Analyst
15 19 (2.44%) Senior Developer
16 18 (2.31%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.55%) REST
2 42 (5.39%) Kafka
3 33 (4.24%) Middleware
3 33 (4.24%) React
4 31 (3.98%) JSON
5 23 (2.95%) .NET
5 23 (2.95%) Node.js
5 23 (2.95%) PySpark
6 21 (2.70%) RESTful
7 18 (2.31%) XML
8 17 (2.18%) YAML
9 14 (1.80%) Django
9 14 (1.80%) SOAP
10 13 (1.67%) FastAPI
10 13 (1.67%) Flask
11 12 (1.54%) AngularJS
12 10 (1.28%) GraphQL
13 7 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
13 7 (0.90%) pytest
13 7 (0.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.96%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.06%) Legacy Systems
3 45 (5.78%) Data Structures
4 29 (3.72%) Onboarding
5 26 (3.34%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.44%) Reference Data
7 17 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.18%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.05%) AI Agents
9 15 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.80%) Life Science
11 11 (1.41%) Replication
12 10 (1.28%) Taxonomies
13 9 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (1.16%) NHS
14 8 (1.03%) Clustering
14 8 (1.03%) IoT
14 8 (1.03%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.44%) Unix
2 16 (2.05%) Linux
3 7 (0.90%) Windows
4 3 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (40.95%) Data Modelling
1 319 (40.95%) ETL
2 303 (38.90%) Analytics
3 230 (29.53%) Data Pipeline
4 222 (28.50%) Agile
5 194 (24.90%) CI/CD
6 174 (22.34%) DevOps
7 173 (22.21%) Migration
8 162 (20.80%) Business Intelligence
9 154 (19.77%) Data Engineering
10 146 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
11 145 (18.61%) Stakeholder Management
12 137 (17.59%) Data Governance
13 133 (17.07%) Data Architecture
14 129 (16.56%) AI
15 125 (16.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 118 (15.15%) Integration Patterns
17 114 (14.63%) Validation
18 96 (12.32%) Decision-Making
19 95 (12.20%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 334 (42.88%) SQL
2 188 (24.13%) Python
3 41 (5.26%) Java
4 30 (3.85%) PL/SQL
5 22 (2.82%) TypeScript
6 21 (2.70%) Bash
6 21 (2.70%) JavaScript
7 19 (2.44%) C#
7 19 (2.44%) T-SQL
8 14 (1.80%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.80%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (1.03%) Bicep
10 8 (1.03%) Scala
11 5 (0.64%) ABAP
11 5 (0.64%) R
12 4 (0.51%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.51%) Gremlin
12 4 (0.51%) SPARQL
13 3 (0.39%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 257 (32.99%) Security Cleared
2 221 (28.37%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.01%) Degree
4 21 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.18%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.93%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
9 10 (1.28%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.90%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.77%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.51%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.39%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.39%) PMP
14 2 (0.26%) 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
1 205 (26.32%) Data Quality
2 40 (5.13%) GDPR
3 31 (3.98%) GRC
4 23 (2.95%) QA
5 18 (2.31%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.03%) Solvency II
7 7 (0.90%) PMO
7 7 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.90%) SLA
8 6 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.51%) SNOMED CT
10 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.39%) GxP
10 3 (0.39%) HL7
10 3 (0.39%) IFRS
10 3 (0.39%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.39%) NCSC
11 2 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.26%) GMP
System Software
1 56 (7.19%) Docker
2 8 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (8.34%) Kubernetes
2 39 (5.01%) Terraform
3 16 (2.05%) Grafana
4 7 (0.90%) Ansible
4 7 (0.90%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.51%) Argo
6 4 (0.51%) Control-M
7 2 (0.26%) Istio
8 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.13%) Puppet
8 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 167 (21.44%) Oracle
2 110 (14.12%) Microsoft
3 106 (13.61%) Databricks
4 81 (10.40%) SAP
5 69 (8.86%) Talend
6 60 (7.70%) Informatica
7 41 (5.26%) Salesforce
8 35 (4.49%) Denodo
9 29 (3.72%) Google
10 18 (2.31%) ServiceNow
11 15 (1.93%) IBM
12 13 (1.67%) Cloudera
13 12 (1.54%) MuleSoft
13 12 (1.54%) NEC
14 9 (1.16%) Workday
15 7 (0.90%) Sparx
15 7 (0.90%) Teradata
16 5 (0.64%) Ariba
16 5 (0.64%) Bloomberg
16 5 (0.64%) Palantir