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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 160 187
Rank change year-on-year -21 +27 +74
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 612 407 458
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.51% 1.67% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.83% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 295 340
10th Percentile £386 £364 £385
25th Percentile £433 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £629 £721
90th Percentile £770 £725 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £550
% change year-on-year +0.48% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 3
10th Percentile £47.75 £29.98 £46.35
25th Percentile £54.00 £37.07 £46.50
Median hourly rate £76.50 £51.06 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.82% +5.28% +137.28%
75th Percentile £85.25 £65.37 £59.50
90th Percentile £86.55 £72.65 £65.05
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £51.06 £48.50
% change year-on-year +25.34% +5.28% +137.28%

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 34,370 22,228 32,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.91% 91.19% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,972 14,556 21,057
10th Percentile £316 £309 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,137 921 2,257
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.70 £12.97
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -16.67% -3.59%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +43.29% -18.31% -1.39%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -19 300 £575 +4.55% 86
Midlands +17 150 £469 -1.26% 24
West Midlands +21 136 £469 -1.26% 19
North of England -30 64 £500 -6.54% 24
South East -60 37 £563 +6.64% 35
North West -26 35 £488 -10.55% 17
South West -19 27 £640 +34.74% 10
Yorkshire -35 22 £518 +8.95% 4
East of England -25 17 £588 +6.82% 10
East Midlands -30 14 £445 -10.61% 5
North East -14 7 £563 - 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 54 (8.82%) SAS
2 38 (6.21%) Apache Spark
3 24 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.96%) Apache
5 10 (1.63%) Confluence
6 6 (0.98%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.98%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.82%) Camunda
7 5 (0.82%) CMS
8 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.33%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.16%) Appian
9 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.16%) Mendix
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.49%) Navisworks
3 3 (0.49%) Revit
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.98%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (0.98%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.65%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.49%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.49%) Maximo
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.49%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.49%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.49%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.49%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.49%) SAP Retail
6 2 (0.33%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.33%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.33%) SAP MDM
6 2 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 239 (39.05%) Azure
2 122 (19.93%) AWS
3 92 (15.03%) Power Platform
4 76 (12.42%) Azure Data Factory
5 55 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
6 48 (7.84%) GCP
7 44 (7.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 35 (5.72%) SaaS
9 31 (5.07%) Serverless
10 29 (4.74%) Snowflake
11 28 (4.58%) GitHub
12 19 (3.10%) Power Automate
13 17 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
14 16 (2.61%) PowerApps
15 15 (2.45%) Amazon S3
16 14 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
17 13 (2.12%) dbt
18 12 (1.96%) Azure AKS
18 12 (1.96%) Collibra
18 12 (1.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.31%) FTP
2 6 (0.98%) SMS
3 3 (0.49%) Firewall
3 3 (0.49%) VPN
4 2 (0.33%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.33%) MQTT
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (19.93%) Data Warehouse
2 85 (13.89%) Power BI
3 73 (11.93%) SQL Server
4 69 (11.27%) Metadata
5 49 (8.01%) Pentaho
6 47 (7.68%) Data Lake
7 41 (6.70%) NoSQL
8 40 (6.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 33 (5.39%) Relational Database
9 33 (5.39%) Tableau
10 21 (3.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 19 (3.10%) Oracle Database
11 19 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (2.94%) Big Data
12 18 (2.94%) Delta Lake
12 18 (2.94%) MySQL
13 16 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (2.45%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 12 (1.96%) DataStage
16 10 (1.63%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 69 (11.27%) Git
2 40 (6.54%) JIRA
3 34 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.80%) ERwin
5 9 (1.47%) GitLab
6 5 (0.82%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.65%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.49%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.33%) git-flow
9 2 (0.33%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.16%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.16%) MLflow
10 1 (0.16%) Mocha
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.16%) RStudio
10 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.16%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 206 (33.66%) Social Skills
2 163 (26.63%) Finance
3 128 (20.92%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (13.56%) Public Sector
5 48 (7.84%) Banking
6 23 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.94%) Marketing
7 18 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (2.45%) Financial Institution
9 14 (2.29%) Legal
9 14 (2.29%) Retail
10 11 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.31%) Retail Banking
12 7 (1.14%) Front Office
12 7 (1.14%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.98%) General Ledger
14 5 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.82%) Publishing
15 4 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 164 (26.80%) Data Engineer
2 126 (20.59%) Architect
3 93 (15.20%) Developer
4 69 (11.27%) Senior
5 53 (8.66%) Solutions Architect
6 52 (8.50%) Data Architect
7 46 (7.52%) Analyst
8 37 (6.05%) Consultant
9 36 (5.88%) Lead
10 27 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
10 27 (4.41%) Business Analyst
11 25 (4.08%) Azure Data Engineer
12 24 (3.92%) Integration Architect
12 24 (3.92%) Senior Data Engineer
13 17 (2.78%) Project Manager
14 16 (2.61%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (2.61%) Senior Developer
15 15 (2.45%) Azure Architect
15 15 (2.45%) Data Analyst
15 15 (2.45%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (8.33%) REST
2 37 (6.05%) PySpark
3 31 (5.07%) Kafka
4 27 (4.41%) JSON
5 25 (4.08%) .NET
5 25 (4.08%) Node.js
6 23 (3.76%) Middleware
7 22 (3.59%) RESTful
8 21 (3.43%) React
8 21 (3.43%) YAML
9 18 (2.94%) AngularJS
10 16 (2.61%) XML
11 14 (2.29%) Django
11 14 (2.29%) Flask
12 11 (1.80%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (1.63%) .NET Core
13 10 (1.63%) SOAP
14 9 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (1.31%) FHIR
16 7 (1.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 42 (6.86%) Cloud Native
2 36 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 36 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 23 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.43%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.10%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (1.80%) NHS
8 10 (1.63%) Data Fabric
9 9 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.31%) Reference Data
11 6 (0.98%) AI Agents
11 6 (0.98%) Credit Risk
11 6 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (0.82%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.82%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.82%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.96%) Unix
2 5 (0.82%) Windows
3 3 (0.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (42.16%) Data Modelling
2 220 (35.95%) Analytics
3 213 (34.80%) ETL
4 195 (31.86%) Agile
5 176 (28.76%) Data Pipeline
6 161 (26.31%) Problem-Solving
7 147 (24.02%) DevOps
8 146 (23.86%) Business Intelligence
9 134 (21.90%) CI/CD
10 132 (21.57%) Data Governance
11 112 (18.30%) Data Engineering
12 102 (16.67%) Migration
13 99 (16.18%) Data Architecture
14 97 (15.85%) Validation
15 96 (15.69%) Integration Patterns
16 82 (13.40%) Stakeholder Management
17 81 (13.24%) AI
18 76 (12.42%) Decision-Making
19 69 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
20 65 (10.62%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 284 (46.41%) SQL
2 151 (24.67%) Python
3 38 (6.21%) Java
4 34 (5.56%) C#
5 28 (4.58%) JavaScript
6 27 (4.41%) Scala
7 20 (3.27%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.78%) PL/SQL
9 13 (2.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 11 (1.80%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.63%) Bash
11 10 (1.63%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.14%) Bicep
12 7 (1.14%) R
13 6 (0.98%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.49%) ABAP
14 3 (0.49%) Groovy
14 3 (0.49%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.16%) ANSI SQL
15 1 (0.16%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 163 (26.63%) Security Cleared
2 134 (21.90%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.21%) Degree
4 28 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.76%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.78%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.47%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.82%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.49%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.33%) SAP Certification
14 1 (0.16%) CTC Cleared
14 1 (0.16%) MBA
14 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (26.63%) Data Quality
2 37 (6.05%) GDPR
3 24 (3.92%) QA
4 8 (1.31%) HL7
5 6 (0.98%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.82%) Solvency II
7 4 (0.65%) GRC
7 4 (0.65%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.65%) SLA
8 3 (0.49%) IFRS
8 3 (0.49%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.33%) FATCA
9 2 (0.33%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.33%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.33%) MiFID
9 2 (0.33%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 55 (8.99%) Docker
2 8 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (7.84%) Kubernetes
2 31 (5.07%) Terraform
3 7 (1.14%) Grafana
4 3 (0.49%) Ansible
4 3 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.33%) Control-M
6 1 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
6 1 (0.16%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 106 (17.32%) Oracle
2 95 (15.52%) Microsoft
3 90 (14.71%) Databricks
4 61 (9.97%) SAP
5 56 (9.15%) Talend
6 48 (7.84%) Informatica
7 31 (5.07%) Denodo
8 19 (3.10%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.96%) NEC
10 11 (1.80%) Google
11 10 (1.63%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.47%) Cloudera
12 9 (1.47%) MuleSoft
12 9 (1.47%) Software AG
13 8 (1.31%) Adobe
13 8 (1.31%) IBM
14 7 (1.14%) Teradata
15 6 (0.98%) Sage
16 5 (0.82%) Workday
17 4 (0.65%) SnapLogic