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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 180 195
Rank change year-on-year +24 +15 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 829 433 419
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.79% 1.56% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 1.72% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 288 264
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £673
90th Percentile £775 £736 £745
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 5
10th Percentile £30.96 - -
25th Percentile £61.74 £52.50 £25.26
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +83.33% -47.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +83.33% -53.85%

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 39,251 25,237 27,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.73% 90.91% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,728 16,010 16,947
10th Percentile £325 £297 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £642
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,965 1,563 1,177
10th Percentile £13.82 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.57 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.75 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +53.08% -38.77% -3.91%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +3 398 £600 +4.35% 426
Midlands +10 134 £473 -8.82% 74
North of England +14 124 £500 - 122
West Midlands +8 116 £470 -10.00% 54
South East -32 83 £533 +10.94% 101
North West -6 63 £486 -2.75% 71
Yorkshire -2 42 £450 -5.26% 37
South West -10 40 £585 +46.25% 40
North East -18 20 £520 -5.45% 16
East of England -22 20 £613 +21.89% 37
East Midlands +1 18 £488 +35.42% 20
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 69 (8.32%) SAS
2 42 (5.07%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (3.74%) Confluence
4 25 (3.02%) Apache Spark
5 20 (2.41%) Apache
6 12 (1.45%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.24%) CMS
8 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.24%) nginx
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.24%) ThingWorx
8 2 (0.24%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 15 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.36%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.36%) Revit
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 32 (3.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.84%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.72%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 5 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.48%) SAP Payroll
8 3 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.36%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.24%) Endur
9 2 (0.24%) Maximo
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.24%) SAP HCM
9 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.24%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.12%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 320 (38.60%) Azure
2 220 (26.54%) AWS
3 133 (16.04%) Power Platform
4 89 (10.74%) GCP
5 86 (10.37%) Azure Data Factory
6 68 (8.20%) Snowflake
7 67 (8.08%) Serverless
8 59 (7.12%) Amazon S3
9 52 (6.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 49 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
12 39 (4.70%) GitHub
13 35 (4.22%) dbt
14 25 (3.02%) SaaS
15 23 (2.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 23 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
15 23 (2.77%) OCI
16 19 (2.29%) Power Automate
17 17 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
18 16 (1.93%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.97%) MQTT
2 6 (0.72%) DNS
2 6 (0.72%) Firewall
3 5 (0.60%) DHCP
3 5 (0.60%) VPN
4 4 (0.48%) Network Security
4 4 (0.48%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.24%) SMS
6 2 (0.24%) SSL
7 1 (0.12%) DMZ
7 1 (0.12%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.12%) FTP
7 1 (0.12%) Internet
7 1 (0.12%) LAN
7 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.12%) WAN
7 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (17.61%) Data Warehouse
2 113 (13.63%) Power BI
3 100 (12.06%) Metadata
4 80 (9.65%) Data Lake
5 71 (8.56%) SQL Server
6 46 (5.55%) Relational Database
7 43 (5.19%) Oracle Database
8 38 (4.58%) Pentaho
9 36 (4.34%) Amazon RDS
9 36 (4.34%) Tableau
10 33 (3.98%) BigQuery
10 33 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
11 32 (3.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 29 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
13 26 (3.14%) DataStage
14 20 (2.41%) Big Data
15 19 (2.29%) NoSQL
16 18 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (2.17%) DynamoDB
17 17 (2.05%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 60 (7.24%) Git
2 39 (4.70%) JIRA
3 22 (2.65%) GitLab
4 20 (2.41%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.97%) Postman
6 6 (0.72%) ERwin
7 5 (0.60%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.36%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.24%) Applitools
10 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.24%) JMeter
10 2 (0.24%) Newman
10 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.24%) RStudio
10 2 (0.24%) TestRail
10 2 (0.24%) Yeoman
General
1 279 (33.66%) Social Skills
2 205 (24.73%) Finance
3 140 (16.89%) Public Sector
4 139 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (10.13%) Banking
6 31 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
7 28 (3.38%) Retail
8 26 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (2.90%) Marketing
10 20 (2.41%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.93%) Front Office
12 15 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
13 14 (1.69%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.57%) Investment Banking
14 13 (1.57%) Military
15 11 (1.33%) Billing
15 11 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.09%) Automotive
16 9 (1.09%) Legal
17 8 (0.97%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 237 (28.59%) Architect
2 205 (24.73%) Data Engineer
3 104 (12.55%) Senior
4 98 (11.82%) Lead
5 94 (11.34%) Developer
6 79 (9.53%) Data Architect
7 74 (8.93%) Solutions Architect
8 70 (8.44%) Analyst
9 47 (5.67%) Senior Data Engineer
10 32 (3.86%) Technical Leader
11 31 (3.74%) Consultant
12 27 (3.26%) Data Analyst
13 25 (3.02%) Technical Architect
14 24 (2.90%) Project Manager
15 21 (2.53%) Integration Architect
15 21 (2.53%) Integration Engineer
16 20 (2.41%) Azure Engineer
17 18 (2.17%) Business Analyst
17 18 (2.17%) Senior Architect
17 18 (2.17%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (6.76%) Terraform
2 48 (5.79%) REST
3 46 (5.55%) Kafka
4 38 (4.58%) JSON
5 34 (4.10%) Middleware
6 32 (3.86%) PySpark
7 30 (3.62%) React
8 26 (3.14%) XML
9 21 (2.53%) .NET
10 19 (2.29%) RESTful
11 18 (2.17%) FastAPI
12 14 (1.69%) Node.js
13 11 (1.33%) OAuth
13 11 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
14 10 (1.21%) Apache NiFi
14 10 (1.21%) SOAP
15 9 (1.09%) GraphQL
15 9 (1.09%) OpenID
15 9 (1.09%) pytest
16 7 (0.84%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 77 (9.29%) Cloud Native
2 44 (5.31%) Data Structures
2 44 (5.31%) Legacy Systems
3 35 (4.22%) Management Information System
3 35 (4.22%) Onboarding
4 30 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (3.38%) Product Ownership
6 23 (2.77%) Reference Data
7 21 (2.53%) AI Agents
8 19 (2.29%) Data Fabric
8 19 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (2.05%) Replication
11 14 (1.69%) Taxonomies
12 13 (1.57%) Life Science
13 10 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (1.09%) Operational Technology
14 9 (1.09%) SCADA
15 7 (0.84%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.02%) Linux
2 24 (2.90%) Unix
3 9 (1.09%) Windows
4 5 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (40.29%) ETL
2 325 (39.20%) Data Modelling
3 301 (36.31%) Analytics
4 242 (29.19%) Agile
5 233 (28.11%) Data Pipeline
6 212 (25.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 206 (24.85%) Data Engineering
8 204 (24.61%) Migration
9 201 (24.25%) CI/CD
10 179 (21.59%) DevOps
11 170 (20.51%) Data Governance
12 160 (19.30%) AI
13 156 (18.82%) Data Architecture
14 152 (18.34%) Business Intelligence
15 143 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
16 140 (16.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 133 (16.04%) Validation
18 128 (15.44%) Roadmaps
19 117 (14.11%) Decision-Making
20 114 (13.75%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 363 (43.79%) SQL
2 218 (26.30%) Python
3 40 (4.83%) PL/SQL
4 31 (3.74%) Java
5 30 (3.62%) TypeScript
6 29 (3.50%) JavaScript
7 24 (2.90%) C#
8 19 (2.29%) Shell Script
9 18 (2.17%) T-SQL
10 17 (2.05%) Bash
10 17 (2.05%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.57%) Bicep
12 7 (0.84%) R
13 6 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.72%) Scala
14 5 (0.60%) Korn
15 4 (0.48%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
16 3 (0.36%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 262 (31.60%) Security Cleared
2 224 (27.02%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.43%) Degree
4 25 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 23 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (2.29%) Azure Certification
8 17 (2.05%) AWS Certification
9 16 (1.93%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.84%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.84%) PMP
12 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.72%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.48%) CBAP
13 4 (0.48%) SAS Certification
14 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 2 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (28.35%) Data Quality
2 32 (3.86%) GRC
3 27 (3.26%) GDPR
4 25 (3.02%) QA
5 24 (2.90%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.09%) SLA
7 7 (0.84%) PMO
8 6 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.72%) WCAG
9 5 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.48%) IFRS
10 4 (0.48%) NCSC
11 3 (0.36%) GxP
11 3 (0.36%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.36%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.24%) FATCA
12 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
12 2 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 44 (5.31%) Docker
2 9 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (7.60%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.17%) Grafana
3 12 (1.45%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.09%) Ansible
5 6 (0.72%) Control-M
6 5 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.48%) Argo
8 3 (0.36%) Istio
8 3 (0.36%) Kibana
9 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 166 (20.02%) Oracle
2 146 (17.61%) Microsoft
3 116 (13.99%) Databricks
4 68 (8.20%) SAP
5 60 (7.24%) Informatica
6 46 (5.55%) Talend
7 45 (5.43%) Google
8 37 (4.46%) Salesforce
9 24 (2.90%) IBM
9 24 (2.90%) ServiceNow
10 18 (2.17%) Denodo
11 12 (1.45%) VMware
12 11 (1.33%) Teradata
13 9 (1.09%) Workday
14 8 (0.97%) Bloomberg
14 8 (0.97%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.97%) Sparx
15 7 (0.84%) Dynatrace
15 7 (0.84%) eFront
15 7 (0.84%) Palantir