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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 181 193
Rank change year-on-year +23 +12 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 862 444 422
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.84% 1.58% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 1.74% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 296 266
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £652
90th Percentile £775 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £543
% change year-on-year +4.76% -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 20 5
10th Percentile £30.96 - -
25th Percentile £50.31 £52.50 £25.26
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +83.33% -40.00%
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% -40.63%

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 39,775 25,570 27,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.94% 90.90% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,015 16,235 16,841
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,044 1,594 1,106
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.41 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.47 £44.80 £66.90
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -12 401 £600 +6.67% 370
Midlands +23 148 £470 -9.31% 42
North of England +25 130 £494 -1.25% 96
West Midlands +22 130 £470 -10.05% 30
South East -36 87 £550 +15.18% 63
North West -7 67 £473 -7.80% 59
Yorkshire +3 44 £463 -5.13% 27
South West -11 40 £525 +31.25% 23
East of England -24 21 £600 +19.40% 29
North East -22 20 £520 -5.45% 10
East Midlands -6 18 £500 +45.99% 12
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 86 (9.98%) SAS
2 48 (5.57%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (4.41%) Confluence
4 27 (3.13%) Apache Spark
5 25 (2.90%) Apache
6 11 (1.28%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.23%) CMS
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.23%) nginx
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.23%) ThingWorx
8 2 (0.23%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) Mule
9 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 15 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.35%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.35%) Revit
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 30 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.81%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.70%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 5 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.46%) SAP Payroll
8 3 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.35%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.23%) Endur
9 2 (0.23%) Maximo
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.23%) SAP HCM
9 2 (0.23%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.23%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 327 (37.94%) Azure
2 250 (29.00%) AWS
3 137 (15.89%) Power Platform
4 89 (10.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 87 (10.09%) GCP
6 72 (8.35%) Snowflake
7 70 (8.12%) Serverless
8 64 (7.42%) Amazon S3
9 54 (6.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 52 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
11 49 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
12 37 (4.29%) dbt
12 37 (4.29%) GitHub
13 27 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (2.90%) SaaS
15 24 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
16 23 (2.67%) OCI
17 19 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
18 17 (1.97%) AWS Step Functions
18 17 (1.97%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.93%) MQTT
2 6 (0.70%) DNS
2 6 (0.70%) Firewall
3 5 (0.58%) DHCP
3 5 (0.58%) VPN
4 4 (0.46%) Network Security
4 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.23%) 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%) SMS
7 1 (0.12%) WAN
7 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (17.63%) Data Warehouse
2 117 (13.57%) Power BI
3 102 (11.83%) Metadata
4 81 (9.40%) Data Lake
5 72 (8.35%) SQL Server
6 51 (5.92%) Pentaho
7 45 (5.22%) Relational Database
8 44 (5.10%) Oracle Database
9 40 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
10 34 (3.94%) Tableau
11 33 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
11 33 (3.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 32 (3.71%) Amazon Redshift
13 31 (3.60%) BigQuery
14 25 (2.90%) DataStage
15 21 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
15 21 (2.44%) Big Data
16 19 (2.20%) DynamoDB
17 18 (2.09%) Delta Lake
18 16 (1.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 70 (8.12%) Git
2 47 (5.45%) JIRA
3 30 (3.48%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.90%) GitLab
5 8 (0.93%) Postman
6 5 (0.58%) ERwin
6 5 (0.58%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.46%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.23%) Applitools
8 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.23%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.23%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.23%) JMeter
8 2 (0.23%) Newman
8 2 (0.23%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.23%) RStudio
8 2 (0.23%) TestRail
8 2 (0.23%) Yeoman
General
1 289 (33.53%) Social Skills
2 205 (23.78%) Finance
3 150 (17.40%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (16.59%) Public Sector
5 85 (9.86%) Banking
6 31 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
7 28 (3.25%) Retail
8 25 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (2.55%) Marketing
10 21 (2.44%) Manufacturing
11 17 (1.97%) Front Office
12 15 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
13 14 (1.62%) Aerospace
13 14 (1.62%) Investment Banking
14 13 (1.51%) Military
15 11 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (1.16%) Billing
16 10 (1.16%) Legal
16 10 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (1.04%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 239 (27.73%) Architect
2 222 (25.75%) Data Engineer
3 105 (12.18%) Senior
4 99 (11.48%) Lead
5 91 (10.56%) Developer
6 80 (9.28%) Data Architect
7 78 (9.05%) Analyst
8 75 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
9 47 (5.45%) Senior Data Engineer
10 37 (4.29%) Data Analyst
11 33 (3.83%) Technical Leader
12 31 (3.60%) Consultant
13 25 (2.90%) Project Manager
14 24 (2.78%) Technical Architect
15 21 (2.44%) Integration Architect
15 21 (2.44%) Integration Engineer
16 20 (2.32%) Azure Engineer
16 20 (2.32%) Business Analyst
17 19 (2.20%) Senior Architect
18 18 (2.09%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (6.61%) Terraform
2 51 (5.92%) Kafka
3 48 (5.57%) REST
4 36 (4.18%) JSON
5 35 (4.06%) PySpark
6 33 (3.83%) Middleware
7 29 (3.36%) React
8 25 (2.90%) XML
9 20 (2.32%) .NET
10 17 (1.97%) FastAPI
10 17 (1.97%) RESTful
11 12 (1.39%) OAuth
12 11 (1.28%) Node.js
12 11 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (1.16%) Apache NiFi
13 10 (1.16%) OpenID
13 10 (1.16%) SOAP
14 9 (1.04%) GraphQL
14 9 (1.04%) pytest
15 7 (0.81%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 82 (9.51%) Cloud Native
2 44 (5.10%) Data Structures
2 44 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
3 37 (4.29%) Management Information System
4 31 (3.60%) Onboarding
5 30 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
6 27 (3.13%) Product Ownership
7 23 (2.67%) Reference Data
8 21 (2.44%) AI Agents
9 18 (2.09%) Data Fabric
9 18 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (1.97%) Replication
11 14 (1.62%) Taxonomies
12 13 (1.51%) Life Science
13 10 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (1.04%) Operational Technology
14 9 (1.04%) SCADA
15 8 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.90%) Linux
2 24 (2.78%) Unix
3 9 (1.04%) Windows
4 5 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.23%) 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
1 355 (41.18%) ETL
2 336 (38.98%) Data Modelling
3 309 (35.85%) Analytics
4 263 (30.51%) Agile
5 256 (29.70%) Data Pipeline
6 223 (25.87%) Data Engineering
6 223 (25.87%) Migration
7 220 (25.52%) CI/CD
8 218 (25.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 191 (22.16%) DevOps
10 183 (21.23%) Data Governance
11 161 (18.68%) Data Architecture
12 156 (18.10%) AI
13 153 (17.75%) Business Intelligence
14 145 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
15 141 (16.36%) Validation
16 140 (16.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 129 (14.97%) Roadmaps
18 124 (14.39%) Data Migration
19 119 (13.81%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 377 (43.74%) SQL
2 238 (27.61%) Python
3 40 (4.64%) PL/SQL
4 34 (3.94%) Java
5 30 (3.48%) TypeScript
6 29 (3.36%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.67%) C#
8 20 (2.32%) Shell Script
9 18 (2.09%) T-SQL
10 17 (1.97%) Bash
10 17 (1.97%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.39%) Bicep
12 7 (0.81%) R
13 6 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.58%) Korn
14 5 (0.58%) Scala
15 4 (0.46%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.46%) Google Apps Script
16 3 (0.35%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 283 (32.83%) Security Cleared
2 247 (28.65%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.45%) Degree
4 27 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 26 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.90%) DV Cleared
7 20 (2.32%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.97%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (0.93%) ISTQB
9 8 (0.93%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 7 (0.81%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.81%) PMP
11 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.70%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.46%) CBAP
12 4 (0.46%) SAS Certification
13 2 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 255 (29.58%) Data Quality
2 42 (4.87%) GDPR
3 31 (3.60%) GRC
4 25 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 23 (2.67%) QA
6 9 (1.04%) SLA
7 7 (0.81%) PMO
7 7 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.70%) WCAG
9 4 (0.46%) IFRS
9 4 (0.46%) NCSC
10 3 (0.35%) GxP
10 3 (0.35%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.35%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.23%) FATCA
11 2 (0.23%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 56 (6.50%) Docker
2 10 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.70%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (9.28%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.44%) Grafana
3 15 (1.74%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.04%) Ansible
5 6 (0.70%) Control-M
6 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.46%) Argo
8 3 (0.35%) Istio
8 3 (0.35%) Kibana
9 2 (0.23%) 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
1 173 (20.07%) Oracle
2 148 (17.17%) Microsoft
3 120 (13.92%) Databricks
4 69 (8.00%) SAP
5 60 (6.96%) Informatica
6 57 (6.61%) Talend
7 44 (5.10%) Google
8 37 (4.29%) Salesforce
9 28 (3.25%) Denodo
10 25 (2.90%) IBM
10 25 (2.90%) ServiceNow
11 13 (1.51%) VMware
12 11 (1.28%) Teradata
13 9 (1.04%) Cloudera
13 9 (1.04%) Workday
14 8 (0.93%) Bloomberg
14 8 (0.93%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.93%) Sparx
15 7 (0.81%) Dynatrace
15 7 (0.81%) Palantir