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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 160 197
Rank change year-on-year -15 +37 +89
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 586 416 467
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.69% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.86% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 295 331
10th Percentile £400 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £425 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £738
90th Percentile £771 £725 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 10
10th Percentile £63.26 - £45.86
25th Percentile £72.60 £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £80.50 £27.13 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +196.77% -41.26% +125.93%
75th Percentile £85.63 £60.75 £49.96
90th Percentile £86.00 £70.80 £53.30
UK median hourly rate £69.44 £27.13 £46.18
% change year-on-year +156.00% -41.26% +125.93%

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 32,413 22,389 32,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.76% 86.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,785 14,611 21,658
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,991 834 2,145
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.41 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.15% - -7.29%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 22 March 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 -2 306 £575 +6.24% 83
Midlands +16 132 £513 +7.89% 34
West Midlands +12 123 £515 +8.42% 22
North of England -53 59 £500 -6.54% 28
South East -47 34 £513 +1.49% 46
North West -18 33 £463 -13.55% 15
South West -38 23 £652 +37.26% 26
Yorkshire -45 21 £530 +6.00% 12
East of England -16 13 £613 +8.89% 10
East Midlands -34 9 £447 -2.61% 12
North East -11 5 £563 - 1
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 65 (11.09%) SAS
2 44 (7.51%) Apache Spark
3 22 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.71%) Apache
4 10 (1.71%) CMS
5 6 (1.02%) Confluence
6 4 (0.68%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.51%) Camunda
7 3 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.51%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.17%) Mendix
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (3.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (1.02%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (0.85%) SAP Payroll
5 4 (0.68%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.68%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.51%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.51%) Maximo
6 3 (0.51%) Oracle FAH
6 3 (0.51%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.51%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.51%) SAP Retail
7 2 (0.34%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.34%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.17%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 224 (38.23%) Azure
2 109 (18.60%) AWS
3 88 (15.02%) Power Platform
4 78 (13.31%) Azure Data Factory
5 58 (9.90%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (7.85%) GCP
7 41 (7.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 39 (6.66%) SaaS
9 29 (4.95%) Snowflake
10 21 (3.58%) GitHub
11 18 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (3.07%) Serverless
12 15 (2.56%) Power Automate
13 14 (2.39%) dbt
13 14 (2.39%) PowerApps
14 12 (2.05%) Collibra
15 11 (1.88%) OCI
16 10 (1.71%) Azure AKS
16 10 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
17 9 (1.54%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.85%) FTP
2 3 (0.51%) Firewall
2 3 (0.51%) VPN
3 2 (0.34%) 2G
3 2 (0.34%) 5G
3 2 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.34%) SMS
4 1 (0.17%) 4G
4 1 (0.17%) DWDM
4 1 (0.17%) Network Security
4 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (24.06%) Data Warehouse
2 80 (13.65%) Power BI
3 66 (11.26%) Metadata
4 64 (10.92%) SQL Server
5 47 (8.02%) NoSQL
6 45 (7.68%) Data Lake
7 44 (7.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 43 (7.34%) Pentaho
9 32 (5.46%) Relational Database
10 25 (4.27%) Tableau
11 21 (3.58%) SAS Enterprise Guide
12 19 (3.24%) Big Data
12 19 (3.24%) Oracle Database
13 18 (3.07%) MySQL
13 18 (3.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
15 16 (2.73%) Delta Lake
15 16 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
16 12 (2.05%) Oracle Reports
17 10 (1.71%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 85 (14.51%) Git
2 46 (7.85%) Jenkins
3 43 (7.34%) JIRA
4 8 (1.37%) ERwin
5 4 (0.68%) GitLab
5 4 (0.68%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.51%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.34%) git-flow
7 2 (0.34%) MLflow
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.34%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.17%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.17%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.17%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.17%) Mocha
8 1 (0.17%) RStudio
8 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.17%) Terragrunt
General
1 217 (37.03%) Social Skills
2 166 (28.33%) Finance
3 135 (23.04%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (12.29%) Public Sector
5 50 (8.53%) Banking
6 22 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (2.56%) Marketing
9 14 (2.39%) Financial Institution
10 12 (2.05%) Retail
11 10 (1.71%) Back Office
11 10 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.71%) Legal
12 9 (1.54%) Front Office
13 8 (1.37%) Retail Banking
13 8 (1.37%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (1.02%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.85%) General Ledger
16 5 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 145 (24.74%) Data Engineer
2 119 (20.31%) Architect
3 81 (13.82%) Developer
4 59 (10.07%) Senior
5 56 (9.56%) Data Architect
6 43 (7.34%) Consultant
6 43 (7.34%) Solutions Architect
7 42 (7.17%) Analyst
8 39 (6.66%) Lead
9 33 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
10 30 (5.12%) Azure Data Engineer
11 27 (4.61%) Business Analyst
12 18 (3.07%) Integration Architect
12 18 (3.07%) Release Manager
13 17 (2.90%) Senior Data Engineer
14 15 (2.56%) Integration Engineer
14 15 (2.56%) Project Manager
15 14 (2.39%) Full-Stack Developer
15 14 (2.39%) Senior Developer
16 12 (2.05%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (9.39%) REST
2 37 (6.31%) PySpark
3 34 (5.80%) Kafka
4 24 (4.10%) JSON
5 21 (3.58%) RESTful
6 20 (3.41%) .NET
6 20 (3.41%) YAML
7 19 (3.24%) Middleware
7 19 (3.24%) Node.js
8 17 (2.90%) XML
9 15 (2.56%) AngularJS
9 15 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
9 15 (2.56%) React
10 14 (2.39%) Django
10 14 (2.39%) Flask
10 14 (2.39%) SOAP
11 9 (1.54%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (1.37%) .NET Core
12 8 (1.37%) FHIR
13 7 (1.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.31%) Data Structures
2 31 (5.29%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.61%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (3.58%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.73%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (1.88%) NHS
9 10 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.54%) Data Fabric
10 9 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.54%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.19%) IoT
11 7 (1.19%) Taxonomies
12 6 (1.02%) Credit Risk
12 6 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (0.85%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.85%) Market Risk
13 5 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.19%) Linux
2 6 (1.02%) Unix
3 5 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (44.37%) Data Modelling
2 208 (35.49%) Analytics
2 208 (35.49%) ETL
3 200 (34.13%) Agile
4 172 (29.35%) Problem-Solving
5 166 (28.33%) Data Pipeline
6 147 (25.09%) Data Governance
7 144 (24.57%) DevOps
8 138 (23.55%) Business Intelligence
9 132 (22.53%) CI/CD
10 113 (19.28%) Data Architecture
11 107 (18.26%) Data Engineering
12 92 (15.70%) Migration
13 90 (15.36%) Validation
14 87 (14.85%) Integration Patterns
15 82 (13.99%) Stakeholder Management
16 77 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
17 71 (12.12%) Decision-Making
18 67 (11.43%) AI
19 63 (10.75%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 271 (46.25%) SQL
2 150 (25.60%) Python
3 32 (5.46%) C#
3 32 (5.46%) Scala
4 30 (5.12%) JavaScript
5 29 (4.95%) Java
6 16 (2.73%) TypeScript
7 12 (2.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (2.05%) PL/SQL
7 12 (2.05%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.54%) Bash
9 8 (1.37%) Groovy
10 7 (1.19%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.19%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.85%) Bicep
12 4 (0.68%) ABAP
12 4 (0.68%) R
13 3 (0.51%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.34%) IronPython
14 2 (0.34%) Korn
Qualifications
1 158 (26.96%) Security Cleared
2 135 (23.04%) SC Cleared
3 42 (7.17%) Degree
4 30 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (4.44%) Azure Certification
6 19 (3.24%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.37%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.51%) PMP
11 2 (0.34%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.34%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.17%) CISSP
12 1 (0.17%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.17%) MBA
12 1 (0.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (29.86%) Data Quality
2 36 (6.14%) GDPR
3 27 (4.61%) QA
4 8 (1.37%) HIPAA
4 8 (1.37%) HL7
5 7 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.85%) Solvency II
7 4 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.51%) GRC
8 3 (0.51%) SLA
9 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.34%) FATCA
9 2 (0.34%) GMP
9 2 (0.34%) IFRS
9 2 (0.34%) NCSC
9 2 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.17%) Basel III
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 59 (10.07%) Docker
2 6 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (9.22%) Kubernetes
2 32 (5.46%) Terraform
3 5 (0.85%) Grafana
4 2 (0.34%) Ansible
4 2 (0.34%) Control-M
4 2 (0.34%) Kibana
4 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.17%) logstash
5 1 (0.17%) SCCM
5 1 (0.17%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 100 (17.06%) Oracle
2 88 (15.02%) Databricks
3 83 (14.16%) Microsoft
4 53 (9.04%) Talend
5 52 (8.87%) SAP
6 44 (7.51%) Informatica
7 34 (5.80%) Denodo
8 15 (2.56%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.88%) NEC
10 10 (1.71%) Google
10 10 (1.71%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.54%) Adobe
11 9 (1.54%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.54%) Software AG
12 7 (1.19%) Cloudera
12 7 (1.19%) IBM
12 7 (1.19%) Workday
13 5 (0.85%) Sage
13 5 (0.85%) Sitecore
14 4 (0.68%) Murex