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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 180 202
Rank change year-on-year +28 +22 +32
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 828 444 418
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.78% 1.61% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 1.77% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 295 273
10th Percentile £400 £365 £365
25th Percentile £450 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £673
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £543
% change year-on-year +4.76% -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 19 4
10th Percentile £30.96 - £26.68
25th Percentile £33.05 £52.50 £28.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +83.33% -47.83%
75th Percentile £70.24 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £83.36 - -
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 39,416 25,077 27,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.69% 90.84% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,046 15,915 17,172
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,836 1,513 1,250
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £66.58
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -3 390 £600 +4.35% 351
Midlands +20 148 £475 -8.39% 57
West Midlands +27 130 £486 -6.54% 39
North of England +5 122 £500 - 113
South East -36 83 £525 - 104
North West -9 63 £500 -2.44% 62
South West -13 39 £585 +46.25% 43
Yorkshire -14 39 £450 -5.26% 38
North East -18 21 £520 -5.45% 13
East Midlands -12 18 £435 +20.83% 18
East of England -29 17 £590 +17.41% 39
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 78 (9.42%) SAS
2 48 (5.80%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (3.50%) Confluence
4 27 (3.26%) Apache Spark
5 22 (2.66%) Apache
6 13 (1.57%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.24%) Camunda
8 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.24%) nginx
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.24%) ThingWorx
8 2 (0.24%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.12%) Appian
9 1 (0.12%) Luigi
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 15 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.36%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.36%) Revit
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 34 (4.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.72%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.48%) SAP IBP
6 4 (0.48%) SAP Payroll
7 3 (0.36%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.36%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.36%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.24%) Endur
8 2 (0.24%) Maximo
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.24%) SAP APO
8 2 (0.24%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 314 (37.92%) Azure
2 228 (27.54%) AWS
3 123 (14.86%) Power Platform
4 89 (10.75%) GCP
5 85 (10.27%) Azure Data Factory
6 71 (8.57%) Serverless
7 66 (7.97%) Snowflake
8 59 (7.13%) Amazon S3
9 52 (6.28%) AWS Lambda
9 52 (6.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 38 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
11 37 (4.47%) GitHub
12 34 (4.11%) dbt
13 24 (2.90%) OCI
13 24 (2.90%) SaaS
14 21 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (2.54%) Power Automate
15 19 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
17 16 (1.93%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.72%) MQTT
2 5 (0.60%) DNS
2 5 (0.60%) Firewall
3 4 (0.48%) DHCP
3 4 (0.48%) SMS
3 4 (0.48%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.48%) VPN
4 3 (0.36%) FTP
5 2 (0.24%) Network Security
5 2 (0.24%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.24%) SSL
6 1 (0.12%) DMZ
6 1 (0.12%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (17.75%) Data Warehouse
2 107 (12.92%) Power BI
3 99 (11.96%) Metadata
4 81 (9.78%) Data Lake
5 70 (8.45%) SQL Server
6 48 (5.80%) Relational Database
7 45 (5.43%) Oracle Database
8 44 (5.31%) Pentaho
9 37 (4.47%) Tableau
10 36 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
11 34 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
12 31 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
12 31 (3.74%) BigQuery
12 31 (3.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 26 (3.14%) DataStage
14 22 (2.66%) NoSQL
15 21 (2.54%) Big Data
16 20 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
16 20 (2.42%) DynamoDB
16 20 (2.42%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 58 (7.00%) Git
2 39 (4.71%) JIRA
3 27 (3.26%) GitLab
4 23 (2.78%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.97%) ERwin
6 7 (0.85%) Postman
7 6 (0.72%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.48%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.24%) RStudio
10 2 (0.24%) TestRail
10 2 (0.24%) Yeoman
11 1 (0.12%) eggPlant
11 1 (0.12%) JMeter
11 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.12%) Zephyr
General
1 278 (33.57%) Social Skills
2 199 (24.03%) Finance
3 137 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (16.43%) Public Sector
5 78 (9.42%) Banking
6 30 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
7 28 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (3.38%) Retail
8 24 (2.90%) Marketing
9 16 (1.93%) Manufacturing
10 15 (1.81%) Front Office
10 15 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
11 13 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.45%) Legal
13 10 (1.21%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.21%) Billing
13 10 (1.21%) Military
14 9 (1.09%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.97%) Automotive
15 8 (0.97%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 237 (28.62%) Architect
2 205 (24.76%) Data Engineer
3 101 (12.20%) Developer
4 93 (11.23%) Senior
5 88 (10.63%) Lead
6 83 (10.02%) Data Architect
7 74 (8.94%) Solutions Architect
8 64 (7.73%) Analyst
9 42 (5.07%) Senior Data Engineer
10 31 (3.74%) Consultant
10 31 (3.74%) Technical Leader
11 25 (3.02%) Data Analyst
11 25 (3.02%) Technical Architect
12 23 (2.78%) Integration Architect
13 21 (2.54%) Integration Engineer
14 19 (2.29%) Business Analyst
14 19 (2.29%) Project Manager
14 19 (2.29%) SQL Developer
15 18 (2.17%) Azure Engineer
16 15 (1.81%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (6.28%) Terraform
2 46 (5.56%) Kafka
3 42 (5.07%) REST
4 38 (4.59%) JSON
5 33 (3.99%) React
6 31 (3.74%) Middleware
6 31 (3.74%) PySpark
7 25 (3.02%) XML
8 21 (2.54%) .NET
9 18 (2.17%) RESTful
10 17 (2.05%) FastAPI
11 14 (1.69%) Node.js
12 12 (1.45%) SOAP
13 11 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
14 10 (1.21%) Apache NiFi
15 9 (1.09%) Spring Boot
16 8 (0.97%) GraphQL
16 8 (0.97%) OAuth
16 8 (0.97%) pytest
17 7 (0.85%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 73 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 44 (5.31%) Data Structures
2 44 (5.31%) Legacy Systems
3 34 (4.11%) Onboarding
4 28 (3.38%) Product Ownership
5 24 (2.90%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.66%) Reference Data
7 20 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (2.17%) AI Agents
8 18 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (2.05%) Data Fabric
9 17 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (1.93%) Replication
11 14 (1.69%) Taxonomies
12 13 (1.57%) Life Science
13 10 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (0.97%) Algorithms
14 8 (0.97%) Mainframe
15 7 (0.85%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.26%) Unix
2 24 (2.90%) Linux
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%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (40.58%) ETL
2 331 (39.98%) Data Modelling
3 311 (37.56%) Analytics
4 239 (28.86%) Agile
5 236 (28.50%) Data Pipeline
6 207 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 206 (24.88%) Migration
8 194 (23.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 191 (23.07%) Data Engineering
10 172 (20.77%) DevOps
11 163 (19.69%) Data Governance
12 158 (19.08%) AI
13 151 (18.24%) Business Intelligence
14 149 (18.00%) Data Architecture
15 141 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
16 140 (16.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 127 (15.34%) Validation
18 118 (14.25%) Integration Patterns
19 117 (14.13%) Roadmaps
20 107 (12.92%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 359 (43.36%) SQL
2 212 (25.60%) Python
3 40 (4.83%) PL/SQL
4 37 (4.47%) Java
5 29 (3.50%) TypeScript
6 23 (2.78%) C#
7 22 (2.66%) JavaScript
8 20 (2.42%) T-SQL
9 19 (2.29%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.17%) Bash
11 16 (1.93%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.09%) Bicep
13 8 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.85%) R
14 7 (0.85%) Scala
15 5 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.48%) Apex Code
17 3 (0.36%) ABAP
17 3 (0.36%) Korn
17 3 (0.36%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 263 (31.76%) Security Cleared
2 221 (26.69%) SC Cleared
3 41 (4.95%) Degree
4 24 (2.90%) DV Cleared
5 23 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.93%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.93%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.85%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.85%) PMP
11 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.72%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.48%) SAS Certification
13 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (27.29%) Data Quality
2 32 (3.86%) GRC
3 31 (3.74%) GDPR
4 25 (3.02%) QA
5 22 (2.66%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.97%) SLA
7 7 (0.85%) 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%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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%) FATCA
12 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
12 2 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 49 (5.92%) Docker
2 7 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.48%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.12%) HDFS
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (7.37%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.69%) Grafana
3 11 (1.33%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.21%) Ansible
5 7 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.72%) Control-M
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%) Puppet
10 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 176 (21.26%) Oracle
2 131 (15.82%) Microsoft
3 118 (14.25%) Databricks
4 75 (9.06%) SAP
5 60 (7.25%) Informatica
6 54 (6.52%) Talend
7 43 (5.19%) Google
8 38 (4.59%) Salesforce
9 24 (2.90%) IBM
10 22 (2.66%) Denodo
10 22 (2.66%) ServiceNow
11 13 (1.57%) Teradata
12 9 (1.09%) MuleSoft
12 9 (1.09%) Workday
13 8 (0.97%) Ariba
13 8 (0.97%) Cloudera
14 7 (0.85%) Bloomberg
14 7 (0.85%) eFront
14 7 (0.85%) Palantir
14 7 (0.85%) Sparx