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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 169 214
Rank change year-on-year +11 +45 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 798 463 382
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.75% 1.68% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 1.85% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 322 262
10th Percentile £400 £363 £364
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £525 £546
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% -3.89% -0.68%
75th Percentile £629 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £734 £775
UK median daily rate £548 £525 £535
% change year-on-year +4.29% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.96 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £65.85 £55.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.72% +83.33% -40.00%
75th Percentile £76.13 £57.50 £39.69
90th Percentile £84.81 - £57.13
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £55.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +15.42% +83.33% -40.00%

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 38,772 25,064 28,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 90.82% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,937 15,945 18,292
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,483 1,510
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -6 373 £600 +4.35% 64
Midlands +23 156 £469 -9.55% 29
West Midlands +25 139 £469 -9.55% 21
North of England +2 113 £500 - 25
South East -36 81 £525 +1.94% 26
North West -7 66 £500 -4.76% 18
South West -27 30 £525 +20.00% 20
Yorkshire -34 27 £463 -2.63% 3
North East -21 21 £525 -4.55% 4
East of England -15 19 £613 +19.51% 8
East Midlands -11 17 £455 +18.18% 8
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 81 (10.15%) SAS
2 39 (4.89%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.88%) Confluence
4 21 (2.63%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.01%) Apache
6 10 (1.25%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.50%) Camunda
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.25%) nginx
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.25%) ThingWorx
8 2 (0.25%) WordPress
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.13%) Luigi
9 1 (0.13%) Mule
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 13 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.38%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.38%) Revit
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 37 (4.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.75%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.50%) SAP IBP
5 4 (0.50%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (0.38%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.38%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.25%) Endur
7 2 (0.25%) Maximo
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.25%) SAP APO
7 2 (0.25%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.25%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.25%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.25%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 308 (38.60%) Azure
2 204 (25.56%) AWS
3 121 (15.16%) Power Platform
4 81 (10.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 74 (9.27%) GCP
6 60 (7.52%) Serverless
7 59 (7.39%) Snowflake
8 49 (6.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 47 (5.89%) Amazon S3
10 44 (5.51%) AWS Lambda
11 41 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
12 34 (4.26%) GitHub
13 26 (3.26%) dbt
14 21 (2.63%) OCI
14 21 (2.63%) SaaS
15 18 (2.26%) Power Automate
16 16 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (2.01%) PowerApps
17 15 (1.88%) Microsoft Copilot
18 14 (1.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.63%) Firewall
1 5 (0.63%) VPN
2 4 (0.50%) SMS
3 3 (0.38%) DNS
3 3 (0.38%) FTP
3 3 (0.38%) MQTT
3 3 (0.38%) Network Security
4 2 (0.25%) DHCP
4 2 (0.25%) SSL
4 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.13%) DMZ
5 1 (0.13%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (17.79%) Data Warehouse
2 109 (13.66%) Power BI
3 83 (10.40%) Metadata
4 73 (9.15%) Data Lake
5 72 (9.02%) SQL Server
6 51 (6.39%) Relational Database
7 50 (6.27%) Pentaho
8 43 (5.39%) Oracle Database
9 40 (5.01%) Tableau
10 36 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
11 31 (3.88%) Amazon Redshift
12 26 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 24 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
13 24 (3.01%) DataStage
14 23 (2.88%) NoSQL
15 21 (2.63%) Big Data
15 21 (2.63%) MySQL
16 20 (2.51%) BigQuery
16 20 (2.51%) SAS Enterprise Guide
17 19 (2.38%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 56 (7.02%) Git
2 31 (3.88%) JIRA
3 26 (3.26%) Jenkins
4 24 (3.01%) GitLab
5 11 (1.38%) ERwin
6 5 (0.63%) Postman
6 5 (0.63%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.50%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.50%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.25%) TestRail
9 2 (0.25%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.13%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.13%) eggPlant
10 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.13%) RStudio
10 1 (0.13%) Toad
10 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 255 (31.95%) Social Skills
2 182 (22.81%) Finance
3 145 (18.17%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (16.29%) Public Sector
5 63 (7.89%) Banking
6 28 (3.51%) Retail
7 27 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (3.13%) Marketing
9 24 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (2.13%) Legal
11 14 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
12 13 (1.63%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.38%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (1.13%) Billing
15 9 (1.13%) Front Office
16 7 (0.88%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.88%) Automotive
16 7 (0.88%) Military
16 7 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 229 (28.70%) Architect
2 195 (24.44%) Data Engineer
3 99 (12.41%) Developer
4 84 (10.53%) Senior
5 82 (10.28%) Data Architect
6 75 (9.40%) Lead
7 74 (9.27%) Solutions Architect
8 66 (8.27%) Analyst
9 34 (4.26%) Senior Data Engineer
10 28 (3.51%) Technical Leader
11 25 (3.13%) Consultant
11 25 (3.13%) Integration Architect
12 24 (3.01%) Data Analyst
12 24 (3.01%) Integration Engineer
13 23 (2.88%) Technical Architect
14 21 (2.63%) Business Analyst
14 21 (2.63%) Project Manager
15 19 (2.38%) SQL Developer
16 17 (2.13%) Azure Engineer
17 15 (1.88%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.64%) Kafka
1 45 (5.64%) REST
2 42 (5.26%) Terraform
3 35 (4.39%) React
4 32 (4.01%) JSON
4 32 (4.01%) Middleware
5 29 (3.63%) PySpark
6 21 (2.63%) .NET
7 20 (2.51%) Node.js
8 18 (2.26%) RESTful
8 18 (2.26%) XML
9 14 (1.75%) FastAPI
10 12 (1.50%) SOAP
10 12 (1.50%) YAML
11 11 (1.38%) AngularJS
11 11 (1.38%) Django
12 10 (1.25%) Flask
13 8 (1.00%) GraphQL
13 8 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
13 8 (1.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 67 (8.40%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.64%) Legacy Systems
3 42 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 31 (3.88%) Onboarding
5 27 (3.38%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.76%) Reference Data
7 20 (2.51%) Management Information System
8 19 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (1.88%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.88%) Life Science
11 14 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.63%) Replication
13 8 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.00%) Data Fabric
13 8 (1.00%) IoT
13 8 (1.00%) Mainframe
13 8 (1.00%) NHS
14 7 (0.88%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.01%) Unix
2 20 (2.51%) Linux
3 7 (0.88%) Windows
4 3 (0.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (41.35%) ETL
2 316 (39.60%) Data Modelling
3 306 (38.35%) Analytics
4 221 (27.69%) Agile
5 220 (27.57%) Data Pipeline
6 195 (24.44%) Migration
7 191 (23.93%) CI/CD
8 168 (21.05%) DevOps
9 166 (20.80%) Stakeholder Management
10 165 (20.68%) Data Engineering
11 153 (19.17%) Business Intelligence
12 148 (18.55%) Data Governance
13 146 (18.30%) AI
14 144 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
15 138 (17.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 137 (17.17%) Data Architecture
17 122 (15.29%) Integration Patterns
18 120 (15.04%) Validation
19 105 (13.16%) Data Migration
20 103 (12.91%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 337 (42.23%) SQL
2 201 (25.19%) Python
3 42 (5.26%) Java
4 39 (4.89%) PL/SQL
5 25 (3.13%) TypeScript
6 20 (2.51%) T-SQL
7 19 (2.38%) Bash
8 18 (2.26%) JavaScript
8 18 (2.26%) Shell Script
9 17 (2.13%) C#
10 16 (2.01%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.13%) Bicep
11 9 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (1.00%) Scala
13 6 (0.75%) R
14 4 (0.50%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.38%) ABAP
15 3 (0.38%) Cypher
15 3 (0.38%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.38%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 248 (31.08%) Security Cleared
2 211 (26.44%) SC Cleared
3 38 (4.76%) Degree
4 22 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.26%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.01%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.25%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (0.88%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.75%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.63%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.63%) PMP
12 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.50%) SAS Certification
13 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.13%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (26.19%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.76%) GDPR
3 31 (3.88%) GRC
4 26 (3.26%) QA
5 20 (2.51%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.88%) PMO
6 7 (0.88%) SLA
7 6 (0.75%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.50%) IFRS
9 4 (0.50%) SNOMED CT
10 3 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.38%) GxP
10 3 (0.38%) HL7
10 3 (0.38%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.38%) WCAG
11 2 (0.25%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (5.39%) Docker
2 8 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.26%) Grafana
3 10 (1.25%) Prometheus
4 8 (1.00%) Ansible
5 6 (0.75%) Control-M
5 6 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.50%) Argo
7 2 (0.25%) Istio
7 2 (0.25%) Kibana
7 2 (0.25%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.13%) Puppet
8 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 172 (21.55%) Oracle
2 117 (14.66%) Microsoft
3 115 (14.41%) Databricks
4 80 (10.03%) SAP
5 61 (7.64%) Informatica
6 58 (7.27%) Talend
7 39 (4.89%) Salesforce
8 32 (4.01%) Google
9 27 (3.38%) Denodo
10 22 (2.76%) IBM
11 21 (2.63%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.38%) MuleSoft
12 11 (1.38%) NEC
12 11 (1.38%) Teradata
13 9 (1.13%) Cloudera
13 9 (1.13%) Workday
14 8 (1.00%) Ariba
14 8 (1.00%) Sparx
15 7 (0.88%) Palantir
16 5 (0.63%) Alteryx