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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 175 213
Rank change year-on-year +20 +38 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 815 449 383
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.79% 1.65% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 1.82% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 312 259
10th Percentile £400 £363 £380
25th Percentile £441 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £681
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 4
10th Percentile £30.96 - -
25th Percentile £38.13 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +83.33% -40.00%
75th Percentile £73.19 £57.50 £39.69
90th Percentile £83.58 - £57.13
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +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 38,742 24,707 27,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.77% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,892 15,711 17,811
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,598 1,453 1,393
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.41
25th Percentile £18.34 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -10 386 £600 +4.35% 368
Midlands +32 155 £470 -9.35% 49
West Midlands +28 138 £470 -9.35% 36
North of England -5 111 £500 - 91
South East -43 83 £525 - 91
North West -5 66 £500 - 66
South West -23 36 £555 +38.75% 40
Yorkshire -24 27 £450 -5.26% 16
North East -19 19 £520 -5.45% 9
East of England -15 17 £590 +17.41% 36
East Midlands -17 17 £455 +10.98% 13
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 (9.57%) SAS
2 42 (5.15%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (3.19%) Confluence
4 23 (2.82%) Apache Spark
5 21 (2.58%) Apache
6 10 (1.23%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.49%) Camunda
7 4 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.25%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.25%) nginx
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.25%) ThingWorx
8 2 (0.25%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Luigi
9 1 (0.12%) Mule
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 16 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.37%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.37%) Revit
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 37 (4.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.61%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.49%) SAP IBP
5 4 (0.49%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (0.37%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.37%) SAP MDG
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 HCM
7 2 (0.25%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.25%) SAP MDM
7 2 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 312 (38.28%) Azure
2 217 (26.63%) AWS
3 118 (14.48%) Power Platform
4 83 (10.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 75 (9.20%) GCP
6 65 (7.98%) Serverless
7 62 (7.61%) Snowflake
8 51 (6.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 50 (6.13%) Amazon S3
10 47 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
11 39 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
12 35 (4.29%) GitHub
13 29 (3.56%) dbt
14 24 (2.94%) SaaS
15 22 (2.70%) OCI
16 18 (2.21%) Power Automate
17 17 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (1.96%) Azure Databricks
19 15 (1.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 15 (1.84%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.74%) Firewall
2 5 (0.61%) DNS
3 4 (0.49%) DHCP
3 4 (0.49%) SMS
3 4 (0.49%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.49%) VPN
4 3 (0.37%) FTP
4 3 (0.37%) MQTT
5 2 (0.25%) Network Security
5 2 (0.25%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.25%) SSL
6 1 (0.12%) DMZ
6 1 (0.12%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (17.42%) Data Warehouse
2 106 (13.01%) Power BI
3 92 (11.29%) Metadata
4 77 (9.45%) Data Lake
4 77 (9.45%) SQL Server
5 49 (6.01%) Pentaho
6 48 (5.89%) Relational Database
7 46 (5.64%) Oracle Database
8 41 (5.03%) Tableau
9 38 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
10 31 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
11 29 (3.56%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (3.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 24 (2.94%) DataStage
13 23 (2.82%) NoSQL
14 21 (2.58%) BigQuery
15 20 (2.45%) Big Data
16 19 (2.33%) DynamoDB
16 19 (2.33%) MySQL
16 19 (2.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 57 (6.99%) Git
2 35 (4.29%) JIRA
3 24 (2.94%) GitLab
3 24 (2.94%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.23%) ERwin
5 6 (0.74%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.61%) Postman
7 4 (0.49%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.49%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.25%) RStudio
9 2 (0.25%) TestRail
9 2 (0.25%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.12%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.12%) eggPlant
10 1 (0.12%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.12%) Toad
10 1 (0.12%) Zephyr
General
1 270 (33.13%) Social Skills
2 185 (22.70%) Finance
3 146 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (16.81%) Public Sector
5 71 (8.71%) Banking
6 30 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
7 28 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (3.44%) Retail
8 26 (3.19%) Marketing
9 17 (2.09%) Legal
10 14 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 13 (1.60%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.47%) Front Office
13 11 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (1.23%) Billing
14 10 (1.23%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.10%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.10%) Military
16 8 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.86%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 233 (28.59%) Architect
2 204 (25.03%) Data Engineer
3 95 (11.66%) Developer
4 89 (10.92%) Senior
5 88 (10.80%) Data Architect
6 78 (9.57%) Lead
7 74 (9.08%) Solutions Architect
8 66 (8.10%) Analyst
9 38 (4.66%) Senior Data Engineer
10 30 (3.68%) Technical Leader
11 28 (3.44%) Consultant
12 26 (3.19%) Integration Architect
13 25 (3.07%) Data Analyst
13 25 (3.07%) Technical Architect
14 22 (2.70%) Integration Engineer
15 21 (2.58%) Business Analyst
16 19 (2.33%) Project Manager
16 19 (2.33%) SQL Developer
17 18 (2.21%) Azure Engineer
18 15 (1.84%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.64%) Terraform
2 45 (5.52%) Kafka
3 42 (5.15%) REST
4 36 (4.42%) JSON
5 34 (4.17%) React
6 32 (3.93%) PySpark
7 31 (3.80%) Middleware
8 22 (2.70%) .NET
8 22 (2.70%) XML
9 17 (2.09%) RESTful
10 16 (1.96%) Node.js
11 15 (1.84%) FastAPI
12 12 (1.47%) SOAP
13 10 (1.23%) AngularJS
13 10 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
14 8 (0.98%) Apache NiFi
14 8 (0.98%) GraphQL
14 8 (0.98%) Spring Boot
15 7 (0.86%) Django
15 7 (0.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 49 (6.01%) Legacy Systems
3 42 (5.15%) Data Structures
4 30 (3.68%) Onboarding
5 28 (3.44%) Product Ownership
6 24 (2.94%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.58%) Reference Data
8 20 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (1.96%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.84%) Data Fabric
11 15 (1.84%) Life Science
11 15 (1.84%) Replication
12 9 (1.10%) Taxonomies
13 8 (0.98%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.98%) IoT
13 8 (0.98%) Mainframe
13 8 (0.98%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.94%) Unix
2 22 (2.70%) Linux
3 9 (1.10%) Windows
4 5 (0.61%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (40.49%) ETL
2 325 (39.88%) Data Modelling
3 306 (37.55%) Analytics
4 228 (27.98%) Agile
4 228 (27.98%) Data Pipeline
5 201 (24.66%) Migration
6 194 (23.80%) CI/CD
7 180 (22.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 178 (21.84%) Data Engineering
9 169 (20.74%) DevOps
10 153 (18.77%) Data Governance
11 152 (18.65%) AI
12 151 (18.53%) Business Intelligence
13 144 (17.67%) Data Architecture
13 144 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
14 139 (17.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 123 (15.09%) Integration Patterns
16 122 (14.97%) Validation
17 107 (13.13%) Data Migration
18 104 (12.76%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 346 (42.45%) SQL
2 207 (25.40%) Python
3 39 (4.79%) PL/SQL
4 38 (4.66%) Java
5 28 (3.44%) TypeScript
6 22 (2.70%) T-SQL
7 20 (2.45%) C#
8 19 (2.33%) Bash
9 18 (2.21%) Shell Script
10 17 (2.09%) JavaScript
10 17 (2.09%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.23%) Bicep
12 8 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.98%) Scala
13 7 (0.86%) R
14 4 (0.49%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.37%) Cypher
15 3 (0.37%) Gremlin
15 3 (0.37%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 264 (32.39%) Security Cleared
2 223 (27.36%) SC Cleared
3 42 (5.15%) Degree
4 22 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.58%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.60%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (0.86%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.74%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.74%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.61%) PMP
12 4 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.49%) SAS Certification
13 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (26.13%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.42%) GDPR
3 32 (3.93%) GRC
4 26 (3.19%) QA
5 20 (2.45%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.86%) PMO
7 6 (0.74%) SLA
7 6 (0.74%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.49%) IFRS
9 4 (0.49%) NCSC
9 4 (0.49%) SNOMED CT
9 4 (0.49%) WCAG
10 3 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.37%) GxP
10 3 (0.37%) HL7
10 3 (0.37%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.25%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 45 (5.52%) Docker
2 7 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.49%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (7.12%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.09%) Grafana
3 11 (1.35%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.23%) Ansible
5 6 (0.74%) Control-M
5 6 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.49%) Argo
7 3 (0.37%) Istio
8 2 (0.25%) Kibana
8 2 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.12%) Puppet
9 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 176 (21.60%) Oracle
2 125 (15.34%) Microsoft
3 118 (14.48%) Databricks
4 81 (9.94%) SAP
5 63 (7.73%) Informatica
6 58 (7.12%) Talend
7 39 (4.79%) Salesforce
8 33 (4.05%) Google
9 24 (2.94%) Denodo
10 22 (2.70%) IBM
11 21 (2.58%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.35%) Teradata
13 10 (1.23%) MuleSoft
13 10 (1.23%) NEC
14 9 (1.10%) Workday
15 8 (0.98%) Ariba
15 8 (0.98%) Cloudera
16 7 (0.86%) Palantir
16 7 (0.86%) Sparx
17 6 (0.74%) VMware