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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 163 206
Rank change year-on-year +4 +43 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 786 458 393
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.72% 1.66% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 1.83% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 318 274
10th Percentile £400 £363 £366
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £684
90th Percentile £738 £725 £785
UK median daily rate £545 £525 £546
% change year-on-year +3.81% -3.89% -0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 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 £57.99 £55.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +5.44% +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 38,779 25,035 28,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.92% 90.85% 85.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,017 15,949 18,476
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,455 1,574
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.92 £17.80
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +67.00% -37.90% -1.22%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -3 369 £600 +8.30% 84
Midlands +25 159 £469 -9.55% 29
West Midlands +24 142 £469 -9.55% 22
North of England -11 106 £520 +4.00% 25
South East -45 78 £525 +1.94% 49
North West -8 60 £513 +2.09% 22
South West -33 29 £516 +8.53% 14
Yorkshire -27 26 £475 - 1
North East -16 21 £525 -4.55% 2
East of England -7 19 £600 +17.07% 9
East Midlands -14 17 £455 +18.18% 7
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 82 (10.43%) SAS
2 40 (5.09%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.54%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.54%) Confluence
4 16 (2.04%) Apache
5 10 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.51%) Camunda
6 4 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.25%) ThingWorx
7 2 (0.25%) WordPress
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.13%) Luigi
8 1 (0.13%) Mule
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 11 (1.40%) 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 34 (4.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 7 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.64%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.64%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.51%) SAP IBP
5 4 (0.51%) 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%) 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
8 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 304 (38.68%) Azure
2 204 (25.95%) AWS
3 116 (14.76%) Power Platform
4 80 (10.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 75 (9.54%) GCP
6 58 (7.38%) Snowflake
7 55 (7.00%) Serverless
8 48 (6.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 45 (5.73%) Amazon S3
10 42 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
11 37 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (4.07%) GitHub
13 25 (3.18%) dbt
14 23 (2.93%) OCI
15 21 (2.67%) SaaS
16 18 (2.29%) Power Automate
17 17 (2.16%) PowerApps
18 15 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
19 14 (1.78%) Microsoft Copilot
19 14 (1.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.64%) Firewall
1 5 (0.64%) VPN
2 4 (0.51%) FTP
2 4 (0.51%) SMS
3 3 (0.38%) DNS
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%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (17.56%) Data Warehouse
2 105 (13.36%) Power BI
3 79 (10.05%) Metadata
4 75 (9.54%) SQL Server
5 71 (9.03%) Data Lake
6 52 (6.62%) Pentaho
7 51 (6.49%) Relational Database
8 42 (5.34%) Oracle Database
9 39 (4.96%) Tableau
10 36 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
11 30 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 26 (3.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 23 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (2.93%) NoSQL
14 22 (2.80%) Big Data
14 22 (2.80%) DataStage
15 21 (2.67%) BigQuery
15 21 (2.67%) MySQL
16 20 (2.54%) SAS Enterprise Guide
17 19 (2.42%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 58 (7.38%) Git
2 31 (3.94%) JIRA
3 28 (3.56%) Jenkins
4 24 (3.05%) GitLab
5 11 (1.40%) ERwin
6 5 (0.64%) Postman
6 5 (0.64%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.51%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.51%) 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
1 252 (32.06%) Social Skills
2 173 (22.01%) Finance
3 145 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (16.41%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.38%) Banking
6 28 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (3.56%) Retail
7 26 (3.31%) Marketing
8 22 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (1.91%) Legal
10 14 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
11 13 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.53%) Financial Institution
13 9 (1.15%) Billing
13 9 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.02%) Front Office
15 7 (0.89%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.89%) Automotive
15 7 (0.89%) Military
15 7 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 228 (29.01%) Architect
2 195 (24.81%) Data Engineer
3 96 (12.21%) Developer
4 84 (10.69%) Senior
5 80 (10.18%) Data Architect
6 74 (9.41%) Solutions Architect
7 70 (8.91%) Lead
8 64 (8.14%) Analyst
9 34 (4.33%) Senior Data Engineer
10 26 (3.31%) Consultant
10 26 (3.31%) Technical Leader
11 25 (3.18%) Integration Engineer
12 24 (3.05%) Data Analyst
12 24 (3.05%) Integration Architect
13 23 (2.93%) Technical Architect
14 21 (2.67%) Business Analyst
15 20 (2.54%) SQL Developer
16 18 (2.29%) Project Manager
17 17 (2.16%) Azure Engineer
18 15 (1.91%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (6.23%) REST
2 44 (5.60%) Kafka
3 40 (5.09%) Terraform
4 33 (4.20%) JSON
5 31 (3.94%) Middleware
6 29 (3.69%) React
7 28 (3.56%) PySpark
8 20 (2.54%) .NET
9 18 (2.29%) Node.js
9 18 (2.29%) RESTful
9 18 (2.29%) XML
10 13 (1.65%) FastAPI
10 13 (1.65%) SOAP
11 11 (1.40%) AngularJS
11 11 (1.40%) YAML
12 10 (1.27%) Django
13 9 (1.15%) Flask
13 9 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
14 8 (1.02%) GraphQL
14 8 (1.02%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 64 (8.14%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.74%) Legacy Systems
3 43 (5.47%) Data Structures
4 31 (3.94%) Onboarding
5 26 (3.31%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.80%) Reference Data
7 20 (2.54%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.91%) Life Science
11 14 (1.78%) AI Agents
12 13 (1.65%) Replication
13 11 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.02%) Clustering
14 8 (1.02%) IoT
14 8 (1.02%) Mainframe
14 8 (1.02%) NHS
15 7 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.67%) Unix
2 18 (2.29%) Linux
3 7 (0.89%) 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
1 328 (41.73%) ETL
2 313 (39.82%) Data Modelling
3 303 (38.55%) Analytics
4 221 (28.12%) Data Pipeline
5 218 (27.74%) Agile
6 189 (24.05%) CI/CD
6 189 (24.05%) Migration
7 165 (20.99%) DevOps
8 163 (20.74%) Data Engineering
9 159 (20.23%) Stakeholder Management
10 154 (19.59%) Business Intelligence
11 148 (18.83%) Data Governance
12 144 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
13 140 (17.81%) AI
14 135 (17.18%) Data Architecture
15 133 (16.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 119 (15.14%) Integration Patterns
17 117 (14.89%) Validation
18 104 (13.23%) Data Migration
19 101 (12.85%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 337 (42.88%) SQL
2 194 (24.68%) Python
3 43 (5.47%) Java
4 37 (4.71%) PL/SQL
5 22 (2.80%) TypeScript
6 20 (2.54%) T-SQL
7 18 (2.29%) Bash
8 17 (2.16%) JavaScript
9 16 (2.04%) Shell Script
10 15 (1.91%) C#
10 15 (1.91%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.27%) Scala
12 9 (1.15%) Bicep
12 9 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.76%) R
14 4 (0.51%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.38%) ABAP
15 3 (0.38%) Gremlin
15 3 (0.38%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.38%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 251 (31.93%) Security Cleared
2 214 (27.23%) SC Cleared
3 39 (4.96%) Degree
4 20 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.42%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.04%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.27%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (0.89%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.64%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.51%) SAS Certification
11 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.38%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.38%) PMP
12 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.13%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.13%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (27.23%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.71%) GDPR
3 31 (3.94%) GRC
4 27 (3.44%) QA
5 19 (2.42%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.89%) PMO
6 7 (0.89%) SLA
7 6 (0.76%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.51%) IFRS
9 4 (0.51%) SNOMED CT
10 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.38%) GxP
10 3 (0.38%) HL7
10 3 (0.38%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.25%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.25%) NCSC
11 2 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (5.85%) Docker
2 9 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (7.38%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.16%) Grafana
3 8 (1.02%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.89%) Ansible
5 6 (0.76%) Control-M
5 6 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.51%) Argo
7 2 (0.25%) Istio
8 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.13%) Puppet
8 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 174 (22.14%) Oracle
2 114 (14.50%) Microsoft
3 113 (14.38%) Databricks
4 77 (9.80%) SAP
5 63 (8.02%) Informatica
6 60 (7.63%) Talend
7 39 (4.96%) Salesforce
8 33 (4.20%) Google
9 31 (3.94%) Denodo
10 20 (2.54%) IBM
11 17 (2.16%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.40%) MuleSoft
13 9 (1.15%) Cloudera
13 9 (1.15%) Workday
14 8 (1.02%) NEC
14 8 (1.02%) Sparx
14 8 (1.02%) Teradata
15 7 (0.89%) Palantir
16 5 (0.64%) Alteryx
16 5 (0.64%) Ariba