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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 179 197
Rank change year-on-year +8 +18 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 717 426 444
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.60% 1.56% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 1.72% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 293 321
10th Percentile £400 £350 £375
25th Percentile £433 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £725
90th Percentile £736 £725 £813
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 3
10th Percentile £30.96 - -
25th Percentile £42.50 £72.50 -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +150.00% +46.77%
75th Percentile £84.25 £77.50 £49.38
90th Percentile £86.00 - £61.00
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £75.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -14.67% +150.00% +46.77%

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 38,297 24,783 30,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.34% 90.63% 85.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 15,884 19,726
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £645
90th Percentile £737 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,330 1,950
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.29 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.99 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69.75 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.23 £71.46 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -36.33% -7.06%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -19 323 £600 +9.09% 134
Midlands +41 164 £468 -7.05% 24
West Midlands +33 147 £468 -8.63% 15
North of England -10 97 £500 - 28
South East -53 64 £529 +0.71% 40
North West -12 57 £500 -0.40% 14
South West -31 28 £506 +17.69% 22
Yorkshire -35 25 £488 +2.63% 11
East of England -15 19 £578 -3.75% 3
East Midlands -8 17 £455 +4.72% 9
North East - 16 £520 - 3
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 77 (10.74%) SAS
2 35 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (3.21%) Apache Spark
4 18 (2.51%) Confluence
5 15 (2.09%) Apache
6 10 (1.39%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.70%) Camunda
8 4 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.28%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.14%) Appian
10 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.14%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) Luigi
10 1 (0.14%) Mendix
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.42%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.42%) Revit
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (3.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.84%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (0.70%) SAP HCM
4 5 (0.70%) SAP Payroll
4 5 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.56%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.56%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.56%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.42%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.28%) Endur
7 2 (0.28%) Maximo
7 2 (0.28%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.28%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.14%) iTrent
8 1 (0.14%) SAP CAR
Cloud Services
1 273 (38.08%) Azure
2 196 (27.34%) AWS
3 102 (14.23%) Power Platform
4 73 (10.18%) GCP
5 64 (8.93%) Azure Data Factory
6 51 (7.11%) Snowflake
7 49 (6.83%) Serverless
8 44 (6.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 39 (5.44%) Amazon S3
10 36 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (4.04%) GitHub
13 27 (3.77%) SaaS
14 20 (2.79%) dbt
15 17 (2.37%) iPaaS
16 16 (2.23%) Power Automate
17 14 (1.95%) PaaS
17 14 (1.95%) PowerApps
18 13 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
19 12 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.84%) FTP
2 4 (0.56%) SMS
3 3 (0.42%) Firewall
3 3 (0.42%) MQTT
3 3 (0.42%) Network Security
3 3 (0.42%) VPN
4 1 (0.14%) DMZ
4 1 (0.14%) DNS
4 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (16.04%) Data Warehouse
2 97 (13.53%) Power BI
3 72 (10.04%) SQL Server
4 69 (9.62%) Metadata
5 64 (8.93%) Data Lake
6 55 (7.67%) Pentaho
7 42 (5.86%) Relational Database
8 39 (5.44%) Tableau
9 33 (4.60%) Oracle Database
10 32 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
11 26 (3.63%) NoSQL
12 24 (3.35%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (3.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 23 (3.21%) Big Data
14 22 (3.07%) MySQL
15 19 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
16 18 (2.51%) SAS Enterprise Guide
17 17 (2.37%) BigQuery
17 17 (2.37%) SAS Visual Analytics
18 16 (2.23%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 51 (7.11%) Git
2 30 (4.18%) JIRA
3 26 (3.63%) Jenkins
4 20 (2.79%) GitLab
5 13 (1.81%) ERwin
6 5 (0.70%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.70%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.56%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.56%) Postman
7 4 (0.56%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.28%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.14%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.14%) MLflow
9 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.14%) RStudio
9 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 223 (31.10%) Social Skills
2 163 (22.73%) Finance
3 130 (18.13%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (16.32%) Public Sector
5 52 (7.25%) Banking
6 26 (3.63%) Marketing
7 25 (3.49%) Retail
8 24 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (1.67%) Legal
11 12 (1.67%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.26%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.98%) Automotive
13 7 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.84%) Billing
14 6 (0.84%) Front Office
15 5 (0.70%) Aviation
15 5 (0.70%) Military
15 5 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 204 (28.45%) Architect
2 186 (25.94%) Data Engineer
3 95 (13.25%) Developer
4 79 (11.02%) Data Architect
4 79 (11.02%) Senior
5 68 (9.48%) Solutions Architect
6 59 (8.23%) Lead
7 55 (7.67%) Analyst
8 30 (4.18%) Senior Data Engineer
9 25 (3.49%) Consultant
9 25 (3.49%) Technical Leader
10 22 (3.07%) Integration Architect
11 21 (2.93%) Project Manager
11 21 (2.93%) Technical Architect
12 20 (2.79%) Business Analyst
13 19 (2.65%) Data Analyst
13 19 (2.65%) Integration Engineer
14 18 (2.51%) SQL Developer
15 17 (2.37%) Azure Engineer
15 17 (2.37%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (7.11%) REST
2 42 (5.86%) Kafka
3 31 (4.32%) JSON
3 31 (4.32%) React
4 30 (4.18%) Middleware
5 23 (3.21%) Node.js
6 22 (3.07%) .NET
7 20 (2.79%) RESTful
7 20 (2.79%) XML
8 19 (2.65%) PySpark
9 17 (2.37%) YAML
10 15 (2.09%) SOAP
11 13 (1.81%) Django
11 13 (1.81%) FastAPI
11 13 (1.81%) Flask
12 12 (1.67%) AngularJS
13 10 (1.39%) GraphQL
14 7 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
14 7 (0.98%) Spring Boot
14 7 (0.98%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.95%) Cloud Native
2 52 (7.25%) Legacy Systems
3 39 (5.44%) Data Structures
4 29 (4.04%) Onboarding
5 28 (3.91%) Product Ownership
6 17 (2.37%) Management Information System
6 17 (2.37%) Reference Data
7 16 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.81%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.81%) Life Science
10 10 (1.39%) IoT
10 10 (1.39%) Taxonomies
11 9 (1.26%) NHS
12 8 (1.12%) Mainframe
13 7 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.84%) Clustering
14 6 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (0.84%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.79%) Unix
2 10 (1.39%) Linux
3 4 (0.56%) Windows
4 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (39.89%) ETL
2 285 (39.75%) Data Modelling
3 268 (37.38%) Analytics
4 212 (29.57%) Data Pipeline
5 205 (28.59%) Agile
6 167 (23.29%) CI/CD
7 155 (21.62%) Migration
8 146 (20.36%) DevOps
9 145 (20.22%) Data Engineering
10 141 (19.67%) Business Intelligence
11 135 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
12 131 (18.27%) Stakeholder Management
13 125 (17.43%) Data Governance
14 122 (17.02%) Data Architecture
15 116 (16.18%) Integration Patterns
16 115 (16.04%) AI
17 107 (14.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 107 (14.92%) Validation
18 88 (12.27%) Decision-Making
19 85 (11.85%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 314 (43.79%) SQL
2 168 (23.43%) Python
3 43 (6.00%) Java
4 28 (3.91%) PL/SQL
5 21 (2.93%) TypeScript
6 19 (2.65%) C#
7 18 (2.51%) JavaScript
7 18 (2.51%) T-SQL
8 16 (2.23%) Bash
8 16 (2.23%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.53%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (1.12%) Scala
12 7 (0.98%) Bicep
13 6 (0.84%) ABAP
14 4 (0.56%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.56%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.56%) R
14 4 (0.56%) SPARQL
15 3 (0.42%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 219 (30.54%) Security Cleared
2 186 (25.94%) SC Cleared
3 38 (5.30%) Degree
4 18 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.95%) Azure Certification
6 14 (1.95%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (1.12%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.12%) DBS Check
8 8 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.56%) SAS Certification
10 3 (0.42%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.42%) PMP
11 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.14%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.14%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (26.08%) Data Quality
2 43 (6.00%) GDPR
3 24 (3.35%) GRC
4 23 (3.21%) QA
5 16 (2.23%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.12%) Solvency II
7 7 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.98%) SLA
8 6 (0.84%) PMO
9 4 (0.56%) SNOMED CT
10 3 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.42%) GxP
10 3 (0.42%) HL7
10 3 (0.42%) IFRS
10 3 (0.42%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.42%) NCSC
11 2 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.28%) FATCA
11 2 (0.28%) GMP
11 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 44 (6.14%) Docker
2 8 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (6.97%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.32%) Terraform
3 12 (1.67%) Grafana
4 5 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.56%) Control-M
5 4 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.42%) Ansible
7 2 (0.28%) Argo
8 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 151 (21.06%) Oracle
2 101 (14.09%) Microsoft
3 95 (13.25%) Databricks
4 79 (11.02%) SAP
5 67 (9.34%) Talend
6 61 (8.51%) Informatica
7 41 (5.72%) Salesforce
8 28 (3.91%) Denodo
9 24 (3.35%) Google
10 18 (2.51%) ServiceNow
11 16 (2.23%) MuleSoft
12 13 (1.81%) Cloudera
13 12 (1.67%) NEC
14 11 (1.53%) IBM
15 7 (0.98%) Teradata
15 7 (0.98%) Workday
16 5 (0.70%) Alteryx
16 5 (0.70%) Bloomberg
16 5 (0.70%) Palantir
16 5 (0.70%) Sparx