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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 164 189
Rank change year-on-year -18 +25 +79
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 624 405 455
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.50% 1.70% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.86% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 285 337
10th Percentile £400 £367 £385
25th Percentile £439 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £717
90th Percentile £775 £738 £818
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £46.00 - £48.70
25th Percentile £53.31 £72.50 £51.63
Median hourly rate £74.97 £75.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.04% +29.31% +183.76%
75th Percentile £85.44 £77.50 £64.13
90th Percentile £86.83 - £66.90
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £75.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year -14.67% +29.31% +183.76%

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 35,196 21,756 31,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.75% 91.30% 86.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,391 14,220 20,552
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,171 917 2,255
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.41 £12.89
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.20 £15.97
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.67% -21.78% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £60.13
90th Percentile £80.20 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.97 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.98% -22.42% -2.58%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -27 299 £575 +4.55% 99
Midlands +13 154 £469 -5.25% 27
West Midlands +23 141 £469 -5.25% 19
North of England -41 65 £500 -8.26% 25
South East -62 46 £575 +9.00% 29
North West -25 37 £500 -8.26% 15
South West -28 23 £583 +22.63% 16
Yorkshire -47 20 £538 +4.88% 5
East of England -24 17 £588 +6.82% 6
East Midlands -28 13 £444 -10.94% 8
North East -20 8 £625 - 5
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 53 (8.49%) SAS
2 34 (5.45%) Apache Spark
3 24 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.08%) Confluence
5 10 (1.60%) Apache
6 6 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.80%) Camunda
8 2 (0.32%) CMS
8 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.32%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.16%) Appian
9 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.16%) Mendix
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.48%) Navisworks
3 3 (0.48%) Revit
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (3.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.96%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.96%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.64%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.64%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.48%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.48%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.48%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (0.48%) SAP Retail
6 3 (0.48%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.32%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.32%) SAP MDM
7 2 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 250 (40.06%) Azure
2 135 (21.63%) AWS
3 95 (15.22%) Power Platform
4 79 (12.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 52 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 50 (8.01%) GCP
7 48 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 36 (5.77%) Snowflake
9 34 (5.45%) SaaS
9 34 (5.45%) Serverless
10 33 (5.29%) GitHub
11 20 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (2.88%) Amazon S3
13 17 (2.72%) Power Automate
14 16 (2.56%) dbt
15 15 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (2.40%) PowerApps
16 12 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (1.92%) iPaaS
16 12 (1.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.28%) FTP
2 6 (0.96%) SMS
3 3 (0.48%) Firewall
3 3 (0.48%) MQTT
3 3 (0.48%) VPN
4 1 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (18.59%) Data Warehouse
2 88 (14.10%) Power BI
3 76 (12.18%) SQL Server
4 62 (9.94%) Metadata
5 51 (8.17%) Data Lake
6 47 (7.53%) Pentaho
7 37 (5.93%) NoSQL
8 35 (5.61%) Tableau
9 34 (5.45%) Relational Database
10 32 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
11 23 (3.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 22 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
13 21 (3.37%) Oracle Database
14 18 (2.88%) Big Data
15 17 (2.72%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 16 (2.56%) Delta Lake
16 16 (2.56%) MySQL
17 15 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
18 13 (2.08%) DataStage
19 11 (1.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 59 (9.46%) Git
2 39 (6.25%) JIRA
3 30 (4.81%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.92%) ERwin
5 11 (1.76%) GitLab
6 5 (0.80%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.64%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.48%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.48%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.48%) Postman
9 2 (0.32%) git-flow
9 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.16%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.16%) MLflow
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.16%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.16%) RStudio
10 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.16%) Terragrunt
General
1 197 (31.57%) Social Skills
2 164 (26.28%) Finance
3 128 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (14.10%) Public Sector
5 55 (8.81%) Banking
6 23 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (3.53%) Marketing
8 16 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (2.56%) Retail
9 14 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.08%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.76%) Legal
12 8 (1.28%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.12%) Front Office
13 7 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.12%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.80%) General Ledger
14 5 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.80%) Publishing
15 4 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 167 (26.76%) Data Engineer
2 144 (23.08%) Architect
3 89 (14.26%) Developer
4 65 (10.42%) Senior
5 64 (10.26%) Solutions Architect
6 59 (9.46%) Data Architect
7 47 (7.53%) Analyst
8 42 (6.73%) Lead
9 34 (5.45%) Consultant
10 25 (4.01%) Azure Engineer
10 25 (4.01%) Business Analyst
10 25 (4.01%) Senior Data Engineer
11 24 (3.85%) Azure Data Engineer
12 22 (3.53%) Integration Architect
13 20 (3.21%) Data Analyst
14 19 (3.04%) Integration Engineer
15 17 (2.72%) Project Manager
16 15 (2.40%) Full-Stack Developer
16 15 (2.40%) Senior Developer
17 14 (2.24%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (8.33%) REST
2 34 (5.45%) PySpark
3 33 (5.29%) Kafka
4 29 (4.65%) Middleware
5 28 (4.49%) JSON
6 25 (4.01%) React
7 24 (3.85%) .NET
7 24 (3.85%) Node.js
8 20 (3.21%) RESTful
9 19 (3.04%) YAML
10 17 (2.72%) AngularJS
10 17 (2.72%) XML
11 14 (2.24%) Django
11 14 (2.24%) Flask
12 11 (1.76%) SOAP
13 9 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
13 9 (1.44%) Pandas
14 8 (1.28%) .NET Core
14 8 (1.28%) HTML
15 7 (1.12%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.21%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.09%) Legacy Systems
3 34 (5.45%) Data Structures
4 27 (4.33%) Product Ownership
5 22 (3.53%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.56%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (2.08%) Reference Data
9 11 (1.76%) NHS
10 9 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.28%) Mainframe
12 7 (1.12%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (0.96%) Credit Risk
13 6 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (0.96%) Life Science
13 6 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
14 5 (0.80%) Algorithms
14 5 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.24%) Unix
2 4 (0.64%) Windows
3 3 (0.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (41.83%) Data Modelling
2 223 (35.74%) Analytics
3 216 (34.62%) ETL
4 191 (30.61%) Agile
5 181 (29.01%) Data Pipeline
6 150 (24.04%) Problem-Solving
7 149 (23.88%) DevOps
8 142 (22.76%) Business Intelligence
9 140 (22.44%) CI/CD
10 124 (19.87%) Data Governance
11 113 (18.11%) Migration
12 112 (17.95%) Data Engineering
13 107 (17.15%) Integration Patterns
14 101 (16.19%) Data Architecture
15 99 (15.87%) Validation
16 86 (13.78%) Stakeholder Management
17 84 (13.46%) AI
18 78 (12.50%) Decision-Making
19 74 (11.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 69 (11.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 290 (46.47%) SQL
2 146 (23.40%) Python
3 37 (5.93%) Java
4 30 (4.81%) C#
5 26 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 24 (3.85%) PL/SQL
7 22 (3.53%) Scala
8 19 (3.04%) TypeScript
9 13 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (1.92%) T-SQL
11 11 (1.76%) Bash
12 9 (1.44%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.12%) Bicep
14 4 (0.64%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.64%) R
15 3 (0.48%) ABAP
15 3 (0.48%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.48%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.32%) Groovy
17 1 (0.16%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 164 (26.28%) Security Cleared
2 135 (21.63%) SC Cleared
3 42 (6.73%) Degree
4 28 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.37%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (1.28%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.12%) DBS Check
10 7 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.80%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.32%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.32%) PMP
12 2 (0.32%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.32%) SAS Certification
13 1 (0.16%) MBA
13 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (25.32%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.45%) GDPR
3 20 (3.21%) QA
4 7 (1.12%) Solvency II
5 6 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.96%) SLA
6 5 (0.80%) GRC
6 5 (0.80%) HL7
6 5 (0.80%) IFRS
7 4 (0.64%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.64%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.32%) FATCA
9 2 (0.32%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.16%) MiFID
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (7.37%) Docker
2 8 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (7.21%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.17%) Terraform
3 9 (1.44%) Grafana
4 4 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.32%) Ansible
5 2 (0.32%) Control-M
5 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.16%) Argo
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 115 (18.43%) Oracle
2 103 (16.51%) Databricks
3 95 (15.22%) Microsoft
4 62 (9.94%) SAP
5 56 (8.97%) Talend
6 49 (7.85%) Informatica
7 30 (4.81%) Denodo
8 24 (3.85%) Salesforce
9 13 (2.08%) Google
10 12 (1.92%) MuleSoft
10 12 (1.92%) NEC
11 10 (1.60%) Cloudera
12 8 (1.28%) Adobe
12 8 (1.28%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.28%) Software AG
13 7 (1.12%) Alteryx
13 7 (1.12%) Teradata
14 5 (0.80%) IBM
14 5 (0.80%) SnapLogic
14 5 (0.80%) Workday