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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 181 204
Rank change year-on-year +15 +23 +31
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 746 416 423
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 1.51% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 1.67% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 288 302
10th Percentile £400 £354 £375
25th Percentile £433 £439 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £626 £638 £697
90th Percentile £738 £725 £813
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 4
10th Percentile £30.96 - -
25th Percentile £33.05 - -
Median hourly rate £70.97 - £30.00
75th Percentile £83.75 - £39.69
90th Percentile £86.00 - £57.13
UK median hourly rate £54.00 - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - -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 38,641 24,977 29,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.76% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,154 16,016 19,101
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,371 1,780
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.92 £17.98 £17.72
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -11 340 £600 +9.09% 156
Midlands +44 170 £469 -5.25% 29
West Midlands +34 152 £469 -8.49% 19
North of England -12 97 £500 - 35
South East -46 67 £529 +2.67% 54
North West -19 59 £513 +2.50% 22
South West -29 29 £506 +6.42% 24
Yorkshire -41 23 £475 - 8
East of England -10 19 £578 +0.43% 4
East Midlands -7 18 £455 +4.72% 10
North East - 16 £520 - 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 89 (11.93%) SAS
2 37 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (3.08%) Apache Spark
4 18 (2.41%) Confluence
5 16 (2.14%) Apache
6 10 (1.34%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.54%) Camunda
7 4 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.27%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.13%) CMS
9 1 (0.13%) IIS
9 1 (0.13%) JBoss
9 1 (0.13%) Mule
9 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.40%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.40%) Revit
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 30 (4.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.80%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.67%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (0.67%) SAP HCM
4 5 (0.67%) SAP Payroll
5 4 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.54%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.54%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.40%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.27%) Endur
7 2 (0.27%) Maximo
7 2 (0.27%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.13%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.13%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 280 (37.53%) Azure
2 196 (26.27%) AWS
3 108 (14.48%) Power Platform
4 73 (9.79%) GCP
5 68 (9.12%) Azure Data Factory
6 53 (7.10%) Snowflake
7 51 (6.84%) Serverless
8 44 (5.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 42 (5.63%) Amazon S3
10 38 (5.09%) AWS Lambda
11 37 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
12 31 (4.16%) GitHub
13 23 (3.08%) SaaS
14 20 (2.68%) dbt
15 18 (2.41%) Power Automate
16 16 (2.14%) PowerApps
17 15 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
18 14 (1.88%) iPaaS
18 14 (1.88%) PaaS
19 13 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.80%) FTP
2 4 (0.54%) Firewall
2 4 (0.54%) SMS
2 4 (0.54%) VPN
3 3 (0.40%) MQTT
3 3 (0.40%) Network Security
4 2 (0.27%) DNS
4 2 (0.27%) SSL
5 1 (0.13%) DHCP
5 1 (0.13%) DMZ
5 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (16.22%) Data Warehouse
2 102 (13.67%) Power BI
3 72 (9.65%) SQL Server
4 70 (9.38%) Metadata
5 66 (8.85%) Data Lake
6 59 (7.91%) Pentaho
7 43 (5.76%) Relational Database
8 40 (5.36%) Tableau
9 34 (4.56%) Oracle Database
10 32 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
11 28 (3.75%) NoSQL
12 25 (3.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (3.22%) MySQL
13 24 (3.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 23 (3.08%) Big Data
15 21 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
16 19 (2.55%) BigQuery
17 18 (2.41%) SAS Enterprise Guide
18 17 (2.28%) SAS Visual Analytics
19 16 (2.14%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 58 (7.77%) Git
2 31 (4.16%) Jenkins
3 30 (4.02%) JIRA
4 21 (2.82%) GitLab
5 13 (1.74%) ERwin
6 5 (0.67%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.67%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.67%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.54%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.54%) Postman
8 2 (0.27%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.13%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.13%) MLflow
9 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.13%) RStudio
9 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.13%) TestRail
General
1 228 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 162 (21.72%) Finance
3 131 (17.56%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (15.95%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.10%) Banking
6 27 (3.62%) Marketing
7 25 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (3.35%) Retail
8 19 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (1.74%) Legal
11 12 (1.61%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.21%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.07%) Front Office
14 7 (0.94%) Automotive
14 7 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (0.80%) Billing
15 6 (0.80%) Military
16 5 (0.67%) Aviation
17 4 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 215 (28.82%) Architect
2 195 (26.14%) Data Engineer
3 100 (13.40%) Developer
4 82 (10.99%) Senior
5 80 (10.72%) Data Architect
6 69 (9.25%) Solutions Architect
7 60 (8.04%) Lead
8 57 (7.64%) Analyst
9 31 (4.16%) Senior Data Engineer
10 25 (3.35%) Consultant
10 25 (3.35%) Technical Leader
11 23 (3.08%) Integration Architect
12 22 (2.95%) Business Analyst
12 22 (2.95%) Technical Architect
13 21 (2.82%) Project Manager
14 20 (2.68%) Integration Engineer
14 20 (2.68%) Senior Developer
15 19 (2.55%) Azure Engineer
15 19 (2.55%) Data Analyst
15 19 (2.55%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.84%) REST
2 43 (5.76%) Kafka
3 33 (4.42%) JSON
4 32 (4.29%) Middleware
5 31 (4.16%) React
6 23 (3.08%) .NET
6 23 (3.08%) Node.js
7 21 (2.82%) PySpark
8 20 (2.68%) RESTful
8 20 (2.68%) XML
9 17 (2.28%) YAML
10 14 (1.88%) SOAP
11 13 (1.74%) Django
11 13 (1.74%) FastAPI
11 13 (1.74%) Flask
12 11 (1.47%) AngularJS
13 10 (1.34%) GraphQL
14 7 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
14 7 (0.94%) Spring Boot
15 6 (0.80%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 59 (7.91%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.10%) Legacy Systems
3 42 (5.63%) Data Structures
4 28 (3.75%) Onboarding
5 27 (3.62%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.55%) Reference Data
7 18 (2.41%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.88%) AI Agents
10 14 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.88%) Life Science
11 10 (1.34%) Taxonomies
12 9 (1.21%) NHS
13 8 (1.07%) Clustering
13 8 (1.07%) IoT
13 8 (1.07%) Mainframe
14 7 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (0.80%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.68%) Unix
2 14 (1.88%) Linux
3 6 (0.80%) Windows
4 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (41.29%) ETL
2 299 (40.08%) Data Modelling
3 287 (38.47%) Analytics
4 218 (29.22%) Data Pipeline
5 216 (28.95%) Agile
6 180 (24.13%) CI/CD
7 163 (21.85%) Migration
8 157 (21.05%) DevOps
9 151 (20.24%) Business Intelligence
10 148 (19.84%) Data Engineering
11 139 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
11 139 (18.63%) Stakeholder Management
12 130 (17.43%) Data Governance
13 125 (16.76%) Data Architecture
14 116 (15.55%) AI
15 114 (15.28%) Integration Patterns
16 111 (14.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 111 (14.88%) Validation
17 90 (12.06%) Decision-Making
18 88 (11.80%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 324 (43.43%) SQL
2 176 (23.59%) Python
3 43 (5.76%) Java
4 30 (4.02%) PL/SQL
5 21 (2.82%) TypeScript
6 20 (2.68%) C#
6 20 (2.68%) JavaScript
7 18 (2.41%) Bash
7 18 (2.41%) T-SQL
8 16 (2.14%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.47%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (1.07%) Bicep
11 8 (1.07%) Scala
12 6 (0.80%) ABAP
13 5 (0.67%) R
14 4 (0.54%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.54%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.54%) SPARQL
15 3 (0.40%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 242 (32.44%) Security Cleared
2 207 (27.75%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.83%) Degree
4 17 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.01%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.01%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.21%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (1.07%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.94%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.54%) SAS Certification
11 3 (0.40%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.40%) PMP
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.13%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.13%) SAP Certification
13 1 (0.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (26.54%) Data Quality
2 39 (5.23%) GDPR
3 31 (4.16%) GRC
4 23 (3.08%) QA
5 17 (2.28%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.07%) Solvency II
7 7 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.94%) SLA
8 6 (0.80%) PMO
9 4 (0.54%) SNOMED CT
10 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.40%) GxP
10 3 (0.40%) HL7
10 3 (0.40%) IFRS
10 3 (0.40%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.40%) NCSC
11 2 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.27%) FATCA
11 2 (0.27%) GMP
System Software
1 49 (6.57%) Docker
2 8 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (7.64%) Kubernetes
2 34 (4.56%) Terraform
3 13 (1.74%) Grafana
4 5 (0.67%) Ansible
4 5 (0.67%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.54%) Argo
5 4 (0.54%) Control-M
6 2 (0.27%) Istio
7 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.13%) Puppet
7 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 163 (21.85%) Oracle
2 100 (13.40%) Microsoft
3 99 (13.27%) Databricks
4 80 (10.72%) SAP
5 70 (9.38%) Talend
6 62 (8.31%) Informatica
7 39 (5.23%) Salesforce
8 32 (4.29%) Denodo
9 25 (3.35%) Google
10 17 (2.28%) ServiceNow
11 14 (1.88%) IBM
12 13 (1.74%) Cloudera
12 13 (1.74%) MuleSoft
13 12 (1.61%) NEC
14 8 (1.07%) Workday
15 7 (0.94%) Teradata
16 6 (0.80%) Sparx
17 5 (0.67%) Alteryx
17 5 (0.67%) Bloomberg
17 5 (0.67%) Palantir