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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 181 190
Rank change year-on-year +27 +9 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 836 435 425
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.81% 1.55% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 1.70% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 286 270
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £455 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £775 £736 £748
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 5
10th Percentile £30.96 - -
25th Percentile £61.74 £52.50 £25.26
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +83.33% -47.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +83.33% -53.85%

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 39,199 25,531 28,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.87% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,678 16,181 17,100
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,975 1,587 1,157
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.79 £20.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.92
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -8.31%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -5 398 £600 +4.35% 468
Midlands +13 133 £481 -7.33% 54
North of England +26 128 £500 - 110
West Midlands +9 115 £475 -9.09% 42
South East -33 85 £541 +12.76% 76
North West -6 65 £500 - 72
Yorkshire +2 44 £463 -5.13% 27
South West -5 40 £525 +31.25% 37
East of England -24 21 £600 +19.40% 37
North East -21 20 £520 -5.45% 11
East Midlands -7 18 £500 +45.99% 12
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 69 (8.25%) SAS
2 47 (5.62%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (3.71%) Confluence
4 26 (3.11%) Apache Spark
5 24 (2.87%) Apache
6 11 (1.32%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.24%) CMS
8 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.24%) nginx
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.24%) ThingWorx
8 2 (0.24%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
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 15 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.36%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.36%) Revit
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 31 (3.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.84%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.72%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 5 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.48%) SAP Payroll
8 3 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.36%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.24%) Endur
9 2 (0.24%) Maximo
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.24%) SAP HCM
9 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.24%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 321 (38.40%) Azure
2 230 (27.51%) AWS
3 135 (16.15%) Power Platform
4 87 (10.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 86 (10.29%) GCP
6 71 (8.49%) Snowflake
7 69 (8.25%) Serverless
8 63 (7.54%) Amazon S3
9 52 (6.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 51 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
11 49 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
12 37 (4.43%) dbt
12 37 (4.43%) GitHub
13 26 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 24 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
14 24 (2.87%) SaaS
15 23 (2.75%) OCI
16 18 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
17 17 (2.03%) Power Automate
18 16 (1.91%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.96%) MQTT
2 6 (0.72%) DNS
2 6 (0.72%) Firewall
3 5 (0.60%) DHCP
3 5 (0.60%) VPN
4 4 (0.48%) Network Security
4 4 (0.48%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.24%) SSL
7 1 (0.12%) DMZ
7 1 (0.12%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.12%) FTP
7 1 (0.12%) Internet
7 1 (0.12%) LAN
7 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.12%) SMS
7 1 (0.12%) WAN
7 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (18.06%) Data Warehouse
2 115 (13.76%) Power BI
3 102 (12.20%) Metadata
4 80 (9.57%) Data Lake
5 72 (8.61%) SQL Server
6 45 (5.38%) Relational Database
7 43 (5.14%) Oracle Database
8 41 (4.90%) Pentaho
9 39 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
10 34 (4.07%) Tableau
11 33 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
11 33 (3.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 31 (3.71%) Amazon Redshift
12 31 (3.71%) BigQuery
13 25 (2.99%) DataStage
14 21 (2.51%) Big Data
15 20 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (2.27%) DynamoDB
17 17 (2.03%) NoSQL
18 16 (1.91%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 60 (7.18%) Git
2 40 (4.78%) JIRA
3 25 (2.99%) GitLab
4 20 (2.39%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.96%) Postman
6 5 (0.60%) ERwin
6 5 (0.60%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.24%) Applitools
8 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.24%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.24%) JMeter
8 2 (0.24%) Newman
8 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.24%) RStudio
8 2 (0.24%) TestRail
8 2 (0.24%) Yeoman
General
1 283 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 205 (24.52%) Finance
3 142 (16.99%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (16.51%) Public Sector
5 84 (10.05%) Banking
6 31 (3.71%) Influencing Skills
7 28 (3.35%) Retail
8 25 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (2.63%) Marketing
10 21 (2.51%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.03%) Front Office
12 15 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
13 14 (1.67%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.56%) Investment Banking
14 13 (1.56%) Military
15 11 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (1.20%) Billing
17 9 (1.08%) Automotive
17 9 (1.08%) Legal
17 9 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 237 (28.35%) Architect
2 208 (24.88%) Data Engineer
3 103 (12.32%) Senior
4 100 (11.96%) Lead
5 92 (11.00%) Developer
6 81 (9.69%) Data Architect
7 73 (8.73%) Solutions Architect
8 70 (8.37%) Analyst
9 46 (5.50%) Senior Data Engineer
10 33 (3.95%) Technical Leader
11 30 (3.59%) Consultant
12 29 (3.47%) Data Analyst
13 25 (2.99%) Project Manager
14 24 (2.87%) Technical Architect
15 21 (2.51%) Integration Architect
15 21 (2.51%) Integration Engineer
16 20 (2.39%) Azure Engineer
17 19 (2.27%) Business Analyst
18 18 (2.15%) Senior Architect
18 18 (2.15%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (6.70%) Terraform
2 49 (5.86%) Kafka
3 48 (5.74%) REST
4 36 (4.31%) JSON
5 33 (3.95%) Middleware
6 32 (3.83%) PySpark
7 29 (3.47%) React
8 25 (2.99%) XML
9 20 (2.39%) .NET
10 18 (2.15%) FastAPI
10 18 (2.15%) RESTful
11 12 (1.44%) Node.js
11 12 (1.44%) OAuth
12 11 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (1.20%) Apache NiFi
13 10 (1.20%) OpenID
13 10 (1.20%) SOAP
14 9 (1.08%) GraphQL
14 9 (1.08%) pytest
15 7 (0.84%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 74 (8.85%) Cloud Native
2 44 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 43 (5.14%) Legacy Systems
4 37 (4.43%) Management Information System
5 32 (3.83%) Onboarding
6 30 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (3.23%) Product Ownership
8 23 (2.75%) Reference Data
9 21 (2.51%) AI Agents
10 18 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (2.03%) Data Fabric
11 17 (2.03%) Replication
12 14 (1.67%) Taxonomies
13 13 (1.56%) Life Science
14 11 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
15 9 (1.08%) Operational Technology
15 9 (1.08%) SCADA
16 7 (0.84%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.99%) Linux
2 24 (2.87%) Unix
3 9 (1.08%) Windows
4 5 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (39.95%) ETL
2 325 (38.88%) Data Modelling
3 304 (36.36%) Analytics
4 246 (29.43%) Agile
5 237 (28.35%) Data Pipeline
6 213 (25.48%) Stakeholder Management
7 212 (25.36%) Data Engineering
8 203 (24.28%) Migration
9 202 (24.16%) CI/CD
10 182 (21.77%) DevOps
11 169 (20.22%) Data Governance
12 160 (19.14%) Data Architecture
13 156 (18.66%) AI
14 151 (18.06%) Business Intelligence
15 141 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
16 140 (16.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 127 (15.19%) Roadmaps
17 127 (15.19%) Validation
18 118 (14.11%) Decision-Making
19 109 (13.04%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 358 (42.82%) SQL
2 220 (26.32%) Python
3 40 (4.78%) PL/SQL
4 35 (4.19%) Java
5 30 (3.59%) TypeScript
6 29 (3.47%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.75%) C#
8 19 (2.27%) Shell Script
9 18 (2.15%) T-SQL
10 17 (2.03%) Bash
10 17 (2.03%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.44%) Bicep
12 7 (0.84%) R
13 6 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.72%) Scala
14 5 (0.60%) Korn
15 4 (0.48%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
16 3 (0.36%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 265 (31.70%) Security Cleared
2 229 (27.39%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.62%) Degree
4 25 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (2.87%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.27%) Azure Certification
7 17 (2.03%) AWS Certification
8 16 (1.91%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (0.96%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.84%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.84%) PMP
11 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.72%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.48%) CBAP
12 4 (0.48%) SAS Certification
13 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (28.95%) Data Quality
2 31 (3.71%) GRC
3 28 (3.35%) GDPR
4 25 (2.99%) Accessibility
5 23 (2.75%) QA
6 9 (1.08%) SLA
7 7 (0.84%) PMO
7 7 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.72%) WCAG
9 4 (0.48%) IFRS
9 4 (0.48%) NCSC
10 3 (0.36%) GxP
10 3 (0.36%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.36%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.24%) FATCA
11 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 44 (5.26%) Docker
2 9 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (7.89%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.51%) Grafana
3 15 (1.79%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.08%) Ansible
5 6 (0.72%) Control-M
6 5 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.48%) Argo
8 3 (0.36%) Istio
8 3 (0.36%) Kibana
9 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 171 (20.45%) Oracle
2 145 (17.34%) Microsoft
3 117 (14.00%) Databricks
4 70 (8.37%) SAP
5 60 (7.18%) Informatica
6 47 (5.62%) Talend
7 45 (5.38%) Google
8 37 (4.43%) Salesforce
9 25 (2.99%) IBM
10 24 (2.87%) ServiceNow
11 19 (2.27%) Denodo
12 12 (1.44%) VMware
13 11 (1.32%) Teradata
14 9 (1.08%) Cloudera
14 9 (1.08%) Workday
15 8 (0.96%) Bloomberg
15 8 (0.96%) MuleSoft
15 8 (0.96%) Sparx
16 7 (0.84%) Dynatrace
16 7 (0.84%) eFront