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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 159 194
Rank change year-on-year -17 +35 +96
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 549 435 459
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.70% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.89% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 293 318
10th Percentile £400 £366 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £573
Median % change year-on-year - -8.30% -0.43%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £710
90th Percentile £750 £738 £790
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £550
% change year-on-year +0.38% -4.91% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 10
10th Percentile - - £45.86
25th Percentile £52.50 £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £69.44 £27.13 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +156.00% -41.26% +67.93%
75th Percentile £84.25 £52.81 £49.96
90th Percentile £86.00 £69.13 £52.92
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £27.13 £46.18
% change year-on-year +154.38% -41.26% +67.93%

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 30,789 23,051 32,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.31% 90.11% 87.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,727 14,450 21,724
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,908 755 2,031
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +2.19% -2.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £72.15 £75.40 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £25.94 £33.00 £33.07
% change year-on-year -21.39% -0.20% -5.53%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -18 297 £575 +4.55% 60
Midlands -3 114 £515 +0.49% 29
West Midlands -7 105 £520 -0.95% 25
North of England -54 49 £500 -8.68% 24
South East -19 38 £525 +2.44% 45
North West -32 29 £451 -9.70% 16
South West -36 19 £675 +42.11% 21
Yorkshire -58 17 £510 -10.05% 4
East of England -14 15 £505 -10.22% 3
East Midlands -25 9 £449 +20.40% 4
North East -14 3 £475 - 4
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 68 (12.39%) SAS
2 45 (8.20%) Apache Spark
3 23 (4.19%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (2.19%) Apache
5 11 (2.00%) CMS
6 5 (0.91%) Confluence
7 4 (0.73%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.73%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.55%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.18%) Camunda
10 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.18%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (1.09%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (0.91%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.91%) SAP Payroll
5 4 (0.73%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.73%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.55%) Maximo
6 3 (0.55%) Oracle FAH
6 3 (0.55%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.55%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.55%) SAP Retail
7 2 (0.36%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.36%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 2 (0.36%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.36%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 207 (37.70%) Azure
2 106 (19.31%) AWS
3 79 (14.39%) Power Platform
4 75 (13.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 47 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (8.38%) GCP
7 39 (7.10%) SaaS
8 38 (6.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 31 (5.65%) Snowflake
10 20 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (3.46%) Serverless
12 16 (2.91%) dbt
13 15 (2.73%) GitHub
14 13 (2.37%) Power Automate
15 11 (2.00%) Azure AKS
15 11 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
15 11 (2.00%) OCI
16 10 (1.82%) Collibra
16 10 (1.82%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.73%) FTP
2 2 (0.36%) 2G
2 2 (0.36%) 5G
2 2 (0.36%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.36%) SMS
3 1 (0.18%) 4G
3 1 (0.18%) DWDM
3 1 (0.18%) Firewall
3 1 (0.18%) Network Security
3 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (25.87%) Data Warehouse
2 73 (13.30%) Power BI
3 58 (10.56%) Metadata
4 53 (9.65%) SQL Server
5 47 (8.56%) Data Lake
5 47 (8.56%) NoSQL
6 41 (7.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 40 (7.29%) Pentaho
8 28 (5.10%) Relational Database
9 23 (4.19%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 23 (4.19%) Tableau
10 22 (4.01%) Oracle Database
11 20 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (3.28%) Big Data
13 15 (2.73%) Delta Lake
14 12 (2.19%) Data Vault
14 12 (2.19%) MySQL
14 12 (2.19%) Oracle Reports
15 11 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 81 (14.75%) Git
2 49 (8.93%) Jenkins
2 49 (8.93%) JIRA
3 5 (0.91%) ERwin
4 4 (0.73%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.55%) GitLab
5 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.36%) git-flow
6 2 (0.36%) MLflow
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.18%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.18%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.18%) Mocha
7 1 (0.18%) RStudio
7 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.18%) Terragrunt
General
1 214 (38.98%) Social Skills
2 164 (29.87%) Finance
3 116 (21.13%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (11.66%) Public Sector
5 51 (9.29%) Banking
6 21 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (2.55%) Marketing
9 13 (2.37%) Financial Institution
10 12 (2.19%) Retail
11 11 (2.00%) Front Office
11 11 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.82%) Back Office
13 9 (1.64%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.46%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (1.28%) Retail Banking
16 6 (1.09%) Legal
17 5 (0.91%) General Ledger
17 5 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 133 (24.23%) Data Engineer
2 114 (20.77%) Architect
3 73 (13.30%) Developer
4 49 (8.93%) Data Architect
5 47 (8.56%) Senior
6 43 (7.83%) Consultant
6 43 (7.83%) Solutions Architect
7 42 (7.65%) Analyst
8 38 (6.92%) Lead
9 34 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
10 31 (5.65%) Azure Data Engineer
11 25 (4.55%) Business Analyst
12 17 (3.10%) Integration Architect
12 17 (3.10%) Release Manager
13 16 (2.91%) Integration Engineer
13 16 (2.91%) Senior Data Engineer
14 15 (2.73%) Azure Architect
15 14 (2.55%) Project Manager
16 13 (2.37%) Data Analyst
17 12 (2.19%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (9.47%) REST
2 34 (6.19%) PySpark
3 31 (5.65%) Kafka
4 21 (3.83%) JSON
5 19 (3.46%) Middleware
5 19 (3.46%) RESTful
6 17 (3.10%) Node.js
6 17 (3.10%) XML
7 16 (2.91%) .NET
7 16 (2.91%) Oracle Fusion
7 16 (2.91%) SOAP
8 14 (2.55%) React
9 12 (2.19%) YAML
10 11 (2.00%) AngularJS
11 8 (1.46%) Django
11 8 (1.46%) Flask
11 8 (1.46%) HTML
12 7 (1.28%) EDI
12 7 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (1.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.19%) Data Structures
2 23 (4.19%) Cloud Native
3 20 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
4 18 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.55%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (1.82%) NHS
8 9 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.64%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.46%) Data Fabric
9 8 (1.46%) Reference Data
9 8 (1.46%) Taxonomies
10 7 (1.28%) IoT
11 6 (1.09%) Credit Risk
11 6 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.09%) Reinsurance
12 5 (0.91%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.73%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.46%) Linux
2 6 (1.09%) Unix
3 5 (0.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (44.99%) Data Modelling
2 202 (36.79%) Agile
3 195 (35.52%) Analytics
4 191 (34.79%) ETL
5 172 (31.33%) Problem-Solving
6 165 (30.05%) Data Pipeline
7 136 (24.77%) Business Intelligence
8 135 (24.59%) DevOps
9 134 (24.41%) Data Governance
10 121 (22.04%) CI/CD
11 101 (18.40%) Data Architecture
12 99 (18.03%) Data Engineering
13 84 (15.30%) Validation
14 82 (14.94%) Migration
15 81 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
16 79 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
17 76 (13.84%) Integration Patterns
18 67 (12.20%) Scrum
19 63 (11.48%) AI
20 60 (10.93%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 261 (47.54%) SQL
2 140 (25.50%) Python
3 29 (5.28%) JavaScript
3 29 (5.28%) Scala
4 28 (5.10%) C#
5 26 (4.74%) Java
6 17 (3.10%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.55%) PL/SQL
8 12 (2.19%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (1.46%) Groovy
11 7 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.09%) Bicep
12 6 (1.09%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.91%) Bash
13 5 (0.91%) R
13 5 (0.91%) VB
14 4 (0.73%) ABAP
15 3 (0.55%) Korn
16 2 (0.36%) IronPython
Qualifications
1 150 (27.32%) Security Cleared
2 131 (23.86%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.83%) Degree
4 31 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.19%) Azure Certification
6 21 (3.83%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.46%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.09%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.91%) PMP
11 4 (0.73%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CISSP
12 1 (0.18%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.18%) MBA
12 1 (0.18%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.18%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (29.87%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.83%) GDPR
3 25 (4.55%) QA
4 9 (1.64%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.09%) HL7
6 5 (0.91%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.55%) GMP
7 3 (0.55%) NCSC
7 3 (0.55%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.36%) FATCA
8 2 (0.36%) GRC
8 2 (0.36%) IFRS
8 2 (0.36%) SLA
9 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.18%) GAAP
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 63 (11.48%) Docker
2 4 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (10.56%) Kubernetes
2 30 (5.46%) Terraform
3 3 (0.55%) Kibana
4 2 (0.36%) Ansible
4 2 (0.36%) Control-M
4 2 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (0.36%) logstash
4 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.18%) SCCM
5 1 (0.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 101 (18.40%) Oracle
2 86 (15.66%) Databricks
3 85 (15.48%) Microsoft
4 52 (9.47%) SAP
5 50 (9.11%) Talend
6 39 (7.10%) Informatica
7 33 (6.01%) Denodo
8 16 (2.91%) Salesforce
9 12 (2.19%) Google
9 12 (2.19%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.82%) Adobe
11 9 (1.64%) Software AG
11 9 (1.64%) Workday
12 8 (1.46%) IBM
12 8 (1.46%) MuleSoft
13 6 (1.09%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.91%) Cloudera
14 5 (0.91%) Sitecore
15 4 (0.73%) OpenAI
15 4 (0.73%) Sage