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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 171 198
Rank change year-on-year +17 +27 +31
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 789 454 393
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.73% 1.65% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 1.81% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 314 276
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £525 £546
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% -3.89% -0.68%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £678
90th Percentile £738 £725 £794
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 4
10th Percentile - £50.35 -
25th Percentile £30.96 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £65.85 £55.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.72% +83.33% -40.00%
75th Percentile £76.13 £57.50 £39.69
90th Percentile £84.81 - £57.13
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -4.55% +83.33% -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 38,841 25,050 28,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.82% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,525
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,548 1,450 1,590
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.12
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.87 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.45 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% +0.61%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -12 362 £600 +6.29% 209
Midlands +32 167 £469 -9.55% 37
West Midlands +25 150 £469 -9.55% 29
North of England -10 108 £520 +4.00% 50
South East -50 78 £525 +1.94% 68
North West -15 62 £525 +4.58% 38
South West -28 29 £516 +8.53% 22
Yorkshire -29 26 £475 - 7
North East -18 21 £525 -4.55% 5
East of England -19 19 £600 +14.29% 20
East Midlands -11 17 £455 +18.18% 8
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 88 (11.15%) SAS
2 40 (5.07%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.53%) Apache Spark
4 19 (2.41%) Confluence
5 16 (2.03%) Apache
6 10 (1.27%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.51%) Camunda
7 4 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.25%) ThingWorx
8 2 (0.25%) WordPress
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.13%) Luigi
9 1 (0.13%) Mule
9 1 (0.13%) nginx
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 11 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.38%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.38%) Revit
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 34 (4.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 7 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.63%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.51%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.51%) SAP IBP
5 4 (0.51%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (0.38%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.38%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.25%) Endur
7 2 (0.25%) Maximo
7 2 (0.25%) SAP APO
7 2 (0.25%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.25%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.25%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 303 (38.40%) Azure
2 203 (25.73%) AWS
3 115 (14.58%) Power Platform
4 82 (10.39%) Azure Data Factory
5 75 (9.51%) GCP
6 55 (6.97%) Snowflake
7 54 (6.84%) Serverless
8 48 (6.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 44 (5.58%) Amazon S3
10 41 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
11 39 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
12 34 (4.31%) GitHub
13 23 (2.92%) OCI
14 22 (2.79%) dbt
15 19 (2.41%) SaaS
16 18 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (2.28%) Power Automate
17 17 (2.15%) PowerApps
18 14 (1.77%) Microsoft Copilot
18 14 (1.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.63%) Firewall
1 5 (0.63%) VPN
2 4 (0.51%) FTP
2 4 (0.51%) SMS
3 3 (0.38%) DNS
3 3 (0.38%) MQTT
3 3 (0.38%) Network Security
4 2 (0.25%) DHCP
4 2 (0.25%) SSL
4 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.13%) DMZ
5 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (16.73%) Data Warehouse
2 104 (13.18%) Power BI
3 76 (9.63%) Metadata
3 76 (9.63%) SQL Server
4 69 (8.75%) Data Lake
5 57 (7.22%) Pentaho
6 50 (6.34%) Relational Database
7 40 (5.07%) Oracle Database
8 39 (4.94%) Tableau
9 34 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
10 29 (3.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 24 (3.04%) NoSQL
11 24 (3.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 21 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (2.66%) Big Data
12 21 (2.66%) BigQuery
12 21 (2.66%) DataStage
12 21 (2.66%) MySQL
13 20 (2.53%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 19 (2.41%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 66 (8.37%) Git
2 35 (4.44%) Jenkins
2 35 (4.44%) JIRA
3 23 (2.92%) GitLab
4 11 (1.39%) ERwin
5 7 (0.89%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.63%) Postman
7 4 (0.51%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.51%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.25%) TestRail
9 2 (0.25%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.13%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.13%) eggPlant
10 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.13%) Toad
10 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 247 (31.31%) Social Skills
2 173 (21.93%) Finance
3 142 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (16.48%) Public Sector
5 57 (7.22%) Banking
6 28 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (3.55%) Retail
7 26 (3.30%) Marketing
8 22 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (1.77%) Legal
9 14 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (1.65%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.52%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.14%) Front Office
12 9 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.89%) Aerospace
13 7 (0.89%) Automotive
13 7 (0.89%) Military
14 6 (0.76%) Billing
14 6 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 225 (28.52%) Architect
2 203 (25.73%) Data Engineer
3 98 (12.42%) Developer
4 86 (10.90%) Senior
5 79 (10.01%) Data Architect
6 73 (9.25%) Solutions Architect
7 67 (8.49%) Lead
8 64 (8.11%) Analyst
9 35 (4.44%) Senior Data Engineer
10 26 (3.30%) Technical Leader
11 25 (3.17%) Consultant
11 25 (3.17%) Integration Engineer
12 24 (3.04%) Data Analyst
12 24 (3.04%) Integration Architect
13 23 (2.92%) Technical Architect
14 21 (2.66%) Business Analyst
15 19 (2.41%) Project Manager
15 19 (2.41%) SQL Developer
16 18 (2.28%) Azure Engineer
17 17 (2.15%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (6.34%) REST
2 45 (5.70%) Kafka
3 33 (4.18%) JSON
4 32 (4.06%) Middleware
5 31 (3.93%) React
6 26 (3.30%) PySpark
7 23 (2.92%) .NET
8 20 (2.53%) RESTful
9 18 (2.28%) Node.js
9 18 (2.28%) XML
10 13 (1.65%) AngularJS
10 13 (1.65%) FastAPI
10 13 (1.65%) SOAP
10 13 (1.65%) YAML
11 10 (1.27%) Django
12 9 (1.14%) Flask
12 9 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
13 8 (1.01%) GraphQL
13 8 (1.01%) Spring Boot
14 7 (0.89%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 64 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 54 (6.84%) Legacy Systems
3 43 (5.45%) Data Structures
4 30 (3.80%) Onboarding
5 24 (3.04%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.53%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.53%) Reference Data
7 18 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (1.90%) Life Science
10 14 (1.77%) AI Agents
11 12 (1.52%) Replication
12 10 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.01%) Clustering
13 8 (1.01%) IoT
13 8 (1.01%) Mainframe
13 8 (1.01%) NHS
14 7 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.41%) Unix
2 17 (2.15%) Linux
3 7 (0.89%) Windows
4 3 (0.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (41.83%) ETL
2 319 (40.43%) Data Modelling
3 313 (39.67%) Analytics
4 228 (28.90%) Data Pipeline
5 225 (28.52%) Agile
6 195 (24.71%) CI/CD
7 185 (23.45%) Migration
8 173 (21.93%) DevOps
9 163 (20.66%) Data Engineering
10 159 (20.15%) Business Intelligence
11 157 (19.90%) Stakeholder Management
12 151 (19.14%) Problem-Solving
13 144 (18.25%) Data Governance
14 137 (17.36%) AI
15 133 (16.86%) Data Architecture
16 132 (16.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 116 (14.70%) Integration Patterns
18 115 (14.58%) Validation
19 102 (12.93%) Data Migration
20 99 (12.55%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 341 (43.22%) SQL
2 191 (24.21%) Python
3 43 (5.45%) Java
4 35 (4.44%) PL/SQL
5 22 (2.79%) TypeScript
6 20 (2.53%) T-SQL
7 18 (2.28%) C#
8 17 (2.15%) Bash
8 17 (2.15%) JavaScript
9 14 (1.77%) PowerShell
9 14 (1.77%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.27%) Scala
11 9 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (1.01%) Bicep
13 5 (0.63%) R
14 4 (0.51%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.38%) ABAP
15 3 (0.38%) Gremlin
15 3 (0.38%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.38%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 256 (32.45%) Security Cleared
2 219 (27.76%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.07%) Degree
4 21 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.28%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.03%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (1.14%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.89%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.76%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.51%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.38%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.38%) PMP
14 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 1 (0.13%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.13%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (27.38%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.69%) GDPR
3 31 (3.93%) GRC
4 26 (3.30%) QA
5 19 (2.41%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.89%) PMO
7 6 (0.76%) SLA
7 6 (0.76%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.51%) IFRS
9 4 (0.51%) SNOMED CT
10 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.38%) GxP
10 3 (0.38%) HL7
10 3 (0.38%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.25%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.25%) NCSC
11 2 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (6.84%) Docker
2 9 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 40 (5.07%) Terraform
3 17 (2.15%) Grafana
4 8 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.89%) Ansible
6 6 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.63%) Control-M
8 4 (0.51%) Argo
9 2 (0.25%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.13%) Puppet
10 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 176 (22.31%) Oracle
2 112 (14.20%) Microsoft
3 111 (14.07%) Databricks
4 79 (10.01%) SAP
5 63 (7.98%) Talend
6 58 (7.35%) Informatica
7 40 (5.07%) Salesforce
8 36 (4.56%) Denodo
9 32 (4.06%) Google
10 19 (2.41%) IBM
11 17 (2.15%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.39%) MuleSoft
13 9 (1.14%) Cloudera
13 9 (1.14%) Workday
14 8 (1.01%) NEC
14 8 (1.01%) Sparx
14 8 (1.01%) Teradata
15 7 (0.89%) Palantir
16 5 (0.63%) Alteryx
16 5 (0.63%) Ariba