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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 165 196
Rank change year-on-year -6 +31 +56
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 654 423 454
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.51% 1.69% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.85% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 297 329
10th Percentile £387 £363 £375
25th Percentile £428 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £725
90th Percentile £770 £715 £813
UK median daily rate £536 £523 £550
% change year-on-year +2.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 4
10th Percentile £49.50 - -
25th Percentile £57.86 £72.50 £30.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +91.08% +92.03%
75th Percentile £84.75 £77.50 £54.88
90th Percentile £86.28 - £63.20
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £75.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year -14.67% +91.08% +92.03%

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 36,943 22,820 31,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 91.36% 85.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,357 14,745 20,676
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,312 1,098 2,392
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.06 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.67% -28.07% +7.07%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.13 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -39 290 £575 +7.23% 84
Midlands +34 170 £469 -6.90% 21
West Midlands +33 155 £469 -8.49% 12
North of England -34 76 £523 +1.55% 25
South East -47 58 £563 +7.14% 50
North West -23 45 £500 -6.54% 17
South West -28 25 £525 +10.53% 10
Yorkshire -41 20 £538 +13.16% 7
East Midlands -16 15 £447 +9.02% 8
East of England -21 15 £575 +4.55% 3
North East - 11 £525 - 1
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 62 (9.48%) SAS
2 30 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (3.06%) Apache Spark
3 20 (3.06%) Confluence
4 9 (1.38%) Apache
5 8 (1.22%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.76%) Camunda
8 2 (0.31%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.31%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.15%) Mendix
9 1 (0.15%) Mule
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.46%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.46%) Revit
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (0.76%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.76%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.61%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.61%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.46%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.46%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.46%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (0.46%) SAP Retail
6 3 (0.46%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.31%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.31%) Endur
7 2 (0.31%) Maximo
7 2 (0.31%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 261 (39.91%) Azure
2 169 (25.84%) AWS
3 100 (15.29%) Power Platform
4 64 (9.79%) GCP
5 62 (9.48%) Azure Data Factory
6 45 (6.88%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (6.73%) Snowflake
8 40 (6.12%) Serverless
9 37 (5.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 34 (5.20%) GitHub
11 31 (4.74%) SaaS
12 27 (4.13%) Amazon S3
13 26 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
14 20 (3.06%) dbt
15 16 (2.45%) PaaS
16 15 (2.29%) Power Automate
17 14 (2.14%) iPaaS
18 13 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
18 13 (1.99%) PowerApps
19 11 (1.68%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.22%) FTP
2 4 (0.61%) SMS
3 3 (0.46%) Firewall
3 3 (0.46%) MQTT
3 3 (0.46%) Network Security
3 3 (0.46%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (15.44%) Data Warehouse
2 95 (14.53%) Power BI
3 79 (12.08%) SQL Server
4 62 (9.48%) Metadata
5 55 (8.41%) Pentaho
6 54 (8.26%) Data Lake
7 39 (5.96%) Relational Database
8 36 (5.50%) Tableau
9 29 (4.43%) Oracle Database
10 27 (4.13%) NoSQL
10 27 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (4.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 22 (3.36%) SAS Enterprise Guide
12 19 (2.91%) MySQL
13 18 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
14 17 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
14 17 (2.60%) Big Data
14 17 (2.60%) Delta Lake
14 17 (2.60%) SAS Visual Analytics
15 16 (2.45%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 54 (8.26%) Git
2 42 (6.42%) JIRA
3 31 (4.74%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.75%) GitLab
5 14 (2.14%) ERwin
6 5 (0.76%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.76%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.61%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.61%) Postman
7 4 (0.61%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.31%) git-flow
9 1 (0.15%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.15%) RStudio
9 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
General
1 204 (31.19%) Social Skills
2 161 (24.62%) Finance
3 128 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (16.06%) Public Sector
5 55 (8.41%) Banking
6 25 (3.82%) Retail
7 23 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
8 22 (3.36%) Marketing
9 16 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.68%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.68%) Legal
10 11 (1.68%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.07%) Automotive
12 7 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.92%) General Ledger
13 6 (0.92%) Military
13 6 (0.92%) Retail Banking
14 5 (0.76%) Billing
Job Titles
1 171 (26.15%) Data Engineer
2 169 (25.84%) Architect
3 90 (13.76%) Developer
4 77 (11.77%) Senior
5 68 (10.40%) Solutions Architect
6 64 (9.79%) Data Architect
7 56 (8.56%) Lead
8 51 (7.80%) Analyst
9 32 (4.89%) Consultant
10 29 (4.43%) Senior Data Engineer
11 22 (3.36%) Integration Architect
11 22 (3.36%) Technical Leader
12 21 (3.21%) Technical Architect
13 20 (3.06%) Business Analyst
13 20 (3.06%) Integration Engineer
14 18 (2.75%) Data Analyst
15 17 (2.60%) Release Manager
15 17 (2.60%) Senior Developer
15 17 (2.60%) SQL Developer
16 16 (2.45%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (7.03%) REST
2 32 (4.89%) Kafka
2 32 (4.89%) Middleware
3 30 (4.59%) JSON
4 27 (4.13%) React
5 25 (3.82%) Node.js
6 23 (3.52%) .NET
6 23 (3.52%) XML
7 19 (2.91%) YAML
8 18 (2.75%) PySpark
8 18 (2.75%) RESTful
9 14 (2.14%) Django
9 14 (2.14%) Flask
10 13 (1.99%) AngularJS
10 13 (1.99%) SOAP
11 9 (1.38%) FastAPI
12 8 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
13 7 (1.07%) GraphQL
13 7 (1.07%) Web Services
14 6 (0.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.95%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.19%) Legacy Systems
3 30 (4.59%) Data Structures
4 28 (4.28%) Product Ownership
5 26 (3.98%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.60%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (2.14%) Reference Data
9 11 (1.68%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.53%) IoT
11 9 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.38%) NHS
12 8 (1.22%) Life Science
12 8 (1.22%) Mainframe
12 8 (1.22%) Taxonomies
13 6 (0.92%) Reinsurance
14 5 (0.76%) Algorithms
14 5 (0.76%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.45%) Unix
2 6 (0.92%) Linux
3 5 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (40.98%) Data Modelling
2 246 (37.61%) ETL
3 230 (35.17%) Analytics
4 200 (30.58%) Agile
5 189 (28.90%) Data Pipeline
6 167 (25.54%) CI/CD
7 154 (23.55%) DevOps
8 143 (21.87%) Business Intelligence
9 139 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
10 133 (20.34%) Migration
11 119 (18.20%) Data Engineering
12 116 (17.74%) Stakeholder Management
13 109 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
14 108 (16.51%) Data Governance
15 105 (16.06%) Validation
16 101 (15.44%) AI
17 100 (15.29%) Data Architecture
18 92 (14.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 83 (12.69%) Decision-Making
20 76 (11.62%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 296 (45.26%) SQL
2 149 (22.78%) Python
3 41 (6.27%) Java
4 26 (3.98%) PL/SQL
5 23 (3.52%) C#
6 22 (3.36%) JavaScript
7 19 (2.91%) T-SQL
8 17 (2.60%) TypeScript
9 14 (2.14%) Bash
10 11 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 11 (1.68%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.53%) Scala
12 9 (1.38%) PowerShell
13 8 (1.22%) Bicep
14 4 (0.61%) ABAP
14 4 (0.61%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.61%) R
15 3 (0.46%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.31%) Gremlin
16 2 (0.31%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 184 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 155 (23.70%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.12%) Degree
4 25 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.75%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.99%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.38%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.22%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (1.07%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.61%) SAS Certification
13 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.31%) PMP
14 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.15%) MBA
14 1 (0.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 1 (0.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (25.54%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.12%) GDPR
3 23 (3.52%) QA
4 8 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.22%) SLA
5 7 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (1.07%) Solvency II
6 5 (0.76%) GRC
6 5 (0.76%) IFRS
7 4 (0.61%) HL7
7 4 (0.61%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.61%) SNOMED CT
8 3 (0.46%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.46%) NCSC
9 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.31%) FATCA
9 2 (0.31%) GxP
9 2 (0.31%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.15%) GAAP
System Software
1 44 (6.73%) Docker
2 10 (1.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 49 (7.49%) Kubernetes
2 28 (4.28%) Terraform
3 10 (1.53%) Grafana
4 4 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.46%) Ansible
5 3 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.31%) Argo
6 2 (0.31%) Control-M
7 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 131 (20.03%) Oracle
2 96 (14.68%) Databricks
3 95 (14.53%) Microsoft
4 70 (10.70%) SAP
5 66 (10.09%) Talend
6 56 (8.56%) Informatica
7 38 (5.81%) Salesforce
8 31 (4.74%) Denodo
9 19 (2.91%) Google
10 15 (2.29%) ServiceNow
11 14 (2.14%) MuleSoft
12 12 (1.83%) Cloudera
12 12 (1.83%) NEC
13 9 (1.38%) IBM
14 7 (1.07%) Alteryx
15 6 (0.92%) Workday
16 5 (0.76%) Palantir
16 5 (0.76%) SimCorp
16 5 (0.76%) Sparx
16 5 (0.76%) Teradata