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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 166 189
Rank change year-on-year -13 +23 +72
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 607 406 474
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.53% 1.65% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 1.81% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 299 347
10th Percentile £400 £363 £385
25th Percentile £438 £425 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year - -7.89% +3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £738
90th Percentile £748 £738 £818
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £550
% change year-on-year +0.48% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 6
10th Percentile £53.18 £32.26 -
25th Percentile £65.58 £42.75 £46.18
Median hourly rate £78.50 £60.50 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year +29.75% +29.16% +129.16%
75th Percentile £85.44 £69.13 £49.88
90th Percentile £86.83 £74.15 £59.50
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £60.50 £46.84
% change year-on-year +9.92% +29.16% +129.16%

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 33,832 22,384 32,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 91.08% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,627 14,686 21,247
10th Percentile £315 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,111 905 2,227
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.79 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.91
Median hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.10% -11.43% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.47
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £29.90 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.11% -14.57% -6.67%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -5 308 £575 +4.55% 58
Midlands +13 140 £465 -2.11% 24
West Midlands +21 126 £469 -1.26% 19
North of England -34 62 £500 -6.54% 25
South East -55 36 £575 +9.00% 29
North West -27 33 £500 -8.26% 17
South West -28 27 £640 +38.38% 14
Yorkshire -36 23 £518 +8.95% 5
East of England -13 18 £588 +6.82% 10
East Midlands -31 14 £445 -2.97% 5
North East -15 6 £500 - 3
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 53 (8.73%) SAS
2 42 (6.92%) Apache Spark
3 27 (4.45%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.14%) Apache
5 6 (0.99%) CMS
5 6 (0.99%) Confluence
5 6 (0.99%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (0.99%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.66%) Camunda
7 2 (0.33%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.16%) Appian
8 1 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.16%) Mendix
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (3.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (0.99%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.66%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.49%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.49%) Maximo
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.49%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.49%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.49%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.49%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.49%) SAP Retail
6 2 (0.33%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.33%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.33%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.16%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 243 (40.03%) Azure
2 128 (21.09%) AWS
3 88 (14.50%) Power Platform
4 79 (13.01%) Azure Data Factory
5 55 (9.06%) Azure DevOps
6 52 (8.57%) GCP
7 45 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 38 (6.26%) SaaS
9 32 (5.27%) Snowflake
10 29 (4.78%) Serverless
11 28 (4.61%) GitHub
12 19 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
13 17 (2.80%) Power Automate
14 15 (2.47%) dbt
15 14 (2.31%) Amazon S3
15 14 (2.31%) PowerApps
16 13 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (2.14%) PaaS
17 12 (1.98%) Azure AKS
17 12 (1.98%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.15%) FTP
2 6 (0.99%) SMS
3 3 (0.49%) Firewall
3 3 (0.49%) VPN
4 2 (0.33%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (20.59%) Data Warehouse
2 81 (13.34%) Power BI
3 71 (11.70%) SQL Server
4 68 (11.20%) Metadata
5 48 (7.91%) NoSQL
6 46 (7.58%) Data Lake
7 45 (7.41%) Pentaho
8 43 (7.08%) Azure SQL Database
9 31 (5.11%) Relational Database
10 29 (4.78%) Tableau
11 20 (3.29%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (3.29%) Big Data
12 19 (3.13%) MySQL
12 19 (3.13%) Oracle Database
12 19 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
12 19 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 18 (2.97%) Delta Lake
14 15 (2.47%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 10 (1.65%) Data Vault
16 9 (1.48%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 74 (12.19%) Git
2 37 (6.10%) JIRA
3 34 (5.60%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.81%) ERwin
5 9 (1.48%) GitLab
6 5 (0.82%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.82%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.49%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.33%) git-flow
8 2 (0.33%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.16%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.16%) MLflow
9 1 (0.16%) Mocha
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.16%) RStudio
9 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.16%) Terragrunt
General
1 210 (34.60%) Social Skills
2 167 (27.51%) Finance
3 131 (21.58%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (13.18%) Public Sector
5 46 (7.58%) Banking
6 24 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (2.64%) Marketing
9 15 (2.47%) Financial Institution
10 14 (2.31%) Retail
11 13 (2.14%) Legal
12 11 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.32%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.32%) Retail Banking
15 7 (1.15%) Front Office
16 6 (0.99%) General Ledger
17 5 (0.82%) Back Office
18 4 (0.66%) Law
18 4 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 157 (25.86%) Data Engineer
2 130 (21.42%) Architect
3 86 (14.17%) Developer
4 64 (10.54%) Senior
5 56 (9.23%) Data Architect
6 54 (8.90%) Solutions Architect
7 45 (7.41%) Analyst
8 38 (6.26%) Consultant
9 36 (5.93%) Lead
10 30 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
11 28 (4.61%) Azure Data Engineer
12 27 (4.45%) Business Analyst
13 21 (3.46%) Integration Architect
14 20 (3.29%) Senior Data Engineer
15 16 (2.64%) Full-Stack Developer
15 16 (2.64%) Project Manager
16 15 (2.47%) Azure Architect
16 15 (2.47%) Integration Engineer
16 15 (2.47%) Senior Developer
17 14 (2.31%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (8.24%) REST
2 38 (6.26%) PySpark
3 32 (5.27%) Kafka
4 26 (4.28%) JSON
5 25 (4.12%) .NET
5 25 (4.12%) Node.js
6 22 (3.62%) RESTful
7 21 (3.46%) YAML
8 20 (3.29%) Middleware
8 20 (3.29%) React
9 17 (2.80%) AngularJS
10 16 (2.64%) XML
11 14 (2.31%) Django
11 14 (2.31%) Flask
12 12 (1.98%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (1.65%) .NET Core
13 10 (1.65%) SOAP
14 9 (1.48%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (1.32%) FHIR
16 7 (1.15%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.75%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.10%) Data Structures
3 36 (5.93%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (3.79%) Onboarding
5 20 (3.29%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (2.47%) Management Information System
7 12 (1.98%) NHS
8 10 (1.65%) Data Fabric
9 9 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.32%) Reference Data
11 6 (0.99%) AI Agents
11 6 (0.99%) Credit Risk
11 6 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.99%) IoT
11 6 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.15%) Unix
2 5 (0.82%) Windows
3 3 (0.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (42.83%) Data Modelling
2 223 (36.74%) Analytics
3 207 (34.10%) ETL
4 200 (32.95%) Agile
5 172 (28.34%) Data Pipeline
6 158 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
7 145 (23.89%) DevOps
8 141 (23.23%) Business Intelligence
9 139 (22.90%) Data Governance
10 133 (21.91%) CI/CD
11 114 (18.78%) Data Engineering
12 103 (16.97%) Data Architecture
13 101 (16.64%) Migration
14 96 (15.82%) Integration Patterns
15 93 (15.32%) Validation
16 86 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
17 74 (12.19%) AI
18 72 (11.86%) Decision-Making
19 67 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
20 66 (10.87%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 276 (45.47%) SQL
2 153 (25.21%) Python
3 36 (5.93%) Java
4 35 (5.77%) C#
5 30 (4.94%) Scala
6 29 (4.78%) JavaScript
7 19 (3.13%) TypeScript
8 13 (2.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (1.98%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.65%) Bash
10 10 (1.65%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.65%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.15%) Bicep
11 7 (1.15%) R
12 6 (0.99%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.66%) Groovy
14 3 (0.49%) ABAP
14 3 (0.49%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.16%) ANSI SQL
15 1 (0.16%) Go
Qualifications
1 163 (26.85%) Security Cleared
2 134 (22.08%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.26%) Degree
4 28 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (4.12%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.97%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.48%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.99%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.49%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.33%) SAP Certification
13 1 (0.16%) CISSP
13 1 (0.16%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.16%) MBA
13 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (27.35%) Data Quality
2 37 (6.10%) GDPR
3 24 (3.95%) QA
4 8 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.32%) HL7
5 5 (0.82%) Solvency II
6 4 (0.66%) GRC
6 4 (0.66%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.66%) SLA
7 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.49%) SNOMED CT
8 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.33%) FATCA
8 2 (0.33%) IFRS
8 2 (0.33%) NCSC
9 1 (0.16%) Basel III
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.16%) MiFID
System Software
1 57 (9.39%) Docker
2 7 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (8.07%) Kubernetes
2 31 (5.11%) Terraform
3 7 (1.15%) Grafana
4 3 (0.49%) Ansible
5 2 (0.33%) Control-M
5 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
6 1 (0.16%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 100 (16.47%) Oracle
2 95 (15.65%) Databricks
3 90 (14.83%) Microsoft
4 62 (10.21%) SAP
5 56 (9.23%) Talend
6 44 (7.25%) Informatica
7 30 (4.94%) Denodo
8 19 (3.13%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.98%) NEC
10 11 (1.81%) Google
11 10 (1.65%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.65%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.48%) Cloudera
12 9 (1.48%) Software AG
13 8 (1.32%) Adobe
14 7 (1.15%) IBM
14 7 (1.15%) Workday
15 6 (0.99%) Sage
16 5 (0.82%) Teradata
17 4 (0.66%) Brio