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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 171 200
Rank change year-on-year -3 +29 +55
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 663 423 452
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.51% 1.65% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.81% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 295 326
10th Percentile £386 £363 £369
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £625 £725
90th Percentile £738 £716 £813
UK median daily rate £533 £523 £550
% change year-on-year +1.91% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 4
10th Percentile £33.75 - -
25th Percentile £52.63 £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 £84.25 £77.50 £54.88
90th Percentile £86.00 - £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 37,409 23,372 31,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.17% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,567 15,052 20,589
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £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 £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.79% -4.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,348 1,165 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.97 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.50 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.93
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.81%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -34 292 £575 +6.98% 120
Midlands +32 171 £469 -6.90% 29
West Midlands +40 153 £469 -8.49% 14
North of England -31 81 £515 +2.59% 40
South East -52 58 £550 +2.33% 54
North West -18 48 £500 -2.82% 25
South West -29 24 £516 +8.53% 21
Yorkshire -38 22 £518 +8.95% 11
East Midlands -8 18 £445 +8.63% 15
East of England -16 15 £575 +4.55% 7
North East - 11 £525 - 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 58 (8.75%) SAS
2 32 (4.83%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (3.17%) Apache Spark
4 19 (2.87%) Confluence
5 11 (1.66%) Apache
6 8 (1.21%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.75%) Camunda
8 4 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.30%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.30%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.15%) Appian
10 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.15%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) Luigi
10 1 (0.15%) Mendix
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.45%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.45%) Revit
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (3.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.75%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.75%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.60%) SAP BPC
4 4 (0.60%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.45%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.45%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.45%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.30%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.30%) Endur
6 2 (0.30%) Maximo
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.30%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.30%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.15%) SAP CAR
Cloud Services
1 274 (41.33%) Azure
2 180 (27.15%) AWS
3 103 (15.54%) Power Platform
4 67 (10.11%) GCP
5 60 (9.05%) Azure Data Factory
6 47 (7.09%) Snowflake
7 45 (6.79%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (6.33%) Serverless
9 38 (5.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 31 (4.68%) GitHub
11 30 (4.52%) Amazon S3
12 28 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (4.07%) SaaS
14 21 (3.17%) dbt
15 15 (2.26%) PaaS
15 15 (2.26%) Power Automate
16 13 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (1.96%) PowerApps
17 12 (1.81%) iPaaS
18 11 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.21%) FTP
2 4 (0.60%) SMS
3 3 (0.45%) Firewall
3 3 (0.45%) MQTT
3 3 (0.45%) Network Security
3 3 (0.45%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) DMZ
4 1 (0.15%) DNS
4 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (15.54%) Data Warehouse
2 98 (14.78%) Power BI
3 77 (11.61%) SQL Server
4 61 (9.20%) Metadata
5 55 (8.30%) Data Lake
6 54 (8.14%) Pentaho
7 40 (6.03%) Tableau
8 37 (5.58%) Relational Database
9 28 (4.22%) Oracle Database
9 28 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (4.07%) NoSQL
11 24 (3.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 21 (3.17%) Big Data
12 21 (3.17%) MySQL
13 20 (3.02%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (2.87%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 17 (2.56%) Delta Lake
15 17 (2.56%) SAS Visual Analytics
16 14 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
16 14 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 52 (7.84%) Git
2 37 (5.58%) JIRA
3 30 (4.52%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.87%) GitLab
5 14 (2.11%) ERwin
6 5 (0.75%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.75%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.60%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.60%) Postman
7 4 (0.60%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.30%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.15%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.15%) git-flow
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
1 210 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 161 (24.28%) Finance
3 129 (19.46%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (16.59%) Public Sector
5 52 (7.84%) Banking
6 24 (3.62%) Retail
7 23 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (3.47%) Marketing
8 15 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.81%) Legal
9 12 (1.81%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.66%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.06%) Automotive
12 7 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.90%) Retail Banking
14 5 (0.75%) Billing
14 5 (0.75%) General Ledger
15 4 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 178 (26.85%) Data Engineer
2 175 (26.40%) Architect
3 92 (13.88%) Developer
4 77 (11.61%) Senior
5 71 (10.71%) Data Architect
6 68 (10.26%) Solutions Architect
7 55 (8.30%) Lead
8 53 (7.99%) Analyst
9 29 (4.37%) Consultant
10 28 (4.22%) Senior Data Engineer
11 22 (3.32%) Technical Leader
12 21 (3.17%) Integration Architect
12 21 (3.17%) Technical Architect
13 20 (3.02%) Business Analyst
14 18 (2.71%) Data Analyst
14 18 (2.71%) Integration Engineer
14 18 (2.71%) Project Manager
14 18 (2.71%) SQL Developer
15 17 (2.56%) Senior Developer
16 16 (2.41%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (6.79%) REST
2 35 (5.28%) Kafka
3 29 (4.37%) JSON
3 29 (4.37%) Middleware
3 29 (4.37%) React
4 25 (3.77%) Node.js
5 23 (3.47%) .NET
6 21 (3.17%) XML
7 19 (2.87%) YAML
8 18 (2.71%) PySpark
8 18 (2.71%) RESTful
9 14 (2.11%) Django
9 14 (2.11%) Flask
10 13 (1.96%) AngularJS
10 13 (1.96%) SOAP
11 10 (1.51%) FastAPI
12 9 (1.36%) GraphQL
13 7 (1.06%) Web Services
14 6 (0.90%) .NET Core
14 6 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 54 (8.14%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.09%) Legacy Systems
3 33 (4.98%) Data Structures
4 28 (4.22%) Product Ownership
5 26 (3.92%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.56%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (2.11%) Reference Data
8 12 (1.81%) AI Agents
9 11 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.51%) IoT
11 9 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.36%) Life Science
11 9 (1.36%) NHS
11 9 (1.36%) Taxonomies
12 8 (1.21%) Mainframe
13 6 (0.90%) Reinsurance
14 5 (0.75%) Algorithms
14 5 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.41%) Unix
2 5 (0.75%) Linux
3 4 (0.60%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (41.33%) Data Modelling
2 254 (38.31%) ETL
3 237 (35.75%) Analytics
4 202 (30.47%) Agile
5 199 (30.02%) Data Pipeline
6 162 (24.43%) CI/CD
7 152 (22.93%) DevOps
8 144 (21.72%) Business Intelligence
9 142 (21.42%) Problem-Solving
10 141 (21.27%) Migration
11 130 (19.61%) Data Engineering
12 117 (17.65%) Data Governance
12 117 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
13 109 (16.44%) AI
14 107 (16.14%) Validation
15 105 (15.84%) Data Architecture
16 103 (15.54%) Integration Patterns
17 97 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 82 (12.37%) Decision-Making
19 74 (11.16%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 302 (45.55%) SQL
2 159 (23.98%) Python
3 43 (6.49%) Java
4 26 (3.92%) PL/SQL
5 23 (3.47%) C#
6 21 (3.17%) JavaScript
7 19 (2.87%) T-SQL
7 19 (2.87%) TypeScript
8 15 (2.26%) Bash
9 12 (1.81%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (1.51%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.51%) Scala
12 8 (1.21%) Bicep
13 5 (0.75%) R
14 4 (0.60%) ABAP
14 4 (0.60%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.45%) Gremlin
15 3 (0.45%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.45%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 187 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 155 (23.38%) SC Cleared
3 42 (6.33%) Degree
4 24 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.96%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.51%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.21%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.21%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.60%) SAS Certification
11 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.30%) PMP
12 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.15%) MBA
12 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (26.09%) Data Quality
2 43 (6.49%) GDPR
3 22 (3.32%) QA
4 10 (1.51%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.21%) SLA
6 7 (1.06%) Solvency II
7 6 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.75%) GRC
9 4 (0.60%) HL7
9 4 (0.60%) IFRS
9 4 (0.60%) SNOMED CT
10 3 (0.45%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.45%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.45%) NCSC
11 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.30%) FATCA
11 2 (0.30%) GMP
11 2 (0.30%) GxP
11 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (6.79%) Docker
2 10 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (7.54%) Kubernetes
2 30 (4.52%) Terraform
3 10 (1.51%) Grafana
4 4 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.45%) Ansible
5 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.30%) Argo
7 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.15%) Control-M
7 1 (0.15%) SCCM
7 1 (0.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 124 (18.70%) Oracle
2 99 (14.93%) Databricks
2 99 (14.93%) Microsoft
3 72 (10.86%) SAP
4 65 (9.80%) Talend
5 58 (8.75%) Informatica
6 38 (5.73%) Salesforce
7 30 (4.52%) Denodo
8 20 (3.02%) Google
9 15 (2.26%) MuleSoft
10 14 (2.11%) ServiceNow
11 12 (1.81%) Cloudera
11 12 (1.81%) NEC
12 8 (1.21%) IBM
13 6 (0.90%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.75%) Palantir
14 5 (0.75%) SimCorp
14 5 (0.75%) Sparx
14 5 (0.75%) Teradata
14 5 (0.75%) Workday