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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 180 197
Rank change year-on-year +19 +17 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 822 446 423
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.77% 1.60% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 1.75% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 297 267
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £449 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £775 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 19 5
10th Percentile £30.96 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £52.50 £25.26
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +83.33% -47.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +83.33% -53.85%

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 39,431 25,424 27,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.70% 90.99% 86.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,955 16,149 17,033
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,897 1,546 1,199
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.42 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.55 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +3 390 £600 +4.35% 422
Midlands +8 139 £470 -9.35% 67
North of England +16 122 £500 - 127
West Midlands +20 121 £470 -9.62% 47
South East -36 81 £525 +9.38% 101
North West -6 63 £500 - 77
South West -10 40 £555 +38.75% 55
Yorkshire -9 39 £443 -6.74% 36
North East -17 21 £520 -5.45% 16
East of England -22 21 £600 +19.40% 39
East Midlands -7 18 £435 +20.83% 20
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 71 (8.64%) SAS
2 45 (5.47%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.65%) Confluence
4 26 (3.16%) Apache Spark
5 20 (2.43%) Apache
6 13 (1.58%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.24%) Camunda
8 2 (0.24%) CMS
8 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.24%) nginx
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.24%) ThingWorx
8 2 (0.24%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 15 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.36%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.36%) Revit
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 33 (4.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.73%) Aladdin
4 6 (0.73%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 5 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.49%) SAP Payroll
7 3 (0.36%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.36%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.24%) Endur
8 2 (0.24%) Maximo
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.24%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.24%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
9 1 (0.12%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 318 (38.69%) Azure
2 225 (27.37%) AWS
3 130 (15.82%) Power Platform
4 89 (10.83%) GCP
5 87 (10.58%) Azure Data Factory
6 70 (8.52%) Serverless
6 70 (8.52%) Snowflake
7 62 (7.54%) Amazon S3
8 53 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 51 (6.20%) AWS Lambda
10 41 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (4.26%) dbt
11 35 (4.26%) GitHub
12 24 (2.92%) OCI
13 23 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (2.55%) SaaS
15 20 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
15 20 (2.43%) Power Automate
16 17 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.85%) MQTT
2 5 (0.61%) DNS
2 5 (0.61%) Firewall
3 4 (0.49%) DHCP
3 4 (0.49%) SMS
3 4 (0.49%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.49%) VPN
4 3 (0.36%) FTP
4 3 (0.36%) Network Security
5 2 (0.24%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.24%) SSL
6 1 (0.12%) DMZ
6 1 (0.12%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (17.76%) Data Warehouse
2 113 (13.75%) Power BI
3 99 (12.04%) Metadata
4 82 (9.98%) Data Lake
5 70 (8.52%) SQL Server
6 48 (5.84%) Relational Database
7 43 (5.23%) Oracle Database
8 41 (4.99%) Pentaho
9 37 (4.50%) Tableau
10 36 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
11 35 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
12 33 (4.01%) BigQuery
13 31 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
14 30 (3.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 26 (3.16%) DataStage
16 22 (2.68%) Big Data
16 22 (2.68%) NoSQL
17 20 (2.43%) DynamoDB
18 18 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
19 17 (2.07%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 59 (7.18%) Git
2 36 (4.38%) JIRA
3 25 (3.04%) GitLab
4 20 (2.43%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.97%) ERwin
6 7 (0.85%) Postman
7 6 (0.73%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.49%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.49%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.24%) RStudio
9 2 (0.24%) TestRail
9 2 (0.24%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.12%) eggPlant
10 1 (0.12%) MLflow
10 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.12%) Zephyr
General
1 276 (33.58%) Social Skills
2 201 (24.45%) Finance
3 135 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (16.30%) Public Sector
5 81 (9.85%) Banking
6 30 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
7 29 (3.53%) Retail
8 26 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (2.92%) Marketing
10 18 (2.19%) Manufacturing
11 15 (1.82%) Front Office
11 15 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (1.46%) Aerospace
12 12 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.46%) Legal
13 11 (1.34%) Billing
13 11 (1.34%) Military
14 10 (1.22%) Investment Banking
15 8 (0.97%) Automotive
15 8 (0.97%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 230 (27.98%) Architect
2 207 (25.18%) Data Engineer
3 98 (11.92%) Developer
4 97 (11.80%) Senior
5 96 (11.68%) Lead
6 79 (9.61%) Data Architect
7 72 (8.76%) Solutions Architect
8 68 (8.27%) Analyst
9 47 (5.72%) Senior Data Engineer
10 32 (3.89%) Technical Leader
11 30 (3.65%) Consultant
12 25 (3.04%) Data Analyst
13 23 (2.80%) Technical Architect
14 21 (2.55%) Integration Architect
14 21 (2.55%) Integration Engineer
15 19 (2.31%) Azure Engineer
15 19 (2.31%) Business Analyst
15 19 (2.31%) Project Manager
16 18 (2.19%) SQL Developer
17 16 (1.95%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (6.45%) Terraform
2 47 (5.72%) Kafka
3 46 (5.60%) REST
4 37 (4.50%) JSON
5 32 (3.89%) PySpark
6 31 (3.77%) Middleware
6 31 (3.77%) React
7 26 (3.16%) XML
8 22 (2.68%) .NET
9 19 (2.31%) RESTful
10 18 (2.19%) FastAPI
11 13 (1.58%) Node.js
12 12 (1.46%) SOAP
13 11 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
14 10 (1.22%) Apache NiFi
14 10 (1.22%) OAuth
15 9 (1.09%) Spring Boot
16 8 (0.97%) GraphQL
16 8 (0.97%) OpenID
16 8 (0.97%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 73 (8.88%) Cloud Native
2 43 (5.23%) Legacy Systems
3 41 (4.99%) Data Structures
4 34 (4.14%) Onboarding
5 29 (3.53%) Management Information System
6 27 (3.28%) Product Ownership
7 22 (2.68%) Reference Data
8 21 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (2.19%) AI Agents
9 18 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (2.07%) Data Fabric
10 17 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.95%) Replication
12 14 (1.70%) Taxonomies
13 13 (1.58%) Life Science
14 10 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (0.97%) Mainframe
15 8 (0.97%) Operational Technology
15 8 (0.97%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.16%) Unix
2 25 (3.04%) Linux
3 8 (0.97%) Windows
4 5 (0.61%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (40.51%) ETL
2 331 (40.27%) Data Modelling
3 300 (36.50%) Analytics
4 240 (29.20%) Agile
5 232 (28.22%) Data Pipeline
6 202 (24.57%) CI/CD
6 202 (24.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 201 (24.45%) Data Engineering
8 199 (24.21%) Migration
9 172 (20.92%) DevOps
10 171 (20.80%) Data Governance
11 156 (18.98%) AI
12 152 (18.49%) Business Intelligence
13 151 (18.37%) Data Architecture
14 140 (17.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 138 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
16 130 (15.82%) Validation
17 117 (14.23%) Roadmaps
18 116 (14.11%) Integration Patterns
19 115 (13.99%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 356 (43.31%) SQL
2 214 (26.03%) Python
3 39 (4.74%) PL/SQL
4 36 (4.38%) Java
5 27 (3.28%) TypeScript
6 25 (3.04%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.80%) C#
8 18 (2.19%) Bash
8 18 (2.19%) Shell Script
8 18 (2.19%) T-SQL
9 17 (2.07%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.09%) Bicep
11 7 (0.85%) R
12 6 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.73%) Scala
13 4 (0.49%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.49%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (0.49%) Korn
14 3 (0.36%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 255 (31.02%) Security Cleared
2 216 (26.28%) SC Cleared
3 43 (5.23%) Degree
4 24 (2.92%) DV Cleared
5 23 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.95%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.95%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.70%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.85%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.85%) PMP
11 6 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.73%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.49%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.36%) CBAP
14 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (27.74%) Data Quality
2 32 (3.89%) GRC
3 29 (3.53%) GDPR
4 24 (2.92%) QA
5 21 (2.55%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.22%) SLA
7 7 (0.85%) PMO
8 6 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.73%) WCAG
9 5 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.49%) IFRS
10 4 (0.49%) NCSC
11 3 (0.36%) GxP
11 3 (0.36%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.36%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.24%) FATCA
12 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
12 2 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 45 (5.47%) Docker
2 7 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.49%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.12%) HDFS
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.70%) Grafana
3 12 (1.46%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.09%) Ansible
5 7 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.73%) Control-M
7 4 (0.49%) Argo
8 3 (0.36%) Istio
8 3 (0.36%) Kibana
9 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 168 (20.44%) Oracle
2 140 (17.03%) Microsoft
3 116 (14.11%) Databricks
4 69 (8.39%) SAP
5 59 (7.18%) Informatica
6 49 (5.96%) Talend
7 45 (5.47%) Google
8 38 (4.62%) Salesforce
9 24 (2.92%) IBM
9 24 (2.92%) ServiceNow
10 20 (2.43%) Denodo
11 13 (1.58%) Teradata
12 9 (1.09%) Workday
13 8 (0.97%) MuleSoft
14 7 (0.85%) Bloomberg
14 7 (0.85%) Cloudera
14 7 (0.85%) eFront
14 7 (0.85%) Sparx
15 6 (0.73%) Ariba
15 6 (0.73%) VMware