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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 156 193
Rank change year-on-year -24 +37 +71
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 620 429 458
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.51% 1.75% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.92% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 304 341
10th Percentile £399 £366 £385
25th Percentile £436 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £632 £720
90th Percentile £761 £734 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £550
% change year-on-year +0.48% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £46.00 - £48.70
25th Percentile £53.31 £72.50 £51.63
Median hourly rate £74.97 £75.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.04% +29.31% +183.76%
75th Percentile £85.44 £77.50 £64.13
90th Percentile £86.83 - £66.90
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £75.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year -14.67% +29.31% +183.76%

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 34,813 22,315 31,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 91.22% 86.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,200 14,600 20,590
10th Percentile £320 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 942 2,247
10th Percentile £15.33 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £15.93
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.13
90th Percentile £80.02 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £28.30 £36.05
% change year-on-year +49.50% -21.50% +1.11%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -26 299 £575 +4.55% 77
Midlands +14 153 £469 -6.90% 28
West Midlands +23 140 £469 -5.25% 20
North of England -37 63 £500 -6.54% 29
South East -55 44 £589 +11.68% 34
North West -25 36 £500 -8.26% 15
South West -26 25 £583 +22.63% 16
Yorkshire -45 20 £538 +13.16% 9
East of England -20 17 £588 +6.82% 6
East Midlands -22 13 £444 -10.94% 8
North East -15 7 £563 - 5
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 55 (8.87%) SAS
2 37 (5.97%) Apache Spark
3 23 (3.71%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.94%) Apache
4 12 (1.94%) Confluence
5 6 (0.97%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.81%) Camunda
7 2 (0.32%) CMS
7 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.32%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.16%) Appian
8 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
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%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.48%) Navisworks
3 3 (0.48%) Revit
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.97%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.97%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (0.97%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.65%) SAP BPC
4 4 (0.65%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.48%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.48%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.48%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.48%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.48%) SAP Retail
5 3 (0.48%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.32%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.32%) SAP MDM
6 2 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 253 (40.81%) Azure
2 127 (20.48%) AWS
3 95 (15.32%) Power Platform
4 80 (12.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 53 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
6 50 (8.06%) GCP
7 48 (7.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 33 (5.32%) SaaS
8 33 (5.32%) Snowflake
9 31 (5.00%) Serverless
10 30 (4.84%) GitHub
11 18 (2.90%) Power Automate
12 17 (2.74%) Amazon S3
12 17 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (2.42%) dbt
13 15 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
13 15 (2.42%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.94%) iPaaS
14 12 (1.94%) PaaS
15 11 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.29%) FTP
2 6 (0.97%) SMS
3 3 (0.48%) Firewall
3 3 (0.48%) VPN
4 2 (0.32%) MQTT
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (19.52%) Data Warehouse
2 89 (14.35%) Power BI
3 75 (12.10%) SQL Server
4 63 (10.16%) Metadata
5 51 (8.23%) Pentaho
6 50 (8.06%) Data Lake
7 40 (6.45%) NoSQL
8 36 (5.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 34 (5.48%) Relational Database
9 34 (5.48%) Tableau
10 22 (3.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 21 (3.39%) Oracle Database
12 19 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
13 17 (2.74%) Big Data
13 17 (2.74%) Delta Lake
14 16 (2.58%) MySQL
15 15 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
15 15 (2.42%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 13 (2.10%) DataStage
17 10 (1.61%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 66 (10.65%) Git
2 43 (6.94%) JIRA
3 34 (5.48%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.94%) ERwin
5 11 (1.77%) GitLab
6 5 (0.81%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.65%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.48%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.32%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.32%) git-flow
9 2 (0.32%) Postman
9 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.16%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.16%) Mocha
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.16%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.16%) RStudio
10 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 197 (31.77%) Social Skills
2 165 (26.61%) Finance
3 126 (20.32%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (13.87%) Public Sector
5 54 (8.71%) Banking
6 22 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (3.55%) Marketing
7 16 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (2.42%) Retail
9 13 (2.10%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.77%) Legal
12 8 (1.29%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.29%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.13%) Front Office
13 7 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.97%) General Ledger
15 5 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.81%) Publishing
16 4 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 171 (27.58%) Data Engineer
2 136 (21.94%) Architect
3 96 (15.48%) Developer
4 70 (11.29%) Senior
5 61 (9.84%) Solutions Architect
6 58 (9.35%) Data Architect
7 45 (7.26%) Analyst
8 36 (5.81%) Lead
9 35 (5.65%) Consultant
10 28 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
11 27 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
11 27 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
12 25 (4.03%) Business Analyst
13 22 (3.55%) Integration Architect
14 18 (2.90%) Data Analyst
14 18 (2.90%) Integration Engineer
14 18 (2.90%) Senior Developer
15 17 (2.74%) Project Manager
16 15 (2.42%) Full-Stack Developer
17 14 (2.26%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (8.39%) REST
2 37 (5.97%) PySpark
3 32 (5.16%) Kafka
4 28 (4.52%) Middleware
5 26 (4.19%) JSON
6 25 (4.03%) Node.js
7 22 (3.55%) .NET
8 20 (3.23%) React
8 20 (3.23%) YAML
9 19 (3.06%) AngularJS
9 19 (3.06%) RESTful
10 15 (2.42%) XML
11 14 (2.26%) Django
11 14 (2.26%) Flask
12 11 (1.77%) SOAP
13 10 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
14 8 (1.29%) .NET Core
14 8 (1.29%) Pandas
15 7 (1.13%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (1.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.61%) Cloud Native
2 36 (5.81%) Legacy Systems
3 35 (5.65%) Data Structures
4 24 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.71%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.58%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (2.10%) Reference Data
9 11 (1.77%) NHS
10 9 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.29%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.13%) Mainframe
13 6 (0.97%) Credit Risk
13 6 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (0.97%) Life Science
13 6 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
14 5 (0.81%) AI Agents
14 5 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.26%) Unix
2 4 (0.65%) Windows
3 2 (0.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (42.58%) Data Modelling
2 229 (36.94%) Analytics
3 218 (35.16%) ETL
4 194 (31.29%) Agile
5 184 (29.68%) Data Pipeline
6 154 (24.84%) Problem-Solving
7 151 (24.35%) DevOps
8 147 (23.71%) Business Intelligence
9 138 (22.26%) CI/CD
10 128 (20.65%) Data Governance
11 113 (18.23%) Data Engineering
12 106 (17.10%) Migration
13 104 (16.77%) Integration Patterns
14 99 (15.97%) Data Architecture
15 96 (15.48%) Validation
16 81 (13.06%) AI
16 81 (13.06%) Stakeholder Management
17 76 (12.26%) Decision-Making
18 68 (10.97%) Event-Driven
19 67 (10.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 292 (47.10%) SQL
2 149 (24.03%) Python
3 39 (6.29%) Java
4 30 (4.84%) C#
5 26 (4.19%) JavaScript
6 25 (4.03%) Scala
7 22 (3.55%) PL/SQL
8 18 (2.90%) TypeScript
9 13 (2.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 13 (2.10%) T-SQL
10 11 (1.77%) Bash
11 10 (1.61%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.13%) Bicep
13 6 (0.97%) R
14 5 (0.81%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.48%) ABAP
15 3 (0.48%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.32%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.32%) Groovy
17 1 (0.16%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 169 (27.26%) Security Cleared
2 142 (22.90%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.45%) Degree
4 27 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.55%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.58%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.77%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (1.13%) DBS Check
9 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.81%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.32%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.32%) PMP
11 2 (0.32%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.16%) MBA
12 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (26.13%) Data Quality
2 36 (5.81%) GDPR
3 25 (4.03%) QA
4 6 (0.97%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.81%) GRC
5 5 (0.81%) HL7
5 5 (0.81%) SLA
5 5 (0.81%) Solvency II
6 4 (0.65%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.48%) IFRS
7 3 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
8 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.32%) FATCA
8 2 (0.32%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.32%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.32%) MiFID
8 2 (0.32%) NCSC
9 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 51 (8.23%) Docker
2 8 (1.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (7.26%) Kubernetes
2 28 (4.52%) Terraform
3 7 (1.13%) Grafana
4 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.32%) Ansible
5 2 (0.32%) Control-M
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
6 1 (0.16%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 113 (18.23%) Oracle
2 104 (16.77%) Databricks
3 96 (15.48%) Microsoft
4 62 (10.00%) SAP
5 58 (9.35%) Talend
6 48 (7.74%) Informatica
7 33 (5.32%) Denodo
8 23 (3.71%) Salesforce
9 13 (2.10%) Google
10 12 (1.94%) NEC
11 11 (1.77%) MuleSoft
12 10 (1.61%) Cloudera
13 8 (1.29%) Adobe
13 8 (1.29%) ServiceNow
13 8 (1.29%) Software AG
14 7 (1.13%) Alteryx
14 7 (1.13%) Teradata
15 5 (0.81%) IBM
15 5 (0.81%) SnapLogic
15 5 (0.81%) Workday