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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 156 192
Rank change year-on-year -20 +36 +103
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 539 437 464
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.55% 1.70% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.89% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 293 321
10th Percentile £400 £366 £375
25th Percentile £461 £425 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year - -7.89% -0.87%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £700
90th Percentile £750 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £550
% change year-on-year +0.38% -4.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 10
10th Percentile - - £45.86
25th Percentile £52.50 £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £27.13 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +102.76% -41.26% +67.93%
75th Percentile £83.25 £52.81 £49.96
90th Percentile £85.85 £69.13 £52.92
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £27.13 £46.18
% change year-on-year +135.94% -41.26% +67.93%

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 30,251 23,118 33,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.20% 90.09% 87.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,354 14,421 21,936
10th Percentile £313 £309 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,884 749 2,031
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.40 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% - -
75th Percentile £63.34 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.84 £72.33
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £32.91 £34.25
% change year-on-year -21.68% -3.93% -2.14%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -15 290 £575 +4.55% 56
Midlands -3 110 £520 +1.46% 26
West Midlands -8 101 £520 -0.95% 22
North of England -45 49 £500 -8.68% 27
South East -9 40 £525 +2.44% 45
North West -26 29 £451 -9.70% 18
South West -29 19 £675 +42.11% 22
Yorkshire -55 17 £510 -10.05% 5
East of England -22 14 £513 -8.89% 5
East Midlands -23 9 £449 +20.40% 4
North East -15 3 £475 - 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 65 (12.06%) SAS
2 45 (8.35%) Apache Spark
3 23 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (2.23%) Apache
5 11 (2.04%) CMS
6 5 (0.93%) Confluence
7 4 (0.74%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.74%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.56%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.19%) Camunda
10 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.19%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (3.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (1.11%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (0.93%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.93%) SAP Payroll
5 4 (0.74%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.74%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.56%) Maximo
6 3 (0.56%) Oracle FAH
6 3 (0.56%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.56%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.56%) SAP Retail
7 2 (0.37%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.37%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 2 (0.37%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.37%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 205 (38.03%) Azure
2 105 (19.48%) AWS
3 79 (14.66%) Power Platform
4 74 (13.73%) Azure Data Factory
5 46 (8.53%) GCP
6 45 (8.35%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (7.24%) SaaS
8 38 (7.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 30 (5.57%) Snowflake
10 20 (3.71%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (3.53%) Serverless
12 16 (2.97%) dbt
13 15 (2.78%) GitHub
14 13 (2.41%) Power Automate
15 11 (2.04%) Azure AKS
15 11 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
16 10 (1.86%) PowerApps
17 9 (1.67%) Azure Functions
17 9 (1.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.74%) FTP
2 2 (0.37%) 2G
2 2 (0.37%) 5G
2 2 (0.37%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.37%) SMS
3 1 (0.19%) 4G
3 1 (0.19%) DWDM
3 1 (0.19%) Firewall
3 1 (0.19%) Network Security
3 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (25.79%) Data Warehouse
2 73 (13.54%) Power BI
3 58 (10.76%) Metadata
4 50 (9.28%) SQL Server
5 47 (8.72%) Data Lake
5 47 (8.72%) NoSQL
6 41 (7.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 38 (7.05%) Pentaho
8 27 (5.01%) Relational Database
9 23 (4.27%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 23 (4.27%) Tableau
10 22 (4.08%) Oracle Database
11 20 (3.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (3.34%) Big Data
13 14 (2.60%) Delta Lake
14 12 (2.23%) Data Vault
14 12 (2.23%) MySQL
15 11 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
15 11 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 78 (14.47%) Git
2 48 (8.91%) JIRA
3 46 (8.53%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.93%) ERwin
5 4 (0.74%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.56%) GitLab
6 3 (0.56%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.37%) git-flow
7 2 (0.37%) MLflow
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.19%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.19%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.19%) Mocha
8 1 (0.19%) RStudio
8 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.19%) Terragrunt
General
1 211 (39.15%) Social Skills
2 163 (30.24%) Finance
3 115 (21.34%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (11.50%) Public Sector
5 50 (9.28%) Banking
6 20 (3.71%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.60%) Marketing
7 14 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (2.23%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.23%) Retail
9 11 (2.04%) Front Office
9 11 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.86%) Back Office
11 9 (1.67%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.30%) Retail Banking
14 6 (1.11%) Legal
15 5 (0.93%) General Ledger
15 5 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 129 (23.93%) Data Engineer
2 110 (20.41%) Architect
3 73 (13.54%) Developer
4 48 (8.91%) Data Architect
5 47 (8.72%) Senior
6 43 (7.98%) Consultant
7 42 (7.79%) Analyst
7 42 (7.79%) Solutions Architect
8 38 (7.05%) Lead
9 34 (6.31%) Azure Engineer
10 31 (5.75%) Azure Data Engineer
11 25 (4.64%) Business Analyst
12 17 (3.15%) Integration Architect
12 17 (3.15%) Release Manager
13 16 (2.97%) Senior Data Engineer
14 15 (2.78%) Azure Architect
14 15 (2.78%) Integration Engineer
15 14 (2.60%) Project Manager
16 13 (2.41%) Data Analyst
17 12 (2.23%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.46%) REST
2 34 (6.31%) PySpark
3 31 (5.75%) Kafka
4 20 (3.71%) JSON
5 19 (3.53%) Middleware
5 19 (3.53%) RESTful
6 16 (2.97%) .NET
6 16 (2.97%) Node.js
6 16 (2.97%) SOAP
6 16 (2.97%) XML
7 14 (2.60%) Oracle Fusion
7 14 (2.60%) React
8 11 (2.04%) AngularJS
8 11 (2.04%) YAML
9 8 (1.48%) HTML
10 7 (1.30%) Django
10 7 (1.30%) EDI
10 7 (1.30%) Flask
10 7 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (1.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.12%) Data Structures
2 23 (4.27%) Cloud Native
3 20 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
4 18 (3.34%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (1.86%) NHS
8 9 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.67%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.48%) Data Fabric
9 8 (1.48%) Reference Data
9 8 (1.48%) Taxonomies
10 7 (1.30%) IoT
11 6 (1.11%) Credit Risk
11 6 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.11%) Reinsurance
12 5 (0.93%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.74%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.48%) Linux
2 6 (1.11%) Unix
3 5 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (44.71%) Data Modelling
2 200 (37.11%) Agile
3 188 (34.88%) Analytics
4 186 (34.51%) ETL
5 169 (31.35%) Problem-Solving
6 159 (29.50%) Data Pipeline
7 132 (24.49%) Business Intelligence
8 131 (24.30%) Data Governance
9 130 (24.12%) DevOps
10 117 (21.71%) CI/CD
11 99 (18.37%) Data Architecture
12 98 (18.18%) Data Engineering
13 84 (15.58%) Validation
14 82 (15.21%) Migration
15 81 (15.03%) Stakeholder Management
16 76 (14.10%) Integration Patterns
17 75 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
18 65 (12.06%) Scrum
19 62 (11.50%) AI
20 60 (11.13%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 256 (47.50%) SQL
2 137 (25.42%) Python
3 28 (5.19%) C#
3 28 (5.19%) JavaScript
3 28 (5.19%) Scala
4 26 (4.82%) Java
5 17 (3.15%) TypeScript
6 13 (2.41%) PL/SQL
7 12 (2.23%) Shell Script
8 10 (1.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (1.48%) Groovy
10 7 (1.30%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.30%) VB
11 6 (1.11%) Bicep
11 6 (1.11%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.93%) Bash
12 5 (0.93%) R
13 4 (0.74%) ABAP
14 3 (0.56%) Korn
15 2 (0.37%) IronPython
Qualifications
1 144 (26.72%) Security Cleared
2 126 (23.38%) SC Cleared
3 42 (7.79%) Degree
4 30 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.08%) Azure Certification
6 21 (3.90%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.48%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.11%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.93%) PMP
11 4 (0.74%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.19%) CISSP
12 1 (0.19%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.19%) MBA
12 1 (0.19%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.19%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (28.94%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.94%) GDPR
3 24 (4.45%) QA
4 9 (1.67%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.11%) HL7
6 5 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.56%) GMP
7 3 (0.56%) NCSC
7 3 (0.56%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.37%) FATCA
8 2 (0.37%) GRC
8 2 (0.37%) IFRS
8 2 (0.37%) SLA
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.19%) NIST
9 1 (0.19%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (11.13%) Docker
2 4 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 30 (5.57%) Terraform
3 3 (0.56%) Kibana
4 2 (0.37%) Ansible
4 2 (0.37%) Control-M
4 2 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (0.37%) logstash
4 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.19%) SCCM
5 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 96 (17.81%) Oracle
2 85 (15.77%) Microsoft
3 84 (15.58%) Databricks
4 52 (9.65%) SAP
5 48 (8.91%) Talend
6 37 (6.86%) Informatica
7 30 (5.57%) Denodo
8 15 (2.78%) Salesforce
9 12 (2.23%) Google
9 12 (2.23%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.86%) Adobe
11 9 (1.67%) Software AG
11 9 (1.67%) Workday
12 8 (1.48%) IBM
12 8 (1.48%) MuleSoft
13 6 (1.11%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.93%) Cloudera
14 5 (0.93%) Sitecore
15 4 (0.74%) OpenAI
15 4 (0.74%) Sage