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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 196 223
Rank change year-on-year +25 +27 +91
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 455 424 460
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.64% 1.29% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 1.50% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 280 340
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £655 £673
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 6
10th Percentile - - £48.13
25th Percentile £52.50 - £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -47.83% +25.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £70.25
90th Percentile - - £84.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +83.33% -53.85% +41.30%

All Process and 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 25,260 28,349 37,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.90% 86.08% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,060 17,666 25,846
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £405 £420 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,499 1,306 1,419
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +48.28%

Data Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Integration 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +35 259 £575 -0.43% 165
Midlands +6 62 £519 -1.24% 23
South East +52 55 £538 -6.52% 114
West Midlands +5 48 £519 -7.52% 15
North of England -75 35 £500 - 26
North West -28 24 £500 +14.29% 16
East of England +6 17 £503 -4.29% 13
South West +28 15 £400 -14.67% 18
East Midlands +6 13 £410 -8.89% 8
Yorkshire -54 10 £475 -6.31% 9
North East -10 1 £550 +52.78% 1
Data Integration
UK

Data Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 35 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (6.59%) SAS
3 22 (4.84%) Apache Spark
4 14 (3.08%) Apache
5 11 (2.42%) Confluence
6 8 (1.76%) SharePoint
7 6 (1.32%) Jupyter
8 5 (1.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.66%) Luigi
11 2 (0.44%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.44%) Camunda
12 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.22%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.88%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.44%) Sketch
6 1 (0.22%) CANalyzer
6 1 (0.22%) Maple
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.32%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.88%) Maximo
5 3 (0.66%) Endur
5 3 (0.66%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.66%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.66%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.44%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.44%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.44%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.44%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.44%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.22%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 160 (35.16%) Azure
2 97 (21.32%) AWS
3 77 (16.92%) GCP
4 75 (16.48%) Power Platform
5 50 (10.99%) Azure Data Factory
6 47 (10.33%) Snowflake
7 34 (7.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 29 (6.37%) Serverless
9 21 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (4.40%) Azure Logic Apps
10 20 (4.40%) SaaS
11 17 (3.74%) dbt
11 17 (3.74%) PaaS
12 16 (3.52%) Amazon S3
12 16 (3.52%) Power Automate
13 13 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.86%) Azure Functions
14 12 (2.64%) Dynamics 365
14 12 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (2.42%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.66%) Firewall
1 3 (0.66%) HTTP
2 2 (0.44%) VPN
3 1 (0.22%) 5G
3 1 (0.22%) Broadband
3 1 (0.22%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (0.22%) FTP
3 1 (0.22%) Internet
3 1 (0.22%) J1939
3 1 (0.22%) MPLS
3 1 (0.22%) Network Security
3 1 (0.22%) VoIP
3 1 (0.22%) VoLTE
3 1 (0.22%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (21.98%) Data Warehouse
2 73 (16.04%) Power BI
3 49 (10.77%) Data Lake
4 43 (9.45%) SQL Server
5 37 (8.13%) BigQuery
6 31 (6.81%) Metadata
7 30 (6.59%) Tableau
8 29 (6.37%) Big Data
9 24 (5.27%) NoSQL
10 23 (5.05%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (4.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 19 (4.18%) Pentaho
13 17 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (3.74%) Oracle Database
13 17 (3.74%) Relational Database
14 14 (3.08%) Looker
15 13 (2.86%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 13 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
16 12 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
17 10 (2.20%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 42 (9.23%) JIRA
2 30 (6.59%) Git
3 29 (6.37%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.64%) GitLab
5 5 (1.10%) ERwin
6 4 (0.88%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.66%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.44%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.44%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.44%) PROIV
8 2 (0.44%) TestRail
8 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.22%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.22%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.22%) Terragrunt
General
1 153 (33.63%) Social Skills
2 116 (25.49%) Finance
3 72 (15.82%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.47%) Public Sector
5 27 (5.93%) Banking
6 17 (3.74%) Retail
7 16 (3.52%) Marketing
8 13 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 13 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.20%) Front Office
9 10 (2.20%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.54%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.54%) Legal
11 6 (1.32%) Back Office
11 6 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.32%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.10%) General Ledger
12 5 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 91 (20.00%) Architect
2 70 (15.38%) Data Engineer
3 68 (14.95%) Developer
4 56 (12.31%) Analyst
5 42 (9.23%) Data Architect
6 33 (7.25%) Consultant
7 32 (7.03%) Solutions Architect
8 29 (6.37%) Lead
9 28 (6.15%) Senior
10 19 (4.18%) Data Analyst
11 16 (3.52%) Azure Engineer
12 14 (3.08%) Business Analyst
13 13 (2.86%) Project Manager
14 12 (2.64%) Azure Data Engineer
15 10 (2.20%) Azure Architect
15 10 (2.20%) Systems Analyst
16 9 (1.98%) AWS Engineer
16 9 (1.98%) Azure Developer
16 9 (1.98%) Integration Engineer
17 8 (1.76%) Integration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.13%) Kafka
2 23 (5.05%) REST
3 13 (2.86%) .NET
3 13 (2.86%) PySpark
3 13 (2.86%) XML
4 11 (2.42%) Web Services
5 10 (2.20%) HTML
5 10 (2.20%) SOAP
6 9 (1.98%) JSON
7 8 (1.76%) Middleware
7 8 (1.76%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (1.54%) React
9 6 (1.32%) FHIR
9 6 (1.32%) Hugging Face
10 5 (1.10%) CSS
10 5 (1.10%) RESTful
11 4 (0.88%) .NET Framework
11 4 (0.88%) Node.js
11 4 (0.88%) Pandas
11 4 (0.88%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.15%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.49%) Data Structures
3 20 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (3.30%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.08%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (1.98%) NHS
8 9 (1.98%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.76%) IoT
9 8 (1.76%) Replication
10 6 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.32%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.10%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.10%) SCADA
12 4 (0.88%) Credit Risk
12 4 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.20%) Linux
2 3 (0.66%) Windows
3 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (40.00%) ETL
2 181 (39.78%) Data Modelling
3 162 (35.60%) Analytics
4 128 (28.13%) Agile
5 120 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
6 112 (24.62%) Business Intelligence
6 112 (24.62%) Data Governance
6 112 (24.62%) Data Pipeline
7 84 (18.46%) CI/CD
7 84 (18.46%) DevOps
8 79 (17.36%) Migration
9 78 (17.14%) Data Engineering
10 64 (14.07%) Data Architecture
11 63 (13.85%) Visualisation
12 61 (13.41%) Data Management
12 61 (13.41%) Scrum
12 61 (13.41%) Stakeholder Management
13 54 (11.87%) Artificial Intelligence
14 53 (11.65%) Decision-Making
15 47 (10.33%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 219 (48.13%) SQL
2 129 (28.35%) Python
3 39 (8.57%) Java
4 21 (4.62%) C#
4 21 (4.62%) VB
5 18 (3.96%) JavaScript
6 15 (3.30%) T-SQL
7 14 (3.08%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.86%) R
9 12 (2.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (1.98%) Bash
11 8 (1.76%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.76%) Scala
12 5 (1.10%) Bicep
12 5 (1.10%) Korn
12 5 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (1.10%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.88%) Go
13 4 (0.88%) VBA
14 3 (0.66%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 64 (14.07%) Security Cleared
2 51 (11.21%) Degree
3 47 (10.33%) SC Cleared
4 27 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.74%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.76%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.54%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.54%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.54%) PMP
8 5 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.66%) MCSE
10 3 (0.66%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.44%) GCIA
11 2 (0.44%) GCIH
11 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (21.10%) Data Quality
2 30 (6.59%) GDPR
3 11 (2.42%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.98%) QA
5 6 (1.32%) HL7
6 4 (0.88%) GAAP
6 4 (0.88%) IFRS
6 4 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.88%) PMO
7 3 (0.66%) EMIR
7 3 (0.66%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.66%) IFRS 9
7 3 (0.66%) MiFID
8 2 (0.44%) DICOM
8 2 (0.44%) GMP
8 2 (0.44%) NCSC
8 2 (0.44%) Section 508
8 2 (0.44%) WCAG
9 1 (0.22%) GRC
9 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 48 (10.55%) Docker
2 4 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) NFS
Systems Management
1 47 (10.33%) Kubernetes
2 25 (5.49%) Terraform
3 6 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.10%) Kibana
5 3 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (0.66%) logstash
6 2 (0.44%) Control-M
6 2 (0.44%) Grafana
6 2 (0.44%) HP Data Protector
6 2 (0.44%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.22%) Ansible
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.22%) Podman
7 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 98 (21.54%) Microsoft
2 67 (14.73%) Oracle
3 57 (12.53%) Google
4 50 (10.99%) Databricks
5 40 (8.79%) SAP
6 24 (5.27%) Talend
7 21 (4.62%) Informatica
8 20 (4.40%) Salesforce
9 18 (3.96%) Denodo
10 14 (3.08%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.76%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.54%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.32%) Palantir
14 5 (1.10%) Adobe
14 5 (1.10%) StreamSets
15 4 (0.88%) Teradata
16 3 (0.66%) Ab Initio
16 3 (0.66%) ESRI
16 3 (0.66%) IBM
16 3 (0.66%) TOWER Software