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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 166 206
Rank change year-on-year -1 +40 +83
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 540 419 432
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.57% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 1.76% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 279 300
10th Percentile £380 £373 £381
25th Percentile £463 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £25.26 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £27.13 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.76% -42.89% +33.80%
75th Percentile £57.50 £29.75 £50.00
90th Percentile - £45.38 £62.32
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £27.13 £47.50
% change year-on-year +102.76% -42.89% +33.80%

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 28,450 23,808 32,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.12% 89.33% 87.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,222 14,593 21,730
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £409 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,765 770 1,701
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -8.27% +9.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.01 £63.29
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -13.33% +17.19%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 21 January 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 +7 297 £575 +4.55% 74
Midlands -3 97 £525 +5.00% 28
West Midlands +8 92 £525 +2.44% 15
South East +10 49 £444 -6.58% 68
North of England -58 45 £500 -10.95% 33
North West -25 30 £455 +10.24% 16
South West -16 18 £675 +38.46% 23
East of England -9 16 £503 -4.29% 17
Yorkshire -63 13 £510 -10.53% 13
East Midlands -28 5 £447 +20.00% 13
North East -17 2 £525 -8.70% 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 72 (13.33%) SAS
2 45 (8.33%) Apache Spark
3 28 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.41%) Apache
5 11 (2.04%) CMS
6 7 (1.30%) Confluence
6 7 (1.30%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (1.11%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.74%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.56%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.37%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.19%) Luigi
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (0.93%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (1.11%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.74%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.56%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.56%) Maximo
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.56%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.56%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.56%) SAP Retail
6 2 (0.37%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.37%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.37%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.37%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 199 (36.85%) Azure
2 93 (17.22%) AWS
3 78 (14.44%) Power Platform
4 72 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 39 (7.22%) GCP
6 37 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 34 (6.30%) Snowflake
9 31 (5.74%) SaaS
10 22 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (3.15%) dbt
11 17 (3.15%) Serverless
12 16 (2.96%) PaaS
13 14 (2.59%) Power Automate
14 13 (2.41%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (2.22%) GitHub
15 12 (2.22%) PowerApps
16 11 (2.04%) Azure AKS
17 10 (1.85%) OCI
18 9 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.37%) 2G
1 2 (0.37%) 5G
1 2 (0.37%) FTP
1 2 (0.37%) Hyperconnected
1 2 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (0.37%) SMS
2 1 (0.19%) 4G
2 1 (0.19%) DWDM
2 1 (0.19%) Firewall
2 1 (0.19%) Network Security
2 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (25.19%) Data Warehouse
2 73 (13.52%) Power BI
3 49 (9.07%) Metadata
4 47 (8.70%) SQL Server
5 42 (7.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 39 (7.22%) Data Lake
6 39 (7.22%) NoSQL
7 38 (7.04%) Pentaho
8 33 (6.11%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 26 (4.81%) Oracle Database
10 24 (4.44%) Relational Database
10 24 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 23 (4.26%) Tableau
12 17 (3.15%) Big Data
13 15 (2.78%) Delta Lake
14 14 (2.59%) Data Vault
15 12 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
15 12 (2.22%) SAS Visual Analytics
16 10 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 76 (14.07%) Git
2 59 (10.93%) JIRA
3 50 (9.26%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.30%) GitLab
5 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.56%) ERwin
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%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.37%) TestRail
8 1 (0.19%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.19%) Mocha
8 1 (0.19%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.19%) Terragrunt
General
1 222 (41.11%) Social Skills
2 169 (31.30%) Finance
3 111 (20.56%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (10.74%) Public Sector
5 47 (8.70%) Banking
6 21 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.59%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.59%) Marketing
8 13 (2.41%) Front Office
8 13 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.22%) Back Office
10 11 (2.04%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.04%) Retail
10 11 (2.04%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.48%) Legal
12 6 (1.11%) General Ledger
12 6 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 114 (21.11%) Data Engineer
2 92 (17.04%) Architect
3 77 (14.26%) Developer
4 49 (9.07%) Analyst
5 46 (8.52%) Consultant
6 42 (7.78%) Lead
7 39 (7.22%) Solutions Architect
8 37 (6.85%) Data Architect
9 36 (6.67%) Senior
10 33 (6.11%) Azure Engineer
11 30 (5.56%) Azure Data Engineer
12 28 (5.19%) Business Analyst
13 23 (4.26%) Release Manager
14 16 (2.96%) Integration Architect
14 16 (2.96%) Project Manager
15 14 (2.59%) Integration Engineer
16 13 (2.41%) Senior Data Engineer
17 12 (2.22%) Azure Architect
17 12 (2.22%) Data Integration Engineer
17 12 (2.22%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (8.89%) REST
2 38 (7.04%) PySpark
3 29 (5.37%) Kafka
4 20 (3.70%) JSON
5 17 (3.15%) Middleware
5 17 (3.15%) XML
6 16 (2.96%) Oracle Fusion
6 16 (2.96%) SOAP
7 15 (2.78%) RESTful
8 13 (2.41%) .NET
9 10 (1.85%) Node.js
10 9 (1.67%) EDI
10 9 (1.67%) HTML
10 9 (1.67%) React
11 8 (1.48%) AngularJS
12 7 (1.30%) FHIR
13 6 (1.11%) CSS
13 6 (1.11%) OAuth
13 6 (1.11%) XSLT
14 5 (0.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 26 (4.81%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (3.15%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.96%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (2.22%) NHS
8 10 (1.85%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.30%) Credit Risk
10 7 (1.30%) Data Fabric
10 7 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.11%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.11%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.11%) Replication
12 5 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.93%) Taxonomies
13 4 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.85%) Linux
2 6 (1.11%) Windows
3 4 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (41.85%) Data Modelling
2 212 (39.26%) Agile
3 183 (33.89%) Analytics
4 180 (33.33%) ETL
5 174 (32.22%) Problem-Solving
6 155 (28.70%) Data Pipeline
7 133 (24.63%) Business Intelligence
8 131 (24.26%) Data Governance
9 130 (24.07%) DevOps
10 120 (22.22%) CI/CD
11 89 (16.48%) Data Engineering
12 88 (16.30%) Validation
13 87 (16.11%) Data Architecture
14 86 (15.93%) Migration
15 78 (14.44%) Stakeholder Management
16 77 (14.26%) Scrum
17 72 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
18 71 (13.15%) Integration Patterns
19 60 (11.11%) Decision-Making
20 53 (9.81%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 259 (47.96%) SQL
2 137 (25.37%) Python
3 30 (5.56%) Java
3 30 (5.56%) Scala
4 25 (4.63%) C#
4 25 (4.63%) JavaScript
5 20 (3.70%) VB
6 18 (3.33%) TypeScript
7 16 (2.96%) PL/SQL
8 10 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (1.67%) Groovy
9 9 (1.67%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.30%) R
10 7 (1.30%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.11%) Bicep
11 6 (1.11%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.56%) Korn
13 2 (0.37%) Go
13 2 (0.37%) IronPython
13 2 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 142 (26.30%) Security Cleared
2 122 (22.59%) SC Cleared
3 46 (8.52%) Degree
4 33 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (4.44%) Azure Certification
6 19 (3.52%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.30%) PMP
9 6 (1.11%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.11%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.11%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.37%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.19%) CISSP
12 1 (0.19%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.19%) MBA
12 1 (0.19%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.19%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.19%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (27.96%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.81%) GDPR
3 24 (4.44%) QA
4 7 (1.30%) HIPAA
4 7 (1.30%) HL7
5 6 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.56%) GMP
6 3 (0.56%) IFRS
6 3 (0.56%) PMO
6 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.37%) GAAP
7 2 (0.37%) NCSC
8 1 (0.19%) Basel III
8 1 (0.19%) DICOM
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.19%) MiFID
8 1 (0.19%) NIST
8 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (12.22%) Docker
2 3 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.81%) Terraform
3 6 (1.11%) Kibana
4 4 (0.74%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.74%) logstash
5 3 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.37%) Ansible
6 2 (0.37%) Control-M
7 1 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.19%) Grafana
7 1 (0.19%) Puppet
7 1 (0.19%) SCCM
7 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 106 (19.63%) Oracle
2 98 (18.15%) Microsoft
3 81 (15.00%) Databricks
4 46 (8.52%) SAP
5 42 (7.78%) Talend
6 36 (6.67%) Denodo
7 28 (5.19%) Informatica
8 16 (2.96%) Google
9 14 (2.59%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.85%) Adobe
10 10 (1.85%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.67%) Software AG
11 9 (1.67%) Workday
12 8 (1.48%) IBM
13 6 (1.11%) Alteryx
14 4 (0.74%) Brio
14 4 (0.74%) Cognos
14 4 (0.74%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.74%) Solace
14 4 (0.74%) TIBCO