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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 164 203
Rank change year-on-year -11 +39 +90
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 542 433 446
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 1.65% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.84% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 287 306
10th Percentile £382 £372 £378
25th Percentile £463 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £759 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 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% +72.73%
75th Percentile £57.50 £52.81 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.91 £69.13 £62.32
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £27.13 £47.50
% change year-on-year +102.76% -42.89% +72.73%

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 29,288 23,559 32,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.67% 89.65% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,737 14,462 22,056
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £640 £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 1,829 754 1,953
10th Percentile £15.16 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.01 £16.66
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% - +1.21%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -1 294 £575 +4.55% 77
Midlands -8 100 £519 -1.10% 27
West Midlands +1 91 £523 -0.48% 17
South East +9 50 £475 -9.52% 55
North of England -64 45 £500 -10.95% 32
North West -24 27 £451 +6.12% 24
South West -22 20 £650 +40.54% 22
East of England -11 16 £490 -6.67% 12
Yorkshire -61 15 £550 -3.00% 4
East Midlands -18 9 £447 +20.00% 10
North East -14 3 £525 -18.92% 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 67 (12.36%) SAS
2 45 (8.30%) Apache Spark
3 27 (4.98%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.40%) Apache
5 11 (2.03%) CMS
6 6 (1.11%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.92%) Confluence
8 4 (0.74%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.74%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.55%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.18%) Camunda
11 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (2.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (1.11%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.74%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.55%) Maximo
5 3 (0.55%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.55%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.55%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.55%) SAP Retail
6 2 (0.37%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.37%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.37%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.37%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.37%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.37%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 206 (38.01%) Azure
2 101 (18.63%) AWS
3 74 (13.65%) Power Platform
4 73 (13.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 46 (8.49%) GCP
6 39 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (6.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 35 (6.46%) SaaS
8 30 (5.54%) Snowflake
9 22 (4.06%) Dynamics 365
10 17 (3.14%) dbt
11 16 (2.95%) Serverless
12 14 (2.58%) PaaS
13 13 (2.40%) Power Automate
14 12 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (2.21%) GitHub
15 11 (2.03%) Azure AKS
15 11 (2.03%) PowerApps
16 10 (1.85%) OCI
17 9 (1.66%) Azure Functions
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 (0.18%) 4G
2 1 (0.18%) DWDM
2 1 (0.18%) Firewall
2 1 (0.18%) Network Security
2 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (25.09%) Data Warehouse
2 68 (12.55%) Power BI
3 51 (9.41%) Metadata
4 49 (9.04%) SQL Server
5 44 (8.12%) Data Lake
6 41 (7.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 40 (7.38%) NoSQL
8 35 (6.46%) Pentaho
9 31 (5.72%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 27 (4.98%) Oracle Database
10 27 (4.98%) Relational Database
11 22 (4.06%) Tableau
12 21 (3.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (2.95%) Big Data
14 15 (2.77%) Delta Lake
15 14 (2.58%) Data Vault
16 12 (2.21%) MySQL
16 12 (2.21%) Oracle Reports
17 10 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
17 10 (1.85%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 73 (13.47%) Git
2 54 (9.96%) JIRA
3 47 (8.67%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.11%) GitLab
5 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.37%) ERwin
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 (0.18%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.18%) Mocha
8 1 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.18%) Terragrunt
General
1 220 (40.59%) Social Skills
2 169 (31.18%) Finance
3 110 (20.30%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (11.44%) Public Sector
5 47 (8.67%) Banking
6 21 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.40%) Marketing
9 12 (2.21%) Back Office
9 12 (2.21%) Financial Institution
9 12 (2.21%) Front Office
9 12 (2.21%) Retail
10 10 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.85%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.48%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.11%) General Ledger
12 6 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.11%) Legal
12 6 (1.11%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.74%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 112 (20.66%) Data Engineer
2 102 (18.82%) Architect
3 80 (14.76%) Developer
4 48 (8.86%) Analyst
5 43 (7.93%) Consultant
6 42 (7.75%) Data Architect
6 42 (7.75%) Solutions Architect
7 41 (7.56%) Senior
8 39 (7.20%) Lead
9 33 (6.09%) Azure Engineer
10 30 (5.54%) Azure Data Engineer
11 28 (5.17%) Business Analyst
12 22 (4.06%) Release Manager
13 16 (2.95%) Integration Architect
14 14 (2.58%) Azure Architect
14 14 (2.58%) Integration Engineer
14 14 (2.58%) Senior Data Engineer
15 12 (2.21%) Data Analyst
15 12 (2.21%) Data Integration Engineer
15 12 (2.21%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (9.04%) REST
2 35 (6.46%) PySpark
3 28 (5.17%) Kafka
4 23 (4.24%) JSON
5 20 (3.69%) XML
6 17 (3.14%) Middleware
6 17 (3.14%) SOAP
7 16 (2.95%) Oracle Fusion
7 16 (2.95%) RESTful
8 13 (2.40%) .NET
9 11 (2.03%) Node.js
10 10 (1.85%) React
11 9 (1.66%) AngularJS
11 9 (1.66%) EDI
12 8 (1.48%) HTML
13 7 (1.29%) FHIR
13 7 (1.29%) Web Services
14 6 (1.11%) CSS
14 6 (1.11%) OAuth
14 6 (1.11%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.54%) Data Structures
2 26 (4.80%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (3.14%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.95%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.21%) NHS
7 11 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.03%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.29%) Data Fabric
8 7 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.11%) Credit Risk
9 6 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.11%) IoT
9 6 (1.11%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.11%) Reinsurance
9 6 (1.11%) Replication
10 5 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.92%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.85%) Linux
2 6 (1.11%) Unix
2 6 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (41.33%) Data Modelling
2 210 (38.75%) Agile
3 180 (33.21%) Analytics
4 177 (32.66%) ETL
5 170 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
6 153 (28.23%) Data Pipeline
7 127 (23.43%) Data Governance
8 126 (23.25%) DevOps
9 124 (22.88%) Business Intelligence
10 116 (21.40%) CI/CD
11 92 (16.97%) Data Architecture
11 92 (16.97%) Data Engineering
12 88 (16.24%) Migration
13 86 (15.87%) Validation
14 77 (14.21%) Integration Patterns
14 77 (14.21%) Stakeholder Management
15 75 (13.84%) Scrum
16 70 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
17 62 (11.44%) AI
18 58 (10.70%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 257 (47.42%) SQL
2 133 (24.54%) Python
3 30 (5.54%) Java
4 29 (5.35%) Scala
5 26 (4.80%) C#
6 25 (4.61%) JavaScript
7 19 (3.51%) VB
8 18 (3.32%) TypeScript
9 14 (2.58%) PL/SQL
10 12 (2.21%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (1.66%) Groovy
13 7 (1.29%) PowerShell
13 7 (1.29%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.11%) Bicep
14 6 (1.11%) R
15 3 (0.55%) Korn
16 2 (0.37%) ABAP
16 2 (0.37%) Go
16 2 (0.37%) IronPython
Qualifications
1 140 (25.83%) Security Cleared
2 123 (22.69%) SC Cleared
3 45 (8.30%) Degree
4 33 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (4.43%) Azure Certification
6 21 (3.87%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.48%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.11%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.92%) PMP
11 4 (0.74%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.37%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.18%) CISSP
14 1 (0.18%) CTC Cleared
14 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.18%) MBA
14 1 (0.18%) SAP Certification
14 1 (0.18%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (27.86%) Data Quality
2 29 (5.35%) GDPR
3 25 (4.61%) QA
4 9 (1.66%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.29%) HL7
6 6 (1.11%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.55%) IFRS
7 3 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.37%) FATCA
8 2 (0.37%) GAAP
8 2 (0.37%) GMP
8 2 (0.37%) GRC
8 2 (0.37%) NCSC
8 2 (0.37%) PMO
9 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.18%) NIST
9 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 62 (11.44%) Docker
2 4 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (10.52%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.98%) Terraform
3 6 (1.11%) Kibana
4 4 (0.74%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.74%) logstash
5 3 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.37%) Ansible
6 2 (0.37%) Control-M
7 1 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.18%) Grafana
7 1 (0.18%) SCCM
7 1 (0.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 103 (19.00%) Oracle
2 102 (18.82%) Microsoft
3 80 (14.76%) Databricks
4 44 (8.12%) SAP
4 44 (8.12%) Talend
5 33 (6.09%) Denodo
6 30 (5.54%) Informatica
7 17 (3.14%) Salesforce
8 14 (2.58%) Google
9 11 (2.03%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.85%) Adobe
11 9 (1.66%) Software AG
11 9 (1.66%) Workday
12 8 (1.48%) IBM
13 7 (1.29%) MuleSoft
14 6 (1.11%) Alteryx
15 5 (0.92%) Sitecore
16 4 (0.74%) Murex
16 4 (0.74%) Sage
16 4 (0.74%) TIBCO