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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 165 187
Rank change year-on-year -12 +22 +68
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 617 404 453
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.49% 1.70% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.86% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 284 335
10th Percentile £400 £366 £385
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £716
90th Percentile £773 £734 £813
UK median daily rate £535 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -
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 35,194 21,730 31,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.29% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,373 14,199 20,591
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,179 923 2,284
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.22 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.99
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.11
90th Percentile £81.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
% change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -32 293 £575 +4.55% 112
Midlands +19 156 £469 -5.25% 29
West Midlands +22 143 £469 -5.25% 21
North of England -41 64 £500 -8.26% 31
South East -56 48 £563 +6.64% 25
North West -23 37 £500 -8.26% 18
South West -26 22 £525 +10.53% 18
Yorkshire -42 20 £538 +4.88% 7
East of England -29 17 £588 +6.82% 4
East Midlands -27 13 £444 -10.94% 8
North East -17 7 £625 - 6
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 54 (8.75%) SAS
2 32 (5.19%) Apache Spark
3 24 (3.89%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.27%) Confluence
5 10 (1.62%) Apache
6 6 (0.97%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.97%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.81%) Camunda
8 2 (0.32%) CMS
8 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.32%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.16%) Appian
9 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.16%) Mendix
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.49%) Navisworks
3 3 (0.49%) Revit
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.97%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (0.81%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.65%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.65%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.49%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.49%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.49%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (0.49%) SAP Retail
6 3 (0.49%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.32%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.32%) SAP MDM
7 2 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 247 (40.03%) Azure
2 138 (22.37%) AWS
3 94 (15.24%) Power Platform
4 76 (12.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 50 (8.10%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (8.10%) GCP
6 46 (7.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 36 (5.83%) Snowflake
8 34 (5.51%) Serverless
9 33 (5.35%) SaaS
10 32 (5.19%) GitHub
11 20 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (2.92%) Amazon S3
13 17 (2.76%) Power Automate
14 16 (2.59%) dbt
15 15 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (2.43%) PowerApps
16 12 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (1.94%) iPaaS
16 12 (1.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.30%) FTP
2 6 (0.97%) SMS
3 3 (0.49%) Firewall
3 3 (0.49%) MQTT
3 3 (0.49%) VPN
4 1 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (17.83%) Data Warehouse
2 87 (14.10%) Power BI
3 75 (12.16%) SQL Server
4 61 (9.89%) Metadata
5 49 (7.94%) Data Lake
6 48 (7.78%) Pentaho
7 36 (5.83%) NoSQL
8 35 (5.67%) Tableau
9 34 (5.51%) Relational Database
10 28 (4.54%) Azure SQL Database
11 22 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
11 22 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 21 (3.40%) Oracle Database
13 17 (2.76%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 16 (2.59%) Big Data
14 16 (2.59%) Delta Lake
14 16 (2.59%) MySQL
15 15 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (2.11%) DataStage
17 11 (1.78%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 58 (9.40%) Git
2 40 (6.48%) JIRA
3 30 (4.86%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.94%) ERwin
4 12 (1.94%) GitLab
5 5 (0.81%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (0.65%) Artifactory
6 4 (0.65%) Postman
6 4 (0.65%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.49%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.32%) git-flow
8 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.16%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.16%) MLflow
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.16%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.16%) RStudio
9 1 (0.16%) Terragrunt
General
1 190 (30.79%) Social Skills
2 161 (26.09%) Finance
3 124 (20.10%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (13.94%) Public Sector
5 54 (8.75%) Banking
6 22 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (3.57%) Marketing
7 16 (2.59%) Retail
8 14 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (2.11%) Financial Institution
9 13 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.78%) Legal
11 8 (1.30%) Retail Banking
12 7 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.13%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.97%) Front Office
14 5 (0.81%) General Ledger
14 5 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.81%) Publishing
15 4 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 168 (27.23%) Data Engineer
2 141 (22.85%) Architect
3 88 (14.26%) Developer
4 65 (10.53%) Senior
5 61 (9.89%) Solutions Architect
6 59 (9.56%) Data Architect
7 45 (7.29%) Analyst
8 43 (6.97%) Lead
9 33 (5.35%) Consultant
10 25 (4.05%) Senior Data Engineer
11 24 (3.89%) Business Analyst
12 23 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
13 22 (3.57%) Azure Data Engineer
14 21 (3.40%) Integration Architect
15 19 (3.08%) Data Analyst
15 19 (3.08%) Integration Engineer
16 17 (2.76%) Project Manager
17 15 (2.43%) Full-Stack Developer
17 15 (2.43%) Senior Developer
18 14 (2.27%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (8.27%) REST
2 34 (5.51%) Kafka
3 33 (5.35%) PySpark
4 29 (4.70%) JSON
5 28 (4.54%) Middleware
6 25 (4.05%) React
7 24 (3.89%) .NET
7 24 (3.89%) Node.js
8 20 (3.24%) RESTful
9 19 (3.08%) YAML
10 18 (2.92%) XML
11 16 (2.59%) AngularJS
12 14 (2.27%) Django
12 14 (2.27%) Flask
13 11 (1.78%) SOAP
14 9 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
14 9 (1.46%) Pandas
15 8 (1.30%) .NET Core
15 8 (1.30%) HTML
16 7 (1.13%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.29%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.16%) Legacy Systems
3 31 (5.02%) Data Structures
4 26 (4.21%) Product Ownership
5 22 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.59%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (2.11%) Reference Data
9 11 (1.78%) NHS
10 8 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.30%) Mainframe
11 7 (1.13%) Data Fabric
11 7 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (0.97%) Credit Risk
12 6 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.97%) Life Science
12 6 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
13 5 (0.81%) Market Risk
13 5 (0.81%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.43%) Unix
2 4 (0.65%) Windows
3 3 (0.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (42.14%) Data Modelling
2 220 (35.66%) Analytics
3 217 (35.17%) ETL
4 187 (30.31%) Agile
5 181 (29.34%) Data Pipeline
6 146 (23.66%) DevOps
6 146 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
7 140 (22.69%) CI/CD
8 139 (22.53%) Business Intelligence
9 122 (19.77%) Data Governance
10 112 (18.15%) Data Engineering
10 112 (18.15%) Migration
11 105 (17.02%) Integration Patterns
12 101 (16.37%) Data Architecture
13 96 (15.56%) Validation
14 86 (13.94%) AI
15 84 (13.61%) Stakeholder Management
16 76 (12.32%) Decision-Making
17 72 (11.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 68 (11.02%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 290 (47.00%) SQL
2 145 (23.50%) Python
3 37 (6.00%) Java
4 29 (4.70%) C#
5 26 (4.21%) JavaScript
5 26 (4.21%) PL/SQL
6 21 (3.40%) Scala
7 18 (2.92%) TypeScript
8 13 (2.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (1.94%) Bash
9 12 (1.94%) T-SQL
10 9 (1.46%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.13%) Bicep
12 5 (0.81%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.65%) R
14 3 (0.49%) ABAP
14 3 (0.49%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.49%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.32%) Groovy
16 1 (0.16%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 162 (26.26%) Security Cleared
2 133 (21.56%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.32%) Degree
4 27 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.40%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (1.30%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.13%) DBS Check
10 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.81%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.32%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.32%) PMP
12 2 (0.32%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.32%) SAS Certification
13 1 (0.16%) MBA
13 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (25.45%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.35%) GDPR
3 20 (3.24%) QA
4 7 (1.13%) SLA
4 7 (1.13%) Solvency II
5 6 (0.97%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.81%) GRC
6 5 (0.81%) HL7
6 5 (0.81%) IFRS
7 4 (0.65%) IFRS 17
7 4 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.49%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.49%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.32%) FATCA
9 2 (0.32%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.16%) Basel III
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) MiFID
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (7.46%) Docker
2 8 (1.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (7.29%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.21%) Terraform
3 9 (1.46%) Grafana
4 4 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.32%) Ansible
5 2 (0.32%) Control-M
5 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.16%) Argo
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 118 (19.12%) Oracle
2 101 (16.37%) Databricks
3 93 (15.07%) Microsoft
4 61 (9.89%) SAP
5 58 (9.40%) Talend
6 50 (8.10%) Informatica
7 31 (5.02%) Denodo
8 25 (4.05%) Salesforce
9 13 (2.11%) Google
10 12 (1.94%) MuleSoft
10 12 (1.94%) NEC
11 11 (1.78%) Cloudera
12 8 (1.30%) Adobe
12 8 (1.30%) ServiceNow
13 7 (1.13%) Alteryx
13 7 (1.13%) Software AG
13 7 (1.13%) Teradata
14 5 (0.81%) IBM
14 5 (0.81%) SnapLogic
14 5 (0.81%) Workday