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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 162 198
Rank change year-on-year -16 +36 +66
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 625 418 439
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.49% 1.73% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.89% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 291 326
10th Percentile £400 £363 £385
25th Percentile £438 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £634 £719
90th Percentile £775 £738 £819
UK median daily rate £537 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile £47.75 - £48.70
25th Percentile £54.00 £72.50 £51.63
Median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +29.31% +183.76%
75th Percentile £85.25 £77.50 £64.13
90th Percentile £86.55 - £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 35,715 22,116 31,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.05% 91.31% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,658 14,376 20,600
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,231 961 2,308
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.48% -23.33% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -23.29% -0.73%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -30 293 £575 +4.55% 43
Midlands +24 161 £469 -0.21% 17
West Midlands +30 148 £469 -3.30% 10
North of England -54 60 £538 +6.65% 19
South East -46 54 £582 +5.83% 28
North West -36 34 £500 -2.82% 9
South West -29 22 £525 +13.51% 10
Yorkshire -47 19 £550 +15.79% 6
East of England -24 17 £588 +6.82% 2
East Midlands -23 13 £444 +6.73% 7
North East -18 7 £625 - 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 55 (8.80%) SAS
2 29 (4.64%) Apache Spark
3 23 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.24%) Confluence
5 10 (1.60%) Apache
6 6 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.80%) Camunda
7 5 (0.80%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.32%) CMS
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%) Jupyter
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 9 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.48%) Navisworks
3 3 (0.48%) Revit
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.96%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (0.80%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.64%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.64%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.48%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.48%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.48%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (0.48%) SAP Retail
6 3 (0.48%) 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
1 251 (40.16%) Azure
2 143 (22.88%) AWS
3 95 (15.20%) Power Platform
4 72 (11.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 52 (8.32%) GCP
6 48 (7.68%) Azure DevOps
7 43 (6.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 38 (6.08%) Snowflake
9 34 (5.44%) Serverless
10 33 (5.28%) SaaS
11 32 (5.12%) GitHub
12 22 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (3.04%) Amazon S3
14 17 (2.72%) dbt
14 17 (2.72%) Power Automate
15 15 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (2.40%) PowerApps
16 12 (1.92%) iPaaS
16 12 (1.92%) PaaS
17 11 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.28%) FTP
2 6 (0.96%) SMS
3 3 (0.48%) Firewall
3 3 (0.48%) MQTT
3 3 (0.48%) VPN
4 1 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (17.60%) Data Warehouse
2 89 (14.24%) Power BI
3 76 (12.16%) SQL Server
4 60 (9.60%) Metadata
5 49 (7.84%) Data Lake
6 48 (7.68%) Pentaho
7 37 (5.92%) Relational Database
7 37 (5.92%) Tableau
8 34 (5.44%) NoSQL
9 26 (4.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 24 (3.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 23 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
12 21 (3.36%) Oracle Database
13 19 (3.04%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 16 (2.56%) Delta Lake
14 16 (2.56%) MySQL
15 15 (2.40%) Big Data
16 14 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (2.08%) DataStage
18 12 (1.92%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 57 (9.12%) Git
2 40 (6.40%) JIRA
3 30 (4.80%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.92%) ERwin
4 12 (1.92%) GitLab
5 5 (0.80%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (0.64%) Artifactory
6 4 (0.64%) Postman
6 4 (0.64%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.48%) 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%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.16%) Terragrunt
General
1 189 (30.24%) Social Skills
2 162 (25.92%) Finance
3 127 (20.32%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (13.92%) Public Sector
5 55 (8.80%) Banking
6 25 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (3.36%) Marketing
8 18 (2.88%) Retail
9 14 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.08%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.76%) Legal
12 8 (1.28%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.96%) Front Office
14 6 (0.96%) General Ledger
14 6 (0.96%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.80%) Publishing
16 4 (0.64%) Law
Job Titles
1 168 (26.88%) Data Engineer
2 151 (24.16%) Architect
3 88 (14.08%) Developer
4 67 (10.72%) Senior
4 67 (10.72%) Solutions Architect
5 61 (9.76%) Data Architect
6 45 (7.20%) Analyst
6 45 (7.20%) Lead
7 34 (5.44%) Consultant
8 27 (4.32%) Senior Data Engineer
9 25 (4.00%) Integration Architect
10 23 (3.68%) Business Analyst
11 20 (3.20%) Integration Engineer
12 19 (3.04%) Azure Data Engineer
12 19 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
12 19 (3.04%) Data Analyst
13 17 (2.72%) Project Manager
14 16 (2.56%) Azure Architect
15 15 (2.40%) Full-Stack Developer
15 15 (2.40%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (8.00%) REST
2 34 (5.44%) Kafka
3 29 (4.64%) JSON
3 29 (4.64%) PySpark
4 28 (4.48%) Middleware
5 25 (4.00%) React
6 24 (3.84%) .NET
6 24 (3.84%) Node.js
7 20 (3.20%) RESTful
8 19 (3.04%) YAML
9 18 (2.88%) XML
10 16 (2.56%) AngularJS
11 14 (2.24%) Django
11 14 (2.24%) Flask
12 11 (1.76%) SOAP
13 10 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
14 9 (1.44%) Pandas
15 8 (1.28%) HTML
16 7 (1.12%) .NET Core
16 7 (1.12%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.36%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.56%) Legacy Systems
3 30 (4.80%) Data Structures
4 27 (4.32%) Product Ownership
5 22 (3.52%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.56%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.24%) Reference Data
8 13 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.60%) NHS
10 9 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.28%) Mainframe
12 7 (1.12%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.12%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.96%) Credit Risk
13 6 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (0.96%) Life Science
13 6 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
14 5 (0.80%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.40%) Unix
2 4 (0.64%) Windows
3 3 (0.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (41.92%) Data Modelling
2 222 (35.52%) Analytics
3 217 (34.72%) ETL
4 189 (30.24%) Agile
5 177 (28.32%) Data Pipeline
6 146 (23.36%) DevOps
7 145 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
8 144 (23.04%) CI/CD
9 140 (22.40%) Business Intelligence
10 116 (18.56%) Data Governance
10 116 (18.56%) Migration
11 112 (17.92%) Data Engineering
12 108 (17.28%) Integration Patterns
13 100 (16.00%) Data Architecture
14 98 (15.68%) Validation
15 88 (14.08%) AI
16 87 (13.92%) Stakeholder Management
17 78 (12.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 77 (12.32%) Decision-Making
19 74 (11.84%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 290 (46.40%) SQL
2 142 (22.72%) Python
3 38 (6.08%) Java
4 29 (4.64%) C#
5 26 (4.16%) JavaScript
5 26 (4.16%) PL/SQL
6 19 (3.04%) TypeScript
7 18 (2.88%) Scala
8 14 (2.24%) T-SQL
9 12 (1.92%) Bash
9 12 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (1.44%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.12%) Bicep
12 5 (0.80%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.64%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.64%) R
14 3 (0.48%) ABAP
14 3 (0.48%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.32%) Groovy
16 1 (0.16%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 164 (26.24%) Security Cleared
2 136 (21.76%) SC Cleared
3 41 (6.56%) Degree
4 28 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.04%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.40%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (1.28%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.28%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.80%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.48%) SAS Certification
13 2 (0.32%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.32%) PMP
13 2 (0.32%) SAP Certification
14 1 (0.16%) MBA
14 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (25.12%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.44%) GDPR
3 20 (3.20%) QA
4 7 (1.12%) SLA
4 7 (1.12%) Solvency II
5 6 (0.96%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.80%) GRC
6 5 (0.80%) IFRS
6 5 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.64%) HL7
7 4 (0.64%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.48%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.32%) FATCA
9 2 (0.32%) GxP
9 2 (0.32%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) GMP
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (6.72%) Docker
2 8 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (7.20%) Kubernetes
2 24 (3.84%) Terraform
3 10 (1.60%) Grafana
4 4 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.32%) Ansible
6 2 (0.32%) Control-M
7 1 (0.16%) Argo
7 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 119 (19.04%) Oracle
2 98 (15.68%) Databricks
3 94 (15.04%) Microsoft
4 64 (10.24%) SAP
5 58 (9.28%) Talend
6 52 (8.32%) Informatica
7 31 (4.96%) Denodo
8 26 (4.16%) Salesforce
9 17 (2.72%) Google
10 13 (2.08%) MuleSoft
11 12 (1.92%) NEC
12 11 (1.76%) Cloudera
13 8 (1.28%) Adobe
13 8 (1.28%) ServiceNow
14 7 (1.12%) Alteryx
14 7 (1.12%) Software AG
15 6 (0.96%) Teradata
16 5 (0.80%) IBM
16 5 (0.80%) SimCorp
16 5 (0.80%) Workday