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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 158 187
Rank change year-on-year -12 +29 +80
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 616 405 470
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.55% 1.65% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 1.81% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 298 344
10th Percentile £389 £363 £385
25th Percentile £434 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £738
90th Percentile £773 £729 £821
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 5
10th Percentile £47.75 £32.26 -
25th Percentile £54.00 £42.75 £46.18
Median hourly rate £76.50 £60.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.45% +27.37% +132.39%
75th Percentile £85.25 £69.13 £50.25
90th Percentile £86.55 £74.15 £61.35
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £60.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +5.79% +27.37% +132.39%

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 33,939 22,408 32,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.13% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,724 14,703 21,181
10th Percentile £316 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.72% -0.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,107 917 2,235
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.73 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.97
Median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -9 309 £575 +6.98% 54
Midlands +17 142 £468 -4.10% 22
West Midlands +23 128 £469 -1.26% 17
North of England -35 66 £500 -8.26% 22
North West -26 36 £475 -12.84% 11
South East -67 36 £575 +9.00% 29
South West -37 27 £640 +34.74% 13
Yorkshire -43 23 £518 +8.95% 8
East of England -26 18 £588 +6.82% 8
East Midlands -30 14 £445 -10.61% 5
North East -13 7 £563 - 3
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 (8.77%) SAS
2 39 (6.33%) Apache Spark
3 27 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.11%) Apache
5 6 (0.97%) CMS
5 6 (0.97%) Confluence
5 6 (0.97%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.65%) Camunda
7 2 (0.32%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.32%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.16%) Appian
8 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.16%) Mendix
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.32%) Navisworks
3 2 (0.32%) Revit
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.97%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (0.97%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.65%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.49%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.49%) Maximo
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.49%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.49%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.49%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.49%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.49%) SAP Retail
6 2 (0.32%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.32%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.32%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.16%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 245 (39.77%) Azure
2 126 (20.45%) AWS
3 90 (14.61%) Power Platform
4 78 (12.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 55 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
6 52 (8.44%) GCP
7 45 (7.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 38 (6.17%) SaaS
9 32 (5.19%) Snowflake
10 30 (4.87%) Serverless
11 28 (4.55%) GitHub
12 20 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
13 17 (2.76%) Power Automate
14 15 (2.44%) dbt
15 14 (2.27%) Amazon S3
15 14 (2.27%) PaaS
15 14 (2.27%) PowerApps
16 13 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
17 12 (1.95%) Azure AKS
17 12 (1.95%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.30%) FTP
2 6 (0.97%) SMS
3 3 (0.49%) Firewall
3 3 (0.49%) VPN
4 2 (0.32%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.32%) MQTT
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (20.62%) Data Warehouse
2 83 (13.47%) Power BI
3 71 (11.53%) SQL Server
4 68 (11.04%) Metadata
5 45 (7.31%) NoSQL
5 45 (7.31%) Pentaho
6 44 (7.14%) Data Lake
7 42 (6.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 32 (5.19%) Relational Database
9 31 (5.03%) Tableau
10 20 (3.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (3.08%) MySQL
11 19 (3.08%) Oracle Database
11 19 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (2.92%) Big Data
12 18 (2.92%) Delta Lake
13 15 (2.44%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 12 (1.95%) DataStage
15 10 (1.62%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 73 (11.85%) Git
2 37 (6.01%) JIRA
3 34 (5.52%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.79%) ERwin
5 9 (1.46%) GitLab
6 5 (0.81%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.81%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.49%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.32%) git-flow
8 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.16%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.16%) MLflow
9 1 (0.16%) Mocha
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.16%) RStudio
9 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.16%) Terragrunt
General
1 214 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 171 (27.76%) Finance
3 133 (21.59%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (13.15%) Public Sector
5 49 (7.95%) Banking
6 24 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (2.76%) Marketing
9 15 (2.44%) Financial Institution
10 14 (2.27%) Legal
10 14 (2.27%) Retail
11 11 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.30%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.30%) Retail Banking
14 7 (1.14%) Front Office
15 6 (0.97%) General Ledger
15 6 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.81%) Back Office
17 4 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 157 (25.49%) Data Engineer
2 130 (21.10%) Architect
3 91 (14.77%) Developer
4 64 (10.39%) Senior
5 55 (8.93%) Solutions Architect
6 54 (8.77%) Data Architect
7 45 (7.31%) Analyst
8 39 (6.33%) Consultant
8 39 (6.33%) Lead
9 29 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
10 27 (4.38%) Azure Data Engineer
10 27 (4.38%) Business Analyst
11 23 (3.73%) Integration Architect
12 20 (3.25%) Senior Data Engineer
13 18 (2.92%) Project Manager
14 16 (2.60%) Full-Stack Developer
15 15 (2.44%) Azure Architect
15 15 (2.44%) Integration Engineer
15 15 (2.44%) Senior Developer
16 14 (2.27%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (8.28%) REST
2 37 (6.01%) PySpark
3 32 (5.19%) Kafka
4 26 (4.22%) JSON
5 25 (4.06%) .NET
5 25 (4.06%) Node.js
6 22 (3.57%) Middleware
6 22 (3.57%) RESTful
7 21 (3.41%) YAML
8 20 (3.25%) React
9 17 (2.76%) AngularJS
10 16 (2.60%) XML
11 14 (2.27%) Django
11 14 (2.27%) Flask
12 12 (1.95%) Oracle Fusion
13 11 (1.79%) SOAP
14 10 (1.62%) .NET Core
15 9 (1.46%) RabbitMQ
16 8 (1.30%) FHIR
17 7 (1.14%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.66%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.01%) Data Structures
2 37 (6.01%) Legacy Systems
3 24 (3.90%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.25%) Product Ownership
5 17 (2.76%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (1.95%) NHS
8 10 (1.62%) Data Fabric
9 9 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.30%) Reference Data
11 6 (0.97%) AI Agents
11 6 (0.97%) Credit Risk
11 6 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.97%) IoT
11 6 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (0.81%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.81%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.46%) Unix
2 5 (0.81%) Windows
3 3 (0.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (42.21%) Data Modelling
2 226 (36.69%) Analytics
3 209 (33.93%) ETL
4 199 (32.31%) Agile
5 174 (28.25%) Data Pipeline
6 163 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
7 146 (23.70%) DevOps
8 145 (23.54%) Business Intelligence
9 138 (22.40%) Data Governance
10 134 (21.75%) CI/CD
11 113 (18.34%) Data Engineering
12 102 (16.56%) Data Architecture
12 102 (16.56%) Migration
13 96 (15.58%) Integration Patterns
13 96 (15.58%) Validation
14 88 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 76 (12.34%) AI
16 75 (12.18%) Decision-Making
17 70 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
18 67 (10.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 280 (45.45%) SQL
2 150 (24.35%) Python
3 35 (5.68%) C#
4 34 (5.52%) Java
5 29 (4.71%) JavaScript
5 29 (4.71%) Scala
6 19 (3.08%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.27%) PL/SQL
8 13 (2.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (1.95%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.62%) Bash
10 10 (1.62%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.14%) Bicep
11 7 (1.14%) R
12 6 (0.97%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.65%) Groovy
14 3 (0.49%) ABAP
14 3 (0.49%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.16%) C
15 1 (0.16%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 163 (26.46%) Security Cleared
2 134 (21.75%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.49%) Degree
4 30 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (4.06%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.92%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.46%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.97%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.49%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.32%) SAP Certification
13 1 (0.16%) CISSP
13 1 (0.16%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.16%) MBA
13 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (27.11%) Data Quality
2 38 (6.17%) GDPR
3 24 (3.90%) QA
4 8 (1.30%) HL7
5 6 (0.97%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.81%) Solvency II
7 4 (0.65%) GRC
7 4 (0.65%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.65%) SLA
8 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.49%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.32%) FATCA
9 2 (0.32%) IFRS
9 2 (0.32%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) GMP
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 57 (9.25%) Docker
2 7 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (7.95%) Kubernetes
2 31 (5.03%) Terraform
3 7 (1.14%) Grafana
4 3 (0.49%) Ansible
4 3 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.32%) Control-M
6 1 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
6 1 (0.16%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 103 (16.72%) Oracle
2 94 (15.26%) Databricks
3 93 (15.10%) Microsoft
4 62 (10.06%) SAP
5 56 (9.09%) Talend
6 44 (7.14%) Informatica
7 30 (4.87%) Denodo
8 19 (3.08%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.95%) Google
9 12 (1.95%) NEC
10 10 (1.62%) IBM
10 10 (1.62%) MuleSoft
10 10 (1.62%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.46%) Cloudera
11 9 (1.46%) Software AG
12 8 (1.30%) Adobe
13 7 (1.14%) Teradata
14 6 (0.97%) Sage
14 6 (0.97%) Workday
15 4 (0.65%) SnapLogic