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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 175 201
Rank change year-on-year -4 +26 +98
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 491 449 461
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.60% 1.48% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 1.69% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 287 331
10th Percentile £363 £363 £388
25th Percentile £451 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -3.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £634 £675 £688
90th Percentile £724 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £25.26 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.56 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +92.56% -39.87% +33.80%
75th Percentile £57.50 £30.00 £50.00
90th Percentile - £39.23 £62.32
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £27.13 £47.50
% change year-on-year +102.76% -42.89% +33.80%

All Process and 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 27,450 26,620 34,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.50% 87.73% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,481 16,323 23,332
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,780 955 1,444
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.24 £19.11
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.95 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -24.14% +24.29%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 +20 271 £550 - 95
Midlands +4 76 £520 -0.95% 33
West Midlands +2 69 £525 - 22
South East +25 49 £450 -7.69% 85
North of England -76 46 £500 -2.44% 32
North West -19 33 £458 +7.65% 20
South West -3 21 £475 -1.30% 18
East of England -12 13 £503 -8.64% 9
Yorkshire -61 11 £500 -11.82% 8
East Midlands -12 7 £429 +20.37% 9
North East -12 2 £525 +25.75% 5
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 62 (12.63%) SAS
2 38 (7.74%) Apache Spark
3 34 (6.92%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (3.26%) Apache
5 9 (1.83%) CMS
6 8 (1.63%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.43%) Confluence
8 5 (1.02%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.61%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.41%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.41%) Camunda
11 2 (0.41%) Luigi
11 2 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
Applications
1 13 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.20%) Maple
6 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (3.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.61%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.61%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.61%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.61%) Maximo
3 3 (0.61%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.61%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.41%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.41%) Endur
4 2 (0.41%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 2 (0.41%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.41%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.41%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.41%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.41%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.20%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.20%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 168 (34.22%) Azure
2 89 (18.13%) AWS
3 70 (14.26%) Power Platform
4 59 (12.02%) Azure Data Factory
5 55 (11.20%) GCP
6 44 (8.96%) Snowflake
7 34 (6.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 28 (5.70%) SaaS
9 22 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (3.67%) Serverless
11 17 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
12 16 (3.26%) dbt
13 14 (2.85%) Power Automate
14 13 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (2.65%) PaaS
14 13 (2.65%) PowerApps
15 12 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (2.04%) Amazon S3
16 10 (2.04%) Azure Functions
17 8 (1.63%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) 2G
1 2 (0.41%) 5G
1 2 (0.41%) Hyperconnected
1 2 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.20%) 4G
2 1 (0.20%) DWDM
2 1 (0.20%) Network Security
2 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (25.25%) Data Warehouse
2 67 (13.65%) Power BI
3 45 (9.16%) Data Lake
4 43 (8.76%) Metadata
5 34 (6.92%) Pentaho
6 33 (6.72%) SQL Server
7 32 (6.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 32 (6.52%) NoSQL
8 27 (5.50%) Tableau
9 26 (5.30%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 24 (4.89%) Big Data
11 22 (4.48%) BigQuery
12 21 (4.28%) Oracle Database
12 21 (4.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 20 (4.07%) Relational Database
14 15 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (2.44%) SAS Visual Analytics
16 11 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
17 10 (2.04%) Hadoop
17 10 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 64 (13.03%) Git
2 49 (9.98%) JIRA
3 47 (9.57%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.63%) GitLab
5 5 (1.02%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.81%) ERwin
6 4 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.41%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.41%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.41%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.41%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.41%) TestRail
8 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.20%) MLflow
8 1 (0.20%) Mocha
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.20%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 201 (40.94%) Social Skills
2 142 (28.92%) Finance
3 89 (18.13%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (11.41%) Public Sector
5 32 (6.52%) Banking
6 17 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (3.05%) Telecoms
8 14 (2.85%) Back Office
9 13 (2.65%) Manufacturing
10 12 (2.44%) Front Office
11 11 (2.24%) Marketing
12 9 (1.83%) Retail
13 8 (1.63%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.43%) Legal
14 7 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (1.02%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.81%) Automotive
17 4 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 87 (17.72%) Architect
2 86 (17.52%) Data Engineer
3 70 (14.26%) Developer
4 60 (12.22%) Analyst
5 38 (7.74%) Consultant
5 38 (7.74%) Data Architect
6 35 (7.13%) Lead
6 35 (7.13%) Senior
7 30 (6.11%) Solutions Architect
8 27 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
9 23 (4.68%) Azure Data Engineer
10 20 (4.07%) Business Analyst
11 17 (3.46%) Data Analyst
12 15 (3.05%) Project Manager
12 15 (3.05%) Release Manager
13 12 (2.44%) Azure Architect
14 11 (2.24%) Data Modeller
14 11 (2.24%) Integration Engineer
14 11 (2.24%) Integration Specialist
15 10 (2.04%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.33%) REST
2 35 (7.13%) Kafka
3 23 (4.68%) PySpark
4 15 (3.05%) SOAP
5 14 (2.85%) .NET
5 14 (2.85%) XML
6 13 (2.65%) JSON
7 12 (2.44%) Oracle Fusion
7 12 (2.44%) React
8 11 (2.24%) RESTful
9 8 (1.63%) FHIR
9 8 (1.63%) Middleware
9 8 (1.63%) Node.js
10 6 (1.22%) EDI
10 6 (1.22%) OAuth
10 6 (1.22%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.22%) XSLT
11 5 (1.02%) HTML
11 5 (1.02%) LangChain
12 4 (0.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.11%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.50%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (2.85%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.24%) NHS
7 10 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.43%) Replication
9 6 (1.22%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.22%) Reference Data
10 5 (1.02%) Data Fabric
10 5 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.02%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.02%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.04%) Linux
2 4 (0.81%) Unix
3 3 (0.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (41.34%) Data Modelling
2 182 (37.07%) Agile
3 175 (35.64%) ETL
4 165 (33.60%) Analytics
5 145 (29.53%) Problem-Solving
6 135 (27.49%) Data Pipeline
7 122 (24.85%) Data Governance
8 119 (24.24%) Business Intelligence
9 116 (23.63%) CI/CD
10 104 (21.18%) DevOps
11 85 (17.31%) Data Engineering
12 78 (15.89%) Migration
13 72 (14.66%) Data Architecture
13 72 (14.66%) Scrum
14 70 (14.26%) Stakeholder Management
15 68 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
16 65 (13.24%) Validation
17 58 (11.81%) AI
18 54 (11.00%) Visualisation
19 49 (9.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 238 (48.47%) SQL
2 139 (28.31%) Python
3 43 (8.76%) Java
4 22 (4.48%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.07%) Scala
5 20 (4.07%) VB
6 18 (3.67%) C#
7 14 (2.85%) TypeScript
8 13 (2.65%) PowerShell
9 11 (2.24%) PL/SQL
9 11 (2.24%) T-SQL
10 10 (2.04%) R
11 8 (1.63%) Groovy
12 7 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (1.43%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.02%) Bash
14 3 (0.61%) Go
15 2 (0.41%) Bicep
15 2 (0.41%) Cypher
15 2 (0.41%) LookML
Qualifications
1 120 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 100 (20.37%) SC Cleared
3 43 (8.76%) Degree
4 28 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.07%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.63%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.22%) PMP
9 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.02%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.81%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.61%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.41%) GCIA
12 2 (0.41%) GCIH
12 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.20%) CISSP
13 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.20%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (25.46%) Data Quality
2 29 (5.91%) GDPR
3 21 (4.28%) QA
4 9 (1.83%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.43%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.43%) HL7
6 4 (0.81%) MiFID
7 3 (0.61%) EMIR
7 3 (0.61%) GMP
7 3 (0.61%) NCSC
7 3 (0.61%) PMO
8 2 (0.41%) DICOM
8 2 (0.41%) GRC
8 2 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.20%) GAAP
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (12.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (11.00%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.50%) Terraform
3 7 (1.43%) Kibana
4 5 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.81%) logstash
6 3 (0.61%) Ansible
7 2 (0.41%) Grafana
8 1 (0.20%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.20%) Podman
8 1 (0.20%) Puppet
8 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 95 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 82 (16.70%) Oracle
3 64 (13.03%) Databricks
4 38 (7.74%) SAP
4 38 (7.74%) Talend
5 32 (6.52%) Denodo
6 31 (6.31%) Google
7 23 (4.68%) Informatica
8 14 (2.85%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.83%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.22%) IBM
11 5 (1.02%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.02%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.02%) Teradata
11 5 (1.02%) Workday
12 4 (0.81%) Adobe
12 4 (0.81%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.81%) Palantir
12 4 (0.81%) Solace
12 4 (0.81%) TIBCO