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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 174 213
Rank change year-on-year +2 +39 +78
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 500 445 446
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 1.43% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.63% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 284 322
10th Percentile £363 £363 £387
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -1.59% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £725 £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 27,655 27,305 34,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.92% 87.48% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,548 16,677 23,333
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £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 1,803 1,004 1,443
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.80
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.29 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.43 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.01% -21.27% +23.29%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +25.71%

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 27 November 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 27 November 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 27 November 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 +11 272 £575 +4.55% 92
Midlands +10 80 £519 -1.10% 34
West Midlands +2 71 £525 - 24
South East +21 50 £445 -11.00% 82
North of England -64 47 £500 -2.44% 30
North West -17 32 £475 +11.76% 16
South West 0 23 £475 - 17
East of England -13 13 £503 -8.64% 11
Yorkshire -64 13 £500 -11.82% 8
East Midlands -6 9 £385 +8.15% 8
North East -13 2 £525 +25.75% 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 59 (11.80%) SAS
2 35 (7.00%) Apache Spark
3 34 (6.80%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (3.40%) Apache
5 9 (1.80%) CMS
6 8 (1.60%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.40%) Confluence
8 5 (1.00%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.60%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.40%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.40%) Camunda
11 2 (0.40%) Luigi
11 2 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
Applications
1 15 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.40%) Sketch
6 1 (0.20%) Maple
Business Applications
1 16 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.60%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.60%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.60%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.60%) Maximo
3 3 (0.60%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.60%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.40%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.40%) Endur
4 2 (0.40%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 2 (0.40%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.40%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.40%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.40%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.20%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.20%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 168 (33.60%) Azure
2 90 (18.00%) AWS
3 76 (15.20%) Power Platform
4 62 (12.40%) GCP
5 55 (11.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 43 (8.60%) Snowflake
7 30 (6.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 28 (5.60%) SaaS
9 24 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (3.60%) Serverless
11 17 (3.40%) dbt
11 17 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
12 16 (3.20%) Power Automate
13 14 (2.80%) PaaS
14 13 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (2.60%) PowerApps
15 12 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (2.00%) Amazon S3
17 9 (1.80%) Azure Functions
17 9 (1.80%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.40%) 2G
1 2 (0.40%) 5G
1 2 (0.40%) Hyperconnected
1 2 (0.40%) 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
1 122 (24.40%) Data Warehouse
2 71 (14.20%) Power BI
3 46 (9.20%) Data Lake
4 41 (8.20%) Metadata
5 36 (7.20%) SQL Server
6 34 (6.80%) Pentaho
7 31 (6.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 31 (6.20%) NoSQL
8 28 (5.60%) Tableau
9 27 (5.40%) BigQuery
10 26 (5.20%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 23 (4.60%) Big Data
12 21 (4.20%) Oracle Database
12 21 (4.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 20 (4.00%) Relational Database
14 14 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
15 12 (2.40%) SAS Visual Analytics
16 10 (2.00%) Hadoop
16 10 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 63 (12.60%) Git
2 50 (10.00%) JIRA
3 48 (9.60%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.60%) GitLab
5 5 (1.00%) ERwin
5 5 (1.00%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.60%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.40%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.40%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.40%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.40%) TestRail
9 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.20%) MLflow
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.20%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 205 (41.00%) Social Skills
2 143 (28.60%) Finance
3 93 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (10.60%) Public Sector
5 33 (6.60%) Banking
6 16 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.80%) Back Office
7 14 (2.80%) Manufacturing
7 14 (2.80%) Retail
7 14 (2.80%) Telecoms
8 12 (2.40%) Front Office
9 11 (2.20%) Marketing
10 9 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.60%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.40%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.40%) Legal
12 7 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.20%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 93 (18.60%) Architect
2 82 (16.40%) Data Engineer
3 77 (15.40%) Developer
4 62 (12.40%) Analyst
5 41 (8.20%) Data Architect
6 37 (7.40%) Consultant
7 36 (7.20%) Lead
7 36 (7.20%) Senior
8 32 (6.40%) Solutions Architect
9 23 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
10 20 (4.00%) Azure Data Engineer
10 20 (4.00%) Business Analyst
11 17 (3.40%) Data Analyst
12 15 (3.00%) Project Manager
12 15 (3.00%) Release Manager
13 13 (2.60%) Azure Architect
14 11 (2.20%) Data Modeller
14 11 (2.20%) Integration Architect
14 11 (2.20%) Integration Engineer
15 10 (2.00%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.20%) Kafka
1 36 (7.20%) REST
2 21 (4.20%) PySpark
3 16 (3.20%) .NET
4 15 (3.00%) SOAP
5 14 (2.80%) XML
6 13 (2.60%) JSON
7 12 (2.40%) React
8 11 (2.20%) Oracle Fusion
8 11 (2.20%) RESTful
9 10 (2.00%) FHIR
10 9 (1.80%) HTML
10 9 (1.80%) Middleware
11 8 (1.60%) Node.js
12 6 (1.20%) EDI
12 6 (1.20%) OAuth
12 6 (1.20%) Spring Boot
12 6 (1.20%) Web Services
12 6 (1.20%) XSLT
13 5 (1.00%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.20%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (2.80%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.60%) NHS
6 11 (2.20%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.60%) Replication
9 6 (1.20%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.20%) Reference Data
10 5 (1.00%) Data Fabric
10 5 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.00%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.00%) Taxonomies
11 4 (0.80%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.00%) Linux
2 4 (0.80%) Unix
3 3 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (42.20%) Data Modelling
2 183 (36.60%) Agile
3 180 (36.00%) ETL
4 164 (32.80%) Analytics
5 147 (29.40%) Problem-Solving
6 129 (25.80%) Data Pipeline
7 123 (24.60%) Business Intelligence
8 122 (24.40%) Data Governance
9 120 (24.00%) CI/CD
10 104 (20.80%) DevOps
11 81 (16.20%) Migration
12 80 (16.00%) Data Engineering
13 72 (14.40%) Data Architecture
13 72 (14.40%) Scrum
14 69 (13.80%) Stakeholder Management
15 68 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
16 61 (12.20%) Validation
17 58 (11.60%) AI
18 56 (11.20%) Visualisation
19 49 (9.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 243 (48.60%) SQL
2 137 (27.40%) Python
3 44 (8.80%) Java
4 24 (4.80%) JavaScript
5 22 (4.40%) C#
6 20 (4.00%) VB
7 17 (3.40%) Scala
8 15 (3.00%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.80%) TypeScript
10 13 (2.60%) T-SQL
11 12 (2.40%) R
12 11 (2.20%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (1.40%) Bash
14 7 (1.40%) Groovy
14 7 (1.40%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.80%) Go
16 3 (0.60%) Korn
16 3 (0.60%) VBA
17 2 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 115 (23.00%) Security Cleared
2 98 (19.60%) SC Cleared
3 46 (9.20%) Degree
4 29 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.80%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.60%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.20%) PMP
10 5 (1.00%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.80%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.60%) MCSE
12 3 (0.60%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.40%) GCIA
13 2 (0.40%) GCIH
13 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.20%) CTC Cleared
14 1 (0.20%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (24.40%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.80%) GDPR
3 21 (4.20%) QA
4 10 (2.00%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.60%) HIPAA
5 8 (1.60%) HL7
6 4 (0.80%) MiFID
7 3 (0.60%) EMIR
7 3 (0.60%) GMP
7 3 (0.60%) NCSC
7 3 (0.60%) PMO
8 2 (0.40%) DICOM
8 2 (0.40%) GRC
8 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.40%) Section 508
8 2 (0.40%) WCAG
9 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 60 (12.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (10.80%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.80%) Terraform
3 7 (1.40%) Kibana
4 5 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.80%) logstash
6 3 (0.60%) Ansible
7 2 (0.40%) Grafana
8 1 (0.20%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.20%) Podman
8 1 (0.20%) Puppet
8 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 101 (20.20%) Microsoft
2 86 (17.20%) Oracle
3 59 (11.80%) Databricks
4 39 (7.80%) SAP
5 38 (7.60%) Talend
6 37 (7.40%) Google
7 32 (6.40%) Denodo
8 20 (4.00%) Informatica
9 15 (3.00%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.80%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.60%) MuleSoft
12 6 (1.20%) IBM
13 5 (1.00%) OpenAI
13 5 (1.00%) Workday
14 4 (0.80%) Adobe
14 4 (0.80%) Bloomberg
14 4 (0.80%) Cognos
14 4 (0.80%) Palantir
14 4 (0.80%) Solace
14 4 (0.80%) TIBCO