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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 156 192
Rank change year-on-year -19 +36 +98
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 547 433 465
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.54% 1.73% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.92% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 294 323
10th Percentile £402 £369 £375
25th Percentile £456 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £715
90th Percentile £750 £738 £799
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £550
% change year-on-year +0.38% -4.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 10
10th Percentile £63.26 - £45.86
25th Percentile £72.60 £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £80.50 £27.13 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +196.77% -41.26% +67.93%
75th Percentile £85.63 £52.81 £49.96
90th Percentile £86.00 £69.13 £52.92
UK median hourly rate £69.97 £27.13 £46.18
% change year-on-year +157.95% -41.26% +67.93%

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 30,978 22,606 33,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.03% 90.35% 87.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,831 14,326 21,880
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 770 2,093
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +2.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.50
90th Percentile £73.43 £75.28 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £27.72 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -14.71% -1.52% -5.71%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -12 292 £575 +4.55% 71
Midlands -3 118 £515 +0.49% 32
West Midlands +1 110 £518 -1.43% 25
North of England -51 52 £500 -10.03% 29
South East -20 34 £513 -2.84% 50
North West -33 30 £457 -12.91% 13
South West -25 19 £675 +50.00% 24
Yorkshire -58 19 £530 -6.53% 11
East of England -20 13 £520 -7.56% 8
East Midlands -28 8 £447 +20.00% 7
North East -11 3 £475 - 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 68 (12.43%) SAS
2 44 (8.04%) Apache Spark
3 24 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (2.19%) Apache
5 10 (1.83%) CMS
6 4 (0.73%) Confluence
7 3 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.55%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.55%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.18%) Camunda
9 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.18%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.18%) Mendix
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (2.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (0.91%) SAP Payroll
5 4 (0.73%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.73%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.73%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.55%) Maximo
6 3 (0.55%) Oracle FAH
6 3 (0.55%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.55%) SAP Retail
7 2 (0.37%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.37%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 2 (0.37%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.37%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.37%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 210 (38.39%) Azure
2 104 (19.01%) AWS
3 80 (14.63%) Power Platform
4 75 (13.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 50 (9.14%) Azure DevOps
6 44 (8.04%) GCP
7 40 (7.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 40 (7.31%) SaaS
8 33 (6.03%) Snowflake
9 20 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
10 18 (3.29%) Serverless
11 16 (2.93%) dbt
11 16 (2.93%) GitHub
12 13 (2.38%) Power Automate
13 12 (2.19%) PowerApps
14 11 (2.01%) Collibra
14 11 (2.01%) OCI
15 10 (1.83%) Azure AKS
15 10 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
16 9 (1.65%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.91%) FTP
2 2 (0.37%) 2G
2 2 (0.37%) 5G
2 2 (0.37%) Firewall
2 2 (0.37%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.37%) SMS
3 1 (0.18%) 4G
3 1 (0.18%) DWDM
3 1 (0.18%) Network Security
3 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (25.96%) Data Warehouse
2 73 (13.35%) Power BI
3 60 (10.97%) Metadata
4 53 (9.69%) SQL Server
5 45 (8.23%) NoSQL
6 44 (8.04%) Data Lake
7 42 (7.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 40 (7.31%) Pentaho
9 28 (5.12%) Relational Database
10 24 (4.39%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 23 (4.20%) Oracle Database
12 21 (3.84%) Tableau
13 19 (3.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 18 (3.29%) Big Data
15 15 (2.74%) Delta Lake
16 12 (2.19%) Data Vault
16 12 (2.19%) MySQL
16 12 (2.19%) Oracle Reports
17 11 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 81 (14.81%) Git
2 49 (8.96%) Jenkins
3 46 (8.41%) JIRA
4 6 (1.10%) ERwin
5 4 (0.73%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.55%) GitLab
6 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.37%) git-flow
7 2 (0.37%) MLflow
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.18%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.18%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.18%) Mocha
8 1 (0.18%) RStudio
8 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.18%) Terragrunt
General
1 216 (39.49%) Social Skills
2 164 (29.98%) Finance
3 118 (21.57%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (11.70%) Public Sector
5 52 (9.51%) Banking
6 21 (3.84%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (2.74%) Marketing
9 13 (2.38%) Financial Institution
10 12 (2.19%) Retail
11 11 (2.01%) Front Office
12 10 (1.83%) Back Office
12 10 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.65%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.46%) Retail Banking
15 7 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (1.28%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.91%) General Ledger
16 5 (0.91%) Legal
17 4 (0.73%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 134 (24.50%) Data Engineer
2 112 (20.48%) Architect
3 72 (13.16%) Developer
4 52 (9.51%) Data Architect
5 47 (8.59%) Senior
6 44 (8.04%) Consultant
7 43 (7.86%) Solutions Architect
8 42 (7.68%) Analyst
9 37 (6.76%) Lead
10 34 (6.22%) Azure Engineer
11 31 (5.67%) Azure Data Engineer
12 25 (4.57%) Business Analyst
13 18 (3.29%) Release Manager
14 17 (3.11%) Integration Engineer
15 16 (2.93%) Integration Architect
15 16 (2.93%) Senior Data Engineer
16 14 (2.56%) Azure Architect
17 13 (2.38%) Data Analyst
17 13 (2.38%) Project Manager
18 12 (2.19%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (9.87%) REST
2 34 (6.22%) PySpark
3 30 (5.48%) Kafka
4 23 (4.20%) JSON
5 20 (3.66%) Middleware
5 20 (3.66%) RESTful
6 18 (3.29%) Node.js
7 17 (3.11%) .NET
7 17 (3.11%) XML
8 16 (2.93%) Oracle Fusion
9 15 (2.74%) React
9 15 (2.74%) YAML
10 14 (2.56%) SOAP
11 12 (2.19%) AngularJS
12 10 (1.83%) Django
12 10 (1.83%) Flask
13 8 (1.46%) HTML
13 8 (1.46%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (1.46%) Web Services
14 7 (1.28%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.03%) Data Structures
2 24 (4.39%) Cloud Native
3 20 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.65%) NHS
7 9 (1.65%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.65%) Reference Data
8 8 (1.46%) Data Fabric
8 8 (1.46%) Taxonomies
9 7 (1.28%) IoT
10 6 (1.10%) Credit Risk
10 6 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.10%) Reinsurance
11 5 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (0.91%) Market Risk
11 5 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.46%) Linux
2 6 (1.10%) Unix
3 5 (0.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (45.89%) Data Modelling
2 200 (36.56%) Agile
3 198 (36.20%) Analytics
4 197 (36.01%) ETL
5 171 (31.26%) Problem-Solving
6 168 (30.71%) Data Pipeline
7 140 (25.59%) DevOps
8 137 (25.05%) Business Intelligence
9 134 (24.50%) Data Governance
10 127 (23.22%) CI/CD
11 105 (19.20%) Data Architecture
12 101 (18.46%) Data Engineering
13 84 (15.36%) Validation
14 83 (15.17%) Migration
15 81 (14.81%) Integration Patterns
15 81 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
16 79 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
17 64 (11.70%) Scrum
18 60 (10.97%) Decision-Making
19 59 (10.79%) AI
Programming Languages
1 260 (47.53%) SQL
2 138 (25.23%) Python
3 30 (5.48%) Scala
4 29 (5.30%) C#
4 29 (5.30%) JavaScript
5 27 (4.94%) Java
6 17 (3.11%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.56%) PL/SQL
8 13 (2.38%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (1.46%) Groovy
11 7 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.10%) Bash
12 6 (1.10%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.73%) ABAP
13 4 (0.73%) Bicep
13 4 (0.73%) R
14 3 (0.55%) Korn
15 2 (0.37%) IronPython
16 1 (0.18%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 150 (27.42%) Security Cleared
2 131 (23.95%) SC Cleared
3 41 (7.50%) Degree
4 30 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.20%) Azure Certification
6 19 (3.47%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.28%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.73%) PMP
10 4 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.55%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CISSP
12 1 (0.18%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.18%) MBA
12 1 (0.18%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (30.35%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.67%) GDPR
3 26 (4.75%) QA
4 9 (1.65%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.10%) HL7
6 5 (0.91%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.55%) SLA
7 3 (0.55%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.37%) FATCA
8 2 (0.37%) GMP
8 2 (0.37%) GRC
8 2 (0.37%) IFRS
8 2 (0.37%) NCSC
9 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.18%) Basel III
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.18%) GAAP
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 64 (11.70%) Docker
2 6 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (10.79%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.30%) Terraform
3 3 (0.55%) Kibana
4 2 (0.37%) Ansible
4 2 (0.37%) Control-M
4 2 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (0.37%) logstash
4 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.18%) SCCM
5 1 (0.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 105 (19.20%) Oracle
2 86 (15.72%) Databricks
3 80 (14.63%) Microsoft
4 50 (9.14%) Talend
5 49 (8.96%) SAP
6 40 (7.31%) Informatica
7 33 (6.03%) Denodo
8 14 (2.56%) Salesforce
9 11 (2.01%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.83%) Google
11 9 (1.65%) Adobe
11 9 (1.65%) Software AG
12 8 (1.46%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.46%) Workday
13 7 (1.28%) IBM
14 6 (1.10%) Alteryx
14 6 (1.10%) Cloudera
15 5 (0.91%) Sitecore
16 4 (0.73%) Murex
16 4 (0.73%) Sage