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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
8 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 173 209
Rank change year-on-year +20 +36 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 795 448 402
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.74% 1.62% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 1.79% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 313 286
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% -0.94% -4.68%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £684
90th Percentile £738 £724 £806
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £530
% change year-on-year +4.76% -0.94% -5.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 4
10th Percentile £30.96 - -
25th Percentile £31.66 - -
Median hourly rate £68.61 - £30.00
75th Percentile £83.25 - £39.69
90th Percentile £85.48 - £57.13
UK median hourly rate £57.99 - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - -40.00%

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 39,026 25,062 28,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.78% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,293 16,024 18,683
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,529 1,392 1,676
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £14.09
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.87 £18.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.27 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -37.90% -4.71%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -18 363 £600 +8.30% 215
Midlands +34 177 £469 -9.55% 30
West Midlands +32 158 £469 -9.55% 21
North of England -15 105 £520 +4.00% 37
South East -34 79 £533 +3.40% 68
North West -9 63 £550 +9.56% 23
South West -30 29 £525 +13.51% 22
Yorkshire -29 23 £475 - 12
North East - 20 £520 - 2
East Midlands -4 19 £455 +4.72% 9
East of England -11 17 £580 +0.87% 8
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 92 (11.57%) SAS
2 39 (4.91%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.64%) Apache Spark
4 18 (2.26%) Confluence
5 16 (2.01%) Apache
6 10 (1.26%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.50%) Camunda
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.25%) ThingWorx
8 2 (0.25%) WordPress
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.13%) Luigi
9 1 (0.13%) Mule
9 1 (0.13%) nginx
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.38%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.38%) Revit
3 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 32 (4.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.75%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.63%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (0.63%) SAP IBP
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.50%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.50%) SAP HCM
5 4 (0.50%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (0.38%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.25%) Endur
7 2 (0.25%) Maximo
7 2 (0.25%) SAP APO
7 2 (0.25%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 302 (37.99%) Azure
2 205 (25.79%) AWS
3 116 (14.59%) Power Platform
4 78 (9.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 77 (9.69%) GCP
6 57 (7.17%) Snowflake
7 54 (6.79%) Serverless
8 47 (5.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 43 (5.41%) Amazon S3
10 41 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
11 40 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
12 36 (4.53%) GitHub
13 23 (2.89%) SaaS
14 20 (2.52%) dbt
14 20 (2.52%) OCI
15 18 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (2.26%) Power Automate
16 16 (2.01%) PowerApps
17 14 (1.76%) iPaaS
17 14 (1.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.63%) Firewall
1 5 (0.63%) FTP
1 5 (0.63%) VPN
2 4 (0.50%) SMS
3 3 (0.38%) DNS
3 3 (0.38%) MQTT
3 3 (0.38%) Network Security
4 2 (0.25%) DHCP
4 2 (0.25%) SSL
4 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.13%) DMZ
5 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (16.23%) Data Warehouse
2 108 (13.58%) Power BI
3 75 (9.43%) Metadata
4 72 (9.06%) SQL Server
5 68 (8.55%) Data Lake
6 62 (7.80%) Pentaho
7 45 (5.66%) Relational Database
8 41 (5.16%) Tableau
9 40 (5.03%) Oracle Database
10 30 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
11 29 (3.65%) NoSQL
12 28 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (3.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 22 (2.77%) Big Data
15 21 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
16 20 (2.52%) BigQuery
16 20 (2.52%) MySQL
17 19 (2.39%) SAS Enterprise Guide
18 18 (2.26%) SAS Visual Analytics
19 17 (2.14%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 65 (8.18%) Git
2 35 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 34 (4.28%) JIRA
4 23 (2.89%) GitLab
5 13 (1.64%) ERwin
6 7 (0.88%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.63%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.63%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.50%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.50%) Postman
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.25%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.13%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.13%) eggPlant
10 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.13%) RStudio
10 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.13%) Toad
General
1 249 (31.32%) Social Skills
2 169 (21.26%) Finance
3 147 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (16.23%) Public Sector
5 55 (6.92%) Banking
6 27 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (3.40%) Marketing
7 26 (3.27%) Retail
8 23 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (1.64%) Legal
11 12 (1.51%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.38%) Financial Institution
13 9 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.01%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.88%) Automotive
15 7 (0.88%) Front Office
15 7 (0.88%) Military
16 6 (0.75%) Billing
17 5 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 227 (28.55%) Architect
2 209 (26.29%) Data Engineer
3 101 (12.70%) Developer
4 86 (10.82%) Senior
5 82 (10.31%) Data Architect
6 73 (9.18%) Solutions Architect
7 66 (8.30%) Lead
8 61 (7.67%) Analyst
9 33 (4.15%) Senior Data Engineer
10 27 (3.40%) Consultant
11 26 (3.27%) Technical Leader
12 25 (3.14%) Integration Architect
12 25 (3.14%) Integration Engineer
13 23 (2.89%) Technical Architect
14 22 (2.77%) Business Analyst
14 22 (2.77%) Data Analyst
15 19 (2.39%) Azure Engineer
15 19 (2.39%) Project Manager
15 19 (2.39%) Senior Developer
16 18 (2.26%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.42%) REST
2 43 (5.41%) Kafka
3 33 (4.15%) Middleware
3 33 (4.15%) React
4 31 (3.90%) JSON
5 23 (2.89%) .NET
5 23 (2.89%) Node.js
5 23 (2.89%) PySpark
6 21 (2.64%) RESTful
7 18 (2.26%) XML
8 17 (2.14%) YAML
9 14 (1.76%) Django
9 14 (1.76%) SOAP
10 13 (1.64%) FastAPI
10 13 (1.64%) Flask
11 12 (1.51%) AngularJS
12 10 (1.26%) GraphQL
13 9 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
14 7 (0.88%) pytest
14 7 (0.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 65 (8.18%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.04%) Legacy Systems
3 46 (5.79%) Data Structures
4 29 (3.65%) Onboarding
5 26 (3.27%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.52%) Reference Data
7 18 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.26%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (2.01%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.89%) Life Science
11 12 (1.51%) Replication
12 10 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.26%) Taxonomies
13 9 (1.13%) NHS
14 8 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.01%) Clustering
14 8 (1.01%) IoT
14 8 (1.01%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.39%) Unix
2 17 (2.14%) Linux
3 7 (0.88%) Windows
4 3 (0.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (41.38%) ETL
2 327 (41.13%) Data Modelling
3 315 (39.62%) Analytics
4 233 (29.31%) Data Pipeline
5 230 (28.93%) Agile
6 195 (24.53%) CI/CD
7 179 (22.52%) Migration
8 177 (22.26%) DevOps
9 164 (20.63%) Business Intelligence
10 160 (20.13%) Data Engineering
11 152 (19.12%) Stakeholder Management
12 150 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
13 143 (17.99%) Data Governance
14 135 (16.98%) AI
14 135 (16.98%) Data Architecture
15 130 (16.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 118 (14.84%) Integration Patterns
17 117 (14.72%) Validation
18 99 (12.45%) Decision-Making
19 98 (12.33%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 341 (42.89%) SQL
2 194 (24.40%) Python
3 42 (5.28%) Java
4 31 (3.90%) PL/SQL
5 22 (2.77%) Bash
5 22 (2.77%) TypeScript
6 21 (2.64%) JavaScript
7 19 (2.39%) C#
7 19 (2.39%) T-SQL
8 15 (1.89%) PowerShell
9 14 (1.76%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (1.13%) Scala
11 8 (1.01%) Bicep
12 5 (0.63%) ABAP
12 5 (0.63%) R
13 4 (0.50%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.50%) Gremlin
13 4 (0.50%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.38%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 263 (33.08%) Security Cleared
2 225 (28.30%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.03%) Degree
4 21 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.39%) Azure Certification
5 19 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.01%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
8 10 (1.26%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.88%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.75%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.50%) SAS Certification
12 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.38%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.38%) PMP
13 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.13%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.13%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (26.92%) Data Quality
2 42 (5.28%) GDPR
3 31 (3.90%) GRC
4 23 (2.89%) QA
5 18 (2.26%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.01%) Solvency II
7 7 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.88%) PMO
7 7 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.88%) SLA
8 4 (0.50%) SNOMED CT
9 3 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.38%) GxP
9 3 (0.38%) HL7
9 3 (0.38%) IFRS
9 3 (0.38%) IFRS 17
9 3 (0.38%) NCSC
10 2 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (7.04%) Docker
2 9 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (8.30%) Kubernetes
2 40 (5.03%) Terraform
3 17 (2.14%) Grafana
4 8 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.88%) Ansible
6 6 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.50%) Argo
7 4 (0.50%) Control-M
8 2 (0.25%) Istio
9 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.13%) Puppet
9 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 171 (21.51%) Oracle
2 114 (14.34%) Microsoft
3 109 (13.71%) Databricks
4 81 (10.19%) SAP
5 68 (8.55%) Talend
6 59 (7.42%) Informatica
7 41 (5.16%) Salesforce
8 35 (4.40%) Denodo
9 30 (3.77%) Google
10 18 (2.26%) ServiceNow
11 15 (1.89%) IBM
12 13 (1.64%) Cloudera
13 12 (1.51%) NEC
14 11 (1.38%) MuleSoft
15 9 (1.13%) Workday
16 7 (0.88%) Sparx
16 7 (0.88%) Teradata
17 5 (0.63%) Ariba
17 5 (0.63%) Bloomberg
17 5 (0.63%) Palantir
358 Data Integration jobs in England