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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 179 196
Rank change year-on-year +21 +17 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 837 435 422
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.81% 1.55% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 1.71% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 287 267
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £451 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £775 £736 £742
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 5
10th Percentile £30.96 - -
25th Percentile £61.74 £52.50 £25.26
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +83.33% -47.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +83.33% -53.85%

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 39,226 25,436 27,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.80% 90.90% 86.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,709 16,124 17,045
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £641
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,969 1,568 1,160
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.43 £17.87 £20.28
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%
75th Percentile £67.25 £45.80 £67.14
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.63% -7.56%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +1 402 £600 +4.35% 419
Midlands +5 131 £475 -8.39% 49
North of England +30 128 £500 - 109
West Midlands +9 113 £471 -9.95% 38
South East -33 85 £541 +12.76% 68
North West 0 65 £500 - 70
Yorkshire +2 44 £463 -5.13% 28
South West -13 40 £525 +31.25% 31
North East -20 20 £520 -5.45% 11
East of England -31 20 £613 +21.89% 33
East Midlands -2 18 £488 +42.34% 11
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 69 (8.24%) SAS
2 43 (5.14%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (3.70%) Confluence
4 26 (3.11%) Apache Spark
5 21 (2.51%) Apache
6 11 (1.31%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.24%) CMS
8 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.24%) nginx
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.24%) ThingWorx
8 2 (0.24%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) Mule
9 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 15 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.36%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.36%) Revit
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 31 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.84%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.72%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 5 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.48%) SAP Payroll
8 3 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.36%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.24%) Endur
9 2 (0.24%) Maximo
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.24%) SAP HCM
9 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.24%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
10 1 (0.12%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 322 (38.47%) Azure
2 226 (27.00%) AWS
3 133 (15.89%) Power Platform
4 89 (10.63%) GCP
5 87 (10.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 70 (8.36%) Snowflake
7 69 (8.24%) Serverless
8 63 (7.53%) Amazon S3
9 53 (6.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 51 (6.09%) AWS Lambda
11 50 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
12 38 (4.54%) GitHub
13 36 (4.30%) dbt
14 26 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 24 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
15 24 (2.87%) SaaS
16 23 (2.75%) OCI
17 18 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
17 18 (2.15%) Power Automate
18 16 (1.91%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.96%) MQTT
2 6 (0.72%) DNS
2 6 (0.72%) Firewall
3 5 (0.60%) DHCP
3 5 (0.60%) VPN
4 4 (0.48%) Network Security
4 4 (0.48%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.24%) SMS
6 2 (0.24%) SSL
7 1 (0.12%) DMZ
7 1 (0.12%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.12%) FTP
7 1 (0.12%) Internet
7 1 (0.12%) LAN
7 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.12%) WAN
7 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (17.92%) Data Warehouse
2 113 (13.50%) Power BI
3 102 (12.19%) Metadata
4 80 (9.56%) Data Lake
5 72 (8.60%) SQL Server
6 45 (5.38%) Relational Database
7 43 (5.14%) Oracle Database
8 39 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
9 38 (4.54%) Pentaho
10 35 (4.18%) Tableau
11 33 (3.94%) BigQuery
11 33 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
12 32 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 31 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
14 25 (2.99%) DataStage
15 21 (2.51%) Big Data
16 20 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
17 19 (2.27%) DynamoDB
18 17 (2.03%) Delta Lake
18 17 (2.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 61 (7.29%) Git
2 40 (4.78%) JIRA
3 22 (2.63%) GitLab
4 20 (2.39%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.96%) Postman
6 6 (0.72%) ERwin
7 5 (0.60%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.36%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.24%) Applitools
10 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.24%) JMeter
10 2 (0.24%) Newman
10 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.24%) RStudio
10 2 (0.24%) TestRail
10 2 (0.24%) Yeoman
General
1 283 (33.81%) Social Skills
2 207 (24.73%) Finance
3 142 (16.97%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (16.61%) Public Sector
5 85 (10.16%) Banking
6 31 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
7 28 (3.35%) Retail
8 25 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (2.75%) Marketing
10 20 (2.39%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.03%) Front Office
12 15 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
13 14 (1.67%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.55%) Investment Banking
14 13 (1.55%) Military
15 11 (1.31%) Billing
15 11 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.08%) Automotive
16 9 (1.08%) Legal
17 8 (0.96%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 238 (28.43%) Architect
2 208 (24.85%) Data Engineer
3 103 (12.31%) Senior
4 100 (11.95%) Lead
5 92 (10.99%) Developer
6 81 (9.68%) Data Architect
7 73 (8.72%) Solutions Architect
8 72 (8.60%) Analyst
9 46 (5.50%) Senior Data Engineer
10 33 (3.94%) Technical Leader
11 31 (3.70%) Consultant
12 29 (3.46%) Data Analyst
13 25 (2.99%) Project Manager
14 24 (2.87%) Technical Architect
15 21 (2.51%) Integration Architect
15 21 (2.51%) Integration Engineer
16 20 (2.39%) Azure Engineer
16 20 (2.39%) Business Analyst
17 18 (2.15%) Senior Architect
17 18 (2.15%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (6.69%) Terraform
2 48 (5.73%) Kafka
2 48 (5.73%) REST
3 38 (4.54%) JSON
4 33 (3.94%) Middleware
4 33 (3.94%) PySpark
5 29 (3.46%) React
6 26 (3.11%) XML
7 20 (2.39%) .NET
8 18 (2.15%) FastAPI
8 18 (2.15%) RESTful
9 12 (1.43%) Node.js
9 12 (1.43%) OAuth
10 11 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
11 10 (1.19%) Apache NiFi
11 10 (1.19%) OpenID
11 10 (1.19%) SOAP
12 9 (1.08%) GraphQL
12 9 (1.08%) pytest
13 7 (0.84%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 76 (9.08%) Cloud Native
2 44 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 43 (5.14%) Legacy Systems
4 36 (4.30%) Management Information System
5 32 (3.82%) Onboarding
6 30 (3.58%) Enterprise Software
7 28 (3.35%) Product Ownership
8 23 (2.75%) Reference Data
9 21 (2.51%) AI Agents
10 18 (2.15%) Data Fabric
10 18 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (2.03%) Replication
12 14 (1.67%) Taxonomies
13 13 (1.55%) Life Science
14 11 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
15 9 (1.08%) Operational Technology
15 9 (1.08%) SCADA
16 7 (0.84%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.99%) Linux
2 24 (2.87%) Unix
3 9 (1.08%) Windows
4 5 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (39.90%) ETL
2 327 (39.07%) Data Modelling
3 304 (36.32%) Analytics
4 243 (29.03%) Agile
5 235 (28.08%) Data Pipeline
6 213 (25.45%) Stakeholder Management
7 208 (24.85%) Data Engineering
8 204 (24.37%) Migration
9 201 (24.01%) CI/CD
10 179 (21.39%) DevOps
11 171 (20.43%) Data Governance
12 159 (19.00%) Data Architecture
13 158 (18.88%) AI
14 151 (18.04%) Business Intelligence
15 141 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
15 141 (16.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 129 (15.41%) Validation
17 128 (15.29%) Roadmaps
18 118 (14.10%) Decision-Making
19 110 (13.14%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 361 (43.13%) SQL
2 222 (26.52%) Python
3 40 (4.78%) PL/SQL
4 32 (3.82%) Java
5 30 (3.58%) TypeScript
6 29 (3.46%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.75%) C#
8 19 (2.27%) Shell Script
9 18 (2.15%) T-SQL
10 17 (2.03%) Bash
10 17 (2.03%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.43%) Bicep
12 7 (0.84%) R
13 6 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.72%) Scala
14 5 (0.60%) Korn
15 4 (0.48%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
16 3 (0.36%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 265 (31.66%) Security Cleared
2 227 (27.12%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.62%) Degree
4 25 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (2.87%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.27%) Azure Certification
7 17 (2.03%) AWS Certification
8 16 (1.91%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (0.96%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.84%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.84%) PMP
11 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.72%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.48%) CBAP
12 4 (0.48%) SAS Certification
13 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (28.79%) Data Quality
2 32 (3.82%) GRC
3 28 (3.35%) GDPR
4 25 (2.99%) QA
5 24 (2.87%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.08%) SLA
7 7 (0.84%) PMO
7 7 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.72%) WCAG
9 4 (0.48%) IFRS
9 4 (0.48%) NCSC
10 3 (0.36%) GxP
10 3 (0.36%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.36%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.24%) FATCA
11 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 44 (5.26%) Docker
2 9 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) HDFS
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (7.53%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.15%) Grafana
3 12 (1.43%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.08%) Ansible
5 6 (0.72%) Control-M
6 5 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.48%) Argo
8 3 (0.36%) Istio
8 3 (0.36%) Kibana
9 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 168 (20.07%) Oracle
2 146 (17.44%) Microsoft
3 118 (14.10%) Databricks
4 67 (8.00%) SAP
5 59 (7.05%) Informatica
6 46 (5.50%) Talend
7 45 (5.38%) Google
8 37 (4.42%) Salesforce
9 25 (2.99%) IBM
10 24 (2.87%) ServiceNow
11 19 (2.27%) Denodo
12 12 (1.43%) VMware
13 11 (1.31%) Teradata
14 9 (1.08%) Workday
15 8 (0.96%) Bloomberg
15 8 (0.96%) MuleSoft
15 8 (0.96%) Sparx
16 7 (0.84%) Dynatrace
16 7 (0.84%) eFront
16 7 (0.84%) Palantir