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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 160 198
Rank change year-on-year +1 +38 +95
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 545 427 437
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 1.61% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.81% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 281 300
10th Percentile £381 £375 £381
25th Percentile £463 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 14
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £25.26 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £27.13 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.76% -42.89% +33.80%
75th Percentile £57.50 £28.99 £50.19
90th Percentile - £48.05 £60.97
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £27.13 £48.00
% change year-on-year +102.76% -43.49% +35.21%

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 28,352 23,648 32,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.85% 89.40% 87.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,131 14,458 22,099
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £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 1,777 764 1,811
10th Percentile £15.05 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.06 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -6.70% +7.35%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.02
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.78% +12.89%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 26 January 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 +10 297 £575 +4.55% 81
Midlands +4 102 £525 +5.00% 40
West Midlands +6 93 £525 - 17
South East +2 50 £450 -5.26% 92
North of England -56 45 £500 -9.62% 51
North West -16 29 £455 +10.24% 25
South West -24 18 £675 +45.95% 37
East of England -4 15 £505 -3.81% 36
Yorkshire -53 14 £530 -6.53% 18
East Midlands -21 9 £447 +20.00% 22
North East -17 2 £525 -18.92% 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 72 (13.21%) SAS
2 45 (8.26%) Apache Spark
3 28 (5.14%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (2.20%) Apache
5 11 (2.02%) CMS
6 7 (1.28%) Confluence
6 7 (1.28%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (1.10%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.73%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.55%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.37%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.18%) Camunda
11 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.18%) Luigi
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.92%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.73%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.55%) Maximo
5 3 (0.55%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.55%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.55%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.55%) SAP Retail
6 2 (0.37%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.37%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.37%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.37%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.37%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 202 (37.06%) Azure
2 99 (18.17%) AWS
3 76 (13.94%) Power Platform
4 69 (12.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 43 (7.89%) GCP
6 38 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (6.42%) SaaS
8 33 (6.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 32 (5.87%) Snowflake
10 23 (4.22%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (3.30%) dbt
12 17 (3.12%) Serverless
13 16 (2.94%) PaaS
14 14 (2.57%) Power Automate
15 12 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (2.20%) GitHub
15 12 (2.20%) PowerApps
16 11 (2.02%) Azure AKS
17 10 (1.83%) OCI
18 9 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.37%) 2G
1 2 (0.37%) 5G
1 2 (0.37%) FTP
1 2 (0.37%) Hyperconnected
1 2 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (0.37%) SMS
2 1 (0.18%) 4G
2 1 (0.18%) DWDM
2 1 (0.18%) Firewall
2 1 (0.18%) Network Security
2 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (24.95%) Data Warehouse
2 70 (12.84%) Power BI
3 50 (9.17%) Metadata
4 47 (8.62%) SQL Server
5 41 (7.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 41 (7.52%) Data Lake
5 41 (7.52%) NoSQL
6 38 (6.97%) Pentaho
7 33 (6.06%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 26 (4.77%) Oracle Database
9 25 (4.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (4.40%) Relational Database
11 23 (4.22%) Tableau
12 16 (2.94%) Big Data
13 15 (2.75%) Delta Lake
14 14 (2.57%) Data Vault
15 12 (2.20%) Oracle Reports
15 12 (2.20%) SAS Visual Analytics
16 10 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 76 (13.94%) Git
2 58 (10.64%) JIRA
3 50 (9.17%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.28%) GitLab
5 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.55%) ERwin
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%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.37%) TestRail
8 1 (0.18%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.18%) Mocha
8 1 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.18%) Terragrunt
General
1 224 (41.10%) Social Skills
2 167 (30.64%) Finance
3 114 (20.92%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (11.19%) Public Sector
5 47 (8.62%) Banking
6 21 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.57%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.39%) Marketing
8 13 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.20%) Back Office
9 12 (2.20%) Front Office
10 11 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.02%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.02%) Retail
11 10 (1.83%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.28%) Legal
13 6 (1.10%) General Ledger
13 6 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.10%) Retail Banking
14 5 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 113 (20.73%) Data Engineer
2 99 (18.17%) Architect
3 79 (14.50%) Developer
4 48 (8.81%) Analyst
5 45 (8.26%) Consultant
6 42 (7.71%) Lead
6 42 (7.71%) Solutions Architect
7 37 (6.79%) Data Architect
7 37 (6.79%) Senior
8 32 (5.87%) Azure Engineer
9 29 (5.32%) Azure Data Engineer
10 27 (4.95%) Business Analyst
11 23 (4.22%) Release Manager
12 16 (2.94%) Integration Architect
13 15 (2.75%) Project Manager
14 14 (2.57%) Integration Engineer
15 13 (2.39%) Senior Data Engineer
16 12 (2.20%) Azure Architect
16 12 (2.20%) Data Integration Engineer
16 12 (2.20%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (8.99%) REST
2 36 (6.61%) PySpark
3 29 (5.32%) Kafka
4 20 (3.67%) JSON
5 17 (3.12%) Middleware
5 17 (3.12%) XML
6 16 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
6 16 (2.94%) SOAP
7 15 (2.75%) RESTful
8 13 (2.39%) .NET
9 11 (2.02%) Node.js
10 10 (1.83%) React
11 9 (1.65%) AngularJS
11 9 (1.65%) EDI
12 8 (1.47%) HTML
13 7 (1.28%) FHIR
14 6 (1.10%) CSS
14 6 (1.10%) OAuth
14 6 (1.10%) XSLT
15 5 (0.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.50%) Data Structures
2 27 (4.95%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
4 18 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (2.20%) NHS
8 10 (1.83%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.28%) Credit Risk
10 7 (1.28%) Data Fabric
10 7 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.10%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.10%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.10%) Replication
12 5 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.92%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.92%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.83%) Linux
2 6 (1.10%) Windows
3 4 (0.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (42.02%) Data Modelling
2 215 (39.45%) Agile
3 185 (33.94%) Analytics
4 178 (32.66%) ETL
5 174 (31.93%) Problem-Solving
6 159 (29.17%) Data Pipeline
7 131 (24.04%) Business Intelligence
8 130 (23.85%) Data Governance
8 130 (23.85%) DevOps
9 121 (22.20%) CI/CD
10 90 (16.51%) Data Architecture
11 89 (16.33%) Data Engineering
12 86 (15.78%) Migration
12 86 (15.78%) Validation
13 78 (14.31%) Stakeholder Management
14 77 (14.13%) Scrum
15 76 (13.94%) Integration Patterns
16 73 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
17 60 (11.01%) Decision-Making
18 58 (10.64%) AI
Programming Languages
1 259 (47.52%) SQL
2 134 (24.59%) Python
3 32 (5.87%) Java
4 30 (5.50%) Scala
5 25 (4.59%) C#
5 25 (4.59%) JavaScript
6 19 (3.49%) VB
7 18 (3.30%) TypeScript
8 15 (2.75%) PL/SQL
9 10 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (1.65%) Groovy
10 9 (1.65%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.28%) R
11 7 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.10%) Bicep
12 6 (1.10%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.55%) Korn
14 2 (0.37%) Go
14 2 (0.37%) IronPython
14 2 (0.37%) LookML
Qualifications
1 144 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 124 (22.75%) SC Cleared
3 46 (8.44%) Degree
4 33 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (4.40%) Azure Certification
6 20 (3.67%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.47%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.28%) PMP
9 6 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.10%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.37%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.18%) CISSP
12 1 (0.18%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.18%) MBA
12 1 (0.18%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.18%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.18%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (27.52%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.59%) GDPR
3 23 (4.22%) QA
4 8 (1.47%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.28%) HL7
6 5 (0.92%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.55%) GMP
7 3 (0.55%) IFRS
7 3 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.37%) GAAP
8 2 (0.37%) GRC
8 2 (0.37%) NCSC
8 2 (0.37%) PMO
9 1 (0.18%) Basel III
9 1 (0.18%) DICOM
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.18%) MiFID
9 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 67 (12.29%) Docker
2 3 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (11.19%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.95%) Terraform
3 6 (1.10%) Kibana
4 4 (0.73%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.73%) logstash
5 3 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.37%) Ansible
6 2 (0.37%) Control-M
7 1 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.18%) Grafana
7 1 (0.18%) Puppet
7 1 (0.18%) SCCM
7 1 (0.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 105 (19.27%) Oracle
2 100 (18.35%) Microsoft
3 78 (14.31%) Databricks
4 46 (8.44%) SAP
5 42 (7.71%) Talend
6 36 (6.61%) Denodo
7 28 (5.14%) Informatica
8 17 (3.12%) Salesforce
9 15 (2.75%) Google
10 10 (1.83%) Adobe
10 10 (1.83%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.65%) Software AG
11 9 (1.65%) Workday
12 8 (1.47%) IBM
13 6 (1.10%) Alteryx
13 6 (1.10%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.92%) Sitecore
15 4 (0.73%) Brio
15 4 (0.73%) Solace
15 4 (0.73%) TIBCO