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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 179 199
Rank change year-on-year +9 +20 +89
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 515 428 454
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 1.47% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 1.66% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 272 325
10th Percentile £375 £363 £386
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 13
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 £30.00 £50.00
90th Percentile - £42.30 £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 27,925 25,808 32,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.90% 88.45% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,780 15,959 22,396
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,812 863 1,395
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.97 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

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 17 December 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 17 December 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 17 December 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 +17 284 £575 +4.55% 58
Midlands +3 82 £520 +4.00% 27
West Midlands 0 76 £525 +5.00% 21
South East +19 50 £450 -5.26% 54
North of England -66 45 £500 - 32
North West -17 33 £473 +18.13% 20
South West -2 21 £448 -7.01% 16
East of England -9 14 £505 -3.81% 13
Yorkshire -66 10 £500 -11.82% 10
East Midlands -21 6 £447 +25.56% 6
North East -14 2 £525 +25.75% 2
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 65 (12.62%) SAS
2 46 (8.93%) Apache Spark
3 34 (6.60%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (3.11%) Apache
5 11 (2.14%) CMS
6 6 (1.17%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.97%) Confluence
8 4 (0.78%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.58%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.39%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.39%) Luigi
10 2 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 11 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 17 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.78%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.58%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.58%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.58%) Maximo
4 3 (0.58%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.58%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.39%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.39%) Endur
5 2 (0.39%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.39%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.39%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.39%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.39%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.39%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.19%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.19%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 181 (35.15%) Azure
2 88 (17.09%) AWS
3 74 (14.37%) Power Platform
4 69 (13.40%) Azure Data Factory
5 51 (9.90%) GCP
6 43 (8.35%) Snowflake
7 39 (7.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 30 (5.83%) SaaS
9 25 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (4.27%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (3.50%) Serverless
12 16 (3.11%) dbt
12 16 (3.11%) Power Automate
13 15 (2.91%) Azure Logic Apps
14 14 (2.72%) PaaS
14 14 (2.72%) PowerApps
15 11 (2.14%) Azure Functions
15 11 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
16 8 (1.55%) Azure Service Bus
16 8 (1.55%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.39%) 2G
1 2 (0.39%) 5G
1 2 (0.39%) Hyperconnected
1 2 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.19%) 4G
2 1 (0.19%) DWDM
2 1 (0.19%) Firewall
2 1 (0.19%) Network Security
2 1 (0.19%) SMS
2 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (26.80%) Data Warehouse
2 70 (13.59%) Power BI
3 44 (8.54%) Data Lake
4 42 (8.16%) Metadata
5 38 (7.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 36 (6.99%) NoSQL
7 34 (6.60%) Pentaho
7 34 (6.60%) SQL Server
8 29 (5.63%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 25 (4.85%) Tableau
10 23 (4.47%) Oracle Database
11 22 (4.27%) Big Data
11 22 (4.27%) Relational Database
12 19 (3.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 17 (3.30%) BigQuery
14 12 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (2.33%) SAS Visual Analytics
15 11 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 10 (1.94%) Oracle Reports
16 10 (1.94%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 72 (13.98%) Git
2 50 (9.71%) JIRA
3 47 (9.13%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.55%) GitLab
5 5 (0.97%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.39%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.39%) MLflow
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.39%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.39%) TestRail
8 1 (0.19%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.19%) ERwin
8 1 (0.19%) Mocha
8 1 (0.19%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 208 (40.39%) Social Skills
2 149 (28.93%) Finance
3 99 (19.22%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (11.07%) Public Sector
5 36 (6.99%) Banking
6 18 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.91%) Back Office
7 15 (2.91%) Front Office
8 14 (2.72%) Marketing
8 14 (2.72%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.52%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.75%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.55%) Retail
12 7 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.36%) Legal
12 7 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.17%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.17%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 94 (18.25%) Data Engineer
2 87 (16.89%) Architect
3 80 (15.53%) Developer
4 60 (11.65%) Analyst
5 39 (7.57%) Consultant
5 39 (7.57%) Data Architect
6 37 (7.18%) Senior
7 35 (6.80%) Lead
8 32 (6.21%) Azure Engineer
9 30 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
10 28 (5.44%) Azure Data Engineer
11 21 (4.08%) Business Analyst
12 17 (3.30%) Data Analyst
12 17 (3.30%) Release Manager
13 15 (2.91%) Project Manager
14 13 (2.52%) Azure Architect
15 12 (2.33%) Integration Architect
15 12 (2.33%) Integration Specialist
16 11 (2.14%) Integration Engineer
17 10 (1.94%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.57%) REST
2 35 (6.80%) Kafka
3 33 (6.41%) PySpark
4 16 (3.11%) .NET
4 16 (3.11%) JSON
4 16 (3.11%) SOAP
5 15 (2.91%) XML
6 14 (2.72%) RESTful
7 13 (2.52%) Oracle Fusion
8 10 (1.94%) React
9 9 (1.75%) Middleware
9 9 (1.75%) Node.js
10 8 (1.55%) HTML
11 6 (1.17%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.17%) CSS
11 6 (1.17%) EDI
11 6 (1.17%) FHIR
11 6 (1.17%) OAuth
11 6 (1.17%) XSLT
12 5 (0.97%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.44%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.24%) Data Structures
3 18 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
4 15 (2.91%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (2.14%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.94%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.75%) NHS
9 7 (1.36%) Data Fabric
9 7 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.17%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.17%) Reference Data
10 6 (1.17%) Replication
11 5 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (0.97%) IoT
11 5 (0.97%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.94%) Linux
2 4 (0.78%) Unix
3 3 (0.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (40.97%) Data Modelling
2 194 (37.67%) Agile
3 176 (34.17%) Analytics
4 173 (33.59%) ETL
5 155 (30.10%) Problem-Solving
6 147 (28.54%) Data Pipeline
7 127 (24.66%) Data Governance
8 126 (24.47%) Business Intelligence
9 118 (22.91%) CI/CD
10 110 (21.36%) DevOps
11 92 (17.86%) Data Engineering
12 81 (15.73%) Data Architecture
13 80 (15.53%) Migration
14 72 (13.98%) Scrum
15 70 (13.59%) Stakeholder Management
15 70 (13.59%) Validation
16 67 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
17 55 (10.68%) AI
17 55 (10.68%) Visualisation
18 53 (10.29%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 252 (48.93%) SQL
2 145 (28.16%) Python
3 39 (7.57%) Java
4 27 (5.24%) Scala
5 24 (4.66%) JavaScript
6 23 (4.47%) C#
7 20 (3.88%) VB
8 17 (3.30%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.33%) PL/SQL
9 12 (2.33%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.94%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (1.75%) Groovy
12 8 (1.55%) R
13 7 (1.36%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.97%) Bash
15 3 (0.58%) Bicep
15 3 (0.58%) Go
16 2 (0.39%) Cypher
16 2 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 132 (25.63%) Security Cleared
2 110 (21.36%) SC Cleared
3 45 (8.74%) Degree
4 32 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.88%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.33%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.36%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.17%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.17%) PMP
9 5 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.97%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.39%) GCIA
11 2 (0.39%) GCIH
11 2 (0.39%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.39%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.19%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.19%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (25.63%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.85%) GDPR
3 20 (3.88%) QA
4 8 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.17%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.17%) HL7
6 4 (0.78%) MiFID
7 3 (0.58%) EMIR
7 3 (0.58%) GMP
7 3 (0.58%) PMO
8 2 (0.39%) DICOM
8 2 (0.39%) GRC
8 2 (0.39%) NCSC
8 2 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.19%) GAAP
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.19%) NIST
9 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 63 (12.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.24%) Terraform
3 7 (1.36%) Kibana
4 4 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.78%) logstash
4 4 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.58%) Ansible
6 2 (0.39%) Grafana
7 1 (0.19%) Control-M
7 1 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.19%) Podman
7 1 (0.19%) Puppet
7 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 98 (19.03%) Microsoft
2 87 (16.89%) Oracle
3 73 (14.17%) Databricks
4 38 (7.38%) SAP
4 38 (7.38%) Talend
5 32 (6.21%) Denodo
6 25 (4.85%) Google
7 23 (4.47%) Informatica
8 15 (2.91%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.94%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.36%) Adobe
11 6 (1.17%) IBM
12 5 (0.97%) Teradata
12 5 (0.97%) Workday
13 4 (0.78%) Alteryx
13 4 (0.78%) Bloomberg
13 4 (0.78%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.78%) Palantir
13 4 (0.78%) Solace
13 4 (0.78%) TIBCO