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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 167 182
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 +97
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 618 406 479
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 1.67% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.83% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 291 351
10th Percentile £400 £363 £388
25th Percentile £448 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year - -7.89% +3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £738
90th Percentile £750 £738 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +1.45% -5.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 7
10th Percentile £53.18 £25.56 £44.92
25th Percentile £65.58 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £78.50 £43.81 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +79.17% -5.13% +125.93%
75th Percentile £85.44 £64.94 £49.67
90th Percentile £86.83 £72.48 £57.65
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £27.13 £46.84
% change year-on-year +154.38% -42.09% +129.16%

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 33,405 22,176 32,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.48% 90.94% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,387 14,594 21,148
10th Percentile £313 £313 £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 £613 £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 2,074 880 2,191
10th Percentile £15.41 £14.84 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.51 £15.76
Median hourly rate £41.00 £31.88 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.61% -6.24% -9.33%
75th Percentile £66.25 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.28 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.79 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.16% -6.87% -8.79%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -19 315 £575 +4.55% 80
Midlands +17 153 £500 +5.26% 34
West Midlands +22 141 £513 +7.89% 24
North of England -44 61 £500 -8.26% 22
North West -22 33 £475 -12.84% 14
South East -54 32 £550 +8.91% 38
South West -32 24 £640 +38.38% 16
Yorkshire -45 22 £525 +10.53% 6
East of England -19 15 £600 +9.09% 12
East Midlands -33 12 £445 -2.97% 10
North East -14 6 £500 - 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 76 (12.30%) SAS
2 45 (7.28%) Apache Spark
3 27 (4.37%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.10%) Apache
5 8 (1.29%) CMS
6 6 (0.97%) Confluence
6 6 (0.97%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.81%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.65%) Camunda
9 2 (0.32%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.16%) Appian
10 1 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.16%) Mendix
10 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.97%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (0.97%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.65%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.49%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.49%) Maximo
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.49%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.49%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.49%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.49%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.49%) SAP Retail
6 2 (0.32%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.32%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.16%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.16%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 238 (38.51%) Azure
2 120 (19.42%) AWS
3 90 (14.56%) Power Platform
4 78 (12.62%) Azure Data Factory
5 57 (9.22%) Azure DevOps
6 53 (8.58%) GCP
7 43 (6.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 40 (6.47%) SaaS
9 28 (4.53%) GitHub
9 28 (4.53%) Snowflake
10 26 (4.21%) Serverless
11 18 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
12 17 (2.75%) Power Automate
13 14 (2.27%) PowerApps
14 13 (2.10%) dbt
14 13 (2.10%) PaaS
15 11 (1.78%) Amazon S3
15 11 (1.78%) Azure AKS
15 11 (1.78%) Collibra
15 11 (1.78%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.13%) FTP
2 5 (0.81%) SMS
3 3 (0.49%) Firewall
3 3 (0.49%) VPN
4 2 (0.32%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.16%) DWDM
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (22.01%) Data Warehouse
2 83 (13.43%) Power BI
3 72 (11.65%) Metadata
4 68 (11.00%) SQL Server
5 50 (8.09%) Pentaho
6 49 (7.93%) NoSQL
7 45 (7.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 45 (7.28%) Data Lake
8 32 (5.18%) Relational Database
9 28 (4.53%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 28 (4.53%) Tableau
10 22 (3.56%) Oracle Database
11 20 (3.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (3.24%) MySQL
11 20 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (2.91%) Big Data
12 18 (2.91%) Delta Lake
12 18 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (1.62%) Data Vault
13 10 (1.62%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 88 (14.24%) Git
2 46 (7.44%) Jenkins
2 46 (7.44%) JIRA
3 11 (1.78%) ERwin
4 9 (1.46%) GitLab
5 5 (0.81%) PowerDesigner
5 5 (0.81%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.49%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.32%) git-flow
7 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.16%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.16%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.16%) MLflow
8 1 (0.16%) Mocha
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.16%) RStudio
8 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.16%) Terragrunt
General
1 213 (34.47%) Social Skills
2 166 (26.86%) Finance
3 133 (21.52%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (12.78%) Public Sector
5 47 (7.61%) Banking
6 24 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (2.43%) Financial Institution
8 15 (2.43%) Marketing
9 13 (2.10%) Legal
10 10 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.62%) Retail
11 9 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.29%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.13%) Back Office
13 7 (1.13%) Front Office
14 6 (0.97%) General Ledger
15 5 (0.81%) Law
15 5 (0.81%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 154 (24.92%) Data Engineer
2 128 (20.71%) Architect
3 89 (14.40%) Developer
4 61 (9.87%) Senior
5 56 (9.06%) Data Architect
6 50 (8.09%) Solutions Architect
7 42 (6.80%) Analyst
8 40 (6.47%) Consultant
8 40 (6.47%) Lead
9 31 (5.02%) Azure Engineer
10 29 (4.69%) Azure Data Engineer
11 26 (4.21%) Business Analyst
12 23 (3.72%) Release Manager
13 21 (3.40%) Integration Architect
14 20 (3.24%) Senior Data Engineer
15 16 (2.59%) Full-Stack Developer
16 15 (2.43%) Senior Developer
17 14 (2.27%) Azure Architect
17 14 (2.27%) Integration Engineer
18 13 (2.10%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (8.58%) REST
2 41 (6.63%) PySpark
3 33 (5.34%) Kafka
4 25 (4.05%) JSON
5 24 (3.88%) .NET
5 24 (3.88%) Node.js
6 22 (3.56%) RESTful
7 21 (3.40%) Middleware
7 21 (3.40%) YAML
8 20 (3.24%) React
9 17 (2.75%) AngularJS
10 16 (2.59%) XML
11 14 (2.27%) Django
11 14 (2.27%) Flask
12 13 (2.10%) Oracle Fusion
13 12 (1.94%) SOAP
14 9 (1.46%) .NET Core
14 9 (1.46%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (1.29%) FHIR
16 7 (1.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (6.31%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.15%) Data Structures
3 29 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (3.72%) Onboarding
5 21 (3.40%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.43%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.94%) NHS
9 10 (1.62%) Data Fabric
10 9 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.46%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.97%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.97%) Credit Risk
12 6 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (0.97%) IoT
12 6 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
13 5 (0.81%) Market Risk
13 5 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.29%) Unix
2 5 (0.81%) Windows
3 3 (0.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (44.01%) Data Modelling
2 232 (37.54%) Analytics
3 216 (34.95%) ETL
4 204 (33.01%) Agile
5 176 (28.48%) Data Pipeline
6 167 (27.02%) Problem-Solving
7 158 (25.57%) DevOps
8 151 (24.43%) Business Intelligence
8 151 (24.43%) CI/CD
9 146 (23.62%) Data Governance
10 108 (17.48%) Data Architecture
11 107 (17.31%) Data Engineering
12 105 (16.99%) Migration
13 102 (16.50%) Integration Patterns
14 101 (16.34%) Validation
15 81 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
16 75 (12.14%) Continuous Improvement
17 69 (11.17%) AI
17 69 (11.17%) Decision-Making
18 66 (10.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 281 (45.47%) SQL
2 155 (25.08%) Python
3 37 (5.99%) Java
4 33 (5.34%) C#
4 33 (5.34%) Scala
5 29 (4.69%) JavaScript
6 19 (3.07%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (1.78%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.78%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.62%) Bash
10 8 (1.29%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.13%) R
12 6 (0.97%) Bicep
12 6 (0.97%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.81%) Groovy
14 3 (0.49%) ABAP
14 3 (0.49%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.32%) IronPython
15 2 (0.32%) Korn
Qualifications
1 179 (28.96%) Security Cleared
2 151 (24.43%) SC Cleared
3 37 (5.99%) Degree
4 27 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (4.05%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.75%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.97%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.97%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.32%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.16%) CISSP
11 1 (0.16%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.16%) MBA
11 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (28.64%) Data Quality
2 35 (5.66%) GDPR
3 27 (4.37%) QA
4 8 (1.29%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.29%) HL7
5 5 (0.81%) Solvency II
6 4 (0.65%) GRC
6 4 (0.65%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.65%) SLA
7 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.32%) FATCA
8 2 (0.32%) IFRS
8 2 (0.32%) NCSC
8 2 (0.32%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.16%) Basel III
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 67 (10.84%) Docker
2 7 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (9.71%) Kubernetes
2 32 (5.18%) Terraform
3 7 (1.13%) Grafana
4 3 (0.49%) Ansible
5 2 (0.32%) Control-M
5 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
6 1 (0.16%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 109 (17.64%) Oracle
2 92 (14.89%) Databricks
3 86 (13.92%) Microsoft
4 61 (9.87%) Talend
5 58 (9.39%) SAP
6 43 (6.96%) Informatica
7 40 (6.47%) Denodo
8 18 (2.91%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.94%) NEC
10 11 (1.78%) ServiceNow
11 10 (1.62%) Google
11 10 (1.62%) MuleSoft
12 9 (1.46%) Cloudera
12 9 (1.46%) Software AG
13 8 (1.29%) Adobe
14 7 (1.13%) IBM
14 7 (1.13%) Workday
15 6 (0.97%) Sage
16 5 (0.81%) Teradata
17 4 (0.65%) Brio