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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 172 205
Rank change year-on-year -3 +33 +90
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 500 451 461
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 1.46% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.66% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 288 333
10th Percentile £363 £363 £390
25th Percentile £451 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% -2.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £25.26 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.56 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +92.56% -39.87% +33.80%
75th Percentile £57.50 £30.00 £50.00
90th Percentile - £39.23 £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 27,575 27,131 34,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.77% 87.57% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,561 16,585 23,601
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,784 990 1,459
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.63
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.27 £19.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.02 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.17% -21.31% +19.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.04 £43.84
% change year-on-year -23.87% -24.65% +25.26%

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 29 November 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 29 November 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 29 November 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 +22 274 £575 +4.55% 94
Midlands 0 78 £520 -0.95% 31
West Midlands +5 71 £525 - 21
South East +30 50 £445 -8.72% 82
North of England -69 48 £494 -3.66% 25
North West -20 33 £455 +7.00% 12
South West +8 22 £498 +4.74% 19
East of England -14 13 £503 -8.64% 10
Yorkshire -54 13 £500 -11.82% 6
East Midlands -9 7 £429 +20.37% 8
North East -12 2 £525 +25.75% 7
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 60 (12.00%) SAS
2 38 (7.60%) Apache Spark
3 35 (7.00%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (3.40%) Apache
5 9 (1.80%) CMS
6 8 (1.60%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.40%) Confluence
8 5 (1.00%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.60%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.40%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.40%) Camunda
11 2 (0.40%) Luigi
11 2 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
Applications
1 14 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.40%) Sketch
6 1 (0.20%) Maple
Business Applications
1 16 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.60%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.60%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.60%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.60%) Maximo
3 3 (0.60%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.60%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.40%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.40%) Endur
4 2 (0.40%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 2 (0.40%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.40%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.40%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.40%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.40%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 171 (34.20%) Azure
2 92 (18.40%) AWS
3 77 (15.40%) Power Platform
4 62 (12.40%) GCP
5 59 (11.80%) Azure Data Factory
6 44 (8.80%) Snowflake
7 33 (6.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 29 (5.80%) SaaS
9 25 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (3.80%) Serverless
11 17 (3.40%) dbt
11 17 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (3.00%) Power Automate
13 14 (2.80%) PaaS
14 13 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (2.60%) PowerApps
15 12 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (2.00%) Amazon S3
16 10 (2.00%) Azure Functions
16 10 (2.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.40%) 2G
1 2 (0.40%) 5G
1 2 (0.40%) Hyperconnected
1 2 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.20%) 4G
2 1 (0.20%) DWDM
2 1 (0.20%) Network Security
2 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 73 (14.60%) Power BI
3 47 (9.40%) Data Lake
4 42 (8.40%) Metadata
5 34 (6.80%) Pentaho
5 34 (6.80%) SQL Server
6 33 (6.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 33 (6.60%) NoSQL
7 29 (5.80%) Tableau
8 26 (5.20%) BigQuery
8 26 (5.20%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 24 (4.80%) Big Data
10 22 (4.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 21 (4.20%) Oracle Database
12 20 (4.00%) Relational Database
13 15 (3.00%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (2.40%) SAS Visual Analytics
15 11 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
16 10 (2.00%) Hadoop
16 10 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 65 (13.00%) Git
2 50 (10.00%) JIRA
3 49 (9.80%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.60%) GitLab
5 5 (1.00%) ERwin
5 5 (1.00%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.60%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.40%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.40%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.40%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.40%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.40%) TestRail
9 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.20%) MLflow
9 1 (0.20%) Mocha
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.20%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 202 (40.40%) Social Skills
2 142 (28.40%) Finance
3 90 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (11.00%) Public Sector
5 32 (6.40%) Banking
6 16 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.80%) Back Office
7 14 (2.80%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.60%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.40%) Front Office
10 11 (2.20%) Marketing
10 11 (2.20%) Retail
11 9 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.60%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.40%) Legal
13 7 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.00%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.80%) Automotive
15 4 (0.80%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 93 (18.60%) Architect
2 84 (16.80%) Data Engineer
3 74 (14.80%) Developer
4 59 (11.80%) Analyst
5 41 (8.20%) Data Architect
6 37 (7.40%) Consultant
6 37 (7.40%) Lead
7 36 (7.20%) Senior
8 32 (6.40%) Solutions Architect
9 25 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
10 22 (4.40%) Azure Data Engineer
11 20 (4.00%) Business Analyst
12 15 (3.00%) Data Analyst
12 15 (3.00%) Project Manager
12 15 (3.00%) Release Manager
13 13 (2.60%) Azure Architect
14 11 (2.20%) Data Modeller
14 11 (2.20%) Integration Engineer
14 11 (2.20%) Integration Specialist
15 10 (2.00%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (7.40%) Kafka
1 37 (7.40%) REST
2 24 (4.80%) PySpark
3 15 (3.00%) SOAP
4 14 (2.80%) .NET
4 14 (2.80%) XML
5 13 (2.60%) JSON
6 12 (2.40%) React
7 11 (2.20%) Oracle Fusion
7 11 (2.20%) RESTful
8 10 (2.00%) FHIR
9 9 (1.80%) Middleware
10 8 (1.60%) Node.js
11 6 (1.20%) EDI
11 6 (1.20%) HTML
11 6 (1.20%) OAuth
11 6 (1.20%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.20%) XSLT
12 5 (1.00%) Apache NiFi
12 5 (1.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.20%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.20%) Data Structures
3 20 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.60%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.60%) NHS
6 12 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.00%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.60%) Replication
9 6 (1.20%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.20%) Reference Data
10 5 (1.00%) Data Fabric
10 5 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.00%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.00%) Linux
2 4 (0.80%) Unix
3 3 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (42.60%) Data Modelling
2 185 (37.00%) Agile
3 180 (36.00%) ETL
4 165 (33.00%) Analytics
5 145 (29.00%) Problem-Solving
6 135 (27.00%) Data Pipeline
7 126 (25.20%) Data Governance
8 125 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
9 121 (24.20%) CI/CD
10 107 (21.40%) DevOps
11 85 (17.00%) Data Engineering
12 81 (16.20%) Migration
13 74 (14.80%) Data Architecture
14 73 (14.60%) Scrum
15 70 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
16 68 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
17 64 (12.80%) Validation
18 59 (11.80%) AI
19 58 (11.60%) Visualisation
20 49 (9.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 244 (48.80%) SQL
2 140 (28.00%) Python
3 45 (9.00%) Java
4 22 (4.40%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.00%) Scala
5 20 (4.00%) VB
6 19 (3.80%) C#
7 14 (2.80%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.80%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.40%) R
8 12 (2.40%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.20%) PL/SQL
10 10 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.40%) Groovy
11 7 (1.40%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.20%) Bash
13 3 (0.60%) Go
14 2 (0.40%) Bicep
14 2 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.40%) LookML
Qualifications
1 119 (23.80%) Security Cleared
2 100 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 45 (9.00%) Degree
4 28 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (4.20%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.60%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.20%) PMP
9 5 (1.00%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.80%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.60%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.40%) GCIA
12 2 (0.40%) GCIH
12 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.40%) MCSE
13 1 (0.20%) CISSP
13 1 (0.20%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (25.40%) Data Quality
2 33 (6.60%) GDPR
3 21 (4.20%) QA
4 10 (2.00%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.60%) HIPAA
5 8 (1.60%) HL7
6 4 (0.80%) MiFID
7 3 (0.60%) EMIR
7 3 (0.60%) GMP
7 3 (0.60%) NCSC
7 3 (0.60%) PMO
8 2 (0.40%) DICOM
8 2 (0.40%) GRC
8 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.40%) Section 508
8 2 (0.40%) WCAG
9 1 (0.20%) GAAP
9 1 (0.20%) GxP
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 61 (12.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (11.00%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.60%) Terraform
3 7 (1.40%) Kibana
4 5 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.80%) logstash
6 3 (0.60%) Ansible
7 2 (0.40%) Grafana
8 1 (0.20%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.20%) Podman
8 1 (0.20%) Puppet
8 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 97 (19.40%) Microsoft
2 84 (16.80%) Oracle
3 64 (12.80%) Databricks
4 39 (7.80%) SAP
5 38 (7.60%) Talend
6 37 (7.40%) Google
7 32 (6.40%) Denodo
8 21 (4.20%) Informatica
9 15 (3.00%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.80%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.60%) MuleSoft
12 6 (1.20%) IBM
13 5 (1.00%) OpenAI
13 5 (1.00%) Workday
14 4 (0.80%) Adobe
14 4 (0.80%) Bloomberg
14 4 (0.80%) Cognos
14 4 (0.80%) Palantir
14 4 (0.80%) Solace
14 4 (0.80%) TIBCO