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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 161 194
Rank change year-on-year -16 +33 +80
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 640 419 449
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.50% 1.71% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 1.87% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 292 327
10th Percentile £398 £363 £384
25th Percentile £433 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £625 £723
90th Percentile £775 £725 £813
UK median daily rate £535 £524 £550
% change year-on-year +2.15% -4.77% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile £47.75 - £33.35
25th Percentile £54.00 £72.50 £38.38
Median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +54.64% +137.28%
75th Percentile £85.25 £77.50 £59.50
90th Percentile £86.55 - £65.05
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £75.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year -14.67% +54.64% +137.28%

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 36,262 22,351 32,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.14% 91.35% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,961 14,463 20,809
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,273 1,016 2,371
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -42 288 £575 +4.55% 91
Midlands +20 166 £469 -5.25% 25
West Midlands +33 153 £469 -8.49% 16
North of England -45 67 £515 +3.00% 30
South East -44 58 £563 +7.14% 49
North West -32 38 £500 -2.82% 16
South West -20 24 £525 +10.53% 12
Yorkshire -40 20 £538 +13.16% 10
East of England -16 17 £588 +6.82% 6
East Midlands -27 13 £444 +8.23% 9
North East - 9 £575 - 4
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 62 (9.69%) SAS
2 28 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (3.75%) Apache Spark
4 19 (2.97%) Confluence
5 9 (1.41%) Apache
6 6 (0.94%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.78%) Camunda
7 5 (0.78%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.31%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.16%) Appian
9 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.16%) IIS
9 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.16%) Mendix
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.16%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.47%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.47%) Revit
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (3.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.09%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.78%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.78%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.63%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.63%) SAP MDG
5 4 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.47%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.47%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.47%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (0.47%) SAP Retail
6 3 (0.47%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.31%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.31%) Endur
7 2 (0.31%) Maximo
7 2 (0.31%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 256 (40.00%) Azure
2 159 (24.84%) AWS
3 97 (15.16%) Power Platform
4 64 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 55 (8.59%) GCP
6 46 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (6.56%) Snowflake
8 38 (5.94%) Serverless
9 37 (5.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 33 (5.16%) GitHub
10 33 (5.16%) SaaS
11 25 (3.91%) Amazon S3
11 25 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (2.97%) dbt
13 16 (2.50%) PaaS
14 14 (2.19%) Power Automate
15 13 (2.03%) iPaaS
16 12 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (1.88%) OCI
16 12 (1.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.25%) FTP
2 6 (0.94%) SMS
3 3 (0.47%) MQTT
3 3 (0.47%) VPN
4 2 (0.31%) Firewall
4 2 (0.31%) Network Security
5 1 (0.16%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (16.25%) Data Warehouse
2 92 (14.38%) Power BI
3 77 (12.03%) SQL Server
4 58 (9.06%) Metadata
5 54 (8.44%) Data Lake
6 53 (8.28%) Pentaho
7 41 (6.41%) Relational Database
8 38 (5.94%) Tableau
9 31 (4.84%) NoSQL
10 27 (4.22%) Oracle Database
11 26 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
11 26 (4.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 22 (3.44%) SAS Enterprise Guide
13 20 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
13 20 (3.13%) MySQL
14 19 (2.97%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (2.66%) Big Data
15 17 (2.66%) Delta Lake
15 17 (2.66%) SAS Visual Analytics
16 16 (2.50%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 57 (8.91%) Git
2 40 (6.25%) JIRA
3 32 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.66%) GitLab
5 12 (1.88%) ERwin
6 5 (0.78%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.63%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.63%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.63%) Postman
7 4 (0.63%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.31%) git-flow
9 1 (0.16%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.16%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.16%) RStudio
9 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.16%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.16%) Terragrunt
General
1 193 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 158 (24.69%) Finance
3 127 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (15.31%) Public Sector
5 52 (8.13%) Banking
6 25 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (3.44%) Marketing
8 20 (3.13%) Retail
9 15 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.03%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.72%) Legal
13 7 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.94%) Billing
14 6 (0.94%) General Ledger
14 6 (0.94%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.94%) Retail Banking
15 5 (0.78%) Automotive
15 5 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 172 (26.88%) Data Engineer
2 160 (25.00%) Architect
3 90 (14.06%) Developer
4 72 (11.25%) Senior
5 67 (10.47%) Solutions Architect
6 59 (9.22%) Data Architect
7 53 (8.28%) Lead
8 42 (6.56%) Analyst
9 33 (5.16%) Consultant
10 29 (4.53%) Senior Data Engineer
11 23 (3.59%) Integration Architect
12 22 (3.44%) Business Analyst
13 21 (3.28%) Technical Architect
13 21 (3.28%) Technical Leader
14 20 (3.13%) Integration Engineer
15 17 (2.66%) Azure Data Engineer
15 17 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
15 17 (2.66%) Data Analyst
15 17 (2.66%) Project Manager
15 17 (2.66%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (7.97%) REST
2 32 (5.00%) Kafka
2 32 (5.00%) Middleware
3 31 (4.84%) JSON
4 27 (4.22%) React
5 25 (3.91%) Node.js
6 24 (3.75%) .NET
7 23 (3.59%) PySpark
8 20 (3.13%) XML
9 19 (2.97%) RESTful
9 19 (2.97%) YAML
10 14 (2.19%) AngularJS
10 14 (2.19%) Django
10 14 (2.19%) Flask
11 12 (1.88%) SOAP
12 9 (1.41%) HTML
12 9 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
12 9 (1.41%) Pandas
13 8 (1.25%) CSS
13 8 (1.25%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.97%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.88%) Legacy Systems
3 28 (4.38%) Data Structures
3 28 (4.38%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.91%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.66%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.19%) Reference Data
7 10 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (1.56%) NHS
8 9 (1.41%) IoT
9 8 (1.25%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.25%) Life Science
9 8 (1.25%) Mainframe
10 7 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.94%) Credit Risk
12 5 (0.78%) Market Risk
12 5 (0.78%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.50%) Unix
2 6 (0.94%) Linux
3 5 (0.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (40.78%) Data Modelling
2 235 (36.72%) ETL
3 226 (35.31%) Analytics
4 194 (30.31%) Agile
5 184 (28.75%) Data Pipeline
6 158 (24.69%) CI/CD
7 155 (24.22%) DevOps
8 140 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
8 140 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
9 126 (19.69%) Migration
10 116 (18.13%) Data Engineering
11 109 (17.03%) Integration Patterns
12 107 (16.72%) Data Governance
13 104 (16.25%) Validation
14 99 (15.47%) Stakeholder Management
15 98 (15.31%) Data Architecture
16 94 (14.69%) AI
17 88 (13.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 75 (11.72%) Event-Driven
19 73 (11.41%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 297 (46.41%) SQL
2 148 (23.13%) Python
3 39 (6.09%) Java
4 26 (4.06%) C#
4 26 (4.06%) PL/SQL
5 25 (3.91%) JavaScript
6 17 (2.66%) T-SQL
6 17 (2.66%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.19%) Scala
8 13 (2.03%) Bash
9 12 (1.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (1.56%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.09%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.94%) Bicep
13 4 (0.63%) ABAP
13 4 (0.63%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.63%) R
14 3 (0.47%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.31%) SOQL
16 1 (0.16%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 176 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 148 (23.13%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.09%) Degree
4 25 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.66%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.88%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (1.25%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.25%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.94%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.63%) SAS Certification
13 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.31%) PMP
13 2 (0.31%) SAP Certification
14 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.16%) MBA
14 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (24.84%) Data Quality
2 37 (5.78%) GDPR
3 22 (3.44%) QA
4 8 (1.25%) SLA
5 7 (1.09%) Solvency II
6 6 (0.94%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.78%) GRC
7 5 (0.78%) IFRS
8 4 (0.63%) HL7
8 4 (0.63%) IFRS 17
9 3 (0.47%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.47%) NCSC
9 3 (0.47%) SNOMED CT
10 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.31%) FATCA
10 2 (0.31%) GxP
10 2 (0.31%) IFRS 9
10 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.16%) GMP
System Software
1 43 (6.72%) Docker
2 9 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.22%) Terraform
3 10 (1.56%) Grafana
4 4 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.47%) Ansible
5 3 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.31%) Argo
6 2 (0.31%) Control-M
7 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 128 (20.00%) Oracle
2 98 (15.31%) Databricks
3 89 (13.91%) Microsoft
4 71 (11.09%) SAP
5 63 (9.84%) Talend
6 54 (8.44%) Informatica
7 31 (4.84%) Denodo
8 28 (4.38%) Salesforce
9 18 (2.81%) Google
10 13 (2.03%) MuleSoft
10 13 (2.03%) ServiceNow
11 12 (1.88%) Cloudera
11 12 (1.88%) NEC
12 9 (1.41%) IBM
13 8 (1.25%) Adobe
14 7 (1.09%) Alteryx
15 6 (0.94%) Workday
16 5 (0.78%) SimCorp
16 5 (0.78%) Software AG
16 5 (0.78%) Teradata