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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 171 203
Rank change year-on-year +19 +32 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 785 443 404
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.72% 1.61% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 1.77% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 309 288
10th Percentile £400 £362 £363
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% - -5.41%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £678
90th Percentile £738 £725 £800
UK median daily rate £548 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.29% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 4
10th Percentile £30.96 - -
25th Percentile £31.66 - -
Median hourly rate £68.61 - £30.00
75th Percentile £83.25 - £39.69
90th Percentile £85.48 - £57.13
UK median hourly rate £57.99 - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - -40.00%

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 38,882 25,041 28,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 90.76% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,206 16,026 18,694
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,519 1,388 1,683
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.88 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.27 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.68 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +69.69% -37.63% -5.12%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -8 357 £600 +9.09% 221
Midlands +28 176 £469 -9.55% 27
West Midlands +23 157 £469 -9.55% 18
North of England -11 104 £520 +4.00% 36
South East -42 77 £533 +3.40% 64
North West -6 63 £550 +9.56% 22
South West -20 29 £525 +10.53% 23
Yorkshire -30 22 £476 +0.26% 12
North East - 20 £520 - 2
East Midlands -7 19 £455 +4.72% 9
East of England -15 17 £580 -3.33% 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 92 (11.72%) SAS
2 39 (4.97%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.68%) Apache Spark
4 18 (2.29%) Confluence
5 15 (1.91%) Apache
6 10 (1.27%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.51%) Camunda
7 4 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.25%) ThingWorx
8 2 (0.25%) WordPress
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.13%) CMS
9 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.13%) Luigi
9 1 (0.13%) Mule
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.38%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.38%) Revit
3 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 31 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.76%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.64%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.64%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.51%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.51%) SAP HCM
5 4 (0.51%) SAP IBP
5 4 (0.51%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (0.38%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.25%) Endur
7 2 (0.25%) Maximo
7 2 (0.25%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.13%) SAP APO
8 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 297 (37.83%) Azure
2 204 (25.99%) AWS
3 115 (14.65%) Power Platform
4 77 (9.81%) GCP
5 75 (9.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 57 (7.26%) Snowflake
7 53 (6.75%) Serverless
8 46 (5.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 43 (5.48%) Amazon S3
10 40 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
10 40 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (4.46%) GitHub
12 23 (2.93%) SaaS
13 20 (2.55%) dbt
14 19 (2.42%) OCI
15 18 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (2.29%) Power Automate
16 16 (2.04%) PowerApps
17 14 (1.78%) iPaaS
17 14 (1.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.64%) Firewall
1 5 (0.64%) FTP
1 5 (0.64%) VPN
2 4 (0.51%) SMS
3 3 (0.38%) DNS
3 3 (0.38%) MQTT
3 3 (0.38%) Network Security
4 2 (0.25%) DHCP
4 2 (0.25%) SSL
4 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.13%) DMZ
5 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (16.05%) Data Warehouse
2 107 (13.63%) Power BI
3 74 (9.43%) Metadata
4 72 (9.17%) SQL Server
5 66 (8.41%) Data Lake
6 62 (7.90%) Pentaho
7 44 (5.61%) Relational Database
8 41 (5.22%) Tableau
9 38 (4.84%) Oracle Database
10 30 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
11 29 (3.69%) NoSQL
12 28 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (3.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 22 (2.80%) Big Data
15 21 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
16 20 (2.55%) BigQuery
16 20 (2.55%) MySQL
17 19 (2.42%) SAS Enterprise Guide
18 18 (2.29%) SAS Visual Analytics
19 17 (2.17%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 65 (8.28%) Git
2 35 (4.46%) Jenkins
3 34 (4.33%) JIRA
4 23 (2.93%) GitLab
5 13 (1.66%) ERwin
6 7 (0.89%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.64%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.64%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.51%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.51%) Postman
9 2 (0.25%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.13%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.13%) eggPlant
10 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.13%) RStudio
10 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.13%) TestRail
10 1 (0.13%) Toad
General
1 246 (31.34%) Social Skills
2 168 (21.40%) Finance
3 145 (18.47%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (16.05%) Public Sector
5 55 (7.01%) Banking
6 27 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (3.44%) Marketing
7 26 (3.31%) Retail
8 23 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (1.66%) Legal
11 12 (1.53%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.40%) Financial Institution
13 9 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.02%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.89%) Automotive
15 7 (0.89%) Front Office
16 6 (0.76%) Billing
16 6 (0.76%) Military
17 5 (0.64%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 225 (28.66%) Architect
2 207 (26.37%) Data Engineer
3 100 (12.74%) Developer
4 84 (10.70%) Senior
5 81 (10.32%) Data Architect
6 72 (9.17%) Solutions Architect
7 66 (8.41%) Lead
8 60 (7.64%) Analyst
9 32 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
10 26 (3.31%) Technical Leader
11 25 (3.18%) Consultant
11 25 (3.18%) Integration Engineer
12 24 (3.06%) Integration Architect
13 23 (2.93%) Technical Architect
14 22 (2.80%) Business Analyst
15 21 (2.68%) Data Analyst
16 19 (2.42%) Azure Engineer
16 19 (2.42%) Project Manager
16 19 (2.42%) Senior Developer
17 18 (2.29%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.50%) REST
2 42 (5.35%) Kafka
3 33 (4.20%) Middleware
3 33 (4.20%) React
4 31 (3.95%) JSON
5 23 (2.93%) .NET
5 23 (2.93%) Node.js
6 22 (2.80%) PySpark
7 21 (2.68%) RESTful
8 18 (2.29%) XML
9 17 (2.17%) YAML
10 14 (1.78%) Django
10 14 (1.78%) SOAP
11 13 (1.66%) FastAPI
11 13 (1.66%) Flask
12 12 (1.53%) AngularJS
13 10 (1.27%) GraphQL
14 9 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
15 7 (0.89%) pytest
15 7 (0.89%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 63 (8.03%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.13%) Legacy Systems
3 46 (5.86%) Data Structures
4 29 (3.69%) Onboarding
5 26 (3.31%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.55%) Reference Data
7 18 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.29%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (2.04%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.78%) Life Science
12 11 (1.40%) Replication
13 10 (1.27%) Taxonomies
14 9 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (1.15%) NHS
15 8 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (1.02%) Clustering
15 8 (1.02%) IoT
15 8 (1.02%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.42%) Unix
2 16 (2.04%) Linux
3 7 (0.89%) Windows
4 3 (0.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (41.15%) ETL
2 321 (40.89%) Data Modelling
3 307 (39.11%) Analytics
4 230 (29.30%) Data Pipeline
5 227 (28.92%) Agile
6 193 (24.59%) CI/CD
7 174 (22.17%) DevOps
7 174 (22.17%) Migration
8 163 (20.76%) Business Intelligence
9 156 (19.87%) Data Engineering
10 151 (19.24%) Stakeholder Management
11 147 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
12 141 (17.96%) Data Governance
13 135 (17.20%) Data Architecture
14 132 (16.82%) AI
15 126 (16.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 118 (15.03%) Integration Patterns
17 115 (14.65%) Validation
18 98 (12.48%) Decision-Making
19 95 (12.10%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 336 (42.80%) SQL
2 190 (24.20%) Python
3 42 (5.35%) Java
4 30 (3.82%) PL/SQL
5 22 (2.80%) TypeScript
6 21 (2.68%) Bash
6 21 (2.68%) JavaScript
7 19 (2.42%) C#
7 19 (2.42%) T-SQL
8 14 (1.78%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.78%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (1.15%) Scala
10 8 (1.02%) Bicep
11 5 (0.64%) ABAP
11 5 (0.64%) R
12 4 (0.51%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.51%) Gremlin
12 4 (0.51%) SPARQL
13 3 (0.38%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 261 (33.25%) Security Cleared
2 223 (28.41%) SC Cleared
3 39 (4.97%) Degree
4 21 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.42%) Azure Certification
5 19 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.04%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
8 10 (1.27%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.89%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.76%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.51%) SAS Certification
12 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.38%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.38%) PMP
13 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.13%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.13%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (26.75%) Data Quality
2 42 (5.35%) GDPR
3 31 (3.95%) GRC
4 22 (2.80%) QA
5 18 (2.29%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.02%) Solvency II
7 7 (0.89%) PMO
7 7 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.89%) SLA
8 6 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.51%) SNOMED CT
10 3 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.38%) GxP
10 3 (0.38%) HL7
10 3 (0.38%) IFRS
10 3 (0.38%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.38%) NCSC
11 2 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (7.13%) Docker
2 8 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (8.28%) Kubernetes
2 39 (4.97%) Terraform
3 16 (2.04%) Grafana
4 7 (0.89%) Ansible
4 7 (0.89%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.51%) Argo
6 4 (0.51%) Control-M
7 2 (0.25%) Istio
8 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.13%) Puppet
8 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 169 (21.53%) Oracle
2 112 (14.27%) Microsoft
3 106 (13.50%) Databricks
4 80 (10.19%) SAP
5 68 (8.66%) Talend
6 59 (7.52%) Informatica
7 41 (5.22%) Salesforce
8 35 (4.46%) Denodo
9 30 (3.82%) Google
10 18 (2.29%) ServiceNow
11 15 (1.91%) IBM
12 13 (1.66%) Cloudera
13 12 (1.53%) NEC
14 11 (1.40%) MuleSoft
15 9 (1.15%) Workday
16 7 (0.89%) Sparx
16 7 (0.89%) Teradata
17 5 (0.64%) Ariba
17 5 (0.64%) Bloomberg
17 5 (0.64%) Palantir