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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 170 194
Rank change year-on-year 0 +24 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 696 429 453
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.58% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 1.74% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 294 327
10th Percentile £398 £352 £375
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £626 £629 £723
90th Percentile £725 £723 £813
UK median daily rate £537 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 4
10th Percentile £31.80 - -
25th Percentile £51.94 £72.50 £30.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +91.08% +92.03%
75th Percentile £84.75 £77.50 £54.88
90th Percentile £86.00 - £63.20
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £75.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year -14.67% +91.08% +92.03%

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 38,219 24,611 31,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.42% 90.71% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,063 15,813 20,400
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,375 1,290 2,230
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.56 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.60 £72.58
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -18 315 £585 +6.36% 111
Midlands +37 167 £469 -5.25% 42
West Midlands +30 148 £469 -8.49% 23
North of England -20 91 £520 +4.00% 56
South East -55 58 £533 -0.93% 61
North West -18 53 £500 -0.79% 26
South West -31 26 £506 +12.33% 22
Yorkshire -39 25 £510 +7.37% 22
East Midlands -7 19 £445 +8.63% 19
East of England -15 17 £578 +0.43% 22
North East - 13 £523 - 8
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 67 (9.63%) SAS
2 35 (5.03%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (3.02%) Apache Spark
4 18 (2.59%) Confluence
5 13 (1.87%) Apache
6 10 (1.44%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.72%) Camunda
8 4 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.29%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.14%) Appian
10 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) Luigi
10 1 (0.14%) Mendix
10 1 (0.14%) Mule
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.43%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.43%) Revit
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 27 (3.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.72%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.72%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.72%) SAP HCM
3 5 (0.72%) SAP Payroll
3 5 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.57%) SAP BPC
4 4 (0.57%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.43%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.29%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.29%) Endur
6 2 (0.29%) Maximo
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.29%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.29%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 277 (39.80%) Azure
2 195 (28.02%) AWS
3 104 (14.94%) Power Platform
4 70 (10.06%) GCP
5 63 (9.05%) Azure Data Factory
6 52 (7.47%) Snowflake
7 46 (6.61%) Serverless
8 41 (5.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 39 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
10 37 (5.32%) Amazon S3
11 33 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
12 30 (4.31%) GitHub
13 28 (4.02%) SaaS
14 22 (3.16%) dbt
15 15 (2.16%) PaaS
15 15 (2.16%) Power Automate
16 14 (2.01%) iPaaS
17 13 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (1.87%) PowerApps
18 12 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.86%) FTP
2 4 (0.57%) SMS
3 3 (0.43%) Firewall
3 3 (0.43%) MQTT
3 3 (0.43%) Network Security
3 3 (0.43%) VPN
4 1 (0.14%) DMZ
4 1 (0.14%) DNS
4 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (16.09%) Data Warehouse
2 99 (14.22%) Power BI
3 79 (11.35%) SQL Server
4 65 (9.34%) Metadata
5 64 (9.20%) Data Lake
6 53 (7.61%) Pentaho
7 40 (5.75%) Relational Database
7 40 (5.75%) Tableau
8 32 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
9 29 (4.17%) Oracle Database
10 26 (3.74%) NoSQL
10 26 (3.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 23 (3.30%) Big Data
11 23 (3.30%) MySQL
12 22 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
13 18 (2.59%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 17 (2.44%) SAS Visual Analytics
15 16 (2.30%) Delta Lake
16 15 (2.16%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 52 (7.47%) Git
2 34 (4.89%) JIRA
3 28 (4.02%) Jenkins
4 20 (2.87%) GitLab
5 15 (2.16%) ERwin
6 5 (0.72%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.72%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.57%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.57%) Postman
7 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.29%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.14%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.14%) MLflow
9 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.14%) RStudio
9 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 224 (32.18%) Social Skills
2 164 (23.56%) Finance
3 136 (19.54%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (16.38%) Public Sector
5 49 (7.04%) Banking
6 27 (3.88%) Retail
7 26 (3.74%) Marketing
8 23 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.72%) Legal
10 12 (1.72%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (1.44%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.01%) Automotive
13 6 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.72%) Billing
14 5 (0.72%) General Ledger
14 5 (0.72%) Military
15 4 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 191 (27.44%) Architect
2 186 (26.72%) Data Engineer
3 96 (13.79%) Developer
4 81 (11.64%) Senior
5 78 (11.21%) Data Architect
6 68 (9.77%) Solutions Architect
7 57 (8.19%) Lead
8 54 (7.76%) Analyst
9 30 (4.31%) Senior Data Engineer
10 26 (3.74%) Consultant
11 24 (3.45%) Technical Leader
12 21 (3.02%) Project Manager
12 21 (3.02%) Technical Architect
13 20 (2.87%) Business Analyst
13 20 (2.87%) Integration Architect
14 19 (2.73%) Data Analyst
15 18 (2.59%) Integration Engineer
15 18 (2.59%) SQL Developer
16 17 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
16 17 (2.44%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.61%) REST
2 37 (5.32%) Kafka
3 31 (4.45%) React
4 29 (4.17%) JSON
5 28 (4.02%) Middleware
6 25 (3.59%) Node.js
7 22 (3.16%) .NET
8 20 (2.87%) XML
9 19 (2.73%) PySpark
9 19 (2.73%) RESTful
10 18 (2.59%) YAML
11 14 (2.01%) Django
11 14 (2.01%) Flask
11 14 (2.01%) SOAP
12 13 (1.87%) AngularJS
13 12 (1.72%) FastAPI
14 9 (1.29%) GraphQL
15 7 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
15 7 (1.01%) Spring Boot
15 7 (1.01%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 57 (8.19%) Cloud Native
2 48 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
3 36 (5.17%) Data Structures
4 28 (4.02%) Onboarding
5 27 (3.88%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.59%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.30%) Reference Data
8 15 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.72%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.72%) Life Science
11 10 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.44%) IoT
12 9 (1.29%) NHS
12 9 (1.29%) Taxonomies
13 8 (1.15%) Mainframe
14 7 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (0.86%) Clustering
15 6 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
15 6 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.59%) Unix
2 6 (0.86%) Linux
3 4 (0.57%) Windows
4 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (41.09%) Data Modelling
2 276 (39.66%) ETL
3 258 (37.07%) Analytics
4 214 (30.75%) Data Pipeline
5 203 (29.17%) Agile
6 165 (23.71%) CI/CD
7 153 (21.98%) Migration
8 151 (21.70%) DevOps
9 147 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
10 146 (20.98%) Business Intelligence
11 142 (20.40%) Data Engineering
12 128 (18.39%) Stakeholder Management
13 126 (18.10%) Data Governance
14 123 (17.67%) Data Architecture
15 114 (16.38%) AI
16 108 (15.52%) Integration Patterns
17 107 (15.37%) Validation
18 100 (14.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 84 (12.07%) Decision-Making
20 83 (11.93%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 312 (44.83%) SQL
2 171 (24.57%) Python
3 46 (6.61%) Java
4 26 (3.74%) PL/SQL
5 22 (3.16%) C#
6 21 (3.02%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.87%) JavaScript
8 18 (2.59%) T-SQL
9 15 (2.16%) Bash
10 14 (2.01%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.58%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 8 (1.15%) Scala
14 6 (0.86%) ABAP
14 6 (0.86%) Bicep
15 4 (0.57%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.57%) R
16 3 (0.43%) Gremlin
16 3 (0.43%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.43%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 201 (28.88%) Security Cleared
2 168 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 43 (6.18%) Degree
4 22 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.16%) Azure Certification
7 12 (1.72%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.58%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.44%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
11 8 (1.15%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.57%) SAS Certification
13 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.29%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.29%) PMP
14 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.14%) MBA
14 1 (0.14%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 1 (0.14%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (26.29%) Data Quality
2 44 (6.32%) GDPR
3 22 (3.16%) QA
4 14 (2.01%) GRC
5 12 (1.72%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.15%) SLA
6 8 (1.15%) Solvency II
7 7 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.57%) HL7
8 4 (0.57%) IFRS
8 4 (0.57%) PMO
8 4 (0.57%) SNOMED CT
9 3 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.43%) GxP
9 3 (0.43%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.43%) IFRS 17
9 3 (0.43%) NCSC
10 2 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.29%) FATCA
10 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (6.18%) Docker
2 7 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (7.04%) Kubernetes
2 30 (4.31%) Terraform
3 11 (1.58%) Grafana
4 4 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.43%) Ansible
5 3 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.29%) Argo
6 2 (0.29%) Control-M
7 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 136 (19.54%) Oracle
2 98 (14.08%) Microsoft
3 96 (13.79%) Databricks
4 76 (10.92%) SAP
5 65 (9.34%) Talend
6 61 (8.76%) Informatica
7 38 (5.46%) Salesforce
8 29 (4.17%) Denodo
9 22 (3.16%) Google
10 16 (2.30%) ServiceNow
11 15 (2.16%) MuleSoft
12 13 (1.87%) Cloudera
13 12 (1.72%) NEC
14 10 (1.44%) IBM
15 7 (1.01%) Teradata
16 5 (0.72%) Alteryx
16 5 (0.72%) Bloomberg
16 5 (0.72%) Palantir
16 5 (0.72%) SimCorp
16 5 (0.72%) Sparx