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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 167 177
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 +94
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 628 405 481
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.59% 1.65% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 1.82% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 294 353
10th Percentile £400 £363 £385
25th Percentile £447 £425 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £629 £738
90th Percentile £739 £725 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +1.45% -5.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 7
10th Percentile £53.18 £32.26 £44.92
25th Percentile £65.58 £42.75 -
Median hourly rate £78.50 £60.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +29.75% +31.01% +125.93%
75th Percentile £85.44 £69.13 £49.67
90th Percentile £86.83 £74.15 £57.65
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £60.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +9.92% +31.01% +125.93%

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 33,684 22,303 32,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.31% 91.07% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,561 14,661 21,238
10th Percentile £314 £310 £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 £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 892 2,221
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.29% -9.60% -6.17%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.23 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -2.78%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -2 316 £575 +6.98% 76
Midlands +16 155 £492 +0.95% 33
West Midlands +21 141 £500 +2.56% 21
North of England -46 61 £500 -8.26% 38
South East -50 36 £563 +11.39% 37
North West -34 32 £494 -9.40% 22
South West -26 25 £640 +34.74% 20
Yorkshire -40 23 £518 +8.95% 11
East of England -18 18 £588 +6.82% 17
East Midlands -29 14 £445 -2.97% 12
North East -11 6 £500 - 5
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 70 (11.15%) SAS
2 45 (7.17%) Apache Spark
3 27 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.07%) Apache
5 7 (1.11%) CMS
6 6 (0.96%) Confluence
6 6 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.64%) Camunda
8 2 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.16%) Appian
9 1 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.16%) Mendix
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (3.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.96%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (0.96%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (0.96%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.64%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.48%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.48%) Maximo
5 3 (0.48%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.48%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.48%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.48%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.48%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.48%) SAP Retail
6 2 (0.32%) Elite 3E
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%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 247 (39.33%) Azure
2 129 (20.54%) AWS
3 91 (14.49%) Power Platform
4 82 (13.06%) Azure Data Factory
5 57 (9.08%) Azure DevOps
6 53 (8.44%) GCP
7 45 (7.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 38 (6.05%) SaaS
9 34 (5.41%) Snowflake
10 29 (4.62%) Serverless
11 28 (4.46%) GitHub
12 19 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
13 17 (2.71%) Power Automate
14 16 (2.55%) dbt
15 14 (2.23%) Amazon S3
15 14 (2.23%) PowerApps
16 13 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (2.07%) Azure AKS
16 13 (2.07%) PaaS
17 12 (1.91%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.11%) FTP
2 6 (0.96%) SMS
3 3 (0.48%) Firewall
3 3 (0.48%) VPN
4 2 (0.32%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.16%) DWDM
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (20.86%) Data Warehouse
2 84 (13.38%) Power BI
3 72 (11.46%) Metadata
4 71 (11.31%) SQL Server
5 52 (8.28%) Pentaho
6 50 (7.96%) NoSQL
7 47 (7.48%) Data Lake
8 46 (7.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 31 (4.94%) Relational Database
10 30 (4.78%) Tableau
11 27 (4.30%) SAS Enterprise Guide
12 24 (3.82%) Oracle Database
13 20 (3.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 20 (3.18%) MySQL
13 20 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
14 19 (3.03%) Big Data
14 19 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 18 (2.87%) Delta Lake
16 10 (1.59%) Data Vault
16 10 (1.59%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 84 (13.38%) Git
2 44 (7.01%) JIRA
3 42 (6.69%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.75%) ERwin
5 9 (1.43%) GitLab
6 5 (0.80%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.80%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.48%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.32%) git-flow
8 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.16%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.16%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.16%) MLflow
9 1 (0.16%) Mocha
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.16%) RStudio
9 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.16%) Terragrunt
General
1 216 (34.39%) Social Skills
2 168 (26.75%) Finance
3 132 (21.02%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (12.90%) Public Sector
5 46 (7.32%) Banking
6 25 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (2.55%) Marketing
9 15 (2.39%) Financial Institution
10 13 (2.07%) Legal
11 12 (1.91%) Retail
12 11 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.27%) Retail Banking
15 7 (1.11%) Front Office
16 6 (0.96%) General Ledger
16 6 (0.96%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.80%) Back Office
17 5 (0.80%) Telecoms
18 4 (0.64%) Law
Job Titles
1 160 (25.48%) Data Engineer
2 133 (21.18%) Architect
3 87 (13.85%) Developer
4 64 (10.19%) Senior
5 58 (9.24%) Data Architect
6 54 (8.60%) Solutions Architect
7 42 (6.69%) Analyst
8 41 (6.53%) Consultant
9 40 (6.37%) Lead
10 32 (5.10%) Azure Engineer
11 30 (4.78%) Azure Data Engineer
12 25 (3.98%) Business Analyst
13 22 (3.50%) Release Manager
14 21 (3.34%) Integration Architect
15 20 (3.18%) Senior Data Engineer
16 16 (2.55%) Full-Stack Developer
16 16 (2.55%) Integration Engineer
16 16 (2.55%) Project Manager
17 15 (2.39%) Azure Architect
17 15 (2.39%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (7.96%) REST
2 41 (6.53%) PySpark
3 33 (5.25%) Kafka
4 26 (4.14%) JSON
5 25 (3.98%) .NET
5 25 (3.98%) Node.js
6 22 (3.50%) RESTful
7 21 (3.34%) Middleware
7 21 (3.34%) React
7 21 (3.34%) YAML
8 17 (2.71%) AngularJS
9 16 (2.55%) XML
10 14 (2.23%) Django
10 14 (2.23%) Flask
11 13 (2.07%) Oracle Fusion
12 10 (1.59%) .NET Core
12 10 (1.59%) SOAP
13 9 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (1.27%) FHIR
15 7 (1.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (6.69%) Cloud Native
2 37 (5.89%) Data Structures
3 35 (5.57%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (3.66%) Onboarding
5 21 (3.34%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.39%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.91%) NHS
9 10 (1.59%) Data Fabric
10 9 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.27%) Reference Data
12 6 (0.96%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.96%) Credit Risk
12 6 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (0.96%) IoT
12 6 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
13 5 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.27%) Unix
2 5 (0.80%) Windows
3 3 (0.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (43.63%) Data Modelling
2 230 (36.62%) Analytics
3 214 (34.08%) ETL
4 207 (32.96%) Agile
5 182 (28.98%) Data Pipeline
6 164 (26.11%) Problem-Solving
7 154 (24.52%) DevOps
8 152 (24.20%) Business Intelligence
9 150 (23.89%) CI/CD
10 147 (23.41%) Data Governance
11 117 (18.63%) Data Engineering
12 108 (17.20%) Data Architecture
13 107 (17.04%) Migration
14 103 (16.40%) Integration Patterns
15 100 (15.92%) Validation
16 85 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
17 75 (11.94%) AI
18 72 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
19 70 (11.15%) Decision-Making
20 67 (10.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 288 (45.86%) SQL
2 157 (25.00%) Python
3 37 (5.89%) Java
4 35 (5.57%) C#
5 33 (5.25%) Scala
6 29 (4.62%) JavaScript
7 19 (3.03%) TypeScript
8 13 (2.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (1.91%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.59%) Bash
10 10 (1.59%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.59%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.11%) Bicep
11 7 (1.11%) R
12 6 (0.96%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.80%) Groovy
14 3 (0.48%) ABAP
14 3 (0.48%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.32%) IronPython
15 2 (0.32%) Korn
Qualifications
1 179 (28.50%) Security Cleared
2 150 (23.89%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.05%) Degree
4 28 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (4.14%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.87%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.27%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.96%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.48%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.32%) SAP Certification
14 1 (0.16%) CISSP
14 1 (0.16%) CTC Cleared
14 1 (0.16%) MBA
14 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (28.03%) Data Quality
2 37 (5.89%) GDPR
3 24 (3.82%) QA
4 9 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.27%) HL7
6 5 (0.80%) Solvency II
7 4 (0.64%) GRC
7 4 (0.64%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.64%) SLA
8 3 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.32%) FATCA
9 2 (0.32%) IFRS
9 2 (0.32%) NCSC
9 2 (0.32%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.16%) Basel III
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.16%) MiFID
System Software
1 64 (10.19%) Docker
2 7 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (8.92%) Kubernetes
2 33 (5.25%) Terraform
3 7 (1.11%) Grafana
4 3 (0.48%) 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
1 112 (17.83%) Oracle
2 98 (15.61%) Databricks
3 90 (14.33%) Microsoft
4 63 (10.03%) Talend
5 59 (9.39%) SAP
6 43 (6.85%) Informatica
7 37 (5.89%) Denodo
8 18 (2.87%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.91%) NEC
10 11 (1.75%) Google
11 10 (1.59%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.59%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.43%) Cloudera
12 9 (1.43%) Software AG
13 8 (1.27%) Adobe
14 7 (1.11%) IBM
14 7 (1.11%) Workday
15 6 (0.96%) Sage
16 5 (0.80%) Alteryx
16 5 (0.80%) Teradata