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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 176 214
Rank change year-on-year +5 +38 +79
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 498 442 447
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 1.42% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.63% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 283 323
10th Percentile £363 £363 £388
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -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 27,581 27,123 34,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.93% 87.40% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,503 16,556 23,537
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,803 997 1,447
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.62
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.26 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +18 272 £575 +4.55% 99
Midlands +6 80 £519 -1.10% 38
West Midlands +10 71 £525 - 24
South East +24 51 £450 -10.00% 84
North of England -77 44 £500 -2.44% 31
North West -18 30 £488 +14.71% 16
South West -1 24 £448 -5.79% 22
East of England -13 13 £503 -8.64% 9
Yorkshire -60 12 £500 -11.82% 8
East Midlands -6 9 £385 +8.15% 12
North East -13 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 59 (11.85%) SAS
2 35 (7.03%) Apache Spark
3 33 (6.63%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (3.21%) Apache
5 9 (1.81%) CMS
6 7 (1.41%) Confluence
6 7 (1.41%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.80%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.60%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.40%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.40%) Camunda
9 2 (0.40%) Luigi
9 2 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
Applications
1 15 (3.01%) 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 (3.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (2.81%) 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 ERP
4 2 (0.40%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.20%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.20%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 168 (33.73%) Azure
2 90 (18.07%) AWS
3 75 (15.06%) Power Platform
4 63 (12.65%) GCP
5 55 (11.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 44 (8.84%) Snowflake
7 30 (6.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 28 (5.62%) SaaS
9 23 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (3.41%) dbt
10 17 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
10 17 (3.41%) Serverless
11 16 (3.21%) Power Automate
12 14 (2.81%) PaaS
13 13 (2.61%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (2.61%) PowerApps
14 11 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (2.01%) Amazon S3
16 9 (1.81%) GitHub
17 8 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
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
1 122 (24.50%) Data Warehouse
2 71 (14.26%) Power BI
3 46 (9.24%) Data Lake
4 41 (8.23%) Metadata
5 35 (7.03%) SQL Server
6 34 (6.83%) Pentaho
7 31 (6.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 31 (6.22%) NoSQL
8 28 (5.62%) Tableau
9 27 (5.42%) BigQuery
10 26 (5.22%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 24 (4.82%) Big Data
12 21 (4.22%) Oracle Database
13 20 (4.02%) Relational Database
13 20 (4.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
16 12 (2.41%) SAS Visual Analytics
17 10 (2.01%) Looker
17 10 (2.01%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 63 (12.65%) Git
2 50 (10.04%) JIRA
3 48 (9.64%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.41%) 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%) TestRail
9 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.20%) MLflow
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.20%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 203 (40.76%) Social Skills
2 142 (28.51%) Finance
3 93 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (10.24%) Public Sector
5 33 (6.63%) Banking
6 16 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.81%) Back Office
7 14 (2.81%) Retail
7 14 (2.81%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.61%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.41%) Front Office
10 10 (2.01%) Marketing
11 9 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.61%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.41%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.41%) Legal
13 7 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.20%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 95 (19.08%) Architect
2 82 (16.47%) Data Engineer
3 76 (15.26%) Developer
4 61 (12.25%) Analyst
5 41 (8.23%) Data Architect
6 38 (7.63%) Consultant
7 36 (7.23%) Senior
8 35 (7.03%) Lead
9 33 (6.63%) Solutions Architect
10 23 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
11 20 (4.02%) Azure Data Engineer
12 19 (3.82%) Business Analyst
13 17 (3.41%) Data Analyst
14 16 (3.21%) Project Manager
15 15 (3.01%) Release Manager
16 13 (2.61%) Azure Architect
17 11 (2.21%) Data Modeller
17 11 (2.21%) Integration Architect
17 11 (2.21%) Integration Engineer
18 10 (2.01%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (7.43%) Kafka
2 36 (7.23%) REST
3 21 (4.22%) PySpark
4 15 (3.01%) .NET
4 15 (3.01%) SOAP
5 14 (2.81%) XML
6 13 (2.61%) JSON
7 11 (2.21%) Oracle Fusion
7 11 (2.21%) React
8 10 (2.01%) RESTful
9 9 (1.81%) FHIR
9 9 (1.81%) HTML
9 9 (1.81%) Middleware
10 8 (1.61%) Node.js
11 6 (1.20%) EDI
11 6 (1.20%) OAuth
11 6 (1.20%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.20%) Web Services
11 6 (1.20%) XSLT
12 5 (1.00%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.22%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.02%) Data Structures
3 18 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (2.81%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.81%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.41%) NHS
5 12 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.61%) Replication
8 6 (1.20%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.20%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.00%) Data Fabric
9 5 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.00%) Operational Technology
9 5 (1.00%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.80%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.01%) Linux
2 4 (0.80%) Unix
3 3 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (42.37%) Data Modelling
2 182 (36.55%) Agile
3 181 (36.35%) ETL
4 165 (33.13%) Analytics
5 146 (29.32%) Problem-Solving
6 129 (25.90%) Data Pipeline
7 122 (24.50%) Business Intelligence
8 121 (24.30%) Data Governance
9 118 (23.69%) CI/CD
10 103 (20.68%) DevOps
11 81 (16.27%) Data Engineering
12 80 (16.06%) Migration
13 72 (14.46%) Data Architecture
13 72 (14.46%) Scrum
14 69 (13.86%) Stakeholder Management
15 66 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
16 59 (11.85%) Validation
17 58 (11.65%) AI
18 56 (11.24%) Visualisation
19 49 (9.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 244 (49.00%) SQL
2 136 (27.31%) Python
3 44 (8.84%) Java
4 24 (4.82%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.22%) C#
6 20 (4.02%) VB
7 17 (3.41%) Scala
8 15 (3.01%) PowerShell
9 13 (2.61%) T-SQL
9 13 (2.61%) TypeScript
10 12 (2.41%) R
11 11 (2.21%) PL/SQL
12 9 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (1.41%) Bash
13 7 (1.41%) Groovy
13 7 (1.41%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.80%) Go
15 3 (0.60%) Korn
15 3 (0.60%) VBA
16 2 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 114 (22.89%) Security Cleared
2 97 (19.48%) SC Cleared
3 46 (9.24%) Degree
4 29 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.82%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.81%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.61%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.20%) PMP
10 5 (1.00%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.80%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.60%) MCSE
12 3 (0.60%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.40%) GCIA
13 2 (0.40%) GCIH
13 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.20%) CTC Cleared
14 1 (0.20%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (24.50%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.83%) GDPR
3 21 (4.22%) QA
4 10 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.61%) HIPAA
6 7 (1.41%) HL7
7 4 (0.80%) MiFID
8 3 (0.60%) EMIR
8 3 (0.60%) GMP
8 3 (0.60%) NCSC
8 3 (0.60%) PMO
9 2 (0.40%) DICOM
9 2 (0.40%) GRC
9 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.40%) Section 508
9 2 (0.40%) WCAG
10 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 59 (11.85%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (11.04%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.42%) Terraform
3 7 (1.41%) 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
1 100 (20.08%) Microsoft
2 86 (17.27%) Oracle
3 60 (12.05%) Databricks
4 39 (7.83%) SAP
5 38 (7.63%) Talend
6 37 (7.43%) Google
7 32 (6.43%) Denodo
8 20 (4.02%) Informatica
9 15 (3.01%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.81%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.61%) 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