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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 174 200
Rank change year-on-year +10 +26 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 711 427 452
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 1.57% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.73% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 292 327
10th Percentile £400 £350 £375
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £627 £638 £723
90th Percentile £738 £717 £813
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 4
10th Percentile £30.96 - -
25th Percentile £42.50 £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 £84.25 £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 38,446 24,678 30,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.44% 90.65% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,172 15,843 20,140
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 £735 £746 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,378 1,309 2,090
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.28 £13.18
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.83
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -13 319 £600 +9.09% 76
Midlands +40 170 £469 -6.90% 23
West Midlands +33 149 £469 -8.49% 14
North of England -26 92 £520 +4.00% 21
South East -43 63 £525 +1.94% 36
North West -26 53 £513 +1.69% 9
South West -33 28 £506 +23.59% 17
Yorkshire -27 26 £510 +7.37% 9
East Midlands -4 21 £447 +2.88% 9
East of England -12 18 £578 +0.43% 6
North East - 14 £525 - 3
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 71 (9.99%) SAS
2 35 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (3.23%) Apache Spark
4 18 (2.53%) Confluence
5 15 (2.11%) Apache
6 10 (1.41%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.70%) Camunda
8 4 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.28%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.14%) Appian
10 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.14%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) Luigi
10 1 (0.14%) Mendix
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 13 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.42%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.42%) Revit
3 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (3.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.70%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.70%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.70%) SAP HCM
3 5 (0.70%) SAP Payroll
3 5 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.56%) SAP BPC
4 4 (0.56%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.42%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.28%) Endur
6 2 (0.28%) Maximo
6 2 (0.28%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.28%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.14%) iTrent
7 1 (0.14%) SAP CAR
Cloud Services
1 274 (38.54%) Azure
2 199 (27.99%) AWS
3 104 (14.63%) Power Platform
4 72 (10.13%) GCP
5 62 (8.72%) Azure Data Factory
6 51 (7.17%) Snowflake
7 48 (6.75%) Serverless
8 42 (5.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 39 (5.49%) Amazon S3
10 35 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
10 35 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (4.08%) GitHub
11 29 (4.08%) SaaS
12 21 (2.95%) dbt
13 16 (2.25%) iPaaS
13 16 (2.25%) Power Automate
14 14 (1.97%) PaaS
14 14 (1.97%) PowerApps
15 13 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.84%) FTP
2 4 (0.56%) SMS
3 3 (0.42%) Firewall
3 3 (0.42%) MQTT
3 3 (0.42%) Network Security
3 3 (0.42%) VPN
4 1 (0.14%) DMZ
4 1 (0.14%) DNS
4 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (16.03%) Data Warehouse
2 98 (13.78%) Power BI
3 73 (10.27%) SQL Server
4 68 (9.56%) Metadata
5 65 (9.14%) Data Lake
6 55 (7.74%) Pentaho
7 42 (5.91%) Relational Database
8 40 (5.63%) Tableau
9 33 (4.64%) Oracle Database
10 32 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
11 27 (3.80%) NoSQL
12 26 (3.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 23 (3.23%) Big Data
13 23 (3.23%) MySQL
14 22 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
15 19 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
16 18 (2.53%) SAS Enterprise Guide
17 17 (2.39%) SAS Visual Analytics
18 16 (2.25%) BigQuery
18 16 (2.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 50 (7.03%) Git
2 30 (4.22%) JIRA
3 26 (3.66%) Jenkins
4 20 (2.81%) GitLab
5 14 (1.97%) ERwin
6 5 (0.70%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.70%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.56%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.56%) Postman
7 4 (0.56%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.28%) 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
General
1 224 (31.50%) Social Skills
2 167 (23.49%) Finance
3 133 (18.71%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (16.32%) Public Sector
5 50 (7.03%) Banking
6 26 (3.66%) Marketing
7 25 (3.52%) Retail
8 23 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (1.69%) Legal
11 12 (1.69%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.41%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.98%) Automotive
14 6 (0.84%) Front Office
14 6 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.70%) Aviation
15 5 (0.70%) Billing
15 5 (0.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 202 (28.41%) Architect
2 183 (25.74%) Data Engineer
3 99 (13.92%) Developer
4 80 (11.25%) Senior
5 79 (11.11%) Data Architect
6 71 (9.99%) Solutions Architect
7 58 (8.16%) Lead
8 55 (7.74%) Analyst
9 30 (4.22%) Senior Data Engineer
10 25 (3.52%) Consultant
10 25 (3.52%) Technical Leader
11 22 (3.09%) Integration Architect
11 22 (3.09%) Project Manager
12 21 (2.95%) Technical Architect
13 20 (2.81%) Business Analyst
14 19 (2.67%) Data Analyst
14 19 (2.67%) SQL Developer
15 18 (2.53%) Integration Engineer
16 17 (2.39%) Azure Engineer
16 17 (2.39%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (7.03%) REST
2 40 (5.63%) Kafka
3 32 (4.50%) React
4 31 (4.36%) JSON
5 30 (4.22%) Middleware
6 25 (3.52%) Node.js
7 22 (3.09%) .NET
8 20 (2.81%) RESTful
8 20 (2.81%) XML
9 19 (2.67%) PySpark
10 17 (2.39%) YAML
11 14 (1.97%) Django
11 14 (1.97%) Flask
11 14 (1.97%) SOAP
12 13 (1.83%) AngularJS
12 13 (1.83%) FastAPI
13 10 (1.41%) GraphQL
14 7 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
14 7 (0.98%) Spring Boot
15 6 (0.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 56 (7.88%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.17%) Legacy Systems
3 38 (5.34%) Data Structures
4 29 (4.08%) Onboarding
5 28 (3.94%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.67%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.39%) Reference Data
8 16 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (1.83%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.83%) Life Science
11 12 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (1.41%) IoT
12 10 (1.41%) Taxonomies
13 9 (1.27%) NHS
14 8 (1.13%) Mainframe
15 7 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
16 6 (0.84%) Clustering
16 6 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
16 6 (0.84%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.81%) Unix
2 8 (1.13%) Linux
3 4 (0.56%) Windows
4 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (40.37%) Data Modelling
2 280 (39.38%) ETL
3 263 (36.99%) Analytics
4 214 (30.10%) Data Pipeline
5 205 (28.83%) Agile
6 165 (23.21%) CI/CD
7 157 (22.08%) Migration
8 148 (20.82%) Data Engineering
9 147 (20.68%) DevOps
10 144 (20.25%) Business Intelligence
11 140 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
12 135 (18.99%) Stakeholder Management
13 128 (18.00%) Data Governance
14 124 (17.44%) Data Architecture
15 114 (16.03%) AI
16 113 (15.89%) Integration Patterns
17 106 (14.91%) Validation
18 102 (14.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 89 (12.52%) Decision-Making
20 85 (11.95%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 314 (44.16%) SQL
2 168 (23.63%) Python
3 46 (6.47%) Java
4 28 (3.94%) PL/SQL
5 22 (3.09%) TypeScript
6 20 (2.81%) C#
6 20 (2.81%) JavaScript
7 18 (2.53%) T-SQL
8 16 (2.25%) Bash
9 15 (2.11%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.55%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (1.13%) Scala
13 6 (0.84%) ABAP
13 6 (0.84%) Bicep
14 4 (0.56%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.56%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.56%) R
14 4 (0.56%) SPARQL
15 3 (0.42%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 211 (29.68%) Security Cleared
2 177 (24.89%) SC Cleared
3 41 (5.77%) Degree
4 21 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.97%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.83%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.41%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.41%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (1.13%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.56%) SAS Certification
12 3 (0.42%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.42%) PMP
13 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.14%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 1 (0.14%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (26.02%) Data Quality
2 44 (6.19%) GDPR
3 23 (3.23%) QA
4 18 (2.53%) GRC
5 15 (2.11%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.13%) Solvency II
7 7 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.98%) SLA
8 6 (0.84%) PMO
9 4 (0.56%) HL7
9 4 (0.56%) IFRS
9 4 (0.56%) SNOMED CT
10 3 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.42%) GxP
10 3 (0.42%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.42%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.42%) NCSC
11 2 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.28%) FATCA
11 2 (0.28%) GMP
System Software
1 44 (6.19%) Docker
2 8 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (6.89%) Kubernetes
2 30 (4.22%) Terraform
3 11 (1.55%) Grafana
4 5 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.56%) Control-M
6 3 (0.42%) Ansible
6 3 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.28%) Argo
8 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 144 (20.25%) Oracle
2 102 (14.35%) Microsoft
3 94 (13.22%) Databricks
4 79 (11.11%) SAP
5 66 (9.28%) Talend
6 62 (8.72%) Informatica
7 38 (5.34%) Salesforce
8 28 (3.94%) Denodo
9 24 (3.38%) Google
10 17 (2.39%) ServiceNow
11 15 (2.11%) MuleSoft
12 13 (1.83%) Cloudera
13 12 (1.69%) NEC
14 11 (1.55%) IBM
15 7 (0.98%) Teradata
15 7 (0.98%) Workday
16 5 (0.70%) Alteryx
16 5 (0.70%) Bloomberg
16 5 (0.70%) Palantir
16 5 (0.70%) SimCorp