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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 153 187
Rank change year-on-year -23 +34 +97
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 580 408 474
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.55% 1.68% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 1.85% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 291 338
10th Percentile £400 £363 £375
25th Percentile £447 £425 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £734
90th Percentile £775 £725 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 10
10th Percentile £63.26 £25.56 £45.86
25th Percentile £72.60 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £80.50 £43.81 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +83.74% -5.13% +125.93%
75th Percentile £85.63 £64.94 £49.96
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.48 £53.30
UK median hourly rate £69.44 £27.13 £46.18
% change year-on-year +156.00% -41.26% +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 32,391 22,052 32,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.35% 90.83% 86.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,759 14,493 21,652
10th Percentile £313 £312 £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 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,980 839 2,155
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.56 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.25 £32.81 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -0.58% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £75.44 £77.25 £71.89
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year - - -9.72%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -9 303 £575 +5.50% 79
Midlands +8 132 £513 +7.89% 37
West Midlands +23 123 £513 +7.89% 24
North of England -41 59 £500 -8.26% 27
North West -25 33 £463 -15.14% 16
South East -45 33 £525 +3.96% 48
South West -25 22 £652 +37.26% 26
Yorkshire -46 21 £530 +6.00% 10
East of England -27 13 £613 +8.89% 12
East Midlands -32 9 £447 +7.52% 13
North East -8 5 £563 - 1
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 65 (11.21%) SAS
2 44 (7.59%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.72%) Apache
5 9 (1.55%) CMS
6 6 (1.03%) Confluence
7 3 (0.52%) Camunda
7 3 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.52%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.52%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.17%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.17%) Mendix
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.52%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (2.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (0.86%) SAP Payroll
5 4 (0.69%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.69%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.52%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.52%) Maximo
6 3 (0.52%) Oracle FAH
6 3 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.52%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.52%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.52%) SAP Retail
7 2 (0.34%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.17%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 223 (38.45%) Azure
2 107 (18.45%) AWS
3 86 (14.83%) Power Platform
4 77 (13.28%) Azure Data Factory
5 57 (9.83%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (7.93%) GCP
7 41 (7.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 38 (6.55%) SaaS
9 28 (4.83%) Snowflake
10 21 (3.62%) GitHub
11 18 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (3.10%) Serverless
12 14 (2.41%) dbt
12 14 (2.41%) Power Automate
13 13 (2.24%) PowerApps
14 12 (2.07%) Collibra
15 11 (1.90%) OCI
16 10 (1.72%) Azure AKS
16 10 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
17 9 (1.55%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.86%) FTP
2 3 (0.52%) Firewall
2 3 (0.52%) VPN
3 2 (0.34%) 2G
3 2 (0.34%) 5G
3 2 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.34%) SMS
4 1 (0.17%) 4G
4 1 (0.17%) DWDM
4 1 (0.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (23.79%) Data Warehouse
2 78 (13.45%) Power BI
3 67 (11.55%) Metadata
4 64 (11.03%) SQL Server
5 45 (7.76%) Data Lake
5 45 (7.76%) NoSQL
6 44 (7.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 44 (7.59%) Pentaho
7 31 (5.34%) Relational Database
8 24 (4.14%) Tableau
9 21 (3.62%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 19 (3.28%) MySQL
10 19 (3.28%) Oracle Database
10 19 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 18 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (2.93%) Big Data
13 16 (2.76%) Delta Lake
13 16 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
14 12 (2.07%) Oracle Reports
15 10 (1.72%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 86 (14.83%) Git
2 46 (7.93%) Jenkins
3 43 (7.41%) JIRA
4 8 (1.38%) ERwin
5 4 (0.69%) GitLab
5 4 (0.69%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.52%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.34%) git-flow
7 2 (0.34%) MLflow
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.34%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.17%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.17%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.17%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.17%) Mocha
8 1 (0.17%) RStudio
8 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.17%) Terragrunt
General
1 214 (36.90%) Social Skills
2 163 (28.10%) Finance
3 131 (22.59%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (12.24%) Public Sector
5 51 (8.79%) Banking
6 22 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (2.41%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.41%) Marketing
9 12 (2.07%) Retail
10 10 (1.72%) Back Office
10 10 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.72%) Legal
11 9 (1.55%) Front Office
12 8 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.38%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.21%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.03%) General Ledger
15 5 (0.86%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 146 (25.17%) Data Engineer
2 116 (20.00%) Architect
3 80 (13.79%) Developer
4 57 (9.83%) Senior
5 54 (9.31%) Data Architect
6 43 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
7 42 (7.24%) Consultant
8 41 (7.07%) Analyst
9 40 (6.90%) Lead
10 33 (5.69%) Azure Engineer
11 30 (5.17%) Azure Data Engineer
12 27 (4.66%) Business Analyst
13 19 (3.28%) Release Manager
14 17 (2.93%) Integration Architect
14 17 (2.93%) Senior Data Engineer
15 15 (2.59%) Integration Engineer
16 14 (2.41%) Full-Stack Developer
17 13 (2.24%) Data Analyst
17 13 (2.24%) Project Manager
17 13 (2.24%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (9.31%) REST
2 37 (6.38%) PySpark
3 34 (5.86%) Kafka
4 24 (4.14%) JSON
5 21 (3.62%) RESTful
6 20 (3.45%) .NET
6 20 (3.45%) YAML
7 19 (3.28%) Middleware
7 19 (3.28%) Node.js
8 17 (2.93%) XML
9 15 (2.59%) AngularJS
9 15 (2.59%) Oracle Fusion
9 15 (2.59%) React
10 14 (2.41%) Django
10 14 (2.41%) Flask
11 13 (2.24%) SOAP
12 9 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (1.38%) .NET Core
13 8 (1.38%) FHIR
14 7 (1.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.38%) Data Structures
2 31 (5.34%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.66%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.76%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (1.90%) NHS
8 9 (1.55%) Data Fabric
8 9 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.55%) Reference Data
9 8 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.21%) IoT
11 6 (1.03%) Credit Risk
11 6 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.03%) Taxonomies
12 5 (0.86%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.86%) Market Risk
12 5 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.21%) Unix
2 6 (1.03%) Linux
2 6 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (44.14%) Data Modelling
2 210 (36.21%) Analytics
3 206 (35.52%) ETL
4 197 (33.97%) Agile
5 170 (29.31%) Problem-Solving
6 164 (28.28%) Data Pipeline
7 144 (24.83%) Data Governance
7 144 (24.83%) DevOps
8 137 (23.62%) Business Intelligence
9 132 (22.76%) CI/CD
10 111 (19.14%) Data Architecture
11 107 (18.45%) Data Engineering
12 91 (15.69%) Migration
13 90 (15.52%) Validation
14 86 (14.83%) Integration Patterns
15 81 (13.97%) Stakeholder Management
16 77 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
17 68 (11.72%) Decision-Making
18 66 (11.38%) AI
19 62 (10.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 269 (46.38%) SQL
2 147 (25.34%) Python
3 32 (5.52%) C#
3 32 (5.52%) Scala
4 30 (5.17%) JavaScript
5 29 (5.00%) Java
6 16 (2.76%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.24%) PL/SQL
8 12 (2.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (1.90%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.55%) Bash
11 8 (1.38%) Groovy
11 8 (1.38%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.21%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.86%) Bicep
14 4 (0.69%) ABAP
14 4 (0.69%) R
15 3 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.34%) IronPython
16 2 (0.34%) Korn
Qualifications
1 161 (27.76%) Security Cleared
2 138 (23.79%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.55%) Degree
4 28 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (4.48%) Azure Certification
6 18 (3.10%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.21%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.03%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.34%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.34%) PMP
12 1 (0.17%) CISSP
12 1 (0.17%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.17%) MBA
12 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (29.66%) Data Quality
2 36 (6.21%) GDPR
3 26 (4.48%) QA
4 8 (1.38%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.38%) HIPAA
4 8 (1.38%) HL7
5 5 (0.86%) Solvency II
6 4 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.52%) GRC
7 3 (0.52%) SLA
8 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.34%) FATCA
8 2 (0.34%) IFRS
8 2 (0.34%) NCSC
8 2 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.17%) GMP
9 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.17%) MiFID
9 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 58 (10.00%) Docker
2 6 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (9.14%) Kubernetes
2 32 (5.52%) Terraform
3 6 (1.03%) Grafana
4 2 (0.34%) Ansible
4 2 (0.34%) Control-M
4 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.17%) Kibana
5 1 (0.17%) logstash
5 1 (0.17%) SCCM
5 1 (0.17%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 103 (17.76%) Oracle
2 88 (15.17%) Databricks
3 79 (13.62%) Microsoft
4 54 (9.31%) Talend
5 50 (8.62%) SAP
6 42 (7.24%) Informatica
7 35 (6.03%) Denodo
8 16 (2.76%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.90%) NEC
10 10 (1.72%) Google
10 10 (1.72%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.55%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.55%) Software AG
12 8 (1.38%) Adobe
13 7 (1.21%) Cloudera
13 7 (1.21%) IBM
13 7 (1.21%) Workday
14 6 (1.03%) Sage
15 5 (0.86%) Sitecore
16 4 (0.69%) Murex