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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 178 199
Rank change year-on-year +22 +21 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 819 444 418
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.76% 1.60% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 1.76% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 296 265
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £762 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 19 5
10th Percentile £30.96 - -
25th Percentile £33.05 £52.50 £25.26
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +83.33% -47.83%
75th Percentile £69.58 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £76.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +83.33% -53.85%

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 39,415 25,251 27,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.00% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,982 16,042 16,911
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -2.64% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,873 1,537 1,195
10th Percentile £13.88 £14.39 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £47.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.86 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +54.51% -40.82% -

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -7 391 £600 +4.35% 334
Midlands +22 140 £475 -8.39% 51
West Midlands +18 122 £475 -9.09% 33
North of England +3 120 £500 - 114
South East -35 82 £525 +9.38% 63
North West -9 62 £500 - 71
South West -15 39 £555 +38.75% 39
Yorkshire -13 38 £447 -6.00% 32
North East -19 21 £520 -5.45% 11
East Midlands -9 18 £435 +20.83% 18
East of England -25 18 £600 +19.40% 34
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 74 (9.04%) SAS
2 46 (5.62%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.66%) Confluence
4 26 (3.17%) Apache Spark
5 19 (2.32%) Apache
6 13 (1.59%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.24%) Camunda
9 2 (0.24%) CMS
9 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.24%) nginx
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.24%) ThingWorx
9 2 (0.24%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.12%) Appian
10 1 (0.12%) Luigi
Applications
1 15 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.37%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.37%) Revit
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 34 (4.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.73%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.49%) SAP Payroll
7 3 (0.37%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.37%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.37%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.24%) Endur
8 2 (0.24%) Maximo
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.24%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.24%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.24%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
9 1 (0.12%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 317 (38.71%) Azure
2 225 (27.47%) AWS
3 122 (14.90%) Power Platform
4 88 (10.74%) GCP
5 85 (10.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 69 (8.42%) Serverless
7 67 (8.18%) Snowflake
8 60 (7.33%) Amazon S3
9 53 (6.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 50 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
11 41 (5.01%) Azure DevOps
12 35 (4.27%) GitHub
13 34 (4.15%) dbt
14 24 (2.93%) OCI
15 23 (2.81%) SaaS
16 22 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 20 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
17 20 (2.44%) Power Automate
18 17 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
19 16 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.85%) MQTT
2 5 (0.61%) DNS
2 5 (0.61%) Firewall
3 4 (0.49%) DHCP
3 4 (0.49%) SMS
3 4 (0.49%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.49%) VPN
4 3 (0.37%) FTP
5 2 (0.24%) Network Security
5 2 (0.24%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.24%) SSL
6 1 (0.12%) DMZ
6 1 (0.12%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (17.83%) Data Warehouse
2 105 (12.82%) Power BI
3 97 (11.84%) Metadata
4 82 (10.01%) Data Lake
5 70 (8.55%) SQL Server
6 47 (5.74%) Relational Database
7 44 (5.37%) Oracle Database
8 42 (5.13%) Pentaho
9 37 (4.52%) Tableau
10 35 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
10 35 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
11 33 (4.03%) BigQuery
12 30 (3.66%) Amazon Redshift
12 30 (3.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 26 (3.17%) DataStage
14 22 (2.69%) Big Data
14 22 (2.69%) NoSQL
15 19 (2.32%) DynamoDB
16 18 (2.20%) SAS Enterprise Guide
17 17 (2.08%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 59 (7.20%) Git
2 37 (4.52%) JIRA
3 26 (3.17%) GitLab
4 21 (2.56%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.98%) ERwin
6 7 (0.85%) Postman
7 6 (0.73%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.49%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.49%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.24%) RStudio
9 2 (0.24%) TestRail
9 2 (0.24%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.12%) eggPlant
10 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.12%) Zephyr
General
1 274 (33.46%) Social Skills
2 202 (24.66%) Finance
3 136 (16.61%) Public Sector
4 133 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (9.77%) Banking
6 30 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
7 28 (3.42%) Retail
8 27 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (2.93%) Marketing
10 17 (2.08%) Manufacturing
11 15 (1.83%) Front Office
11 15 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.47%) Legal
13 11 (1.34%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.34%) Billing
13 11 (1.34%) Military
14 9 (1.10%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.10%) Investment Banking
15 8 (0.98%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 234 (28.57%) Architect
2 204 (24.91%) Data Engineer
3 98 (11.97%) Developer
4 94 (11.48%) Senior
5 90 (10.99%) Lead
6 82 (10.01%) Data Architect
7 72 (8.79%) Solutions Architect
8 68 (8.30%) Analyst
9 44 (5.37%) Senior Data Engineer
10 32 (3.91%) Technical Leader
11 30 (3.66%) Consultant
12 25 (3.05%) Data Analyst
13 23 (2.81%) Integration Architect
13 23 (2.81%) Technical Architect
14 21 (2.56%) Integration Engineer
15 19 (2.32%) Azure Engineer
15 19 (2.32%) Business Analyst
15 19 (2.32%) Project Manager
16 18 (2.20%) SQL Developer
17 16 (1.95%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.23%) Terraform
2 46 (5.62%) REST
3 45 (5.49%) Kafka
4 37 (4.52%) JSON
5 32 (3.91%) PySpark
6 31 (3.79%) Middleware
6 31 (3.79%) React
7 26 (3.17%) XML
8 22 (2.69%) .NET
9 19 (2.32%) RESTful
10 18 (2.20%) FastAPI
11 13 (1.59%) Node.js
12 12 (1.47%) SOAP
13 11 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
14 10 (1.22%) Apache NiFi
15 9 (1.10%) OAuth
15 9 (1.10%) Spring Boot
16 8 (0.98%) GraphQL
16 8 (0.98%) pytest
17 7 (0.85%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 73 (8.91%) Cloud Native
2 43 (5.25%) Legacy Systems
3 41 (5.01%) Data Structures
4 33 (4.03%) Onboarding
5 27 (3.30%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.17%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (2.56%) Reference Data
8 18 (2.20%) AI Agents
8 18 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (2.08%) Data Fabric
9 17 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (1.95%) Replication
11 14 (1.71%) Taxonomies
12 13 (1.59%) Life Science
13 10 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (0.98%) Mainframe
14 8 (0.98%) Operational Technology
14 8 (0.98%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.17%) Unix
2 25 (3.05%) Linux
3 8 (0.98%) Windows
4 5 (0.61%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (40.54%) ETL
2 324 (39.56%) Data Modelling
3 304 (37.12%) Analytics
4 238 (29.06%) Agile
5 231 (28.21%) Data Pipeline
6 203 (24.79%) Migration
7 202 (24.66%) CI/CD
8 200 (24.42%) Stakeholder Management
9 197 (24.05%) Data Engineering
10 172 (21.00%) DevOps
11 165 (20.15%) Data Governance
12 156 (19.05%) AI
13 152 (18.56%) Data Architecture
14 145 (17.70%) Business Intelligence
15 137 (16.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 136 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
17 124 (15.14%) Validation
18 117 (14.29%) Roadmaps
19 116 (14.16%) Integration Patterns
20 108 (13.19%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 354 (43.22%) SQL
2 211 (25.76%) Python
3 39 (4.76%) PL/SQL
4 36 (4.40%) Java
5 27 (3.30%) TypeScript
6 25 (3.05%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.81%) C#
8 18 (2.20%) Bash
8 18 (2.20%) Shell Script
8 18 (2.20%) T-SQL
9 17 (2.08%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.10%) Bicep
11 7 (0.85%) R
12 6 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.73%) Scala
13 4 (0.49%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.49%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (0.49%) Korn
14 3 (0.37%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 257 (31.38%) Security Cleared
2 217 (26.50%) SC Cleared
3 43 (5.25%) Degree
4 24 (2.93%) DV Cleared
5 23 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.95%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.95%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (0.98%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.85%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.85%) PMP
11 6 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.73%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.49%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.37%) CBAP
14 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (26.98%) Data Quality
2 32 (3.91%) GRC
3 29 (3.54%) GDPR
4 24 (2.93%) QA
5 21 (2.56%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.22%) SLA
7 7 (0.85%) PMO
8 6 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.73%) WCAG
9 5 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.49%) IFRS
10 4 (0.49%) NCSC
11 3 (0.37%) GxP
11 3 (0.37%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.37%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.24%) FATCA
12 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
12 2 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 46 (5.62%) Docker
2 7 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.49%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.12%) HDFS
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (6.96%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.59%) Grafana
3 11 (1.34%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.10%) Ansible
5 7 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.73%) Control-M
7 4 (0.49%) Argo
8 3 (0.37%) Istio
8 3 (0.37%) Kibana
9 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 171 (20.88%) Oracle
2 135 (16.48%) Microsoft
3 117 (14.29%) Databricks
4 70 (8.55%) SAP
5 59 (7.20%) Informatica
6 50 (6.11%) Talend
7 45 (5.49%) Google
8 39 (4.76%) Salesforce
9 24 (2.93%) IBM
9 24 (2.93%) ServiceNow
10 20 (2.44%) Denodo
11 13 (1.59%) Teradata
12 9 (1.10%) Workday
13 8 (0.98%) Ariba
13 8 (0.98%) MuleSoft
14 7 (0.85%) Bloomberg
14 7 (0.85%) Cloudera
14 7 (0.85%) eFront
14 7 (0.85%) Palantir
14 7 (0.85%) Sparx