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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 153 196
Rank change year-on-year -26 +43 +65
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 620 419 441
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.49% 1.74% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.91% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 292 326
10th Percentile £400 £363 £385
25th Percentile £438 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £632 £719
90th Percentile £775 £736 £819
UK median daily rate £537 £521 £550
% change year-on-year +3.02% -5.23% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile £47.75 - £48.70
25th Percentile £54.00 £72.50 £51.63
Median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +29.31% +183.76%
75th Percentile £85.25 £77.50 £64.13
90th Percentile £86.55 - £66.90
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £75.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year -14.67% +29.31% +183.76%

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 35,421 21,987 31,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.31% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,454 14,284 20,634
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,213 963 2,325
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.99 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.84% -23.32% +0.29%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -26 288 £575 +4.55% 132
Midlands +22 161 £469 -0.21% 28
West Midlands +27 148 £469 -3.30% 19
North of England -54 60 £525 +4.17% 33
South East -48 54 £575 +4.55% 38
North West -33 34 £500 -2.82% 21
South West -27 22 £525 +13.51% 21
Yorkshire -50 19 £550 +15.79% 6
East of England -27 17 £588 +6.82% 4
East Midlands -27 13 £444 +6.73% 9
North East -21 7 £625 - 6
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 54 (8.71%) SAS
2 29 (4.68%) Apache Spark
3 23 (3.71%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.26%) Confluence
5 10 (1.61%) Apache
6 6 (0.97%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.81%) Camunda
7 5 (0.81%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.32%) CMS
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.32%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.16%) Appian
9 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.16%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.16%) Mendix
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.48%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.48%) Revit
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.97%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (0.81%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.65%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.65%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.48%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.48%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.48%) SAP Payroll
6 3 (0.48%) SAP Retail
6 3 (0.48%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.32%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.32%) SAP MDM
7 2 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 251 (40.48%) Azure
2 144 (23.23%) AWS
3 96 (15.48%) Power Platform
4 70 (11.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 53 (8.55%) GCP
6 48 (7.74%) Azure DevOps
7 41 (6.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 39 (6.29%) Snowflake
9 34 (5.48%) SaaS
10 33 (5.32%) Serverless
11 32 (5.16%) GitHub
12 22 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (3.06%) Amazon S3
14 17 (2.74%) dbt
14 17 (2.74%) Power Automate
15 15 (2.42%) PowerApps
16 14 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
17 12 (1.94%) iPaaS
17 12 (1.94%) PaaS
18 11 (1.77%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.29%) FTP
2 6 (0.97%) SMS
3 3 (0.48%) MQTT
3 3 (0.48%) VPN
4 2 (0.32%) Firewall
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (17.26%) Data Warehouse
2 90 (14.52%) Power BI
3 76 (12.26%) SQL Server
4 57 (9.19%) Metadata
5 49 (7.90%) Data Lake
6 48 (7.74%) Pentaho
7 37 (5.97%) Relational Database
7 37 (5.97%) Tableau
8 34 (5.48%) NoSQL
9 25 (4.03%) Azure SQL Database
10 24 (3.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 23 (3.71%) PostgreSQL
12 21 (3.39%) Oracle Database
13 19 (3.06%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 16 (2.58%) Delta Lake
14 16 (2.58%) MySQL
15 15 (2.42%) Big Data
16 14 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (2.10%) DataStage
18 12 (1.94%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 57 (9.19%) Git
2 40 (6.45%) JIRA
3 30 (4.84%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.94%) ERwin
4 12 (1.94%) GitLab
5 5 (0.81%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (0.65%) Artifactory
6 4 (0.65%) Postman
6 4 (0.65%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.48%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.32%) git-flow
8 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.16%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.16%) MLflow
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.16%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.16%) RStudio
9 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.16%) Terragrunt
General
1 184 (29.68%) Social Skills
2 158 (25.48%) Finance
3 126 (20.32%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (13.87%) Public Sector
5 54 (8.71%) Banking
6 23 (3.71%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (3.39%) Marketing
8 18 (2.90%) Retail
9 14 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.10%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.77%) Legal
12 7 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.13%) Retail Banking
13 6 (0.97%) Front Office
13 6 (0.97%) General Ledger
13 6 (0.97%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.81%) Publishing
15 4 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 166 (26.77%) Data Engineer
2 151 (24.35%) Architect
3 88 (14.19%) Developer
4 67 (10.81%) Senior
4 67 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
5 60 (9.68%) Data Architect
6 46 (7.42%) Lead
7 43 (6.94%) Analyst
8 32 (5.16%) Consultant
9 27 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
10 25 (4.03%) Integration Architect
11 23 (3.71%) Business Analyst
12 20 (3.23%) Integration Engineer
13 19 (3.06%) Azure Data Engineer
13 19 (3.06%) Azure Engineer
14 17 (2.74%) Data Analyst
14 17 (2.74%) Project Manager
15 16 (2.58%) Azure Architect
16 15 (2.42%) Full-Stack Developer
16 15 (2.42%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (8.06%) REST
2 34 (5.48%) Kafka
3 29 (4.68%) JSON
3 29 (4.68%) Middleware
3 29 (4.68%) PySpark
4 25 (4.03%) React
5 24 (3.87%) .NET
5 24 (3.87%) Node.js
6 20 (3.23%) RESTful
7 19 (3.06%) YAML
8 18 (2.90%) XML
9 16 (2.58%) AngularJS
10 14 (2.26%) Django
10 14 (2.26%) Flask
11 11 (1.77%) SOAP
12 9 (1.45%) Pandas
13 8 (1.29%) HTML
13 8 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
14 7 (1.13%) .NET Core
14 7 (1.13%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.42%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.61%) Legacy Systems
3 29 (4.68%) Data Structures
4 27 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.71%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.58%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (2.26%) Reference Data
8 10 (1.61%) NHS
9 9 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.29%) Mainframe
11 7 (1.13%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.13%) Life Science
12 6 (0.97%) Credit Risk
12 6 (0.97%) Data Fabric
12 6 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
13 5 (0.81%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.42%) Unix
2 5 (0.81%) Windows
3 3 (0.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (42.10%) Data Modelling
2 218 (35.16%) Analytics
3 215 (34.68%) ETL
4 187 (30.16%) Agile
5 177 (28.55%) Data Pipeline
6 145 (23.39%) DevOps
7 144 (23.23%) CI/CD
8 141 (22.74%) Business Intelligence
8 141 (22.74%) Problem-Solving
9 116 (18.71%) Migration
10 113 (18.23%) Data Governance
11 110 (17.74%) Data Engineering
12 108 (17.42%) Integration Patterns
13 100 (16.13%) Data Architecture
14 95 (15.32%) Validation
15 88 (14.19%) AI
16 86 (13.87%) Stakeholder Management
17 77 (12.42%) Decision-Making
17 77 (12.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 73 (11.77%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 287 (46.29%) SQL
2 137 (22.10%) Python
3 38 (6.13%) Java
4 29 (4.68%) C#
5 26 (4.19%) JavaScript
5 26 (4.19%) PL/SQL
6 19 (3.06%) TypeScript
7 18 (2.90%) Scala
8 14 (2.26%) T-SQL
9 12 (1.94%) Bash
9 12 (1.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (1.45%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.97%) Bicep
12 5 (0.81%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.65%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.65%) R
14 3 (0.48%) ABAP
14 3 (0.48%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.16%) Gremlin
15 1 (0.16%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 164 (26.45%) Security Cleared
2 137 (22.10%) SC Cleared
3 41 (6.61%) Degree
4 28 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.90%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (1.29%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.29%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.81%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.48%) SAS Certification
12 2 (0.32%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.32%) PMP
12 2 (0.32%) SAP Certification
13 1 (0.16%) MBA
13 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (25.16%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.48%) GDPR
3 20 (3.23%) QA
4 7 (1.13%) SLA
4 7 (1.13%) Solvency II
5 6 (0.97%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.81%) GRC
6 5 (0.81%) IFRS
6 5 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.65%) HL7
7 4 (0.65%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.48%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
9 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.32%) FATCA
9 2 (0.32%) GxP
9 2 (0.32%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) GMP
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (6.77%) Docker
2 8 (1.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (7.26%) Kubernetes
2 23 (3.71%) Terraform
3 10 (1.61%) Grafana
4 4 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.32%) Ansible
6 2 (0.32%) Control-M
7 1 (0.16%) Argo
7 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 117 (18.87%) Oracle
2 98 (15.81%) Databricks
3 90 (14.52%) Microsoft
4 64 (10.32%) SAP
5 58 (9.35%) Talend
6 50 (8.06%) Informatica
7 31 (5.00%) Denodo
8 26 (4.19%) Salesforce
9 17 (2.74%) Google
10 13 (2.10%) MuleSoft
11 12 (1.94%) NEC
12 11 (1.77%) Cloudera
13 8 (1.29%) Adobe
13 8 (1.29%) ServiceNow
14 7 (1.13%) Alteryx
14 7 (1.13%) Software AG
15 5 (0.81%) IBM
15 5 (0.81%) SimCorp
15 5 (0.81%) Workday
16 4 (0.65%) Infor