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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 179 221
Rank change year-on-year -5 +42 +85
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 488 443 450
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 1.41% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.62% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 283 324
10th Percentile £363 £363 £387
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -3.09% -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 27,360 27,372 34,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.00% 87.10% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,349 16,711 23,948
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.22% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,809 1,012 1,477
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.10 £14.52
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.23 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.75 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.65% -19.66% +25.35%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -26.03% -22.46% +25.29%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +20 265 £575 +4.55% 80
Midlands 0 80 £519 +3.85% 31
West Midlands +8 71 £525 - 22
South East +31 53 £450 -10.00% 62
North of England -66 43 £500 -2.44% 28
North West -19 30 £488 +14.71% 15
South West -1 23 £420 -11.58% 26
East of England -14 13 £503 -8.64% 9
Yorkshire -57 12 £500 -11.82% 7
East Midlands -6 9 £385 -3.75% 9
North East -12 1 £550 +31.74% 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 59 (12.09%) SAS
2 33 (6.76%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (6.76%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.28%) Apache
4 9 (1.84%) CMS
5 7 (1.43%) Confluence
5 7 (1.43%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.82%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.82%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.61%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.41%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.41%) Camunda
8 2 (0.41%) Luigi
8 2 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
Applications
1 15 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.41%) Sketch
6 1 (0.20%) Maple
Business Applications
1 15 (3.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (2.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.61%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.61%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.61%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.61%) Maximo
3 3 (0.61%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.61%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.41%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.41%) Endur
4 2 (0.41%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.41%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.41%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.41%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.20%) Actimize
5 1 (0.20%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.20%) Primavera
5 1 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 163 (33.40%) Azure
2 91 (18.65%) AWS
3 74 (15.16%) Power Platform
4 63 (12.91%) GCP
5 51 (10.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 44 (9.02%) Snowflake
7 28 (5.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 27 (5.53%) SaaS
9 21 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (3.69%) Serverless
11 17 (3.48%) dbt
11 17 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
12 16 (3.28%) Power Automate
13 14 (2.87%) PaaS
14 13 (2.66%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (2.66%) PowerApps
15 11 (2.25%) Amazon S3
15 11 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
16 9 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
17 8 (1.64%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) 2G
1 2 (0.41%) 5G
1 2 (0.41%) Hyperconnected
1 2 (0.41%) 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
1 117 (23.98%) Data Warehouse
2 70 (14.34%) Power BI
3 44 (9.02%) Data Lake
4 40 (8.20%) Metadata
5 34 (6.97%) Pentaho
5 34 (6.97%) SQL Server
6 31 (6.35%) NoSQL
7 28 (5.74%) Tableau
8 27 (5.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 27 (5.53%) BigQuery
9 26 (5.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 22 (4.51%) Big Data
11 21 (4.30%) Oracle Database
12 20 (4.10%) Relational Database
13 19 (3.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
16 12 (2.46%) SAS Visual Analytics
17 10 (2.05%) Looker
17 10 (2.05%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 62 (12.70%) Git
2 50 (10.25%) JIRA
3 49 (10.04%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.43%) GitLab
5 5 (1.02%) ERwin
5 5 (1.02%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.61%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.41%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.41%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.41%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.41%) TestRail
8 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.20%) MLflow
8 1 (0.20%) Mocha
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.20%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 197 (40.37%) Social Skills
2 138 (28.28%) Finance
3 90 (18.44%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (10.04%) Public Sector
5 33 (6.76%) Banking
6 15 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.87%) Back Office
7 14 (2.87%) Retail
8 13 (2.66%) Manufacturing
8 13 (2.66%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.25%) Front Office
10 10 (2.05%) Marketing
11 8 (1.64%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.43%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.43%) Legal
12 7 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.23%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.82%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 94 (19.26%) Architect
2 79 (16.19%) Data Engineer
3 75 (15.37%) Developer
4 59 (12.09%) Analyst
5 41 (8.40%) Data Architect
6 37 (7.58%) Consultant
7 36 (7.38%) Senior
8 35 (7.17%) Lead
9 30 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
10 21 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
11 18 (3.69%) Azure Data Engineer
11 18 (3.69%) Business Analyst
12 16 (3.28%) Data Analyst
12 16 (3.28%) Project Manager
13 15 (3.07%) Release Manager
14 13 (2.66%) Azure Architect
15 11 (2.25%) Data Modeller
15 11 (2.25%) Integration Engineer
16 10 (2.05%) Integration Specialist
16 10 (2.05%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (7.79%) Kafka
2 35 (7.17%) REST
3 20 (4.10%) PySpark
4 15 (3.07%) .NET
4 15 (3.07%) SOAP
5 14 (2.87%) XML
6 13 (2.66%) JSON
7 11 (2.25%) Oracle Fusion
7 11 (2.25%) React
8 9 (1.84%) FHIR
8 9 (1.84%) HTML
8 9 (1.84%) Middleware
8 9 (1.84%) RESTful
9 8 (1.64%) Node.js
10 6 (1.23%) EDI
10 6 (1.23%) OAuth
10 6 (1.23%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.23%) Web Services
10 6 (1.23%) XSLT
11 5 (1.02%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.56%) Cloud Native
2 22 (4.51%) Data Structures
3 18 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (2.87%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.87%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.46%) NHS
5 12 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.64%) Replication
8 6 (1.23%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.23%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.02%) Data Fabric
9 5 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.02%) Operational Technology
9 5 (1.02%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.82%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.25%) Linux
2 4 (0.82%) Unix
3 3 (0.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (42.83%) Data Modelling
2 180 (36.89%) ETL
3 178 (36.48%) Agile
4 163 (33.40%) Analytics
5 144 (29.51%) Problem-Solving
6 126 (25.82%) Data Pipeline
7 120 (24.59%) Business Intelligence
8 119 (24.39%) Data Governance
9 118 (24.18%) CI/CD
10 101 (20.70%) DevOps
11 80 (16.39%) Data Engineering
12 78 (15.98%) Migration
13 72 (14.75%) Data Architecture
14 71 (14.55%) Scrum
15 68 (13.93%) Stakeholder Management
16 65 (13.32%) Continuous Improvement
17 59 (12.09%) AI
18 57 (11.68%) Validation
18 57 (11.68%) Visualisation
19 49 (10.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 240 (49.18%) SQL
2 134 (27.46%) Python
3 45 (9.22%) Java
4 24 (4.92%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.10%) C#
5 20 (4.10%) VB
6 17 (3.48%) Scala
7 15 (3.07%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.66%) T-SQL
9 12 (2.46%) R
9 12 (2.46%) TypeScript
10 11 (2.25%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (1.43%) Bash
12 7 (1.43%) Groovy
12 7 (1.43%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.82%) Go
14 3 (0.61%) Korn
14 3 (0.61%) VBA
15 2 (0.41%) IronPython
Qualifications
1 111 (22.75%) Security Cleared
2 94 (19.26%) SC Cleared
3 43 (8.81%) Degree
4 28 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.89%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.84%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.23%) PMP
10 5 (1.02%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.82%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.61%) MCSE
12 3 (0.61%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.41%) GCIA
13 2 (0.41%) GCIH
13 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.20%) CTC Cleared
14 1 (0.20%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (24.80%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.97%) GDPR
3 21 (4.30%) QA
4 10 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.43%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.43%) HL7
6 4 (0.82%) MiFID
7 3 (0.61%) EMIR
7 3 (0.61%) GMP
7 3 (0.61%) NCSC
7 3 (0.61%) PMO
8 2 (0.41%) DICOM
8 2 (0.41%) GRC
8 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.41%) Section 508
8 2 (0.41%) WCAG
9 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 60 (12.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (11.48%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.53%) Terraform
3 7 (1.43%) Kibana
4 5 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.82%) logstash
6 3 (0.61%) Ansible
7 2 (0.41%) Grafana
8 1 (0.20%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.20%) Podman
8 1 (0.20%) Puppet
8 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 97 (19.88%) Microsoft
2 86 (17.62%) Oracle
3 57 (11.68%) Databricks
4 38 (7.79%) SAP
4 38 (7.79%) Talend
5 37 (7.58%) Google
6 32 (6.56%) Denodo
7 20 (4.10%) Informatica
8 15 (3.07%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.84%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.64%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.23%) IBM
12 5 (1.02%) OpenAI
12 5 (1.02%) Workday
13 4 (0.82%) Adobe
13 4 (0.82%) Bloomberg
13 4 (0.82%) Cognos
13 4 (0.82%) Palantir
13 4 (0.82%) Solace
13 4 (0.82%) TIBCO