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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 165 199
Rank change year-on-year -16 +34 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 679 440 454
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.52% 1.63% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.80% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 304 326
10th Percentile £386 £361 £369
25th Percentile £428 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £626 £625 £724
90th Percentile £728 £709 £813
UK median daily rate £536 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.10% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 4
10th Percentile £31.52 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £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 £83.25 £77.50 £54.88
90th Percentile £85.85 - £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 38,237 24,502 31,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.52% 90.81% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,096 15,746 20,754
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,381 1,253 2,276
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.07%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.01 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.37 £70.16 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -40 301 £575 +4.55% 102
Midlands +31 172 £469 -6.90% 24
West Midlands +34 153 £469 -8.49% 12
North of England -34 83 £520 +3.59% 29
South East -43 60 £533 -3.18% 41
North West -19 50 £500 -2.82% 22
South West -35 24 £516 +14.56% 20
Yorkshire -39 21 £510 +7.37% 7
East Midlands -8 19 £445 +8.63% 12
East of England -16 17 £578 +5.00% 4
North East - 12 £525 - 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 62 (9.13%) SAS
2 32 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.95%) Apache Spark
4 18 (2.65%) Confluence
5 11 (1.62%) Apache
6 8 (1.18%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.74%) Camunda
8 3 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.29%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.15%) Appian
10 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.15%) Luigi
10 1 (0.15%) Mendix
10 1 (0.15%) Mule
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.44%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.44%) Revit
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (3.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.74%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.74%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.59%) SAP BPC
4 4 (0.59%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.59%) SAP IBP
4 4 (0.59%) SAP Payroll
5 3 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.44%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.29%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.29%) Endur
6 2 (0.29%) Maximo
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.29%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.15%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.15%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 279 (41.09%) Azure
2 183 (26.95%) AWS
3 103 (15.17%) Power Platform
4 67 (9.87%) GCP
5 64 (9.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 47 (6.92%) Snowflake
7 44 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (6.48%) Serverless
8 43 (6.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 32 (4.71%) Amazon S3
10 30 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (4.42%) GitHub
11 27 (3.98%) SaaS
12 22 (3.24%) dbt
13 15 (2.21%) PaaS
13 15 (2.21%) Power Automate
14 13 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (1.91%) iPaaS
14 13 (1.91%) PowerApps
15 11 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.03%) FTP
2 4 (0.59%) SMS
3 3 (0.44%) Firewall
3 3 (0.44%) MQTT
3 3 (0.44%) Network Security
3 3 (0.44%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) DMZ
4 1 (0.15%) DNS
4 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (15.76%) Data Warehouse
2 98 (14.43%) Power BI
3 77 (11.34%) SQL Server
4 63 (9.28%) Metadata
5 58 (8.54%) Data Lake
6 54 (7.95%) Pentaho
7 40 (5.89%) Tableau
8 39 (5.74%) Relational Database
9 30 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
10 28 (4.12%) Oracle Database
11 26 (3.83%) NoSQL
12 25 (3.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 23 (3.39%) MySQL
14 21 (3.09%) Big Data
15 20 (2.95%) Amazon Redshift
16 19 (2.80%) SAS Enterprise Guide
17 18 (2.65%) Delta Lake
18 17 (2.50%) SAS Visual Analytics
19 15 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
20 14 (2.06%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 52 (7.66%) Git
2 35 (5.15%) JIRA
3 30 (4.42%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.80%) GitLab
5 15 (2.21%) ERwin
6 5 (0.74%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.74%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.59%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.59%) Postman
7 4 (0.59%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.29%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.15%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.15%) MLflow
9 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.15%) RStudio
9 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
General
1 215 (31.66%) Social Skills
2 160 (23.56%) Finance
3 128 (18.85%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (16.49%) Public Sector
5 47 (6.92%) Banking
6 26 (3.83%) Retail
7 24 (3.53%) Marketing
8 23 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.77%) Legal
10 12 (1.77%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (1.47%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.03%) Automotive
13 7 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.74%) Billing
15 5 (0.74%) General Ledger
15 5 (0.74%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 183 (26.95%) Data Engineer
2 182 (26.80%) Architect
3 94 (13.84%) Developer
4 79 (11.63%) Senior
5 73 (10.75%) Data Architect
6 70 (10.31%) Solutions Architect
7 56 (8.25%) Lead
8 52 (7.66%) Analyst
9 30 (4.42%) Senior Data Engineer
10 27 (3.98%) Consultant
11 23 (3.39%) Technical Leader
12 21 (3.09%) Technical Architect
13 20 (2.95%) Project Manager
14 19 (2.80%) Azure Data Engineer
14 19 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
14 19 (2.80%) Integration Architect
15 18 (2.65%) Business Analyst
15 18 (2.65%) Data Analyst
15 18 (2.65%) Integration Engineer
15 18 (2.65%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.77%) REST
2 34 (5.01%) Kafka
3 30 (4.42%) JSON
3 30 (4.42%) React
4 27 (3.98%) Middleware
5 25 (3.68%) Node.js
6 22 (3.24%) .NET
7 20 (2.95%) RESTful
7 20 (2.95%) XML
8 19 (2.80%) YAML
9 18 (2.65%) PySpark
10 14 (2.06%) Django
10 14 (2.06%) Flask
10 14 (2.06%) SOAP
11 13 (1.91%) AngularJS
12 11 (1.62%) FastAPI
13 9 (1.33%) GraphQL
14 7 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
14 7 (1.03%) Web Services
15 6 (0.88%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 54 (7.95%) Cloud Native
2 48 (7.07%) Legacy Systems
3 35 (5.15%) Data Structures
4 28 (4.12%) Product Ownership
5 26 (3.83%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.21%) Reference Data
8 14 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.77%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.77%) Life Science
10 11 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.47%) IoT
12 9 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.33%) NHS
12 9 (1.33%) Taxonomies
13 8 (1.18%) Mainframe
14 7 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (0.88%) Clustering
15 6 (0.88%) Reinsurance
16 5 (0.74%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.36%) Unix
2 5 (0.74%) Linux
3 3 (0.44%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (41.09%) Data Modelling
2 263 (38.73%) ETL
3 248 (36.52%) Analytics
4 209 (30.78%) Data Pipeline
5 201 (29.60%) Agile
6 164 (24.15%) CI/CD
7 151 (22.24%) DevOps
8 145 (21.35%) Business Intelligence
8 145 (21.35%) Migration
9 144 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
10 139 (20.47%) Data Engineering
11 122 (17.97%) Data Governance
12 121 (17.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 113 (16.64%) AI
13 113 (16.64%) Data Architecture
14 107 (15.76%) Validation
15 103 (15.17%) Integration Patterns
16 96 (14.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 82 (12.08%) Decision-Making
18 77 (11.34%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 308 (45.36%) SQL
2 166 (24.45%) Python
3 45 (6.63%) Java
4 24 (3.53%) PL/SQL
5 23 (3.39%) C#
6 21 (3.09%) JavaScript
7 20 (2.95%) TypeScript
8 18 (2.65%) T-SQL
9 15 (2.21%) Bash
10 12 (1.77%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (1.62%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.33%) Bicep
12 9 (1.33%) Scala
13 5 (0.74%) ABAP
13 5 (0.74%) R
14 4 (0.59%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.44%) Gremlin
15 3 (0.44%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.44%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 191 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 159 (23.42%) SC Cleared
3 42 (6.19%) Degree
4 22 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 17 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.62%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.62%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.33%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (1.18%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.59%) SAS Certification
10 2 (0.29%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.29%) PMP
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.15%) MBA
11 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (26.07%) Data Quality
2 43 (6.33%) GDPR
3 23 (3.39%) QA
4 10 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.18%) GRC
5 8 (1.18%) SLA
5 8 (1.18%) Solvency II
6 7 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.59%) HL7
7 4 (0.59%) IFRS
7 4 (0.59%) PMO
7 4 (0.59%) SNOMED CT
8 3 (0.44%) GxP
8 3 (0.44%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.44%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.44%) NCSC
9 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.29%) FATCA
9 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 47 (6.92%) Docker
2 10 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (7.51%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.57%) Terraform
3 10 (1.47%) Grafana
4 4 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.44%) Ansible
5 3 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.29%) Argo
7 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.15%) Control-M
7 1 (0.15%) SCCM
7 1 (0.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 129 (19.00%) Oracle
2 99 (14.58%) Microsoft
3 98 (14.43%) Databricks
4 73 (10.75%) SAP
5 66 (9.72%) Talend
6 60 (8.84%) Informatica
7 38 (5.60%) Salesforce
8 30 (4.42%) Denodo
9 20 (2.95%) Google
10 15 (2.21%) MuleSoft
10 15 (2.21%) ServiceNow
11 12 (1.77%) Cloudera
11 12 (1.77%) NEC
12 7 (1.03%) IBM
13 5 (0.74%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.74%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.74%) Palantir
13 5 (0.74%) SimCorp
13 5 (0.74%) Sparx
13 5 (0.74%) Teradata