SQL Server Integration Services Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring SQL Server Integration Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
3 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 413 342
Rank change year-on-year -89 -71 -57
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Integration Services 142 106 185
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.38% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.08% 2.08% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 78 143
10th Percentile £336 £391 £310
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £588
90th Percentile £678 £708 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £506 £469
% change year-on-year +1.23% +8.00% -14.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £16.78
25th Percentile £19.25 - £17.99
Median hourly rate £20.50 - £20.00
75th Percentile £21.75 - £24.38
90th Percentile - - £27.00
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £38.85 £20.00
% change year-on-year -49.80% +94.23% -

All Database & BI Skills
England

SQL Server Integration Services falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,834 5,099 5,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.69% 18.20% 18.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,545 3,494 4,037
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £673
90th Percentile £716 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 77 84
10th Percentile £16.42 £20.91 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.00 £22.30
Median hourly rate £41.71 £43.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +16.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £41.36 £39.48 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.75% +12.80% -33.33%

SQL Server Integration Services
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL Server Integration Services relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

SQL Server Integration Services job vacancy trend in England

SQL Server Integration Services
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SQL Server Integration Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SQL Server Integration Services

SQL Server Integration Services
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Integration Services in England over the 6 months to 3 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server Integration Services in England

SQL Server Integration Services
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SQL Server Integration Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SQL Server Integration Services

SQL Server Integration Services
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 SQL Server Integration Services within the England region over the 6 months to 3 October 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 -66 71 £505 -3.81% 57
North of England -48 33 £488 - 17
North West -22 30 £500 +33.33% 13
Midlands -45 17 £475 -7.32% 13
West Midlands -34 16 £475 -7.32% 13
South West -32 9 £675 +48.76% 4
South East -60 7 £500 -3.29% 24
Yorkshire -39 3 £375 -31.82% 4
East Midlands -19 1 £410 -3.53%
SQL Server Integration Services
UK

SQL Server Integration Services
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 15 (10.56%) Confluence
2 10 (7.04%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (4.23%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.82%) Apache
4 4 (2.82%) IIS
5 3 (2.11%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (1.41%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.41%) CMS
6 2 (1.41%) SAS
6 2 (1.41%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.70%) Camunda
7 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (8.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.70%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.70%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.70%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.70%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 92 (64.79%) Azure
2 59 (41.55%) Power Platform
3 33 (23.24%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (21.83%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (14.79%) AWS
6 20 (14.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 20 (14.08%) Snowflake
7 13 (9.15%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (8.45%) dbt
9 11 (7.75%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (4.93%) Power Automate
10 7 (4.93%) Serverless
11 6 (4.23%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (3.52%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.52%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (3.52%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (3.52%) PowerApps
13 4 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.82%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.75%) SSL
2 2 (1.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (63.38%) SQL Server
2 55 (38.73%) Power BI
3 45 (31.69%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (28.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 27 (19.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 18 (12.68%) Data Lake
7 13 (9.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (9.15%) MySQL
8 12 (8.45%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (8.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (7.75%) Relational Database
10 9 (6.34%) Tableau
11 8 (5.63%) Data Vault
11 8 (5.63%) Metadata
12 5 (3.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 5 (3.52%) Star Schema
13 4 (2.82%) DataStage
13 4 (2.82%) Oracle Database
13 4 (2.82%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (17.61%) Git
2 19 (13.38%) JIRA
3 8 (5.63%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (3.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (3.52%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.11%) Fiddler
5 3 (2.11%) Postman
5 3 (2.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (2.11%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.41%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.41%) GitLab
7 1 (0.70%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.70%) MLflow
7 1 (0.70%) Toad
General
1 50 (35.21%) Social Skills
2 34 (23.94%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (22.54%) Finance
4 19 (13.38%) Banking
5 11 (7.75%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.04%) Retail
7 8 (5.63%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.82%) Billing
9 3 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.11%) Marketing
10 2 (1.41%) Law
10 2 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.70%) Games
11 1 (0.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 41 (28.87%) Developer
2 35 (24.65%) Data Engineer
3 27 (19.01%) DBA
4 25 (17.61%) SQL DBA
5 22 (15.49%) Senior
6 17 (11.97%) SQL Developer
7 16 (11.27%) Lead
8 14 (9.86%) Senior Data Engineer
9 9 (6.34%) Administrator
9 9 (6.34%) Architect
9 9 (6.34%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (4.93%) Analyst
10 7 (4.93%) Data Architect
10 7 (4.93%) SC Cleared DBA
10 7 (4.93%) SQL Server DBA
11 6 (4.23%) Business Analyst
11 6 (4.23%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
11 6 (4.23%) Data Business Analyst
11 6 (4.23%) Data Warehouse Business Analyst
11 6 (4.23%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (16.90%) .NET
2 16 (11.27%) REST
3 12 (8.45%) ASP.NET
4 10 (7.04%) AngularJS
4 10 (7.04%) JSON
4 10 (7.04%) Middleware
5 9 (6.34%) .NET Framework
5 9 (6.34%) HTML
5 9 (6.34%) Kafka
5 9 (6.34%) XML
6 8 (5.63%) PySpark
7 7 (4.93%) SOAP
7 7 (4.93%) Terraform
8 6 (4.23%) CSS
9 5 (3.52%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (3.52%) Entity Framework
9 5 (3.52%) RESTful
9 5 (3.52%) Swagger
10 4 (2.82%) .NET Core
10 4 (2.82%) React
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.61%) Clustering
2 15 (10.56%) Replication
3 11 (7.75%) Data Centre
4 10 (7.04%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (7.04%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.63%) Cloud Native
6 7 (4.93%) Reinsurance
7 5 (3.52%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (2.11%) Reference Data
9 3 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.41%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.70%) Derivative
11 1 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.70%) Housing Association
11 1 (0.70%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 29 (20.42%) Windows
2 16 (11.27%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.52%) Linux
4 3 (2.11%) Unix
5 2 (1.41%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (53.52%) ETL
2 66 (46.48%) Business Intelligence
3 55 (38.73%) DevOps
4 51 (35.92%) CI/CD
5 50 (35.21%) Data Modelling
6 43 (30.28%) Migration
7 39 (27.46%) Agile
8 35 (24.65%) Performance Tuning
9 33 (23.24%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (21.83%) Analytics
11 30 (21.13%) Data Integration
12 24 (16.90%) Data Engineering
13 20 (14.08%) Data Pipeline
13 20 (14.08%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (11.97%) AI
14 17 (11.97%) ITIL
14 17 (11.97%) User Acceptance Testing
15 16 (11.27%) Data Migration
15 16 (11.27%) High Availability
15 16 (11.27%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 123 (86.62%) SQL
2 56 (39.44%) T-SQL
3 33 (23.24%) PowerShell
4 26 (18.31%) Python
5 22 (15.49%) JavaScript
6 21 (14.79%) C#
7 12 (8.45%) PL/SQL
8 8 (5.63%) Java
9 7 (4.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (2.82%) Scala
10 4 (2.82%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.82%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.41%) VBA
12 1 (0.70%) Bicep
12 1 (0.70%) Korn
12 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.70%) VBScript
12 1 (0.70%) XPath
Qualifications
1 34 (23.94%) Security Cleared
2 29 (20.42%) SC Cleared
3 21 (14.79%) Degree
4 15 (10.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (8.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (7.75%) Azure Certification
7 9 (6.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (2.11%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.70%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.70%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (19.01%) Data Quality
2 16 (11.27%) QA
3 4 (2.82%) GDPR
4 2 (1.41%) WCAG
5 1 (0.70%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.70%) SLA
5 1 (0.70%) Solvency II
System Software
1 14 (9.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (7.75%) Active Directory
2 11 (7.75%) Docker
3 10 (7.04%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (12.68%) SCOM
2 10 (7.04%) Microsoft Clustering
3 9 (6.34%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.11%) Control-M
5 2 (1.41%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (1.41%) Puppet
6 1 (0.70%) Istio
6 1 (0.70%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.70%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (38.03%) Microsoft
2 32 (22.54%) Databricks
3 17 (11.97%) Informatica
4 15 (10.56%) ServiceNow
5 14 (9.86%) VMware
6 13 (9.15%) BMC
7 12 (8.45%) Oracle
7 12 (8.45%) Remedy
8 8 (5.63%) Talend
9 6 (4.23%) Alteryx
9 6 (4.23%) Commvault
9 6 (4.23%) SAP
10 4 (2.82%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.41%) GoldenSource
11 2 (1.41%) Google
12 1 (0.70%) Anaplan
12 1 (0.70%) JD Edwards
12 1 (0.70%) QAD
12 1 (0.70%) RedGate
12 1 (0.70%) Sybase
121 SQL Server Integration Services jobs in England