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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 327 315
Rank change year-on-year -94 -12 -56
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Integration Services 133 161 257
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.61% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.44% 3.30% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 118 203
10th Percentile £367 £329 £400
25th Percentile £413 £411 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -14.53% +17.00%
75th Percentile £588 £605 £650
90th Percentile £655 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £578
% change year-on-year - -13.42% +15.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £25.25 -
25th Percentile £26.50 £25.63 £22.75
Median hourly rate £27.00 £27.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +12.24% -30.00%
75th Percentile £27.50 £28.75 £26.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £27.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -1.82% +12.24% -30.00%

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 5,446 4,884 6,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.30% 18.58% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,798 3,238 4,381
10th Percentile £331 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +0.47% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £650
90th Percentile £705 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 82 169
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.48
25th Percentile £28.13 £25.26 £21.00
Median hourly rate £46.50 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.25% -5.88% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.93 £61.50
90th Percentile £85.80 £73.38 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £36.56 £42.50
% change year-on-year +40.20% -13.99% -25.26%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -31 94 £525 -4.55% 7
North of England -64 9 £434 +18.60% 15
Midlands -73 9 £450 - 11
East of England -15 7 £475 -1.81% 6
North West -28 7 £434 +37.40% 6
South East -35 6 £425 -4.87% 13
West Midlands -52 6 £503 +11.67% 5
East Midlands -28 3 £447 +25.56% 6
Yorkshire -57 3 - - 7
South West -22 1 £388 -18.42% 3
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 5 (3.76%) CMS
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.26%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.50%) SAS
4 2 (1.50%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (1.50%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.75%) Apache
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.75%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (1.50%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.75%) Maximo
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 83 (62.41%) Azure
2 44 (33.08%) Power Platform
3 38 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 23 (17.29%) AWS
5 18 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (12.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (8.27%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (7.52%) SaaS
9 6 (4.51%) Azure Functions
9 6 (4.51%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (4.51%) Serverless
10 5 (3.76%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (3.76%) GCP
10 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (3.01%) GitHub
11 4 (3.01%) Power Automate
11 4 (3.01%) PowerApps
11 4 (3.01%) Snowflake
12 3 (2.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.26%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.01%) Firewall
1 4 (3.01%) HTTP
2 2 (1.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (68.42%) SQL Server
2 41 (30.83%) Power BI
3 37 (27.82%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (21.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 25 (18.80%) Data Lake
6 20 (15.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 16 (12.03%) Metadata
8 13 (9.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (7.52%) Delta Lake
9 10 (7.52%) Oracle Database
10 9 (6.77%) DataStage
10 9 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (6.02%) Relational Database
12 5 (3.76%) Data Vault
12 5 (3.76%) NoSQL
12 5 (3.76%) Spark SQL
12 5 (3.76%) Star Schema
12 5 (3.76%) Tableau
13 4 (3.01%) MongoDB
13 4 (3.01%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (8.27%) Git
2 9 (6.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (4.51%) JIRA
4 5 (3.76%) Visual Studio
5 4 (3.01%) ER Studio
5 4 (3.01%) ERwin
6 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.75%) Hudson
6 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.56%) Finance
3 18 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.28%) Banking
5 9 (6.77%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.51%) Marketing
7 5 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.26%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.26%) Local Government
8 3 (2.26%) Military
9 2 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.75%) French Language
10 1 (0.75%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (33.08%) Data Engineer
2 36 (27.07%) Developer
3 18 (13.53%) Senior
4 12 (9.02%) Senior Data Engineer
5 10 (7.52%) Architect
5 10 (7.52%) DBA
5 10 (7.52%) Lead
5 10 (7.52%) SQL DBA
6 9 (6.77%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (6.77%) Data Architect
7 8 (6.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (5.26%) Data Migration Specialist
8 7 (5.26%) Migration Specialist
8 7 (5.26%) SQL Developer
9 6 (4.51%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.51%) Support Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Analyst
10 5 (3.76%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 4 (3.01%) Azure Data Architect
11 4 (3.01%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.52%) JSON
1 10 (7.52%) XML
2 9 (6.77%) .NET
3 8 (6.02%) Kafka
4 5 (3.76%) EDI
4 5 (3.76%) HTML
4 5 (3.76%) Middleware
4 5 (3.76%) PySpark
4 5 (3.76%) REST
4 5 (3.76%) XSLT
4 5 (3.76%) YAML
5 4 (3.01%) Ajax
5 4 (3.01%) OAuth
5 4 (3.01%) OAuth2
5 4 (3.01%) SOAP
6 3 (2.26%) ADO
6 3 (2.26%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.50%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.50%) Web Services
7 2 (1.50%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.27%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (6.77%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.51%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.76%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.26%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.26%) Clustering
5 3 (2.26%) Credit Risk
5 3 (2.26%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.26%) NHS
5 3 (2.26%) Replication
6 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.50%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.75%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.77%) Linux
2 3 (2.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (54.14%) ETL
2 53 (39.85%) Business Intelligence
3 44 (33.08%) Migration
4 39 (29.32%) Data Modelling
5 37 (27.82%) Data Migration
6 34 (25.56%) Analytics
6 34 (25.56%) DevOps
7 31 (23.31%) CI/CD
7 31 (23.31%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (18.80%) Data Architecture
9 24 (18.05%) Agile
9 24 (18.05%) Data Engineering
10 22 (16.54%) Data Governance
11 21 (15.79%) Data Integration
11 21 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (15.79%) Decision-Making
12 16 (12.03%) Dimensional Modelling
12 16 (12.03%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (9.77%) Validation
14 12 (9.02%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 105 (78.95%) SQL
2 24 (18.05%) T-SQL
3 23 (17.29%) Python
4 14 (10.53%) PowerShell
5 11 (8.27%) C#
6 9 (6.77%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.26%) PL/SQL
8 5 (3.76%) Bash
9 4 (3.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (3.01%) Java
9 4 (3.01%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.50%) Bicep
10 2 (1.50%) R
10 2 (1.50%) VB
10 2 (1.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.27%) Azure Certification
2 11 (8.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (8.27%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.52%) Degree
4 7 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.76%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (24.06%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.76%) GDPR
3 4 (3.01%) QA
4 3 (2.26%) IFRS
5 2 (1.50%) CRD IV
5 2 (1.50%) FINREP
6 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.75%) Basel III
6 1 (0.75%) DICOM
6 1 (0.75%) GAAP
6 1 (0.75%) HL7
6 1 (0.75%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.75%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.75%) SLA
6 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (3.76%) zsh
2 4 (3.01%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.50%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (3.76%) Terraform
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (2.26%) Control-M
4 2 (1.50%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.75%) Grafana
Vendors
1 43 (32.33%) Microsoft
2 32 (24.06%) Databricks
3 24 (18.05%) Oracle
4 17 (12.78%) Informatica
5 10 (7.52%) Talend
6 7 (5.26%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.01%) Alteryx
7 4 (3.01%) Cognos
7 4 (3.01%) Palo Alto
7 4 (3.01%) RedGate
7 4 (3.01%) SAP
8 3 (2.26%) IBM
8 3 (2.26%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.50%) Liquidlogic
9 2 (1.50%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.50%) Sitecore
9 2 (1.50%) Workday
10 1 (0.75%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.75%) IFS
10 1 (0.75%) Splunk