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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 372 320
Rank change year-on-year -57 -52 -56
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Integration Services 174 104 230
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.43% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.73% 2.27% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 76 187
10th Percentile £338 £350 £370
25th Percentile £413 £413 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £650
90th Percentile £675 £625 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile - £30.13 £16.66
25th Percentile £19.25 £37.81 £17.67
Median hourly rate £19.50 £53.75 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -63.72% +165.56% -61.45%
75th Percentile £27.50 £72.81 £23.68
90th Percentile £41.30 £82.38 £25.22
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £38.85 £20.24
% change year-on-year -49.80% +91.92% -69.45%

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 6,382 4,578 6,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.19% 19.05% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,351 3,179 4,523
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 91 136
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £22.94 £20.70
Median hourly rate £40.50 £31.64 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -20.90% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.19 £60.38 £55.63
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.11 £32.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +28.33% -17.98% -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 30 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL Server Integration Services in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL Server Integration Services in England

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 30 May 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 -29 97 £500 -4.08% 5
North of England -68 30 £463 +8.82% 5
North West -37 21 £481 +13.24% 4
Midlands -51 19 £500 -2.44% 6
West Midlands -60 16 £550 +7.32% 3
South East -54 13 £500 -3.29% 5
Yorkshire -63 10 £400 -11.11% 1
East of England -27 5 £211 -56.81%
South West -33 4 £425 +21.43% 6
East Midlands -22 2 £468 - 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 6 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.87%) Apache
3 4 (2.30%) Confluence
3 4 (2.30%) IIS
3 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.72%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (1.72%) CMS
4 3 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.72%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.15%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.15%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.57%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.57%) SAS
6 1 (0.57%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.72%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.72%) SystmOne
3 2 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.15%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.57%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.57%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.57%) iTrent
4 1 (0.57%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 88 (50.57%) Azure
2 63 (36.21%) Power Platform
3 38 (21.84%) Azure Data Factory
4 27 (15.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 22 (12.64%) AWS
6 17 (9.77%) Snowflake
7 16 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (5.75%) Matillion
9 9 (5.17%) dbt
10 8 (4.60%) Boomi
11 7 (4.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (4.02%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (4.02%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (2.87%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (2.87%) GitHub
12 5 (2.87%) Serverless
13 4 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (2.30%) Amazon S3
14 3 (1.72%) PaaS
14 3 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.30%) Firewall
2 2 (1.15%) Network Security
3 1 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 61 (35.06%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (32.76%) Power BI
4 48 (27.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 40 (22.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 31 (17.82%) Data Lake
7 19 (10.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (9.77%) Tableau
9 10 (5.75%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (5.75%) Oracle Database
9 10 (5.75%) Relational Database
10 9 (5.17%) Metadata
11 7 (4.02%) DataStage
11 7 (4.02%) Star Schema
12 6 (3.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 6 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (3.45%) Spark SQL
13 5 (2.87%) Delta Lake
13 5 (2.87%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (12.07%) Git
2 16 (9.20%) JIRA
3 6 (3.45%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (2.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (2.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (2.30%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.72%) Flyway
6 3 (1.72%) GitLab
7 2 (1.15%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.57%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.57%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.57%) ERwin
8 1 (0.57%) Hudson
8 1 (0.57%) Postman
8 1 (0.57%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (33.91%) Social Skills
2 44 (25.29%) Finance
3 35 (20.11%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.20%) Banking
5 8 (4.60%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.30%) Legal
7 4 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.72%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.15%) Local Government
9 2 (1.15%) Military
9 2 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.57%) French Language
10 1 (0.57%) Games
10 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (33.91%) Data Engineer
2 38 (21.84%) Developer
3 32 (18.39%) Senior
4 27 (15.52%) DBA
5 26 (14.94%) SQL DBA
6 22 (12.64%) Senior Data Engineer
7 15 (8.62%) SQL Developer
8 12 (6.90%) Architect
8 12 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 10 (5.75%) Data Architect
10 9 (5.17%) SQL Server DBA
10 9 (5.17%) Support Engineer
11 8 (4.60%) Integration Engineer
11 8 (4.60%) Lead
11 8 (4.60%) Migration Engineer
12 7 (4.02%) Analyst
12 7 (4.02%) Data Migration Engineer
13 6 (3.45%) Data Integration Engineer
13 6 (3.45%) Senior Developer
14 5 (2.87%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.47%) .NET
2 11 (6.32%) JSON
3 10 (5.75%) REST
4 9 (5.17%) AngularJS
4 9 (5.17%) Middleware
4 9 (5.17%) XML
4 9 (5.17%) YAML
5 7 (4.02%) Kafka
6 6 (3.45%) .NET Framework
6 6 (3.45%) AWS CDK
6 6 (3.45%) CSS
6 6 (3.45%) Entity Framework
6 6 (3.45%) HTML
7 5 (2.87%) Spring
8 4 (2.30%) ASP.NET
8 4 (2.30%) PySpark
8 4 (2.30%) SOAP
8 4 (2.30%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.72%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.92%) Legacy Systems
2 14 (8.05%) Clustering
3 12 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 12 (6.90%) Replication
4 8 (4.60%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.45%) Wiki
6 5 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.30%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.30%) NHS
7 4 (2.30%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.15%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.15%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.57%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.75%) Windows
2 9 (5.17%) Linux
3 7 (4.02%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.72%) Unix
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (55.17%) ETL
2 69 (39.66%) Business Intelligence
3 57 (32.76%) Data Modelling
4 48 (27.59%) Migration
5 47 (27.01%) CI/CD
6 46 (26.44%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (22.99%) Analytics
8 37 (21.26%) Data Engineering
9 34 (19.54%) DevOps
10 33 (18.97%) Data Pipeline
10 33 (18.97%) Performance Tuning
11 32 (18.39%) Agile
12 30 (17.24%) Data Migration
13 24 (13.79%) Data Governance
14 23 (13.22%) Data Integration
15 22 (12.64%) Dimensional Modelling
15 22 (12.64%) Validation
16 21 (12.07%) High Availability
17 20 (11.49%) AI
17 20 (11.49%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 154 (88.51%) SQL
2 53 (30.46%) T-SQL
3 32 (18.39%) Python
4 30 (17.24%) PowerShell
5 14 (8.05%) C#
6 13 (7.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 13 (7.47%) JavaScript
7 12 (6.90%) PL/SQL
8 11 (6.32%) Java
9 6 (3.45%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.30%) Bicep
10 4 (2.30%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.15%) R
11 2 (1.15%) VB
12 1 (0.57%) Scala
12 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (9.77%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.05%) Degree
3 13 (7.47%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (5.75%) Azure Certification
6 7 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.87%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.72%) Postgraduate
10 2 (1.15%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.57%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.57%) OCP
11 1 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (21.84%) Data Quality
2 16 (9.20%) QA
3 10 (5.75%) GDPR
4 4 (2.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (2.30%) WCAG
5 2 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.15%) GMP
5 2 (1.15%) PMO
5 2 (1.15%) SLA
6 1 (0.57%) Basel III
6 1 (0.57%) GAAP
6 1 (0.57%) HL7
6 1 (0.57%) IFRS
6 1 (0.57%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.57%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.57%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.57%) NIST
6 1 (0.57%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.57%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (5.75%) Docker
2 6 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.72%) Control-M
2 3 (1.72%) Foglight
2 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (1.15%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (1.15%) Terraform
4 1 (0.57%) Grafana
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.57%) SELinux
4 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.57%) systemd
Vendors
1 66 (37.93%) Microsoft
2 34 (19.54%) Databricks
3 33 (18.97%) Oracle
4 26 (14.94%) Informatica
5 18 (10.34%) SAP
6 16 (9.20%) ServiceNow
7 8 (4.60%) MuleSoft
8 7 (4.02%) RedGate
8 7 (4.02%) Talend
9 6 (3.45%) Alteryx
9 6 (3.45%) SolarWinds
10 4 (2.30%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.30%) Remedy
10 4 (2.30%) VMware
11 3 (1.72%) BMC
11 3 (1.72%) Dell
12 2 (1.15%) Cognos
12 2 (1.15%) IBM
12 2 (1.15%) Sybase
12 2 (1.15%) Workday