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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 401 340
Rank change year-on-year -85 -61 -57
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Integration Services 147 113 196
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.41% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.11% 2.28% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 81 155
10th Percentile £338 £400 £310
25th Percentile £400 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £594 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £703 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile - - £16.38
25th Percentile £19.25 £76.25 £16.99
Median hourly rate £21.50 £82.50 £17.99
Median % change year-on-year -73.94% +358.59% -48.30%
75th Percentile £23.19 £88.75 £19.00
90th Percentile £37.85 - £19.60
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £38.85 £17.99
% change year-on-year -49.80% +115.93% -48.30%

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 6,955 4,948 6,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.23% 17.94% 18.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,636 3,408 4,285
10th Percentile £358 £335 £350
25th Percentile £423 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £675
90th Percentile £702 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 80 91
10th Percentile £14.96 £21.02 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.62 £29.05 £19.92
Median hourly rate £38.38 £38.23 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% +12.67% -38.31%
75th Percentile £62.44 £65.00 £58.73
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.88 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £38.85 £32.50
% change year-on-year -0.89% +19.52% -40.91%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 72 £494 -5.95% 45
North of England -44 39 £488 -2.50% 19
North West -31 33 £488 +5.41% 11
Midlands -51 19 £425 -17.07% 9
West Midlands -44 17 £475 -17.39% 5
South West -35 7 £675 +55.17% 3
Yorkshire -36 6 £450 -18.18% 6
South East -60 6 £500 -3.29% 17
East Midlands -16 1 £410 -3.53% 4
East of England -27 1 - - 5
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 14 (9.52%) Confluence
2 8 (5.44%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.76%) Apache
4 6 (4.08%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.72%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.72%) IIS
6 3 (2.04%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (2.04%) SAS
7 2 (1.36%) CMS
7 2 (1.36%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.68%) Camunda
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.68%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (8.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (3.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.36%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.68%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.68%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.68%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.68%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 88 (59.86%) Azure
2 58 (39.46%) Power Platform
3 34 (23.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 30 (20.41%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (16.33%) AWS
6 19 (12.93%) Snowflake
7 18 (12.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (8.16%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (6.80%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (6.80%) dbt
10 7 (4.76%) Serverless
11 6 (4.08%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.40%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (3.40%) Matillion
12 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (3.40%) Power Automate
13 4 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.72%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.72%) Entra ID
13 4 (2.72%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.80%) SSL
2 2 (1.36%) Firewall
3 1 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (63.27%) SQL Server
2 55 (37.41%) Power BI
3 48 (32.65%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (31.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 31 (21.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 18 (12.24%) Data Lake
7 13 (8.84%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (8.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (8.84%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (8.16%) MySQL
8 12 (8.16%) Relational Database
9 10 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (6.80%) Tableau
10 8 (5.44%) Data Vault
11 7 (4.76%) Metadata
12 6 (4.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 6 (4.08%) Star Schema
13 4 (2.72%) DataStage
13 4 (2.72%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (2.04%) DTS
Development Applications
1 27 (18.37%) Git
2 17 (11.56%) JIRA
3 8 (5.44%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (3.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (3.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (3.40%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.72%) GitLab
6 3 (2.04%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.36%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.36%) Flyway
8 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.68%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.68%) MLflow
8 1 (0.68%) Postman
8 1 (0.68%) Toad
General
1 49 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 36 (24.49%) Finance
3 33 (22.45%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (12.93%) Banking
5 10 (6.80%) Retail
6 9 (6.12%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.44%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.04%) Billing
9 3 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.04%) Legal
9 3 (2.04%) Marketing
9 3 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.36%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.36%) Law
11 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.68%) Games
11 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 40 (27.21%) Developer
2 35 (23.81%) Data Engineer
3 28 (19.05%) DBA
4 27 (18.37%) SQL DBA
5 20 (13.61%) Senior
6 17 (11.56%) SQL Developer
7 15 (10.20%) Lead
8 14 (9.52%) Senior Data Engineer
9 9 (6.12%) Analyst
9 9 (6.12%) Integration Engineer
10 8 (5.44%) Administrator
11 7 (4.76%) Architect
11 7 (4.76%) Business Analyst
11 7 (4.76%) Software Developer
11 7 (4.76%) SQL Server DBA
12 6 (4.08%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 6 (4.08%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
12 6 (4.08%) Data Warehouse Analyst
12 6 (4.08%) Data Warehouse Business Analyst
12 6 (4.08%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (16.33%) .NET
2 14 (9.52%) REST
3 11 (7.48%) ASP.NET
4 10 (6.80%) AngularJS
5 9 (6.12%) .NET Framework
5 9 (6.12%) Middleware
6 8 (5.44%) JSON
6 8 (5.44%) Kafka
6 8 (5.44%) PySpark
7 7 (4.76%) HTML
7 7 (4.76%) Terraform
8 6 (4.08%) CSS
9 5 (3.40%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (3.40%) AWS CDK
9 5 (3.40%) Entity Framework
9 5 (3.40%) RESTful
9 5 (3.40%) SOAP
9 5 (3.40%) Spring
9 5 (3.40%) XML
10 4 (2.72%) React
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.01%) Clustering
2 15 (10.20%) Replication
3 11 (7.48%) Data Centre
3 11 (7.48%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.80%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.76%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.08%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.40%) Reinsurance
8 4 (2.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (2.04%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.04%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.36%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.68%) Housing Association
11 1 (0.68%) NHS
11 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (19.05%) Windows
2 15 (10.20%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.40%) Linux
4 3 (2.04%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (1.36%) Unix
6 1 (0.68%) VMS
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (52.38%) ETL
2 67 (45.58%) Business Intelligence
3 53 (36.05%) Data Modelling
4 52 (35.37%) CI/CD
4 52 (35.37%) DevOps
5 43 (29.25%) Migration
6 39 (26.53%) Agile
7 34 (23.13%) Performance Tuning
7 34 (23.13%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (21.09%) Analytics
9 27 (18.37%) Data Integration
10 25 (17.01%) Data Engineering
11 22 (14.97%) Data Pipeline
12 20 (13.61%) AI
12 20 (13.61%) ITIL
13 19 (12.93%) Validation
14 18 (12.24%) High Availability
14 18 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
15 17 (11.56%) ETL Development
16 15 (10.20%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 129 (87.76%) SQL
2 56 (38.10%) T-SQL
3 32 (21.77%) PowerShell
4 27 (18.37%) Python
5 21 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 20 (13.61%) C#
7 11 (7.48%) Java
7 11 (7.48%) PL/SQL
8 8 (5.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (5.44%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.40%) Scala
9 5 (3.40%) VB.NET
10 3 (2.04%) VBA
11 1 (0.68%) Bicep
11 1 (0.68%) Korn
11 1 (0.68%) VBScript
11 1 (0.68%) XPath
Qualifications
1 31 (21.09%) Security Cleared
2 26 (17.69%) SC Cleared
3 24 (16.33%) Degree
4 15 (10.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (7.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (6.80%) Azure Certification
7 8 (5.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.04%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.68%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.68%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.68%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (21.09%) Data Quality
2 17 (11.56%) QA
3 6 (4.08%) GDPR
4 3 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (2.04%) WCAG
5 2 (1.36%) SLA
6 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.68%) Solvency II
System Software
1 14 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (8.84%) Docker
3 11 (7.48%) Active Directory
4 10 (6.80%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (11.56%) SCOM
2 11 (7.48%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.80%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (1.36%) Control-M
4 2 (1.36%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (1.36%) Foglight
4 2 (1.36%) Puppet
5 1 (0.68%) Istio
5 1 (0.68%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.68%) SCOrch
5 1 (0.68%) SELinux
5 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.68%) systemd
Vendors
1 58 (39.46%) Microsoft
2 31 (21.09%) Databricks
3 19 (12.93%) Informatica
4 17 (11.56%) ServiceNow
5 15 (10.20%) Oracle
6 14 (9.52%) VMware
7 13 (8.84%) BMC
7 13 (8.84%) Remedy
8 9 (6.12%) SAP
9 6 (4.08%) Alteryx
9 6 (4.08%) Commvault
9 6 (4.08%) Talend
10 5 (3.40%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.36%) GoldenSource
11 2 (1.36%) Google
12 1 (0.68%) JD Edwards
12 1 (0.68%) QAD
12 1 (0.68%) RedGate
12 1 (0.68%) Sybase