Data Integration Contracts in the North West

Data Integration
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Data Integration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Integration over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 95 149
Rank change year-on-year -5 +54 -14
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 23 39 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.18% 1.40% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.63% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 26 7
10th Percentile £354 £407 -
25th Percentile £463 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £615 £550 £563
90th Percentile £635 £594 £598
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
England median hourly rate £60.50 £48.50 £20.44
% change year-on-year +24.74% +137.28% -41.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,763 2,396 2,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.32% 86.28% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,141 1,533 2,057
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £588
90th Percentile £662 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 244 144
10th Percentile £16.16 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.78 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.25 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.57% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £84.33 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%

Data Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Data Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Integration in the North West

Data Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Integration in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Data Integration in the North West

Data Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Integration in the North West over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Integration in the North West

Data Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Integration in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Data Integration in the North West

Data Integration
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
Manchester +7 9 £515 +0.39% 12
Cheshire -12 5 £550 +4.76% 1
Merseyside +6 4 £523 - 2
Lancashire - 4 £600 - 11
Data Integration
England

Data Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) SAS
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) AWS
3 4 (17.39%) Serverless
4 3 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (13.04%) GCP
5 2 (8.70%) dbt
5 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (13.04%) Metadata
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (8.70%) Big Data
3 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
3 2 (8.70%) Essbase
3 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
3 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
4 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.35%) GIS
4 1 (4.35%) HBase
4 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.35%) MSDE
4 1 (4.35%) Pentaho
4 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) GitLab
1 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) ERwin
2 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 8 (34.78%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (34.78%) Public Sector
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Data Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Developer
3 4 (17.39%) .NET Architect
3 4 (17.39%) .NET Technical Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Applications Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Java Applications Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Java Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Java Technical Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Technical Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Automation Developer
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Essbase Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Informatica Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) SAS Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) .NET
2 2 (8.70%) MDX
2 2 (8.70%) PySpark
3 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Clustering
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Unix
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
1 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
1 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) ETL
2 8 (34.78%) DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
5 5 (21.74%) Data Modelling
5 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (17.39%) Analytics
6 4 (17.39%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
6 4 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven
6 4 (17.39%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (17.39%) Microservices
6 4 (17.39%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (13.04%) Data Security
7 3 (13.04%) Metadata Management
7 3 (13.04%) Validation
8 2 (8.70%) Risk Management
8 2 (8.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) Java
2 4 (17.39%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) Bash
3 2 (8.70%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) CCNA
1 2 (8.70%) CCNP
1 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) GDPR
2 2 (8.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Perfmon
3 1 (4.35%) SCOM
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) ServiceNow
2 4 (17.39%) Virgin Media
3 3 (13.04%) Informatica
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle
4 2 (8.70%) Databricks
4 2 (8.70%) Fortinet
4 2 (8.70%) Google
4 2 (8.70%) Infoblox
4 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.35%) SAP
5 1 (4.35%) VMware