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 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 94 138
Rank change year-on-year -5 +44 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 28 38 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.30% 1.40% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.67% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 28 17
10th Percentile £354 £394 £413
25th Percentile £463 £412 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £453 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.70% -17.73% -10.20%
75th Percentile £615 £609 £625
90th Percentile £635 £738 £641
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 £75.00 £39.25 £20.44
% change year-on-year +91.08% +92.03% -

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 1,900 2,282 2,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.00% 84.30% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,248 1,397 1,915
10th Percentile £296 £300 £307
25th Percentile £375 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +1.01%
75th Percentile £570 £582 £588
90th Percentile £669 £672 £675
England median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 255 159
10th Percentile £13.36 £11.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.07 £15.50 £18.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.00 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.85% +21.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £79.20 £67.14 £56.62
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +53.85%

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 14 July 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 14 July 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 0 14 £504 +11.69% 13
Cheshire -14 5 £550 -12.00% 7
Lancashire - 4 £600 - 13
Merseyside - 3 £475 - 6
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 (10.71%) SAS
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) AWS
2 5 (17.86%) GCP
3 4 (14.29%) Serverless
4 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (7.14%) dbt
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (7.14%) SaaS
5 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (14.29%) BigQuery
3 3 (10.71%) Power BI
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (7.14%) Big Data
4 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
4 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.57%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.57%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.57%) HBase
5 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.57%) Pentaho
5 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) GitLab
1 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) ERwin
2 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 11 (39.29%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 8 (28.57%) Finance
4 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.14%) Automotive
5 2 (7.14%) Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.14%) Retail
5 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.57%) Law
6 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Architect
2 7 (25.00%) Developer
3 4 (14.29%) .NET Architect
3 4 (14.29%) .NET Technical Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Applications Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Java Applications Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Java Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Java Technical Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Technical Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Data Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Automation Developer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) BigQuery Architect
5 2 (7.14%) ETL Architect
5 2 (7.14%) SAS Architect
5 2 (7.14%) SOC Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) SQL Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) .NET
2 2 (7.14%) PySpark
3 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 4 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.71%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.71%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.57%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) ETL
1 11 (39.29%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (28.57%) DevOps
3 7 (25.00%) Analytics
4 6 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 5 (17.86%) Data Management
5 5 (17.86%) Data Modelling
5 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (14.29%) Data Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (14.29%) Event-Driven
6 4 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (14.29%) Microservices
6 4 (14.29%) Project Delivery
7 3 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) SQL
2 6 (21.43%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) Java
4 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.14%) Bash
5 2 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.57%) Korn
6 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.57%) VBA
6 1 (3.57%) X++
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) CCNA
2 2 (7.14%) CCNP
2 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.14%) GCIA
2 2 (7.14%) GCIH
3 1 (3.57%) MCSA
3 1 (3.57%) MCSE
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
2 2 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) Google
2 4 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 4 (14.29%) Virgin Media
3 3 (10.71%) SAP
4 2 (7.14%) Databricks
4 2 (7.14%) Fortinet
4 2 (7.14%) Hitachi
4 2 (7.14%) Infoblox
4 2 (7.14%) Informatica
4 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.57%) Cognos
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle