Data Integration Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Data Integration
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Data Integration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 29 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.84% 0.57% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.70% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £963 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £975 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% - -
75th Percentile £988 £538 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 202 143 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 84.52% 81.25% 88.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 58 78
10th Percentile £188 £148 £209
25th Percentile £325 £213 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £431 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £513 £538 £536
90th Percentile £638 £601 £629
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 19 10
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 £11.08
25th Percentile £13.67 £24.18 £12.49
Median hourly rate £17.30 £29.00 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -40.34% +115.45% -7.76%
75th Percentile £25.15 £48.03 £15.49
90th Percentile - £78.47 £18.08
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.79
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.79% +25.12%

Data Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Integration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Data Integration job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Data Integration
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Data Integration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Data Integration

Data Integration
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
County Antrim -6 2 £975 +85.71% 4
Data Integration
UK

Data Integration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) GIS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Data Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Conflict Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Fujitsu
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft