Data Integration Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Data Integration
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Data Integration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 13 0 22
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.28% - 5.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% - 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 14
10th Percentile £373 - £425
25th Percentile £403 - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 - £507
75th Percentile £494 - £519
90th Percentile £500 - £580
South Yorkshire median daily rate £443 £295 £507
% change year-on-year +50.17% -41.81% +1.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 866 555 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 84.99% 95.52% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 365 185
10th Percentile £366 £298 £361
25th Percentile £440 £380 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% -9.52% -11.47%
75th Percentile £594 £544 £590
90th Percentile £675 £620 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £510 £473 £520
% change year-on-year +7.94% -9.13% -11.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £14.77 £15.88
25th Percentile - £15.00 £20.13
Median hourly rate £13.69 £18.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.80% -13.31% +5.00%
75th Percentile - £18.87 £21.88
90th Percentile - - £22.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.60 £18.21 £12.83
% change year-on-year +13.16% +41.89% -36.64%

Data Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Data Integration job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Data Integration
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Data Integration

Data Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Integration in Sheffield over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Integration in Sheffield

Data Integration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 3 (23.08%) Confluence
2 2 (15.38%) Apache
2 2 (15.38%) nginx
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) GCP
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) Collibra
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Databricks
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Azure AI
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Storage
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) Metadata
2 6 (46.15%) BigQuery
3 5 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
5 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
5 2 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Publishing
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Data Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Gen AI Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Data Modeller
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Product Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Transformation Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Transformation Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 3 (23.08%) Data Fabric
3 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
3 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Data Engineering
2 8 (61.54%) Data Modelling
3 7 (53.85%) Agile
3 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
4 6 (46.15%) Data Governance
4 6 (46.15%) Integration Patterns
5 5 (38.46%) AI
5 5 (38.46%) Analytics
5 5 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
6 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
7 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (23.08%) Data Extraction
7 3 (23.08%) DevOps
7 3 (23.08%) Kalman Filter
7 3 (23.08%) Metadata Management
7 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (23.08%) Use Case
7 3 (23.08%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) SQL
2 9 (69.23%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Grafana
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat