Data Integration Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Data Integration
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Data Integration skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 111 119
Rank change year-on-year +18 +8 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 17 11 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.03% 0.49% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.58% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 22
10th Percentile £425 £210 £450
25th Percentile £451 £319 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £711
90th Percentile £600 £647 £856
South East median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £72.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,494 1,910 2,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.88% 85.42% 90.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 1,064 1,669
10th Percentile £270 £281 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £625
90th Percentile £650 £686 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 86 91
10th Percentile £14.20 £17.25 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.13 £30.10 £24.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.49 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.00% +16.98% +163.16%
75th Percentile £44.68 £70.06 £66.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £86.77 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.85% +9.24% +64.53%

Data Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Integration in the Thames Valley

Data Integration
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Integration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Integration

Data Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Integration in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Integration in the Thames Valley

Data Integration
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Integration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Integration

Data Integration
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Berkshire +24 14 £550 -6.38% 24
Buckinghamshire +9 3 £475 - 8
Data Integration
South East

Data Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (17.65%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP GRC
1 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
1 5 (29.41%) GCP
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.88%) iPaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) HTTP
2 1 (5.88%) 5G
2 1 (5.88%) Broadband
2 1 (5.88%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (5.88%) MPLS
2 1 (5.88%) VoIP
2 1 (5.88%) VoLTE
2 1 (5.88%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Big Data
2 2 (11.76%) GIS
2 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.88%) Data Vault
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) Neo4j
3 1 (5.88%) Pinecone
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) QGIS
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Telecoms
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Billing
3 2 (11.76%) Retail
4 1 (5.88%) Automotive
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Local Government
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Scientist
4 1 (5.88%) Designer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.88%) GIS Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) SAP MDM Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) Web Services
3 1 (5.88%) Faiss
3 1 (5.88%) Middleware
3 1 (5.88%) NumPy
3 1 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.88%) Pandas
3 1 (5.88%) PySpark
3 1 (5.88%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
1 1 (5.88%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Analytics
2 4 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
3 3 (17.65%) Data Engineering
3 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
3 3 (17.65%) DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) LLM
3 3 (17.65%) Log Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
3 3 (17.65%) Natural Language Processing
3 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
4 2 (11.76%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
4 2 (11.76%) Data Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) Data Governance
4 2 (11.76%) Generative AI
4 2 (11.76%) Network Design
4 2 (11.76%) Project Management
4 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) Korn
3 1 (5.88%) ABAP
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.88%) CCNP
1 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.88%) DBS Check
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.88%) SAP Certification
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) GRC
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Databricks
1 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.76%) Ab Initio
2 2 (11.76%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) BT
3 1 (5.88%) ESRI
3 1 (5.88%) Foundry
3 1 (5.88%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.88%) Openreach
3 1 (5.88%) Palantir
3 1 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Virgin Media
3 1 (5.88%) Workday