Data Integration Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Integration
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 187 229 251
Rank change year-on-year +42 +22 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 156 172 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.22% 0.83% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.98% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 122 165
10th Percentile £361 £375 £393
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £584 £597 £588
90th Percentile £646 £743 £688
UK median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £48.25 £20.25
25th Percentile £25.26 £51.25 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.13 £57.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.83% +109.09% -21.43%
75th Percentile £28.99 £63.75 £36.13
90th Percentile - £66.75 £40.55
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £48.50 £20.44
% change year-on-year +24.74% +137.28% -41.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,515 17,619 21,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.40% 84.74% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,242 10,546 14,950
10th Percentile £235 £246 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £660 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 823 2,041 1,307
10th Percentile £14.22 £12.30 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.76 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Data Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Integration in the UK excluding London

Data Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Integration in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Integration in the UK excluding London

Data Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Integration in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Integration in the UK excluding London

Data Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Integration in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Integration in the UK excluding London

Data Integration
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
Midlands +24 40 £488 -4.88% 27
South East +46 39 £528 +5.50% 56
North of England +9 32 £545 +9.00% 39
West Midlands +14 28 £475 -16.67% 18
North West -5 23 £545 +3.81% 20
South West +50 22 £475 +15.15% 21
Scotland +9 16 £449 -14.52% 15
East Midlands +13 11 £498 +0.91% 9
Yorkshire +12 7 £475 - 19
East of England +24 5 £550 +4.76% 12
Wales - 4 £206 - 3
North East +1 2 - -
Data Integration
UK

Data Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (6.41%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.49%) Confluence
3 6 (3.85%) Apache
3 6 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.56%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.56%) SAS
5 2 (1.28%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.64%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.21%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Maximo
2 2 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.64%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 65 (41.67%) Azure
2 36 (23.08%) Power Platform
3 35 (22.44%) AWS
4 22 (14.10%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (11.54%) GCP
6 13 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 13 (8.33%) Serverless
7 9 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (5.13%) PowerApps
9 7 (4.49%) Power Automate
9 7 (4.49%) Snowflake
10 6 (3.85%) Amazon EMR
10 6 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.21%) AWS CodePipeline
11 5 (3.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (3.21%) OpenShift
11 5 (3.21%) PaaS
12 4 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.28%) Broadband
1 2 (1.28%) Firewall
1 2 (1.28%) HTTP
1 2 (1.28%) MQTT
1 2 (1.28%) SMS
1 2 (1.28%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.64%) 5G
2 1 (0.64%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (0.64%) MPLS
2 1 (0.64%) VoIP
2 1 (0.64%) VoLTE
2 1 (0.64%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (27.56%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (17.31%) Power BI
3 15 (9.62%) Metadata
4 14 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (7.69%) Data Lake
6 10 (6.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (6.41%) SQL Server
6 10 (6.41%) Tableau
7 7 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (4.49%) Big Data
7 7 (4.49%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.85%) Metadata Repository
9 5 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (3.21%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.92%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 13 (8.33%) GitLab
2 7 (4.49%) JIRA
3 4 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.92%) Git
5 2 (1.28%) ERwin
5 2 (1.28%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 44 (28.21%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (14.74%) Finance
4 22 (14.10%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.13%) Banking
6 7 (4.49%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.85%) Local Government
8 5 (3.21%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.56%) Billing
9 4 (2.56%) Legal
9 4 (2.56%) Marketing
9 4 (2.56%) Retail
10 3 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.28%) Automotive
11 2 (1.28%) Electronics
11 2 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.28%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.64%) Law
Job Titles
1 44 (28.21%) Data Engineer
2 35 (22.44%) Architect
3 28 (17.95%) Analyst
4 19 (12.18%) Data Analyst
5 17 (10.90%) Lead
6 15 (9.62%) Developer
7 14 (8.97%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (7.69%) Data Architect
9 10 (6.41%) Business Analyst
10 9 (5.77%) Senior
11 8 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (4.49%) Consultant
13 6 (3.85%) Data Business Analyst
13 6 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
13 6 (3.85%) Technical Analyst
14 5 (3.21%) Azure Data Engineer
14 5 (3.21%) Junior
14 5 (3.21%) SAP Analyst
14 5 (3.21%) SAP Data Analyst
15 4 (2.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.33%) PySpark
2 10 (6.41%) REST
3 9 (5.77%) Kafka
4 7 (4.49%) .NET
5 6 (3.85%) AWS CDK
6 5 (3.21%) Middleware
6 5 (3.21%) PostGIS
7 4 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (2.56%) RESTful
7 4 (2.56%) Web Services
8 2 (1.28%) Gherkin
8 2 (1.28%) JDBC
8 2 (1.28%) MDX
8 2 (1.28%) SOAP
8 2 (1.28%) Spring
8 2 (1.28%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.28%) XML
9 1 (0.64%) Node.js
9 1 (0.64%) React
9 1 (0.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.05%) Data Structures
2 10 (6.41%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.92%) CMDB
6 2 (1.28%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.28%) Infotainment
6 2 (1.28%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.28%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.28%) NHS
6 2 (1.28%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.28%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.28%) SCADA
7 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.28%) Linux
1 2 (1.28%) Windows
1 2 (1.28%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.64%) Unix
2 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (36.54%) ETL
2 49 (31.41%) Data Modelling
3 46 (29.49%) Analytics
4 45 (28.85%) Migration
4 45 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (25.00%) Agile
6 38 (24.36%) Business Intelligence
6 38 (24.36%) Data Governance
6 38 (24.36%) Data Migration
7 34 (21.79%) DevOps
8 29 (18.59%) Data Pipeline
9 28 (17.95%) CI/CD
10 25 (16.03%) Data Engineering
11 24 (15.38%) Data Analysis
11 24 (15.38%) Data Management
12 23 (14.74%) Visualisation
13 22 (14.10%) Data Transformation
14 20 (12.82%) Decision-Making
15 18 (11.54%) Data Architecture
15 18 (11.54%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 61 (39.10%) SQL
2 34 (21.79%) Python
3 9 (5.77%) Java
4 5 (3.21%) Bash
4 5 (3.21%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (1.92%) C#
6 3 (1.92%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.92%) R
6 3 (1.92%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.28%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.28%) Scala
8 1 (0.64%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.77%) Degree
4 8 (5.13%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.21%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.92%) CCNP
8 3 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.28%) CCNA
9 2 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.28%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (19.23%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.13%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.13%) QA
3 5 (3.21%) GDPR
4 3 (1.92%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.28%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.28%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (10.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.56%) Terraform
3 3 (1.92%) Grafana
4 2 (1.28%) Ansible
4 2 (1.28%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (1.28%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.64%) Perfmon
5 1 (0.64%) SCOM
5 1 (0.64%) VxRail
Vendors
1 35 (22.44%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.54%) Databricks
3 17 (10.90%) SAP
4 9 (5.77%) Google
4 9 (5.77%) Informatica
4 9 (5.77%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.49%) Oracle
5 7 (4.49%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.85%) Ariba
6 6 (3.85%) Virgin Media
7 3 (1.92%) Epicor
8 2 (1.28%) Adobe
8 2 (1.28%) BT
8 2 (1.28%) Dell
8 2 (1.28%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.28%) IBM
8 2 (1.28%) Openreach
8 2 (1.28%) Snow
8 2 (1.28%) Teradata
8 2 (1.28%) Veritas