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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 233 240
Rank change year-on-year +55 +7 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 162 168 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.27% 0.83% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 0.99% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 123 150
10th Percentile £361 £363 £383
25th Percentile £425 £413 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £590
90th Percentile £675 £744 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £66.25 £18.75
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +246.15% -44.29%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £20.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £58.00 £20.44
% change year-on-year +29.31% +183.76% -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 11,596 17,041 20,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.69% 84.15% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,235 10,189 14,096
10th Percentile £231 £250 £259
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,063 1,256
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.34 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.73
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +29 45 £504 -8.41% 306
South East +51 40 £550 +12.82% 465
West Midlands +21 32 £504 -14.26% 173
North of England -15 32 £545 +9.00% 335
North West -1 24 £545 +14.44% 144
South West +37 18 £475 +18.75% 184
Scotland +10 15 £460 -3.16% 98
East Midlands +11 11 £498 +32.87% 114
East of England +25 10 £550 +4.76% 231
Yorkshire -10 6 £513 +2.50% 139
Wales - 4 £206 - 42
North East +3 2 - - 53
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 9 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.32%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.32%) Confluence
3 6 (3.70%) Apache
4 4 (2.47%) SAS
5 2 (1.23%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.09%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.85%) Maximo
1 3 (1.85%) SAP PM
2 2 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (41.36%) Azure
2 40 (24.69%) AWS
3 32 (19.75%) Power Platform
4 23 (14.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (11.73%) GCP
5 19 (11.73%) Serverless
6 15 (9.26%) Amazon S3
7 12 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (6.17%) Snowflake
9 7 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (4.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (4.32%) PaaS
10 6 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
10 6 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (3.70%) PowerApps
11 5 (3.09%) AWS CodePipeline
11 5 (3.09%) OpenShift
11 5 (3.09%) Power Automate
11 5 (3.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.47%) HTTP
2 3 (1.85%) Firewall
3 2 (1.23%) Broadband
3 2 (1.23%) MQTT
3 2 (1.23%) SMS
3 2 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.62%) 5G
4 1 (0.62%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (0.62%) Internet
4 1 (0.62%) MPLS
4 1 (0.62%) VoIP
4 1 (0.62%) VoLTE
4 1 (0.62%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (28.40%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (15.43%) Power BI
3 14 (8.64%) Metadata
4 13 (8.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (8.02%) Data Lake
4 13 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (7.41%) Relational Database
5 12 (7.41%) SQL Server
6 10 (6.17%) Tableau
7 9 (5.56%) Big Data
7 9 (5.56%) NoSQL
8 7 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (4.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (4.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (3.70%) GIS
9 6 (3.70%) Metadata Repository
9 6 (3.70%) RDBMS
10 5 (3.09%) Hadoop
10 5 (3.09%) Oracle Database
11 4 (2.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 15 (9.26%) GitLab
2 9 (5.56%) JIRA
3 5 (3.09%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.47%) Git
5 2 (1.23%) ERwin
5 2 (1.23%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (30.25%) Social Skills
2 41 (25.31%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (13.58%) Finance
3 22 (13.58%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.94%) Banking
5 7 (4.32%) Manufacturing
5 7 (4.32%) Retail
6 5 (3.09%) Local Government
6 5 (3.09%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.47%) Legal
7 4 (2.47%) Marketing
8 3 (1.85%) Billing
8 3 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Automotive
9 2 (1.23%) Electronics
9 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.62%) Games
10 1 (0.62%) Law
Job Titles
1 44 (27.16%) Data Engineer
2 33 (20.37%) Architect
3 26 (16.05%) Analyst
4 17 (10.49%) Data Analyst
4 17 (10.49%) Lead
5 16 (9.88%) Developer
6 13 (8.02%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (6.79%) Data Architect
8 9 (5.56%) Business Analyst
9 8 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (4.94%) Consultant
9 8 (4.94%) Senior
10 6 (3.70%) Technical Analyst
11 5 (3.09%) Azure Data Engineer
11 5 (3.09%) Data Business Analyst
11 5 (3.09%) SAP Analyst
11 5 (3.09%) SAP Data Analyst
11 5 (3.09%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (2.47%) Designer
12 4 (2.47%) Java Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.02%) PySpark
2 12 (7.41%) Kafka
2 12 (7.41%) REST
3 10 (6.17%) .NET
4 9 (5.56%) Web Services
5 6 (3.70%) AWS CDK
6 5 (3.09%) PostGIS
6 5 (3.09%) RESTful
7 4 (2.47%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (2.47%) SOAP
8 3 (1.85%) Middleware
9 2 (1.23%) Gherkin
9 2 (1.23%) JDBC
9 2 (1.23%) MDX
9 2 (1.23%) Spring
9 2 (1.23%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.23%) XML
10 1 (0.62%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.62%) React
10 1 (0.62%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.41%) Data Structures
2 11 (6.79%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.32%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.70%) IoT
6 5 (3.09%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.09%) SCADA
7 4 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.85%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.23%) CMDB
9 2 (1.23%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.23%) Infotainment
9 2 (1.23%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.23%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.23%) NHS
10 1 (0.62%) Clustering
10 1 (0.62%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.23%) Linux
2 1 (0.62%) Unix
2 1 (0.62%) Windows
2 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (39.51%) ETL
2 54 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 51 (31.48%) Analytics
4 47 (29.01%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (28.40%) Migration
6 42 (25.93%) Data Migration
7 39 (24.07%) Agile
7 39 (24.07%) Business Intelligence
8 37 (22.84%) Data Governance
8 37 (22.84%) DevOps
9 33 (20.37%) Data Pipeline
10 32 (19.75%) CI/CD
11 28 (17.28%) Data Engineering
12 27 (16.67%) Data Analysis
13 25 (15.43%) Data Management
14 23 (14.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (14.20%) Visualisation
15 22 (13.58%) Data Transformation
16 19 (11.73%) Data Architecture
16 19 (11.73%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 67 (41.36%) SQL
2 41 (25.31%) Python
3 9 (5.56%) Java
4 6 (3.70%) C#
5 5 (3.09%) Bash
5 5 (3.09%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.85%) R
6 3 (1.85%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.23%) Korn
7 2 (1.23%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.23%) Scala
8 1 (0.62%) Bicep
8 1 (0.62%) HiveQL
8 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (11.73%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.26%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.17%) Degree
4 9 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.94%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.09%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.85%) CCNP
7 3 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.23%) CCNA
8 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.62%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (24.07%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.56%) QA
3 8 (4.94%) GDPR
4 7 (4.32%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.85%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (11.73%) Docker
2 4 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (10.49%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.94%) Terraform
3 3 (1.85%) Grafana
4 2 (1.23%) Ansible
4 2 (1.23%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (1.23%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.62%) Perfmon
5 1 (0.62%) SCOM
5 1 (0.62%) VxRail
Vendors
1 33 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.96%) Databricks
3 19 (11.73%) SAP
4 14 (8.64%) Informatica
5 12 (7.41%) Google
6 11 (6.79%) Oracle
7 9 (5.56%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.70%) Ariba
8 6 (3.70%) Salesforce
8 6 (3.70%) Virgin Media
9 2 (1.23%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.23%) Adobe
9 2 (1.23%) BT
9 2 (1.23%) Dell
9 2 (1.23%) Epicor
9 2 (1.23%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.23%) IBM
9 2 (1.23%) Snow
9 2 (1.23%) StreamSets
9 2 (1.23%) Veritas