Integration Patterns Contracts in the UK excluding London

Integration Patterns
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Integration Patterns skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Integration Patterns over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 359 385
Rank change year-on-year +69 +26 +61
Contract jobs citing Integration Patterns 45 25 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.12% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.15% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 16 34
10th Percentile £383 £444 £478
25th Percentile £447 £498 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £600 £697 £638
90th Percentile £624 £734 £710
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -5.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Integration Patterns 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 11,564 17,190 21,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.48% 84.41% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,199 10,232 14,530
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.62% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 830 2,049 1,280
10th Percentile £14.19 £12.30 £10.99
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.23 £15.43
Median hourly rate £25.23 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.83% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.17 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.84% +1.39% +40.19%

Integration Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Integration Patterns in the UK excluding London

Integration Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Integration Patterns in the UK excluding London

Integration Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Integration Patterns in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Integration Patterns in the UK excluding London

Integration Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Integration Patterns in the UK excluding London

Integration Patterns
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 Integration Patterns within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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 +22 16 £447 -23.10% 17
North of England +32 14 £550 - 8
North West +23 12 £550 - 4
East Midlands +13 9 £447 -28.48% 4
West Midlands +13 7 £475 -15.60% 13
South West - 6 £550 - 10
Scotland +4 5 £600 -4.00% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 - 1
South East +43 2 £550 -21.43% 32
North East - 2 £528 - 1
East of England - 1 - - 2
Integration Patterns
UK

Integration Patterns
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 5 (11.11%) Mule
2 4 (8.89%) Anypoint
3 1 (2.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.22%) Apache
3 1 (2.22%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (2.22%) CMS
3 1 (2.22%) IIS
3 1 (2.22%) JBoss
3 1 (2.22%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.22%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.22%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (51.11%) AWS
2 19 (42.22%) Azure
3 9 (20.00%) GCP
4 7 (15.56%) Serverless
5 4 (8.89%) PaaS
6 3 (6.67%) Power Automate
6 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.67%) PowerApps
6 3 (6.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (4.44%) Apigee
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.44%) Datadog
7 2 (4.44%) IaaS
7 2 (4.44%) iPaaS
7 2 (4.44%) SaaS
7 2 (4.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.22%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) FTP
2 1 (2.22%) HTTP
2 1 (2.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Data Lake
1 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.22%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.44%) Bitbucket
2 2 (4.44%) Git
2 2 (4.44%) GitLab
2 2 (4.44%) Maven
3 1 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (2.22%) Hudson
3 1 (2.22%) Mockito
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.22%) Toad
General
1 12 (26.67%) Public Sector
1 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Banking
3 9 (20.00%) Finance
4 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Retail
6 2 (4.44%) Marketing
7 1 (2.22%) Billing
7 1 (2.22%) Legal
7 1 (2.22%) Military
7 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (73.33%) Architect
2 16 (35.56%) Solutions Architect
3 11 (24.44%) Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Technical Architect
5 5 (11.11%) Applications Architect
5 5 (11.11%) MuleSoft Developer
6 4 (8.89%) .NET Architect
6 4 (8.89%) .NET Technical Architect
6 4 (8.89%) Enterprise Architect
6 4 (8.89%) Java Applications Architect
6 4 (8.89%) Java Architect
6 4 (8.89%) Java Technical Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Integration Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Junior
7 3 (6.67%) Junior Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Junior Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Payments Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.22%) SOAP
2 8 (17.78%) REST
3 7 (15.56%) Middleware
4 6 (13.33%) OAuth
4 6 (13.33%) RAML
4 6 (13.33%) RESTful
4 6 (13.33%) Swagger
5 5 (11.11%) .NET
5 5 (11.11%) JSON
5 5 (11.11%) Spring
5 5 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 5 (11.11%) XML
6 4 (8.89%) OpenAPI
6 4 (8.89%) SAML
7 3 (6.67%) JWT
7 3 (6.67%) Kafka
7 3 (6.67%) OpenID
8 2 (4.44%) Apache Camel
8 2 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (4.44%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Windows
1 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) DevOps
2 17 (37.78%) Microservices
3 15 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 13 (28.89%) Architectural Patterns
4 13 (28.89%) TOGAF
5 12 (26.67%) Migration
6 10 (22.22%) Agile
6 10 (22.22%) Architectural Design
6 10 (22.22%) Event-Driven
6 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (20.00%) API Management
7 9 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
8 7 (15.56%) Containerisation
8 7 (15.56%) Data Integration
8 7 (15.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 7 (15.56%) Enterprise Architecture
9 6 (13.33%) Data Governance
9 6 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (13.33%) Requirements Management
10 5 (11.11%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (24.44%) Java
2 4 (8.89%) DataWeave
2 4 (8.89%) SQL
3 3 (6.67%) Apex Code
4 2 (4.44%) PL/SQL
4 2 (4.44%) Python
5 1 (2.22%) ActionScript
5 1 (2.22%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (2.22%) Bicep
5 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.22%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.67%) Degree
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.44%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.22%) APMG
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.22%) OCP
6 1 (2.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.44%) GDPR
2 1 (2.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.22%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (2.22%) NCSC
2 1 (2.22%) NIST
2 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.22%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.44%) Terraform
3 1 (2.22%) Grafana
3 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.22%) Rancher
3 1 (2.22%) SCOM
3 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (20.00%) MuleSoft
2 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.33%) Salesforce
4 4 (8.89%) Oracle
4 4 (8.89%) Virgin Media
5 3 (6.67%) Splunk
6 2 (4.44%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.44%) IBM
6 2 (4.44%) Okta
6 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.22%) Adobe
7 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.22%) Checkmarx
7 1 (2.22%) Google
7 1 (2.22%) Ping Identity
7 1 (2.22%) Qualys
7 1 (2.22%) SAP
7 1 (2.22%) Talend