Data Integration Engineer Contract Job Trends

Data Integration Engineer
UK

The median Data Integration Engineer daily rate in the UK is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 - 641
Rank change year-on-year - - +211
Contract jobs requiring a Data Integration Engineer 6 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% - 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% - 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £439 - £523
25th Percentile £478 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.58%
75th Percentile £663 - £594
90th Percentile - - £598
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +18.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 29,760 35,015 46,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.02% 92.92% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,779 21,474 31,997
10th Percentile £276 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,587 1,615 1,509
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.77 £14.99
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.63 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%
75th Percentile £51.65 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.08 £43.97 £43.75
% change year-on-year -42.97% +0.50% +98.86%

Data Integration Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Integration Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Integration Engineer in the UK

Data Integration Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Integration Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Integration Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Data Integration Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Integration Engineer over the 6 months to 23 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Integration Engineer in the UK

Data Integration Engineer
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Integration Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
England - 6 £563 - 10
London - 5 £500 - 7
Work from Home - 3 £625 - 2
UK excluding London - 1 £625 - 6
South West - 1 £625 -

Data Integration Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 September 2025, Data Integration Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Data Integration Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) ETL
1 6 (100.00%) Data Integration
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 4 (66.67%) Python
3 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) GDPR
4 3 (50.00%) Databricks
4 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Workflow
5 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (33.33%) Finance
5 2 (33.33%) Migration
5 2 (33.33%) Banking
5 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (33.33%) DataStage
5 2 (33.33%) Middleware
5 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
5 2 (33.33%) Oracle
5 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 2 (33.33%) Java
5 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
5 2 (33.33%) Apache
5 2 (33.33%) Data Privacy
5 2 (33.33%) Alteryx
5 2 (33.33%) OAuth2

Data Integration Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Stack
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Storage
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) DataStage
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
2 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 2 (33.33%) JWT
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
1 2 (33.33%) Middleware
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
1 2 (33.33%) OAuth
1 2 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 2 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 6 (100.00%) ETL
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Workflow
4 2 (33.33%) API Design
4 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Data Privacy
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Webhook
5 1 (16.67%) API Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Issue Tracking
5 1 (16.67%) KYC
5 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
2 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Databricks
2 2 (33.33%) Alteryx
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) SAP