Data Integration Contracts

Data Integration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Integration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Integration over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 272 272
Rank change year-on-year +77 0 -13
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 525 585 897
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.20% 0.97% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.08% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 456 624
10th Percentile £385 £403 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £664 £675
90th Percentile £813 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 2
10th Percentile - £19.43 -
25th Percentile £46.18 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £20.44 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.39% -41.60% -1.75%
75th Percentile £50.25 £28.75 -
90th Percentile £61.35 £37.60 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.84 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +70.33% -21.43% -1.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Integration is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

Data Integration
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Integration in the UK

Data Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Integration.

Daily rate trend for Data Integration in the UK

Data Integration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Integration over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Integration in the UK

Data Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Integration.

Hourly rate trend for Data Integration in the UK

Data Integration
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Integration over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Integration in the UK

Data Integration
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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 +83 470 £550 - 191
London +105 299 £625 +4.17% 109
Work from Home +72 188 £513 -6.82% 95
UK excluding London +26 173 £500 -4.76% 82
North of England +51 53 £500 -1.96% 25
North West +48 40 £525 -2.33% 17
Midlands -5 38 £513 -4.74% 17
South East +2 36 £500 -4.76% 24
West Midlands -9 29 £560 +3.90% 15
South West +9 17 £413 -13.16% 11
Scotland +12 16 £525 -4.55% 5
East of England +14 15 £525 -23.64% 4
Yorkshire +12 10 £475 -5.00% 7
East Midlands +21 8 £494 +16.18% 2
North East +20 3 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £400 - 1

Data Integration
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 25 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.90%) Apache
4 7 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.76%) Confluence
5 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.38%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) Luigi
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 23 (4.38%) MS Visio
2 13 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 28 (5.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (4.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 18 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.95%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.57%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.38%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 2 (0.38%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.19%) Hyperion Planning
8 1 (0.19%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.19%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 141 (26.86%) Azure
2 90 (17.14%) AWS
3 86 (16.38%) Power Platform
4 50 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 43 (8.19%) Snowflake
6 33 (6.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 31 (5.90%) GCP
8 28 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (4.76%) Serverless
10 23 (4.38%) Amazon S3
11 18 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (2.86%) PaaS
13 14 (2.67%) OCI
14 13 (2.48%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (2.48%) Collibra
15 12 (2.29%) SaaS
16 10 (1.90%) IaaS
17 9 (1.71%) Amazon EMR
17 9 (1.71%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.38%) Firewall
1 2 (0.38%) SAN
2 1 (0.19%) Network Security
2 1 (0.19%) SSL
2 1 (0.19%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (27.05%) Data Warehouse
2 79 (15.05%) Power BI
3 67 (12.76%) SQL Server
4 54 (10.29%) Metadata
5 45 (8.57%) NoSQL
6 44 (8.38%) Data Lake
7 39 (7.43%) Big Data
8 35 (6.67%) Relational Database
9 34 (6.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 34 (6.48%) Tableau
10 31 (5.90%) Data Vault
11 23 (4.38%) Metadata Repository
12 19 (3.62%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
14 15 (2.86%) QlikView
15 14 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (2.67%) Hadoop
15 14 (2.67%) MySQL
15 14 (2.67%) Oracle ODI
16 13 (2.48%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 26 (4.95%) ERwin
2 21 (4.00%) Git
3 16 (3.05%) ER Studio
4 12 (2.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 11 (2.10%) JIRA
6 9 (1.71%) GitLab
7 6 (1.14%) MLflow
8 4 (0.76%) kappa
9 3 (0.57%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.57%) Maven
9 3 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.19%) Gerrit
10 1 (0.19%) Hudson
10 1 (0.19%) LSMW
10 1 (0.19%) Protractor
10 1 (0.19%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.19%) Selenium
10 1 (0.19%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.19%) TestNG
10 1 (0.19%) WebDriver
General
1 136 (25.90%) Social Skills
2 134 (25.52%) Finance
3 101 (19.24%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 44 (8.38%) Marketing
6 37 (7.05%) Manufacturing
7 33 (6.29%) Banking
8 23 (4.38%) Telecoms
9 22 (4.19%) Electronics
10 20 (3.81%) Retail
11 17 (3.24%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.71%) Front Office
13 9 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.71%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.52%) Back Office
14 8 (1.52%) Publishing
15 7 (1.33%) Financial Institution
16 6 (1.14%) Automotive
17 5 (0.95%) Legal
Job Titles
1 163 (31.05%) Architect
2 97 (18.48%) Data Architect
3 95 (18.10%) Data Engineer
4 79 (15.05%) Developer
5 58 (11.05%) Analyst
6 42 (8.00%) Lead
7 38 (7.24%) Solutions Architect
8 31 (5.90%) Data Analyst
9 29 (5.52%) Senior
10 28 (5.33%) Consultant
11 22 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
12 21 (4.00%) Integration Engineer
13 20 (3.81%) Business Analyst
13 20 (3.81%) Chief Architect
13 20 (3.81%) Chief Data Architect
14 18 (3.43%) Project Manager
15 17 (3.24%) Azure Data Engineer
16 14 (2.67%) Senior Analyst
17 12 (2.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 11 (2.10%) Data Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.81%) REST
2 19 (3.62%) .NET
3 18 (3.43%) PySpark
4 14 (2.67%) XML
5 12 (2.29%) Middleware
5 12 (2.29%) SOAP
6 11 (2.10%) JSON
7 10 (1.90%) Kafka
8 8 (1.52%) YAML
9 7 (1.33%) .NET Framework
9 7 (1.33%) Entity Framework
9 7 (1.33%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
9 7 (1.33%) WCF
10 6 (1.14%) AWS CDK
10 6 (1.14%) GraphQL
10 6 (1.14%) Visualforce
11 5 (0.95%) .NET Core
11 5 (0.95%) HTML
12 4 (0.76%) Catalyst
12 4 (0.76%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.29%) Reference Data
2 24 (4.57%) Data Structures
3 20 (3.81%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.67%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.71%) Derivative
6 9 (1.71%) Taxonomies
7 8 (1.52%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.14%) IoT
9 6 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.95%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.95%) Industry 4.0
10 5 (0.95%) Operational Technology
11 4 (0.76%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.76%) Market Risk
11 4 (0.76%) NHS
11 4 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.52%) Linux
2 6 (1.14%) Unix
2 6 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (46.10%) Data Modelling
2 176 (33.52%) ETL
3 138 (26.29%) Data Governance
4 123 (23.43%) Analytics
5 122 (23.24%) Business Intelligence
6 114 (21.71%) Agile
6 114 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
7 101 (19.24%) Data Architecture
8 82 (15.62%) Migration
9 79 (15.05%) Data Pipeline
10 77 (14.67%) DevOps
11 63 (12.00%) Data Management
12 60 (11.43%) Data Strategy
13 58 (11.05%) Data Engineering
14 52 (9.90%) Data Analysis
15 49 (9.33%) Data Migration
16 48 (9.14%) CRM
17 46 (8.76%) Computer Science
18 45 (8.57%) Data Transformation
18 45 (8.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 203 (38.67%) SQL
2 102 (19.43%) Python
3 32 (6.10%) C#
4 30 (5.71%) Java
5 26 (4.95%) T-SQL
6 23 (4.38%) JavaScript
7 20 (3.81%) Scala
8 17 (3.24%) PL/SQL
9 12 (2.29%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.52%) Perl
11 7 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.33%) R
12 6 (1.14%) Apex Code
12 6 (1.14%) Bicep
12 6 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 6 (1.14%) VBScript
13 3 (0.57%) VBA
14 2 (0.38%) ABAP
14 2 (0.38%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 84 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 71 (13.52%) SC Cleared
3 67 (12.76%) Degree
4 40 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.19%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.33%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.33%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.57%) PhD
8 2 (0.38%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.38%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (22.10%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.33%) GDPR
3 24 (4.57%) QA
4 6 (1.14%) PMO
5 5 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.76%) ISO 15022
7 3 (0.57%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
System Software
1 12 (2.29%) Docker
2 5 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (2.48%) Terraform
2 6 (1.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.57%) Grafana
3 3 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.38%) Control-M
5 1 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.19%) Podman
5 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 95 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 85 (16.19%) Oracle
3 77 (14.67%) SAP
4 69 (13.14%) Informatica
5 57 (10.86%) Databricks
6 28 (5.33%) Salesforce
7 25 (4.76%) Sparx
8 14 (2.67%) Google
9 13 (2.48%) ServiceNow
10 12 (2.29%) Talend
11 11 (2.10%) Palantir
12 10 (1.90%) Foundry
13 8 (1.52%) Ariba
14 5 (0.95%) IFS
15 4 (0.76%) CA
16 3 (0.57%) Concur
16 3 (0.57%) Murex
17 2 (0.38%) Ceridian
17 2 (0.38%) Cloudera
17 2 (0.38%) IBM