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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 205 274 277
Rank change year-on-year +69 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 512 585 894
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.18% 0.99% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.10% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 448 618
10th Percentile £385 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £463 £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% +10.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 2
10th Percentile £46.35 £19.60 -
25th Percentile £46.50 £20.44 -
Median hourly rate £48.50 £23.97 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.34% -31.51% +139.32%
75th Percentile £59.50 £39.81 -
90th Percentile £65.05 £70.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +109.09% -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 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +82 461 £550 - 172
London +90 292 £625 +4.17% 95
Work from Home +63 182 £500 -9.09% 84
UK excluding London +19 169 £500 -4.76% 77
North of England +46 51 £475 -5.94% 23
Midlands 0 39 £513 -4.74% 18
North West +44 36 £525 - 17
South East +5 36 £500 -4.76% 21
West Midlands -9 30 £570 +5.56% 16
South West +6 17 £413 -13.16% 10
East of England +21 14 £525 -19.23% 2
Scotland +23 13 £469 -14.77% 5
Yorkshire +11 13 £475 -5.00% 6
East Midlands +24 8 £494 +16.18% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £400 - 2
North East +17 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 24 (4.69%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.34%) Apache
2 12 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.78%) Confluence
4 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.39%) SAS
6 1 (0.20%) Luigi
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 23 (4.49%) MS Visio
2 14 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 29 (5.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (4.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 16 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.98%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.78%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.59%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.39%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.39%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.20%) Hyperion Planning
8 1 (0.20%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.20%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 143 (27.93%) Azure
2 87 (16.99%) AWS
3 86 (16.80%) Power Platform
4 52 (10.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 45 (8.79%) Snowflake
6 34 (6.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 29 (5.66%) GCP
8 27 (5.27%) Dynamics 365
9 26 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (4.88%) Amazon S3
10 25 (4.88%) Serverless
11 18 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (2.93%) PaaS
13 14 (2.73%) OCI
14 13 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (2.54%) Collibra
15 12 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (2.34%) SaaS
16 10 (1.95%) PowerApps
17 9 (1.76%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.39%) Firewall
1 2 (0.39%) SAN
2 1 (0.20%) Network Security
2 1 (0.20%) SSL
2 1 (0.20%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (27.34%) Data Warehouse
2 80 (15.63%) Power BI
3 68 (13.28%) SQL Server
4 52 (10.16%) Metadata
5 45 (8.79%) NoSQL
6 43 (8.40%) Data Lake
7 37 (7.23%) Big Data
8 36 (7.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 35 (6.84%) Relational Database
10 34 (6.64%) Tableau
11 32 (6.25%) Data Vault
12 24 (4.69%) Metadata Repository
13 21 (4.10%) Azure SQL Database
14 18 (3.52%) MySQL
15 17 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
16 14 (2.73%) QlikView
17 13 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (2.54%) Hadoop
17 13 (2.54%) Pentaho
17 13 (2.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (4.88%) ERwin
2 24 (4.69%) Git
3 15 (2.93%) ER Studio
4 12 (2.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 10 (1.95%) JIRA
6 9 (1.76%) GitLab
7 6 (1.17%) MLflow
8 4 (0.78%) kappa
9 3 (0.59%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.59%) Maven
9 3 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.20%) Gerrit
10 1 (0.20%) Hudson
10 1 (0.20%) JUnit
10 1 (0.20%) LSMW
10 1 (0.20%) Protractor
10 1 (0.20%) Selenium
10 1 (0.20%) TestNG
10 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.20%) WebDriver
General
1 137 (26.76%) Social Skills
2 135 (26.37%) Finance
3 99 (19.34%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.59%) Marketing
4 44 (8.59%) Public Sector
5 37 (7.23%) Manufacturing
6 33 (6.45%) Banking
7 24 (4.69%) Telecoms
8 23 (4.49%) Electronics
9 20 (3.91%) Retail
10 16 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.76%) Front Office
12 9 (1.76%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.56%) Back Office
13 8 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.56%) Publishing
14 7 (1.37%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.17%) Automotive
16 4 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 158 (30.86%) Architect
2 98 (19.14%) Data Architect
3 94 (18.36%) Data Engineer
4 80 (15.63%) Developer
5 57 (11.13%) Analyst
6 39 (7.62%) Lead
7 34 (6.64%) Solutions Architect
8 30 (5.86%) Data Analyst
8 30 (5.86%) Senior
9 27 (5.27%) Consultant
10 22 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
11 21 (4.10%) Business Analyst
11 21 (4.10%) Chief Architect
11 21 (4.10%) Chief Data Architect
11 21 (4.10%) Integration Engineer
12 17 (3.32%) Azure Data Engineer
12 17 (3.32%) Project Manager
13 13 (2.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 13 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
14 11 (2.15%) Data Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.91%) REST
2 19 (3.71%) PySpark
3 18 (3.52%) .NET
4 14 (2.73%) XML
5 12 (2.34%) SOAP
6 11 (2.15%) JSON
6 11 (2.15%) Middleware
7 10 (1.95%) Kafka
8 8 (1.56%) YAML
9 7 (1.37%) .NET Framework
9 7 (1.37%) Entity Framework
9 7 (1.37%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
9 7 (1.37%) WCF
10 6 (1.17%) AWS CDK
10 6 (1.17%) GraphQL
10 6 (1.17%) Visualforce
11 5 (0.98%) .NET Core
11 5 (0.98%) HTML
12 4 (0.78%) Catalyst
12 4 (0.78%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.64%) Reference Data
2 20 (3.91%) Data Structures
3 16 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.15%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (1.76%) Derivative
6 8 (1.56%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.56%) Taxonomies
7 6 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.17%) IoT
7 6 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (0.98%) Algorithms
8 5 (0.98%) Industry 4.0
9 4 (0.78%) Market Risk
9 4 (0.78%) NHS
9 4 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.56%) Linux
2 6 (1.17%) Unix
2 6 (1.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (46.09%) Data Modelling
2 172 (33.59%) ETL
3 135 (26.37%) Data Governance
4 126 (24.61%) Business Intelligence
5 123 (24.02%) Analytics
6 114 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
7 110 (21.48%) Agile
8 99 (19.34%) Data Architecture
9 81 (15.82%) Migration
10 78 (15.23%) Data Pipeline
11 74 (14.45%) DevOps
12 64 (12.50%) Data Management
13 57 (11.13%) Data Engineering
13 57 (11.13%) Data Strategy
14 52 (10.16%) Data Migration
15 51 (9.96%) Data Analysis
16 48 (9.38%) Computer Science
16 48 (9.38%) CRM
17 45 (8.79%) Data Transformation
18 42 (8.20%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 208 (40.63%) SQL
2 104 (20.31%) Python
3 31 (6.05%) C#
3 31 (6.05%) Java
4 26 (5.08%) T-SQL
5 23 (4.49%) JavaScript
6 20 (3.91%) Scala
7 17 (3.32%) PL/SQL
8 12 (2.34%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (1.56%) Perl
10 6 (1.17%) Apex Code
10 6 (1.17%) Bicep
10 6 (1.17%) R
10 6 (1.17%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.17%) VBScript
11 4 (0.78%) Bash
11 4 (0.78%) VBA
12 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 78 (15.23%) Security Cleared
2 68 (13.28%) Degree
3 65 (12.70%) SC Cleared
4 39 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.91%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.17%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.59%) PhD
9 2 (0.39%) PMP
9 2 (0.39%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.39%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (22.07%) Data Quality
2 27 (5.27%) GDPR
3 24 (4.69%) QA
4 5 (0.98%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (0.98%) PMO
5 4 (0.78%) ISO 15022
6 3 (0.59%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
System Software
1 12 (2.34%) Docker
2 5 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (2.73%) Terraform
2 6 (1.17%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.59%) Grafana
3 3 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.39%) Control-M
5 1 (0.20%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.20%) Podman
5 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 97 (18.95%) Microsoft
2 84 (16.41%) Oracle
3 74 (14.45%) SAP
4 71 (13.87%) Informatica
5 58 (11.33%) Databricks
6 27 (5.27%) Salesforce
7 24 (4.69%) Sparx
8 13 (2.54%) Google
8 13 (2.54%) ServiceNow
9 12 (2.34%) Talend
10 11 (2.15%) Palantir
11 10 (1.95%) Foundry
12 8 (1.56%) Ariba
13 5 (0.98%) IFS
14 4 (0.78%) CA
15 3 (0.59%) Concur
15 3 (0.59%) Murex
15 3 (0.59%) VMware
16 2 (0.39%) IDERA
16 2 (0.39%) Optimizely