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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 271 278
Rank change year-on-year +76 +7 -14
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 526 593 903
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.20% 0.98% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.09% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 464 626
10th Percentile £385 £402 £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 £707 £669 £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 37,683 54,210 80,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.89% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,351 37,527 56,743
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% +8.36%
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 2,427 1,790 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.07 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +86.50% -8.17%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +76 468 £560 +1.82% 174
London +95 299 £625 +4.17% 96
Work from Home +64 191 £513 -6.82% 91
UK excluding London +15 170 £500 -4.76% 78
North of England +47 52 £500 -4.76% 26
North West +49 39 £525 - 18
Midlands +4 37 £506 -5.90% 15
South East +8 36 £500 -4.76% 21
West Midlands +1 28 £570 +5.75% 14
South West +8 17 £413 -13.16% 13
Scotland +22 15 £500 -6.54% 3
East of England +17 15 £525 -30.00% 4
Yorkshire +4 10 £475 -9.52% 7
East Midlands +22 8 £494 +16.18% 1
North East +23 3 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £400 -

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 (4.75%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.90%) Apache
4 7 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.57%) Confluence
7 2 (0.38%) SAS
8 1 (0.19%) Luigi
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 23 (4.37%) MS Visio
2 13 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 28 (5.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (4.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 18 (3.42%) 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
1 140 (26.62%) Azure
2 88 (16.73%) AWS
2 88 (16.73%) Power Platform
3 52 (9.89%) Azure Data Factory
4 45 (8.56%) Snowflake
5 34 (6.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 31 (5.89%) GCP
7 29 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (4.94%) Dynamics 365
8 26 (4.94%) Serverless
9 23 (4.37%) Amazon S3
10 18 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (2.85%) OCI
11 15 (2.85%) PaaS
12 13 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (2.47%) Collibra
13 11 (2.09%) SaaS
14 10 (1.90%) IaaS
14 10 (1.90%) PowerApps
15 9 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
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
1 143 (27.19%) Data Warehouse
2 78 (14.83%) Power BI
3 69 (13.12%) SQL Server
4 56 (10.65%) Metadata
5 45 (8.56%) NoSQL
6 42 (7.98%) Data Lake
7 39 (7.41%) Big Data
8 35 (6.65%) Relational Database
8 35 (6.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 35 (6.65%) Tableau
9 31 (5.89%) Data Vault
10 23 (4.37%) Metadata Repository
11 18 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (2.85%) QlikView
14 14 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (2.66%) Hadoop
14 14 (2.66%) MySQL
14 14 (2.66%) Oracle ODI
15 13 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (5.13%) ERwin
2 21 (3.99%) Git
3 17 (3.23%) ER Studio
4 12 (2.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 11 (2.09%) JIRA
6 9 (1.71%) GitLab
7 6 (1.14%) MLflow
8 4 (0.76%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.76%) kappa
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%) JUnit
10 1 (0.19%) LSMW
10 1 (0.19%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.19%) Selenium
10 1 (0.19%) TestNG
10 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.19%) WebDriver
General
1 134 (25.48%) Finance
2 133 (25.29%) Social Skills
3 104 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.37%) Marketing
4 44 (8.37%) Public Sector
5 37 (7.03%) Manufacturing
6 34 (6.46%) Banking
7 23 (4.37%) Telecoms
8 22 (4.18%) Electronics
9 20 (3.80%) Retail
10 16 (3.04%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.71%) Front Office
12 9 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.71%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.52%) Back Office
13 8 (1.52%) Publishing
14 7 (1.33%) Automotive
14 7 (1.33%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.95%) Legal
Job Titles
1 163 (30.99%) Architect
2 100 (19.01%) Data Architect
3 94 (17.87%) Data Engineer
4 81 (15.40%) Developer
5 58 (11.03%) Analyst
6 44 (8.37%) Lead
7 36 (6.84%) Solutions Architect
8 31 (5.89%) Data Analyst
9 29 (5.51%) Senior
10 28 (5.32%) Consultant
11 21 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
11 21 (3.99%) Integration Engineer
12 20 (3.80%) Business Analyst
12 20 (3.80%) Chief Architect
12 20 (3.80%) Chief Data Architect
13 18 (3.42%) Project Manager
14 16 (3.04%) Azure Data Engineer
15 14 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
16 12 (2.28%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 11 (2.09%) Data Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.80%) REST
2 19 (3.61%) .NET
3 17 (3.23%) PySpark
4 14 (2.66%) XML
5 13 (2.47%) Middleware
6 12 (2.28%) SOAP
7 11 (2.09%) JSON
8 10 (1.90%) Kafka
9 8 (1.52%) YAML
10 7 (1.33%) .NET Framework
10 7 (1.33%) Entity Framework
10 7 (1.33%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
10 7 (1.33%) WCF
11 6 (1.14%) AWS CDK
11 6 (1.14%) GraphQL
12 5 (0.95%) .NET Core
12 5 (0.95%) HTML
12 5 (0.95%) Visualforce
13 4 (0.76%) Catalyst
13 4 (0.76%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.27%) Reference Data
2 25 (4.75%) Data Structures
3 20 (3.80%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.66%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.09%) 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%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.14%) IoT
9 6 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.95%) Industry 4.0
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%) Fixed Income
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
1 245 (46.58%) Data Modelling
2 176 (33.46%) ETL
3 137 (26.05%) Data Governance
4 125 (23.76%) Analytics
5 120 (22.81%) Business Intelligence
6 114 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
7 112 (21.29%) Agile
8 103 (19.58%) Data Architecture
9 82 (15.59%) Migration
10 80 (15.21%) Data Pipeline
11 79 (15.02%) DevOps
12 62 (11.79%) Data Management
13 60 (11.41%) Data Strategy
14 57 (10.84%) Data Engineering
15 52 (9.89%) Data Analysis
16 49 (9.32%) Data Migration
17 48 (9.13%) CRM
18 46 (8.75%) Computer Science
18 46 (8.75%) Data Transformation
18 46 (8.75%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 204 (38.78%) SQL
2 101 (19.20%) Python
3 32 (6.08%) C#
4 29 (5.51%) Java
5 26 (4.94%) T-SQL
6 23 (4.37%) JavaScript
7 20 (3.80%) Scala
8 17 (3.23%) PL/SQL
9 12 (2.28%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.52%) Perl
11 7 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.33%) R
12 6 (1.14%) Bicep
12 6 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 6 (1.14%) VBScript
13 5 (0.95%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.57%) VBA
15 2 (0.38%) ABAP
15 2 (0.38%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 84 (15.97%) Security Cleared
2 71 (13.50%) SC Cleared
3 67 (12.74%) Degree
4 40 (7.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.18%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.33%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.33%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.57%) PhD
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 (22.05%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.32%) GDPR
3 24 (4.56%) QA
4 6 (1.14%) PMO
5 5 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.76%) Accessibility
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 13 (2.47%) 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 (2.47%) Terraform
2 7 (1.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.76%) Grafana
4 3 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.38%) Control-M
6 1 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.19%) Podman
6 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 97 (18.44%) Microsoft
2 86 (16.35%) Oracle
3 74 (14.07%) SAP
4 68 (12.93%) Informatica
5 54 (10.27%) Databricks
6 27 (5.13%) Salesforce
7 26 (4.94%) Sparx
8 14 (2.66%) Google
9 13 (2.47%) ServiceNow
10 12 (2.28%) Talend
11 11 (2.09%) Palantir
12 10 (1.90%) Foundry
13 7 (1.33%) Ariba
14 5 (0.95%) IFS
15 4 (0.76%) CA
16 3 (0.57%) Murex
17 2 (0.38%) Ab Initio
17 2 (0.38%) IBM
17 2 (0.38%) Teradata
17 2 (0.38%) VMware