EAI Contract Job Trends

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring EAI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 634 509 575
Rank change year-on-year -125 +66 +111
Contract jobs citing EAI 9 15 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.051% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% 0.056% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 14
10th Percentile £596 £458 £200
25th Percentile £606 £525 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +27.78%
75th Percentile £700 £775 £588
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £651 £750 £200
% change year-on-year -13.17% +275.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

EAI 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,104 26,621 36,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.75% 90.94% 85.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,283 16,896 23,594
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,537 1,167 2,565
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%
75th Percentile £67.89 £56.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

EAI
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing EAI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

EAI job vacancy trend in the UK

EAI
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing EAI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing EAI

EAI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EAI over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for EAI in the UK

EAI
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing EAI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing EAI

EAI
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EAI within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. 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 -131 9 £650 +8.33% 6
UK excluding London -98 8 £651 -13.17% 4
South East - 8 £651 - 4
London -79 1 £625 +38.89% 2

EAI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Siebel EIM
2 4 (44.44%) Oracle Database
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
1 9 (100.00%) Siebel Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (11.11%) EAI Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Siebel EAI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CRM
2 4 (44.44%) Data Migration
2 4 (44.44%) High Availability
2 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) Workflow
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
1 9 (100.00%) Siebel