Integration Architect Contracts

Integration Architect
UK

The median Integration Architect daily rate in the UK is £673, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 526 618
Rank change year-on-year +95 +92 +60
Contract jobs requiring an Integration Architect 88 74 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.18% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 46 62
10th Percentile £500 £522 £500
25th Percentile £600 £550 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £673 £631 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.53% +1.00% -
75th Percentile £738 £731 £766
90th Percentile £799 £775 £835
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +6.84%

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 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

Integration Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Integration Architect in the UK

Integration Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Integration Architect in the UK

Integration Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Integration Architect over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Integration Architect in the UK

Integration Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Integration Architect in the UK

Integration Architect
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Integration Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +59 57 £674 +4.66% 17
London +35 41 £700 +3.63% 10
Work from Home +50 36 £625 +4.17% 11
UK excluding London +54 18 £650 +8.33% 7
North of England +29 7 £600 -7.69% 3
North West +17 7 £600 +4.35% 3
South East +42 3 £625 - 1
Scotland +11 3 £600 +14.29%
South West - 3 £450 - 1
Midlands +19 2 - - 2
West Midlands +12 2 - - 2
East of England - 2 £725 -

Integration Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Integration Architect 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 Integration Architect in the job title.

1 34 (38.64%) Azure
2 28 (31.82%) AWS
3 25 (28.41%) TOGAF
4 20 (22.73%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 19 (21.59%) Roadmaps
5 19 (21.59%) MODAF
6 18 (20.45%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (19.32%) SAP
8 16 (18.18%) Social Skills
9 15 (17.05%) Security Cleared
9 15 (17.05%) DevOps
10 14 (15.91%) Agile
10 14 (15.91%) Microsoft
11 13 (14.77%) Java
12 12 (13.64%) GCP
13 11 (12.50%) Oracle
13 11 (12.50%) Finance
13 11 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
14 10 (11.36%) API Management
14 10 (11.36%) Migration
14 10 (11.36%) Data Modelling
14 10 (11.36%) MuleSoft
15 9 (10.23%) REST
15 9 (10.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
15 9 (10.23%) Management Information System
15 9 (10.23%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (10.23%) CI/CD
15 9 (10.23%) Decision-Making
16 8 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
16 8 (9.09%) Architecture Roadmap

Integration Architect 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 (2.27%) Apache
2 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.14%) CICS
2 1 (1.14%) CMS
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (10.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (9.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.27%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (1.14%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.14%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.14%) SAP FI-AP
3 1 (1.14%) SAP MDM
3 1 (1.14%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 34 (38.64%) Azure
2 28 (31.82%) AWS
3 12 (13.64%) GCP
4 8 (9.09%) Boomi
5 6 (6.82%) Azure API Management
6 5 (5.68%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (4.55%) Serverless
8 3 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.41%) Azure Event Grid
8 3 (3.41%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.27%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (1.14%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.14%) Apigee
10 1 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.14%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.14%) PaaS
10 1 (1.14%) SaaS
10 1 (1.14%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) Firewall
1 2 (2.27%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.14%) FTP
2 1 (1.14%) HTTP
2 1 (1.14%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.68%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.27%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.27%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.14%) Big Data
4 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.14%) Power BI
4 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Git
1 1 (1.14%) JIRA
1 1 (1.14%) Mockito
1 1 (1.14%) Postman
1 1 (1.14%) Toad
General
1 16 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.50%) Finance
3 9 (10.23%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.41%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.27%) Legal
6 2 (2.27%) Retail
7 1 (1.14%) Banking
7 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.14%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.14%) German Language
7 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.14%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.23%) REST
2 8 (9.09%) Middleware
2 8 (9.09%) SOAP
3 4 (4.55%) Kafka
3 4 (4.55%) OAuth
3 4 (4.55%) RESTful
3 4 (4.55%) SAML
4 3 (3.41%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.27%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (2.27%) IDoc
5 2 (2.27%) JSON
5 2 (2.27%) OpenID
5 2 (2.27%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (2.27%) SAPUI5
5 2 (2.27%) Spring
5 2 (2.27%) Web Services
5 2 (2.27%) XML
5 2 (2.27%) XSLT
6 1 (1.14%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.14%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.41%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.41%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.27%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.14%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.14%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.14%) Life Science
5 1 (1.14%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.14%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (28.41%) TOGAF
2 20 (22.73%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 19 (21.59%) MODAF
3 19 (21.59%) Roadmaps
4 18 (20.45%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (17.05%) DevOps
6 14 (15.91%) Agile
7 11 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
8 10 (11.36%) API Management
8 10 (11.36%) Data Modelling
8 10 (11.36%) Migration
9 9 (10.23%) CI/CD
9 9 (10.23%) Decision-Making
10 8 (9.09%) Architecture Roadmap
10 8 (9.09%) Data Integration
10 8 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (7.95%) Microservices
11 7 (7.95%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (6.82%) Infrastructure as Code
13 5 (5.68%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.77%) Java
2 8 (9.09%) SQL
3 3 (3.41%) ABAP
4 2 (2.27%) Bicep
4 2 (2.27%) COBOL
4 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.27%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.14%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.14%) C#
5 1 (1.14%) Groovy
5 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.14%) Python
5 1 (1.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.68%) Degree
4 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.27%) CISA
4 2 (2.27%) CISM
4 2 (2.27%) CISSP
4 2 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.14%) PMP
5 1 (1.14%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.41%) QA
2 2 (2.27%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (2.27%) NIST
2 2 (2.27%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.14%) GDPR
3 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.14%) Docker
1 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (4.55%) Terraform
2 3 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.27%) MOM
3 2 (2.27%) Nagios
3 2 (2.27%) SCCM
4 1 (1.14%) Ansible
4 1 (1.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (19.32%) SAP
2 14 (15.91%) Microsoft
3 11 (12.50%) Oracle
4 10 (11.36%) MuleSoft
5 7 (7.95%) Ariba
5 7 (7.95%) ServiceNow
6 5 (5.68%) IBM
7 4 (4.55%) Salesforce
8 3 (3.41%) Informatica
8 3 (3.41%) Okta
8 3 (3.41%) Ping Identity
8 3 (3.41%) Talend
8 3 (3.41%) webMethods
9 2 (2.27%) Dell
9 2 (2.27%) Google
9 2 (2.27%) Qualtrics
9 2 (2.27%) Qualys
9 2 (2.27%) SnapLogic
9 2 (2.27%) Snow
10 1 (1.14%) Atlassian