Integration Engineer Contracts

Integration Engineer
UK

The median Integration Engineer daily rate in the UK is £515, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 454 589
Rank change year-on-year -2 +135 +161
Contract jobs requiring an Integration Engineer 64 128 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.29% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.32% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 94 72
10th Percentile £375 £396 £429
25th Percentile £438 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -8.70% +6.98%
75th Percentile £581 £563 £603
90th Percentile £650 £625 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -5.58% -0.46% +23.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 22
10th Percentile £55.75 £27.74 £57.33
25th Percentile £56.88 £55.94 £61.15
Median hourly rate £60.00 £73.50 £63.84
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +15.13% +33.32%
75th Percentile £65.63 £75.25 £68.75
90th Percentile £66.75 - £76.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £73.50 £62.55
% change year-on-year -18.37% +17.51% +30.63%

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £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 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Integration Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Integration Engineer in the UK

Integration Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Integration Engineer in the UK

Integration Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Integration Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Integration Engineer in the UK

Integration Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Integration Engineer in the UK

Integration Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 -9 57 £517 -1.45% 83
UK excluding London +21 28 £508 -5.58% 66
London +12 27 £532 +32.88% 27
Work from Home +7 16 £463 -11.90% 33
South West +40 10 £640 +12.53% 10
North of England +25 7 £459 -8.30% 14
North West +23 7 £459 -8.30% 9
South East +16 6 £463 -13.95% 25
Midlands +22 2 £541 - 12
East of England +20 2 £313 -43.18% 2
West Midlands +14 2 £541 - 9
Scotland - 1 £450 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Integration Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (32.81%) Active Directory
2 18 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 18 (28.13%) Azure
3 16 (25.00%) Windows
4 15 (23.44%) SQL
5 14 (21.88%) DNS
5 14 (21.88%) AWS
6 13 (20.31%) Security Cleared
6 13 (20.31%) Entra ID
7 12 (18.75%) CI/CD
8 11 (17.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (17.19%) DevOps
8 11 (17.19%) SC Cleared
8 11 (17.19%) Firewall
9 10 (15.63%) Finance
9 10 (15.63%) Python
9 10 (15.63%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (15.63%) Agile
9 10 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (15.63%) Windows Server
10 9 (14.06%) Terraform
10 9 (14.06%) Data Loss Prevention
10 9 (14.06%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (14.06%) IaaS
10 9 (14.06%) Time Management
10 9 (14.06%) Linux
10 9 (14.06%) MPLS
10 9 (14.06%) Project Delivery
11 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (10.94%) GitHub

Integration Engineer 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 10 (15.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.56%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.56%) Confluence
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.56%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (28.13%) Azure
2 14 (21.88%) AWS
3 13 (20.31%) Entra ID
4 10 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (14.06%) IaaS
6 7 (10.94%) GitHub
7 5 (7.81%) Serverless
8 4 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (6.25%) SaaS
9 3 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.13%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (3.13%) Azure API Management
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (3.13%) Boomi
10 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (21.88%) DNS
2 11 (17.19%) Firewall
3 9 (14.06%) MPLS
4 3 (4.69%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (3.13%) DHCP
5 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.56%) 802.11
6 1 (1.56%) Broadband
6 1 (1.56%) DOCSIS
6 1 (1.56%) DSL
6 1 (1.56%) GPON
6 1 (1.56%) IPv4
6 1 (1.56%) IPv6
6 1 (1.56%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (1.56%) PPP
6 1 (1.56%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (1.56%) VoIP
6 1 (1.56%) VPN
6 1 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) Data Lake
1 4 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 4 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.69%) RDBMS
2 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.56%) MySQL
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) GitLab
2 3 (4.69%) Git
3 2 (3.13%) JIRA
4 1 (1.56%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.56%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (1.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 10 (15.63%) Finance
2 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
2 6 (9.38%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.81%) Spanish Language
4 4 (6.25%) Legal
5 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Law
6 2 (3.13%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.13%) Avionics
6 2 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.56%) Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) .NET
2 5 (7.81%) OAuth
2 5 (7.81%) REST
3 4 (6.25%) FHIR
3 4 (6.25%) RESTful
3 4 (6.25%) SOAP
4 3 (4.69%) JSON
4 3 (4.69%) Node.js
4 3 (4.69%) OpenID
4 3 (4.69%) SAML
4 3 (4.69%) Web Services
4 3 (4.69%) XML
5 2 (3.13%) Kafka
6 1 (1.56%) 802.1X
6 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.56%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.56%) Spring
6 1 (1.56%) WCF
6 1 (1.56%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
1 2 (3.13%) PACS
2 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.56%) Digital TV
2 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.56%) IoT
2 1 (1.56%) PKI
2 1 (1.56%) STB
2 1 (1.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 16 (25.00%) Windows
2 10 (15.63%) Windows Server
3 9 (14.06%) Linux
4 2 (3.13%) Android
5 1 (1.56%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.56%) OpenWrt
5 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (18.75%) CI/CD
2 11 (17.19%) DevOps
2 11 (17.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (15.63%) Agile
4 9 (14.06%) Data Loss Prevention
4 9 (14.06%) Project Delivery
4 9 (14.06%) Time Management
5 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (10.94%) High Availability
6 7 (10.94%) Migration
7 6 (9.38%) Cloud Security
8 5 (7.81%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (7.81%) Validation
9 4 (6.25%) Capacity Planning
9 4 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (6.25%) Data Protection
9 4 (6.25%) Process Improvement
9 4 (6.25%) Software Engineering
9 4 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.44%) SQL
2 10 (15.63%) Python
3 6 (9.38%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.69%) Bash
5 3 (4.69%) Java
6 2 (3.13%) Bicep
6 2 (3.13%) C#
6 2 (3.13%) Groovy
7 1 (1.56%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.19%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) Degree
4 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.56%) CEH
5 1 (1.56%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (1.56%) CISSP
5 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) MCSA
5 1 (1.56%) MCSE
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.56%) RHCSA
5 1 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) HL7
2 2 (3.13%) DICOM
3 1 (1.56%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.56%) GDPR
3 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 21 (32.81%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.69%) Docker
3 2 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.56%) iptables
Systems Management
1 9 (14.06%) Microsoft Intune
1 9 (14.06%) Terraform
2 5 (7.81%) Ansible
3 4 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.13%) Podman
6 1 (1.56%) Grafana
6 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.56%) SELinux
Vendors
1 18 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.81%) MuleSoft
2 5 (7.81%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.25%) Cisco
3 4 (6.25%) Oracle
3 4 (6.25%) SnapLogic
3 4 (6.25%) Splunk
3 4 (6.25%) Zscaler
4 3 (4.69%) F5
5 2 (3.13%) Okta
5 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.13%) VMware
6 1 (1.56%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.56%) Google
6 1 (1.56%) Jitterbit
6 1 (1.56%) Juniper
6 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.56%) SAP