Integration Patterns Contracts

Integration Patterns
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Integration Patterns skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Integration Patterns over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 413 478 594
Rank change year-on-year +65 +116 -43
Contract jobs citing Integration Patterns 108 104 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.24% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.28% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 54 81
10th Percentile £401 £463 £475
25th Percentile £453 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -5.51%
75th Percentile £640 £725 £738
90th Percentile £760 £796 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £600 £545
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.09% -9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Integration Patterns 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Integration Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Integration Patterns as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Integration Patterns in the UK

Integration Patterns
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Integration Patterns in the UK

Integration Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Integration Patterns in the UK

Integration Patterns
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Integration Patterns in the UK

Integration Patterns
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Integration Patterns 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 +60 88 £600 - 100
London +20 49 £608 -2.80% 51
Work from Home +28 42 £550 -8.33% 53
UK excluding London +79 40 £540 -10.00% 66
Midlands +28 12 £438 -24.73% 11
North of England +27 10 £600 +9.09% 8
North West +23 8 £600 +9.09% 6
West Midlands +16 7 £438 -22.22% 7
South West - 6 £625 - 12
East Midlands +14 5 £402 -35.68% 4
Scotland +10 5 £600 -4.00% 4
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 - 1
South East +41 3 £550 -21.43% 29
North East - 2 £528 - 1

Integration Patterns
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 5 (4.63%) Anypoint
1 5 (4.63%) Mule
2 2 (1.85%) CICS
3 1 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.93%) Apache
3 1 (0.93%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.93%) CMS
3 1 (0.93%) Confluence
3 1 (0.93%) IIS
3 1 (0.93%) JBoss
3 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.93%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.93%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 6 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.85%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.93%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 46 (42.59%) AWS
2 45 (41.67%) Azure
3 23 (21.30%) Serverless
4 20 (18.52%) GCP
5 13 (12.04%) SaaS
6 10 (9.26%) PaaS
7 8 (7.41%) Apigee
7 8 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (7.41%) GitHub
8 7 (6.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (6.48%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (6.48%) Amazon EventBridge
8 7 (6.48%) AWS CodePipeline
8 7 (6.48%) AWS Fargate
8 7 (6.48%) Boomi
9 6 (5.56%) Azure AKS
9 6 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (5.56%) OCI
9 6 (5.56%) Power Platform
9 6 (5.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.85%) FTP
1 2 (1.85%) HTTP
2 1 (0.93%) Firewall
2 1 (0.93%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.70%) Data Lake
2 4 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.78%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.85%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.85%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.85%) Power BI
4 2 (1.85%) Redis
5 1 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.93%) Big Data
5 1 (0.93%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.93%) DB2
5 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.93%) MySQL
5 1 (0.93%) OLAP
5 1 (0.93%) OLTP
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (19.44%) Jenkins
2 10 (9.26%) GitLab
3 7 (6.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 7 (6.48%) Git
4 4 (3.70%) Maven
5 3 (2.78%) JIRA
5 3 (2.78%) Mockito
6 2 (1.85%) JUnit
6 2 (1.85%) Postman
6 2 (1.85%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.85%) SoapUI
6 2 (1.85%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.85%) Subversion
6 2 (1.85%) Xcode
6 2 (1.85%) XCTest
7 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.93%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.93%) Toad
7 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.37%) Finance
2 22 (20.37%) Public Sector
3 16 (14.81%) Banking
4 14 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.70%) Retail
6 3 (2.78%) Billing
7 2 (1.85%) Back Office
7 2 (1.85%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.85%) Marketing
7 2 (1.85%) Military
8 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Law
8 1 (0.93%) Legal
8 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (64.81%) Architect
2 26 (24.07%) Solutions Architect
3 23 (21.30%) Developer
4 11 (10.19%) Enterprise Architect
4 11 (10.19%) Integration Architect
5 8 (7.41%) AWS Architect
6 7 (6.48%) AWS Solution Architect
6 7 (6.48%) Lead
6 7 (6.48%) Technical Architect
7 6 (5.56%) Data Architect
7 6 (5.56%) MuleSoft Developer
7 6 (5.56%) Security Architect
8 5 (4.63%) Applications Architect
8 5 (4.63%) Java Architect
8 5 (4.63%) Junior
8 5 (4.63%) Senior
9 4 (3.70%) .NET Architect
9 4 (3.70%) .NET Technical Architect
9 4 (3.70%) Java Technical Architect
9 4 (3.70%) Junior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.52%) REST
2 19 (17.59%) SOAP
3 15 (13.89%) Middleware
4 12 (11.11%) OAuth
5 11 (10.19%) RESTful
6 10 (9.26%) Spring Boot
7 9 (8.33%) JSON
7 9 (8.33%) SAML
7 9 (8.33%) Spring
7 9 (8.33%) Web Services
8 8 (7.41%) OpenID
8 8 (7.41%) Swagger
8 8 (7.41%) XML
9 6 (5.56%) .NET
9 6 (5.56%) Kafka
9 6 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (5.56%) RAML
10 5 (4.63%) AWS CDK
10 5 (4.63%) CSS
10 5 (4.63%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.04%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (6.48%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 6 (5.56%) Security Posture
5 5 (4.63%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.78%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.85%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.85%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.93%) DataPower
9 1 (0.93%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.93%) Mobile Wallet
9 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.93%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.85%) Unix
1 2 (1.85%) Windows
1 2 (1.85%) Windows Server
1 2 (1.85%) zOS
2 1 (0.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (36.11%) DevOps
2 33 (30.56%) Microservices
3 32 (29.63%) CI/CD
4 31 (28.70%) Agile
5 28 (25.93%) Event-Driven
6 27 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (20.37%) API Management
8 17 (15.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 17 (15.74%) Roadmaps
8 17 (15.74%) TOGAF
9 16 (14.81%) Architectural Patterns
9 16 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (13.89%) Data Modelling
11 14 (12.96%) Data Integration
11 14 (12.96%) Enterprise Architecture
11 14 (12.96%) Mentoring
12 13 (12.04%) Data Governance
12 13 (12.04%) Migration
13 12 (11.11%) Data Architecture
13 12 (11.11%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.44%) Java
2 15 (13.89%) Python
3 13 (12.04%) SQL
4 6 (5.56%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.63%) DataWeave
6 4 (3.70%) Apex Code
6 4 (3.70%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.78%) Bicep
7 3 (2.78%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.85%) ABAP
8 2 (1.85%) Groovy
8 2 (1.85%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.85%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.93%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.93%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.93%) COBOL
9 1 (0.93%) JCL
9 1 (0.93%) X++
9 1 (0.93%) XPath
Qualifications
1 26 (24.07%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.19%) AWS Certification
3 11 (10.19%) Degree
3 11 (10.19%) OCP
3 11 (10.19%) Oracle Certification
4 10 (9.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (4.63%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.85%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.93%) ISEB
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 6 (5.56%) NIST
1 6 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (2.78%) GDPR
2 3 (2.78%) HL7
2 3 (2.78%) QA
3 2 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.93%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.93%) NCSC
4 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (9.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (15.74%) Kubernetes
2 13 (12.04%) Terraform
3 8 (7.41%) Ansible
4 2 (1.85%) MOM
4 2 (1.85%) SCOM
5 1 (0.93%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.93%) Rancher
5 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (21.30%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.81%) MuleSoft
3 15 (13.89%) Oracle
4 13 (12.04%) Salesforce
5 8 (7.41%) Google
5 8 (7.41%) SAP
6 7 (6.48%) Splunk
7 6 (5.56%) IBM
8 4 (3.70%) Dell
8 4 (3.70%) ServiceNow
8 4 (3.70%) Virgin Media
9 3 (2.78%) Dynatrace
9 3 (2.78%) OutSystems
10 2 (1.85%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (1.85%) Okta
10 2 (1.85%) TIBCO
10 2 (1.85%) Workday
11 1 (0.93%) Adobe
11 1 (0.93%) Informatica
11 1 (0.93%) webMethods