Integration Patterns Contracts

Integration Patterns
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Integration Patterns skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Integration Patterns over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 496 588 552
Rank change year-on-year +92 -36 -128
Contract jobs citing Integration Patterns 104 125 313
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.21% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.23% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 82 187
10th Percentile £463 £475 £463
25th Percentile £500 £516 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £635
Median % change year-on-year - -5.51% +10.43%
75th Percentile £725 £736 £714
90th Percentile £796 £850 £777
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £545 £600
% change year-on-year +10.09% -9.17% +13.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Integration Patterns 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 37,621 53,662 80,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.30% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,254 37,244 56,449
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% +7.69%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%

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 29 April 2024.

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 11 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 29 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 +93 85 £600 -4.00% 33
London +129 67 £625 -13.19% 14
Work from Home +132 55 £600 +11.06% 14
UK excluding London +27 24 £600 +10.09% 22
Scotland +41 8 £625 -19.35% 1
South East +15 8 £700 +19.15% 10
Midlands +24 6 £581 +7.64% 3
West Midlands +29 5 £563 -6.25% 2
North West +21 2 £550 +10.00% 2
North of England +19 2 £550 -12.00% 3
East Midlands +17 1 £625 +15.74% 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 13 (12.50%) Anypoint
2 6 (5.77%) Mule
2 6 (5.77%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.81%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.96%) CMS
4 1 (0.96%) Confluence
4 1 (0.96%) Drupal
4 1 (0.96%) JBoss
4 1 (0.96%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.96%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.85%) NetSuite
2 4 (3.85%) SAP BPC
3 3 (2.88%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.92%) Shopify
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.96%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 60 (57.69%) Azure
2 31 (29.81%) AWS
3 24 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (23.08%) Dynamics 365
4 20 (19.23%) Azure Logic Apps
5 17 (16.35%) Azure API Management
6 15 (14.42%) Serverless
7 12 (11.54%) SaaS
8 10 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (9.62%) iPaaS
9 7 (6.73%) Power Platform
10 6 (5.77%) Apigee
10 6 (5.77%) GitHub
10 6 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (5.77%) OpenShift
11 5 (4.81%) Amazon S3
11 5 (4.81%) Boomi
11 5 (4.81%) GCP
11 5 (4.81%) WhatsApp
12 4 (3.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.85%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (2.88%) LAN
2 3 (2.88%) WAN
3 2 (1.92%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.65%) NoSQL
2 5 (4.81%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.88%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.88%) MySQL
5 2 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.92%) Big Data
5 2 (1.92%) Cloudera CDH
5 2 (1.92%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.92%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.92%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.92%) Power BI
5 2 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.96%) GIS
6 1 (0.96%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.96%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (12.50%) Git
2 12 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.77%) CircleCI
3 6 (5.77%) TeamCity
4 5 (4.81%) Gradle
4 5 (4.81%) JIRA
5 4 (3.85%) JUnit
6 2 (1.92%) kappa
7 1 (0.96%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.96%) Storybook
7 1 (0.96%) XCTest
7 1 (0.96%) XCUITest
General
1 35 (33.65%) Finance
2 18 (17.31%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.65%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.81%) Retail
5 4 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.92%) Marketing
6 2 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.96%) Back Office
7 1 (0.96%) Banking
7 1 (0.96%) General Ledger
7 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (36.54%) Architect
2 27 (25.96%) Developer
3 23 (22.12%) Lead
4 19 (18.27%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (12.50%) MuleSoft Developer
6 7 (6.73%) Integration Architect
7 6 (5.77%) Consultant
7 6 (5.77%) Senior
8 5 (4.81%) Azure Architect
8 5 (4.81%) Java Developer
8 5 (4.81%) SAP Architect
9 4 (3.85%) Android Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) Dynamics 365 Architect
9 4 (3.85%) SailPoint Consultant
9 4 (3.85%) SAP Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.85%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.85%) Technical Architect
10 3 (2.88%) Analyst
10 3 (2.88%) AWS Architect
10 3 (2.88%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (26.92%) REST
2 24 (23.08%) XML
3 17 (16.35%) SOAP
4 12 (11.54%) Spring
5 11 (10.58%) RAML
5 11 (10.58%) Web Services
6 10 (9.62%) .NET
6 10 (9.62%) Node.js
7 9 (8.65%) OpenAPI
7 9 (8.65%) Swagger
8 8 (7.69%) JSON
9 7 (6.73%) Apache Camel
10 6 (5.77%) ActiveMQ
10 6 (5.77%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (5.77%) Spring Boot
11 5 (4.81%) Middleware
11 5 (4.81%) RESTful
12 4 (3.85%) RxJava
12 4 (3.85%) SailPoint
12 4 (3.85%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.77%) Cloud Native
1 6 (5.77%) Legacy Code
1 6 (5.77%) Public Cloud
1 6 (5.77%) Virtual Team
2 4 (3.85%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.85%) N-Tier
3 3 (2.88%) Client/Server
3 3 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.88%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.88%) Wiki
4 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.96%) CCTV
5 1 (0.96%) FMCG
5 1 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.96%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.81%) Android
2 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (27.88%) DevOps
2 28 (26.92%) Agile
3 22 (21.15%) Technical Leadership
4 21 (20.19%) Microservices
5 20 (19.23%) Test Strategy
6 19 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (18.27%) Data Transformation
6 19 (18.27%) Mentoring
7 18 (17.31%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (16.35%) API Management
8 17 (16.35%) CI/CD
9 11 (10.58%) Data Integration
9 11 (10.58%) SOA
10 10 (9.62%) Data Modelling
10 10 (9.62%) Roadmaps
11 9 (8.65%) Continuous Deployment
11 9 (8.65%) Open Source
12 8 (7.69%) Computer Science
12 8 (7.69%) ERP
12 8 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 20 (19.23%) SQL
2 18 (17.31%) C#
3 11 (10.58%) Python
4 10 (9.62%) Java
5 9 (8.65%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.85%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.88%) PHP
8 2 (1.92%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.92%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.96%) Groovy
9 1 (0.96%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.96%) Scala
9 1 (0.96%) Swift
9 1 (0.96%) X++
Qualifications
1 10 (9.62%) Degree
2 8 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.81%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.81%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.92%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.92%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.92%) SAP Certification
5 1 (0.96%) APMP
5 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (18.27%) QA
2 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.92%) GxP
3 1 (0.96%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (8.65%) Docker
2 3 (2.88%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (8.65%) Terraform
2 7 (6.73%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.77%) Ansible
3 6 (5.77%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.96%) MOM
Vendors
1 26 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (19.23%) SAP
3 19 (18.27%) Salesforce
4 17 (16.35%) MuleSoft
5 11 (10.58%) Google
6 8 (7.69%) Oracle
7 6 (5.77%) WSO2
8 4 (3.85%) Centrify
8 4 (3.85%) CyberArk
9 3 (2.88%) Sitecore
9 3 (2.88%) VMware
10 2 (1.92%) Adobe
10 2 (1.92%) Ariba
11 1 (0.96%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.96%) Dell
11 1 (0.96%) IBM
11 1 (0.96%) Intel
11 1 (0.96%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.96%) Software AG
11 1 (0.96%) TIBCO