SQL Server Integration Services Contract Job Trends

Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SQL Server Integration Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 345 327
Rank change year-on-year -121 -18 -67
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Integration Services 116 205 314
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.57% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.84% 3.19% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 155 233
10th Percentile £372 £289 £400
25th Percentile £413 £353 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -21.74% +15.00%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £650
90th Percentile £683 £650 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £440 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% -16.19% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £27.50 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

SQL Server Integration Services falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,318 6,430 7,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.41% 18.01% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,344 4,251 5,359
10th Percentile £326 £340 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £527 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -1.50% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 86 144
10th Percentile £20.71 £18.25 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.10 £21.57
Median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +37.90% -31.69% -7.64%
75th Percentile £67.13 £55.25 £64.65
90th Percentile £83.95 £65.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.36 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +79.49% -40.45% +2.99%

SQL Server Integration Services
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL Server Integration Services relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SQL Server Integration Services job vacancy trend in the UK

SQL Server Integration Services
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SQL Server Integration Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SQL Server Integration Services

SQL Server Integration Services
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Integration Services over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server Integration Services in the UK

SQL Server Integration Services
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SQL Server Integration Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SQL Server Integration Services

SQL Server Integration Services
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Integration Services within the UK over the 6 months to 13 December 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 -101 110 £494 +3.95% 118
London -30 74 £525 -0.47% 18
UK excluding London -85 33 £430 -2.27% 116
Work from Home -55 28 £488 +10.80% 108
Midlands -48 13 £447 -0.67% 22
West Midlands -37 8 £575 +27.78% 13
East of England -14 5 £475 +16.92% 17
East Midlands -21 5 £430 +20.79% 8
South East -27 5 - - 30
North West -20 4 £389 +2.91% 14
North of England -49 4 £389 +39.93% 25
South West -17 3 £388 -11.43% 13
Wales -3 2 £410 +149.82% 6
Scotland +4 1 £400 -13.51% 5

SQL Server Integration Services
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 (3.45%) CMS
2 3 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.72%) SAS
3 2 (1.72%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.86%) Apache
4 1 (0.86%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (6.03%) SAP PM
2 6 (5.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (5.17%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.86%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 63 (54.31%) Azure
2 39 (33.62%) Power Platform
3 24 (20.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 23 (19.83%) AWS
5 14 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (10.34%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (8.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (7.76%) SaaS
9 8 (6.90%) Snowflake
10 6 (5.17%) Azure Functions
10 6 (5.17%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (5.17%) GCP
10 6 (5.17%) Serverless
11 5 (4.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 4 (3.45%) Power Automate
12 4 (3.45%) PowerApps
13 3 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (2.59%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (2.59%) dbt
14 2 (1.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (57.76%) SQL Server
2 37 (31.90%) Power BI
3 32 (27.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 31 (26.72%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (15.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 17 (14.66%) Data Lake
7 12 (10.34%) Metadata
7 12 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (7.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (7.76%) Relational Database
9 6 (5.17%) Big Data
9 6 (5.17%) DataStage
9 6 (5.17%) MySQL
9 6 (5.17%) Oracle Database
10 5 (4.31%) Delta Lake
10 5 (4.31%) NoSQL
10 5 (4.31%) Star Schema
11 4 (3.45%) Data Vault
11 4 (3.45%) RDBMS
11 4 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (6.03%) JIRA
1 7 (6.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 6 (5.17%) Git
3 4 (3.45%) ERwin
4 3 (2.59%) ER Studio
4 3 (2.59%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.86%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.86%) Hudson
5 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
General
1 36 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 34 (29.31%) Finance
3 22 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.07%) Banking
5 8 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.03%) Marketing
7 6 (5.17%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.59%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.72%) Local Government
10 1 (0.86%) Advertising
10 1 (0.86%) Legal
10 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.86%) Military
10 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (30.17%) Developer
2 30 (25.86%) Data Engineer
3 13 (11.21%) Architect
3 13 (11.21%) Senior
4 9 (7.76%) SQL Developer
5 8 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
6 7 (6.03%) Data Migration Specialist
6 7 (6.03%) Lead
6 7 (6.03%) Migration Specialist
6 7 (6.03%) Salesforce Architect
6 7 (6.03%) Senior Developer
7 6 (5.17%) DBA
7 6 (5.17%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 5 (4.31%) Data Architect
8 5 (4.31%) SQL DBA
9 4 (3.45%) Data Migration Engineer
9 4 (3.45%) Migration Engineer
9 4 (3.45%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 4 (3.45%) SSIS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.34%) .NET
2 9 (7.76%) JSON
2 9 (7.76%) Kafka
3 7 (6.03%) Lightning Web Components
3 7 (6.03%) Visualforce
3 7 (6.03%) XML
4 6 (5.17%) SAP PI
5 4 (3.45%) ADO
5 4 (3.45%) Ajax
5 4 (3.45%) EDI
5 4 (3.45%) GraphQL
5 4 (3.45%) HTML
5 4 (3.45%) OAuth
5 4 (3.45%) OAuth2
5 4 (3.45%) PySpark
5 4 (3.45%) REST
5 4 (3.45%) SOAP
5 4 (3.45%) XSLT
6 3 (2.59%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.72%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.03%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.31%) Credit Risk
2 5 (4.31%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (4.31%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.31%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.59%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.59%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.59%) NHS
5 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.72%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.72%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.86%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.86%) IoT
6 1 (0.86%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.86%) Replication
6 1 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.62%) Linux
2 3 (2.59%) Windows
3 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (56.90%) ETL
2 52 (44.83%) Migration
3 45 (38.79%) Business Intelligence
4 40 (34.48%) Data Migration
5 32 (27.59%) Data Modelling
6 30 (25.86%) Agile
6 30 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (24.14%) Analytics
8 26 (22.41%) DevOps
9 22 (18.97%) Data Governance
9 22 (18.97%) Data Pipeline
10 21 (18.10%) Data Integration
11 16 (13.79%) CI/CD
12 15 (12.93%) Data Architecture
12 15 (12.93%) Decision-Making
13 13 (11.21%) Mentoring
14 12 (10.34%) Data Engineering
14 12 (10.34%) Scrum
15 11 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (9.48%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 78 (67.24%) SQL
2 19 (16.38%) Python
2 19 (16.38%) T-SQL
3 14 (12.07%) C#
4 9 (7.76%) Java
5 8 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.03%) Apex Code
7 6 (5.17%) Bash
7 6 (5.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (5.17%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.31%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.45%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.59%) Scala
11 2 (1.72%) Bicep
11 2 (1.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (15.52%) Degree
2 14 (12.07%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (6.03%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.31%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.72%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.86%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.86%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (22.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.45%) QA
3 3 (2.59%) GDPR
4 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.72%) CRD IV
4 2 (1.72%) FINREP
4 2 (1.72%) IFRS
5 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.31%) zsh
2 2 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.72%) Docker
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (3.45%) Terraform
2 3 (2.59%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (23.28%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.66%) Oracle
3 14 (12.07%) Databricks
4 13 (11.21%) Informatica
4 13 (11.21%) SAP
5 10 (8.62%) Talend
6 8 (6.90%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.59%) Google
8 2 (1.72%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.72%) Cognos
8 2 (1.72%) Liquidlogic
8 2 (1.72%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.86%) IBM
9 1 (0.86%) IFS
9 1 (0.86%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.86%) RedGate
9 1 (0.86%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.86%) Sybase
9 1 (0.86%) Zoomdata