Hybrid/Remote Data Integration Contract Job Trends

Data Integration
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Integration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 138 179
Rank change year-on-year -13 +41 +81
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 177 190 213
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.74% 1.72% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 1.92% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 127 158
10th Percentile £394 £353 £396
25th Percentile £451 £408 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -5.38%
75th Percentile £588 £645 £675
90th Percentile £672 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £26.28 £46.51
25th Percentile £77.75 £26.31 £50.00
Median hourly rate £80.50 £26.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +203.77% -53.91% +32.18%
75th Percentile £83.25 £26.69 £70.25
90th Percentile - £26.73 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £27.13 £47.50
% change year-on-year +102.76% -42.89% +33.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Integration falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,188 9,889 14,319
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.36% 89.49% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,054 6,196 9,755
10th Percentile £331 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 191 361
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.25 £26.24
Median hourly rate £45.46 £36.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.28% -31.43% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%

Data Integration
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Integration and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Data Integration job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Integration
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Integration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Integration

Data Integration
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Integration over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

Data Integration daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Data Integration
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Integration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Integration

Data Integration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 24 (13.56%) SAS
2 20 (11.30%) Apache Spark
3 14 (7.91%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (4.52%) Apache
5 3 (1.69%) CMS
6 2 (1.13%) ArcGIS
6 2 (1.13%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.13%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.56%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.56%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.56%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.56%) HFM
2 1 (0.56%) iTrent
2 1 (0.56%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.56%) Maximo
2 1 (0.56%) MultiFonds
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.56%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.56%) Primavera
2 1 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.56%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.56%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 64 (36.16%) Azure
2 38 (21.47%) Azure Data Factory
3 29 (16.38%) Power Platform
4 25 (14.12%) AWS
5 20 (11.30%) Snowflake
6 16 (9.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (5.65%) GCP
8 8 (4.52%) dbt
8 8 (4.52%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.95%) Power Automate
9 7 (3.95%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.82%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.26%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (2.26%) Dataform
11 4 (2.26%) Serverless
12 3 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (1.69%) PaaS
12 3 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (31.64%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (15.82%) Power BI
3 23 (12.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 17 (9.60%) Data Lake
5 16 (9.04%) NoSQL
6 14 (7.91%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 14 (7.91%) SQL Server
7 13 (7.34%) Pentaho
8 10 (5.65%) Metadata
8 10 (5.65%) Oracle Database
9 8 (4.52%) Big Data
9 8 (4.52%) Tableau
10 7 (3.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (3.39%) MySQL
12 5 (2.82%) DataStage
12 5 (2.82%) Hadoop
12 5 (2.82%) Relational Database
12 5 (2.82%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (2.26%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 38 (21.47%) Git
2 20 (11.30%) Jenkins
3 16 (9.04%) JIRA
4 1 (0.56%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.56%) ERwin
4 1 (0.56%) GitLab
4 1 (0.56%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.56%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 58 (32.77%) Social Skills
2 42 (23.73%) Finance
3 28 (15.82%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.91%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.08%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.95%) Banking
7 6 (3.39%) Back Office
8 4 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.69%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.13%) Automotive
10 2 (1.13%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.13%) Legal
10 2 (1.13%) Marketing
10 2 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.13%) Retail
11 1 (0.56%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (24.29%) Data Engineer
2 33 (18.64%) Architect
3 24 (13.56%) Developer
4 17 (9.60%) Analyst
5 16 (9.04%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (9.04%) Solutions Architect
6 15 (8.47%) Azure Data Engineer
7 14 (7.91%) Consultant
7 14 (7.91%) Senior
8 13 (7.34%) Lead
9 11 (6.21%) Business Analyst
9 11 (6.21%) Data Architect
10 9 (5.08%) Release Manager
10 9 (5.08%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.39%) Data Analyst
11 6 (3.39%) Data Business Analyst
11 6 (3.39%) Integration Engineer
12 5 (2.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 5 (2.82%) Investment Management Business Analyst
12 5 (2.82%) SAS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.43%) REST
2 17 (9.60%) PySpark
3 10 (5.65%) Kafka
4 7 (3.95%) SOAP
4 7 (3.95%) XML
5 5 (2.82%) HTML
5 5 (2.82%) Node.js
5 5 (2.82%) RESTful
6 4 (2.26%) .NET
6 4 (2.26%) CSS
6 4 (2.26%) GraphQL
6 4 (2.26%) JSON
6 4 (2.26%) Web Services
7 3 (1.69%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.69%) JMS
7 3 (1.69%) Pandas
7 3 (1.69%) Spring
7 3 (1.69%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.13%) Flask
8 2 (1.13%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.34%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.52%) Data Structures
3 7 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.82%) IoT
4 5 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.26%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.69%) FMCG
6 3 (1.69%) NHS
6 3 (1.69%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.69%) Replication
7 2 (1.13%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.13%) Life Science
7 2 (1.13%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.13%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.95%) Linux
2 3 (1.69%) Unix
3 2 (1.13%) Windows
4 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (49.15%) Data Modelling
2 64 (36.16%) ETL
3 63 (35.59%) Data Pipeline
4 57 (32.20%) Agile
5 55 (31.07%) Business Intelligence
6 52 (29.38%) Analytics
7 50 (28.25%) CI/CD
8 49 (27.68%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (25.99%) DevOps
10 40 (22.60%) Data Governance
11 29 (16.38%) Data Engineering
11 29 (16.38%) Integration Patterns
12 27 (15.25%) Migration
13 26 (14.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (12.99%) Data Architecture
15 22 (12.43%) Visualisation
16 20 (11.30%) Performance Tuning
17 17 (9.60%) Scrum
17 17 (9.60%) Test Automation
17 17 (9.60%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 85 (48.02%) SQL
2 49 (27.68%) Python
3 13 (7.34%) Java
4 12 (6.78%) Scala
5 5 (2.82%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.82%) PL/SQL
5 5 (2.82%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.26%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.26%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.69%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.13%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.13%) C#
8 2 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.13%) Go
9 1 (0.56%) ABAP
9 1 (0.56%) Perl
9 1 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.56%) Tcl
9 1 (0.56%) VB
9 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 49 (27.68%) Security Cleared
2 44 (24.86%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.34%) Degree
4 8 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.26%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.69%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.13%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.13%) PMP
7 2 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.56%) CBAP
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.56%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (34.46%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.08%) GDPR
3 8 (4.52%) QA
4 2 (1.13%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.13%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.56%) AIFMD
5 1 (0.56%) DICOM
5 1 (0.56%) FATCA
5 1 (0.56%) HL7
5 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.56%) UCITS
System Software
1 21 (11.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (10.17%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.65%) Terraform
3 3 (1.69%) Kibana
4 2 (1.13%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (1.13%) logstash
5 1 (0.56%) Ansible
5 1 (0.56%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 34 (19.21%) Oracle
2 33 (18.64%) Databricks
3 23 (12.99%) Microsoft
4 15 (8.47%) Talend
5 13 (7.34%) SAP
6 12 (6.78%) Denodo
7 9 (5.08%) Informatica
8 7 (3.95%) Salesforce
8 7 (3.95%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.82%) Google
10 4 (2.26%) Workday
11 3 (1.69%) Alteryx
11 3 (1.69%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.69%) ESRI
11 3 (1.69%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.69%) Palantir
11 3 (1.69%) TIBCO
12 2 (1.13%) Ariba
12 2 (1.13%) Hitachi
12 2 (1.13%) webMethods