Integration Patterns Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Integration Patterns
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 262 290 436
Rank change year-on-year +28 +146 +27
Contract jobs citing Integration Patterns 42 55 41
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.42% 0.36% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.41% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 27 30
10th Percentile £400 £463 £473
25th Percentile £409 £475 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.06% -14.92%
75th Percentile £614 £731 £628
90th Percentile £768 £875 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -5.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Integration Patterns
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Integration Patterns as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Integration Patterns trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Integration Patterns
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Integration Patterns.

Integration Patterns daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Integration Patterns
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Integration Patterns daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Integration Patterns
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (2.38%) Anypoint
1 1 (2.38%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (2.38%) CICS
1 1 (2.38%) IIS
1 1 (2.38%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 22 (52.38%) AWS
2 18 (42.86%) Azure
3 13 (30.95%) Serverless
4 9 (21.43%) SaaS
5 8 (19.05%) GCP
6 6 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (14.29%) PaaS
7 5 (11.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (11.90%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (11.90%) Amazon EventBridge
7 5 (11.90%) Apigee
7 5 (11.90%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (11.90%) Azure AKS
7 5 (11.90%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (11.90%) GitHub
8 4 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (9.52%) Power Automate
8 4 (9.52%) Power Platform
8 4 (9.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) FTP
2 1 (2.38%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) HTTP
2 1 (2.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) NoSQL
2 4 (9.52%) Data Lake
3 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.76%) Redis
4 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (23.81%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 5 (11.90%) Git
3 4 (9.52%) GitLab
4 3 (7.14%) Mockito
5 2 (4.76%) JIRA
5 2 (4.76%) JUnit
5 2 (4.76%) Maven
5 2 (4.76%) Postman
5 2 (4.76%) REST Assured
5 2 (4.76%) SoapUI
5 2 (4.76%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.76%) Subversion
5 2 (4.76%) Xcode
5 2 (4.76%) XCTest
6 1 (2.38%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (2.38%) Terragrunt
6 1 (2.38%) Toad
General
1 15 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Finance
3 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Banking
3 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.76%) Back Office
4 2 (4.76%) Retail
5 1 (2.38%) Law
5 1 (2.38%) Marketing
5 1 (2.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (76.19%) Architect
2 18 (42.86%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (21.43%) Developer
4 5 (11.90%) AWS Architect
4 5 (11.90%) AWS Solution Architect
5 4 (9.52%) Junior
5 4 (9.52%) Junior Architect
5 4 (9.52%) Junior Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Data Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Integration Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Salesforce Architect
7 2 (4.76%) AWS Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Oracle Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) REST
2 7 (16.67%) Middleware
3 5 (11.90%) SOAP
4 4 (9.52%) AWS CDK
4 4 (9.52%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.14%) Kafka
5 3 (7.14%) OAuth
5 3 (7.14%) OpenID
5 3 (7.14%) SAML
5 3 (7.14%) Spring
5 3 (7.14%) Swagger
6 2 (4.76%) CSS
6 2 (4.76%) Hibernate
6 2 (4.76%) JPA
6 2 (4.76%) JSON
6 2 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (4.76%) RESTful
6 2 (4.76%) Spring MVC
6 2 (4.76%) Web Services
6 2 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 4 (9.52%) Public Cloud
4 3 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (7.14%) Mainframe
4 3 (7.14%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.76%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.38%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.38%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Unix
1 2 (4.76%) Windows
1 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.38%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (38.10%) Agile
2 15 (35.71%) DevOps
3 12 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 12 (28.57%) Event-Driven
4 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (21.43%) API Management
5 9 (21.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 9 (21.43%) Microservices
5 9 (21.43%) Migration
6 8 (19.05%) Data Governance
6 8 (19.05%) TOGAF
7 7 (16.67%) Data Architecture
7 7 (16.67%) Data Integration
7 7 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 7 (16.67%) Observability
8 6 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (11.90%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 9 (21.43%) SQL
2 7 (16.67%) Python
3 6 (14.29%) Java
4 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.76%) Groovy
5 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.76%) PL/SQL
5 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.38%) ActionScript
6 1 (2.38%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (2.38%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.38%) Bicep
6 1 (2.38%) COBOL
6 1 (2.38%) DataWeave
6 1 (2.38%) JCL
Qualifications
1 12 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 10 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 6 (14.29%) OCP
3 6 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
3 6 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
4 5 (11.90%) AWS Certification
4 5 (11.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (11.90%) Degree
5 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.76%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) HL7
2 2 (4.76%) GDPR
2 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (4.76%) NIST
2 2 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.38%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (19.05%) Kubernetes
1 8 (19.05%) Terraform
2 5 (11.90%) Ansible
3 2 (4.76%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.29%) Oracle
3 4 (9.52%) Salesforce
3 4 (9.52%) Splunk
4 3 (7.14%) Dynatrace
4 3 (7.14%) Google
4 3 (7.14%) MuleSoft
5 2 (4.76%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (4.76%) IBM
5 2 (4.76%) OutSystems
6 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.38%) Okta
6 1 (2.38%) SAP
6 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.38%) Talend