Data Integration Job Trends

Data Integration
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Data Integration skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 291 299
Rank change year-on-year -73 +8 -52
Permanent jobs citing Data Integration 546 491 709
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.99% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.12% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 379 267 382
10th Percentile £43,600 £45,892 £41,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £78,458
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,700 £62,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year -2.88% +9.65% -15.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 82,691 43,965 63,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.84% 88.66% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 57,506 24,819 36,681
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.23%

Data Integration
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Integration relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Data Integration job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Integration
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Integration.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Integration

Data Integration
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Integration over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Integration in the UK

Data Integration
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Integration within the UK over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -50 512 £70,000 - 568
UK excluding London -80 284 £60,700 -2.88% 345
London -14 231 £80,000 - 280
Work from Home -24 178 £67,500 +3.85% 455
North of England -6 86 £60,250 -7.31% 78
Midlands -47 59 £54,000 -16.92% 50
South East -87 59 £57,500 -8.00% 100
South West -36 52 £66,250 - 43
North West +16 44 £45,000 -21.74% 46
West Midlands -31 32 £60,900 -6.31% 34
East Midlands -32 27 £50,000 -23.08% 16
Yorkshire -34 24 £82,500 -8.33% 21
North East -49 18 £81,250 +69.27% 11
East of England -35 14 £71,000 +18.33% 36
Wales -64 11 £63,500 +26.69% 8
Scotland -2 6 £70,000 +29.63% 25
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 9

Data Integration
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 35 (6.41%) Apache
2 22 (4.03%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.75%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.56%) Confluence
5 11 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.65%) SAS
7 8 (1.47%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.55%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.37%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.18%) CMS
10 1 (0.18%) IIS
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (2.20%) MS Visio
2 10 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.93%) Oracle ERP
2 15 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (2.01%) Oracle Applications
3 11 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (1.10%) Oracle Financials
5 5 (0.92%) SAP BPC
6 4 (0.73%) Shopify
7 3 (0.55%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.37%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.37%) SAP PSCD
9 1 (0.18%) Finacle
9 1 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
9 1 (0.18%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.18%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.18%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.18%) SystmOne
9 1 (0.18%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 246 (45.05%) Azure
2 134 (24.54%) Power Platform
3 116 (21.25%) AWS
4 74 (13.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 53 (9.71%) Azure DevOps
6 51 (9.34%) Serverless
7 44 (8.06%) GCP
8 43 (7.88%) Azure Logic Apps
9 40 (7.33%) SaaS
10 36 (6.59%) Azure Functions
11 31 (5.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 31 (5.68%) Snowflake
12 24 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
12 24 (4.40%) Azure Service Bus
13 23 (4.21%) Microsoft Purview
14 22 (4.03%) Power Automate
14 22 (4.03%) PowerApps
15 20 (3.66%) Amazon S3
15 20 (3.66%) OCI
16 19 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.55%) DNS
1 3 (0.55%) Firewall
1 3 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (0.18%) Broadband
2 1 (0.18%) LTE
2 1 (0.18%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (21.06%) Data Warehouse
2 114 (20.88%) Power BI
3 56 (10.26%) Data Lake
4 54 (9.89%) SQL Server
5 50 (9.16%) Metadata
6 39 (7.14%) NoSQL
7 36 (6.59%) Tableau
8 34 (6.23%) Relational Database
9 33 (6.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 31 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 22 (4.03%) Big Data
13 21 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
13 21 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 19 (3.48%) MongoDB
15 15 (2.75%) Power Query
15 15 (2.75%) Spark SQL
16 13 (2.38%) Semantic Layer
17 12 (2.20%) Delta Lake
18 11 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 62 (11.36%) Git
2 15 (2.75%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.47%) JIRA
4 6 (1.10%) Toad
5 5 (0.92%) GitLab
6 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.55%) MLflow
6 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.37%) ERwin
7 2 (0.37%) Postman
7 2 (0.37%) rollup.js
7 2 (0.37%) Snyk
8 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.18%) mountebank
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 175 (32.05%) Social Skills
2 168 (30.77%) Finance
3 113 (20.70%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (15.02%) Public Sector
5 33 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (4.58%) Banking
7 22 (4.03%) Legal
8 19 (3.48%) Marketing
9 17 (3.11%) Retail
10 15 (2.75%) Manufacturing
10 15 (2.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 14 (2.56%) Advertising
12 13 (2.38%) Aerospace
12 13 (2.38%) Law
13 8 (1.47%) Fire and Rescue
13 8 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.28%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.92%) Legal Technology
16 5 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (23.44%) Data Engineer
2 124 (22.71%) Architect
3 100 (18.32%) Senior
4 73 (13.37%) Developer
5 69 (12.64%) Data Architect
5 69 (12.64%) Lead
6 44 (8.06%) Solutions Architect
7 34 (6.23%) Analyst
8 27 (4.95%) Senior Data Engineer
9 23 (4.21%) Lead Data Engineer
10 22 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
11 18 (3.30%) Integration Engineer
12 17 (3.11%) Senior Developer
13 16 (2.93%) Data Analyst
13 16 (2.93%) Data Manager
13 16 (2.93%) Service Owner
14 14 (2.56%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 14 (2.56%) Databricks Engineer
15 13 (2.38%) Data Integration Engineer
15 13 (2.38%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (8.97%) PySpark
2 42 (7.69%) REST
3 38 (6.96%) Terraform
4 35 (6.41%) .NET
5 34 (6.23%) Kafka
6 31 (5.68%) JSON
7 19 (3.48%) Middleware
8 15 (2.75%) XML
9 14 (2.56%) Node.js
10 13 (2.38%) HTML
10 13 (2.38%) React
10 13 (2.38%) Spring
11 12 (2.20%) Apache NiFi
11 12 (2.20%) OAuth
11 12 (2.20%) Spring Boot
12 10 (1.83%) ARM Templates
12 10 (1.83%) OAuth2
13 7 (1.28%) Apache Avro
14 6 (1.10%) AngularJS
14 6 (1.10%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 72 (13.19%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.68%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.58%) Data Structures
4 21 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 20 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (3.66%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (2.93%) Reference Data
7 15 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (1.83%) EPoS
9 10 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.83%) iSeries
10 8 (1.47%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.10%) Cyberattack
11 6 (1.10%) Replication
11 6 (1.10%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.92%) Linked Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.73%) Linux
1 4 (0.73%) Windows
1 4 (0.73%) Windows Server
2 3 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (38.10%) Analytics
2 193 (35.35%) ETL
3 188 (34.43%) Data Modelling
4 161 (29.49%) Data Engineering
5 160 (29.30%) Data Governance
6 155 (28.39%) Agile
7 154 (28.21%) AI
8 153 (28.02%) Business Intelligence
9 142 (26.01%) Problem-Solving
10 129 (23.63%) Data Pipeline
11 125 (22.89%) Data Architecture
12 110 (20.15%) DevOps
13 106 (19.41%) CI/CD
14 97 (17.77%) Continuous Improvement
15 96 (17.58%) Roadmaps
16 95 (17.40%) Decision-Making
17 87 (15.93%) Stakeholder Management
18 82 (15.02%) Integration Patterns
19 77 (14.10%) Data Strategy
20 73 (13.37%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 240 (43.96%) SQL
2 158 (28.94%) Python
3 52 (9.52%) Java
4 37 (6.78%) C#
5 30 (5.49%) JavaScript
6 22 (4.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 21 (3.85%) TypeScript
8 15 (2.75%) Scala
9 13 (2.38%) T-SQL
10 12 (2.20%) Bicep
11 10 (1.83%) RPG
12 8 (1.47%) R
13 7 (1.28%) Groovy
13 7 (1.28%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.92%) SHACL
14 5 (0.92%) SPARQL
15 4 (0.73%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.73%) Bash
15 4 (0.73%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.55%) C
Qualifications
1 89 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 85 (15.57%) Degree
3 49 (8.97%) SC Cleared
4 39 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (5.86%) DV Cleared
6 25 (4.58%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.75%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.01%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.47%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.92%) PMP
11 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.73%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.37%) CISA
13 2 (0.37%) CITP
13 2 (0.37%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.18%) CIMA
14 1 (0.18%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (31.32%) Data Quality
2 52 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 49 (8.97%) GDPR
4 14 (2.56%) QA
5 3 (0.55%) IFRS
5 3 (0.55%) MiFID
5 3 (0.55%) PMO
5 3 (0.55%) SLA
5 3 (0.55%) UCITS
5 3 (0.55%) WCAG
6 2 (0.37%) GRC
6 2 (0.37%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.37%) NIST
6 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.37%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.18%) GAAP
System Software
1 22 (4.03%) Docker
2 7 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.55%) NDS
3 3 (0.55%) vSphere
4 2 (0.37%) IAG
Systems Management
1 15 (2.75%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.73%) Kibana
3 2 (0.37%) Ansible
3 2 (0.37%) Argo
3 2 (0.37%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 1 (0.18%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.18%) Grafana
4 1 (0.18%) logstash
4 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 126 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 101 (18.50%) Databricks
3 40 (7.33%) Oracle
4 32 (5.86%) Salesforce
5 29 (5.31%) SAP
6 28 (5.13%) Informatica
7 21 (3.85%) Google
8 18 (3.30%) IBM
9 9 (1.65%) Bloomberg
10 8 (1.47%) Foundry
10 8 (1.47%) Palantir
10 8 (1.47%) Sage
11 7 (1.28%) Talend
12 6 (1.10%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.92%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.92%) Workday
14 4 (0.73%) Concur
14 4 (0.73%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.73%) OpenText
14 4 (0.73%) TIBCO