EAI Job Trends

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring EAI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 628 711 683
Rank change year-on-year +83 -28 +379
Permanent jobs citing EAI 18 5 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.031% 0.009% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% 0.010% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 11
10th Percentile - - £45,000
25th Percentile - £82,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% - +6.25%
75th Percentile - £87,500 £111,250
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 - £85,000
% change year-on-year - - +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

EAI 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 48,535 51,647 46,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.52% 88.55% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 28,396 26,504 35,505
10th Percentile £28,432 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £99,899
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.49% +4.37% -2.51%

EAI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

EAI job vacancy trend in the UK

EAI
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing EAI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing EAI

EAI
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing EAI within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +98 18 £75,000 -11.76% 4
Work from Home +96 18 £75,000 -11.76% 4
UK excluding London - 18 £75,000 - 4
North of England - 18 £75,000 - 2
Yorkshire - 18 £75,000 - 2

EAI
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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
1 18 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 18 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (100.00%) Architect
2 10 (55.56%) Applications Architect
3 8 (44.44%) Software Architect
Miscellaneous
1 18 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Application Security
1 18 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 18 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 18 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 18 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 18 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 18 (100.00%) Microservices
1 18 (100.00%) Migration
1 18 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 18 (100.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) C#
1 18 (100.00%) Java
1 18 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 18 (100.00%) Python
1 18 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 18 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 18 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 18 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 18 (100.00%) Degree
1 18 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 18 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Microsoft