Data Integration Contracts

Data Integration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Integration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Integration over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 262 271
Rank change year-on-year +77 +9 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 509 567 877
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.20% 1.00% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.11% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 431 603
10th Percentile £385 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £713 £650 £666
90th Percentile £813 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -8.57% -1.87% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £48.70 £19.26 -
25th Percentile £51.63 £20.02 -
Median hourly rate £58.00 £20.44 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +183.76% -41.60% +337.50%
75th Percentile £64.13 £39.71 -
90th Percentile £66.90 £74.38 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £19.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +246.15% -44.29% -1.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Integration is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

Data Integration
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Integration in the UK

Data Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Integration.

Daily rate trend for Data Integration in the UK

Data Integration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Integration over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Integration in the UK

Data Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Integration.

Hourly rate trend for Data Integration in the UK

Data Integration
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Integration over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Integration in the UK

Data Integration
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Integration within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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 +77 460 £550 - 189
London +106 294 £625 +4.17% 99
Work from Home +51 172 £507 -7.82% 84
UK excluding London +21 169 £480 -8.57% 104
North of England +64 65 £500 -6.98% 37
North West +47 37 £476 -13.41% 21
South East +19 36 £488 -7.58% 22
Midlands -12 29 £550 +8.64% 21
Yorkshire +20 25 £500 -0.99% 12
West Midlands -13 23 £588 +9.00% 18
South West -7 16 £413 -15.38% 9
Scotland +24 13 £475 -13.64% 4
East of England +10 11 £525 +23.53% 6
East Midlands +14 5 £375 -11.76% 3
North East +12 2 £360 -40.00% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £400 - 5

Data Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 28 (5.50%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.38%) Apache
3 7 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.79%) Confluence
5 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.39%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 23 (4.52%) MS Visio
2 14 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 29 (5.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (4.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 16 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.98%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.79%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.59%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.39%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.20%) Hyperion Planning
8 1 (0.20%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.20%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.20%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 154 (30.26%) Azure
2 90 (17.68%) AWS
3 86 (16.90%) Power Platform
4 50 (9.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 41 (8.06%) GCP
6 39 (7.66%) Snowflake
7 36 (7.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 27 (5.30%) Amazon S3
8 27 (5.30%) Serverless
9 26 (5.11%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (2.95%) Cloud Computing
12 14 (2.75%) OCI
12 14 (2.75%) PaaS
13 13 (2.55%) Collibra
14 12 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (2.36%) SaaS
15 9 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (1.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.39%) Firewall
1 2 (0.39%) Network Security
1 2 (0.39%) SAN
2 1 (0.20%) SSL
2 1 (0.20%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (26.33%) Data Warehouse
2 82 (16.11%) Power BI
3 68 (13.36%) SQL Server
4 52 (10.22%) Metadata
5 48 (9.43%) Data Lake
6 44 (8.64%) NoSQL
7 41 (8.06%) Big Data
8 35 (6.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 34 (6.68%) Relational Database
10 33 (6.48%) Tableau
11 32 (6.29%) Data Vault
12 24 (4.72%) Metadata Repository
13 22 (4.32%) Azure SQL Database
14 19 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (3.54%) Hadoop
15 18 (3.54%) MySQL
15 18 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
16 15 (2.95%) Amazon RDS
17 13 (2.55%) BigQuery
17 13 (2.55%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 31 (6.09%) Git
2 23 (4.52%) ERwin
3 13 (2.55%) ER Studio
4 12 (2.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 9 (1.77%) GitLab
5 9 (1.77%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.38%) JIRA
7 6 (1.18%) MLflow
8 4 (0.79%) kappa
9 3 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.20%) Gerrit
10 1 (0.20%) Hudson
10 1 (0.20%) LSMW
10 1 (0.20%) Protractor
10 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.20%) Selenium
10 1 (0.20%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.20%) TestNG
10 1 (0.20%) Visual LANSA
10 1 (0.20%) WebDriver
General
1 143 (28.09%) Finance
2 132 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 99 (19.45%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (9.04%) Public Sector
5 44 (8.64%) Marketing
6 39 (7.66%) Manufacturing
7 37 (7.27%) Banking
8 24 (4.72%) Telecoms
9 23 (4.52%) Electronics
10 19 (3.73%) Retail
11 18 (3.54%) Pharmaceutical
12 13 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.77%) Front Office
13 9 (1.77%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.57%) Back Office
14 8 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.57%) Publishing
15 7 (1.38%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.98%) Automotive
17 4 (0.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 159 (31.24%) Architect
2 92 (18.07%) Data Architect
3 84 (16.50%) Data Engineer
4 79 (15.52%) Developer
5 56 (11.00%) Analyst
6 43 (8.45%) Solutions Architect
7 37 (7.27%) Lead
8 33 (6.48%) Senior
9 30 (5.89%) Data Analyst
10 27 (5.30%) Consultant
11 22 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
12 21 (4.13%) Chief Architect
12 21 (4.13%) Chief Data Architect
12 21 (4.13%) Integration Engineer
13 20 (3.93%) Business Analyst
14 18 (3.54%) Project Manager
15 17 (3.34%) Azure Data Engineer
16 14 (2.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 12 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
18 11 (2.16%) Data Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.73%) PySpark
2 18 (3.54%) Kafka
2 18 (3.54%) REST
3 17 (3.34%) .NET
4 15 (2.95%) XML
5 12 (2.36%) JSON
5 12 (2.36%) SOAP
6 11 (2.16%) Middleware
7 9 (1.77%) GraphQL
8 7 (1.38%) .NET Framework
8 7 (1.38%) Entity Framework
8 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
8 7 (1.38%) WCF
8 7 (1.38%) YAML
9 6 (1.18%) AWS CDK
9 6 (1.18%) OAuth
9 6 (1.18%) Visualforce
10 5 (0.98%) HTML
10 5 (0.98%) RESTful
10 5 (0.98%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.68%) Reference Data
2 20 (3.93%) Data Structures
2 20 (3.93%) Management Information System
3 12 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (2.16%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.77%) Derivative
5 9 (1.77%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.38%) Taxonomies
7 6 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.18%) IoT
8 5 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.98%) Industry 4.0
9 4 (0.79%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.79%) Market Risk
9 4 (0.79%) NHS
9 4 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (0.59%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.38%) Linux
2 6 (1.18%) Windows
3 4 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (47.54%) Data Modelling
2 173 (33.99%) ETL
3 137 (26.92%) Data Governance
4 135 (26.52%) Analytics
5 124 (24.36%) Business Intelligence
6 114 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
7 109 (21.41%) Agile
8 95 (18.66%) Data Architecture
9 81 (15.91%) Migration
10 80 (15.72%) DevOps
11 74 (14.54%) Data Pipeline
12 68 (13.36%) Data Management
13 56 (11.00%) Data Strategy
14 53 (10.41%) Data Migration
15 52 (10.22%) Data Engineering
16 50 (9.82%) Computer Science
17 49 (9.63%) CRM
18 48 (9.43%) Data Analysis
19 45 (8.84%) Visualisation
20 43 (8.45%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 206 (40.47%) SQL
2 107 (21.02%) Python
3 36 (7.07%) Java
4 29 (5.70%) C#
5 26 (5.11%) T-SQL
6 23 (4.52%) JavaScript
7 16 (3.14%) PL/SQL
7 16 (3.14%) Scala
8 11 (2.16%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (1.57%) Perl
10 6 (1.18%) Apex Code
10 6 (1.18%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.18%) VBScript
11 5 (0.98%) Bicep
11 5 (0.98%) R
12 4 (0.79%) Bash
12 4 (0.79%) VBA
13 2 (0.39%) ABAP
13 2 (0.39%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 79 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 73 (14.34%) Degree
3 66 (12.97%) SC Cleared
4 40 (7.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.93%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.38%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.38%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.79%) PMP
8 3 (0.59%) PhD
9 2 (0.39%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.39%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.39%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (21.41%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.89%) GDPR
3 23 (4.52%) QA
4 7 (1.38%) HIPAA
5 5 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (0.98%) PMO
6 4 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.79%) ISO 15022
7 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
System Software
1 15 (2.95%) Docker
2 5 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 19 (3.73%) Terraform
2 9 (1.77%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.59%) Grafana
3 3 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.39%) Control-M
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.20%) Podman
5 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 104 (20.43%) Microsoft
2 85 (16.70%) Oracle
3 74 (14.54%) SAP
4 59 (11.59%) Informatica
5 58 (11.39%) Databricks
6 26 (5.11%) Salesforce
7 24 (4.72%) Google
8 22 (4.32%) Sparx
9 12 (2.36%) ServiceNow
10 11 (2.16%) Palantir
11 10 (1.96%) Foundry
12 8 (1.57%) Talend
13 7 (1.38%) Ariba
14 5 (0.98%) IFS
15 3 (0.59%) Concur
15 3 (0.59%) Murex
15 3 (0.59%) VMware
15 3 (0.59%) Workday
16 2 (0.39%) Teradata
16 2 (0.39%) TIBCO