Data Ingestion Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Data Ingestion
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Data Ingestion skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 65 63
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 -
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 12 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.84% 0.42% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 0.50% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - £380 -
25th Percentile - £406 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £450 £675
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £497 £497 £688
90th Percentile £578 £525 -
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £489 £675
% change year-on-year +4.81% -27.56% +28.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 596 595 663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 91.55% 83.45% 82.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 388 435
10th Percentile £250 £200 £275
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.20% -0.62%
75th Percentile £571 £638 £608
90th Percentile £643 £750 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 10 22
10th Percentile £12.62 £19.65 £14.64
25th Percentile £13.25 £21.44 £25.31
Median hourly rate £18.87 £38.06 £30.52
Median % change year-on-year -50.42% +24.71% +60.63%
75th Percentile £24.64 £54.56 £67.50
90th Percentile £28.95 £57.53 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £23.89 £27.50
% change year-on-year +1.88% -13.13% +55.19%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Ingestion relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Data Ingestion job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Ingestion.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Ingestion

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Ingestion in Birmingham over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Ingestion in Birmingham

Data Ingestion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (91.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jaeger
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 9 (75.00%) Splunk Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Site Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Search Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (16.67%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Observability
2 9 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 9 (75.00%) Migration
2 9 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 7 (58.33%) DevOps
4 6 (50.00%) Change Management
4 6 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 6 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
4 6 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (50.00%) Incident Response
4 6 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 6 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
4 6 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (50.00%) Validation
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Project Management
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Bash
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Kibana
2 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 6 (50.00%) Ansible
3 6 (50.00%) Puppet
4 4 (33.33%) logstash
5 1 (8.33%) Grafana
5 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft