Data Ingestion Contracts in Central London

Data Ingestion
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Data Ingestion skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Ingestion 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 116 110 164
Rank change year-on-year -6 +54 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 13 23 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.65% 0.94% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 1.04% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 5
10th Percentile £529 - £472
25th Percentile £571 £410 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +37.78% -10.00% -21.57%
75th Percentile £685 £563 £600
90th Percentile £700 £697 £690
London median daily rate £530 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +6.00% -13.04% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Data Ingestion as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Ingestion in Central London

Data Ingestion
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Ingestion in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Data Ingestion in Central London

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Ingestion in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Ingestion in Central London

Data Ingestion
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Ingestion within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -3 11 £600 +33.33% 2
Data Ingestion
London

Data Ingestion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (30.77%) Apache
1 4 (30.77%) Apache Spark
1 4 (30.77%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) Power Platform
3 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Collibra
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Delta Lake
2 6 (46.15%) Power BI
3 5 (38.46%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
4 4 (30.77%) Apache Hive
5 3 (23.08%) Data Lake
5 3 (23.08%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (15.38%) Metadata
7 1 (7.69%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (7.69%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (7.69%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
1 4 (30.77%) RStudio
2 1 (7.69%) Postman
2 1 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Publishing
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Data Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Data Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) PySpark
2 4 (30.77%) JSON
2 4 (30.77%) pydantic
2 4 (30.77%) YAML
3 3 (23.08%) REST
4 2 (15.38%) .NET
4 2 (15.38%) .NET Core
4 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
4 2 (15.38%) Entity Framework
4 2 (15.38%) LINQ
5 1 (7.69%) Node.js
5 1 (7.69%) Pandas
5 1 (7.69%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Structures
1 4 (30.77%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (30.77%) Reference Data
2 2 (15.38%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
1 6 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) Data Security
3 4 (30.77%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 4 (30.77%) Scrum
4 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) ETL
5 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
5 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
5 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
5 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (15.38%) SOLID
5 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) SQL
3 6 (46.15%) Scala
4 5 (38.46%) C#
5 4 (30.77%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) GDPR
2 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Databricks
2 3 (23.08%) Informatica
3 2 (15.38%) Murex
4 1 (7.69%) SAP