Data Ingestion Contracts in the City of London

Data Ingestion
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 108 105 170
Rank change year-on-year -3 +65 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 11 22 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.63% 1.00% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.11% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 5
10th Percentile £524 - £472
25th Percentile £564 £410 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% -21.57%
75th Percentile £641 £553 £600
90th Percentile £683 £608 £690
Central London median daily rate £620 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +37.78% -10.00% -21.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Ingestion in the City of London

Data Ingestion
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Ingestion in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Ingestion in the City of London

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Ingestion in the City of London

Data Ingestion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (36.36%) Apache
1 4 (36.36%) Apache Spark
1 4 (36.36%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Power Platform
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Collibra
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Delta Lake
2 6 (54.55%) Power BI
3 5 (45.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
4 4 (36.36%) Apache Hive
5 3 (27.27%) Data Lake
5 3 (27.27%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (18.18%) Metadata
7 1 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (9.09%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (9.09%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
1 4 (36.36%) RStudio
2 1 (9.09%) Postman
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Publishing
3 2 (18.18%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) PySpark
2 4 (36.36%) JSON
2 4 (36.36%) pydantic
2 4 (36.36%) YAML
3 3 (27.27%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) Node.js
4 1 (9.09%) Pandas
4 1 (9.09%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Data Structures
1 4 (36.36%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (36.36%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Data Security
3 4 (36.36%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 4 (36.36%) Scrum
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) ETL
5 2 (18.18%) API Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
5 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
5 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
5 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 1 (9.09%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
3 6 (54.55%) Scala
4 4 (36.36%) Bash
5 3 (27.27%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) GDPR
2 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
3 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Databricks
2 3 (27.27%) Informatica
3 1 (9.09%) SAP