Data Ingestion Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Ingestion
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London 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 102 113 145
Rank change year-on-year +11 +32 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 20 12 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.18% 0.57% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 0.62% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 1
10th Percentile - £421 -
25th Percentile £475 £425 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £606 £491 £563
90th Percentile £625 £602 -
Central London median daily rate £525 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% +4.76%

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 1,599 1,948 2,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.45% 91.93% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,204 1,777
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% +3.48%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £767 £783 £811
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 17
10th Percentile £16.85 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.57 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.48% +54.55% -36.05%
75th Percentile £36.00 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -22.76% +30.84% -37.06%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Data Ingestion job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Ingestion.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Ingestion

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 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Ingestion in the City of London

Data Ingestion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) AWS
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (20.00%) Collibra
3 4 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Composer
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Functions
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) Google Compute Engine
4 2 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (10.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (20.00%) Metadata
3 3 (15.00%) Big Data
3 3 (15.00%) BigQuery
3 3 (15.00%) Delta Lake
4 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (10.00%) Power BI
5 1 (5.00%) KDB
5 1 (5.00%) Kdb+
5 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.00%) Power Query
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) ER Studio
1 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Front Office
3 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) GCP Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Data Modeller
5 1 (5.00%) GCP Architect
5 1 (5.00%) GCP Data Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Power BI Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) PySpark
2 3 (15.00%) Kafka
3 2 (10.00%) FastAPI
3 2 (10.00%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (10.00%) REST
3 2 (10.00%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.00%) JWT
4 1 (5.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) OAuth
4 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Reference Data
1 2 (10.00%) Replication
2 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Data Fabric
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.00%) Derivative
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Equities
2 1 (5.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 7 (35.00%) ETL
3 6 (30.00%) Agile
3 6 (30.00%) AI
3 6 (30.00%) Analytics
4 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 5 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (20.00%) Data Architecture
5 4 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 4 (20.00%) Data Science
5 4 (20.00%) LLM
5 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 4 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (15.00%) Data Transformation
6 3 (15.00%) Low Latency
6 3 (15.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (85.00%) Python
2 10 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) C++
3 3 (15.00%) Scala
4 2 (10.00%) Go
4 2 (10.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (15.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (45.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Argo
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Databricks
2 3 (15.00%) Google
2 3 (15.00%) Informatica
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Tagetik