Data Ingestion Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Data Ingestion
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Data Ingestion skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 0.72% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South West median daily rate £650 - £533
% change year-on-year - - -16.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 93 83 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 67.39% 90.22% 87.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 47 91
10th Percentile £318 £280 £172
25th Percentile £372 £406 £176
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £675
90th Percentile £675 £688 £825
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 48
10th Percentile £21.80 £14.71 £12.66
25th Percentile £22.79 £15.16 £14.41
Median hourly rate £34.98 £18.25 £53.44
Median % change year-on-year +91.67% -65.85% -5.06%
75th Percentile £72.28 £25.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.68 £50.50 £69.62
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -20.78%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Data Ingestion job vacancy trend in Dorset

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

Data Ingestion
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 24 February 2026. 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
Dorchester - 1 - -
Data Ingestion
South West

Data Ingestion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SAP