Data Ingestion Contracts in England

Data Ingestion
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 336 397 528
Rank change year-on-year +61 +131 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 149 145 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.61% 0.39% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.45% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 107 91
10th Percentile £364 £404 £475
25th Percentile £449 £425 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £597
Median % change year-on-year - -12.01% -0.56%
75th Percentile £607 £615 £625
90th Percentile £709 £730 £700
UK median daily rate £524 £525 £597
% change year-on-year -0.19% -12.01% -0.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £78.75
25th Percentile - £66.25 £80.63
Median hourly rate £78.70 £67.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% -20.59% -
75th Percentile - £68.75 £88.13
90th Percentile - - £89.25
UK median hourly rate £38.85 £67.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year -42.45% -20.59% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Ingestion in England

Data Ingestion
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Ingestion in England

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Ingestion in England

Data Ingestion
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Ingestion in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Ingestion in England

Data Ingestion
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London +14 90 £530 +6.00% 113
North of England +24 22 £586 -3.89% 47
North West +26 18 £636 +21.05% 20
South East +52 11 £482 -34.64% 80
Midlands +30 10 £417 -10.80% 37
West Midlands - 8 £463 - 18
East of England +31 5 £318 -42.15% 27
Yorkshire +4 4 £550 -9.84% 22
South West +47 2 £550 +3.29% 27
East Midlands +10 2 £413 -11.66% 15
Data Ingestion
UK

Data Ingestion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 26 (17.45%) Apache Spark
2 23 (15.44%) Apache
3 10 (6.71%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (4.03%) Jupyter
5 4 (2.68%) Confluence
6 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.68%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.34%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.67%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 69 (46.31%) Azure
2 36 (24.16%) Power Platform
3 35 (23.49%) AWS
4 23 (15.44%) GCP
5 19 (12.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (12.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (7.38%) Snowflake
8 10 (6.71%) Serverless
9 9 (6.04%) Amazon S3
10 8 (5.37%) dbt
10 8 (5.37%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (4.70%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (4.03%) GitHub
13 5 (3.36%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (2.68%) Amazon MSK
14 4 (2.68%) AWS Step Functions
15 3 (2.01%) Azure Functions
15 3 (2.01%) Collibra
15 3 (2.01%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.37%) SSH
2 6 (4.03%) Firewall
3 2 (1.34%) Network Security
3 2 (1.34%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.34%) SNMP
3 2 (1.34%) Telnet
3 2 (1.34%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.67%) DSLAM
4 1 (0.67%) HTTP
4 1 (0.67%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (24.16%) Data Warehouse
1 36 (24.16%) Power BI
2 29 (19.46%) Data Lake
3 22 (14.77%) NoSQL
4 19 (12.75%) Delta Lake
5 14 (9.40%) Metadata
6 13 (8.72%) SQL Server
7 11 (7.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (7.38%) Apache Hive
7 11 (7.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (7.38%) Big Data
7 11 (7.38%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (7.38%) Tableau
8 9 (6.04%) BigQuery
8 9 (6.04%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (5.37%) Geospatial Data
9 8 (5.37%) MySQL
10 6 (4.03%) MongoDB
11 5 (3.36%) Hadoop
11 5 (3.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (9.40%) Git
1 14 (9.40%) JIRA
2 10 (6.71%) GitLab
3 9 (6.04%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.03%) RStudio
5 4 (2.68%) Postman
5 4 (2.68%) Selenium
6 3 (2.01%) ER Studio
6 3 (2.01%) ERwin
6 3 (2.01%) JMeter
6 3 (2.01%) REST Assured
6 3 (2.01%) TestNG
6 3 (2.01%) Travis CI
7 2 (1.34%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (24.83%) Analytical Skills
1 37 (24.83%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.44%) Finance
3 13 (8.72%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.70%) Banking
4 7 (4.70%) Publishing
5 3 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (2.01%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.34%) Billing
6 2 (1.34%) Front Office
6 2 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.34%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.34%) Marketing
6 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.67%) Aviation
7 1 (0.67%) Electronics
7 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.67%) Retail
7 1 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 62 (41.61%) Data Engineer
2 27 (18.12%) Architect
3 25 (16.78%) Senior
4 12 (8.05%) Developer
4 12 (8.05%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (7.38%) Data Architect
5 11 (7.38%) Lead
6 9 (6.04%) Azure Data Engineer
6 9 (6.04%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (5.37%) Analyst
8 5 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (3.36%) GCP Data Engineer
8 5 (3.36%) GCP Engineer
8 5 (3.36%) Python Developer
8 5 (3.36%) Python Engineer
8 5 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.68%) Automation Developer
9 4 (2.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (2.68%) Python Data Engineer
9 4 (2.68%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (21.48%) PySpark
2 23 (15.44%) Kafka
3 15 (10.07%) JSON
4 8 (5.37%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (5.37%) pydantic
4 8 (5.37%) YAML
5 6 (4.03%) Apache NiFi
5 6 (4.03%) JDBC
5 6 (4.03%) Node.js
6 5 (3.36%) React
6 5 (3.36%) REST
7 4 (2.68%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.68%) Apache Avro
7 4 (2.68%) Apache Beam
7 4 (2.68%) Pandas
7 4 (2.68%) Spark Streaming
7 4 (2.68%) Vue
8 3 (2.01%) .NET
8 3 (2.01%) NumPy
8 3 (2.01%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.71%) Onboarding
2 9 (6.04%) Replication
3 8 (5.37%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.37%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (4.70%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.70%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.68%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.01%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.34%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.34%) Derivative
7 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.34%) Equities
7 2 (1.34%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.67%) Animation
8 1 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.67%) Insider Threat
8 1 (0.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.72%) Linux
2 5 (3.36%) Unix
3 1 (0.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (40.27%) ETL
2 58 (38.93%) Data Pipeline
3 51 (34.23%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (33.56%) Data Modelling
5 45 (30.20%) Agile
6 42 (28.19%) CI/CD
7 38 (25.50%) Data Engineering
8 35 (23.49%) Analytics
8 35 (23.49%) DevOps
9 28 (18.79%) Business Intelligence
10 27 (18.12%) Data Governance
11 26 (17.45%) Data Security
11 26 (17.45%) Visualisation
12 24 (16.11%) Test Automation
12 24 (16.11%) Validation
13 21 (14.09%) Data Transformation
14 20 (13.42%) Decision-Making
15 18 (12.08%) Data Architecture
15 18 (12.08%) Machine Learning
15 18 (12.08%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 88 (59.06%) Python
2 74 (49.66%) SQL
3 19 (12.75%) Scala
4 18 (12.08%) Bash
5 11 (7.38%) Java
6 9 (6.04%) C#
7 8 (5.37%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.01%) Perl
9 2 (1.34%) Lua
9 2 (1.34%) PHP
9 2 (1.34%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.34%) R
9 2 (1.34%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.67%) Bicep
10 1 (0.67%) C++
10 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.67%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (20.13%) Security Cleared
2 23 (15.44%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.37%) Degree
4 7 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.01%) CCNA
6 3 (2.01%) CCNP
6 3 (2.01%) CEH
6 3 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.01%) CISSP
6 3 (2.01%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.34%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.34%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.67%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (24.16%) Data Quality
2 17 (11.41%) GDPR
3 9 (6.04%) QA
4 6 (4.03%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.34%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.34%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (10.07%) Docker
2 2 (1.34%) FreeRADIUS
2 2 (1.34%) iptables
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.67%) HDFS
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (12.08%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.38%) Ansible
2 11 (7.38%) Terraform
3 9 (6.04%) Kibana
4 7 (4.70%) logstash
5 3 (2.01%) Grafana
6 2 (1.34%) Cacti
6 2 (1.34%) Nagios
6 2 (1.34%) Netcool
6 2 (1.34%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.34%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.34%) Puppet
6 2 (1.34%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.67%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.67%) Graylog
7 1 (0.67%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.67%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 40 (26.85%) Databricks
2 13 (8.72%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.38%) Informatica
4 8 (5.37%) Google
5 6 (4.03%) Fortinet
5 6 (4.03%) Infoblox
5 6 (4.03%) Oracle
5 6 (4.03%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.03%) Splunk
6 5 (3.36%) Talend
7 3 (2.01%) SAP
8 2 (1.34%) Brio
8 2 (1.34%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.34%) Murex
8 2 (1.34%) Nokia
8 2 (1.34%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.34%) VMware
9 1 (0.67%) Huawei
9 1 (0.67%) Perforce
9 1 (0.67%) Teradata