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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 391 513
Rank change year-on-year +81 +122 +56
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 162 146 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.67% 0.40% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.47% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 109 91
10th Percentile £396 £400 £475
25th Percentile £450 £413 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £698 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -3.81% -12.50% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £78.83 - £78.75
25th Percentile £79.03 £66.25 £80.63
Median hourly rate £79.35 £67.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.56% -20.59% -
75th Percentile £79.68 £68.75 £88.13
90th Percentile £79.87 - £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 21,908 31,369 43,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.13% 90.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,318 20,561 30,212
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 931 2,271 1,523
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.97 £16.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -23.29% -2.14% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% - +40.19%

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 24 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 24 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 +46 99 £530 +6.00% 190
North of England +17 22 £586 -1.05% 186
North West +18 17 £636 +21.05% 76
South East +54 14 £475 -35.59% 233
Midlands +18 11 £375 -19.79% 140
West Midlands - 9 £375 - 74
East of England +29 5 £318 -42.15% 111
Yorkshire +6 5 £550 -9.84% 85
South West +44 3 £550 +3.29% 91
East Midlands +7 2 £413 -11.66% 56
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 (16.05%) Apache Spark
2 23 (14.20%) Apache
3 13 (8.02%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.70%) Jupyter
5 4 (2.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.09%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.62%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 69 (42.59%) Azure
2 42 (25.93%) AWS
3 33 (20.37%) Power Platform
4 31 (19.14%) GCP
5 18 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 16 (9.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (8.02%) Amazon S3
8 12 (7.41%) Serverless
9 11 (6.79%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (6.79%) Snowflake
10 10 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (6.17%) dbt
11 8 (4.94%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (4.32%) Collibra
13 6 (3.70%) GitHub
14 5 (3.09%) Amazon EMR
14 5 (3.09%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (2.47%) AWS Step Functions
15 4 (2.47%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.94%) SSH
2 6 (3.70%) Firewall
3 2 (1.23%) Network Security
3 2 (1.23%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.23%) SNMP
3 2 (1.23%) Telnet
3 2 (1.23%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.62%) DSLAM
4 1 (0.62%) HTTP
4 1 (0.62%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (23.46%) Data Lake
2 37 (22.84%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (20.37%) Power BI
4 26 (16.05%) NoSQL
5 21 (12.96%) Delta Lake
6 16 (9.88%) Metadata
7 15 (9.26%) BigQuery
8 14 (8.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (8.64%) SQL Server
9 13 (8.02%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (7.41%) Big Data
11 11 (6.79%) Apache Hive
11 11 (6.79%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (4.94%) Geospatial Data
13 8 (4.94%) MySQL
13 8 (4.94%) Tableau
14 7 (4.32%) MongoDB
15 6 (3.70%) Hadoop
15 6 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (10.49%) Git
2 13 (8.02%) JIRA
3 12 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.17%) GitLab
5 6 (3.70%) RStudio
6 4 (2.47%) ER Studio
6 4 (2.47%) Postman
6 4 (2.47%) Selenium
7 3 (1.85%) JMeter
7 3 (1.85%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.85%) TestNG
7 3 (1.85%) Travis CI
8 2 (1.23%) ERwin
9 1 (0.62%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (22.84%) Analytical Skills
1 37 (22.84%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.20%) Finance
3 13 (8.02%) Banking
4 12 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.32%) Publishing
6 5 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.85%) Billing
7 3 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.85%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.23%) Front Office
8 2 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.23%) Marketing
9 1 (0.62%) Aviation
9 1 (0.62%) Electronics
9 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.62%) Military
9 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 75 (46.30%) Data Engineer
2 32 (19.75%) Senior
3 30 (18.52%) Architect
4 19 (11.73%) Senior Data Engineer
5 14 (8.64%) Azure Data Engineer
5 14 (8.64%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (8.02%) Data Architect
6 13 (8.02%) Developer
7 11 (6.79%) Lead
8 9 (5.56%) Analyst
8 9 (5.56%) GCP Data Engineer
8 9 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
9 7 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (4.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (3.09%) AWS Architect
10 5 (3.09%) Python Developer
10 5 (3.09%) Python Engineer
10 5 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.47%) Automation Developer
11 4 (2.47%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (22.22%) PySpark
2 28 (17.28%) Kafka
3 15 (9.26%) JSON
4 9 (5.56%) Node.js
5 8 (4.94%) Apache NiFi
5 8 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (4.94%) pydantic
5 8 (4.94%) React
5 8 (4.94%) YAML
6 7 (4.32%) JDBC
7 5 (3.09%) Apache Beam
7 5 (3.09%) REST
7 5 (3.09%) Spark Streaming
8 4 (2.47%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.47%) Apache Avro
8 4 (2.47%) GraphQL
8 4 (2.47%) Next.js
8 4 (2.47%) Pandas
8 4 (2.47%) Vue
9 3 (1.85%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.17%) Onboarding
2 10 (6.17%) Replication
3 9 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (4.32%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.32%) Reference Data
5 5 (3.09%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.23%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.23%) Derivative
7 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.23%) Equities
7 2 (1.23%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.23%) IoT
8 1 (0.62%) Animation
8 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.62%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.11%) Linux
2 6 (3.70%) Unix
3 1 (0.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (39.51%) Data Pipeline
2 63 (38.89%) ETL
3 59 (36.42%) Data Modelling
4 55 (33.95%) Agile
5 54 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (30.25%) CI/CD
7 44 (27.16%) Data Engineering
8 41 (25.31%) Analytics
9 40 (24.69%) DevOps
10 33 (20.37%) Data Governance
11 28 (17.28%) Business Intelligence
12 27 (16.67%) Data Security
12 27 (16.67%) Validation
13 25 (15.43%) Test Automation
13 25 (15.43%) Visualisation
14 21 (12.96%) Data Transformation
14 21 (12.96%) Decision-Making
15 20 (12.35%) Data Architecture
15 20 (12.35%) Migration
16 18 (11.11%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 101 (62.35%) Python
2 85 (52.47%) SQL
3 24 (14.81%) Scala
4 19 (11.73%) Bash
5 15 (9.26%) Java
6 8 (4.94%) C#
6 8 (4.94%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.09%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.85%) Perl
8 3 (1.85%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.23%) Lua
9 2 (1.23%) PHP
9 2 (1.23%) R
10 1 (0.62%) C++
10 1 (0.62%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.62%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 25 (15.43%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.94%) Degree
4 5 (3.09%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (3.09%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.85%) CCNA
5 3 (1.85%) CCNP
5 3 (1.85%) CEH
5 3 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.85%) CISSP
5 3 (1.85%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.62%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (26.54%) Data Quality
2 17 (10.49%) GDPR
3 9 (5.56%) QA
4 5 (3.09%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.23%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.23%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (11.73%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) FreeRADIUS
2 2 (1.23%) iptables
3 1 (0.62%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.62%) HDFS
3 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.62%) zsh
Systems Management
1 24 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.26%) Terraform
3 12 (7.41%) Ansible
4 9 (5.56%) Kibana
5 7 (4.32%) logstash
6 4 (2.47%) Grafana
7 3 (1.85%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.23%) Cacti
8 2 (1.23%) Nagios
8 2 (1.23%) Netcool
8 2 (1.23%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.23%) Puppet
8 2 (1.23%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.62%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.62%) Graylog
9 1 (0.62%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.62%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 45 (27.78%) Databricks
2 15 (9.26%) Google
3 14 (8.64%) Informatica
4 13 (8.02%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.70%) Fortinet
5 6 (3.70%) Infoblox
5 6 (3.70%) Oracle
5 6 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.70%) Splunk
6 5 (3.09%) Talend
7 2 (1.23%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.23%) Nokia
7 2 (1.23%) Palantir
7 2 (1.23%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.23%) SAP
7 2 (1.23%) VMware
8 1 (0.62%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.62%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.62%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.62%) StreamSets