Data Ingestion Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Data Ingestion
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Data Ingestion skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 75 79
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 -
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.43% 0.26% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.29% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £351 -
25th Percentile £475 £355 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £370 £450
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% -17.78% -
75th Percentile £531 £385 £463
90th Percentile £535 £390 -
Scotland median daily rate £585 £370 £450
% change year-on-year +58.11% -17.78% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 611 688 811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.91% 90.77% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 428 543
10th Percentile £284 £311 £350
25th Percentile £394 £363 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £624
90th Percentile £630 £656 £700
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.06% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 17
10th Percentile £14.49 £16.75 £12.08
25th Percentile £16.13 £17.32 £15.42
Median hourly rate £25.92 £21.87 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +36.69% -46.16%
75th Percentile £52.65 £32.81 £19.50
90th Percentile £62.31 £43.58 £36.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £18.00
% change year-on-year -14.14% +29.42% -0.61%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Data Ingestion job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Data Ingestion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Database Security
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Statistics
1 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kibana
2 1 (33.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) Greenplum
1 2 (66.67%) Informatica
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Talend