Data Ingestion Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Data Ingestion
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Data Ingestion skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 44 71
Rank change year-on-year -16 +27 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.70% 0.31% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.35% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £318 £550
% change year-on-year +72.85% -42.15% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 673 289 745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 78.53% 89.47% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 144 261
10th Percentile £209 £354 £225
25th Percentile £406 £446 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +29.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £600
90th Percentile £738 £675 £713
East of England median daily rate £486 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -2.75% +7.53% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 80 318
10th Percentile £16.35 £20.34 £38.12
25th Percentile £18.50 £45.98 £40.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £63.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.51% +26.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £68.38 £81.10 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £80.00
East of England median hourly rate £22.84 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -42.90% - +62.47%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Data Ingestion job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Ingestion in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Ingestion in Hertfordshire

Data Ingestion
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Hemel Hempstead - 4 £550 - 2
Watford - 2 £550 - 1
Data Ingestion
East of England

Data Ingestion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Datadog
3 1 (16.67%) dbt
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) InfluxDB
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Metadata
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (16.67%) Star Schema
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
2 1 (16.67%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 3 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 3 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
4 1 (16.67%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Data Sharing
4 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
3 2 (33.33%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft