Data Ingestion Contracts in London

Data Ingestion
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 263 277 420
Rank change year-on-year +14 +143 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 90 114 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.72% 0.64% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.72% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 85 56
10th Percentile £380 £408 £475
25th Percentile £463 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £650
90th Percentile £694 £738 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £597
% change year-on-year - -12.01% -0.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £78.75
25th Percentile - - £80.63
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £88.13
90th Percentile - - £89.25
England median hourly rate £78.70 £67.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +16.59% -20.59% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Ingestion in London

Data Ingestion
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Ingestion in London

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Ingestion in London

Data Ingestion
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Ingestion in London

Data Ingestion
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London -6 13 £620 +37.78% 2
South London +9 4 £481 +6.94% 1
Data Ingestion
England

Data Ingestion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 16 (17.78%) Apache Spark
2 11 (12.22%) Apache
3 6 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (6.67%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Aladdin
2 2 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.11%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 48 (53.33%) Azure
2 24 (26.67%) Power Platform
3 23 (25.56%) AWS
4 14 (15.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 11 (12.22%) GCP
7 10 (11.11%) Snowflake
8 8 (8.89%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (5.56%) dbt
10 5 (5.56%) Serverless
11 4 (4.44%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (4.44%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (3.33%) Collibra
12 3 (3.33%) GitHub
13 2 (2.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 2 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.89%) SSH
2 2 (2.22%) Network Security
2 2 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (2.22%) SNMP
2 2 (2.22%) Telnet
2 2 (2.22%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.11%) DSLAM
3 1 (1.11%) Firewall
3 1 (1.11%) HTTP
3 1 (1.11%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (26.67%) Power BI
2 21 (23.33%) Data Lake
3 19 (21.11%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (17.78%) Delta Lake
5 10 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (10.00%) Apache Hive
6 9 (10.00%) SQL Server
7 8 (8.89%) Geospatial Data
7 8 (8.89%) NoSQL
8 7 (7.78%) Metadata
9 6 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (6.67%) BigQuery
10 5 (5.56%) Big Data
10 5 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (4.44%) DynamoDB
11 4 (4.44%) Parquet
11 4 (4.44%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (4.44%) Tableau
12 2 (2.22%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 10 (11.11%) Git
2 9 (10.00%) JIRA
3 6 (6.67%) RStudio
4 3 (3.33%) GitLab
5 1 (1.11%) ER Studio
5 1 (1.11%) ERwin
5 1 (1.11%) Postman
5 1 (1.11%) Selenium
General
1 18 (20.00%) Finance
2 17 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.78%) Publishing
6 6 (6.67%) Banking
7 3 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.22%) Front Office
8 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.22%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.22%) Marketing
9 1 (1.11%) Electronics
9 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.11%) Games
9 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (45.56%) Data Engineer
2 16 (17.78%) Senior
3 11 (12.22%) Architect
4 9 (10.00%) Lead
5 8 (8.89%) Azure Data Engineer
5 8 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Developer
6 7 (7.78%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Data Architect
7 5 (5.56%) Python Developer
7 5 (5.56%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Python Data Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Lead Developer
9 3 (3.33%) Lead Python Developer
9 3 (3.33%) Snowflake Architect
9 3 (3.33%) Workstream Lead
10 2 (2.22%) Network Engineer
10 2 (2.22%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (24.44%) PySpark
2 14 (15.56%) JSON
3 8 (8.89%) Kafka
3 8 (8.89%) pydantic
3 8 (8.89%) YAML
4 6 (6.67%) Node.js
5 5 (5.56%) REST
6 4 (4.44%) Apache Avro
7 3 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.33%) Express.js
7 3 (3.33%) pytest
7 3 (3.33%) Sequelize
7 3 (3.33%) Vue
8 2 (2.22%) .NET
8 2 (2.22%) .NET Core
8 2 (2.22%) .NET Framework
8 2 (2.22%) Entity Framework
8 2 (2.22%) FastAPI
8 2 (2.22%) HTML
8 2 (2.22%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.89%) Data Structures
1 8 (8.89%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (7.78%) Reference Data
3 4 (4.44%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.33%) Replication
5 2 (2.22%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.22%) Derivative
5 2 (2.22%) Equities
5 2 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.11%) Animation
6 1 (1.11%) Clustering
6 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) FMCG
6 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.11%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.89%) Linux
2 2 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (38.89%) ETL
2 32 (35.56%) Data Pipeline
3 26 (28.89%) Agile
3 26 (28.89%) Data Modelling
4 19 (21.11%) CI/CD
4 19 (21.11%) Data Engineering
4 19 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (17.78%) DevOps
6 14 (15.56%) Data Security
7 13 (14.44%) Analytics
7 13 (14.44%) Data Transformation
8 12 (13.33%) Data Governance
9 11 (12.22%) Test Automation
10 10 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (11.11%) Data Architecture
11 9 (10.00%) Containerisation
11 9 (10.00%) Machine Learning
12 8 (8.89%) Migration
13 7 (7.78%) Scrum
13 7 (7.78%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 58 (64.44%) Python
2 46 (51.11%) SQL
3 15 (16.67%) Scala
4 9 (10.00%) Bash
5 8 (8.89%) C#
6 7 (7.78%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.44%) Java
8 2 (2.22%) Lua
8 2 (2.22%) Perl
8 2 (2.22%) PHP
8 2 (2.22%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.22%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.11%) C++
9 1 (1.11%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 20 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.33%) Degree
4 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 9 (10.00%) GDPR
3 6 (6.67%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.33%) QA
5 2 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (10.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) FreeRADIUS
2 2 (2.22%) iptables
3 1 (1.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (8.89%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.78%) Terraform
3 3 (3.33%) Ansible
4 2 (2.22%) Cacti
4 2 (2.22%) Grafana
4 2 (2.22%) logstash
4 2 (2.22%) Nagios
4 2 (2.22%) Netcool
4 2 (2.22%) Proxmox
4 2 (2.22%) Puppet
4 2 (2.22%) ZABBIX
5 1 (1.11%) Apache Ranger
5 1 (1.11%) Graylog
5 1 (1.11%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (1.11%) Kibana
5 1 (1.11%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (31.11%) Databricks
2 8 (8.89%) Informatica
3 5 (5.56%) Google
3 5 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.44%) Splunk
5 3 (3.33%) Oracle
6 2 (2.22%) Murex
6 2 (2.22%) Nokia
6 2 (2.22%) SAP
6 2 (2.22%) Talend
6 2 (2.22%) VMware
7 1 (1.11%) Cisco
7 1 (1.11%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.11%) Huawei
7 1 (1.11%) IBM
7 1 (1.11%) Juniper
7 1 (1.11%) Palantir
7 1 (1.11%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.11%) Perforce
7 1 (1.11%) Teradata