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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 278 405
Rank change year-on-year +37 +127 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 100 118 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.83% 0.68% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.76% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 87 60
10th Percentile £424 £404 £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 £573 £650
90th Percentile £686 £732 £715
England median daily rate £521 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -0.71% -12.50% -
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 £79.35 £67.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +17.56% -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 11,178 15,459 23,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 88.48% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,507 11,105 16,762
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 316 266
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.72 £18.25
25th Percentile £23.78 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.81 £28.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% -29.34% +12.29%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.10 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 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 29 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 +2 17 £600 +33.33% 7
South London +7 3 £475 +5.56% 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 15 (15.00%) Apache Spark
2 11 (11.00%) Apache
3 10 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (6.00%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.00%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 48 (48.00%) Azure
2 26 (26.00%) AWS
3 22 (22.00%) Power Platform
4 18 (18.00%) GCP
5 13 (13.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (13.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 11 (11.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 10 (10.00%) Snowflake
8 7 (7.00%) Collibra
8 7 (7.00%) dbt
9 5 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (5.00%) Serverless
10 4 (4.00%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (4.00%) Cloud Composer
11 3 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (3.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.00%) Cloud Functions
11 3 (3.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.00%) SSH
2 2 (2.00%) Network Security
2 2 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (2.00%) SNMP
2 2 (2.00%) Telnet
2 2 (2.00%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.00%) DSLAM
3 1 (1.00%) Firewall
3 1 (1.00%) HTTP
3 1 (1.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (28.00%) Data Lake
2 22 (22.00%) Power BI
3 17 (17.00%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (17.00%) Delta Lake
4 12 (12.00%) BigQuery
4 12 (12.00%) SQL Server
5 10 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (10.00%) Metadata
6 9 (9.00%) Apache Hive
7 8 (8.00%) Geospatial Data
7 8 (8.00%) NoSQL
8 6 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (6.00%) Big Data
9 5 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (4.00%) DynamoDB
10 4 (4.00%) Parquet
10 4 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (3.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (13.00%) Git
2 9 (9.00%) JIRA
3 6 (6.00%) RStudio
4 4 (4.00%) GitLab
5 2 (2.00%) ER Studio
6 1 (1.00%) Postman
6 1 (1.00%) Selenium
General
1 18 (18.00%) Finance
2 15 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.00%) Banking
4 8 (8.00%) Social Skills
5 7 (7.00%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.00%) Publishing
6 2 (2.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.00%) Retail
6 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.00%) Billing
7 1 (1.00%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.00%) Front Office
7 1 (1.00%) Games
7 1 (1.00%) Marketing
7 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 21 (21.00%) Senior
3 12 (12.00%) Architect
4 11 (11.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 10 (10.00%) Azure Data Engineer
5 10 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (9.00%) Developer
6 9 (9.00%) Lead
7 7 (7.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Analyst
8 6 (6.00%) Data Architect
8 6 (6.00%) GCP Data Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) GCP Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Python Developer
10 4 (4.00%) Python Engineer
11 3 (3.00%) Lead Python Developer
11 3 (3.00%) Python Data Engineer
11 3 (3.00%) Senior Developer
11 3 (3.00%) Snowflake Architect
11 3 (3.00%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (26.00%) PySpark
2 14 (14.00%) JSON
3 9 (9.00%) Kafka
3 9 (9.00%) Node.js
4 8 (8.00%) pydantic
4 8 (8.00%) YAML
5 5 (5.00%) REST
6 4 (4.00%) Apache Avro
6 4 (4.00%) GraphQL
6 4 (4.00%) Next.js
6 4 (4.00%) React
7 3 (3.00%) Express.js
7 3 (3.00%) Sequelize
7 3 (3.00%) Vue
8 2 (2.00%) .NET
8 2 (2.00%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.00%) FastAPI
8 2 (2.00%) pytest
8 2 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.00%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (7.00%) Data Structures
2 7 (7.00%) Reference Data
3 4 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.00%) Replication
5 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.00%) Animation
6 1 (1.00%) Clustering
6 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.00%) Derivative
6 1 (1.00%) Equities
6 1 (1.00%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.00%) FMCG
6 1 (1.00%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (37.00%) ETL
2 34 (34.00%) Data Modelling
3 33 (33.00%) Data Pipeline
4 32 (32.00%) Agile
5 24 (24.00%) Data Engineering
6 22 (22.00%) CI/CD
7 17 (17.00%) DevOps
7 17 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (15.00%) Analytics
9 14 (14.00%) Data Governance
10 13 (13.00%) Data Transformation
11 12 (12.00%) Data Security
12 11 (11.00%) Data Architecture
12 11 (11.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (11.00%) Test Automation
13 10 (10.00%) Mentoring
13 10 (10.00%) Migration
14 9 (9.00%) Containerisation
14 9 (9.00%) Infrastructure as Code
15 8 (8.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 67 (67.00%) Python
2 54 (54.00%) SQL
3 17 (17.00%) Scala
4 10 (10.00%) Bash
5 8 (8.00%) C#
5 8 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.00%) Java
6 5 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.00%) Lua
7 2 (2.00%) Perl
7 2 (2.00%) PHP
7 2 (2.00%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.00%) C++
8 1 (1.00%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (23.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.00%) Data Quality
2 9 (9.00%) GDPR
3 5 (5.00%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.00%) QA
5 2 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (9.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.00%) FreeRADIUS
2 2 (2.00%) iptables
3 1 (1.00%) HDFS
3 1 (1.00%) zsh
Systems Management
1 11 (11.00%) Terraform
2 10 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.00%) Ansible
4 2 (2.00%) Cacti
4 2 (2.00%) Grafana
4 2 (2.00%) Nagios
4 2 (2.00%) Netcool
4 2 (2.00%) Proxmox
4 2 (2.00%) Puppet
4 2 (2.00%) ZABBIX
5 1 (1.00%) Apache Ranger
5 1 (1.00%) Graylog
5 1 (1.00%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (1.00%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.00%) logstash
5 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (31.00%) Databricks
2 12 (12.00%) Google
3 11 (11.00%) Informatica
4 5 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.00%) Splunk
6 3 (3.00%) Oracle
7 2 (2.00%) Nokia
7 2 (2.00%) Palantir
7 2 (2.00%) Talend
7 2 (2.00%) VMware
8 1 (1.00%) Cisco
8 1 (1.00%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.00%) Cribl.io
8 1 (1.00%) Huawei
8 1 (1.00%) IBM
8 1 (1.00%) Juniper
8 1 (1.00%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.00%) Perforce
8 1 (1.00%) SAP
8 1 (1.00%) Teradata