Data Ingestion Contracts in the Midlands

Data Ingestion
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 101 131 161
Rank change year-on-year +30 +30 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 10 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.52% 0.073% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.088% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £274 £340 -
25th Percentile £364 £386 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £417 £468 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% -25.20% +23.15%
75th Percentile £546 £556 £631
90th Percentile £600 £605 £643
England median daily rate £525 £525 £597
% change year-on-year - -12.01% -0.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Ingestion in the Midlands

Data Ingestion
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Ingestion in the Midlands

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Ingestion in the Midlands

Data Ingestion
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands - 8 £463 - 2
East Midlands +10 2 £413 -11.66% 3
Data Ingestion
England

Data Ingestion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (30.00%) Confluence
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (10.00%) Metadata
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (10.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) Git
2 3 (30.00%) GitLab
2 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 3 (30.00%) JMeter
2 3 (30.00%) Postman
2 3 (30.00%) REST Assured
2 3 (30.00%) Selenium
2 3 (30.00%) TestNG
2 3 (30.00%) Travis CI
General
1 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (30.00%) Kafka
2 2 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Visualisation
2 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (60.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (50.00%) Analytics
4 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 5 (50.00%) Data Governance
4 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (50.00%) DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) Data Security
5 4 (40.00%) ETL
6 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
6 3 (30.00%) Functional Testing
6 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
6 3 (30.00%) Regression Testing
6 3 (30.00%) Security Testing
6 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) CEH
2 3 (30.00%) CISSP
2 3 (30.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (30.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kibana
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Databricks