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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 126 142
Rank change year-on-year +6 +16 +59
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Data Ingestion 17 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.67% 0.19% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.23% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile £385 £352 £653
25th Percentile £419 £415 £656
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £481 £675
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -28.70% +28.08%
75th Percentile £588 £567 £688
90th Percentile £625 £609 -
England median daily rate £530 £500 £613
% change year-on-year +6.00% -18.37% +6.52%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,208 2,184 2,557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.55% 81.22% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,425 1,467 1,769
10th Percentile £235 £263 £250
25th Percentile £358 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £563 £612 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £708
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 91 89
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.75 £13.13
25th Percentile £16.14 £14.85 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.35 £20.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.73% -27.27% +52.78%
75th Percentile £26.51 £37.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £49.40 £52.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +54.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Ingestion

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Ingestion in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Ingestion in the Midlands

Data Ingestion
DemandTrendContract 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 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +3 14 £485 +0.78% 4
East Midlands -5 3 £450 -3.74% 1
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 2 (11.76%) Apache
1 2 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (5.88%) InDesign
1 1 (5.88%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (11.76%) SaaS
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
3 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.88%) HDInsight
4 1 (5.88%) Pentaho
4 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 2 (11.76%) JMeter
2 2 (11.76%) Postman
2 2 (11.76%) REST Assured
2 2 (11.76%) Selenium
2 2 (11.76%) TestNG
2 2 (11.76%) Travis CI
3 1 (5.88%) Dreamweaver
General
1 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Retail
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
3 1 (5.88%) Military
3 1 (5.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Data Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) SIEM Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Implementation Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Search Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Architect
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Data Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (11.76%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (11.76%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) PySpark
3 1 (5.88%) CSS
3 1 (5.88%) Flash
3 1 (5.88%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) Lucene
3 1 (5.88%) Prophet
3 1 (5.88%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.88%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Replication
2 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Blog
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.88%) IoT
3 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.88%) MISP
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (35.29%) Analytics
2 6 (35.29%) SIEM
2 6 (35.29%) Visualisation
3 5 (29.41%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
4 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
4 4 (23.53%) Data Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (23.53%) DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) ETL
5 3 (17.65%) Anomaly Detection
5 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (17.65%) Data Analytics
5 3 (17.65%) Data Governance
6 2 (11.76%) Agile Project Management
6 2 (11.76%) Functional Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) DV Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (23.53%) Degree
4 3 (17.65%) CEH
4 3 (17.65%) CISSP
4 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
5 2 (11.76%) ISTQB
5 2 (11.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) SLA
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Kibana
2 5 (29.41%) logstash
3 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.88%) Fluentd
4 1 (5.88%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Databricks
2 2 (11.76%) Avaya
2 2 (11.76%) Genesys
2 2 (11.76%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) Adobe
3 1 (5.88%) Cribl.io
3 1 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (5.88%) Darktrace
3 1 (5.88%) Denodo
3 1 (5.88%) Facebook
3 1 (5.88%) Instagram
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Qualys
3 1 (5.88%) Talend
3 1 (5.88%) Twitter
3 1 (5.88%) YouTube