Data Ingestion Contracts in the North of England

Data Ingestion
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 151 188
Rank change year-on-year -12 +37 +66
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Data Ingestion 22 13 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.55% 0.31% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.37% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 8
10th Percentile £490 £425 £529
25th Percentile £550 £444 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £671 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year +29.04% -13.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £594 £638
90th Percentile £715 £638 £639
England median daily rate £530 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +6.00% -16.67% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
England median hourly rate £78.70 £48.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +63.96% -43.53% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,570 3,522 4,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.92% 83.64% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,286 2,093 3,068
10th Percentile £268 £313 £288
25th Percentile £375 £406 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 224 206
10th Percentile £12.88 £11.07 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.44 £13.84 £17.81
Median hourly rate £22.63 £29.39 £28.49
Median % change year-on-year -22.99% +3.14% +42.45%
75th Percentile £43.56 £50.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.40 £69.93 £56.95
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +53.90%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Ingestion in the North of England

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Ingestion.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Ingestion

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Ingestion in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Ingestion in the North of England

Data Ingestion
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 26 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
North West -2 12 £671 +29.04% 3
Yorkshire -7 10 £550 +1.15% 3
Data Ingestion
England

Data Ingestion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 8 (36.36%) Apache Spark
2 2 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.55%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) GCP
2 10 (45.45%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) Azure
3 8 (36.36%) Amazon S3
4 4 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.55%) Serverless
6 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) Flink
1 7 (31.82%) MongoDB
1 7 (31.82%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (9.09%) Big Data
2 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.09%) Power BI
2 2 (9.09%) Tableau
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.55%) Metadata
3 1 (4.55%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) GitLab
2 2 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (40.91%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Architect
2 6 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (22.73%) Security Architect
3 5 (22.73%) Security Solutions Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Data Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Automation Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Data Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Data Scientist
6 1 (4.55%) GCP Architect
6 1 (4.55%) GCP Data Architect
6 1 (4.55%) GCP Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Lead
6 1 (4.55%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) Kafka
2 8 (36.36%) Spark Streaming
3 7 (31.82%) Apache Beam
3 7 (31.82%) JDBC
4 2 (9.09%) PySpark
5 1 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (68.18%) DevOps
3 10 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (40.91%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 8 (36.36%) Decision-Making
5 8 (36.36%) Event-Driven
6 7 (31.82%) High Availability
6 7 (31.82%) Machine Learning
7 6 (27.27%) Agile
7 6 (27.27%) Data Modelling
8 5 (22.73%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (22.73%) Data Privacy
8 5 (22.73%) Generative AI
8 5 (22.73%) Penetration Testing
8 5 (22.73%) Threat Modelling
8 5 (22.73%) Validation
8 5 (22.73%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 4 (18.18%) Backlog Refinement
9 4 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) Bash
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.09%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (4.55%) R
5 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) CCNA
1 2 (9.09%) CCNP
1 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) GDPR
2 5 (22.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (13.64%) Data Quality
4 2 (9.09%) HIPAA
4 2 (9.09%) SOC 2
5 1 (4.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Ansible
2 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Fortinet
1 5 (22.73%) Infoblox
1 5 (22.73%) ServiceNow
2 2 (9.09%) Databricks
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk
3 1 (4.55%) Cloudera