Data Ingestion Contracts in the North West

Data Ingestion
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 102 128 149
Rank change year-on-year +26 +21 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 18 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.91% 0.33% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.38% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 4
10th Percentile £399 £419 £488
25th Percentile £448 £472 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £636 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -12.50% -11.24%
75th Percentile £718 £597 £631
90th Percentile £725 £616 £643
England median daily rate £525 £525 £597
% change year-on-year - -12.01% -0.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
England median hourly rate £78.70 £67.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +16.59% -20.59% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Ingestion in the North West

Data Ingestion
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Ingestion in the North West

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Ingestion in the North West

Data Ingestion
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire +7 10 £671 +37.57% 1
Manchester +19 8 £413 -23.26% 2
Data Ingestion
England

Data Ingestion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (16.67%) Apache
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Functions
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) MySQL
2 4 (22.22%) Tableau
3 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (16.67%) Delta Lake
3 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (16.67%) Power BI
4 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
4 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (5.56%) Apache Hive
5 1 (5.56%) Big Data
5 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.56%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
3 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Security Solutions Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Automation Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Principal Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) QA Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.56%) Splunk Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) PySpark
2 1 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Insider Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 8 (44.44%) DevOps
3 8 (44.44%) Validation
4 7 (38.89%) Agile
4 7 (38.89%) Data Modelling
4 7 (38.89%) ETL
4 7 (38.89%) Test Automation
5 6 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (33.33%) Data Transformation
6 5 (27.78%) Analytics
6 5 (27.78%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (27.78%) Machine Learning
7 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
7 4 (22.22%) Data Science
7 4 (22.22%) Scrum
7 4 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (22.22%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Python
2 10 (55.56%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) Bash
4 2 (11.11%) R
5 1 (5.56%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) CCNA
1 2 (11.11%) CCNP
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) Data Quality
2 3 (16.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 3 (16.67%) GDPR
2 3 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Databricks
2 5 (27.78%) Fortinet
2 5 (27.78%) Infoblox
2 5 (27.78%) ServiceNow
3 3 (16.67%) Informatica
3 3 (16.67%) Oracle
3 3 (16.67%) Talend
4 2 (11.11%) Brio
5 1 (5.56%) Cloudera
5 1 (5.56%) Splunk