Data Ingestion Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Data Ingestion
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Data Ingestion skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 38 -
Rank change year-on-year -47 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 6 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.85% 1.29% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile - £521 -
25th Percentile £372 £580 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% - -
75th Percentile £482 £738 -
90th Percentile £508 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £420 £675 -
% change year-on-year -37.78% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 676 287 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.89% 92.28% 95.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 162 233
10th Percentile £316 £220 £388
25th Percentile £401 £421 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £623 £675 £724
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £515 £540
% change year-on-year -6.80% -4.63% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile £14.31 £12.79 £19.10
25th Percentile - £14.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.00 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.10% -19.58% +18.42%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £16.19 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.35% -28.04% +52.54%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Ingestion relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Data Ingestion job vacancy trend in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Data Ingestion

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Ingestion in Sheffield over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Ingestion in Sheffield

Data Ingestion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
1 6 (100.00%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) MySQL
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
1 6 (100.00%) Postman
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
2 5 (83.33%) Cucumber
2 5 (83.33%) GitLab
2 5 (83.33%) REST Assured
2 5 (83.33%) TestRail
3 1 (16.67%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
3 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
3 1 (16.67%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Lead
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Automation Test Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Test Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) LDAP
1 6 (100.00%) OpenID
1 6 (100.00%) REST
1 6 (100.00%) SailPoint
2 5 (83.33%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) API Testing
1 6 (100.00%) ETL
1 6 (100.00%) GitOps
1 6 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 6 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) BDD
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Manual Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 5 (83.33%) System Integration Testing
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 5 (83.33%) Test Scripting
2 5 (83.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Process Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) PHP
2 5 (83.33%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) ServiceNow