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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 36 -
Rank change year-on-year -36 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 16 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.99% 0.81% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 0.85% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 0
10th Percentile £378 £504 -
25th Percentile £446 £539 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £619 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.78% - -
75th Percentile £562 £689 -
90th Percentile £676 £718 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £484 £619 -
% change year-on-year -21.78% - -

All Process & 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 765 234 353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.15% 94.74% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 136 220
10th Percentile £342 £220 £375
25th Percentile £412 £412 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.44% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £542 £600 £611
90th Percentile £653 £658 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -4.51% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 9
10th Percentile £16.11 £12.10 -
25th Percentile £19.50 £12.62 £10.90
Median hourly rate £25.15 £14.85 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.42% -34.02% +18.42%
75th Percentile - £16.68 £23.75
90th Percentile - £16.97 £25.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £14.85 £17.87
% change year-on-year +69.42% -16.90% +68.06%

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

Data Ingestion
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

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Ingestion in Sheffield over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

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 15 (93.75%) GCP
2 14 (87.50%) Azure
3 12 (75.00%) AWS
4 6 (37.50%) Entra ID
4 6 (37.50%) SaaS
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Run
5 2 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (6.25%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) MySQL
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 4 (25.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 13 (81.25%) Jenkins
2 12 (75.00%) JIRA
2 12 (75.00%) Postman
3 11 (68.75%) GitLab
4 8 (50.00%) Selenium
5 7 (43.75%) Cucumber
5 7 (43.75%) REST Assured
6 5 (31.25%) TestRail
7 4 (25.00%) Gatling
7 4 (25.00%) JMeter
7 4 (25.00%) LoadRunner
7 4 (25.00%) NeoLoad
8 1 (6.25%) JUnit
8 1 (6.25%) Maven
8 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
8 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
8 1 (6.25%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Lead
1 7 (43.75%) Test Automation Engineer
1 7 (43.75%) Test Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Automation Test Lead
2 5 (31.25%) Test Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Test Automation Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Lead Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Test Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Test Leader
5 1 (6.25%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (87.50%) OpenID
2 12 (75.00%) LDAP
2 12 (75.00%) REST
2 12 (75.00%) SailPoint
3 6 (37.50%) Playwright
4 5 (31.25%) .NET
5 2 (12.50%) JWT
5 2 (12.50%) Middleware
5 2 (12.50%) Node.js
5 2 (12.50%) OAuth
5 2 (12.50%) OAuth2
5 2 (12.50%) RESTful
5 2 (12.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 15 (93.75%) CI/CD
3 14 (87.50%) DevOps
3 14 (87.50%) Identity Access Management
4 12 (75.00%) API Testing
5 11 (68.75%) Test Strategy
6 10 (62.50%) ETL
6 10 (62.50%) Event-Driven
6 10 (62.50%) GitOps
6 10 (62.50%) Scenario Testing
6 10 (62.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 10 (62.50%) Test Scripting
7 9 (56.25%) Agile
8 8 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
8 8 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
8 8 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (50.00%) Validation
9 7 (43.75%) Cloud Security
10 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
10 6 (37.50%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (81.25%) Python
3 7 (43.75%) SQL
4 6 (37.50%) Scala
4 6 (37.50%) TypeScript
5 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
5 5 (31.25%) PHP
6 4 (25.00%) Cypher
7 2 (12.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) HIPAA
2 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (12.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) ServiceNow
2 7 (43.75%) Google
3 2 (12.50%) Okta
3 2 (12.50%) Ping Identity