Data Ingestion Contracts in the South East

Data Ingestion
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 148 200 219
Rank change year-on-year +52 +19 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 11 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.37% 0.090% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.11% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile £457 £634 -
25th Percentile £470 £671 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £738 £550
Median % change year-on-year -34.64% +34.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £744 £575
90th Percentile £713 - -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £597
% change year-on-year - -12.01% -0.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Ingestion in the South East

Data Ingestion
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Ingestion in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Ingestion in the South East

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Ingestion in the South East

Data Ingestion
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +50 8 £540 - 17
Berkshire - 6 £494 - 8
West Sussex - 3 £468 - 4
Buckinghamshire +17 2 £700 - 5
Data Ingestion
England

Data Ingestion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (27.27%) Apache Spark
2 2 (18.18%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 2 (18.18%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Storage
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (36.36%) Data Lake
3 3 (27.27%) Big Data
3 3 (27.27%) Metadata
3 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
4 2 (18.18%) NewSQL
4 2 (18.18%) Power BI
4 2 (18.18%) Spark SQL
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
5 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (9.09%) Apache Hive
5 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
5 1 (9.09%) HBase
5 1 (9.09%) HDInsight
5 1 (9.09%) Impala
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Billing
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Data Architect
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Architect
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Data Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Data Migration Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Migration Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Platform Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Data Migration Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Kafka
1 3 (27.27%) PySpark
2 2 (18.18%) JDBC
3 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Onboarding
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (18.18%) Replication
3 1 (9.09%) IoT
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) ETL
1 8 (72.73%) Migration
2 6 (54.55%) Data Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) Data Migration
3 5 (45.45%) Analytics
4 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (36.36%) Data Security
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
5 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
5 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
5 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
5 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (27.27%) Validation
5 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
6 2 (18.18%) Case Management
6 2 (18.18%) Data Reconciliation
6 2 (18.18%) Performance Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) Scala
4 1 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) Data Quality
2 2 (18.18%) GDPR
2 2 (18.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Flume
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk
3 1 (9.09%) StreamSets