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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 188 203
Rank change year-on-year +34 +15 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 10 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.29% 0.058% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.070% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 5
10th Percentile £402 - -
25th Percentile £413 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +24.80% -16.67% -31.89%
75th Percentile £508 £388 £575
90th Percentile £580 - £613
England median daily rate £525 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.50 -
England median hourly rate £78.70 £48.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +63.96% -43.53% -

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 3,116 4,301 5,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.14% 82.82% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,952 2,575 3,497
10th Percentile £250 £263 £262
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% +0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 366 241
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.47 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £20.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate £22.07 £55.04 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.90% +10.08% +105.00%
75th Percentile £51.10 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.13 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +63.46%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +20 4 £575 - 3
Berkshire +18 4 £575 - 3
Hampshire +26 3 £402 +7.20% 1
West Sussex - 3 £468 - 1
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 (30.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Serverless
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon EMR
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (60.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (30.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (20.00%) Big Data
4 2 (20.00%) Metadata
4 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (20.00%) NewSQL
4 2 (20.00%) Spark SQL
5 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (10.00%) Data Vault
5 1 (10.00%) MySQL
5 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (10.00%) Power BI
5 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Billing
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Data Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Platform Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Senior
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Business Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Kafka
2 2 (20.00%) JDBC
2 2 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (30.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) ETL
2 8 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) Data Security
3 7 (70.00%) Data Integration
3 7 (70.00%) Validation
4 6 (60.00%) Analytics
4 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
6 4 (40.00%) Agile
6 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
6 4 (40.00%) Data Validation
6 4 (40.00%) DevOps
6 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (30.00%) Data Analytics
7 3 (30.00%) Data Lineage
7 3 (30.00%) Data Science
7 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 7 (70.00%) Python
3 5 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (50.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (20.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk