Data Ingestion Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Data Ingestion
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 80 37 -
Rank change year-on-year -43 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 16 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.87% 0.72% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 0.77% -
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 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £619 £588
% change year-on-year -19.19% +5.32% +4.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 814 260 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.98% 93.86% 93.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 155 245
10th Percentile £335 £209 £368
25th Percentile £408 £359 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £549 £596 £600
90th Percentile £675 £652 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.58% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 14
10th Percentile £16.11 £12.10 £10.90
25th Percentile £19.50 £12.62 £12.64
Median hourly rate £25.15 £14.85 £17.87
Median % change year-on-year +69.42% -16.90% +68.06%
75th Percentile - £16.68 £23.75
90th Percentile - £16.97 £44.38
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £20.57 £17.28
% change year-on-year +22.28% +19.04% +62.54%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Data Ingestion job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Data Ingestion

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Ingestion in South Yorkshire

Data Ingestion
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 January 2026. 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
Sheffield -36 16 £484 -21.78% 5
Data Ingestion
Yorkshire

Data Ingestion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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