Data Ingestion Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Ingestion
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 94 144 149
Rank change year-on-year +50 +5 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 8 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.53% 0.037% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.043% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £481 - -
25th Percentile £487 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.33%
75th Percentile £678 - £575
90th Percentile £713 - -
South East median daily rate £482 £738 £550
% change year-on-year -34.64% +34.09% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Ingestion in the Thames Valley

Data Ingestion
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Ingestion in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Ingestion in the Thames Valley

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Ingestion in the Thames Valley

Data Ingestion
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire - 6 £494 - 8
Buckinghamshire +17 2 £700 - 5
Data Ingestion
South East

Data Ingestion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (37.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (25.00%) Spark SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Hive
3 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data
3 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 1 (12.50%) HBase
3 1 (12.50%) HDInsight
3 1 (12.50%) Impala
3 1 (12.50%) Metadata
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Data Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Data Migration Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Migration Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
1 3 (37.50%) PySpark
2 2 (25.00%) JDBC
3 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Data Migration
1 5 (62.50%) ETL
1 5 (62.50%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Case Management
4 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Data Security
4 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) High Availability
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) RBAC
4 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Flume
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) StreamSets