Data Ingestion Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Data Ingestion
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Data Ingestion skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 123 141
Rank change year-on-year +15 +18 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 8 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.48% 0.089% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.11% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £531 - -
25th Percentile £559 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.63% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £606 £544 £584
90th Percentile £618 - £613
South East median daily rate £469 £444 £500
% change year-on-year +5.69% -11.25% -23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £28.50 -

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 1,526 1,904 2,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.32% 84.92% 90.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 917 1,088 1,704
10th Percentile £293 £266 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £524
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.24% +4.85%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £520
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.87% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 97 84
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £16.30
25th Percentile £15.12 £26.03 £24.88
Median hourly rate £24.00 £58.30 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.83% +16.60% +163.16%
75th Percentile £38.42 £70.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £76.30 £86.63 £74.94
South East median hourly rate £22.75 £57.35 £51.42
% change year-on-year -60.33% +11.53% +85.43%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Ingestion.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Ingestion

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 29 August 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 +12 5 £588 +14.63% 7
Oxfordshire - 3 - -
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 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (25.00%) Serverless
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Data Vault
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) Spark SQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Automotive
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
1 2 (25.00%) PySpark
2 1 (12.50%) JDBC
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (37.50%) ETL
3 3 (37.50%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (37.50%) SIEM
3 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Data Security
4 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (25.00%) Validation
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) Search Processing Language
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) HIPAA
1 3 (37.50%) SOC 2
2 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft