Data Ingestion Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Ingestion
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 281 367 418
Rank change year-on-year +86 +51 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 55 32 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 21 28
10th Percentile £351 £438 £521
25th Percentile £413 £510 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.62% +1.67% -
75th Percentile £625 £630 £625
90th Percentile £715 £643 £650
UK median daily rate £524 £525 £597
% change year-on-year -0.19% -12.01% -0.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £78.70 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% - -
UK median hourly rate £38.85 £67.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year -42.45% -20.59% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Ingestion as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Ingestion in the UK excluding London

Data Ingestion
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Ingestion in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Ingestion in the UK excluding London

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Ingestion in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Ingestion in the UK excluding London

Data Ingestion
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Ingestion in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Ingestion in the UK excluding London

Data Ingestion
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +24 22 £586 -3.89% 45
North West +26 18 £636 +21.05% 18
South East +52 11 £482 -34.64% 82
Midlands +30 10 £417 -10.80% 38
West Midlands - 8 £463 - 18
East of England +31 5 £318 -42.15% 27
Scotland +14 4 £475 +5.56% 10
Yorkshire +4 4 £550 -9.84% 22
South West +47 2 £550 +3.29% 27
East Midlands +10 2 £413 -11.66% 16
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 4
Data Ingestion
UK

Data Ingestion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (21.82%) Apache
2 10 (18.18%) Apache Spark
3 4 (7.27%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (5.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (32.73%) Azure
2 15 (27.27%) AWS
3 12 (21.82%) Amazon S3
3 12 (21.82%) GCP
4 10 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 9 (16.36%) Serverless
6 6 (10.91%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (7.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (7.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (5.45%) Azure Functions
9 3 (5.45%) dbt
9 3 (5.45%) GitHub
9 3 (5.45%) Vertex AI
10 2 (3.64%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (3.64%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (3.64%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 2 (3.64%) SaaS
10 2 (3.64%) Snowflake
11 1 (1.82%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (30.91%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (23.64%) NoSQL
3 10 (18.18%) Power BI
4 9 (16.36%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (14.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (12.73%) Data Lake
6 7 (12.73%) Metadata
6 7 (12.73%) Tableau
7 6 (10.91%) MongoDB
7 6 (10.91%) MySQL
8 5 (9.09%) Big Data
9 4 (7.27%) Flink
9 4 (7.27%) Hadoop
9 4 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (7.27%) SQL Server
10 3 (5.45%) BigQuery
10 3 (5.45%) Delta Lake
10 3 (5.45%) Looker
10 3 (5.45%) Oracle Database
10 3 (5.45%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (14.55%) Jenkins
2 7 (12.73%) GitLab
3 5 (9.09%) Git
3 5 (9.09%) JIRA
4 3 (5.45%) JMeter
4 3 (5.45%) Postman
4 3 (5.45%) REST Assured
4 3 (5.45%) Selenium
4 3 (5.45%) TestNG
4 3 (5.45%) Travis CI
5 2 (3.64%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.82%) ER Studio
6 1 (1.82%) ERwin
6 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (43.64%) Social Skills
2 20 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.27%) Finance
3 4 (7.27%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.64%) Billing
4 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Aviation
5 1 (1.82%) Banking
5 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 23 (41.82%) Data Engineer
2 16 (29.09%) Architect
3 9 (16.36%) Senior
4 7 (12.73%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Data Architect
6 5 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.45%) Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) GCP Data Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Security Architect
7 3 (5.45%) Security Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Data Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Platform Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Principal Data Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) QA Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (27.27%) Kafka
2 9 (16.36%) PySpark
3 6 (10.91%) JDBC
4 5 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
4 5 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (7.27%) Apache Beam
5 4 (7.27%) Spark Streaming
6 3 (5.45%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.45%) NumPy
6 3 (5.45%) Pandas
6 3 (5.45%) React
7 1 (1.82%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.82%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Onboarding
2 6 (10.91%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.91%) Replication
3 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.82%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.82%) Insider Threat
4 1 (1.82%) IoT
4 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.09%) Linux
2 3 (5.45%) Unix
3 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (58.18%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (52.73%) Data Pipeline
3 27 (49.09%) ETL
4 24 (43.64%) CI/CD
5 22 (40.00%) Analytics
6 21 (38.18%) Data Engineering
7 20 (36.36%) Data Modelling
8 19 (34.55%) DevOps
9 17 (30.91%) Agile
9 17 (30.91%) Visualisation
10 14 (25.45%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (25.45%) Data Governance
10 14 (25.45%) Validation
11 13 (23.64%) Decision-Making
12 12 (21.82%) Data Security
12 12 (21.82%) Migration
12 12 (21.82%) Test Automation
13 10 (18.18%) Data Migration
13 10 (18.18%) Data Science
13 10 (18.18%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 32 (58.18%) Python
2 29 (52.73%) SQL
3 8 (14.55%) Bash
4 7 (12.73%) Java
5 4 (7.27%) Scala
6 2 (3.64%) R
7 1 (1.82%) C#
7 1 (1.82%) Perl
7 1 (1.82%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (14.55%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (14.55%) Degree
2 6 (10.91%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) AWS Certification
3 4 (7.27%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (5.45%) CEH
4 3 (5.45%) CISSP
4 3 (5.45%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.64%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.64%) CCNA
5 2 (3.64%) CCNP
5 2 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.82%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (38.18%) Data Quality
2 8 (14.55%) GDPR
3 6 (10.91%) QA
4 3 (5.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (3.64%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (10.91%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) Apache Flume
2 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (16.36%) Kubernetes
2 8 (14.55%) Kibana
3 7 (12.73%) Ansible
4 5 (9.09%) logstash
5 4 (7.27%) Terraform
6 1 (1.82%) Grafana
6 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (18.18%) Databricks
2 6 (10.91%) Oracle
3 5 (9.09%) Fortinet
3 5 (9.09%) Infoblox
3 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.45%) Google
4 3 (5.45%) Informatica
4 3 (5.45%) Talend
5 2 (3.64%) Brio
5 2 (3.64%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.64%) Splunk
6 1 (1.82%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.82%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.82%) StreamSets