Data Ingestion Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Ingestion
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Ingestion skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 318 359
Rank change year-on-year -2 +41 +90
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 79 37 47
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.25% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.29% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 29 30
10th Percentile £400 £360 £434
25th Percentile £467 £406 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £489 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.59% -14.96% +4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £588 £638
90th Percentile £691 £715 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £62.65 - -
25th Percentile £67.01 £27.75 -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £28.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +160.56% -56.15% -
75th Percentile £76.63 £29.25 -
90th Percentile £78.05 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £28.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +160.56% -62.00% -

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 15,719 12,887 17,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.91% 87.25% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,606 7,574 11,088
10th Percentile £220 £238 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,768 743 1,193
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £31.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -30.00% +40.63%
75th Percentile £50.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.03 £71.77 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.97% +25.43%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Data Ingestion job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Ingestion.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Ingestion

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 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Ingestion in the UK excluding London

Data Ingestion
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Ingestion.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Ingestion

Data Ingestion
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Ingestion in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 23 December 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
Midlands -12 35 £520 +6.34% 14
West Midlands -5 31 £544 +11.15% 8
North of England -42 17 £500 -1.23% 33
Scotland +14 11 £600 +62.16% 8
Yorkshire -37 10 £468 -22.00% 15
South East -14 9 £600 +15.66% 42
South West - 8 £550 - 15
North West -29 6 £500 +21.21% 17
East Midlands - 4 £447 - 5
East of England -22 2 - - 15
North East - 1 - - 1
Data Ingestion
UK

Data Ingestion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (10.13%) SAS
2 5 (6.33%) Apache
2 5 (6.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.27%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.27%) CMS
3 1 (1.27%) Confluence
3 1 (1.27%) Documentum
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) FrameMaker
1 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (39.24%) Azure
2 27 (34.18%) AWS
3 23 (29.11%) GCP
4 8 (10.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (7.59%) GitHub
5 6 (7.59%) SaaS
6 5 (6.33%) Power Platform
7 4 (5.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (3.80%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (3.80%) Serverless
9 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.53%) Collibra
9 2 (2.53%) dbt
9 2 (2.53%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.27%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.27%) Lucidchart
10 1 (1.27%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.53%) Firewall
2 1 (1.27%) DSL
2 1 (1.27%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (39.24%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (12.66%) Metadata
3 8 (10.13%) Data Lake
3 8 (10.13%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (7.59%) Big Data
4 6 (7.59%) MySQL
4 6 (7.59%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.06%) Pentaho
5 4 (5.06%) Power BI
6 3 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.80%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 3 (3.80%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (3.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.53%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.53%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.53%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.53%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 12 (15.19%) Jenkins
2 10 (12.66%) Git
3 9 (11.39%) JIRA
4 7 (8.86%) GitLab
4 7 (8.86%) Selenium
5 6 (7.59%) Postman
6 5 (6.33%) Cucumber
6 5 (6.33%) REST Assured
6 5 (6.33%) TestRail
7 2 (2.53%) JUnit
8 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.27%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.27%) Maven
8 1 (1.27%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.27%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.27%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (40.51%) Social Skills
2 17 (21.52%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.13%) Finance
4 6 (7.59%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.53%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.53%) Banking
6 1 (1.27%) Advertising
6 1 (1.27%) Agriculture
6 1 (1.27%) Agrochemical
6 1 (1.27%) Automotive
6 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Electronics
6 1 (1.27%) Legal
6 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.27%) Marketing
6 1 (1.27%) Military
6 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Publishing
6 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (17.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 14 (17.72%) Splunk Engineer
2 13 (16.46%) Data Engineer
3 10 (12.66%) Architect
3 10 (12.66%) Site Engineer
4 7 (8.86%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (8.86%) Lead
4 7 (8.86%) Senior
5 6 (7.59%) Developer
6 5 (6.33%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.06%) Test Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Test Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Cloud Specialist
8 3 (3.80%) Consultant
8 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 2 (2.53%) Automation Test Lead
9 2 (2.53%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (39.24%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (11.39%) Kafka
3 8 (10.13%) REST
4 6 (7.59%) .NET
4 6 (7.59%) LDAP
4 6 (7.59%) OpenID
4 6 (7.59%) SailPoint
5 4 (5.06%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (3.80%) PySpark
6 3 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (3.80%) XML
7 2 (2.53%) JSON
8 1 (1.27%) JWT
8 1 (1.27%) Lucene
8 1 (1.27%) NumPy
8 1 (1.27%) OAuth
8 1 (1.27%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.27%) Pandas
8 1 (1.27%) pytest
8 1 (1.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.99%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.59%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.06%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.06%) Replication
4 3 (3.80%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.80%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.80%) FMCG
5 2 (2.53%) Data Fabric
5 2 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.53%) IoT
5 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.27%) MISP
6 1 (1.27%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.25%) Linux
2 14 (17.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (43.04%) Data Modelling
2 31 (39.24%) DevOps
3 27 (34.18%) Analytics
3 27 (34.18%) ETL
4 26 (32.91%) CI/CD
5 25 (31.65%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (26.58%) Containerisation
7 20 (25.32%) Visualisation
8 17 (21.52%) Agile
8 17 (21.52%) Data Pipeline
8 17 (21.52%) Migration
8 17 (21.52%) Observability
9 16 (20.25%) Data Engineering
10 15 (18.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 14 (17.72%) Data Governance
11 14 (17.72%) Validation
12 13 (16.46%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (15.19%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (15.19%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (15.19%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 39 (49.37%) Python
2 25 (31.65%) SQL
3 16 (20.25%) Bash
4 6 (7.59%) Java
4 6 (7.59%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.33%) PHP
6 4 (5.06%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.06%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (1.27%) C#
7 1 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.27%) Go
7 1 (1.27%) R
7 1 (1.27%) Scala
7 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (24.05%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.99%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.19%) Degree
4 10 (12.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.80%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.27%) CEH
7 1 (1.27%) CISSP
7 1 (1.27%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.27%) PhD
7 1 (1.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.72%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.86%) QA
3 4 (5.06%) GDPR
3 4 (5.06%) HIPAA
3 4 (5.06%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.27%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (31.65%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 31 (39.24%) Kibana
2 24 (30.38%) Kubernetes
3 20 (25.32%) logstash
4 17 (21.52%) Ansible
5 10 (12.66%) Puppet
6 7 (8.86%) Terraform
7 3 (3.80%) Grafana
7 3 (3.80%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.27%) Fluentd
8 1 (1.27%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 20 (25.32%) Splunk
2 12 (15.19%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.13%) Databricks
3 8 (10.13%) Talend
4 7 (8.86%) Oracle
4 7 (8.86%) ServiceNow
5 5 (6.33%) Informatica
5 5 (6.33%) SAP
6 4 (5.06%) Denodo
7 2 (2.53%) Google
7 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.27%) Adobe
8 1 (1.27%) Citrix
8 1 (1.27%) Cribl.io
8 1 (1.27%) Darktrace
8 1 (1.27%) Greenplum
8 1 (1.27%) IBM
8 1 (1.27%) OpenText
8 1 (1.27%) Qualys
8 1 (1.27%) Snow