Data Ingestion Contracts

Data Ingestion
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 352 430 572
Rank change year-on-year +78 +142 -25
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 174 153 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.35% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.41% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 111 109
10th Percentile £374 £406 £466
25th Percentile £440 £425 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £597
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -12.01% -0.56%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £701 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £503 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -17.62% +1.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - £78.75
25th Percentile £36.69 £66.25 £80.63
Median hourly rate £38.85 £67.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.45% -20.59% -
75th Percentile £41.00 £68.75 £88.13
90th Percentile £63.62 - £89.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.70 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year +16.59% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Ingestion as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Ingestion in the UK

Data Ingestion
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Ingestion in the UK

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Ingestion in the UK

Data Ingestion
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Ingestion.

Hourly rate trend for Data Ingestion in the UK

Data Ingestion
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Ingestion over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Ingestion in the UK

Data Ingestion
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 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
England +61 149 £525 - 162
London +14 90 £530 +6.00% 107
Work from Home +47 56 £495 -6.60% 79
UK excluding London +86 55 £503 -17.62% 84
North of England +24 22 £586 -3.89% 15
North West +26 18 £636 +21.05% 4
South East +52 11 £482 -34.64% 44
Midlands +30 10 £417 -10.80% 7
West Midlands - 8 £463 - 2
East of England +31 5 £318 -42.15% 3
Scotland +14 4 £475 +5.56% 4
Yorkshire +4 4 £550 -9.84% 10
South West +47 2 £550 +3.29% 9
East Midlands +10 2 £413 -11.66% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 2

Data Ingestion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 27 (15.52%) Apache Spark
2 23 (13.22%) Apache
3 10 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.45%) Jupyter
5 4 (2.30%) Confluence
6 1 (0.57%) Drupal
6 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.57%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 73 (41.95%) Azure
2 48 (27.59%) AWS
3 42 (24.14%) Power Platform
4 23 (13.22%) GCP
5 21 (12.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 20 (11.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (10.34%) Serverless
8 17 (9.77%) Amazon S3
9 15 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (6.90%) Snowflake
11 8 (4.60%) dbt
11 8 (4.60%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (3.45%) GitHub
14 5 (2.87%) Cloud Computing
15 4 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (2.30%) Amazon MSK
15 4 (2.30%) AWS Step Functions
16 3 (1.72%) Collibra
16 3 (1.72%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.60%) SSH
2 6 (3.45%) Firewall
3 2 (1.15%) Network Security
3 2 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.15%) SNMP
3 2 (1.15%) Telnet
3 2 (1.15%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.57%) DSLAM
4 1 (0.57%) HTTP
4 1 (0.57%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (27.01%) Data Warehouse
2 42 (24.14%) Power BI
3 35 (20.11%) Data Lake
4 28 (16.09%) NoSQL
5 19 (10.92%) Delta Lake
6 17 (9.77%) Metadata
7 15 (8.62%) SQL Server
7 15 (8.62%) Tableau
8 14 (8.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (8.05%) Big Data
9 13 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (6.32%) Apache Hive
11 11 (6.32%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (5.17%) BigQuery
12 9 (5.17%) MySQL
13 8 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (4.60%) Geospatial Data
13 8 (4.60%) Relational Database
14 6 (3.45%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (8.62%) Git
2 14 (8.05%) JIRA
3 12 (6.90%) GitLab
4 9 (5.17%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.45%) RStudio
6 5 (2.87%) ER Studio
6 5 (2.87%) ERwin
7 4 (2.30%) Postman
7 4 (2.30%) Selenium
8 3 (1.72%) JMeter
8 3 (1.72%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.72%) TestNG
8 3 (1.72%) Travis CI
9 2 (1.15%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
General
1 45 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.99%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.22%) Finance
4 15 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.02%) Banking
5 7 (4.02%) Publishing
6 5 (2.87%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.15%) Billing
9 2 (1.15%) Front Office
9 2 (1.15%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.15%) Marketing
9 2 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.57%) Electronics
10 1 (0.57%) French Language
10 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 75 (43.10%) Data Engineer
2 28 (16.09%) Architect
3 27 (15.52%) Senior
4 19 (10.92%) Developer
5 13 (7.47%) Lead
5 13 (7.47%) Senior Data Engineer
6 12 (6.90%) Azure Data Engineer
6 12 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (6.90%) Data Architect
7 8 (4.60%) Analyst
7 8 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (2.87%) GCP Data Engineer
8 5 (2.87%) GCP Engineer
8 5 (2.87%) Python Developer
8 5 (2.87%) Python Engineer
8 5 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (2.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (2.30%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (2.30%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (19.54%) PySpark
2 27 (15.52%) Kafka
3 17 (9.77%) JSON
4 8 (4.60%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (4.60%) pydantic
4 8 (4.60%) YAML
5 6 (3.45%) Apache NiFi
5 6 (3.45%) JDBC
5 6 (3.45%) Node.js
5 6 (3.45%) React
6 5 (2.87%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.87%) FastAPI
6 5 (2.87%) REST
6 5 (2.87%) Vue
7 4 (2.30%) .NET
7 4 (2.30%) Apache Avro
7 4 (2.30%) Apache Beam
7 4 (2.30%) Pandas
7 4 (2.30%) Spark Streaming
8 3 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.32%) Onboarding
2 9 (5.17%) Data Structures
2 9 (5.17%) Replication
3 8 (4.60%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (4.02%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.02%) Reference Data
5 5 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.30%) Data Fabric
6 4 (2.30%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.72%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.15%) Derivative
8 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.15%) Equities
8 2 (1.15%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.57%) Animation
9 1 (0.57%) FMCG
9 1 (0.57%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.47%) Linux
2 5 (2.87%) Unix
3 1 (0.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (45.40%) ETL
2 69 (39.66%) Data Pipeline
3 57 (32.76%) Data Modelling
3 57 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (28.16%) Agile
5 45 (25.86%) CI/CD
6 43 (24.71%) Data Engineering
7 38 (21.84%) Analytics
8 37 (21.26%) DevOps
9 34 (19.54%) Business Intelligence
10 29 (16.67%) Data Governance
11 27 (15.52%) Visualisation
12 26 (14.94%) Data Security
12 26 (14.94%) Decision-Making
12 26 (14.94%) Validation
13 25 (14.37%) Data Science
14 24 (13.79%) Test Automation
15 23 (13.22%) Data Transformation
16 22 (12.64%) Migration
17 21 (12.07%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 101 (58.05%) Python
2 92 (52.87%) SQL
3 19 (10.92%) Scala
4 18 (10.34%) Bash
5 11 (6.32%) Java
6 9 (5.17%) C#
6 9 (5.17%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.72%) Perl
8 2 (1.15%) Lua
8 2 (1.15%) PHP
8 2 (1.15%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.15%) R
8 2 (1.15%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.57%) Bicep
9 1 (0.57%) C++
9 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.57%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.90%) Degree
4 11 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.30%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.30%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.72%) CCNA
6 3 (1.72%) CCNP
6 3 (1.72%) CEH
6 3 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.72%) CISSP
6 3 (1.72%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.15%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.57%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (25.29%) Data Quality
2 17 (9.77%) GDPR
3 9 (5.17%) QA
4 6 (3.45%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.15%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.15%) SLA
7 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 20 (11.49%) Docker
2 2 (1.15%) FreeRADIUS
2 2 (1.15%) iptables
2 2 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (12.64%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.62%) Terraform
3 11 (6.32%) Ansible
4 9 (5.17%) Kibana
5 7 (4.02%) logstash
6 3 (1.72%) Grafana
7 2 (1.15%) Cacti
7 2 (1.15%) Nagios
7 2 (1.15%) Netcool
7 2 (1.15%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.15%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.15%) Puppet
7 2 (1.15%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.57%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.57%) Graylog
8 1 (0.57%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.57%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 43 (24.71%) Databricks
2 14 (8.05%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.32%) Informatica
3 11 (6.32%) Oracle
4 8 (4.60%) Google
5 7 (4.02%) Splunk
6 6 (3.45%) Fortinet
6 6 (3.45%) Infoblox
6 6 (3.45%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.87%) Talend
8 4 (2.30%) Vertica
9 3 (1.72%) SAP
10 2 (1.15%) Brio
10 2 (1.15%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.15%) Murex
10 2 (1.15%) Nokia
10 2 (1.15%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.15%) VMware
11 1 (0.57%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.57%) Palantir