Data Ingestion Contract Job Trends in West Lothian

Data Ingestion
Scotland > West Lothian

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Lothian requiring Data Ingestion skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Lothian 2.70% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median daily rate £401 £585 -
% change year-on-year -31.45% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Lothian

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 West Lothian.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 35 16 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Lothian 94.59% 66.67% 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 13
10th Percentile £306 £54 £75
25th Percentile £353 £123 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £175 £188
Median % change year-on-year +125.71% -6.67% -54.55%
75th Percentile £464 £350 £538
90th Percentile £484 £431 £578
Scotland median daily rate £470 £470 £450
% change year-on-year - +4.44% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £26.38 £16.29 £13.15
25th Percentile £32.19 £16.34 £14.13
Median hourly rate £43.75 £17.63 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +148.23% +6.82% -80.59%
75th Percentile £54.69 £18.84 £24.00
90th Percentile £60.13 £18.86 £28.05
Scotland median hourly rate £16.86 £19.97 £19.59
% change year-on-year -15.57% +1.94% +3.49%

Data Ingestion
Contract Job Locations in West Lothian

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 West Lothian region over the 6 months to 2 October 2026. 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
Livingston - 1 - - 1
Data Ingestion
Scotland

Data Ingestion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Lothian 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google