Data Ingestion Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Ingestion
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 89 - 134
Rank change year-on-year - - +34
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 8 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.59% - 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% - 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £238 - -
25th Percentile £318 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.15%
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £610 - -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £597
% change year-on-year - -12.01% -0.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Ingestion as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Ingestion in the West Midlands

Data Ingestion
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Ingestion in the West Midlands

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Ingestion in the West Midlands

Data Ingestion
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands 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
Birmingham - 4 - - 1
Worcestershire - 2 £575 - 1
Coventry - 1 £375 -
Data Ingestion
England

Data Ingestion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (37.50%) Confluence
2 2 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
1 3 (37.50%) JMeter
1 3 (37.50%) Postman
1 3 (37.50%) REST Assured
1 3 (37.50%) Selenium
1 3 (37.50%) TestNG
1 3 (37.50%) Travis CI
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Visualisation
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (37.50%) Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) API Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Functional Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Regression Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Security Testing
4 3 (37.50%) SIEM
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CEH
1 3 (37.50%) CISSP
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
1 3 (37.50%) ISTQB
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
1 3 (37.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kibana
2 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (37.50%) logstash
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks