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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 107 121
Rank change year-on-year +3 +14 +44
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Data Ingestion 14 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.81% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.19% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile £380 £453 -
25th Percentile £434 £458 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £481 £675
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -28.70% +28.08%
75th Percentile £600 £520 £688
90th Percentile £625 £534 -
England median daily rate £530 £500 £613
% change year-on-year +6.00% -18.37% +6.52%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,525 1,549 1,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.41% 81.23% 85.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 973 1,033 1,243
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £388 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -
75th Percentile £584 £625 £606
90th Percentile £650 £735 £730
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 55 46
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.07 £14.93
25th Percentile £14.70 £14.85 £21.26
Median hourly rate £24.34 £21.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.90% -23.64% +63.45%
75th Percentile £34.98 £36.25 £42.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £54.00 £69.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +54.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Ingestion.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Ingestion

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 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Ingestion in the West Midlands

Data Ingestion
DemandTrendContract 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 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +13 5 - - 4
Shropshire - 3 £375 -
Worcestershire - 2 £575 -
Herefordshire - 2 £485 -
Coventry - 1 - -
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 2 (14.29%) Apache
1 2 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.14%) HDInsight
3 1 (7.14%) Pentaho
3 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) JMeter
2 2 (14.29%) Postman
2 2 (14.29%) REST Assured
2 2 (14.29%) Selenium
2 2 (14.29%) TestNG
2 2 (14.29%) Travis CI
General
1 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Data Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) SIEM Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Search Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Architect
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (7.14%) Lucene
3 1 (7.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Replication
1 2 (14.29%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.14%) IoT
2 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) MISP
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) SIEM
1 6 (42.86%) Visualisation
2 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
2 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Analytics
3 4 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (28.57%) ETL
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Anomaly Detection
4 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) API Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 2 (14.29%) Patch Management
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (14.29%) Server Management
5 2 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Bash
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) DV Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) CEH
3 3 (21.43%) CISSP
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (14.29%) Degree
4 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 2 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (14.29%) SLA
3 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Kibana
2 5 (35.71%) logstash
3 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
4 1 (7.14%) Fluentd
4 1 (7.14%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Databricks
1 2 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (7.14%) Cribl.io
2 1 (7.14%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (7.14%) Darktrace
2 1 (7.14%) Denodo
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Qualys
2 1 (7.14%) Talend