Data Ingestion Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Ingestion
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Ingestion skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 225 223
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 +53
Permanent jobs citing Data Ingestion 3 11 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.039% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.19% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 11
10th Percentile - £55,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £47,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +14.68% +9.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £73,306 £61,875
90th Percentile £115,500 £77,967 £67,500
England median annual salary £76,250 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +12.96% -10.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Data Ingestion falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,306 5,768 4,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.32% 90.45% 86.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,486 2,526 4,080
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,153
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Ingestion relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Data Ingestion job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Data Ingestion
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Ingestion.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Ingestion

Data Ingestion
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Ingestion in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Ingestion in the Midlands

Data Ingestion
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Ingestion within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +13 1 £125,000 +100.00% 9
Data Ingestion
England

Data Ingestion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
1 2 (66.67%) Power Query
1 2 (66.67%) Star Schema
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) ETL Development
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks