Data Ingestion Job Trends in the North West

Data Ingestion
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Data Ingestion skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 198 196
Rank change year-on-year +17 -2 +85
Permanent jobs citing Data Ingestion 1 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.016% 0.12% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.13% 0.080%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £69,250 £51,050
25th Percentile £56,250 £71,875 £51,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £80,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +52.38% -19.23%
75th Percentile £58,750 £89,375 £63,750
90th Percentile - £92,750 £69,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.81% -10.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,146 4,587 3,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 81.60% 90.83% 87.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,510 2,240 2,923
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,114 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,389 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
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 North West

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

Data Ingestion job vacancy trend in the North West

Data Ingestion
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Ingestion.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Ingestion

Data Ingestion
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Ingestion within the North West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Manchester +20 1 £57,500 -17.86% 6
Data Ingestion
England

Data Ingestion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft