Data Ingestion Job Trends in the South East

Data Ingestion
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Data Ingestion skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 - 282
Rank change year-on-year - - +104
Permanent jobs citing Data Ingestion 8 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.078% - 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.097% - 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £53,500 - £46,800
25th Percentile £70,000 - £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £50,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 - £57,188
90th Percentile £113,000 - £65,625
England median annual salary £76,250 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +12.96% -10.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,281 7,962 7,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.27% 88.01% 88.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,926 3,813 5,426
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
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 South East

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

Data Ingestion job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Ingestion
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Ingestion.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Ingestion

Data Ingestion
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Ingestion in the South East over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Ingestion in the South East

Data Ingestion
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Ingestion within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 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
Thames Valley - 3 £75,000 - 16
Buckinghamshire - 2 - - 2
Kent - 2 £102,500 - 1
Middlesex - 1 - -
West Sussex - 1 £75,000 - 1
East Sussex - 1 £45,000 - 1
Berkshire - 1 £75,000 - 13
Data Ingestion
England

Data Ingestion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) H2O.ai
4 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) Metadata
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) Keras
1 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
1 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) ETL
2 6 (75.00%) Data Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
4 4 (50.00%) Analytics
4 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (37.50%) Clean Code
5 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
5 3 (37.50%) Data Integration
5 3 (37.50%) Kimball Methodology
6 2 (25.00%) AI
6 2 (25.00%) Data Management
6 2 (25.00%) ETL Development
6 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
6 2 (25.00%) Revenue Assurance
6 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Databricks
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Google
4 1 (12.50%) Dell
4 1 (12.50%) NVIDIA