Data Ingestion Job Trends in the South West

Data Ingestion
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Data Ingestion skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 177 209
Rank change year-on-year +5 +32 +60
Permanent jobs citing Data Ingestion 5 12 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.098% 0.29% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.34% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 7
10th Percentile - £49,745 £35,249
25th Percentile £42,500 £59,864 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £85,253 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.88% +62.39% -41.67%
75th Percentile £72,813 £93,778 £69,375
90th Percentile £93,625 - £72,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,639 3,549 4,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.62% 85.58% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 1,776 3,216
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,454 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,627
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 West

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

Data Ingestion job vacancy trend in the South West

Data Ingestion
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Data Ingestion
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Ingestion in the South West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Ingestion in the South West

Data Ingestion
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Bristol +2 3 £45,000 -47.22% 1
Gloucestershire - 2 £78,750 - 6
Data Ingestion
England

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Electronics
3 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Data Scientist
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Pandas
1 3 (60.00%) PySpark
2 2 (40.00%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (40.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Reinsurance
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) AI
4 2 (40.00%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (40.00%) Data Science
4 2 (40.00%) LLM
4 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Data Management
5 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) Data Security
5 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Groovy
3 2 (40.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) SAP