Data Ingestion Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Ingestion
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Ingestion skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 527 506
Rank change year-on-year +39 -21 +124
Permanent jobs citing Data Ingestion 27 40 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.064% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% 0.12% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 20 19 28
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,600 £35,249
25th Percentile £55,625 £60,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +30.23% -17.31%
75th Percentile £86,875 £94,389 £68,125
90th Percentile £109,500 £100,920 £74,125
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,444 33,009 27,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.71% 88.20% 90.56%
Number of salaries quoted 19,110 15,194 20,646
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,760 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,435
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Data Ingestion job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Ingestion
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Ingestion.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Ingestion

Data Ingestion
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Ingestion in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Ingestion in the UK excluding London

Data Ingestion
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Ingestion within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 8 £75,000 - 17
South West +9 5 £51,250 -39.88% 8
North of England +9 5 £80,000 +28.00% 17
Yorkshire - 4 £82,500 - 10
East of England +24 3 £80,000 -25.27% 9
Midlands +19 3 £65,000 +4.00% 7
Scotland +5 3 £60,000 -40.00% 8
North West +21 1 £57,500 -28.13% 6
West Midlands +20 1 £125,000 +100.00% 5
Data Ingestion
UK

Data Ingestion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) Azure
2 10 (37.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 8 (29.63%) Power Platform
4 6 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (11.11%) AWS
5 3 (11.11%) Azure App Service
5 3 (11.11%) GCP
5 3 (11.11%) GitHub
5 3 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) H2O.ai
6 2 (7.41%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) Power BI
2 7 (25.93%) Data Lake
3 6 (22.22%) Metadata
4 5 (18.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
6 2 (7.41%) BigQuery
6 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
6 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
6 2 (7.41%) Power Query
6 2 (7.41%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Git
General
1 9 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Telecoms
4 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.41%) Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Electronics
6 1 (3.70%) Marketing
6 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Data Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Consultant
3 3 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Lead
3 3 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Architect
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Data Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Data Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Data Scientist
4 2 (7.41%) Head of Engineering
4 2 (7.41%) Power BI Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Security Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Test Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Compliance Specialist
5 1 (3.70%) Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) PySpark
2 4 (14.81%) Kafka
3 3 (11.11%) Pandas
4 2 (7.41%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (7.41%) Keras
4 2 (7.41%) PyTorch
4 2 (7.41%) TensorFlow
5 1 (3.70%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.41%) Reinsurance
3 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) Data Engineering
2 18 (66.67%) ETL
3 13 (48.15%) Analytics
4 10 (37.04%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (33.33%) AI
5 9 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (33.33%) Data Governance
5 9 (33.33%) Data Modelling
6 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (25.93%) Decision-Making
7 7 (25.93%) Machine Learning
8 6 (22.22%) Data Integration
8 6 (22.22%) Data Management
8 6 (22.22%) Migration
8 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (18.52%) DevOps
9 5 (18.52%) Regulatory Compliance
9 5 (18.52%) Visualisation
10 4 (14.81%) ETL Development
10 4 (14.81%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 19 (70.37%) SQL
2 18 (66.67%) Python
3 2 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (7.41%) Groovy
3 2 (7.41%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.41%) DBS Check
3 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 2 (7.41%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kibana
1 2 (7.41%) logstash
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) Databricks
2 12 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) Dell
3 2 (7.41%) Google
3 2 (7.41%) NVIDIA
4 1 (3.70%) Dataiku
4 1 (3.70%) SAP