Data Ingestion Jobs

Data Ingestion
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Data Ingestion skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Ingestion over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 620 772 542
Rank change year-on-year +152 -230 +232
Permanent jobs citing Data Ingestion 94 139 475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.14% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.16% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58 99 169
10th Percentile £50,875 £51,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,563 £58,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +8.47%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £111,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,521 85,132 94,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.87% 85.14% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 25,367 59,760 55,710
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,078 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Ingestion as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Ingestion in the UK

Data Ingestion
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Ingestion.

Salary trend for Data Ingestion in the UK

Data Ingestion
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Ingestion over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Ingestion in the UK

Data Ingestion
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 22 May 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
England +138 79 £65,000 -11.86% 880
UK excluding London +140 43 £65,000 - 809
London +113 37 £85,000 +6.25% 194
Work from Home +105 21 £57,500 -19.58% 414
South East +95 13 £65,000 +28.71% 235
Midlands +52 11 £65,000 - 140
North of England +44 10 £61,250 -14.34% 183
West Midlands +59 6 £60,000 -7.69% 76
North West +4 6 £61,250 -0.81% 76
East Midlands +33 5 £65,000 - 54
South West +96 4 £85,253 +55.00% 91
Scotland +96 4 £100,000 +33.33% 48
Yorkshire +68 2 £60,000 +9.09% 83
North East +31 2 £62,500 -18.83% 24
East of England +37 1 £45,000 -40.00% 110

Data Ingestion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (23.40%) Apache Spark
2 10 (10.64%) Apache
3 7 (7.45%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.06%) SAS
4 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Relativity
2 1 (1.06%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 56 (59.57%) Azure
2 40 (42.55%) AWS
3 36 (38.30%) Power Platform
4 24 (25.53%) GCP
5 22 (23.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (17.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (12.77%) Amazon S3
8 11 (11.70%) Serverless
9 10 (10.64%) Snowflake
10 9 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (4.26%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (4.26%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (4.26%) SaaS
13 3 (3.19%) Amazon EMR
13 3 (3.19%) dbt
13 3 (3.19%) Entra ID
14 2 (2.13%) Collibra
14 2 (2.13%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.13%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (1.06%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (51.06%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (38.30%) Power BI
3 34 (36.17%) Data Lake
4 22 (23.40%) Big Data
5 16 (17.02%) Hadoop
6 14 (14.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (14.89%) NoSQL
7 12 (12.77%) SQL Server
8 10 (10.64%) BigQuery
8 10 (10.64%) Relational Database
9 9 (9.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (9.57%) Metadata
10 6 (6.38%) Parquet
10 6 (6.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (4.26%) Tableau
12 3 (3.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (3.19%) Delta Lake
12 3 (3.19%) EDRMS
12 3 (3.19%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Git
2 5 (5.32%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.13%) ERwin
4 1 (1.06%) GitLab
4 1 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.06%) JIRA
4 1 (1.06%) kappa
4 1 (1.06%) MLflow
4 1 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.06%) SpecFlow
General
1 38 (40.43%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.40%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (18.09%) Law
4 15 (15.96%) Finance
5 6 (6.38%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.32%) Legal
7 4 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.19%) Banking
8 3 (3.19%) Retail
9 2 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.13%) Marketing
10 1 (1.06%) Advertising
10 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (40.43%) Data Engineer
2 22 (23.40%) Senior
3 18 (19.15%) Architect
4 13 (13.83%) Lead
5 8 (8.51%) Azure Architect
5 8 (8.51%) Senior Data Engineer
6 7 (7.45%) Data Architect
6 7 (7.45%) Developer
7 6 (6.38%) Data Analytics Director
7 6 (6.38%) Senior Architect
8 5 (5.32%) Azure Data Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Development Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Power BI Developer
9 4 (4.26%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (4.26%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.26%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (19.15%) Kafka
2 11 (11.70%) PySpark
3 4 (4.26%) .NET
3 4 (4.26%) .NET Framework
3 4 (4.26%) ML.NET
3 4 (4.26%) REST
4 3 (3.19%) Pandas
5 2 (2.13%) ADO
5 2 (2.13%) NestJS
5 2 (2.13%) Node.js
5 2 (2.13%) React
5 2 (2.13%) RESTful
6 1 (1.06%) JSON
6 1 (1.06%) Middleware
6 1 (1.06%) pytest
6 1 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.83%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.57%) Management Information System
3 7 (7.45%) FMCG
3 7 (7.45%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.38%) Data Structures
5 5 (5.32%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (5.32%) IoT
5 5 (5.32%) Replication
6 2 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.13%) Data Fabric
6 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.13%) Reinsurance
6 2 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.06%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (58.51%) ETL
2 44 (46.81%) Data Modelling
3 42 (44.68%) Data Pipeline
4 41 (43.62%) Business Intelligence
5 40 (42.55%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (41.49%) Analytics
6 39 (41.49%) Data Engineering
7 38 (40.43%) Data Governance
8 33 (35.11%) Machine Learning
9 29 (30.85%) DevOps
9 29 (30.85%) Visualisation
10 28 (29.79%) CI/CD
11 26 (27.66%) Decision-Making
12 23 (24.47%) Data Architecture
13 22 (23.40%) Agile
13 22 (23.40%) Data Science
14 20 (21.28%) Artificial Intelligence
14 20 (21.28%) Data Security
15 19 (20.21%) Data Management
16 18 (19.15%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 56 (59.57%) SQL
2 37 (39.36%) Python
3 9 (9.57%) Java
4 7 (7.45%) Scala
5 4 (4.26%) PL/SQL
6 3 (3.19%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.13%) C#
7 2 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.13%) PHP
7 2 (2.13%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.06%) Bash
8 1 (1.06%) Bicep
8 1 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.06%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (17.02%) Degree
2 13 (13.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (11.70%) AWS Certification
3 11 (11.70%) Azure Certification
4 8 (8.51%) Master's Degree
4 8 (8.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (6.38%) Security Cleared
6 4 (4.26%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.19%) SnowPro
8 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.06%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.06%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.06%) MBA
8 1 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.06%) Postgraduate
8 1 (1.06%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (34.04%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.51%) GDPR
3 7 (7.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (4.26%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.06%) NCSC
6 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.38%) Docker
2 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.06%) HDFS
3 1 (1.06%) zsh
Systems Management
1 4 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.13%) Terraform
3 1 (1.06%) Ansible
3 1 (1.06%) Grafana
3 1 (1.06%) Istio
3 1 (1.06%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (32.98%) Microsoft
2 28 (29.79%) Databricks
3 17 (18.09%) Google
4 10 (10.64%) Oracle
5 5 (5.32%) Informatica
6 4 (4.26%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.13%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.13%) SAP
8 1 (1.06%) Charles River
8 1 (1.06%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.06%) HubSpot
8 1 (1.06%) SimCorp
8 1 (1.06%) StreamSets