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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 612 767 553
Rank change year-on-year +155 -214 +222
Permanent jobs citing Data Ingestion 99 143 467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.14% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.17% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 59 100 167
10th Percentile £51,000 £51,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £59,375 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +10.34%
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% -6.67%

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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £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 28 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 28 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 +137 83 £65,000 -10.34% 173
UK excluding London +147 47 £65,000 - 81
London +113 37 £85,000 +6.25% 132
Work from Home +86 21 £57,500 -19.58% 166
South East +97 17 £65,000 +28.71% 40
Midlands +55 11 £65,000 - 3
North of England +31 10 £61,250 -9.93% 19
West Midlands +55 6 £60,000 -7.69% 1
North West +3 6 £61,250 -9.59% 6
East Midlands +43 5 £65,000 - 1
South West +112 4 £85,253 +55.00% 9
Scotland +94 4 £100,000 +33.33% 6
Yorkshire +63 2 £60,000 +9.09% 12
North East +35 2 £62,500 -18.83% 1
East of England +40 1 £45,000 -40.00% 1

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 25 (25.25%) Apache Spark
2 10 (10.10%) Apache
3 7 (7.07%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.01%) SAS
4 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Relativity
2 1 (1.01%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.01%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 59 (59.60%) Azure
2 44 (44.44%) AWS
3 36 (36.36%) Power Platform
4 27 (27.27%) GCP
5 22 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (16.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (13.13%) Amazon S3
8 12 (12.12%) Serverless
9 10 (10.10%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (10.10%) Snowflake
10 7 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (5.05%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (4.04%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (4.04%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (4.04%) SaaS
13 3 (3.03%) dbt
13 3 (3.03%) Entra ID
14 2 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 2 (2.02%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.02%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (1.01%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (52.53%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (37.37%) Data Lake
3 36 (36.36%) Power BI
4 25 (25.25%) Big Data
5 19 (19.19%) Hadoop
6 18 (18.18%) NoSQL
7 15 (15.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (12.12%) SQL Server
9 10 (10.10%) BigQuery
9 10 (10.10%) Relational Database
10 9 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (9.09%) Metadata
11 6 (6.06%) Parquet
11 6 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (4.04%) Tableau
13 3 (3.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (3.03%) Delta Lake
13 3 (3.03%) EDRMS
13 3 (3.03%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (8.08%) Git
2 5 (5.05%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.02%) ERwin
3 2 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.01%) GitLab
4 1 (1.01%) JIRA
4 1 (1.01%) kappa
4 1 (1.01%) MLflow
4 1 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.01%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.01%) SpecFlow
General
1 43 (43.43%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.23%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (20.20%) Law
4 15 (15.15%) Finance
5 6 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.05%) Legal
7 4 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.03%) Banking
8 3 (3.03%) Retail
9 2 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.02%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.02%) Marketing
9 2 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.01%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 38 (38.38%) Data Engineer
2 22 (22.22%) Senior
3 19 (19.19%) Architect
4 13 (13.13%) Lead
5 9 (9.09%) Data Analytics Director
6 8 (8.08%) Azure Architect
6 8 (8.08%) Senior Data Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) Data Architect
7 7 (7.07%) Developer
8 6 (6.06%) Senior Architect
9 5 (5.05%) Azure Data Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (4.04%) Analyst
10 4 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (4.04%) Design Engineer
10 4 (4.04%) Development Engineer
10 4 (4.04%) Power BI Developer
10 4 (4.04%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
10 4 (4.04%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.22%) Kafka
2 11 (11.11%) PySpark
3 4 (4.04%) .NET
3 4 (4.04%) .NET Framework
3 4 (4.04%) ML.NET
3 4 (4.04%) Pandas
3 4 (4.04%) REST
4 2 (2.02%) ADO
4 2 (2.02%) NestJS
4 2 (2.02%) Node.js
4 2 (2.02%) React
4 2 (2.02%) RESTful
5 1 (1.01%) JSON
5 1 (1.01%) Middleware
5 1 (1.01%) pytest
5 1 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.17%) Cloud Native
2 12 (12.12%) Management Information System
3 8 (8.08%) Product Ownership
4 7 (7.07%) FMCG
5 6 (6.06%) Data Structures
6 5 (5.05%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (5.05%) IoT
6 5 (5.05%) Replication
7 3 (3.03%) Reinsurance
8 2 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.02%) Data Fabric
8 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.02%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.01%) Hedge funds
9 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (59.60%) ETL
2 48 (48.48%) Data Modelling
3 45 (45.45%) Business Intelligence
4 44 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
5 43 (43.43%) Analytics
5 43 (43.43%) Data Engineering
6 42 (42.42%) Data Governance
6 42 (42.42%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (37.37%) Machine Learning
8 33 (33.33%) DevOps
9 32 (32.32%) CI/CD
10 30 (30.30%) Visualisation
11 29 (29.29%) Decision-Making
12 27 (27.27%) Agile
12 27 (27.27%) Data Science
13 26 (26.26%) Data Architecture
14 24 (24.24%) Data Security
15 23 (23.23%) Artificial Intelligence
16 22 (22.22%) Data Analytics
17 21 (21.21%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 61 (61.62%) SQL
2 39 (39.39%) Python
3 10 (10.10%) Java
4 8 (8.08%) Scala
5 4 (4.04%) PL/SQL
6 3 (3.03%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.02%) C#
7 2 (2.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.02%) PHP
7 2 (2.02%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.01%) Bash
8 1 (1.01%) Bicep
8 1 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.01%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.01%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (20.20%) Degree
2 17 (17.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (15.15%) AWS Certification
4 14 (14.14%) Azure Certification
5 11 (11.11%) Master's Degree
6 8 (8.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (6.06%) Security Cleared
8 4 (4.04%) SC Cleared
9 3 (3.03%) SnowPro
10 2 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (1.01%) DBS Check
11 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
11 1 (1.01%) MBA
11 1 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (1.01%) Postgraduate
11 1 (1.01%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (34.34%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.11%) GDPR
3 10 (10.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (4.04%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.01%) NCSC
6 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 7 (7.07%) Docker
2 2 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.01%) HDFS
3 1 (1.01%) zsh
Systems Management
1 5 (5.05%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.02%) Terraform
3 1 (1.01%) Ansible
3 1 (1.01%) Grafana
3 1 (1.01%) Istio
3 1 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (31.31%) Microsoft
2 28 (28.28%) Databricks
3 20 (20.20%) Google
4 10 (10.10%) Oracle
5 5 (5.05%) Informatica
6 4 (4.04%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.02%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.02%) SAP
8 1 (1.01%) Charles River
8 1 (1.01%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.01%) HubSpot
8 1 (1.01%) SimCorp
8 1 (1.01%) StreamSets