Data Ingestion Job Trends

Data Ingestion
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Data Ingestion skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 618 588
Rank change year-on-year +73 -30 +20
Permanent jobs citing Data Ingestion 102 96 125
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.19% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 44 54 113
10th Percentile £42,500 £57,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,938 £61,563 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £103,750 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £115,000 £133,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year +7.14% +30.23% -17.31%

All Process & 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 48,662 49,693 47,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.06% 89.92% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 28,549 24,753 35,968
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,565 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.83%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Data Ingestion job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Ingestion
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Ingestion

Data Ingestion
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Ingestion over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Ingestion in the UK

Data Ingestion
Top 13 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 30 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
England +72 93 £80,000 +18.52% 437
London +72 67 £95,000 +35.71% 136
UK excluding London +42 26 £75,000 +7.14% 346
Work from Home +82 24 £75,000 +15.38% 224
South East - 8 £75,000 - 104
North of England +17 5 £80,000 +28.00% 75
South West +9 5 £51,250 -39.88% 38
Yorkshire - 4 £82,500 - 37
East of England +22 3 £80,000 -25.27% 46
Scotland +13 3 £60,000 -40.00% 31
Midlands +17 2 £95,000 +52.00% 48
North West +21 1 £57,500 -28.13% 34
West Midlands +14 1 £125,000 +100.00% 25

Data Ingestion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 17 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 10 (9.80%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (5.88%) Apache
4 1 (0.98%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.98%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Endur
1 1 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (53.92%) Azure
2 41 (40.20%) AWS
3 30 (29.41%) GCP
4 17 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 14 (13.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (12.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (12.75%) H2O.ai
6 13 (12.75%) OpenShift
7 11 (10.78%) Amazon EMR
7 11 (10.78%) Serverless
8 10 (9.80%) SaaS
9 8 (7.84%) Snowflake
10 7 (6.86%) dbt
11 5 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (4.90%) GitHub
11 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.94%) Azure App Service
13 3 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (1.96%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (26.47%) NoSQL
2 26 (25.49%) Data Lake
3 24 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (18.63%) SQL Server
5 18 (17.65%) Metadata
6 17 (16.67%) Power BI
7 16 (15.69%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (14.71%) Big Data
9 14 (13.73%) MongoDB
10 12 (11.76%) DynamoDB
10 12 (11.76%) MySQL
10 12 (11.76%) Relational Database
11 11 (10.78%) Apache Cassandra
11 11 (10.78%) DataStage
11 11 (10.78%) Hadoop
11 11 (10.78%) Neo4j
11 11 (10.78%) Pentaho
11 11 (10.78%) RDBMS
12 7 (6.86%) BigQuery
13 5 (4.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (8.82%) Git
2 1 (0.98%) MLflow
General
1 46 (45.10%) Finance
2 28 (27.45%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (26.47%) Social Skills
4 16 (15.69%) Law
5 15 (14.71%) Manufacturing
6 8 (7.84%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.90%) Banking
8 4 (3.92%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.94%) International Banking
10 2 (1.96%) Electronics
10 2 (1.96%) Marketing
10 2 (1.96%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.98%) Advertising
11 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.98%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (20.59%) Architect
1 21 (20.59%) Data Engineer
2 14 (13.73%) Lead
3 13 (12.75%) Principal Engineer
4 11 (10.78%) Data Architect
5 8 (7.84%) Lead Architect
5 8 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.86%) Consultant
6 7 (6.86%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.92%) Data Scientist
7 4 (3.92%) Developer
7 4 (3.92%) Product Owner
8 3 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) Lead Data Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) Security Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) Senior
9 2 (1.96%) Data Consultant
9 2 (1.96%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 17 (16.67%) TensorFlow
2 13 (12.75%) Keras
3 10 (9.80%) PySpark
4 9 (8.82%) Kafka
5 8 (7.84%) React
5 8 (7.84%) REST
6 7 (6.86%) AngularJS
6 7 (6.86%) Pandas
6 7 (6.86%) Vue
7 4 (3.92%) Hugging Face
8 3 (2.94%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (2.94%) NumPy
9 2 (1.96%) .NET
9 2 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.98%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.98%) gRPC
10 1 (0.98%) LINQ
10 1 (0.98%) PostGIS
10 1 (0.98%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 32 (31.37%) Management Information System
2 22 (21.57%) Product Ownership
3 15 (14.71%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (12.75%) Data Centre
5 11 (10.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (8.82%) Data Structures
6 9 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (6.86%) Low-Code
8 5 (4.90%) Cloud Native
8 5 (4.90%) Reinsurance
9 4 (3.92%) Credit Risk
9 4 (3.92%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (3.92%) Market Risk
10 3 (2.94%) Algorithms
10 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.98%) Blockchain
12 1 (0.98%) Hedge funds
12 1 (0.98%) NHS
12 1 (0.98%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.92%) Unix
2 1 (0.98%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (58.82%) Data Engineering
2 55 (53.92%) Analytics
2 55 (53.92%) Data Pipeline
3 50 (49.02%) ETL
4 47 (46.08%) Data Governance
5 42 (41.18%) AI
6 39 (38.24%) Data Modelling
6 39 (38.24%) Machine Learning
7 36 (35.29%) CI/CD
8 35 (34.31%) Data Integration
9 34 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 33 (32.35%) Agile
11 32 (31.37%) Business Intelligence
12 31 (30.39%) Data Management
13 30 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (29.41%) Roadmaps
14 25 (24.51%) Computer Science
15 24 (23.53%) Decision-Making
15 24 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
16 23 (22.55%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 57 (55.88%) Python
1 57 (55.88%) SQL
2 16 (15.69%) Java
3 8 (7.84%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.94%) C#
4 3 (2.94%) Groovy
4 3 (2.94%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.96%) Scala
5 2 (1.96%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.96%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.98%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (0.98%) Bash
6 1 (0.98%) C++
6 1 (0.98%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (24.51%) Degree
2 14 (13.73%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (13.73%) Master's Degree
3 12 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 8 (7.84%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (4.90%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.92%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.96%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.96%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.98%) CISSP
9 1 (0.98%) PhD
9 1 (0.98%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (31.37%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.86%) SLA
3 6 (5.88%) GDPR
4 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.98%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.98%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (0.98%) zsh
Systems Management
1 8 (7.84%) Terraform
2 7 (6.86%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.90%) Kubeflow
4 2 (1.96%) Kibana
4 2 (1.96%) logstash
5 1 (0.98%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 36 (35.29%) Databricks
2 15 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 13 (12.75%) Dell
3 13 (12.75%) NVIDIA
4 11 (10.78%) Informatica
4 11 (10.78%) Oracle
4 11 (10.78%) Talend
5 9 (8.82%) Google
6 3 (2.94%) SAP
7 1 (0.98%) Ariba
7 1 (0.98%) Concur
7 1 (0.98%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.98%) IBM
7 1 (0.98%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.98%) Palantir
7 1 (0.98%) Splunk