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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 605 762 561
Rank change year-on-year +157 -201 +226
Permanent jobs citing Data Ingestion 97 145 448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.14% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.17% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 58 101 165
10th Percentile £50,875 £51,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -3.85% +5.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £111,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £140,000
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 52,256 87,133 91,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.58% 84.04% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 25,854 60,896 54,581
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -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 31 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 31 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 +145 81 £65,000 -10.34% 146
UK excluding London +133 45 £65,000 - 48
London +97 37 £85,000 +6.25% 104
Work from Home +82 20 £57,500 -19.58% 82
South East +85 17 £65,000 +28.71% 12
Midlands +59 10 £65,000 - 5
North of England +28 10 £61,250 -9.93% 16
North West +4 6 £61,250 -9.59% 5
East Midlands +47 5 £65,000 - 2
West Midlands +46 5 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Scotland +92 4 £100,000 +33.33% 3
South West +104 3 £99,250 +80.45% 8
Yorkshire +57 2 £60,000 +9.09% 10
North East +37 2 £62,500 -18.83% 1
East of England +47 1 £45,000 -40.00% 2

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 (25.77%) Apache Spark
2 10 (10.31%) Apache
3 7 (7.22%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.03%) SAS
4 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Relativity
2 1 (1.03%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 60 (61.86%) Azure
2 44 (45.36%) AWS
3 36 (37.11%) Power Platform
4 28 (28.87%) GCP
5 22 (22.68%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (16.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (12.37%) Amazon S3
8 10 (10.31%) Serverless
8 10 (10.31%) Snowflake
9 8 (8.25%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (4.12%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (3.09%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (3.09%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (3.09%) dbt
12 3 (3.09%) Entra ID
12 3 (3.09%) SaaS
13 2 (2.06%) Collibra
13 2 (2.06%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (53.61%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (38.14%) Data Lake
3 36 (37.11%) Power BI
4 25 (25.77%) Big Data
5 19 (19.59%) Hadoop
6 18 (18.56%) NoSQL
7 14 (14.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (13.40%) SQL Server
9 10 (10.31%) BigQuery
9 10 (10.31%) Relational Database
10 9 (9.28%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (9.28%) Metadata
11 6 (6.19%) Parquet
11 6 (6.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (3.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (3.09%) Delta Lake
13 3 (3.09%) EDRMS
13 3 (3.09%) Oracle Database
13 3 (3.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (9.28%) Git
2 5 (5.15%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.06%) ERwin
3 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.03%) GitLab
4 1 (1.03%) JIRA
4 1 (1.03%) kappa
4 1 (1.03%) MLflow
4 1 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.03%) SpecFlow
General
1 42 (43.30%) Social Skills
2 24 (24.74%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (21.65%) Law
4 14 (14.43%) Finance
5 5 (5.15%) Legal
5 5 (5.15%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.09%) Marketing
7 3 (3.09%) Retail
8 2 (2.06%) Banking
8 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.03%) Advertising
9 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (38.14%) Data Engineer
2 23 (23.71%) Senior
3 18 (18.56%) Architect
4 14 (14.43%) Lead
5 9 (9.28%) Data Analytics Director
6 8 (8.25%) Azure Architect
6 8 (8.25%) Developer
6 8 (8.25%) Senior Data Engineer
7 7 (7.22%) Data Architect
8 6 (6.19%) Senior Architect
9 5 (5.15%) Azure Data Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 4 (4.12%) Design Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Development Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Power BI Developer
10 4 (4.12%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
10 4 (4.12%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.68%) Kafka
2 11 (11.34%) PySpark
3 4 (4.12%) .NET
3 4 (4.12%) .NET Framework
3 4 (4.12%) ML.NET
3 4 (4.12%) Pandas
3 4 (4.12%) REST
4 2 (2.06%) ADO
4 2 (2.06%) NestJS
4 2 (2.06%) Node.js
4 2 (2.06%) React
4 2 (2.06%) RESTful
5 1 (1.03%) JSON
5 1 (1.03%) Middleware
5 1 (1.03%) pytest
5 1 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.53%) Cloud Native
2 12 (12.37%) Management Information System
3 8 (8.25%) Product Ownership
4 7 (7.22%) FMCG
5 6 (6.19%) Data Structures
6 5 (5.15%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (5.15%) IoT
6 5 (5.15%) Replication
7 3 (3.09%) Reinsurance
8 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.06%) Data Fabric
8 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.06%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.03%) Hedge funds
9 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (59.79%) ETL
2 48 (49.48%) Data Modelling
3 45 (46.39%) Business Intelligence
4 43 (44.33%) Data Engineering
4 43 (44.33%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (43.30%) Analytics
5 42 (43.30%) Data Governance
5 42 (43.30%) Data Pipeline
6 37 (38.14%) Machine Learning
7 31 (31.96%) CI/CD
7 31 (31.96%) DevOps
8 30 (30.93%) Decision-Making
9 29 (29.90%) Visualisation
10 27 (27.84%) Agile
11 26 (26.80%) Data Architecture
11 26 (26.80%) Data Science
12 23 (23.71%) Artificial Intelligence
12 23 (23.71%) Data Security
13 22 (22.68%) Computer Science
14 20 (20.62%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 61 (62.89%) SQL
2 40 (41.24%) Python
3 11 (11.34%) Java
4 8 (8.25%) Scala
5 4 (4.12%) PL/SQL
6 3 (3.09%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.06%) Bash
7 2 (2.06%) C#
7 2 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.06%) PHP
7 2 (2.06%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.03%) Bicep
8 1 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.03%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (20.62%) Degree
2 17 (17.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (14.43%) AWS Certification
3 14 (14.43%) Azure Certification
4 11 (11.34%) Master's Degree
5 8 (8.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.12%) Security Cleared
7 3 (3.09%) SnowPro
8 2 (2.06%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.03%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.03%) MBA
9 1 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (1.03%) Postgraduate
9 1 (1.03%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (36.08%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.34%) GDPR
3 10 (10.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (4.12%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 7 (7.22%) Docker
2 2 (2.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.06%) zsh
3 1 (1.03%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (4.12%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.06%) Terraform
3 1 (1.03%) Ansible
3 1 (1.03%) Grafana
3 1 (1.03%) Istio
3 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (31.96%) Microsoft
2 30 (30.93%) Databricks
3 20 (20.62%) Google
4 9 (9.28%) Oracle
5 5 (5.15%) Informatica
6 4 (4.12%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.06%) SAP
8 1 (1.03%) Charles River
8 1 (1.03%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.03%) HubSpot
8 1 (1.03%) SimCorp
8 1 (1.03%) StreamSets