Data Ingestion
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Ingestion skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Ingestion over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 740 543 786
Rank change year-on-year -197 +243 -67
Permanent jobs citing Data Ingestion 138 498 483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.49% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.51% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 98 184 186
10th Percentile £50,700 £51,250 £50,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £111,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,750 £165,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +30.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Ingestion is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 13 May 2024.

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 13 May 2024. 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 -218 100 £75,000 -3.23% 62
UK excluding London -3 90 £65,000 -7.14% 26
Work from Home +54 50 £72,000 -4.00% 23
London -173 43 £80,000 -15.79% 41
Scotland - 34 £75,000 - 3
North of England +53 19 £67,750 +4.23% 6
Midlands -11 16 £65,000 +62.50% 3
West Midlands +12 15 £65,000 -0.76% 3
North East - 15 £77,000 - 1
South East -5 10 £50,500 -32.67% 5
South West -17 7 £65,000 -25.71% 3
East of England +14 4 £75,000 - 2
Yorkshire +83 2 £42,500 - 2
North West -8 2 £61,750 -5.00% 3
East Midlands -11 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 18 (13.04%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.62%) Apache
3 4 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.72%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 50 (36.23%) AWS
2 44 (31.88%) Azure
3 28 (20.29%) SaaS
4 24 (17.39%) GCP
5 23 (16.67%) dbt
6 22 (15.94%) Snowflake
7 21 (15.22%) Power Platform
8 16 (11.59%) Amazon Kinesis
9 12 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (7.97%) Amazon S3
11 8 (5.80%) GitHub
12 7 (5.07%) Boomi
12 7 (5.07%) PaaS
13 5 (3.62%) IaaS
13 5 (3.62%) Prefect
13 5 (3.62%) Serverless
14 4 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (2.90%) Azure Storage
15 2 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.17%) Firewall
2 1 (0.72%) LAN
2 1 (0.72%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (29.71%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 23 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 22 (15.94%) Data Lake
4 21 (15.22%) Power BI
5 18 (13.04%) BigQuery
6 15 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (8.70%) Data Mining
8 10 (7.25%) Looker
8 10 (7.25%) Tableau
9 9 (6.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (6.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (5.07%) Relational Database
11 6 (4.35%) NoSQL
12 4 (2.90%) Delta Lake
12 4 (2.90%) MySQL
12 4 (2.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (2.17%) Redis
14 2 (1.45%) Apache Hive
14 2 (1.45%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (3.62%) Git
2 4 (2.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (2.90%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.45%) ERwin
3 2 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.45%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.72%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.72%) Toad
General
1 48 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 41 (29.71%) Finance
3 30 (21.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 30 (21.74%) Marketing
4 28 (20.29%) Law
5 24 (17.39%) Games
6 15 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.90%) Agriculture
7 4 (2.90%) Banking
7 4 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.17%) Retail
9 1 (0.72%) Automotive
9 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (51.45%) Data Engineer
2 28 (20.29%) Lead
3 24 (17.39%) Software Engineering Director
4 20 (14.49%) Lead Data Engineer
5 15 (10.87%) AWS Data Engineer
5 15 (10.87%) AWS Engineer
5 15 (10.87%) Senior
6 13 (9.42%) Principal Engineer
7 10 (7.25%) Senior Data Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) Principal Data Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) Python Data Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) Python Engineer
9 8 (5.80%) Architect
9 8 (5.80%) Developer
10 7 (5.07%) Data Integration Engineer
10 7 (5.07%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (5.07%) Team Leader
11 6 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
11 6 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (3.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.25%) GraphQL
2 9 (6.52%) RESTful
3 5 (3.62%) Kafka
4 4 (2.90%) .NET
4 4 (2.90%) PySpark
5 2 (1.45%) LAMP
5 2 (1.45%) React
6 1 (0.72%) JSON
6 1 (0.72%) Node.js
6 1 (0.72%) Pandas
6 1 (0.72%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.72%) Unreal Engine
6 1 (0.72%) XML
6 1 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 17 (12.32%) Client/Server
3 15 (10.87%) Data Structures
4 13 (9.42%) Online Games
5 10 (7.25%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.90%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.45%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.45%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.45%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.45%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.72%) Life Science
9 1 (0.72%) Linked Data
9 1 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.72%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.45%) Linux
2 1 (0.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (59.42%) ETL
2 68 (49.28%) Agile
3 60 (43.48%) Data Modelling
4 45 (32.61%) Data Pipeline
5 37 (26.81%) Computer Science
6 36 (26.09%) Data Engineering
7 35 (25.36%) Decision-Making
7 35 (25.36%) Machine Learning
8 33 (23.91%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 33 (23.91%) Visualisation
9 32 (23.19%) Software Engineering
10 31 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
11 30 (21.74%) Mathematics
12 29 (21.01%) Data Integration
12 29 (21.01%) Data Transformation
13 28 (20.29%) Artificial Intelligence
14 26 (18.84%) Data Science
14 26 (18.84%) Natural Language Processing
15 25 (18.12%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 76 (55.07%) Python
1 76 (55.07%) SQL
2 18 (13.04%) Java
3 13 (9.42%) Scala
4 9 (6.52%) C#
5 4 (2.90%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.90%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.72%) Bicep
6 1 (0.72%) C++
6 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (14.49%) Degree
2 6 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.17%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.72%) A+ Certification
4 1 (0.72%) CCNA
4 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.72%) MCDST
4 1 (0.72%) MCSA
4 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.72%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (0.72%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.72%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.72%) VTSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (26.81%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.17%) PSD2
2 3 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.62%) Docker
2 2 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.72%) HDFS
3 1 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (6.52%) Terraform
2 3 (2.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (12.32%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.14%) Databricks
3 12 (8.70%) Google
4 7 (5.07%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.45%) Confluent
5 2 (1.45%) Oracle
6 1 (0.72%) Brio
6 1 (0.72%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.72%) Commvault
6 1 (0.72%) Informatica
6 1 (0.72%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.72%) Splunk