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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 618 596
Rank change year-on-year +74 -22 -21
Permanent jobs citing Data Ingestion 101 95 123
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.17% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.19% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 44 53 111
10th Percentile £42,500 £57,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,938 £61,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -9.68% +3.33%
75th Percentile £103,750 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £115,000 £135,000
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 48,217 49,041 48,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.67% 90.12% 91.17%
Number of salaries quoted 28,251 24,093 36,700
10th Percentile £28,456 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
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 £79,000
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% -4.55%

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 4 January 2026.

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 4 January 2026. 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 +96 92 £78,750 +16.67% 193
London +76 65 £95,000 +38.18% 71
UK excluding London +52 27 £75,000 +7.14% 139
Work from Home +88 23 £75,000 +15.38% 116
South East - 8 £75,000 - 49
North of England +18 5 £80,000 +28.00% 28
South West +3 5 £51,250 -39.88% 14
Yorkshire - 4 £82,500 - 18
East of England +24 3 £80,000 -25.27% 18
Midlands +12 3 £65,000 +4.00% 23
Scotland -3 3 £60,000 -40.00% 7
North West +24 1 £57,500 -28.13% 9
West Midlands +20 1 £125,000 +100.00% 14

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 (16.83%) Apache Spark
2 10 (9.90%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (5.94%) Apache
4 1 (0.99%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.99%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Endur
1 1 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (55.45%) Azure
2 40 (39.60%) AWS
3 30 (29.70%) GCP
4 18 (17.82%) Power Platform
5 15 (14.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (12.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (11.88%) H2O.ai
7 12 (11.88%) OpenShift
8 11 (10.89%) Amazon EMR
8 11 (10.89%) Serverless
9 10 (9.90%) SaaS
10 8 (7.92%) Snowflake
11 7 (6.93%) dbt
12 5 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (4.95%) GitHub
12 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (2.97%) Azure App Service
15 2 (1.98%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (26.73%) NoSQL
2 26 (25.74%) Data Lake
3 24 (23.76%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (18.81%) SQL Server
5 18 (17.82%) Power BI
6 17 (16.83%) Metadata
7 15 (14.85%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (13.86%) Big Data
8 14 (13.86%) MongoDB
9 12 (11.88%) DynamoDB
9 12 (11.88%) MySQL
9 12 (11.88%) Relational Database
10 11 (10.89%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (10.89%) DataStage
10 11 (10.89%) Hadoop
10 11 (10.89%) Neo4j
10 11 (10.89%) Pentaho
10 11 (10.89%) RDBMS
11 7 (6.93%) BigQuery
12 6 (5.94%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 10 (9.90%) Git
2 1 (0.99%) MLflow
General
1 46 (45.54%) Finance
2 28 (27.72%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (27.72%) Social Skills
3 16 (15.84%) Law
4 14 (13.86%) Manufacturing
5 8 (7.92%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.95%) Banking
7 4 (3.96%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.97%) International Banking
9 2 (1.98%) Electronics
9 2 (1.98%) Marketing
9 2 (1.98%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.99%) Advertising
10 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (20.79%) Architect
1 21 (20.79%) Data Engineer
2 14 (13.86%) Lead
3 13 (12.87%) Principal Engineer
4 11 (10.89%) Data Architect
5 8 (7.92%) Lead Architect
5 8 (7.92%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.93%) Consultant
6 7 (6.93%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.96%) Data Scientist
7 4 (3.96%) Developer
7 4 (3.96%) Product Owner
8 3 (2.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (2.97%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (2.97%) Lead Data Engineer
8 3 (2.97%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 3 (2.97%) Security Engineer
9 2 (1.98%) Head of Engineering
9 2 (1.98%) Power BI Engineer
9 2 (1.98%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.84%) PyTorch
1 16 (15.84%) TensorFlow
2 12 (11.88%) Keras
3 10 (9.90%) PySpark
4 9 (8.91%) Kafka
5 8 (7.92%) React
5 8 (7.92%) REST
6 7 (6.93%) AngularJS
6 7 (6.93%) Pandas
6 7 (6.93%) Vue
7 4 (3.96%) Hugging Face
8 3 (2.97%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (2.97%) NumPy
9 2 (1.98%) .NET
9 2 (1.98%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.99%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.99%) gRPC
10 1 (0.99%) LINQ
10 1 (0.99%) PostGIS
10 1 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 31 (30.69%) Management Information System
2 22 (21.78%) Product Ownership
3 15 (14.85%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (11.88%) Data Centre
5 11 (10.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (8.91%) Data Structures
6 9 (8.91%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (6.93%) Low-Code
8 5 (4.95%) Cloud Native
8 5 (4.95%) Reinsurance
9 4 (3.96%) Credit Risk
9 4 (3.96%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (3.96%) Market Risk
10 3 (2.97%) Algorithms
10 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.99%) Hedge funds
12 1 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.99%) NHS
12 1 (0.99%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.96%) Unix
2 1 (0.99%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (59.41%) Data Engineering
2 55 (54.46%) Analytics
3 54 (53.47%) Data Pipeline
4 50 (49.50%) ETL
5 46 (45.54%) Data Governance
6 41 (40.59%) AI
7 40 (39.60%) Data Modelling
8 38 (37.62%) Machine Learning
9 36 (35.64%) CI/CD
10 34 (33.66%) Data Integration
11 33 (32.67%) Agile
11 33 (32.67%) Business Intelligence
11 33 (32.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (29.70%) Data Management
12 30 (29.70%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (29.70%) Roadmaps
13 24 (23.76%) Computer Science
13 24 (23.76%) Decision-Making
13 24 (23.76%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (22.77%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 58 (57.43%) SQL
2 56 (55.45%) Python
3 16 (15.84%) Java
4 7 (6.93%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.97%) C#
5 3 (2.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.97%) Groovy
5 3 (2.97%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.98%) Scala
6 2 (1.98%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.99%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (0.99%) Bash
7 1 (0.99%) C++
7 1 (0.99%) R
7 1 (0.99%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (23.76%) Degree
2 13 (12.87%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (12.87%) Master's Degree
3 12 (11.88%) Security Cleared
4 8 (7.92%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (4.95%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.96%) DBS Check
6 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.97%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.98%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.98%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.99%) CISSP
9 1 (0.99%) PhD
9 1 (0.99%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (30.69%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.93%) SLA
3 6 (5.94%) GDPR
4 1 (0.99%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.99%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (5.94%) Docker
2 1 (0.99%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (0.99%) zsh
Systems Management
1 7 (6.93%) Terraform
2 6 (5.94%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.95%) Kubeflow
4 2 (1.98%) Kibana
4 2 (1.98%) logstash
5 1 (0.99%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 35 (34.65%) Databricks
2 16 (15.84%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.88%) Dell
3 12 (11.88%) NVIDIA
4 11 (10.89%) Informatica
4 11 (10.89%) Oracle
4 11 (10.89%) Talend
5 9 (8.91%) Google
6 3 (2.97%) SAP
7 1 (0.99%) Ariba
7 1 (0.99%) Concur
7 1 (0.99%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.99%) IBM
7 1 (0.99%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.99%) Palantir
7 1 (0.99%) Splunk