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 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 616 776 559
Rank change year-on-year +160 -217 +228
Permanent jobs citing Data Ingestion 99 153 411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.14% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.17% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 59 103 156
10th Percentile £51,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £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 £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 51,935 91,102 87,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.69% 82.46% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,000 62,815 53,361
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,015 £55,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +0.03% -9.54% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,145 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -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 15 June 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 15 June 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 +162 84 £67,500 -10.00% 323
UK excluding London +150 43 £65,000 - 162
London +113 42 £85,000 +6.25% 240
Work from Home +98 20 £57,500 -17.86% 121
South East +96 17 £65,000 +13.04% 104
Midlands +73 10 £65,000 - 7
North of England +63 9 £60,000 -16.67% 23
West Midlands +64 5 £60,000 -7.69% 3
East Midlands +60 5 £65,000 - 4
North West +22 5 £55,000 -24.14% 5
South West +105 3 £99,250 +80.45% 6
Scotland +85 3 - - 10
Yorkshire +63 2 £60,000 +9.09% 18
North East +40 2 £62,500 -18.83%
East of England +40 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 (25.25%) Apache Spark
2 9 (9.09%) Apache
3 7 (7.07%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Relativity
2 1 (1.01%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 59 (59.60%) Azure
2 49 (49.49%) AWS
3 34 (34.34%) Power Platform
4 31 (31.31%) GCP
5 22 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (17.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (13.13%) Amazon S3
8 11 (11.11%) Snowflake
9 10 (10.10%) Serverless
10 8 (8.08%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (8.08%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (5.05%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
13 3 (3.03%) Amazon Kinesis
13 3 (3.03%) dbt
13 3 (3.03%) Prefect
13 3 (3.03%) SaaS
14 2 (2.02%) AWS IoT
14 2 (2.02%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.02%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (55.56%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (40.40%) Data Lake
3 34 (34.34%) Power BI
4 25 (25.25%) Big Data
5 19 (19.19%) Hadoop
5 19 (19.19%) NoSQL
6 16 (16.16%) SQL Server
7 15 (15.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (10.10%) BigQuery
9 9 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (9.09%) Relational Database
10 8 (8.08%) Metadata
11 6 (6.06%) Parquet
11 6 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (3.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (3.03%) EDRMS
13 2 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (2.02%) Delta Lake
13 2 (2.02%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 12 (12.12%) Git
2 5 (5.05%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.02%) ERwin
3 2 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.01%) JUnit
4 1 (1.01%) kappa
4 1 (1.01%) MLflow
4 1 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.01%) Selenium
4 1 (1.01%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.01%) TestComplete
General
1 40 (40.40%) Social Skills
2 25 (25.25%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (25.25%) Law
3 19 (19.19%) Finance
4 8 (8.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (6.06%) Legal
6 5 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (5.05%) Marketing
7 3 (3.03%) Banking
7 3 (3.03%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.03%) Retail
8 2 (2.02%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.01%) Advertising
9 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (37.37%) Data Engineer
2 27 (27.27%) Senior
3 16 (16.16%) Lead
4 14 (14.14%) Architect
5 10 (10.10%) Developer
5 10 (10.10%) Senior Data Engineer
6 9 (9.09%) Data Analytics Director
6 9 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.06%) Lead Software Engineer
7 6 (6.06%) Senior Architect
8 5 (5.05%) Azure Architect
8 5 (5.05%) Azure Data Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Python Developer
8 5 (5.05%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.04%) Power BI Developer
9 4 (4.04%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (4.04%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.22%) Kafka
2 10 (10.10%) 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%) Hugging Face
5 1 (1.01%) JSON
5 1 (1.01%) Middleware
5 1 (1.01%) pytest
5 1 (1.01%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.01%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.01%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.16%) Cloud Native
2 12 (12.12%) Management Information System
3 9 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 7 (7.07%) Data Structures
4 7 (7.07%) FMCG
5 5 (5.05%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (5.05%) IoT
5 5 (5.05%) Replication
6 4 (4.04%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (3.03%) Reinsurance
8 2 (2.02%) Data Fabric
8 2 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.02%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.01%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.01%) Derivative
9 1 (1.01%) Equities
9 1 (1.01%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (59.60%) ETL
2 46 (46.46%) Data Modelling
3 44 (44.44%) Analytics
4 43 (43.43%) Business Intelligence
4 43 (43.43%) Data Engineering
4 43 (43.43%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (41.41%) Data Pipeline
6 39 (39.39%) Data Governance
7 38 (38.38%) Machine Learning
8 33 (33.33%) CI/CD
9 32 (32.32%) DevOps
10 31 (31.31%) Decision-Making
11 30 (30.30%) Agile
12 27 (27.27%) Computer Science
12 27 (27.27%) Visualisation
13 24 (24.24%) Data Architecture
13 24 (24.24%) Data Science
14 23 (23.23%) Artificial Intelligence
15 22 (22.22%) Software Engineering
16 20 (20.20%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 64 (64.65%) SQL
2 44 (44.44%) Python
3 14 (14.14%) Java
4 7 (7.07%) Scala
5 4 (4.04%) Bash
5 4 (4.04%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.02%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.02%) PHP
6 2 (2.02%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.01%) Bicep
7 1 (1.01%) C#
7 1 (1.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (22.22%) Degree
2 17 (17.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (15.15%) AWS Certification
4 13 (13.13%) Azure Certification
5 12 (12.12%) Master's Degree
6 8 (8.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (4.04%) SnowPro
8 3 (3.03%) Security Cleared
9 2 (2.02%) SC Cleared
10 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.01%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.01%) MBA
10 1 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (1.01%) PhD
10 1 (1.01%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (37.37%) 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%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (8.08%) Docker
2 4 (4.04%) zsh
3 2 (2.02%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.01%) HDFS
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%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (33.33%) Databricks
2 29 (29.29%) Microsoft
3 20 (20.20%) Google
4 8 (8.08%) Oracle
5 5 (5.05%) Informatica
6 4 (4.04%) OpenAI
7 3 (3.03%) SAP
8 2 (2.02%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.01%) Charles River
9 1 (1.01%) Cloudera
9 1 (1.01%) HubSpot
9 1 (1.01%) SimCorp
9 1 (1.01%) StreamSets