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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 775 532 792
Rank change year-on-year -243 +260 -87
Permanent jobs citing Data Ingestion 139 517 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.50% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.52% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 98 189 192
10th Percentile £50,700 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,100 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.13% +0.13% +25.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £111,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,750 £165,000 £94,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% -8.33% +36.36%

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 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £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 5 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 5 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 -217 101 £72,500 -3.46% 67
UK excluding London -6 92 £65,000 -5.45% 30
Work from Home +38 50 £73,750 -1.67% 23
London -161 42 £80,000 -15.79% 42
Scotland - 34 £75,000 - 2
North of England +47 19 £67,750 +7.39% 6
Midlands +7 18 £65,000 +62.50% 2
West Midlands +15 17 £65,000 +18.18% 2
North East - 15 £77,000 - 1
South East +10 11 £51,000 -32.00% 7
South West -27 6 £72,500 -17.14% 5
East of England +12 4 £75,000 - 4
Yorkshire +85 2 £42,500 - 2
North West 0 2 £61,750 -2.12% 3
East Midlands -16 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 17 (12.23%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.88%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.16%) Apache
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.72%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 50 (35.97%) AWS
2 47 (33.81%) Azure
3 27 (19.42%) SaaS
4 24 (17.27%) dbt
4 24 (17.27%) Power Platform
5 23 (16.55%) GCP
6 20 (14.39%) Snowflake
7 15 (10.79%) Amazon Kinesis
7 15 (10.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (8.63%) Amazon S3
9 8 (5.76%) GitHub
10 7 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (5.04%) Boomi
10 7 (5.04%) PaaS
11 5 (3.60%) IaaS
11 5 (3.60%) Prefect
11 5 (3.60%) Serverless
12 4 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.88%) Azure Storage
13 3 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.16%) Firewall
2 1 (0.72%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (30.94%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (17.27%) Amazon Redshift
2 24 (17.27%) Power BI
3 23 (16.55%) Data Lake
3 23 (16.55%) SQL Server
4 18 (12.95%) BigQuery
5 14 (10.07%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (9.35%) Tableau
7 11 (7.91%) Data Mining
8 10 (7.19%) Looker
8 10 (7.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (6.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (5.76%) Relational Database
11 7 (5.04%) NoSQL
12 4 (2.88%) Delta Lake
12 4 (2.88%) MySQL
12 4 (2.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (2.16%) Hadoop
13 3 (2.16%) Metadata
14 2 (1.44%) Impala
Development Applications
1 5 (3.60%) Git
2 4 (2.88%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (2.88%) TeamCity
2 4 (2.88%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.44%) ERwin
4 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.72%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.72%) GitLab
4 1 (0.72%) Toad
General
1 48 (34.53%) Social Skills
2 41 (29.50%) Finance
3 30 (21.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 30 (21.58%) Marketing
4 28 (20.14%) Law
5 24 (17.27%) Games
6 14 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.88%) Agriculture
7 4 (2.88%) Banking
7 4 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.16%) Retail
9 2 (1.44%) Automotive
10 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (51.08%) Data Engineer
2 29 (20.86%) Lead
3 24 (17.27%) Software Engineering Director
4 20 (14.39%) Lead Data Engineer
5 15 (10.79%) AWS Data Engineer
5 15 (10.79%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (10.07%) Senior
7 13 (9.35%) Principal Engineer
8 9 (6.47%) Developer
8 9 (6.47%) Principal Data Engineer
8 9 (6.47%) Python Data Engineer
8 9 (6.47%) Python Engineer
8 9 (6.47%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) Architect
9 7 (5.04%) Data Integration Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) Integration Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) Team Leader
10 6 (4.32%) Azure Data Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.35%) GraphQL
2 11 (7.91%) RESTful
3 4 (2.88%) .NET
3 4 (2.88%) Kafka
3 4 (2.88%) PySpark
4 3 (2.16%) React
5 2 (1.44%) LAMP
5 2 (1.44%) Node.js
6 1 (0.72%) JSON
6 1 (0.72%) Unreal Engine
6 1 (0.72%) XML
6 1 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.27%) Cloud Native
2 17 (12.23%) Client/Server
3 15 (10.79%) Data Structures
4 13 (9.35%) Online Games
5 11 (7.91%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.88%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.44%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.44%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.44%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.72%) CSOC
9 1 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.72%) Linked Data
9 1 (0.72%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.72%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.44%) Linux
2 1 (0.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (60.43%) ETL
2 70 (50.36%) Agile
3 59 (42.45%) Data Modelling
4 45 (32.37%) Data Pipeline
5 36 (25.90%) Data Engineering
5 36 (25.90%) Visualisation
6 35 (25.18%) Computer Science
6 35 (25.18%) Decision-Making
7 33 (23.74%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 33 (23.74%) Machine Learning
8 32 (23.02%) Business Intelligence
8 32 (23.02%) Software Engineering
9 31 (22.30%) Data Transformation
10 30 (21.58%) Mathematics
10 30 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (20.86%) Data Integration
12 28 (20.14%) Artificial Intelligence
13 26 (18.71%) Data Science
14 25 (17.99%) Analytics
14 25 (17.99%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 77 (55.40%) Python
2 76 (54.68%) SQL
3 17 (12.23%) Java
4 13 (9.35%) Scala
5 9 (6.47%) C#
6 4 (2.88%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.88%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.72%) Bicep
7 1 (0.72%) C++
7 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (13.67%) Degree
2 4 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (2.88%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.72%) A+ Certification
3 1 (0.72%) CCNA
3 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.72%) MCDST
3 1 (0.72%) MCSA
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.72%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (0.72%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.72%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.72%) VTSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (25.18%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.16%) PSD2
2 3 (2.16%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.60%) Docker
2 2 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.72%) HDFS
3 1 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (6.47%) Terraform
2 3 (2.16%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (12.23%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.07%) Databricks
3 11 (7.91%) Google
4 7 (5.04%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.44%) Confluent
5 2 (1.44%) Informatica
5 2 (1.44%) Oracle
6 1 (0.72%) Brio
6 1 (0.72%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.72%) Commvault
6 1 (0.72%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.72%) Splunk