Data Ingestion Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Ingestion
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Ingestion skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Ingestion over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 369 444
Rank change year-on-year +33 +75 -17
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 33 44 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.21% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.24% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 32 52
10th Percentile £363 £450 £490
25th Percentile £425 £509 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +7.14% +0.67%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £738
90th Percentile £671 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -19.92% +8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.75 - -
Median hourly rate £28.50 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% - -
75th Percentile £29.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -62.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Ingestion falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,041 18,439 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.81% 88.33% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,020 12,105 18,694
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £686 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 1,303 1,340
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £12.66
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.72 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.33 £28.90
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +49.93% +60.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Ingestion as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Ingestion in the UK excluding London

Data Ingestion
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Ingestion in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Ingestion in the UK excluding London

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Ingestion in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Ingestion in the UK excluding London

Data Ingestion
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Ingestion in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Ingestion in the UK excluding London

Data Ingestion
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Ingestion within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +23 10 £544 -5.43% 7
Midlands +4 8 £489 -27.56% 3
West Midlands +2 8 £489 -27.56% 2
Yorkshire +11 7 £575 -2.13% 2
South East +33 6 £513 +5.13% 3
South West +31 6 £538 -
North West +25 3 £500 -13.04% 2
Scotland +25 2 £370 -40.80% 2
East of England - 1 £315 - 1
Data Ingestion
UK

Data Ingestion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (21.21%) Apache Spark
2 5 (15.15%) Apache
3 3 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (6.06%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 17 (51.52%) Azure
2 11 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 10 (30.30%) AWS
4 6 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (12.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (12.12%) dbt
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (9.09%) GitHub
6 3 (9.09%) Serverless
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (6.06%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (6.06%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Storage
7 2 (6.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (6.06%) Snowflake
8 1 (3.03%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Network Security
2 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (33.33%) Power BI
2 6 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (15.15%) Relational Database
4 4 (12.12%) Big Data
4 4 (12.12%) Data Lake
4 4 (12.12%) Hadoop
5 3 (9.09%) Data Hub
5 3 (9.09%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (9.09%) MS Access
5 3 (9.09%) Power Query
5 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (6.06%) Apache Hive
6 2 (6.06%) Dremio
6 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
6 2 (6.06%) Spark SQL
7 1 (3.03%) Flink
7 1 (3.03%) Parquet
7 1 (3.03%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Git
1 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) GitLab
General
1 7 (21.21%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (45.45%) Data Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Developer
3 4 (12.12%) Azure Data Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Database Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Fortran Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Lead
6 1 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Cloud Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Digital Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.03%) GCP Data Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Principal Data Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Scrum Master
6 1 (3.03%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) Kafka
1 4 (12.12%) PySpark
2 3 (9.09%) .NET
2 3 (9.09%) ASP.NET
2 3 (9.09%) WinForms
3 2 (6.06%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (6.06%) Node.js
4 1 (3.03%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.03%) Flask
4 1 (3.03%) JSON
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (3.03%) NumPy
4 1 (3.03%) Pandas
4 1 (3.03%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 3 (9.09%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.03%) Blog
4 1 (3.03%) Housing Association
4 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Unix
2 1 (3.03%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) Data Pipeline
2 14 (42.42%) Data Modelling
3 11 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (33.33%) ETL
4 10 (30.30%) Machine Learning
5 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 8 (24.24%) Agile
6 8 (24.24%) Analytics
6 8 (24.24%) Data Engineering
6 8 (24.24%) Data Integration
6 8 (24.24%) Data Transformation
6 8 (24.24%) DevOps
7 6 (18.18%) Data Analysis
7 6 (18.18%) Data Protection
7 6 (18.18%) Software Engineering
8 5 (15.15%) Dashboard Development
8 5 (15.15%) Data Science
8 5 (15.15%) Migration
9 4 (12.12%) Data Analytics
9 4 (12.12%) ETL Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (66.67%) SQL
2 19 (57.58%) Python
3 6 (18.18%) C#
4 4 (12.12%) Java
5 3 (9.09%) Bash
5 3 (9.09%) T-SQL
5 3 (9.09%) VBA
6 2 (6.06%) Fortran
6 2 (6.06%) Perl
6 2 (6.06%) Scala
7 1 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.03%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) QA
2 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.06%) GDPR
3 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Terraform
2 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.12%) Oozie
3 1 (3.03%) Ansible
3 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Databricks
2 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.03%) Citrix
3 1 (3.03%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) Palantir
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat