Hybrid/Remote Data Ingestion Contract Job Trends

Data Ingestion
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Ingestion skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 253 284
Rank change year-on-year +14 +31 +94
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 137 61 55
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.02% 0.63% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.68% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 49 40
10th Percentile £385 £402 £423
25th Percentile £444 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +7.40% -2.44% -18.00%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £725 £671 £722
UK median daily rate £525 £547 £500
% change year-on-year -4.09% +9.48% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £38.85 £48.00
% change year-on-year +86.64% -19.07% -43.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,089 8,967 11,199
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.18% 92.10% 87.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,565 5,981 7,352
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -2.33%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 721 275 330
10th Percentile £16.33 £12.62 £17.46
25th Percentile £30.00 £19.07 £30.03
Median hourly rate £48.00 £35.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.14% -18.60% -14.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.30 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Ingestion and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Data Ingestion job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Ingestion.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Ingestion

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Ingestion over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Data Ingestion daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Data Ingestion
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Ingestion.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Ingestion

Data Ingestion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 10 (7.30%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.65%) Apache
3 4 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.46%) Confluence
4 2 (1.46%) nginx
5 1 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.73%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.73%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.73%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 5 (3.65%) NetSuite
1 5 (3.65%) Sage X3
2 4 (2.92%) Aladdin
3 3 (2.19%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.73%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 47 (34.31%) Azure
2 30 (21.90%) AWS
3 23 (16.79%) Power Platform
4 21 (15.33%) GitHub
5 18 (13.14%) GCP
5 18 (13.14%) Snowflake
6 17 (12.41%) dbt
7 16 (11.68%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (10.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (10.22%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (9.49%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (8.76%) Amazon S3
12 10 (7.30%) Serverless
13 8 (5.84%) Entra ID
13 8 (5.84%) Fivetran
14 7 (5.11%) Azure Databricks
15 6 (4.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 5 (3.65%) Amazon Kinesis
16 5 (3.65%) Azure Logic Apps
16 5 (3.65%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.19%) Broadband
1 3 (2.19%) HTTP
2 1 (0.73%) Firewall
2 1 (0.73%) IPsec
2 1 (0.73%) Network Security
2 1 (0.73%) OpenFlow
2 1 (0.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (18.98%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (16.06%) Power BI
3 20 (14.60%) Data Lake
3 20 (14.60%) Metadata
4 11 (8.03%) BigQuery
5 9 (6.57%) Star Schema
6 8 (5.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (5.84%) Big Data
7 7 (5.11%) Delta Lake
7 7 (5.11%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (5.11%) Tableau
8 4 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (2.19%) Power Query
9 3 (2.19%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.46%) Data Hub
10 2 (1.46%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.46%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 5 (3.65%) Git
2 4 (2.92%) GitLab
2 4 (2.92%) JIRA
3 3 (2.19%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.19%) Postman
4 1 (0.73%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.73%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.73%) RStudio
4 1 (0.73%) Selenium
4 1 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (23.36%) Finance
2 31 (22.63%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.79%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.30%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.84%) Marketing
6 7 (5.11%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.38%) Banking
7 6 (4.38%) Billing
8 5 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.92%) Publishing
10 3 (2.19%) Legal
10 3 (2.19%) Retail
11 2 (1.46%) Back Office
11 2 (1.46%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.46%) German Language
11 2 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.73%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.73%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 41 (29.93%) Data Engineer
2 25 (18.25%) Senior
3 20 (14.60%) Architect
4 14 (10.22%) Developer
5 9 (6.57%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (6.57%) Data Architect
5 9 (6.57%) Senior Data Engineer
5 9 (6.57%) Software Engineer
6 8 (5.84%) Snowflake Engineer
7 7 (5.11%) Analyst
7 7 (5.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 7 (5.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 6 (4.38%) Azure Data Engineer
8 6 (4.38%) Consultant
8 6 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (3.65%) Data Analyst
9 5 (3.65%) Databricks Engineer
9 5 (3.65%) Python Developer
9 5 (3.65%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.41%) REST
2 15 (10.95%) Terraform
3 14 (10.22%) Kafka
4 12 (8.76%) PySpark
5 5 (3.65%) PyTorch
5 5 (3.65%) TensorFlow
6 4 (2.92%) JSON
6 4 (2.92%) React
6 4 (2.92%) Spring
6 4 (2.92%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.19%) FastAPI
7 3 (2.19%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (2.19%) SailPoint
7 3 (2.19%) SAP CAF
8 2 (1.46%) .NET
8 2 (1.46%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.46%) LangChain
8 2 (1.46%) Model Context Protocol
8 2 (1.46%) Node.js
8 2 (1.46%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.87%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.49%) Onboarding
3 10 (7.30%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.38%) Clustering
5 6 (4.38%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.65%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.92%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.19%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.19%) Reference Data
8 3 (2.19%) SCADA
8 3 (2.19%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (1.46%) BYOD
9 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.46%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.73%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.92%) Linux
2 2 (1.46%) Unix
3 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (48.18%) Data Pipeline
2 57 (41.61%) Data Engineering
3 55 (40.15%) ETL
4 51 (37.23%) Data Modelling
5 47 (34.31%) Analytics
5 47 (34.31%) CI/CD
6 38 (27.74%) AI
7 29 (21.17%) Business Intelligence
7 29 (21.17%) DevOps
8 26 (18.98%) Data Transformation
9 24 (17.52%) Agile
9 24 (17.52%) Machine Learning
9 24 (17.52%) Validation
10 22 (16.06%) Data Governance
11 21 (15.33%) Use Case
12 19 (13.87%) Data Integration
12 19 (13.87%) Data Science
12 19 (13.87%) Software Engineering
13 18 (13.14%) Observability
13 18 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 67 (48.91%) Python
2 53 (38.69%) SQL
3 10 (7.30%) Java
3 10 (7.30%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.38%) C#
5 5 (3.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (3.65%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.65%) Scala
6 4 (2.92%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (2.92%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.19%) Bash
7 3 (2.19%) Bicep
8 1 (0.73%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.73%) PROC SQL
8 1 (0.73%) R
8 1 (0.73%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (18.98%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.65%) SnowPro
4 4 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.19%) Degree
6 2 (1.46%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.73%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (33.58%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.38%) QA
3 5 (3.65%) NIST
4 3 (2.19%) GDPR
4 3 (2.19%) NCSC
5 2 (1.46%) COPPA
5 2 (1.46%) SLA
6 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.73%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.73%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (3.65%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.73%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (9.49%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.19%) Grafana
3 2 (1.46%) Ansible
3 2 (1.46%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.73%) Control-M
4 1 (0.73%) Kibana
4 1 (0.73%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (22.63%) Databricks
2 23 (16.79%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.30%) Salesforce
4 9 (6.57%) Google
5 6 (4.38%) Oracle
6 5 (3.65%) Informatica
6 5 (3.65%) PagerDuty
6 5 (3.65%) Sage
6 5 (3.65%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.92%) SAP
8 3 (2.19%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.19%) SimCorp
8 3 (2.19%) Splunk
9 2 (1.46%) Adobe
10 1 (0.73%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.73%) IBM
10 1 (0.73%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.73%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.73%) Remedy
10 1 (0.73%) Sybase