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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 251 330
Rank change year-on-year +16 +79 +124
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 84 59 40
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.79% 0.55% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.61% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 41 30
10th Percentile £413 £421 £406
25th Percentile £453 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £538 £528
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% +1.99% -4.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £623
90th Percentile £738 £750 £699
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £528
% change year-on-year +7.32% -2.84% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £64.50 - £65.00

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 9,566 9,687 14,588
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.83% 90.07% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,259 6,174 9,825
10th Percentile £331 £330 £333
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 366 188 496
10th Percentile £15.74 £18.43 £15.21
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.30 £22.22
Median hourly rate £49.25 £37.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.11% -22.11% -17.39%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.81 £66.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%

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 5 February 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 7 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.14%) Apache
2 6 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (7.14%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (1.19%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.19%) Confluence
3 1 (1.19%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 38 (45.24%) AWS
1 38 (45.24%) Azure
2 15 (17.86%) GCP
3 12 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 12 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 10 (11.90%) Amazon S3
4 10 (11.90%) GitHub
5 8 (9.52%) dbt
5 8 (9.52%) Serverless
6 6 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (7.14%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 6 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (7.14%) Snowflake
7 5 (5.95%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (3.57%) Azure AI
9 3 (3.57%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (21.43%) Data Lake
2 10 (11.90%) Power BI
3 9 (10.71%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (9.52%) Metadata
5 7 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (5.95%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (5.95%) Big Data
6 5 (5.95%) BigQuery
7 4 (4.76%) Delta Lake
7 4 (4.76%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (3.57%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (3.57%) DynamoDB
8 3 (3.57%) Neo4j
8 3 (3.57%) OLAP
8 3 (3.57%) OLTP
8 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Git
1 4 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 4 (4.76%) JIRA
2 3 (3.57%) Postman
3 2 (2.38%) Gatling
3 2 (2.38%) GitLab
3 2 (2.38%) JMeter
3 2 (2.38%) LoadRunner
3 2 (2.38%) NeoLoad
4 1 (1.19%) JUnit
4 1 (1.19%) Maven
4 1 (1.19%) Selenium
4 1 (1.19%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.19%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.19%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (17.86%) Public Sector
2 14 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (14.29%) Finance
4 6 (7.14%) Banking
5 3 (3.57%) Marketing
6 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.38%) Legal
7 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Electronics
7 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.19%) Military
7 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (40.48%) Data Engineer
2 12 (14.29%) Architect
2 12 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 9 (10.71%) Developer
4 7 (8.33%) Consultant
4 7 (8.33%) Data Architect
5 6 (7.14%) Lead
6 5 (5.95%) Data Consultant
6 5 (5.95%) Senior
7 3 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 3 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) Azure Data Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) Python Developer
7 3 (3.57%) Python Engineer
8 2 (2.38%) AWS Data Architect
8 2 (2.38%) GCP Data Engineer
8 2 (2.38%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (2.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 2 (2.38%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.29%) FastAPI
1 12 (14.29%) PySpark
2 7 (8.33%) SQLAlchemy
3 6 (7.14%) REST
4 3 (3.57%) Kafka
4 3 (3.57%) LDAP
4 3 (3.57%) OpenID
4 3 (3.57%) PyTorch
4 3 (3.57%) SailPoint
5 2 (2.38%) Hugging Face
5 2 (2.38%) JSON
5 2 (2.38%) LangChain
5 2 (2.38%) Playwright
5 2 (2.38%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.19%) ADO
6 1 (1.19%) CSS
6 1 (1.19%) Django
6 1 (1.19%) HTML
6 1 (1.19%) NumPy
6 1 (1.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.57%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.57%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.19%) Clustering
6 1 (1.19%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.19%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.19%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.19%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.38%) Linux
1 2 (2.38%) Windows
2 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (45.24%) ETL
2 30 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
3 27 (32.14%) Data Engineering
3 27 (32.14%) Data Science
4 26 (30.95%) Data Modelling
5 21 (25.00%) AI
6 19 (22.62%) Agile
6 19 (22.62%) Analytics
7 16 (19.05%) LLM
8 15 (17.86%) CI/CD
8 15 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (17.86%) Roadmaps
9 14 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (15.48%) Decision-Making
10 13 (15.48%) Generative AI
10 13 (15.48%) Prompt Engineering
11 12 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (14.29%) Machine Learning
11 12 (14.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 11 (13.10%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 55 (65.48%) Python
2 34 (40.48%) SQL
3 8 (9.52%) Java
4 5 (5.95%) Scala
5 4 (4.76%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.38%) Cypher
7 1 (1.19%) Bash
7 1 (1.19%) C#
7 1 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.19%) HiveQL
7 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.19%) R
7 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.57%) Degree
5 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.19%) CISSP
6 1 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.19%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.19%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (23.81%) Data Quality
2 12 (14.29%) GDPR
3 4 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.76%) QA
4 3 (3.57%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.19%) GRC
5 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (4.76%) Docker
2 3 (3.57%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (11.90%) Terraform
2 6 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.38%) logstash
4 1 (1.19%) Fluentd
4 1 (1.19%) Grafana
4 1 (1.19%) Kibana
4 1 (1.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 20 (23.81%) Databricks
2 9 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.52%) Foundry
4 6 (7.14%) Palantir
5 5 (5.95%) Google
5 5 (5.95%) SAP
6 4 (4.76%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.57%) Oracle
8 2 (2.38%) OpenAI
8 2 (2.38%) Splunk
9 1 (1.19%) Adobe
9 1 (1.19%) Cribl.io
9 1 (1.19%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.19%) Informatica
9 1 (1.19%) mParticle
9 1 (1.19%) New Relic
9 1 (1.19%) Okta
9 1 (1.19%) Snow
9 1 (1.19%) Talend
9 1 (1.19%) Tealium