Data Ingestion Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Ingestion
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 292 385
Rank change year-on-year +39 +93 +104
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 64 54 71
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.63% 0.37% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.42% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 41 60
10th Percentile £400 £400 £473
25th Percentile £436 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -16.67% +2.13%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £688
90th Percentile £666 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £503 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +0.50% -16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £78.75
25th Percentile - £66.25 £80.63
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -20.59% -
75th Percentile - £68.75 £88.13
90th Percentile - - £89.25
UK median hourly rate £38.85 £67.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year -42.45% -20.59% -

All Process and 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 9,332 12,732 21,621
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.78% 87.28% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,321 8,571 15,258
10th Percentile £325 £325 £357
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +0.93%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £751 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 553 521
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.17 £18.49
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.50 £26.00
Median hourly rate £34.65 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% -18.10% +31.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -33.82% +1.77% +43.62%

Data Ingestion
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Ingestion as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Ingestion trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Ingestion.

Data Ingestion daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Ingestion over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Data Ingestion daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Ingestion
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Ingestion.

Data Ingestion hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Ingestion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (9.38%) Apache
2 5 (7.81%) Apache Spark
3 4 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.56%) Confluence
5 1 (1.56%) Drupal
5 1 (1.56%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (3.13%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 32 (50.00%) Azure
2 18 (28.13%) AWS
3 17 (26.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 15 (23.44%) Power Platform
5 10 (15.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (15.63%) GCP
6 9 (14.06%) Amazon S3
6 9 (14.06%) Serverless
7 8 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (9.38%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (9.38%) Collibra
8 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (7.81%) Snowflake
10 4 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (6.25%) dbt
11 3 (4.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (3.13%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) DNS
1 1 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (1.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (32.81%) Data Lake
2 20 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (21.88%) NoSQL
4 13 (20.31%) Power BI
5 10 (15.63%) Metadata
6 9 (14.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (12.50%) Delta Lake
8 7 (10.94%) Big Data
8 7 (10.94%) Relational Database
9 6 (9.38%) BigQuery
10 5 (7.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (6.25%) RDBMS
11 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
12 3 (4.69%) MySQL
12 3 (4.69%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (3.13%) Looker
13 2 (3.13%) Oracle Database
13 2 (3.13%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Git
1 6 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.25%) ER Studio
2 4 (6.25%) ERwin
3 2 (3.13%) JIRA
4 1 (1.56%) GitLab
4 1 (1.56%) JMeter
4 1 (1.56%) Postman
4 1 (1.56%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.56%) RStudio
4 1 (1.56%) Selenium
4 1 (1.56%) TestNG
4 1 (1.56%) Travis CI
General
1 18 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 17 (26.56%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.63%) Banking
4 7 (10.94%) Finance
5 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Automotive
7 1 (1.56%) Billing
7 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.56%) Marketing
7 1 (1.56%) Military
7 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (57.81%) Data Engineer
2 15 (23.44%) Azure Data Engineer
2 15 (23.44%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (17.19%) Senior
4 7 (10.94%) Architect
4 7 (10.94%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (9.38%) Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Data Modeller
6 4 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
7 3 (4.69%) Data Architect
7 3 (4.69%) GCP Data Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Lead
7 3 (4.69%) Lead Data Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.13%) Security Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (26.56%) PySpark
2 10 (15.63%) Kafka
3 6 (9.38%) JSON
4 3 (4.69%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.56%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.56%) Fluent Bit
5 1 (1.56%) JDBC
5 1 (1.56%) NumPy
5 1 (1.56%) Pandas
5 1 (1.56%) pydantic
5 1 (1.56%) React
5 1 (1.56%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.56%) RESTful
5 1 (1.56%) XML
5 1 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.25%) Data Fabric
2 4 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.69%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.56%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.56%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (64.06%) ETL
2 34 (53.13%) Data Modelling
3 28 (43.75%) Data Engineering
4 26 (40.63%) Data Pipeline
5 21 (32.81%) Data Governance
6 19 (29.69%) Analytics
7 16 (25.00%) Agile
8 15 (23.44%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (23.44%) Data Science
8 15 (23.44%) DevOps
8 15 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (21.88%) Data Architecture
10 13 (20.31%) Data Security
11 12 (18.75%) CI/CD
11 12 (18.75%) Data Integration
11 12 (18.75%) Data Transformation
11 12 (18.75%) Migration
11 12 (18.75%) Visualisation
12 11 (17.19%) Validation
13 9 (14.06%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 40 (62.50%) SQL
2 32 (50.00%) Python
3 12 (18.75%) Scala
4 7 (10.94%) Java
5 2 (3.13%) Bash
6 1 (1.56%) C#
6 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 15 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (10.94%) Degree
4 5 (7.81%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.56%) CEH
5 1 (1.56%) CISSP
5 1 (1.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (42.19%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.81%) GDPR
3 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 10 (15.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.94%) Terraform
3 1 (1.56%) Demisto
3 1 (1.56%) Fluentd
3 1 (1.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (34.38%) Databricks
2 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 8 (12.50%) Informatica
4 7 (10.94%) Google
5 4 (6.25%) Oracle
6 2 (3.13%) Splunk
6 2 (3.13%) Teradata
7 1 (1.56%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.56%) Foundry
7 1 (1.56%) Intel
7 1 (1.56%) Palantir