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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 241 297
Rank change year-on-year -4 +56 +100
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 101 61 52
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.81% 0.64% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.70% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 50 41
10th Percentile £366 £402 £400
25th Percentile £413 £436 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -7.62% -12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £600
90th Percentile £683 £675 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -12.50%
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 £62.00 £38.85 £67.50
% change year-on-year +59.61% -42.45% -20.59%

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 11,025 8,679 12,826
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.90% 91.27% 87.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,085 5,922 8,646
10th Percentile £350 £328 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -1.90% -3.23%
75th Percentile £619 £637 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 212 572
10th Percentile £17.43 £13.79 £14.89
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.19 £24.19
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.95 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.97% -16.41% -18.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.85 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.27% -23.70% +1.39%

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 3 June 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 (6.93%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.95%) Apache
2 5 (4.95%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.96%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.99%) Apache Pig
4 1 (0.99%) Confluence
4 1 (0.99%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Aladdin
1 3 (2.97%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (0.99%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.99%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 43 (42.57%) Azure
2 39 (38.61%) AWS
3 21 (20.79%) Power Platform
4 17 (16.83%) GCP
5 16 (15.84%) Amazon S3
6 14 (13.86%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (13.86%) Serverless
7 13 (12.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (12.87%) dbt
8 10 (9.90%) GitHub
9 8 (7.92%) Amazon EMR
9 8 (7.92%) Snowflake
10 6 (5.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (5.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.96%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.96%) SaaS
11 4 (3.96%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.79%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (16.83%) Data Lake
2 17 (16.83%) Power BI
3 12 (11.88%) Metadata
4 8 (7.92%) Star Schema
4 8 (7.92%) Tableau
5 7 (6.93%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (4.95%) Delta Lake
6 5 (4.95%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (3.96%) Big Data
7 4 (3.96%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.97%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.98%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.98%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.98%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 9 (8.91%) GitLab
2 5 (4.95%) Git
2 5 (4.95%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.95%) JIRA
2 5 (4.95%) Postman
3 2 (1.98%) Gatling
3 2 (1.98%) JMeter
3 2 (1.98%) LoadRunner
3 2 (1.98%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.99%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.99%) git-flow
4 1 (0.99%) JUnit
4 1 (0.99%) Maven
4 1 (0.99%) Selenium
4 1 (0.99%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.99%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.99%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (20.79%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (18.81%) Finance
3 15 (14.85%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.93%) Banking
6 6 (5.94%) Marketing
7 3 (2.97%) Police
7 3 (2.97%) Publishing
8 2 (1.98%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.98%) Legal
8 2 (1.98%) Retail
8 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.99%) Advertising
9 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.99%) Law
9 1 (0.99%) Military
9 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (40.59%) Data Engineer
2 16 (15.84%) Developer
3 15 (14.85%) Senior
4 8 (7.92%) Architect
4 8 (7.92%) Senior Developer
5 6 (5.94%) AWS Data Engineer
5 6 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (5.94%) Consultant
5 6 (5.94%) Snowflake Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) Lead
6 5 (4.95%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (3.96%) Data Analytics Specialist
7 4 (3.96%) Data Consultant
7 4 (3.96%) Platform Specialist
7 4 (3.96%) Python Developer
7 4 (3.96%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (2.97%) Data Analyst
8 3 (2.97%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.86%) PySpark
2 9 (8.91%) REST
3 6 (5.94%) Kafka
4 5 (4.95%) PyTorch
5 4 (3.96%) React
6 3 (2.97%) FastAPI
6 3 (2.97%) JSON
6 3 (2.97%) LangChain
6 3 (2.97%) LDAP
6 3 (2.97%) Node.js
6 3 (2.97%) OAuth
6 3 (2.97%) OpenID
6 3 (2.97%) SailPoint
6 3 (2.97%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.98%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.98%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.98%) Hugging Face
7 2 (1.98%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.98%) Playwright
7 2 (1.98%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.88%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.92%) Algorithms
2 8 (7.92%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.95%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.96%) Clustering
4 4 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.96%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.96%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.98%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.98%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.99%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.99%) Replication
7 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.98%) Linux
1 2 (1.98%) Unix
1 2 (1.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (40.59%) Data Pipeline
2 40 (39.60%) Data Engineering
2 40 (39.60%) Data Modelling
2 40 (39.60%) ETL
3 34 (33.66%) CI/CD
4 28 (27.72%) Analytics
5 27 (26.73%) Data Science
6 22 (21.78%) Business Intelligence
7 21 (20.79%) Machine Learning
8 19 (18.81%) Agile
8 19 (18.81%) DevOps
9 18 (17.82%) AI
9 18 (17.82%) Data Architecture
9 18 (17.82%) Validation
10 17 (16.83%) Data Governance
10 17 (16.83%) Use Case
11 15 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (13.86%) Performance Tuning
12 14 (13.86%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (10.89%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 54 (53.47%) Python
2 46 (45.54%) SQL
3 15 (14.85%) Java
4 7 (6.93%) Scala
5 5 (4.95%) Kotlin
5 5 (4.95%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.96%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.97%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.97%) R
8 2 (1.98%) Bash
8 2 (1.98%) Cypher
9 1 (0.99%) Bicep
9 1 (0.99%) C#
Qualifications
1 22 (21.78%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.82%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.96%) SnowPro
4 2 (1.98%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.98%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.98%) CISSP
4 2 (1.98%) Degree
5 1 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.99%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (33.66%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.96%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.96%) GDPR
3 3 (2.97%) QA
4 1 (0.99%) GRC
4 1 (0.99%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.99%) NIST
4 1 (0.99%) SLA
4 1 (0.99%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (3.96%) Docker
2 3 (2.97%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.99%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.99%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (9.90%) Terraform
2 6 (5.94%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.97%) Grafana
4 2 (1.98%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.99%) Ansible
5 1 (0.99%) Control-M
5 1 (0.99%) Fluentd
5 1 (0.99%) logstash
5 1 (0.99%) QRadar
Vendors
1 23 (22.77%) Databricks
2 19 (18.81%) Microsoft
3 11 (10.89%) Google
4 7 (6.93%) Informatica
5 6 (5.94%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.95%) Oracle
7 4 (3.96%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.97%) IBM
8 3 (2.97%) SimCorp
9 2 (1.98%) Adobe
9 2 (1.98%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.98%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.98%) SAP
9 2 (1.98%) Snow
9 2 (1.98%) Splunk
9 2 (1.98%) Thales
10 1 (0.99%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.99%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.99%) New Relic
10 1 (0.99%) Okta