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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 270 357
Rank change year-on-year +32 +87 +127
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 73 57 44
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.72% 0.47% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.53% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 41 32
10th Percentile £412 £421 £406
25th Percentile £475 £481 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -6.38% +11.48%
75th Percentile £640 £700 £677
90th Percentile £738 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +7.32% -14.58% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £69.38 £28.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +143.44% -62.00% -

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 9,276 10,738 16,472
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.64% 87.94% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,153 6,711 11,504
10th Percentile £325 £327 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.57% -4.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 210 397
10th Percentile £14.78 £17.50 £18.95
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.26 £26.24
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -23.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.03 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.20% -20.21% +25.43%

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 7 November 2025.

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 (9.59%) Apache
1 7 (9.59%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (9.59%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.37%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.37%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.37%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (49.32%) Azure
2 31 (42.47%) AWS
3 13 (17.81%) Amazon S3
3 13 (17.81%) GCP
3 13 (17.81%) Power Platform
4 12 (16.44%) Serverless
5 11 (15.07%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (15.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 9 (12.33%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (10.96%) GitHub
7 8 (10.96%) Snowflake
8 7 (9.59%) dbt
9 6 (8.22%) Amazon EMR
9 6 (8.22%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (6.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (6.85%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 3 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (4.11%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) DNS
1 1 (1.37%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (23.29%) Data Lake
2 12 (16.44%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (15.07%) Power BI
4 10 (13.70%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (12.33%) BigQuery
6 8 (10.96%) Metadata
7 7 (9.59%) Delta Lake
8 6 (8.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (8.22%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (6.85%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (5.48%) Big Data
10 4 (5.48%) NoSQL
10 4 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (5.48%) Relational Database
10 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
11 3 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (4.11%) DynamoDB
11 3 (4.11%) OLAP
11 3 (4.11%) OLTP
11 3 (4.11%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Git
1 4 (5.48%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (23.29%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.81%) Public Sector
3 9 (12.33%) Finance
4 7 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.59%) Banking
5 4 (5.48%) Marketing
6 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.74%) Legal
6 2 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Automotive
7 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Electronics
7 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (45.21%) Data Engineer
2 10 (13.70%) Architect
2 10 (13.70%) Azure Data Engineer
2 10 (13.70%) Azure Engineer
2 10 (13.70%) Senior
3 8 (10.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) Data Architect
4 7 (9.59%) Developer
5 3 (4.11%) AWS Architect
5 3 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (4.11%) Consultant
5 3 (4.11%) GCP Data Engineer
5 3 (4.11%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (4.11%) Senior Developer
6 2 (2.74%) AWS Data Architect
6 2 (2.74%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (2.74%) Lead
6 2 (2.74%) Python Engineer
6 2 (2.74%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (2.74%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.81%) PySpark
2 8 (10.96%) FastAPI
3 6 (8.22%) SQLAlchemy
4 5 (6.85%) Kafka
5 3 (4.11%) JSON
5 3 (4.11%) NumPy
5 3 (4.11%) Pandas
5 3 (4.11%) PostGIS
6 2 (2.74%) Dask
6 2 (2.74%) GeoJSON
6 2 (2.74%) GeoPandas
6 2 (2.74%) Plotly
6 2 (2.74%) REST
6 2 (2.74%) RESTful
6 2 (2.74%) scikit-learn
6 2 (2.74%) Streamlit
7 1 (1.37%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.37%) Fluent Bit
7 1 (1.37%) Great Expectations
7 1 (1.37%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.85%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.74%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.74%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.74%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.37%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.37%) Clustering
5 1 (1.37%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.37%) SCADA
5 1 (1.37%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (47.95%) ETL
2 30 (41.10%) Data Modelling
3 29 (39.73%) Data Pipeline
4 26 (35.62%) Data Engineering
5 25 (34.25%) Data Science
6 21 (28.77%) Analytics
7 17 (23.29%) AI
8 16 (21.92%) Visualisation
9 14 (19.18%) Agile
9 14 (19.18%) Data Governance
9 14 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (17.81%) CI/CD
11 12 (16.44%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (15.07%) LLM
13 10 (13.70%) Data Architecture
13 10 (13.70%) Data Security
13 10 (13.70%) DevOps
13 10 (13.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 9 (12.33%) Machine Learning
14 9 (12.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 42 (57.53%) Python
2 35 (47.95%) SQL
3 7 (9.59%) Scala
4 4 (5.48%) Java
5 1 (1.37%) C#
5 1 (1.37%) HiveQL
5 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (26.03%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.37%) Degree
6 1 (1.37%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (31.51%) Data Quality
2 8 (10.96%) GDPR
3 3 (4.11%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.74%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.74%) QA
5 1 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 5 (6.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.22%) Kubernetes
1 6 (8.22%) Terraform
2 1 (1.37%) Demisto
2 1 (1.37%) Fluentd
2 1 (1.37%) Kibana
2 1 (1.37%) logstash
Vendors
1 22 (30.14%) Databricks
2 8 (10.96%) Google
3 7 (9.59%) Foundry
3 7 (9.59%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.22%) Palantir
5 5 (6.85%) Informatica
5 5 (6.85%) SAP
6 2 (2.74%) Teradata
7 1 (1.37%) ESRI
7 1 (1.37%) Intel
7 1 (1.37%) mParticle
7 1 (1.37%) Oracle
7 1 (1.37%) Tealium