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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 248 277
Rank change year-on-year +6 +29 +103
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 135 63 55
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.01% 0.62% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.68% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 50 42
10th Percentile £362 £399 £400
25th Percentile £413 £436 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -5.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £638 £574 £597
90th Percentile £725 £671 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £524 £500
% change year-on-year +0.19% +4.80% -18.03%
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 £70.75 £38.85 £48.00
% change year-on-year +82.13% -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 12,007 9,293 11,685
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.68% 91.83% 87.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,620 6,282 7,866
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% -3.81% -2.33%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 671 278 413
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.62 £16.69
25th Percentile £31.25 £19.02 £30.16
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.48 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.51% -19.81% -14.00%
75th Percentile £71.95 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £71.31 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 29 July 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 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.44%) Apache
3 4 (2.96%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.96%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Pig
4 1 (0.74%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 5 (3.70%) NetSuite
1 5 (3.70%) Sage X3
2 4 (2.96%) Aladdin
3 3 (2.22%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (1.48%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.74%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.74%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 44 (32.59%) Azure
2 38 (28.15%) AWS
3 24 (17.78%) Power Platform
4 19 (14.07%) GCP
5 18 (13.33%) dbt
5 18 (13.33%) GitHub
5 18 (13.33%) Snowflake
6 17 (12.59%) Amazon S3
7 14 (10.37%) Serverless
8 13 (9.63%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (9.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (9.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (8.15%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (8.15%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (5.93%) Entra ID
10 8 (5.93%) Fivetran
11 7 (5.19%) Amazon EMR
12 6 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (3.70%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.48%) Firewall
2 1 (0.74%) Broadband
2 1 (0.74%) IPsec
2 1 (0.74%) Network Security
2 1 (0.74%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (20.74%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (15.56%) Power BI
3 19 (14.07%) Metadata
4 18 (13.33%) Data Lake
5 11 (8.15%) BigQuery
6 10 (7.41%) Star Schema
7 9 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (6.67%) Tableau
8 7 (5.19%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (4.44%) Big Data
10 5 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (3.70%) Delta Lake
10 5 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.70%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.96%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (2.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (2.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (2.22%) Power Query
13 2 (1.48%) DynamoDB
13 2 (1.48%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 7 (5.19%) GitLab
2 5 (3.70%) Git
3 3 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.22%) Postman
4 2 (1.48%) JIRA
5 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.74%) git-flow
5 1 (0.74%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.74%) Selenium
5 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (19.26%) Finance
2 23 (17.04%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.15%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.67%) Marketing
6 7 (5.19%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.44%) Banking
8 5 (3.70%) Billing
8 5 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.96%) Publishing
10 3 (2.22%) Legal
10 3 (2.22%) Police
10 3 (2.22%) Retail
11 2 (1.48%) Back Office
11 2 (1.48%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.74%) Advertising
12 1 (0.74%) Law
12 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (32.59%) Data Engineer
2 25 (18.52%) Senior
3 17 (12.59%) Developer
4 15 (11.11%) Architect
5 9 (6.67%) Analyst
5 9 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (6.67%) Snowflake Engineer
6 8 (5.93%) Senior Data Engineer
6 8 (5.93%) Senior Developer
6 8 (5.93%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 7 (5.19%) AWS Data Engineer
7 7 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (5.19%) Consultant
7 7 (5.19%) Data Analyst
7 7 (5.19%) Data Architect
7 7 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (4.44%) Azure Data Engineer
9 5 (3.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 5 (3.70%) Python Engineer
9 5 (3.70%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.37%) PySpark
2 8 (5.93%) Kafka
2 8 (5.93%) REST
3 4 (2.96%) JSON
3 4 (2.96%) PyTorch
4 3 (2.22%) ARM Templates
4 3 (2.22%) FastAPI
4 3 (2.22%) OAuth
4 3 (2.22%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (2.22%) React
4 3 (2.22%) SailPoint
4 3 (2.22%) SAP CAF
4 3 (2.22%) scikit-learn
4 3 (2.22%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.48%) Node.js
5 2 (1.48%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.48%) SOAP
6 1 (0.74%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.74%) Pandas
6 1 (0.74%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.59%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.93%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.19%) Algorithms
4 7 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.44%) Clustering
5 6 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.96%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.22%) Reference Data
8 3 (2.22%) SCADA
9 2 (1.48%) BYOD
9 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.48%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.48%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.48%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.74%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.74%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.74%) Linux
1 1 (0.74%) Unix
1 1 (0.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (45.19%) Data Pipeline
2 56 (41.48%) Data Engineering
3 52 (38.52%) Data Modelling
4 49 (36.30%) ETL
5 44 (32.59%) CI/CD
6 41 (30.37%) Analytics
7 30 (22.22%) AI
7 30 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
8 26 (19.26%) Data Governance
8 26 (19.26%) Data Science
9 25 (18.52%) Agile
10 24 (17.78%) DevOps
10 24 (17.78%) Machine Learning
11 23 (17.04%) Validation
12 21 (15.56%) Data Transformation
13 20 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (14.81%) Use Case
14 18 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
15 17 (12.59%) Data Architecture
15 17 (12.59%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 64 (47.41%) Python
2 54 (40.00%) SQL
3 11 (8.15%) Java
4 6 (4.44%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.44%) Scala
5 5 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.70%) Kotlin
6 4 (2.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (2.96%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.22%) C#
8 2 (1.48%) Bash
8 2 (1.48%) Bicep
8 2 (1.48%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.48%) R
9 1 (0.74%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.74%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 26 (19.26%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.70%) SnowPro
4 3 (2.22%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.22%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.48%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.48%) CISSP
5 2 (1.48%) Degree
6 1 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.74%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (36.30%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.96%) GDPR
2 4 (2.96%) NIST
2 4 (2.96%) QA
3 3 (2.22%) NCSC
4 2 (1.48%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.48%) COPPA
5 1 (0.74%) GRC
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.74%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.74%) SLA
5 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (5.19%) Docker
2 5 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.74%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (11.11%) Terraform
2 9 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.48%) Grafana
3 2 (1.48%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.74%) Ansible
4 1 (0.74%) Control-M
4 1 (0.74%) Fluentd
4 1 (0.74%) logstash
4 1 (0.74%) QRadar
4 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 24 (17.78%) Databricks
3 10 (7.41%) Google
3 10 (7.41%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.19%) Informatica
5 6 (4.44%) Oracle
5 6 (4.44%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.70%) PagerDuty
6 5 (3.70%) Sage
6 5 (3.70%) SAP
7 3 (2.22%) Adobe
7 3 (2.22%) IBM
7 3 (2.22%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.22%) SimCorp
7 3 (2.22%) Splunk
8 2 (1.48%) Netezza
8 2 (1.48%) Okta
8 2 (1.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.48%) Snow
8 2 (1.48%) Thales