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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 246 274
Rank change year-on-year +6 +28 +99
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 137 64 57
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.01% 0.65% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.70% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 52 42
10th Percentile £387 £403 £403
25th Percentile £450 £454 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £508 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% -0.98% -18.00%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £735 £671 £718
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +9.95% -19.96%

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 12,289 9,116 11,113
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.37% 92.23% 87.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,679 6,053 7,173
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £740 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 740 280 312
10th Percentile £15.81 £12.62 £18.50
25th Percentile £28.00 £19.15 £29.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 £35.95 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.15% -16.41% -14.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%

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 10 September 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 9 (6.57%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (5.11%) Apache
3 4 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.19%) Confluence
5 2 (1.46%) nginx
6 1 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.73%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.73%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.73%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 5 (3.65%) NetSuite
1 5 (3.65%) Sage X3
2 3 (2.19%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.46%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.73%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 48 (35.04%) Azure
2 30 (21.90%) AWS
3 24 (17.52%) Power Platform
4 21 (15.33%) GitHub
5 18 (13.14%) GCP
5 18 (13.14%) Snowflake
6 16 (11.68%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (11.68%) dbt
7 15 (10.95%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (10.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (9.49%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (7.30%) Amazon S3
10 9 (6.57%) Serverless
11 8 (5.84%) Entra ID
11 8 (5.84%) Fivetran
12 7 (5.11%) Azure Databricks
13 6 (4.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (3.65%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (3.65%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.19%) Broadband
1 3 (2.19%) HTTP
2 1 (0.73%) Firewall
2 1 (0.73%) IPsec
2 1 (0.73%) Network Security
2 1 (0.73%) OpenFlow
2 1 (0.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (18.98%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (16.79%) Power BI
3 22 (16.06%) Data Lake
4 21 (15.33%) Metadata
5 11 (8.03%) BigQuery
6 9 (6.57%) Star Schema
7 8 (5.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (5.84%) Big Data
7 8 (5.84%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (5.11%) Delta Lake
8 7 (5.11%) Tableau
9 4 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (2.19%) Power Query
10 3 (2.19%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.46%) Data Hub
11 2 (1.46%) Oracle ODI
11 2 (1.46%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (3.65%) Git
2 4 (2.92%) JIRA
3 3 (2.19%) GitLab
3 3 (2.19%) Postman
4 2 (1.46%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.73%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.73%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.73%) RStudio
5 1 (0.73%) Selenium
5 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (22.63%) Finance
1 31 (22.63%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.30%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.84%) Marketing
5 7 (5.11%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.38%) Banking
6 6 (4.38%) Billing
7 5 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.92%) Legal
8 4 (2.92%) Publishing
9 3 (2.19%) Retail
10 2 (1.46%) Back Office
10 2 (1.46%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.46%) German Language
10 2 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.73%) Advertising
11 1 (0.73%) Law
11 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (28.47%) Data Engineer
2 24 (17.52%) Senior
3 22 (16.06%) Architect
4 14 (10.22%) Developer
5 11 (8.03%) Data Architect
6 9 (6.57%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (6.57%) Snowflake Engineer
6 9 (6.57%) Software Engineer
7 8 (5.84%) Senior Data Engineer
7 8 (5.84%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 7 (5.11%) Analyst
8 7 (5.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 6 (4.38%) Azure Data Engineer
9 6 (4.38%) Consultant
9 6 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (3.65%) Data Analyst
10 5 (3.65%) Databricks Engineer
10 5 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.65%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.87%) REST
2 15 (10.95%) Terraform
3 14 (10.22%) Kafka
4 11 (8.03%) PySpark
5 6 (4.38%) JSON
6 5 (3.65%) PyTorch
6 5 (3.65%) TensorFlow
7 4 (2.92%) React
7 4 (2.92%) SOAP
7 4 (2.92%) Spring
7 4 (2.92%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.19%) .NET
8 3 (2.19%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (2.19%) FastAPI
8 3 (2.19%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (2.19%) SailPoint
8 3 (2.19%) SAP CAF
8 3 (2.19%) XML
9 2 (1.46%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.46%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.14%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.49%) Onboarding
3 10 (7.30%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.38%) Clustering
5 6 (4.38%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.65%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (3.65%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.19%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.19%) SCADA
7 3 (2.19%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.46%) BYOD
8 2 (1.46%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.46%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.46%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.46%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.73%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.92%) Linux
2 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (48.18%) Data Pipeline
2 59 (43.07%) Data Engineering
3 54 (39.42%) ETL
4 53 (38.69%) Data Modelling
5 48 (35.04%) Analytics
6 47 (34.31%) CI/CD
7 38 (27.74%) AI
8 30 (21.90%) Business Intelligence
9 29 (21.17%) DevOps
10 28 (20.44%) Data Transformation
11 25 (18.25%) Validation
12 24 (17.52%) Agile
12 24 (17.52%) Data Governance
12 24 (17.52%) Machine Learning
13 21 (15.33%) Data Architecture
13 21 (15.33%) Use Case
14 20 (14.60%) Observability
15 19 (13.87%) Data Integration
15 19 (13.87%) Data Science
15 19 (13.87%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 65 (47.45%) Python
2 51 (37.23%) SQL
3 10 (7.30%) Java
3 10 (7.30%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.11%) C#
5 5 (3.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (3.65%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.65%) Scala
6 4 (2.92%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (2.92%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.19%) Bash
7 3 (2.19%) Bicep
8 1 (0.73%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.73%) PROC SQL
8 1 (0.73%) R
8 1 (0.73%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (20.44%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.65%) SnowPro
4 4 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.92%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.19%) Degree
6 2 (1.46%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.46%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.73%) PhD
7 1 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (34.31%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.38%) QA
3 5 (3.65%) NCSC
3 5 (3.65%) NIST
4 3 (2.19%) GDPR
5 2 (1.46%) COPPA
5 2 (1.46%) SLA
6 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.73%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.73%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (3.65%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.73%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (9.49%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.19%) Grafana
3 2 (1.46%) Ansible
3 2 (1.46%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.73%) Control-M
4 1 (0.73%) Kibana
4 1 (0.73%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (22.63%) Databricks
2 23 (16.79%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.30%) Salesforce
4 9 (6.57%) Google
5 6 (4.38%) Oracle
6 5 (3.65%) Informatica
6 5 (3.65%) PagerDuty
6 5 (3.65%) Sage
6 5 (3.65%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.92%) SAP
8 3 (2.19%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.19%) Splunk
9 2 (1.46%) Adobe
9 2 (1.46%) SimCorp
10 1 (0.73%) Foundry
10 1 (0.73%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.73%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.73%) Netezza
10 1 (0.73%) Pega
10 1 (0.73%) Remedy