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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 235 291
Rank change year-on-year -5 +56 +105
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 101 62 51
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 0.65% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.71% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 50 40
10th Percentile £354 £402 £400
25th Percentile £413 £436 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £528
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -8.06% -12.08%
75th Percentile £608 £550 £600
90th Percentile £684 £675 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +9.45% -4.29% -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 10,914 8,674 12,870
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.65% 91.38% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,027 5,945 8,665
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -1.24% -2.78%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 529 201 573
10th Percentile £17.23 £13.78 £14.90
25th Percentile £30.00 £17.80 £24.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.89 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.21% -16.53% -18.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £74.90
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
% change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%

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 27 May 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 41 (40.59%) AWS
3 20 (19.80%) Power Platform
4 16 (15.84%) Amazon S3
4 16 (15.84%) GCP
5 14 (13.86%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (13.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (13.86%) Serverless
6 12 (11.88%) dbt
7 11 (10.89%) GitHub
8 8 (7.92%) Amazon EMR
8 8 (7.92%) Snowflake
9 6 (5.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (5.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.96%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.96%) SaaS
10 4 (3.96%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (19.80%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (16.83%) Data Lake
3 16 (15.84%) Power BI
4 13 (12.87%) Metadata
5 8 (7.92%) Tableau
6 7 (6.93%) Snowflake Schema
6 7 (6.93%) Star Schema
7 5 (4.95%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (3.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (3.96%) Big Data
8 4 (3.96%) BigQuery
8 4 (3.96%) Delta Lake
8 4 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.97%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.98%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.98%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.98%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.98%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 9 (8.91%) GitLab
2 5 (4.95%) Git
2 5 (4.95%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.95%) JIRA
3 4 (3.96%) Postman
4 2 (1.98%) Gatling
4 2 (1.98%) JMeter
4 2 (1.98%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.98%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.99%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.99%) git-flow
5 1 (0.99%) JUnit
5 1 (0.99%) Maven
5 1 (0.99%) Selenium
5 1 (0.99%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.99%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.99%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (20.79%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (17.82%) Finance
3 14 (13.86%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.93%) Banking
6 5 (4.95%) Marketing
7 3 (2.97%) Police
7 3 (2.97%) Publishing
8 2 (1.98%) Legal
8 2 (1.98%) Retail
8 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.99%) Advertising
9 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.99%) Law
9 1 (0.99%) Military
9 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (40.59%) Data Engineer
2 16 (15.84%) Developer
2 16 (15.84%) Senior
3 8 (7.92%) Architect
3 8 (7.92%) Senior Developer
4 6 (5.94%) AWS Data Engineer
4 6 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (5.94%) Consultant
4 6 (5.94%) Snowflake Engineer
5 5 (4.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (4.95%) Lead
5 5 (4.95%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 4 (3.96%) Data Analytics Specialist
6 4 (3.96%) Data Consultant
6 4 (3.96%) Platform Specialist
6 4 (3.96%) Project Manager
6 4 (3.96%) Python Developer
6 4 (3.96%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (3.96%) Senior Manager
6 4 (3.96%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.86%) PySpark
2 8 (7.92%) REST
3 6 (5.94%) FastAPI
3 6 (5.94%) Kafka
4 4 (3.96%) PyTorch
4 4 (3.96%) React
5 3 (2.97%) LangChain
5 3 (2.97%) LDAP
5 3 (2.97%) Node.js
5 3 (2.97%) OAuth
5 3 (2.97%) OpenID
5 3 (2.97%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.98%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.98%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.98%) JSON
6 2 (1.98%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.98%) Playwright
6 2 (1.98%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.98%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.88%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.92%) Algorithms
3 7 (6.93%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.95%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.96%) Clustering
5 4 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.96%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.96%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.97%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.98%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.98%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.99%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.99%) Replication
8 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.98%) Linux
1 2 (1.98%) Unix
1 2 (1.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (39.60%) Data Modelling
2 39 (38.61%) ETL
3 37 (36.63%) Data Engineering
3 37 (36.63%) Data Pipeline
4 31 (30.69%) CI/CD
5 29 (28.71%) Analytics
6 28 (27.72%) Data Science
7 21 (20.79%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (19.80%) Agile
8 20 (19.80%) AI
9 19 (18.81%) DevOps
9 19 (18.81%) Validation
10 18 (17.82%) Machine Learning
11 17 (16.83%) Data Governance
12 16 (15.84%) Data Architecture
12 16 (15.84%) Use Case
13 15 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (13.86%) Performance Tuning
14 14 (13.86%) Platform Engineering
15 11 (10.89%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 53 (52.48%) Python
2 44 (43.56%) SQL
3 15 (14.85%) Java
4 7 (6.93%) Scala
5 5 (4.95%) Kotlin
5 5 (4.95%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (2.97%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.97%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.97%) R
7 2 (1.98%) Bash
7 2 (1.98%) Cypher
8 1 (0.99%) Bicep
8 1 (0.99%) C#
8 1 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (22.77%) 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%) Fluentd
5 1 (0.99%) logstash
5 1 (0.99%) QRadar
Vendors
1 23 (22.77%) Databricks
2 18 (17.82%) Microsoft
3 11 (10.89%) Google
4 7 (6.93%) Informatica
5 6 (5.94%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.96%) Oracle
6 4 (3.96%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.97%) IBM
7 3 (2.97%) SimCorp
8 2 (1.98%) Adobe
8 2 (1.98%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.98%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.98%) SAP
8 2 (1.98%) Snow
8 2 (1.98%) Splunk
8 2 (1.98%) Thales
9 1 (0.99%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.99%) Foundry
9 1 (0.99%) New Relic
9 1 (0.99%) Okta