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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 249 285
Rank change year-on-year +14 +36 +96
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 128 60 49
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.94% 0.60% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.65% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 47 37
10th Percentile £361 £395 £415
25th Percentile £413 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +13.95% -7.32% -17.67%
75th Percentile £638 £573 £600
90th Percentile £731 £615 £727
UK median daily rate £525 £524 £500
% change year-on-year +0.19% +4.80% -16.67%
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 12,180 9,250 11,384
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.89% 91.88% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,689 6,234 7,603
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -3.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 702 282 398
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.62 £18.50
25th Percentile £31.25 £19.02 £31.25
Median hourly rate £52.46 £34.48 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -19.81% -14.00%
75th Percentile £70.75 £65.00 £65.02
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.14 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.77% -1.96%

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 12 August 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 (7.81%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.91%) Apache
3 4 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.56%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.78%) nginx
5 1 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 5 (3.91%) NetSuite
1 5 (3.91%) Sage X3
2 4 (3.13%) Aladdin
3 3 (2.34%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.78%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.78%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.78%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 44 (34.38%) Azure
2 29 (22.66%) AWS
3 21 (16.41%) Power Platform
4 19 (14.84%) GitHub
5 17 (13.28%) dbt
5 17 (13.28%) GCP
5 17 (13.28%) Snowflake
6 15 (11.72%) Amazon S3
7 13 (10.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (10.16%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (10.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (6.25%) Entra ID
9 8 (6.25%) Fivetran
9 8 (6.25%) Serverless
10 6 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.91%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (3.91%) Azure AKS
11 5 (3.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (3.91%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.56%) Broadband
1 2 (1.56%) Firewall
2 1 (0.78%) IPsec
2 1 (0.78%) Network Security
2 1 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (21.09%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (16.41%) Data Lake
2 21 (16.41%) Metadata
3 19 (14.84%) Power BI
4 10 (7.81%) BigQuery
5 9 (7.03%) Star Schema
6 8 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (5.47%) Big Data
7 7 (5.47%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (5.47%) Tableau
8 6 (4.69%) Delta Lake
9 5 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (3.91%) Relational Database
10 4 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.34%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (2.34%) Power Query
12 2 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (1.56%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 6 (4.69%) GitLab
2 5 (3.91%) Git
3 3 (2.34%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.34%) Postman
4 2 (1.56%) JIRA
5 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.78%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.78%) git-flow
5 1 (0.78%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.78%) Selenium
5 1 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (21.88%) Finance
2 24 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.41%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.25%) Marketing
6 7 (5.47%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.69%) Banking
8 5 (3.91%) Billing
8 5 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.34%) Legal
9 3 (2.34%) Publishing
9 3 (2.34%) Retail
10 2 (1.56%) Back Office
10 2 (1.56%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.56%) German Language
10 2 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.78%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.78%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 39 (30.47%) Data Engineer
2 22 (17.19%) Senior
3 17 (13.28%) Architect
4 13 (10.16%) Developer
5 9 (7.03%) Analyst
5 9 (7.03%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (6.25%) Data Architect
6 8 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
6 8 (6.25%) Snowflake Engineer
7 7 (5.47%) Data Analyst
7 7 (5.47%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (5.47%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 6 (4.69%) Azure Data Engineer
8 6 (4.69%) Consultant
8 6 (4.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) AWS Data Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) Python Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) Software Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.16%) PySpark
2 10 (7.81%) Kafka
3 9 (7.03%) REST
4 5 (3.91%) PyTorch
5 4 (3.13%) TensorFlow
6 3 (2.34%) FastAPI
6 3 (2.34%) JSON
6 3 (2.34%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (2.34%) React
6 3 (2.34%) SailPoint
6 3 (2.34%) SAP CAF
7 2 (1.56%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.56%) Node.js
7 2 (1.56%) OAuth
7 2 (1.56%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.56%) SOAP
8 1 (0.78%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.78%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.78%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.72%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.59%) Data Structures
3 9 (7.03%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.91%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (3.91%) Clustering
6 4 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.13%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.34%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.34%) SCADA
8 2 (1.56%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.56%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.56%) BYOD
8 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.56%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.56%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.78%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.56%) Linux
2 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (47.66%) Data Pipeline
2 53 (41.41%) Data Engineering
3 52 (40.63%) Data Modelling
4 49 (38.28%) ETL
5 42 (32.81%) Analytics
6 38 (29.69%) CI/CD
7 31 (24.22%) AI
8 28 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (19.53%) Agile
9 25 (19.53%) DevOps
10 24 (18.75%) Data Governance
11 21 (16.41%) Data Transformation
11 21 (16.41%) Validation
12 20 (15.63%) Machine Learning
13 19 (14.84%) Data Science
13 19 (14.84%) Use Case
14 18 (14.06%) Platform Engineering
15 17 (13.28%) Data Architecture
15 17 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (46.09%) Python
2 50 (39.06%) SQL
3 8 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.69%) Scala
5 5 (3.91%) C#
5 5 (3.91%) Java
5 5 (3.91%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (3.13%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.34%) Bicep
7 3 (2.34%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.56%) Bash
9 1 (0.78%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.78%) PROC SQL
9 1 (0.78%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.19%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.91%) SnowPro
4 3 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.34%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.56%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.56%) Degree
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.78%) CISSP
6 1 (0.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (36.72%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.91%) NIST
3 4 (3.13%) QA
4 3 (2.34%) GDPR
4 3 (2.34%) NCSC
5 2 (1.56%) COPPA
6 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.78%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.69%) Docker
2 5 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (10.94%) Terraform
2 9 (7.03%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.34%) Grafana
4 2 (1.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.78%) Ansible
5 1 (0.78%) Control-M
5 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (21.09%) Databricks
2 25 (19.53%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.81%) Salesforce
4 9 (7.03%) Google
5 6 (4.69%) Informatica
5 6 (4.69%) Oracle
6 5 (3.91%) PagerDuty
6 5 (3.91%) Sage
6 5 (3.91%) SAP
6 5 (3.91%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.34%) Adobe
7 3 (2.34%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.34%) SimCorp
8 2 (1.56%) IBM
8 2 (1.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.56%) Splunk
8 2 (1.56%) Thales
9 1 (0.78%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.78%) Okta
9 1 (0.78%) Snow