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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 241 293
Rank change year-on-year -1 +52 +98
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 100 59 52
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 0.61% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.66% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 48 40
10th Percentile £355 £409 £400
25th Percentile £413 £436 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £493 £528
Median % change year-on-year +6.60% -6.64% -12.08%
75th Percentile £613 £556 £608
90th Percentile £688 £683 £800
UK median daily rate £548 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +6.93% -2.38% -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 10,764 8,899 12,975
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.38% 91.37% 87.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,963 6,110 8,721
10th Percentile £350 £333 £325
25th Percentile £422 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -0.76% -3.58%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £507 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 510 215 566
10th Percentile £17.47 £13.85 £14.94
25th Percentile £30.63 £18.52 £24.44
Median hourly rate £57.50 £38.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.32% -11.63% -18.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £84.00 £76.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.46% -21.77% +0.06%

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 19 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 (7.00%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.00%) Apache
2 5 (5.00%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.00%) Apache Superset
4 1 (1.00%) Apache Pig
4 1 (1.00%) Confluence
4 1 (1.00%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Aladdin
1 3 (3.00%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (1.00%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (1.00%) Eloqua
2 1 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 43 (43.00%) Azure
2 41 (41.00%) AWS
3 20 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 16 (16.00%) GCP
5 15 (15.00%) Amazon S3
6 14 (14.00%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (14.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (14.00%) Serverless
7 12 (12.00%) dbt
8 11 (11.00%) GitHub
9 8 (8.00%) Amazon EMR
9 8 (8.00%) Snowflake
10 6 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (4.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (17.00%) Data Lake
3 16 (16.00%) Power BI
4 13 (13.00%) Metadata
5 8 (8.00%) Tableau
6 7 (7.00%) Snowflake Schema
6 7 (7.00%) Star Schema
7 6 (6.00%) Relational Database
8 5 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (4.00%) Big Data
9 4 (4.00%) BigQuery
9 4 (4.00%) Delta Lake
10 3 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (3.00%) Hadoop
11 2 (2.00%) Data Mining
11 2 (2.00%) Neo4j
11 2 (2.00%) SQL Server
11 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (9.00%) GitLab
2 5 (5.00%) Git
2 5 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.00%) JIRA
3 3 (3.00%) Postman
4 2 (2.00%) Gatling
4 2 (2.00%) JMeter
4 2 (2.00%) LoadRunner
4 2 (2.00%) NeoLoad
5 1 (1.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.00%) git-flow
5 1 (1.00%) JUnit
5 1 (1.00%) Maven
5 1 (1.00%) Selenium
5 1 (1.00%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.00%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.00%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (17.00%) Finance
3 14 (14.00%) Social Skills
4 9 (9.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.00%) Banking
6 4 (4.00%) Marketing
7 3 (3.00%) Police
7 3 (3.00%) Publishing
8 2 (2.00%) Legal
8 2 (2.00%) Retail
8 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.00%) Advertising
9 1 (1.00%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.00%) Law
9 1 (1.00%) Military
9 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (39.00%) Data Engineer
2 17 (17.00%) Developer
3 16 (16.00%) Senior
4 8 (8.00%) Architect
4 8 (8.00%) Senior Developer
5 7 (7.00%) Consultant
6 6 (6.00%) AWS Data Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Snowflake Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Lead
7 5 (5.00%) Python Developer
7 5 (5.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Data Analytics Specialist
8 4 (4.00%) Data Consultant
8 4 (4.00%) Platform Specialist
8 4 (4.00%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Senior Manager
8 4 (4.00%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.00%) PySpark
2 7 (7.00%) REST
3 6 (6.00%) FastAPI
3 6 (6.00%) Kafka
4 4 (4.00%) PyTorch
4 4 (4.00%) React
5 3 (3.00%) LangChain
5 3 (3.00%) LDAP
5 3 (3.00%) Node.js
5 3 (3.00%) OAuth
5 3 (3.00%) OpenID
5 3 (3.00%) SailPoint
6 2 (2.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.00%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.00%) Hugging Face
6 2 (2.00%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.00%) Playwright
6 2 (2.00%) scikit-learn
6 2 (2.00%) TensorFlow
6 2 (2.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.00%) Data Structures
3 7 (7.00%) Algorithms
4 5 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.00%) Clustering
5 4 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.00%) Reference Data
6 3 (3.00%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.00%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.00%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (1.00%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.00%) Linux
1 2 (2.00%) Unix
1 2 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (40.00%) ETL
2 39 (39.00%) Data Modelling
3 37 (37.00%) Data Engineering
4 36 (36.00%) Data Pipeline
5 31 (31.00%) CI/CD
6 27 (27.00%) Data Science
7 26 (26.00%) Analytics
8 21 (21.00%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (20.00%) Agile
9 20 (20.00%) AI
10 19 (19.00%) DevOps
11 18 (18.00%) Machine Learning
11 18 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (17.00%) Data Governance
12 17 (17.00%) Validation
13 14 (14.00%) Data Architecture
13 14 (14.00%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (13.00%) Use Case
15 12 (12.00%) Visualisation
16 11 (11.00%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 56 (56.00%) Python
2 46 (46.00%) SQL
3 13 (13.00%) Java
4 5 (5.00%) Kotlin
4 5 (5.00%) Scala
4 5 (5.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.00%) R
6 2 (2.00%) Bash
6 2 (2.00%) Cypher
7 1 (1.00%) Bicep
7 1 (1.00%) C#
7 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (23.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.00%) SnowPro
4 3 (3.00%) Degree
5 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.00%) CISSP
5 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.00%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (32.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.00%) GDPR
3 3 (3.00%) QA
4 1 (1.00%) GRC
4 1 (1.00%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.00%) NIST
4 1 (1.00%) SLA
4 1 (1.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (4.00%) Docker
2 3 (3.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.00%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (11.00%) Terraform
2 7 (7.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.00%) Grafana
4 2 (2.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.00%) Ansible
5 1 (1.00%) Fluentd
5 1 (1.00%) logstash
5 1 (1.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 23 (23.00%) Databricks
2 16 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 11 (11.00%) Google
4 7 (7.00%) Informatica
5 6 (6.00%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.00%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.00%) IBM
7 3 (3.00%) Oracle
7 3 (3.00%) SimCorp
8 2 (2.00%) Adobe
8 2 (2.00%) Foundry
8 2 (2.00%) OpenAI
8 2 (2.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (2.00%) SAP
8 2 (2.00%) Snow
8 2 (2.00%) Splunk
8 2 (2.00%) Thales
9 1 (1.00%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.00%) New Relic
9 1 (1.00%) Okta