Data Ingestion Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Ingestion
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Ingestion skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Ingestion over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 301 424
Rank change year-on-year +52 +123 -12
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 51 48 68
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.30% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.34% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 38 55
10th Percentile £375 £400 £439
25th Percentile £436 £419 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £700 £588 £625
90th Percentile £750 £721 £683
UK median daily rate £524 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -0.19% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £78.75
25th Percentile - £66.25 £80.63
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -20.59% -
75th Percentile - £68.75 £88.13
90th Percentile - - £89.25
UK median hourly rate £38.85 £67.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year -42.45% -20.59% -

All Process and 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 9,117 13,928 24,821
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.37% 87.61% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,245 9,304 17,558
10th Percentile £330 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -3.67% +3.81%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 539 571
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.38 £19.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.54 £31.25
Median hourly rate £39.00 £38.12 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% -30.69% +57.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £77.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £32.50 £36.65
% change year-on-year -2.65% -11.33% +47.41%

Data Ingestion
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Ingestion as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Ingestion trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Ingestion.

Data Ingestion daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Ingestion over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Data Ingestion daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Ingestion
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Ingestion.

Data Ingestion hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Ingestion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.96%) Confluence
3 1 (1.96%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Aladdin
2 2 (3.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (27.45%) AWS
2 13 (25.49%) Azure
3 8 (15.69%) Power Platform
4 7 (13.73%) Amazon S3
5 6 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (11.76%) Serverless
6 5 (9.80%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (9.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (7.84%) GCP
8 3 (5.88%) dbt
9 2 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.92%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (3.92%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (3.92%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.96%) Collibra
10 1 (1.96%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (35.29%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (19.61%) NoSQL
3 9 (17.65%) Data Lake
4 8 (15.69%) Power BI
5 6 (11.76%) Big Data
6 5 (9.80%) Metadata
6 5 (9.80%) Relational Database
7 4 (7.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (7.84%) RDBMS
8 3 (5.88%) BigQuery
8 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
9 2 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (3.92%) DynamoDB
9 2 (3.92%) Hadoop
9 2 (3.92%) Looker
9 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.96%) Apache Hive
10 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) ER Studio
1 4 (7.84%) ERwin
2 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.92%) GitLab
3 2 (3.92%) MLflow
4 1 (1.96%) Git
4 1 (1.96%) JIRA
4 1 (1.96%) JMeter
4 1 (1.96%) Postman
4 1 (1.96%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.96%) Selenium
4 1 (1.96%) TestNG
4 1 (1.96%) Travis CI
General
1 19 (37.25%) Social Skills
2 13 (25.49%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (23.53%) Finance
4 5 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.84%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (7.84%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (5.88%) Banking
7 2 (3.92%) Front Office
7 2 (3.92%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Dutch Language
8 1 (1.96%) French Language
8 1 (1.96%) Military
8 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (39.22%) Data Engineer
2 12 (23.53%) Senior
3 6 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Architect
4 5 (9.80%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Developer
4 5 (9.80%) Lead
5 4 (7.84%) Azure Data Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Data Modeller
6 3 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
6 3 (5.88%) Data Architect
6 3 (5.88%) GCP Data Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.73%) Kafka
1 7 (13.73%) PySpark
2 5 (9.80%) .NET
3 3 (5.88%) .NET Core
3 3 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 3 (5.88%) AngularJS
3 3 (5.88%) Entity Framework
3 3 (5.88%) FastAPI
3 3 (5.88%) LINQ
3 3 (5.88%) React
4 2 (3.92%) Lambda Expressions
4 2 (3.92%) Vue
5 1 (1.96%) HTML
5 1 (1.96%) JDBC
5 1 (1.96%) NumPy
5 1 (1.96%) Pandas
5 1 (1.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Data Fabric
2 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.88%) Fixed Income
2 3 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.96%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.96%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (49.02%) ETL
2 18 (35.29%) Data Pipeline
2 18 (35.29%) DevOps
3 16 (31.37%) Agile
3 16 (31.37%) Data Modelling
4 13 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (21.57%) Data Engineering
6 10 (19.61%) Analytics
6 10 (19.61%) CI/CD
7 9 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (17.65%) Data Governance
7 9 (17.65%) Visualisation
8 8 (15.69%) Data Integration
8 8 (15.69%) Data Science
9 7 (13.73%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (13.73%) Computer Science
9 7 (13.73%) Data Architecture
9 7 (13.73%) Decision-Making
10 6 (11.76%) Containerisation
10 6 (11.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 27 (52.94%) Python
2 24 (47.06%) SQL
3 7 (13.73%) Java
4 5 (9.80%) Scala
5 4 (7.84%) C#
6 2 (3.92%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.92%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.96%) Bash
7 1 (1.96%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.69%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (13.73%) Degree
4 3 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.92%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.96%) CEH
6 1 (1.96%) CISSP
6 1 (1.96%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (29.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.96%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.96%) GDPR
2 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 8 (15.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 6 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (1.96%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (13.73%) Databricks
2 5 (9.80%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.88%) Google
3 3 (5.88%) Murex
3 3 (5.88%) Oracle
4 2 (3.92%) Splunk
5 1 (1.96%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.96%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.96%) Informatica