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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 241 298
Rank change year-on-year +3 +57 +91
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 132 65 54
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.97% 0.64% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.70% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 52 41
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £638 £573 £588
90th Percentile £700 £666 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 £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 12,140 9,319 12,519
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.67% 91.63% 87.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,778 6,305 8,460
10th Percentile £353 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -2.86% -2.43%
75th Percentile £619 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 650 274 534
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £33.75 £19.07 £25.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £34.83 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.11% -19.01% -14.00%
75th Percentile £71.99 £65.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 15 July 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 (6.82%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.79%) Apache
4 4 (3.03%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.76%) Confluence
5 1 (0.76%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (3.79%) NetSuite
1 5 (3.79%) Sage X3
2 3 (2.27%) Aladdin
2 3 (2.27%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (1.52%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.76%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.76%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.76%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 44 (33.33%) Azure
2 40 (30.30%) AWS
3 24 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 21 (15.91%) GCP
5 18 (13.64%) Amazon S3
6 17 (12.88%) GitHub
7 16 (12.12%) Snowflake
8 15 (11.36%) dbt
9 14 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (10.61%) Serverless
10 12 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (6.06%) Amazon EMR
12 8 (6.06%) Fivetran
13 7 (5.30%) Azure AI
13 7 (5.30%) Entra ID
14 6 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) Firewall
2 1 (0.76%) IPsec
2 1 (0.76%) Network Security
2 1 (0.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (21.97%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (15.15%) Power BI
3 18 (13.64%) Data Lake
3 18 (13.64%) Metadata
4 11 (8.33%) BigQuery
5 10 (7.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (7.58%) Star Schema
6 9 (6.82%) Tableau
7 6 (4.55%) Big Data
7 6 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (3.79%) Delta Lake
8 5 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (3.79%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.27%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (2.27%) Power Query
11 2 (1.52%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 7 (5.30%) GitLab
2 5 (3.79%) Git
3 3 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.27%) JIRA
3 3 (2.27%) Postman
4 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.76%) git-flow
4 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.76%) Selenium
4 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (18.94%) Finance
2 24 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (15.15%) Social Skills
4 12 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.82%) Marketing
6 8 (6.06%) Banking
7 7 (5.30%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.79%) Billing
8 5 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.03%) Publishing
10 3 (2.27%) Legal
10 3 (2.27%) Police
10 3 (2.27%) Retail
11 2 (1.52%) Back Office
11 2 (1.52%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.76%) Advertising
12 1 (0.76%) Law
12 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 24 (18.18%) Senior
3 17 (12.88%) Developer
4 14 (10.61%) Architect
5 9 (6.82%) Analyst
6 8 (6.06%) Senior Data Engineer
6 8 (6.06%) Senior Developer
7 7 (5.30%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (5.30%) Data Analyst
7 7 (5.30%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (5.30%) Snowflake Engineer
8 6 (4.55%) AWS Data Engineer
8 6 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (4.55%) Data Architect
8 6 (4.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (3.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (3.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (3.79%) Consultant
9 5 (3.79%) Python Engineer
9 5 (3.79%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.61%) PySpark
2 8 (6.06%) Kafka
3 7 (5.30%) REST
4 5 (3.79%) PyTorch
5 4 (3.03%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.03%) JSON
5 4 (3.03%) React
5 4 (3.03%) TensorFlow
6 3 (2.27%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.27%) LangChain
6 3 (2.27%) Node.js
6 3 (2.27%) OAuth
6 3 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (2.27%) SailPoint
6 3 (2.27%) SAP CAF
6 3 (2.27%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.52%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.52%) Hugging Face
7 2 (1.52%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.06%) Algorithms
2 8 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 7 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.30%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.55%) Clustering
4 6 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.03%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.27%) SCADA
8 2 (1.52%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.52%) BYOD
8 2 (1.52%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.52%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.76%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.76%) Linux
1 1 (0.76%) Unix
1 1 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (46.21%) Data Pipeline
2 54 (40.91%) Data Engineering
3 51 (38.64%) Data Modelling
4 50 (37.88%) ETL
5 40 (30.30%) CI/CD
6 39 (29.55%) Analytics
7 31 (23.48%) AI
8 29 (21.97%) Business Intelligence
8 29 (21.97%) Data Science
9 27 (20.45%) Machine Learning
10 24 (18.18%) Data Governance
10 24 (18.18%) DevOps
10 24 (18.18%) Validation
11 23 (17.42%) Agile
12 22 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (16.67%) Use Case
13 20 (15.15%) Platform Engineering
14 18 (13.64%) Data Architecture
14 18 (13.64%) Data Transformation
15 16 (12.12%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 65 (49.24%) Python
2 51 (38.64%) SQL
3 14 (10.61%) Java
4 7 (5.30%) Scala
5 6 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.79%) Kotlin
6 5 (3.79%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.79%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.03%) C#
7 4 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.27%) R
9 2 (1.52%) Bash
9 2 (1.52%) Bicep
10 1 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.76%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (23.48%) Security Cleared
2 26 (19.70%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.79%) SnowPro
4 4 (3.03%) Degree
5 3 (2.27%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.52%) CISSP
7 1 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.55%) GDPR
3 3 (2.27%) NCSC
3 3 (2.27%) NIST
3 3 (2.27%) QA
4 2 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.52%) COPPA
5 1 (0.76%) GRC
5 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.76%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.76%) SLA
5 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (5.30%) Docker
2 5 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.76%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (10.61%) Terraform
2 10 (7.58%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.52%) Grafana
3 2 (1.52%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.76%) Ansible
4 1 (0.76%) Control-M
4 1 (0.76%) Fluentd
4 1 (0.76%) logstash
4 1 (0.76%) QRadar
4 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (17.42%) Databricks
2 22 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.33%) Google
4 9 (6.82%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.30%) Informatica
6 6 (4.55%) Oracle
6 6 (4.55%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.79%) OpenAI
7 5 (3.79%) PagerDuty
7 5 (3.79%) Sage
7 5 (3.79%) SAP
8 3 (2.27%) IBM
8 3 (2.27%) SimCorp
8 3 (2.27%) Splunk
9 2 (1.52%) Adobe
9 2 (1.52%) Netezza
9 2 (1.52%) Remedy
9 2 (1.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.52%) Snow
9 2 (1.52%) Thales