Data Ingestion Contracts with Work from Home 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 356 486
Rank change year-on-year +93 +130 -59
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 59 43 102
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.49% 0.23% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.26% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 30 67
10th Percentile £422 £406 £463
25th Percentile £481 £467 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £684 £700
90th Percentile £750 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -19.92% +8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -62.00% - -

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 10,687 16,696 35,240
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.04% 88.78% 91.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,714 11,676 25,347
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% -4.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £748 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 402 535
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.49 £16.07
25th Percentile £23.92 £26.06 £26.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -2.78% +125.00%
75th Percentile £66.53 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £86.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

Data Ingestion
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Ingestion as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Ingestion trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Data Ingestion over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 6 (10.17%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.69%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 28 (47.46%) Azure
2 13 (22.03%) Power Platform
3 10 (16.95%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (13.56%) AWS
5 7 (11.86%) dbt
5 7 (11.86%) GCP
6 6 (10.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (8.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (5.08%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.39%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.39%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (3.39%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.69%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (1.69%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.69%) GitHub
10 1 (1.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) Network Security
1 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (37.29%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (22.03%) Power BI
3 11 (18.64%) Big Data
3 11 (18.64%) SQL Server
4 10 (16.95%) Data Lake
5 7 (11.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (10.17%) Relational Database
6 6 (10.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (8.47%) Hadoop
8 4 (6.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (6.78%) BigQuery
8 4 (6.78%) MS Access
8 4 (6.78%) Power Query
9 3 (5.08%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (3.39%) Data Hub
10 2 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (3.39%) Parquet
10 2 (3.39%) RDBMS
11 1 (1.69%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Git
1 2 (3.39%) MLflow
2 1 (1.69%) GitLab
2 1 (1.69%) Gradle
2 1 (1.69%) Jasmine
2 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.69%) JIRA
2 1 (1.69%) Maven
2 1 (1.69%) Mocha
2 1 (1.69%) Mockito
2 1 (1.69%) ScalaTest
2 1 (1.69%) Spock
General
1 24 (40.68%) Finance
2 19 (32.20%) Social Skills
3 12 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.39%) Banking
6 2 (3.39%) Front Office
6 2 (3.39%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.39%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (42.37%) Data Engineer
2 10 (16.95%) Developer
3 9 (15.25%) Senior
4 7 (11.86%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Azure Data Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Analyst
6 5 (8.47%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Lead
8 2 (3.39%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Database Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Lead Data Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Principal Data Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Python Data Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Report Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.95%) .NET
2 4 (6.78%) .NET Core
2 4 (6.78%) .NET Framework
2 4 (6.78%) ASP.NET
2 4 (6.78%) Entity Framework
2 4 (6.78%) LINQ
2 4 (6.78%) PySpark
2 4 (6.78%) WinForms
3 3 (5.08%) Kafka
4 2 (3.39%) React
4 2 (3.39%) YAML
5 1 (1.69%) Apache Avro
5 1 (1.69%) JSON
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.69%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (6.78%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.08%) Fixed Income
3 3 (5.08%) Video\Live Streaming
4 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.39%) Life Science
4 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.39%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.69%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.69%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.08%) Linux
2 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (54.24%) ETL
2 25 (42.37%) Data Pipeline
3 20 (33.90%) CI/CD
4 19 (32.20%) DevOps
5 17 (28.81%) Data Modelling
6 15 (25.42%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (23.73%) Analytics
8 13 (22.03%) Data Integration
9 12 (20.34%) Agile
9 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (16.95%) Data Transformation
10 10 (16.95%) Machine Learning
11 9 (15.25%) Data Engineering
12 8 (13.56%) ETL Development
13 7 (11.86%) Data Analysis
14 6 (10.17%) Computer Science
14 6 (10.17%) Software Engineering
15 5 (8.47%) Dashboard Development
15 5 (8.47%) Data Analytics
15 5 (8.47%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (54.24%) SQL
2 25 (42.37%) Python
3 14 (23.73%) C#
4 9 (15.25%) T-SQL
5 8 (13.56%) Java
6 5 (8.47%) Scala
7 4 (6.78%) Go
7 4 (6.78%) PowerShell
7 4 (6.78%) VBA
8 2 (3.39%) Bash
8 2 (3.39%) Bicep
8 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.69%) Clojure
9 1 (1.69%) Fortran
9 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.69%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (10.17%) Degree
2 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) Data Quality
1 4 (6.78%) QA
2 2 (3.39%) GDPR
3 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Flume
2 1 (1.69%) HDFS
2 1 (1.69%) LXC
Systems Management
1 6 (10.17%) Terraform
2 3 (5.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.39%) Oozie
4 1 (1.69%) Ansible
4 1 (1.69%) Control-M
4 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (25.42%) Databricks
2 9 (15.25%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.78%) Google
3 4 (6.78%) Murex
4 1 (1.69%) Citrix
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle
4 1 (1.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.69%) Splunk
4 1 (1.69%) Vertica