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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 253 269
Rank change year-on-year +19 +16 +98
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 140 64 57
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.04% 0.65% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.70% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 52 41
10th Percentile £389 £403 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £508 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% -0.98% -18.00%
75th Percentile £650 £602 £600
90th Percentile £738 £675 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -20.00%

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 12,188 9,094 11,117
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.30% 92.30% 87.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,618 6,051 7,121
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.55% -3.43% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 737 278 296
10th Percentile £15.81 £12.62 £18.38
25th Percentile £30.00 £20.40 £30.36
Median hourly rate £48.81 £36.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.58% -16.28% -17.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £67.14
90th Percentile £82.50 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 16 September 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 (5.00%) Apache
1 7 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.14%) Confluence
4 2 (1.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.43%) nginx
5 1 (0.71%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.71%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.71%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 5 (3.57%) NetSuite
1 5 (3.57%) Sage X3
2 3 (2.14%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.43%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.71%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 45 (32.14%) Azure
2 31 (22.14%) AWS
3 22 (15.71%) Power Platform
4 21 (15.00%) GitHub
5 17 (12.14%) Snowflake
6 16 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (11.43%) GCP
7 15 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (10.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 15 (10.71%) dbt
8 13 (9.29%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (6.43%) Serverless
10 8 (5.71%) Amazon S3
10 8 (5.71%) Entra ID
11 7 (5.00%) Azure Databricks
12 6 (4.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (4.29%) Fivetran
13 5 (3.57%) Azure AKS
13 5 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.14%) Broadband
1 3 (2.14%) HTTP
2 1 (0.71%) Firewall
2 1 (0.71%) IPsec
2 1 (0.71%) Network Security
2 1 (0.71%) NGFW
2 1 (0.71%) OpenFlow
2 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (17.86%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (15.71%) Data Lake
3 21 (15.00%) Metadata
3 21 (15.00%) Power BI
4 11 (7.86%) BigQuery
5 8 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (5.71%) Big Data
6 7 (5.00%) Delta Lake
6 7 (5.00%) Star Schema
7 6 (4.29%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (3.57%) Tableau
9 4 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.86%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (2.14%) Power Query
11 2 (1.43%) Data Hub
11 2 (1.43%) Oracle ODI
11 2 (1.43%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (4.29%) Git
2 4 (2.86%) JIRA
3 3 (2.14%) GitLab
3 3 (2.14%) Postman
4 2 (1.43%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.71%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.71%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.71%) RStudio
5 1 (0.71%) Selenium
5 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (23.57%) Social Skills
2 31 (22.14%) Finance
3 22 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.71%) Marketing
6 7 (5.00%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.29%) Banking
7 6 (4.29%) Billing
8 5 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.86%) Legal
9 4 (2.86%) Publishing
10 3 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.14%) Retail
11 2 (1.43%) Back Office
11 2 (1.43%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.43%) German Language
12 1 (0.71%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.71%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.71%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (27.14%) Data Engineer
2 24 (17.14%) Senior
3 23 (16.43%) Architect
4 14 (10.00%) Developer
5 12 (8.57%) Data Architect
6 9 (6.43%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (6.43%) Software Engineer
7 8 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (5.00%) Analyst
8 7 (5.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 7 (5.00%) Snowflake Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Azure Data Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Consultant
9 6 (4.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (3.57%) Data Analyst
10 5 (3.57%) Databricks Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.57%) REST
2 15 (10.71%) Terraform
3 12 (8.57%) Kafka
4 11 (7.86%) PySpark
5 6 (4.29%) JSON
6 5 (3.57%) PyTorch
6 5 (3.57%) TensorFlow
7 4 (2.86%) React
7 4 (2.86%) SOAP
7 4 (2.86%) Spring
7 4 (2.86%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.14%) .NET
8 3 (2.14%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (2.14%) FastAPI
8 3 (2.14%) LangChain
8 3 (2.14%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (2.14%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (2.14%) SailPoint
8 3 (2.14%) SAP CAF
8 3 (2.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.57%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.71%) Onboarding
3 10 (7.14%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.29%) AI Agents
5 6 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (3.57%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.86%) Clustering
8 3 (2.14%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.14%) SCADA
8 3 (2.14%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (1.43%) BYOD
9 2 (1.43%) Data Fabric
9 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.43%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.43%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.43%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.43%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.86%) Linux
2 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (47.14%) Data Pipeline
2 58 (41.43%) Data Engineering
3 53 (37.86%) ETL
4 52 (37.14%) Data Modelling
5 49 (35.00%) Analytics
6 45 (32.14%) CI/CD
7 37 (26.43%) AI
8 29 (20.71%) Data Transformation
9 28 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
10 27 (19.29%) DevOps
11 25 (17.86%) Agile
11 25 (17.86%) Machine Learning
12 23 (16.43%) Validation
13 22 (15.71%) Data Governance
13 22 (15.71%) Use Case
14 21 (15.00%) Data Architecture
14 21 (15.00%) Observability
15 20 (14.29%) Software Engineering
16 19 (13.57%) Data Integration
16 19 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 64 (45.71%) Python
2 50 (35.71%) SQL
3 10 (7.14%) Java
3 10 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.00%) C#
5 5 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.57%) Scala
6 4 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (2.86%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.14%) Bash
7 3 (2.14%) Bicep
8 1 (0.71%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.71%) PROC SQL
8 1 (0.71%) R
8 1 (0.71%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (20.71%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.57%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.14%) Degree
4 3 (2.14%) SnowPro
5 2 (1.43%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.43%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.71%) PhD
6 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.71%) PMP
6 1 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (32.86%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.29%) NIST
2 6 (4.29%) QA
3 5 (3.57%) NCSC
4 3 (2.14%) GDPR
5 2 (1.43%) COPPA
5 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.43%) SLA
6 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.71%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (4.29%) Docker
2 5 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.71%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.71%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.14%) Grafana
3 2 (1.43%) Ansible
3 2 (1.43%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.71%) Control-M
4 1 (0.71%) Kibana
4 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.71%) QRadar
4 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (21.43%) Databricks
2 22 (15.71%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.14%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.00%) Google
5 6 (4.29%) Oracle
6 5 (3.57%) PagerDuty
6 5 (3.57%) Sage
6 5 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.86%) SAP
7 4 (2.86%) Splunk
8 3 (2.14%) Adobe
8 3 (2.14%) Informatica
8 3 (2.14%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.43%) SimCorp
10 1 (0.71%) ArcSight
10 1 (0.71%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.71%) Foundry
10 1 (0.71%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.71%) Netezza
10 1 (0.71%) Pega