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 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 293 405
Rank change year-on-year +45 +112 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 57 53 64
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.57% 0.34% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.39% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 42 56
10th Percentile £413 £400 £441
25th Percentile £436 £458 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £607 £623 £641
90th Percentile £738 £800 £725
UK median daily rate £524 £525 £597
% change year-on-year -0.19% -12.01% -0.56%
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 9,129 13,569 23,472
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.92% 87.77% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,254 9,056 16,562
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 563 559
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.90 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £24.00 £30.65
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -27.27% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £69.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% -6.67% +50.00%

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 25 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 5 (8.77%) Apache
2 4 (7.02%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.75%) Confluence
4 1 (1.75%) Drupal
4 1 (1.75%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Aladdin
2 2 (3.51%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (38.60%) Azure
2 15 (26.32%) AWS
3 13 (22.81%) Power Platform
4 10 (17.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (12.28%) Amazon S3
6 6 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (10.53%) Serverless
7 5 (8.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (8.77%) GCP
7 5 (8.77%) Snowflake
8 3 (5.26%) Collibra
8 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (3.51%) dbt
10 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (28.07%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (24.56%) Data Lake
3 13 (22.81%) Power BI
4 11 (19.30%) NoSQL
5 7 (12.28%) Metadata
6 6 (10.53%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (10.53%) Big Data
6 6 (10.53%) Relational Database
7 5 (8.77%) Delta Lake
7 5 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (7.02%) BigQuery
8 4 (7.02%) RDBMS
9 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
10 2 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (3.51%) DynamoDB
10 2 (3.51%) Hadoop
10 2 (3.51%) Looker
10 2 (3.51%) MySQL
10 2 (3.51%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) ER Studio
1 4 (7.02%) ERwin
2 3 (5.26%) Git
2 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.51%) GitLab
3 2 (3.51%) JIRA
4 1 (1.75%) JMeter
4 1 (1.75%) MLflow
4 1 (1.75%) Postman
4 1 (1.75%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.75%) RStudio
4 1 (1.75%) Selenium
4 1 (1.75%) TestNG
4 1 (1.75%) Travis CI
General
1 15 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 12 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.04%) Finance
4 6 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.02%) Banking
5 4 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.02%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Dutch Language
7 1 (1.75%) French Language
7 1 (1.75%) Front Office
7 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Marketing
7 1 (1.75%) Military
7 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Retail
7 1 (1.75%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 26 (45.61%) Data Engineer
2 12 (21.05%) Senior
3 8 (14.04%) Azure Data Engineer
3 8 (14.04%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Architect
4 6 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Lead
5 5 (8.77%) Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Data Architect
6 4 (7.02%) Data Modeller
6 4 (7.02%) Lead Data Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
7 3 (5.26%) GCP Data Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 2 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.51%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Snowflake Architect
8 2 (3.51%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.51%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.81%) PySpark
2 7 (12.28%) Kafka
3 5 (8.77%) .NET
4 4 (7.02%) JSON
5 3 (5.26%) .NET Core
5 3 (5.26%) .NET Framework
5 3 (5.26%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.26%) Entity Framework
5 3 (5.26%) FastAPI
5 3 (5.26%) LINQ
5 3 (5.26%) React
6 2 (3.51%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (3.51%) Vue
7 1 (1.75%) HTML
7 1 (1.75%) JDBC
7 1 (1.75%) NumPy
7 1 (1.75%) Pandas
7 1 (1.75%) pydantic
7 1 (1.75%) XML
7 1 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) Data Fabric
2 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.26%) Fixed Income
2 3 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.75%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.75%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.75%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (54.39%) ETL
2 23 (40.35%) Data Modelling
3 21 (36.84%) Data Pipeline
4 17 (29.82%) Agile
4 17 (29.82%) Data Engineering
5 15 (26.32%) DevOps
6 13 (22.81%) Analytics
6 13 (22.81%) Data Governance
7 12 (21.05%) Data Science
8 11 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (19.30%) Data Architecture
9 10 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (17.54%) Visualisation
10 9 (15.79%) CI/CD
10 9 (15.79%) Migration
11 8 (14.04%) Data Security
11 8 (14.04%) Data Transformation
11 8 (14.04%) Decision-Making
12 7 (12.28%) Data Integration
12 7 (12.28%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (52.63%) SQL
2 28 (49.12%) Python
3 8 (14.04%) Scala
4 5 (8.77%) Java
5 3 (5.26%) C#
6 2 (3.51%) Bash
6 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.75%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 15 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 13 (22.81%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (12.28%) Degree
4 3 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.75%) CEH
5 1 (1.75%) CISSP
5 1 (1.75%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (31.58%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 8 (14.04%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 6 (10.53%) Terraform
2 1 (1.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (22.81%) Databricks
2 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.02%) Google
3 4 (7.02%) Informatica
3 4 (7.02%) Oracle
4 3 (5.26%) Murex
5 2 (3.51%) Splunk
6 1 (1.75%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.75%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.75%) Teradata