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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 246 287
Rank change year-on-year +8 +41 +109
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 119 62 55
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.91% 0.64% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.69% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 50 42
10th Percentile £356 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £436 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £573 £597
90th Percentile £700 £675 £792
UK median daily rate £543 £503 £500
% change year-on-year +8.06% +0.50% -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 £55.00 £38.85 £67.50
% change year-on-year +41.59% -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 11,677 8,930 12,752
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.44% 91.64% 87.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,504 6,082 8,581
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £621 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 645 237 566
10th Percentile £17.01 £13.30 £15.08
25th Percentile £31.94 £18.54 £23.81
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.89 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.21% -16.53% -17.81%
75th Percentile £71.91 £65.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.15 £75.00 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

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 24 June 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 (7.56%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.20%) Apache
2 5 (4.20%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.36%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.84%) Apache Pig
4 1 (0.84%) Confluence
4 1 (0.84%) SAS
4 1 (0.84%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.36%) NetSuite
1 4 (3.36%) Sage X3
2 3 (2.52%) Aladdin
2 3 (2.52%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.84%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.84%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 45 (37.82%) Azure
2 40 (33.61%) AWS
3 22 (18.49%) GCP
3 22 (18.49%) Power Platform
4 17 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 15 (12.61%) GitHub
6 14 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (11.76%) dbt
6 14 (11.76%) Serverless
6 14 (11.76%) Snowflake
7 10 (8.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (8.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (7.56%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (6.72%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (5.88%) Entra ID
10 7 (5.88%) Fivetran
11 6 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (4.20%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.84%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (21.85%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (15.97%) Power BI
3 16 (13.45%) Data Lake
4 15 (12.61%) Metadata
5 10 (8.40%) Star Schema
6 9 (7.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (7.56%) BigQuery
7 8 (6.72%) Tableau
8 6 (5.04%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (4.20%) Delta Lake
9 5 (4.20%) Relational Database
10 4 (3.36%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (3.36%) Big Data
10 4 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.52%) Hadoop
11 3 (2.52%) Power Query
12 2 (1.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 2 (1.68%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 9 (7.56%) GitLab
2 5 (4.20%) Git
2 5 (4.20%) JIRA
2 5 (4.20%) Postman
3 4 (3.36%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.68%) Gatling
4 2 (1.68%) JMeter
4 2 (1.68%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.68%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.84%) git-flow
5 1 (0.84%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.84%) Selenium
5 1 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (19.33%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (18.49%) Finance
3 17 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 11 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.88%) Banking
6 6 (5.04%) Marketing
6 6 (5.04%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.36%) Billing
8 4 (3.36%) Publishing
9 3 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.52%) Legal
9 3 (2.52%) Police
9 3 (2.52%) Retail
10 2 (1.68%) Back Office
10 2 (1.68%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.84%) Advertising
11 1 (0.84%) Law
11 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (35.29%) Data Engineer
2 21 (17.65%) Senior
3 17 (14.29%) Developer
4 12 (10.08%) Architect
5 8 (6.72%) Senior Developer
6 7 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
6 7 (5.88%) Snowflake Engineer
7 6 (5.04%) AWS Data Engineer
7 6 (5.04%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (5.04%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (5.04%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (5.04%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 5 (4.20%) Consultant
8 5 (4.20%) Data Architect
8 5 (4.20%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Azure Data Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Platform Specialist
9 4 (3.36%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.76%) PySpark
2 8 (6.72%) REST
3 6 (5.04%) Kafka
3 6 (5.04%) PyTorch
4 5 (4.20%) SailPoint
5 4 (3.36%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.36%) React
5 4 (3.36%) TensorFlow
6 3 (2.52%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.52%) JSON
6 3 (2.52%) LangChain
6 3 (2.52%) Node.js
6 3 (2.52%) OAuth
6 3 (2.52%) Playwright
6 3 (2.52%) SAP CAF
6 3 (2.52%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.68%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.68%) LDAP
7 2 (1.68%) OpenID
7 2 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.61%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.72%) Algorithms
3 7 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 6 (5.04%) Clustering
5 5 (4.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.20%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.36%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.52%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.52%) SCADA
8 2 (1.68%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.68%) BYOD
8 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.68%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.68%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.84%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.68%) Linux
1 2 (1.68%) Unix
1 2 (1.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (45.38%) Data Pipeline
2 52 (43.70%) Data Engineering
3 48 (40.34%) ETL
4 46 (38.66%) Data Modelling
5 40 (33.61%) CI/CD
6 35 (29.41%) Analytics
7 29 (24.37%) Data Science
8 27 (22.69%) AI
8 27 (22.69%) Machine Learning
9 26 (21.85%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (21.01%) Validation
11 23 (19.33%) DevOps
12 21 (17.65%) Agile
12 21 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
13 20 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (16.81%) Use Case
14 18 (15.13%) Data Governance
15 17 (14.29%) Data Architecture
16 15 (12.61%) Data Transformation
17 13 (10.92%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 62 (52.10%) Python
2 49 (41.18%) SQL
3 14 (11.76%) Java
4 7 (5.88%) Scala
5 6 (5.04%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.20%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.20%) Kotlin
7 4 (3.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (3.36%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.52%) C#
8 3 (2.52%) R
9 2 (1.68%) Bash
9 2 (1.68%) Bicep
9 2 (1.68%) Cypher
10 1 (0.84%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.17%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.20%) SnowPro
4 4 (3.36%) Degree
5 3 (2.52%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.52%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.68%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.68%) CISSP
7 1 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.84%) PhD
7 1 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (34.45%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.20%) GDPR
2 5 (4.20%) QA
3 3 (2.52%) NCSC
4 2 (1.68%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.68%) COPPA
5 1 (0.84%) GRC
5 1 (0.84%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.84%) NIST
5 1 (0.84%) SLA
5 1 (0.84%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (5.04%) Docker
2 4 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.68%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (0.84%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.84%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (11.76%) Terraform
2 8 (6.72%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.52%) Grafana
4 2 (1.68%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.84%) Ansible
5 1 (0.84%) Control-M
5 1 (0.84%) Fluentd
5 1 (0.84%) logstash
5 1 (0.84%) QRadar
5 1 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (19.33%) Databricks
2 16 (13.45%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.08%) Google
4 8 (6.72%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.88%) Informatica
5 7 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 6 (5.04%) Oracle
7 4 (3.36%) OpenAI
7 4 (3.36%) PagerDuty
7 4 (3.36%) Sage
7 4 (3.36%) SAP
8 3 (2.52%) SimCorp
9 2 (1.68%) IBM
9 2 (1.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.68%) Splunk
9 2 (1.68%) Thales
10 1 (0.84%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.84%) New Relic
10 1 (0.84%) Okta
10 1 (0.84%) Snow