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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 244 283
Rank change year-on-year +10 +39 +85
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 133 61 53
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.99% 0.62% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.68% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 48 39
10th Percentile £383 £401 £420
25th Percentile £447 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +7.45% -2.44% -18.00%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £594
90th Percentile £726 £649 £724
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -2.76% +7.98% -20.00%
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 £70.75 £38.85 £48.00
% change year-on-year +82.13% -19.07% -43.53%

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 12,092 9,028 11,303
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.96% 92.01% 87.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,586 6,028 7,478
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 707 287 343
10th Percentile £16.33 £12.62 £17.65
25th Percentile £30.00 £18.17 £30.28
Median hourly rate £47.50 £35.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.80% -17.44% -14.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%

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 27 August 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 10 (7.52%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.76%) Apache
3 4 (3.01%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.50%) nginx
5 1 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 5 (3.76%) NetSuite
1 5 (3.76%) Sage X3
2 4 (3.01%) Aladdin
3 3 (2.26%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.75%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 47 (35.34%) Azure
2 28 (21.05%) AWS
3 24 (18.05%) Power Platform
4 21 (15.79%) GitHub
5 18 (13.53%) Snowflake
6 17 (12.78%) dbt
6 17 (12.78%) GCP
7 16 (12.03%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (11.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (9.77%) Amazon S3
10 13 (9.77%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (6.02%) Entra ID
11 8 (6.02%) Fivetran
11 8 (6.02%) Serverless
12 6 (4.51%) Azure AKS
12 6 (4.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (3.76%) Cloud Functions
13 5 (3.76%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.26%) Broadband
2 2 (1.50%) HTTP
3 1 (0.75%) Firewall
3 1 (0.75%) IPsec
3 1 (0.75%) Network Security
3 1 (0.75%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.55%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (16.54%) Power BI
3 21 (15.79%) Data Lake
4 17 (12.78%) Metadata
5 10 (7.52%) BigQuery
6 9 (6.77%) Star Schema
7 8 (6.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (6.02%) Big Data
7 8 (6.02%) Delta Lake
8 7 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (5.26%) Tableau
9 5 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (2.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.26%) Power Query
11 3 (2.26%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.50%) Data Hub
12 2 (1.50%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Git
2 4 (3.01%) GitLab
3 3 (2.26%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.26%) Postman
4 2 (1.50%) JIRA
5 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.75%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.75%) RStudio
5 1 (0.75%) Selenium
5 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (23.31%) Finance
2 29 (21.80%) Social Skills
3 23 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.52%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.26%) Marketing
5 7 (5.26%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.51%) Banking
6 6 (4.51%) Billing
7 5 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.01%) Publishing
9 3 (2.26%) Legal
9 3 (2.26%) Retail
10 2 (1.50%) Back Office
10 2 (1.50%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.50%) German Language
10 2 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.75%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 38 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 23 (17.29%) Senior
3 20 (15.04%) Architect
4 14 (10.53%) Developer
5 9 (6.77%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (6.77%) Data Architect
6 8 (6.02%) Senior Data Engineer
6 8 (6.02%) Snowflake Engineer
6 8 (6.02%) Software Engineer
7 7 (5.26%) Analyst
7 7 (5.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 7 (5.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 6 (4.51%) Azure Data Engineer
8 6 (4.51%) Consultant
8 6 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (3.76%) Data Analyst
9 5 (3.76%) Python Developer
9 5 (3.76%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.03%) Terraform
2 13 (9.77%) Kafka
2 13 (9.77%) REST
3 11 (8.27%) PySpark
4 5 (3.76%) PyTorch
4 5 (3.76%) TensorFlow
5 4 (3.01%) JSON
5 4 (3.01%) React
6 3 (2.26%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.26%) FastAPI
6 3 (2.26%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (2.26%) SailPoint
6 3 (2.26%) SAP CAF
6 3 (2.26%) Spring
6 3 (2.26%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.50%) .NET
7 2 (1.50%) Node.js
7 2 (1.50%) SOAP
7 2 (1.50%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.53%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.27%) Onboarding
3 10 (7.52%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.51%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (3.76%) Clustering
5 5 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.01%) AI Agents
6 4 (3.01%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.26%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.26%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.26%) SCADA
7 3 (2.26%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.50%) BYOD
8 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.50%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.75%) Replication
9 1 (0.75%) Synthetic Data
9 1 (0.75%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.26%) Linux
2 2 (1.50%) Unix
3 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (48.12%) Data Pipeline
2 55 (41.35%) Data Engineering
2 55 (41.35%) ETL
3 50 (37.59%) Data Modelling
4 47 (35.34%) Analytics
5 45 (33.83%) CI/CD
6 36 (27.07%) AI
7 29 (21.80%) Business Intelligence
8 28 (21.05%) DevOps
9 24 (18.05%) Agile
9 24 (18.05%) Data Transformation
9 24 (18.05%) Machine Learning
9 24 (18.05%) Validation
10 21 (15.79%) Data Governance
11 19 (14.29%) Data Science
11 19 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (12.78%) Data Architecture
12 17 (12.78%) Data Integration
12 17 (12.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (12.78%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 63 (47.37%) Python
2 53 (39.85%) SQL
3 10 (7.52%) PowerShell
4 9 (6.77%) Java
5 6 (4.51%) C#
6 5 (3.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (3.76%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.76%) Scala
7 4 (3.01%) Bash
7 4 (3.01%) Bicep
7 4 (3.01%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (3.01%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.75%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.75%) PROC SQL
8 1 (0.75%) R
8 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (19.55%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.76%) SnowPro
4 3 (2.26%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.50%) Degree
5 2 (1.50%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (33.08%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.51%) QA
3 5 (3.76%) NIST
4 3 (2.26%) GDPR
4 3 (2.26%) NCSC
5 2 (1.50%) COPPA
5 2 (1.50%) SLA
6 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.75%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (3.76%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.76%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.75%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (9.02%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.26%) Grafana
3 2 (1.50%) Ansible
3 2 (1.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.75%) Control-M
4 1 (0.75%) Kibana
4 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (24.06%) Databricks
2 23 (17.29%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.52%) Salesforce
4 8 (6.02%) Google
5 6 (4.51%) Oracle
6 5 (3.76%) Informatica
6 5 (3.76%) PagerDuty
6 5 (3.76%) Sage
6 5 (3.76%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.01%) SAP
8 3 (2.26%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.26%) SimCorp
9 2 (1.50%) Adobe
9 2 (1.50%) Splunk
9 2 (1.50%) Thales
10 1 (0.75%) IBM
10 1 (0.75%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.75%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.75%) Remedy
10 1 (0.75%) Sybase