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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 255 338
Rank change year-on-year +24 +83 +107
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 84 55 38
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 0.51% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.56% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 38 29
10th Percentile £410 £419 £405
25th Percentile £450 £477 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £558 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +6.19% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £630
90th Percentile £738 £750 £710
UK median daily rate £550 £520 £530
% change year-on-year +5.77% -1.89% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £64.50 - £65.00

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 9,455 9,752 14,495
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.93% 89.85% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,211 6,163 9,778
10th Percentile £331 £329 £339
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £724 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 195 460
10th Percentile £15.74 £18.36 £15.24
25th Percentile £21.51 £22.25 £23.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £37.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.38% -22.11% -17.39%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.62% +10.65%

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 29 January 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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.14%) Apache
2 6 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.19%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.19%) Confluence
3 1 (1.19%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 40 (47.62%) Azure
2 39 (46.43%) AWS
3 15 (17.86%) GCP
4 12 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 11 (13.10%) Amazon S3
6 10 (11.90%) GitHub
7 9 (10.71%) Serverless
8 7 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (8.33%) dbt
9 6 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (7.14%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 6 (7.14%) Snowflake
10 5 (5.95%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (3.57%) Azure AI
12 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (2.38%) Amazon Bedrock
13 2 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (22.62%) Data Lake
2 10 (11.90%) Power BI
3 9 (10.71%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (9.52%) Metadata
5 6 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (5.95%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (5.95%) Big Data
6 5 (5.95%) BigQuery
6 5 (5.95%) Delta Lake
7 4 (4.76%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (3.57%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (3.57%) DynamoDB
8 3 (3.57%) Neo4j
8 3 (3.57%) OLAP
8 3 (3.57%) OLTP
8 3 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Git
1 4 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 4 (4.76%) JIRA
2 3 (3.57%) Postman
3 2 (2.38%) Gatling
3 2 (2.38%) GitLab
3 2 (2.38%) JMeter
3 2 (2.38%) LoadRunner
3 2 (2.38%) NeoLoad
4 1 (1.19%) JUnit
4 1 (1.19%) Maven
4 1 (1.19%) Selenium
4 1 (1.19%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.19%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.19%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (19.05%) Public Sector
2 15 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (13.10%) Finance
5 6 (7.14%) Banking
6 3 (3.57%) Marketing
7 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.38%) Legal
8 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Electronics
8 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.19%) Military
8 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (39.29%) Data Engineer
2 12 (14.29%) Architect
3 11 (13.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 9 (10.71%) Developer
5 7 (8.33%) Data Architect
6 6 (7.14%) Consultant
6 6 (7.14%) Lead
6 6 (7.14%) Senior
7 4 (4.76%) Data Consultant
8 3 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 3 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.57%) Python Engineer
9 2 (2.38%) AWS Data Architect
9 2 (2.38%) Senior Manager
9 2 (2.38%) Senior Python Developer
9 2 (2.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 2 (2.38%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.29%) FastAPI
1 12 (14.29%) PySpark
2 7 (8.33%) SQLAlchemy
3 5 (5.95%) REST
4 3 (3.57%) Kafka
4 3 (3.57%) LDAP
4 3 (3.57%) OpenID
4 3 (3.57%) PyTorch
4 3 (3.57%) SailPoint
5 2 (2.38%) Hugging Face
5 2 (2.38%) LangChain
5 2 (2.38%) NumPy
5 2 (2.38%) Pandas
5 2 (2.38%) Playwright
5 2 (2.38%) PostGIS
5 2 (2.38%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.19%) Faiss
6 1 (1.19%) GeoPandas
6 1 (1.19%) Ray
6 1 (1.19%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.57%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.57%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.19%) Clustering
6 1 (1.19%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.19%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.19%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.19%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.19%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.19%) Linux
1 1 (1.19%) Unix
1 1 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (46.43%) ETL
2 30 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
3 28 (33.33%) Data Science
4 26 (30.95%) Data Engineering
4 26 (30.95%) Data Modelling
5 21 (25.00%) AI
5 21 (25.00%) Analytics
6 19 (22.62%) Agile
7 16 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (17.86%) LLM
8 15 (17.86%) Roadmaps
9 14 (16.67%) CI/CD
9 14 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (15.48%) Decision-Making
10 13 (15.48%) Generative AI
10 13 (15.48%) Prompt Engineering
11 12 (14.29%) Data Architecture
11 12 (14.29%) Machine Learning
11 12 (14.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 12 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 53 (63.10%) Python
2 35 (41.67%) SQL
3 8 (9.52%) Java
4 5 (5.95%) Scala
5 4 (4.76%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.38%) Cypher
7 1 (1.19%) C#
7 1 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.19%) HiveQL
7 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.19%) R
7 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.57%) Degree
5 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.19%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.19%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 11 (13.10%) GDPR
3 4 (4.76%) QA
4 3 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.57%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 3 (3.57%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
1 3 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (10.71%) Terraform
2 5 (5.95%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.19%) Grafana
3 1 (1.19%) Kibana
3 1 (1.19%) logstash
Vendors
1 22 (26.19%) Databricks
2 8 (9.52%) Foundry
2 8 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.14%) Google
3 6 (7.14%) Palantir
4 5 (5.95%) SAP
5 4 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.57%) Oracle
7 2 (2.38%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.19%) Adobe
8 1 (1.19%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.19%) ESRI
8 1 (1.19%) IBM
8 1 (1.19%) Informatica
8 1 (1.19%) mParticle
8 1 (1.19%) New Relic
8 1 (1.19%) Snow
8 1 (1.19%) Splunk
8 1 (1.19%) Talend
8 1 (1.19%) Tealium