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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 268 317
Rank change year-on-year +28 +49 +152
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 79 52 45
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.77% 0.45% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.50% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 36 32
10th Percentile £409 £423 £406
25th Percentile £450 £481 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £613 £533
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +15.02% +1.04%
75th Percentile £649 £728 £669
90th Percentile £738 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £28.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +160.56% -62.00% -

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 9,283 10,340 14,727
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.68% 89.29% 88.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,131 6,494 10,042
10th Percentile £331 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 210 364
10th Percentile £15.45 £18.04 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £29.92
Median hourly rate £43.00 £35.63 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.70% -33.41% -6.96%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.01 £71.90
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.20
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +27.14%

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 25 December 2025.

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 (8.86%) Apache
1 7 (8.86%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (7.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.27%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.27%) GeoServer
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (49.37%) Azure
2 34 (43.04%) AWS
3 14 (17.72%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (16.46%) GCP
5 12 (15.19%) Power Platform
6 11 (13.92%) Amazon S3
7 10 (12.66%) Serverless
8 9 (11.39%) GitHub
9 8 (10.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (10.13%) Snowflake
10 7 (8.86%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (7.59%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 6 (7.59%) dbt
12 5 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (5.06%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (5.06%) Amazon Kinesis
14 3 (3.80%) Azure Functions
14 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Purview
15 2 (2.53%) Amazon SageMaker
15 2 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (22.78%) Data Lake
2 12 (15.19%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (13.92%) Power BI
4 10 (12.66%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (8.86%) BigQuery
5 7 (8.86%) Metadata
5 7 (8.86%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (7.59%) Delta Lake
7 5 (6.33%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (6.33%) Relational Database
7 5 (6.33%) SQL Server
8 4 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (5.06%) Big Data
9 3 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (3.80%) DynamoDB
9 3 (3.80%) OLAP
9 3 (3.80%) OLTP
9 3 (3.80%) Spatial Data
9 3 (3.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Git
2 2 (2.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.27%) JIRA
3 1 (1.27%) JUnit
3 1 (1.27%) Maven
3 1 (1.27%) Postman
3 1 (1.27%) Selenium
3 1 (1.27%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.27%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.27%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.72%) Public Sector
3 9 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (11.39%) Finance
4 4 (5.06%) Marketing
5 3 (3.80%) Banking
6 2 (2.53%) Legal
7 1 (1.27%) Automotive
7 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Electronics
7 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.27%) Military
7 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (37.97%) Data Engineer
2 10 (12.66%) Architect
2 10 (12.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 10 (12.66%) Senior
3 9 (11.39%) Developer
4 7 (8.86%) Data Architect
5 5 (6.33%) Consultant
5 5 (6.33%) Lead
6 3 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) Python Developer
6 3 (3.80%) Python Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) Senior Developer
7 2 (2.53%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (2.53%) AWS Architect
7 2 (2.53%) Azure Developer
7 2 (2.53%) Data Scientist
7 2 (2.53%) Optimisation Engineer
7 2 (2.53%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.92%) FastAPI
2 10 (12.66%) PySpark
3 7 (8.86%) SQLAlchemy
4 4 (5.06%) Kafka
5 3 (3.80%) NumPy
5 3 (3.80%) Pandas
5 3 (3.80%) PostGIS
5 3 (3.80%) REST
6 2 (2.53%) Dask
6 2 (2.53%) GeoJSON
6 2 (2.53%) GeoPandas
6 2 (2.53%) Plotly
6 2 (2.53%) scikit-learn
6 2 (2.53%) Streamlit
7 1 (1.27%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.27%) Great Expectations
7 1 (1.27%) pytest
7 1 (1.27%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.27%) Ray
7 1 (1.27%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.59%) Cloud Native
1 6 (7.59%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.53%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.53%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.53%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.27%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.27%) Clustering
4 1 (1.27%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.27%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.27%) Housing Association
4 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.27%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.27%) SCADA
4 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (45.57%) ETL
2 29 (36.71%) Data Pipeline
3 26 (32.91%) Data Modelling
3 26 (32.91%) Data Science
4 22 (27.85%) Data Engineering
5 21 (26.58%) Analytics
6 18 (22.78%) AI
7 17 (21.52%) Agile
8 16 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (17.72%) LLM
9 14 (17.72%) Visualisation
10 13 (16.46%) Roadmaps
11 12 (15.19%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (15.19%) Generative AI
11 12 (15.19%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 12 (15.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (13.92%) Decision-Making
12 11 (13.92%) Prompt Engineering
13 10 (12.66%) CI/CD
13 10 (12.66%) Information Retrieval
Programming Languages
1 45 (56.96%) Python
2 36 (45.57%) SQL
3 3 (3.80%) Java
4 2 (2.53%) Scala
5 1 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.27%) HiveQL
5 1 (1.27%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (26.58%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.66%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.59%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.27%) Degree
5 1 (1.27%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (25.32%) Data Quality
2 9 (11.39%) GDPR
3 3 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.53%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.53%) QA
5 1 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 2 (2.53%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 7 (8.86%) Terraform
2 3 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.27%) Kibana
3 1 (1.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 22 (27.85%) Databricks
2 9 (11.39%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.86%) Foundry
4 6 (7.59%) Google
4 6 (7.59%) Palantir
4 6 (7.59%) SAP
5 3 (3.80%) Informatica
6 2 (2.53%) Oracle
6 2 (2.53%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.53%) Teradata
7 1 (1.27%) Adobe
7 1 (1.27%) ESRI
7 1 (1.27%) IBM
7 1 (1.27%) mParticle
7 1 (1.27%) Snow
7 1 (1.27%) Talend
7 1 (1.27%) Tealium