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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 266 333
Rank change year-on-year +25 +67 +122
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 77 52 40
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.75% 0.46% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.52% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 36 30
10th Percentile £407 £423 £406
25th Percentile £450 £481 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £613 £528
Median % change year-on-year -6.53% +16.11% -8.26%
75th Percentile £666 £728 £664
90th Percentile £738 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £563
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% -2.17%
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 & 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 9,251 10,040 14,579
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.54% 89.40% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,093 6,291 9,951
10th Percentile £331 £325 £350
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 £722 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 201 372
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.27 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.19 £22.00 £26.24
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.03 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.77% -33.28% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £70.53
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.79
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.79% +25.12%

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 2 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 6 (7.79%) Apache
1 6 (7.79%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (7.79%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.30%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.30%) GeoServer
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (48.05%) Azure
2 34 (44.16%) AWS
3 13 (16.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (15.58%) GCP
4 12 (15.58%) Power Platform
5 11 (14.29%) Amazon S3
6 10 (12.99%) Serverless
7 9 (11.69%) GitHub
8 7 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (9.09%) Snowflake
9 6 (7.79%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 6 (7.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (7.79%) dbt
10 5 (6.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (5.19%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (5.19%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (3.90%) Azure Functions
12 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (2.60%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.38%) Data Lake
2 11 (14.29%) Power BI
3 10 (12.99%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (11.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (9.09%) Metadata
6 6 (7.79%) BigQuery
6 6 (7.79%) Delta Lake
6 6 (7.79%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (6.49%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (6.49%) Relational Database
7 5 (6.49%) SQL Server
8 4 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (5.19%) Big Data
9 3 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (3.90%) DynamoDB
9 3 (3.90%) OLAP
9 3 (3.90%) OLTP
9 3 (3.90%) Spatial Data
9 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Git
2 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.30%) JIRA
3 1 (1.30%) JUnit
3 1 (1.30%) Maven
3 1 (1.30%) Postman
3 1 (1.30%) Selenium
3 1 (1.30%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.30%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.30%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (22.08%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 9 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (11.69%) Finance
4 4 (5.19%) Marketing
5 3 (3.90%) Banking
6 2 (2.60%) Legal
7 1 (1.30%) Automotive
7 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Electronics
7 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.30%) Military
7 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (37.66%) Data Engineer
2 10 (12.99%) Architect
2 10 (12.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 9 (11.69%) Developer
3 9 (11.69%) Senior
4 7 (9.09%) Data Architect
5 5 (6.49%) Consultant
5 5 (6.49%) Lead
6 3 (3.90%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Python Developer
6 3 (3.90%) Python Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Senior Developer
7 2 (2.60%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (2.60%) Azure Developer
7 2 (2.60%) Data Consultant
7 2 (2.60%) Project Manager
7 2 (2.60%) Senior Python Developer
7 2 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 10 (12.99%) PySpark
3 7 (9.09%) SQLAlchemy
4 4 (5.19%) Kafka
5 3 (3.90%) NumPy
5 3 (3.90%) Pandas
5 3 (3.90%) PostGIS
5 3 (3.90%) REST
6 2 (2.60%) Dask
6 2 (2.60%) GeoJSON
6 2 (2.60%) GeoPandas
6 2 (2.60%) Plotly
6 2 (2.60%) scikit-learn
6 2 (2.60%) Streamlit
7 1 (1.30%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.30%) Great Expectations
7 1 (1.30%) Ray
7 1 (1.30%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (1.30%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) Cloud Native
1 6 (7.79%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.60%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.60%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.60%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.30%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.30%) Clustering
4 1 (1.30%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.30%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.30%) Housing Association
4 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.30%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.30%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.30%) SCADA
4 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (44.16%) ETL
2 28 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
3 26 (33.77%) Data Science
4 24 (31.17%) Data Modelling
5 22 (28.57%) Data Engineering
6 19 (24.68%) Analytics
7 18 (23.38%) AI
8 17 (22.08%) Agile
9 16 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (18.18%) LLM
10 14 (18.18%) Visualisation
11 13 (16.88%) Roadmaps
12 12 (15.58%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (15.58%) Generative AI
12 12 (15.58%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 12 (15.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 11 (14.29%) Decision-Making
13 11 (14.29%) Prompt Engineering
14 10 (12.99%) CI/CD
14 10 (12.99%) Sentiment Analysis
Programming Languages
1 45 (58.44%) Python
2 35 (45.45%) SQL
3 3 (3.90%) Java
4 2 (2.60%) Scala
5 1 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.30%) HiveQL
5 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (25.97%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.69%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.79%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.30%) Degree
5 1 (1.30%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.30%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (24.68%) Data Quality
2 9 (11.69%) GDPR
3 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.60%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.60%) QA
5 1 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 2 (2.60%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 7 (9.09%) Terraform
2 3 (3.90%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.30%) Kibana
3 1 (1.30%) logstash
Vendors
1 21 (27.27%) Databricks
2 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.09%) Foundry
4 6 (7.79%) Palantir
4 6 (7.79%) SAP
5 5 (6.49%) Google
6 2 (2.60%) Informatica
6 2 (2.60%) Oracle
6 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.30%) Adobe
7 1 (1.30%) ESRI
7 1 (1.30%) IBM
7 1 (1.30%) mParticle
7 1 (1.30%) Snow
7 1 (1.30%) Talend
7 1 (1.30%) Tealium
7 1 (1.30%) Teradata