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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 269 368
Rank change year-on-year +16 +99 +134
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 64 57 50
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.65% 0.45% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.51% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 41 38
10th Percentile £403 £400 £500
25th Percentile £450 £475 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £513 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% -18.00% +7.07%
75th Percentile £602 £600 £688
90th Percentile £675 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +10.00% -20.00% +7.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £38.85 £28.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +36.30% -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 9,093 11,116 18,089
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 92.29% 87.83% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,050 7,120 12,745
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 296 432
10th Percentile £12.62 £18.38 £17.75
25th Percentile £20.40 £30.36 £26.18
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.00 £52.32
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -17.81% +4.63%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.14 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £81.35
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.01%

Data Ingestion
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Ingestion as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Ingestion trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Data Ingestion.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Data Ingestion

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Ingestion over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Data Ingestion daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Ingestion
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Data Ingestion.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Data Ingestion

Data Ingestion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (10.94%) Apache
1 7 (10.94%) Apache Spark
2 5 (7.81%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.56%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Aladdin
1 2 (3.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (62.50%) Azure
2 21 (32.81%) AWS
3 18 (28.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 17 (26.56%) Power Platform
5 14 (21.88%) GCP
6 12 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (15.63%) Amazon S3
8 9 (14.06%) Serverless
9 8 (12.50%) Snowflake
10 7 (10.94%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (9.38%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (9.38%) Collibra
11 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (7.81%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (4.69%) GitHub
15 2 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) DNS
1 1 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (1.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (31.25%) Data Lake
2 15 (23.44%) Power BI
3 12 (18.75%) Amazon Redshift
3 12 (18.75%) Delta Lake
4 11 (17.19%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (15.63%) Metadata
6 7 (10.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (9.38%) Big Data
7 6 (9.38%) BigQuery
7 6 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (9.38%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (7.81%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (7.81%) NoSQL
8 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
9 3 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (4.69%) DynamoDB
9 3 (4.69%) MySQL
9 3 (4.69%) OLAP
9 3 (4.69%) OLTP
9 3 (4.69%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Git
2 4 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.56%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.56%) ERwin
3 1 (1.56%) JIRA
3 1 (1.56%) RStudio
General
1 19 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Banking
3 7 (10.94%) Finance
3 7 (10.94%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.69%) Marketing
5 2 (3.13%) Legal
5 2 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Automotive
6 1 (1.56%) Billing
6 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 15 (23.44%) Azure Data Engineer
2 15 (23.44%) Azure Engineer
3 13 (20.31%) Architect
4 11 (17.19%) Senior
5 8 (12.50%) Data Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Developer
7 3 (4.69%) AWS Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Lead
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.13%) AWS Data Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Developer
8 2 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Consultant
8 2 (3.13%) Data Scientist
8 2 (3.13%) Lead Data Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Optimisation Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Security Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (28.13%) PySpark
2 6 (9.38%) JSON
3 5 (7.81%) Kafka
4 2 (3.13%) Dask
4 2 (3.13%) GeoJSON
4 2 (3.13%) GeoPandas
4 2 (3.13%) NumPy
4 2 (3.13%) Pandas
4 2 (3.13%) Plotly
4 2 (3.13%) PostGIS
4 2 (3.13%) scikit-learn
4 2 (3.13%) Streamlit
5 1 (1.56%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.56%) Fluent Bit
5 1 (1.56%) Great Expectations
5 1 (1.56%) pydantic
5 1 (1.56%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.56%) Ray
5 1 (1.56%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.81%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.69%) Reference Data
5 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.13%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.13%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.56%) Clustering
6 1 (1.56%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.56%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.56%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.56%) SCADA
6 1 (1.56%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (56.25%) Data Modelling
1 36 (56.25%) ETL
2 28 (43.75%) Data Pipeline
3 26 (40.63%) Data Engineering
4 24 (37.50%) Analytics
5 18 (28.13%) Data Governance
5 18 (28.13%) Data Science
6 16 (25.00%) Visualisation
7 14 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (20.31%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (20.31%) Data Architecture
9 11 (17.19%) CI/CD
9 11 (17.19%) Data Security
9 11 (17.19%) Data Transformation
9 11 (17.19%) Validation
10 10 (15.63%) Agile
10 10 (15.63%) DevOps
11 9 (14.06%) Artificial Intelligence
11 9 (14.06%) Data Integration
11 9 (14.06%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 38 (59.38%) SQL
2 29 (45.31%) Python
3 12 (18.75%) Scala
4 5 (7.81%) Java
5 1 (1.56%) Bash
5 1 (1.56%) C#
5 1 (1.56%) HiveQL
5 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 12 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.13%) Degree
3 2 (3.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.56%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (35.94%) Data Quality
2 9 (14.06%) GDPR
3 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (3.13%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (14.06%) Terraform
2 5 (7.81%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.56%) Demisto
3 1 (1.56%) Fluentd
3 1 (1.56%) Kibana
3 1 (1.56%) logstash
Vendors
1 25 (39.06%) Databricks
2 9 (14.06%) Informatica
2 9 (14.06%) Microsoft
3 8 (12.50%) Google
4 4 (6.25%) Foundry
5 3 (4.69%) Palantir
5 3 (4.69%) Teradata
6 2 (3.13%) SAP
7 1 (1.56%) Intel
7 1 (1.56%) Oracle
7 1 (1.56%) Splunk