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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 257 320
Rank change year-on-year +24 +63 +115
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 101 59 45
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.88% 0.55% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.61% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 44 36
10th Percentile £372 £377 £400
25th Percentile £425 £435 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% +4.78% -14.58%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £591
90th Percentile £700 £750 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.38% -0.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £66.75 - £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 10,266 9,620 14,294
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.22% 90.35% 87.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,721 6,378 9,571
10th Percentile £350 £328 £338
25th Percentile £416 £419 £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 £725 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 448 199 530
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.20 £15.17
25th Percentile £25.67 £23.11 £22.61
Median hourly rate £55.90 £39.04 £44.87
Median % change year-on-year +43.18% -12.99% -21.97%
75th Percentile £67.06 £64.76 £64.88
90th Percentile £80.82 £75.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.85% -1.52% -5.71%

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 6 March 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 (6.93%) Apache
2 5 (4.95%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.95%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.96%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (2.97%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.99%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.99%) Confluence
5 1 (0.99%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.99%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (0.99%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.99%) Eloqua
1 1 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 47 (46.53%) AWS
2 44 (43.56%) Azure
3 16 (15.84%) Azure Data Factory
3 16 (15.84%) Power Platform
3 16 (15.84%) Serverless
4 14 (13.86%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (13.86%) GCP
5 12 (11.88%) GitHub
6 11 (10.89%) Amazon S3
7 10 (9.90%) dbt
8 7 (6.93%) Amazon EMR
9 6 (5.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (5.94%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 5 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (4.95%) Snowflake
11 4 (3.96%) Azure AI
11 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.97%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.82%) Data Lake
2 14 (13.86%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (11.88%) Metadata
3 12 (11.88%) Power BI
4 6 (5.94%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.95%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.95%) BigQuery
5 5 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.95%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.96%) Big Data
6 4 (3.96%) Tableau
7 3 (2.97%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.97%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.97%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.97%) Neo4j
7 3 (2.97%) OLAP
7 3 (2.97%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.98%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (4.95%) Git
1 5 (4.95%) GitLab
2 4 (3.96%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.96%) JIRA
3 3 (2.97%) Postman
4 2 (1.98%) Gatling
4 2 (1.98%) JMeter
4 2 (1.98%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.98%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.99%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.99%) git-flow
5 1 (0.99%) JUnit
5 1 (0.99%) Maven
5 1 (0.99%) Selenium
5 1 (0.99%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.99%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.99%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (17.82%) Public Sector
2 16 (15.84%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (13.86%) Finance
4 12 (11.88%) Social Skills
5 7 (6.93%) Banking
6 4 (3.96%) Marketing
7 3 (2.97%) Police
8 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.99%) Electronics
9 1 (0.99%) Law
9 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.99%) Military
9 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Publishing
9 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (37.62%) Data Engineer
2 15 (14.85%) Developer
3 13 (12.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 12 (11.88%) Senior
5 8 (7.92%) Architect
5 8 (7.92%) Consultant
5 8 (7.92%) Lead
6 7 (6.93%) Senior Developer
7 5 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Data Consultant
8 3 (2.97%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 3 (2.97%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (2.97%) Backend Developer
8 3 (2.97%) Data Analytics Specialist
8 3 (2.97%) GCP Data Engineer
8 3 (2.97%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (2.97%) Lead Data Engineer
8 3 (2.97%) Platform Specialist
8 3 (2.97%) Python Engineer
8 3 (2.97%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.86%) PySpark
2 12 (11.88%) FastAPI
3 7 (6.93%) SQLAlchemy
4 6 (5.94%) REST
5 4 (3.96%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.97%) Kafka
6 3 (2.97%) LangChain
6 3 (2.97%) LDAP
6 3 (2.97%) OAuth
6 3 (2.97%) OpenID
6 3 (2.97%) SailPoint
7 2 (1.98%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.98%) Hugging Face
7 2 (1.98%) JSON
7 2 (1.98%) Node.js
7 2 (1.98%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.98%) Pandas
7 2 (1.98%) Playwright
7 2 (1.98%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.98%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.87%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.92%) Algorithms
3 6 (5.94%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.95%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.95%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.97%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.98%) Clustering
6 2 (1.98%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.98%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.99%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.99%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.99%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.99%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.98%) Linux
1 2 (1.98%) Windows
2 1 (0.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (37.62%) ETL
2 35 (34.65%) Data Engineering
3 32 (31.68%) Data Science
4 30 (29.70%) Data Pipeline
5 29 (28.71%) Data Modelling
6 24 (23.76%) Agile
6 24 (23.76%) CI/CD
7 23 (22.77%) AI
8 20 (19.80%) Analytics
9 17 (16.83%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (16.83%) Machine Learning
9 17 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (16.83%) Roadmaps
10 16 (15.84%) LLM
11 15 (14.85%) DevOps
11 15 (14.85%) Visualisation
12 14 (13.86%) Generative AI
13 13 (12.87%) Data Architecture
13 13 (12.87%) Decision-Making
13 13 (12.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 63 (62.38%) Python
2 42 (41.58%) SQL
3 13 (12.87%) Java
4 5 (4.95%) Kotlin
5 4 (3.96%) Scala
5 4 (3.96%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.97%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.97%) R
7 2 (1.98%) Bash
7 2 (1.98%) Cypher
7 2 (1.98%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.99%) Bicep
8 1 (0.99%) C#
8 1 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (30.69%) Security Cleared
2 19 (18.81%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.95%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.97%) Degree
6 2 (1.98%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.98%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.98%) CISSP
7 1 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.99%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (27.72%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.92%) GDPR
3 4 (3.96%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.97%) QA
5 1 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.99%) GRC
5 1 (0.99%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.99%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (3.96%) Docker
2 3 (2.97%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (9.90%) Terraform
2 7 (6.93%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.97%) Grafana
4 2 (1.98%) logstash
4 2 (1.98%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.99%) Ansible
5 1 (0.99%) Fluentd
5 1 (0.99%) Kibana
5 1 (0.99%) QRadar
Vendors
1 21 (20.79%) Databricks
2 12 (11.88%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.93%) Google
4 6 (5.94%) Foundry
5 5 (4.95%) SAP
5 5 (4.95%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.96%) Oracle
6 4 (3.96%) Palantir
7 3 (2.97%) IBM
7 3 (2.97%) Informatica
8 2 (1.98%) Adobe
8 2 (1.98%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.98%) Snow
8 2 (1.98%) Splunk
9 1 (0.99%) mParticle
9 1 (0.99%) New Relic
9 1 (0.99%) Okta
9 1 (0.99%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.99%) Tealium
9 1 (0.99%) Thales