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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 272 352
Rank change year-on-year +23 +80 +126
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 73 57 43
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.71% 0.46% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.53% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 39 30
10th Percentile £411 £417 £406
25th Percentile £472 £481 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +6.67% +6.74%
75th Percentile £649 £700 £673
90th Percentile £738 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +7.32% -14.58% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £28.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +126.32% -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 9,402 10,839 15,994
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.34% 88.34% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,223 6,790 11,005
10th Percentile £325 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 223 386
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.65 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £26.24
Median hourly rate £41.69 £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.18% -28.57% -2.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.04 £43.84
% change year-on-year -23.87% -24.65% +25.26%

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 November 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 (9.59%) Apache
1 7 (9.59%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (8.22%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.37%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.37%) GeoServer
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (46.58%) AWS
1 34 (46.58%) Azure
2 13 (17.81%) Azure Data Factory
2 13 (17.81%) GCP
3 12 (16.44%) Power Platform
4 11 (15.07%) Amazon S3
5 10 (13.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 10 (13.70%) Serverless
6 9 (12.33%) GitHub
7 8 (10.96%) Snowflake
8 7 (9.59%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (9.59%) dbt
9 6 (8.22%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 5 (6.85%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (5.48%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (5.48%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (4.11%) Azure Functions
12 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) DNS
1 1 (1.37%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.18%) Data Lake
2 10 (13.70%) Amazon Redshift
2 10 (13.70%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (13.70%) Power BI
3 8 (10.96%) BigQuery
4 7 (9.59%) Metadata
5 6 (8.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (8.22%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (6.85%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (6.85%) Relational Database
6 5 (6.85%) SQL Server
7 4 (5.48%) Delta Lake
8 3 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (4.11%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (4.11%) Data Vault
8 3 (4.11%) DynamoDB
8 3 (4.11%) OLAP
8 3 (4.11%) OLTP
8 3 (4.11%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Git
2 2 (2.74%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 18 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.81%) Public Sector
3 9 (12.33%) Finance
4 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.48%) Marketing
6 2 (2.74%) Banking
6 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.74%) Legal
7 1 (1.37%) Automotive
7 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Electronics
7 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (38.36%) Data Engineer
2 10 (13.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 9 (12.33%) Architect
3 9 (12.33%) Developer
3 9 (12.33%) Senior
4 7 (9.59%) Data Architect
5 5 (6.85%) Azure Data Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Consultant
6 4 (5.48%) Lead
7 3 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Python Developer
7 3 (4.11%) Python Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Senior Developer
8 2 (2.74%) AWS Data Architect
8 2 (2.74%) GCP Data Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Senior Python Developer
8 2 (2.74%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) FastAPI
2 9 (12.33%) PySpark
3 7 (9.59%) SQLAlchemy
4 4 (5.48%) Kafka
5 3 (4.11%) NumPy
5 3 (4.11%) Pandas
5 3 (4.11%) PostGIS
6 2 (2.74%) Dask
6 2 (2.74%) GeoJSON
6 2 (2.74%) GeoPandas
6 2 (2.74%) JSON
6 2 (2.74%) Plotly
6 2 (2.74%) REST
6 2 (2.74%) RESTful
6 2 (2.74%) scikit-learn
6 2 (2.74%) Streamlit
7 1 (1.37%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.37%) Fluent Bit
7 1 (1.37%) Great Expectations
7 1 (1.37%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.59%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.48%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.74%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.74%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.74%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.74%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.37%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.37%) Clustering
5 1 (1.37%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.37%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.37%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.37%) SCADA
5 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.37%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (42.47%) ETL
2 28 (38.36%) Data Pipeline
3 24 (32.88%) Data Science
4 23 (31.51%) Data Modelling
5 22 (30.14%) Data Engineering
6 18 (24.66%) AI
6 18 (24.66%) Analytics
7 17 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (20.55%) Agile
9 14 (19.18%) LLM
9 14 (19.18%) Visualisation
10 12 (16.44%) Generative AI
10 12 (16.44%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 12 (16.44%) Roadmaps
11 11 (15.07%) Decision-Making
11 11 (15.07%) Prompt Engineering
11 11 (15.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (13.70%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (13.70%) Data Governance
12 10 (13.70%) Information Retrieval
Programming Languages
1 42 (57.53%) Python
2 32 (43.84%) SQL
3 2 (2.74%) Java
3 2 (2.74%) Scala
4 1 (1.37%) HiveQL
4 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (27.40%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.22%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.37%) Degree
5 1 (1.37%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (24.66%) Data Quality
2 8 (10.96%) GDPR
3 3 (4.11%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.74%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.74%) QA
5 1 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 3 (4.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.22%) Terraform
2 4 (5.48%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.37%) Demisto
3 1 (1.37%) Fluentd
3 1 (1.37%) Kibana
3 1 (1.37%) logstash
Vendors
1 20 (27.40%) Databricks
2 8 (10.96%) Foundry
3 7 (9.59%) Google
3 7 (9.59%) Palantir
4 6 (8.22%) Microsoft
5 5 (6.85%) SAP
6 3 (4.11%) Informatica
7 2 (2.74%) Teradata
8 1 (1.37%) ESRI
8 1 (1.37%) Intel
8 1 (1.37%) mParticle
8 1 (1.37%) Oracle
8 1 (1.37%) Talend
8 1 (1.37%) Tealium