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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 233 276
Rank change year-on-year +9 +43 +91
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 153 71 58
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.12% 0.73% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 0.80% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 53 42
10th Percentile £400 £410 £402
25th Percentile £450 £455 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +7.40% -2.44% -18.00%
75th Percentile £638 £609 £619
90th Percentile £738 £675 £749
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -6.36% +10.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
75th Percentile £54.38 - -
90th Percentile £57.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.45 £38.85 £28.50
% change year-on-year +60.77% +36.30% -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 12,395 8,888 10,895
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.60% 91.93% 88.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,792 5,898 6,847
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £428 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -1.50%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £736 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 791 278 253
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.25 £19.36
25th Percentile £28.75 £20.50 £27.84
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.95 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.10% -16.41% -18.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 14 October 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 12 (7.84%) Apache
2 11 (7.19%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.61%) SAS
5 3 (1.96%) Confluence
6 2 (1.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.31%) nginx
7 1 (0.65%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.65%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 5 (3.27%) NetSuite
1 5 (3.27%) Sage X3
2 3 (1.96%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.31%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.65%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 49 (32.03%) Azure
2 34 (22.22%) AWS
3 20 (13.07%) GitHub
3 20 (13.07%) Power Platform
4 19 (12.42%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (12.42%) Snowflake
5 17 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (11.11%) GCP
6 15 (9.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 15 (9.80%) dbt
7 14 (9.15%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (5.88%) Amazon S3
9 8 (5.23%) Entra ID
9 8 (5.23%) Serverless
10 7 (4.58%) Azure Databricks
11 6 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (3.27%) Anthropic Claude
12 5 (3.27%) Azure AKS
12 5 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.27%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.61%) Broadband
2 3 (1.96%) HTTP
3 1 (0.65%) Firewall
3 1 (0.65%) IPsec
3 1 (0.65%) Network Security
3 1 (0.65%) NGFW
3 1 (0.65%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (19.61%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (15.03%) Metadata
3 21 (13.73%) Data Lake
4 19 (12.42%) Power BI
5 12 (7.84%) BigQuery
6 11 (7.19%) Big Data
7 8 (5.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (5.23%) Delta Lake
8 6 (3.92%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (3.92%) Star Schema
9 5 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (3.27%) Hadoop
9 5 (3.27%) Parquet
10 4 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.61%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.61%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (1.96%) Pentaho
11 3 (1.96%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 13 (8.50%) Git
2 6 (3.92%) GitLab
3 5 (3.27%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.61%) JIRA
5 3 (1.96%) Postman
6 1 (0.65%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.65%) MLflow
6 1 (0.65%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.65%) RStudio
6 1 (0.65%) Selenium
6 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 37 (24.18%) Finance
3 23 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.50%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.58%) Marketing
5 7 (4.58%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.92%) Banking
6 6 (3.92%) Billing
7 5 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.61%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.61%) Publishing
9 3 (1.96%) Legal
9 3 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.96%) Retail
10 2 (1.31%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.31%) Back Office
10 2 (1.31%) German Language
10 2 (1.31%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 46 (30.07%) Data Engineer
2 24 (15.69%) Architect
2 24 (15.69%) Senior
3 17 (11.11%) Developer
4 13 (8.50%) Data Architect
5 10 (6.54%) Senior Data Engineer
6 9 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (5.88%) Software Engineer
7 8 (5.23%) Analyst
8 7 (4.58%) Consultant
8 7 (4.58%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 7 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.92%) Azure Data Engineer
9 6 (3.92%) Data Analyst
9 6 (3.92%) Databricks Engineer
9 6 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (3.92%) Snowflake Engineer
10 5 (3.27%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (3.27%) Senior Architect
10 5 (3.27%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.34%) REST
2 19 (12.42%) Terraform
3 13 (8.50%) Kafka
4 9 (5.88%) PySpark
5 6 (3.92%) .NET
5 6 (3.92%) Apache NiFi
5 6 (3.92%) JSON
5 6 (3.92%) PyTorch
6 5 (3.27%) TensorFlow
7 4 (2.61%) LangChain
7 4 (2.61%) Model Context Protocol
7 4 (2.61%) React
7 4 (2.61%) SOAP
7 4 (2.61%) Spring
7 4 (2.61%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.96%) LangGraph
8 3 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.96%) SailPoint
8 3 (1.96%) SAP CAF
8 3 (1.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.38%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.80%) Onboarding
3 10 (6.54%) Data Structures
4 8 (5.23%) AI Agents
5 7 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.92%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.61%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.96%) Clustering
9 3 (1.96%) SCADA
9 3 (1.96%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (1.31%) BYOD
10 2 (1.31%) Data Fabric
10 2 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.31%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.31%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (1.31%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.31%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.61%) Linux
2 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (48.37%) Data Pipeline
2 65 (42.48%) Data Engineering
3 60 (39.22%) ETL
4 59 (38.56%) Data Modelling
5 55 (35.95%) CI/CD
6 50 (32.68%) Analytics
7 44 (28.76%) AI
8 35 (22.88%) Data Transformation
8 35 (22.88%) DevOps
9 30 (19.61%) Validation
10 29 (18.95%) Machine Learning
11 26 (16.99%) Agile
11 26 (16.99%) Business Intelligence
11 26 (16.99%) Data Governance
12 24 (15.69%) Data Integration
13 23 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (14.38%) Observability
15 21 (13.73%) Data Architecture
15 21 (13.73%) Software Engineering
16 20 (13.07%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 71 (46.41%) Python
2 58 (37.91%) SQL
3 10 (6.54%) C#
3 10 (6.54%) Java
3 10 (6.54%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.58%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.92%) Scala
6 5 (3.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (2.61%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (2.61%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.96%) Bash
8 3 (1.96%) Bicep
8 3 (1.96%) R
9 2 (1.31%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.65%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.65%) PROC SQL
10 1 (0.65%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (22.88%) Security Cleared
2 24 (15.69%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.23%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.58%) Degree
5 5 (3.27%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.31%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.31%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.65%) PhD
8 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.65%) PMP
8 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (34.64%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.92%) GDPR
2 6 (3.92%) NIST
2 6 (3.92%) QA
3 5 (3.27%) NCSC
4 2 (1.31%) COPPA
4 2 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.31%) SLA
5 1 (0.65%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (6.54%) Docker
2 5 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.65%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (13.73%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.27%) Ansible
3 3 (1.96%) Grafana
4 2 (1.31%) Kibana
4 2 (1.31%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.31%) QRadar
5 1 (0.65%) Control-M
5 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (18.95%) Databricks
2 28 (18.30%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.88%) Google
4 8 (5.23%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.92%) Oracle
6 5 (3.27%) PagerDuty
6 5 (3.27%) Sage
6 5 (3.27%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.27%) Splunk
7 4 (2.61%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.61%) SAP
8 3 (1.96%) Adobe
8 3 (1.96%) Denodo
8 3 (1.96%) Talend
9 2 (1.31%) ArcSight
9 2 (1.31%) Foundry
9 2 (1.31%) IBM
9 2 (1.31%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.31%) SimCorp
10 1 (0.65%) Snow