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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 251 289
Rank change year-on-year +12 +38 +97
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 130 63 55
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.96% 0.62% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.68% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 51 42
10th Percentile £359 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £436 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £638 £573 £597
90th Percentile £718 £671 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +3.96% +1.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £38.85 £67.50
% change year-on-year +59.61% -42.45% -20.59%

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 12,110 9,293 12,131
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.68% 91.59% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,704 6,281 8,215
10th Percentile £354 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% -3.33% -2.33%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 656 270 467
10th Percentile £16.70 £12.62 £16.15
25th Percentile £31.98 £18.66 £26.94
Median hourly rate £57.50 £34.18 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.21% -20.51% -17.51%
75th Percentile £71.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.63 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 22 July 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 9 (6.92%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.62%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.85%) Apache
4 4 (3.08%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.77%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.77%) Confluence
5 1 (0.77%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (3.85%) NetSuite
1 5 (3.85%) Sage X3
2 4 (3.08%) Aladdin
3 3 (2.31%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (1.54%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.77%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.77%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.77%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 44 (33.85%) Azure
2 37 (28.46%) AWS
3 24 (18.46%) Power Platform
4 19 (14.62%) GCP
5 18 (13.85%) GitHub
6 17 (13.08%) Amazon S3
6 17 (13.08%) Snowflake
7 16 (12.31%) dbt
8 14 (10.77%) Serverless
9 13 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (8.46%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (6.15%) Fivetran
13 7 (5.38%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (5.38%) Entra ID
14 6 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (3.85%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.54%) Firewall
2 1 (0.77%) IPsec
2 1 (0.77%) Network Security
2 1 (0.77%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.54%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (16.15%) Power BI
3 19 (14.62%) Data Lake
4 18 (13.85%) Metadata
5 11 (8.46%) BigQuery
6 10 (7.69%) Star Schema
7 9 (6.92%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (6.92%) Tableau
8 6 (4.62%) Big Data
8 6 (4.62%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (3.85%) Delta Lake
9 5 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.85%) Relational Database
10 4 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (3.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.31%) Hadoop
11 3 (2.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (2.31%) Power Query
12 2 (1.54%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 7 (5.38%) GitLab
2 6 (4.62%) Git
3 3 (2.31%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.31%) JIRA
3 3 (2.31%) Postman
4 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.77%) git-flow
4 1 (0.77%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.77%) Selenium
4 1 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (18.46%) Finance
2 21 (16.15%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (16.15%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.46%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.92%) Marketing
5 8 (6.15%) Banking
6 7 (5.38%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.85%) Billing
7 5 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.08%) Publishing
9 3 (2.31%) Legal
9 3 (2.31%) Police
9 3 (2.31%) Retail
10 2 (1.54%) Back Office
10 2 (1.54%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.77%) Advertising
11 1 (0.77%) Law
11 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (33.85%) Data Engineer
2 24 (18.46%) Senior
3 17 (13.08%) Developer
4 14 (10.77%) Architect
5 9 (6.92%) Analyst
5 9 (6.92%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (6.15%) Senior Data Engineer
6 8 (6.15%) Senior Developer
6 8 (6.15%) Snowflake Engineer
7 7 (5.38%) Data Analyst
7 7 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (5.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 6 (4.62%) AWS Data Engineer
8 6 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (4.62%) Azure Data Engineer
8 6 (4.62%) Data Architect
9 5 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (3.85%) Consultant
9 5 (3.85%) Python Engineer
9 5 (3.85%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.54%) PySpark
2 8 (6.15%) Kafka
2 8 (6.15%) REST
3 4 (3.08%) JSON
4 3 (2.31%) ARM Templates
4 3 (2.31%) FastAPI
4 3 (2.31%) OAuth
4 3 (2.31%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (2.31%) PyTorch
4 3 (2.31%) React
4 3 (2.31%) SailPoint
4 3 (2.31%) SAP CAF
4 3 (2.31%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.54%) Node.js
5 2 (1.54%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.54%) SOAP
5 2 (1.54%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.77%) Middleware
6 1 (0.77%) SAML
6 1 (0.77%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.08%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.15%) Data Structures
3 7 (5.38%) Algorithms
3 7 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.38%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.38%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.62%) Clustering
5 5 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.08%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.31%) SCADA
8 2 (1.54%) BYOD
8 2 (1.54%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.54%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.77%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.77%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.77%) Linux
1 1 (0.77%) Unix
1 1 (0.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
2 54 (41.54%) Data Engineering
3 51 (39.23%) Data Modelling
4 50 (38.46%) ETL
5 43 (33.08%) CI/CD
6 38 (29.23%) Analytics
7 30 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
8 29 (22.31%) AI
9 26 (20.00%) Data Science
10 25 (19.23%) Agile
10 25 (19.23%) Data Governance
10 25 (19.23%) DevOps
11 23 (17.69%) Machine Learning
11 23 (17.69%) Validation
12 21 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (15.38%) Use Case
14 19 (14.62%) Data Transformation
14 19 (14.62%) Platform Engineering
15 17 (13.08%) Data Architecture
15 17 (13.08%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 62 (47.69%) Python
2 53 (40.77%) SQL
3 11 (8.46%) Java
4 6 (4.62%) Scala
5 5 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.85%) Kotlin
5 5 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (3.08%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.31%) C#
8 2 (1.54%) Bash
8 2 (1.54%) Bicep
8 2 (1.54%) R
9 1 (0.77%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.77%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 26 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.85%) SnowPro
4 3 (2.31%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.31%) Degree
4 3 (2.31%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.54%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.54%) CISSP
6 1 (0.77%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.77%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (36.15%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.85%) GDPR
3 4 (3.08%) QA
4 3 (2.31%) NCSC
4 3 (2.31%) NIST
5 2 (1.54%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.54%) COPPA
6 1 (0.77%) GRC
6 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.77%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.77%) SLA
6 1 (0.77%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (5.38%) Docker
2 5 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.77%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.77%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (11.54%) Terraform
2 9 (6.92%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.54%) Grafana
3 2 (1.54%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.77%) Ansible
4 1 (0.77%) Control-M
4 1 (0.77%) Fluentd
4 1 (0.77%) logstash
4 1 (0.77%) QRadar
4 1 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (18.46%) Microsoft
2 23 (17.69%) Databricks
3 10 (7.69%) Google
3 10 (7.69%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.38%) Informatica
5 6 (4.62%) Oracle
5 6 (4.62%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.85%) PagerDuty
6 5 (3.85%) Sage
6 5 (3.85%) SAP
7 3 (2.31%) IBM
7 3 (2.31%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.31%) SimCorp
7 3 (2.31%) Splunk
8 2 (1.54%) Adobe
8 2 (1.54%) Netezza
8 2 (1.54%) Okta
8 2 (1.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.54%) Snow
8 2 (1.54%) Thales