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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 262 341
Rank change year-on-year +21 +79 +122
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 76 52 38
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.75% 0.47% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.52% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 36 29
10th Percentile £405 £423 £405
25th Percentile £450 £481 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £613 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +15.57% -7.83%
75th Percentile £675 £728 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £563
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £28.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +160.56% -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 9,167 9,921 14,490
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.51% 89.43% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,039 6,219 9,874
10th Percentile £331 £325 £346
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 195 362
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.36 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.43 £22.25 £26.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.25 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +28.96% -31.88% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%

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 4 January 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 6 (7.89%) Apache
1 6 (7.89%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.58%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.32%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.32%) GeoServer
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (47.37%) Azure
2 34 (44.74%) AWS
3 12 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
3 12 (15.79%) GCP
3 12 (15.79%) Power Platform
4 11 (14.47%) Amazon S3
5 9 (11.84%) GitHub
5 9 (11.84%) Serverless
6 7 (9.21%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (9.21%) Snowflake
7 6 (7.89%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 6 (7.89%) dbt
8 5 (6.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (6.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (2.63%) Azure Functions
11 2 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (2.63%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.37%) Data Lake
2 11 (14.47%) Power BI
3 9 (11.84%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (11.84%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (9.21%) Metadata
5 6 (7.89%) BigQuery
5 6 (7.89%) Delta Lake
5 6 (7.89%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (6.58%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (5.26%) Big Data
7 4 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (5.26%) Relational Database
7 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (3.95%) DynamoDB
8 3 (3.95%) OLAP
8 3 (3.95%) OLTP
8 3 (3.95%) Spatial Data
8 3 (3.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Git
2 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.32%) JIRA
3 1 (1.32%) JUnit
3 1 (1.32%) Maven
3 1 (1.32%) Postman
3 1 (1.32%) Selenium
3 1 (1.32%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.32%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.32%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.42%) Public Sector
3 9 (11.84%) Finance
4 8 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.26%) Marketing
6 3 (3.95%) Banking
7 2 (2.63%) Legal
8 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Electronics
8 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.32%) Military
8 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (38.16%) Data Engineer
2 10 (13.16%) Architect
2 10 (13.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Developer
3 8 (10.53%) Senior
4 7 (9.21%) Data Architect
5 5 (6.58%) Consultant
5 5 (6.58%) Lead
6 3 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) Python Developer
6 3 (3.95%) Python Engineer
7 2 (2.63%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (2.63%) AWS Architect
7 2 (2.63%) Data Consultant
7 2 (2.63%) Data Scientist
7 2 (2.63%) Optimisation Engineer
7 2 (2.63%) Senior Python Developer
7 2 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.47%) FastAPI
2 10 (13.16%) PySpark
3 7 (9.21%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (3.95%) Kafka
4 3 (3.95%) NumPy
4 3 (3.95%) Pandas
4 3 (3.95%) PostGIS
4 3 (3.95%) REST
5 2 (2.63%) Dask
5 2 (2.63%) GeoJSON
5 2 (2.63%) GeoPandas
5 2 (2.63%) Plotly
5 2 (2.63%) scikit-learn
5 2 (2.63%) Streamlit
6 1 (1.32%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.32%) Great Expectations
6 1 (1.32%) pytest
6 1 (1.32%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.32%) Ray
6 1 (1.32%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.89%) Cloud Native
1 6 (7.89%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.95%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.63%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.63%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.63%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.32%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.32%) Clustering
4 1 (1.32%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.32%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.32%) Housing Association
4 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.32%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.32%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.32%) SCADA
4 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (43.42%) ETL
2 27 (35.53%) Data Pipeline
3 26 (34.21%) Data Science
4 23 (30.26%) Data Modelling
5 21 (27.63%) Data Engineering
6 18 (23.68%) AI
6 18 (23.68%) Analytics
7 17 (22.37%) Agile
8 16 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (18.42%) LLM
9 14 (18.42%) Visualisation
10 13 (17.11%) Roadmaps
11 12 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (15.79%) Generative AI
11 12 (15.79%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 11 (14.47%) Decision-Making
12 11 (14.47%) Prompt Engineering
12 11 (14.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 10 (13.16%) Information Retrieval
13 10 (13.16%) Sentiment Analysis
Programming Languages
1 45 (59.21%) Python
2 34 (44.74%) SQL
3 3 (3.95%) Java
4 2 (2.63%) Scala
5 1 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.32%) HiveQL
5 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.84%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.89%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.32%) Degree
5 1 (1.32%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.32%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (23.68%) Data Quality
2 9 (11.84%) GDPR
3 3 (3.95%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.63%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.63%) QA
5 1 (1.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 2 (2.63%) Docker
2 1 (1.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 7 (9.21%) Terraform
2 3 (3.95%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.32%) Kibana
3 1 (1.32%) logstash
Vendors
1 20 (26.32%) Databricks
2 8 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.21%) Foundry
4 6 (7.89%) Palantir
4 6 (7.89%) SAP
5 5 (6.58%) Google
6 2 (2.63%) Informatica
6 2 (2.63%) Oracle
6 2 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.32%) Adobe
7 1 (1.32%) ESRI
7 1 (1.32%) IBM
7 1 (1.32%) mParticle
7 1 (1.32%) Snow
7 1 (1.32%) Talend
7 1 (1.32%) Tealium
7 1 (1.32%) Teradata