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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 251 298
Rank change year-on-year +21 +47 +93
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 131 65 54
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.98% 0.64% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.70% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 52 41
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £628 £573 £588
90th Percentile £700 £666 £720
UK median daily rate £538 £503 £500
% change year-on-year +6.97% +0.50% -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 11,997 9,301 12,704
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.62% 91.72% 87.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,672 6,332 8,549
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £517 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 637 263 549
10th Percentile £16.70 £12.70 £14.98
25th Percentile £32.00 £19.03 £24.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -17.65% -19.05%
75th Percentile £71.99 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £75.00 £74.10
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

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 8 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 (6.87%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.82%) Apache
2 5 (3.82%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.05%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Pig
4 1 (0.76%) Confluence
4 1 (0.76%) SAS
4 1 (0.76%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (3.82%) NetSuite
1 5 (3.82%) Sage X3
2 3 (2.29%) Aladdin
2 3 (2.29%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.76%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.76%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.76%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 49 (37.40%) Azure
2 42 (32.06%) AWS
3 23 (17.56%) GCP
4 22 (16.79%) Power Platform
5 18 (13.74%) GitHub
6 17 (12.98%) Amazon S3
7 15 (11.45%) Snowflake
8 14 (10.69%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (10.69%) dbt
8 14 (10.69%) Serverless
9 12 (9.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (9.16%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (8.40%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (6.11%) Amazon EMR
11 8 (6.11%) Entra ID
11 8 (6.11%) Fivetran
12 7 (5.34%) Azure AI
13 6 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) Firewall
2 1 (0.76%) IPsec
2 1 (0.76%) Network Security
2 1 (0.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.61%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (14.50%) Power BI
3 18 (13.74%) Data Lake
4 15 (11.45%) Metadata
5 10 (7.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (7.63%) BigQuery
5 10 (7.63%) Star Schema
6 8 (6.11%) Tableau
7 6 (4.58%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (3.82%) Delta Lake
8 5 (3.82%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.05%) Big Data
9 4 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.29%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.29%) Power Query
11 2 (1.53%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 9 (6.87%) GitLab
2 5 (3.82%) Git
2 5 (3.82%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.82%) JIRA
2 5 (3.82%) Postman
3 2 (1.53%) Gatling
3 2 (1.53%) JMeter
3 2 (1.53%) LoadRunner
3 2 (1.53%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.76%) git-flow
4 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.76%) Selenium
4 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (18.32%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (17.56%) Finance
3 18 (13.74%) Social Skills
4 12 (9.16%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.87%) Marketing
6 7 (5.34%) Banking
6 7 (5.34%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.82%) Billing
9 4 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (3.05%) Publishing
10 3 (2.29%) Legal
10 3 (2.29%) Police
10 3 (2.29%) Retail
11 2 (1.53%) Back Office
11 2 (1.53%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.76%) Advertising
12 1 (0.76%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.76%) Law
12 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 45 (34.35%) Data Engineer
2 22 (16.79%) Senior
3 17 (12.98%) Developer
4 15 (11.45%) Architect
5 8 (6.11%) Senior Data Engineer
5 8 (6.11%) Senior Developer
6 7 (5.34%) Analyst
6 7 (5.34%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (5.34%) Data Analyst
6 7 (5.34%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (5.34%) Snowflake Engineer
7 6 (4.58%) AWS Data Engineer
7 6 (4.58%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (4.58%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (3.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (3.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 5 (3.82%) Consultant
8 5 (3.82%) Data Architect
8 5 (3.82%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 5 (3.82%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.69%) PySpark
2 8 (6.11%) REST
3 6 (4.58%) Kafka
3 6 (4.58%) PyTorch
4 5 (3.82%) SailPoint
5 4 (3.05%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.05%) React
5 4 (3.05%) TensorFlow
6 3 (2.29%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.29%) JSON
6 3 (2.29%) LangChain
6 3 (2.29%) Node.js
6 3 (2.29%) OAuth
6 3 (2.29%) Playwright
6 3 (2.29%) SAP CAF
6 3 (2.29%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.53%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.53%) LDAP
7 2 (1.53%) OpenID
7 2 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.98%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.11%) Algorithms
3 7 (5.34%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.58%) Clustering
4 6 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (3.82%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.05%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.29%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.29%) SCADA
8 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.53%) BYOD
8 2 (1.53%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.53%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.76%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.53%) Linux
1 2 (1.53%) Unix
1 2 (1.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (44.27%) Data Pipeline
2 54 (41.22%) Data Engineering
3 51 (38.93%) ETL
4 47 (35.88%) Data Modelling
5 43 (32.82%) CI/CD
6 36 (27.48%) Analytics
7 32 (24.43%) AI
8 30 (22.90%) Data Science
9 28 (21.37%) Machine Learning
10 26 (19.85%) Business Intelligence
11 25 (19.08%) DevOps
11 25 (19.08%) Validation
12 22 (16.79%) Agile
12 22 (16.79%) Platform Engineering
12 22 (16.79%) Use Case
13 21 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (15.27%) Data Governance
15 18 (13.74%) Data Architecture
16 17 (12.98%) Data Transformation
17 16 (12.21%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 66 (50.38%) Python
2 50 (38.17%) SQL
3 14 (10.69%) Java
4 8 (6.11%) Scala
5 7 (5.34%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.58%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.82%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.05%) C#
8 4 (3.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (3.05%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.29%) R
10 2 (1.53%) Bash
10 2 (1.53%) Bicep
10 2 (1.53%) Cypher
11 1 (0.76%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (23.66%) Security Cleared
2 26 (19.85%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.82%) SnowPro
4 4 (3.05%) Degree
5 3 (2.29%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.29%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.53%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.53%) CISSP
7 1 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.76%) PhD
7 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (33.59%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.58%) GDPR
3 5 (3.82%) QA
4 3 (2.29%) NCSC
5 2 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.53%) COPPA
5 2 (1.53%) NIST
6 1 (0.76%) GRC
6 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.76%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.76%) SLA
6 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (6.11%) Docker
2 5 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.53%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.76%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (12.21%) Terraform
2 10 (7.63%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.29%) Grafana
4 2 (1.53%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.76%) Ansible
5 1 (0.76%) Control-M
5 1 (0.76%) Fluentd
5 1 (0.76%) logstash
5 1 (0.76%) QRadar
5 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (19.08%) Databricks
2 20 (15.27%) Microsoft
3 12 (9.16%) Google
4 9 (6.87%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.34%) Informatica
5 7 (5.34%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.58%) Oracle
7 5 (3.82%) OpenAI
7 5 (3.82%) PagerDuty
7 5 (3.82%) Sage
7 5 (3.82%) SAP
8 3 (2.29%) SimCorp
9 2 (1.53%) Adobe
9 2 (1.53%) Foundry
9 2 (1.53%) IBM
9 2 (1.53%) Okta
9 2 (1.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.53%) Splunk
9 2 (1.53%) Thales
10 1 (0.76%) Alteryx