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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 246 293
Rank change year-on-year +1 +47 +103
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 101 58 52
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 0.60% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.65% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 47 40
10th Percentile £356 £408 £400
25th Percentile £413 £436 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £528
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -6.16% -12.08%
75th Percentile £611 £563 £608
90th Percentile £688 £688 £800
UK median daily rate £546 £521 £525
% change year-on-year +4.75% -0.71% -12.50%
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 10,782 8,877 12,946
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.38% 91.32% 87.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,978 6,099 8,720
10th Percentile £350 £333 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -3.49%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -0.88% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 509 212 566
10th Percentile £17.55 £13.85 £14.94
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.50 £24.44
Median hourly rate £57.50 £39.52 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.50% -8.09% -18.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £83.80 £77.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.17 £36.05
% change year-on-year +50.90% -21.86% +0.13%

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 20 May 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 7 (6.93%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.95%) Apache
2 5 (4.95%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.96%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.99%) Apache Pig
4 1 (0.99%) Confluence
4 1 (0.99%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.99%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Aladdin
1 3 (2.97%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (0.99%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.99%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 44 (43.56%) Azure
2 41 (40.59%) AWS
3 21 (20.79%) Power Platform
4 16 (15.84%) Amazon S3
4 16 (15.84%) GCP
5 15 (14.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (13.86%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (13.86%) Serverless
7 12 (11.88%) dbt
8 11 (10.89%) GitHub
9 8 (7.92%) Amazon EMR
9 8 (7.92%) Snowflake
10 6 (5.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (5.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.96%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.79%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (17.82%) Data Lake
3 17 (16.83%) Power BI
4 13 (12.87%) Metadata
5 8 (7.92%) Tableau
6 7 (6.93%) Snowflake Schema
6 7 (6.93%) Star Schema
7 5 (4.95%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (3.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.96%) Big Data
8 4 (3.96%) BigQuery
8 4 (3.96%) Delta Lake
8 4 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.97%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.98%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.98%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (8.91%) GitLab
2 5 (4.95%) Git
2 5 (4.95%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.95%) JIRA
3 4 (3.96%) Postman
4 2 (1.98%) Gatling
4 2 (1.98%) JMeter
4 2 (1.98%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.98%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.99%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.99%) git-flow
5 1 (0.99%) JUnit
5 1 (0.99%) Maven
5 1 (0.99%) Selenium
5 1 (0.99%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.99%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.99%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (18.81%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (15.84%) Finance
3 15 (14.85%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.95%) Banking
5 5 (4.95%) Marketing
6 3 (2.97%) Police
6 3 (2.97%) Publishing
7 2 (1.98%) Legal
7 2 (1.98%) Retail
7 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.99%) Advertising
8 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.99%) Law
8 1 (0.99%) Military
8 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (39.60%) Data Engineer
2 16 (15.84%) Developer
2 16 (15.84%) Senior
3 8 (7.92%) Architect
3 8 (7.92%) Senior Developer
4 7 (6.93%) Consultant
5 6 (5.94%) AWS Data Engineer
5 6 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (5.94%) Snowflake Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) Lead
6 5 (4.95%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Data Analytics Specialist
7 4 (3.96%) Data Consultant
7 4 (3.96%) Platform Specialist
7 4 (3.96%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.96%) Python Developer
7 4 (3.96%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Senior Manager
7 4 (3.96%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.86%) PySpark
2 8 (7.92%) REST
3 6 (5.94%) FastAPI
3 6 (5.94%) Kafka
4 4 (3.96%) PyTorch
4 4 (3.96%) React
5 3 (2.97%) LangChain
5 3 (2.97%) LDAP
5 3 (2.97%) Node.js
5 3 (2.97%) OAuth
5 3 (2.97%) OpenID
5 3 (2.97%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.98%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.98%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.98%) Hugging Face
6 2 (1.98%) JSON
6 2 (1.98%) Playwright
6 2 (1.98%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.98%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.88%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.92%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.94%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.95%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.96%) Clustering
5 4 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.96%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.96%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.97%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.98%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.98%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.99%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.98%) Linux
1 2 (1.98%) Unix
1 2 (1.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (39.60%) ETL
2 39 (38.61%) Data Modelling
3 38 (37.62%) Data Engineering
4 37 (36.63%) Data Pipeline
5 31 (30.69%) CI/CD
6 27 (26.73%) Analytics
6 27 (26.73%) Data Science
7 22 (21.78%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (19.80%) Agile
8 20 (19.80%) AI
8 20 (19.80%) DevOps
9 18 (17.82%) Machine Learning
10 17 (16.83%) Data Governance
10 17 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (16.83%) Validation
11 14 (13.86%) Data Architecture
11 14 (13.86%) Performance Tuning
11 14 (13.86%) Use Case
12 12 (11.88%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (11.88%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 55 (54.46%) Python
2 46 (45.54%) SQL
3 13 (12.87%) Java
4 5 (4.95%) Kotlin
4 5 (4.95%) Scala
4 5 (4.95%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.97%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.97%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.97%) R
6 2 (1.98%) Bash
6 2 (1.98%) Cypher
7 1 (0.99%) Bicep
7 1 (0.99%) C#
7 1 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (23.76%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.82%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.96%) SnowPro
4 3 (2.97%) Degree
5 2 (1.98%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.98%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.98%) CISSP
5 2 (1.98%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.99%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (32.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.96%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.96%) GDPR
3 3 (2.97%) QA
4 1 (0.99%) GRC
4 1 (0.99%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.99%) NIST
4 1 (0.99%) SLA
4 1 (0.99%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (3.96%) Docker
2 3 (2.97%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.99%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.99%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (9.90%) Terraform
2 6 (5.94%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.97%) Grafana
4 2 (1.98%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.99%) Ansible
5 1 (0.99%) Fluentd
5 1 (0.99%) logstash
5 1 (0.99%) QRadar
Vendors
1 24 (23.76%) Databricks
2 18 (17.82%) Microsoft
3 11 (10.89%) Google
4 7 (6.93%) Informatica
5 6 (5.94%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.96%) Oracle
6 4 (3.96%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.97%) IBM
7 3 (2.97%) SimCorp
8 2 (1.98%) Adobe
8 2 (1.98%) Foundry
8 2 (1.98%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.98%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.98%) SAP
8 2 (1.98%) Snow
8 2 (1.98%) Splunk
8 2 (1.98%) Thales
9 1 (0.99%) Cribl.io
9 1 (0.99%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.99%) Okta