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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 267 359
Rank change year-on-year +22 +92 +110
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 70 56 43
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.69% 0.47% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.53% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 39 31
10th Percentile £411 £417 £406
25th Percentile £472 £481 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +4.36%
75th Percentile £640 £700 £680
90th Percentile £738 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +7.32% -14.58% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £69.38 £28.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +143.44% -62.00% -

All Process and 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 9,331 10,578 16,365
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.68% 87.94% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,194 6,589 11,380
10th Percentile £325 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 210 403
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.13 £26.24
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -26.19% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +25.71%

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 18 November 2025.

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 (10.00%) Apache
1 7 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.43%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.43%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.43%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (47.14%) Azure
2 32 (45.71%) AWS
3 13 (18.57%) Amazon S3
3 13 (18.57%) GCP
4 12 (17.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (17.14%) Power Platform
4 12 (17.14%) Serverless
5 10 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 9 (12.86%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (11.43%) GitHub
7 8 (11.43%) Snowflake
8 7 (10.00%) dbt
9 6 (8.57%) Amazon EMR
9 6 (8.57%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (7.14%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 3 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (4.29%) Azure Functions
11 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) DNS
1 1 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.57%) Data Lake
2 12 (17.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (15.71%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (14.29%) Power BI
5 8 (11.43%) BigQuery
6 6 (8.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (8.57%) Metadata
6 6 (8.57%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (5.71%) Delta Lake
8 4 (5.71%) NoSQL
8 4 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (5.71%) Relational Database
8 4 (5.71%) SQL Server
9 3 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (4.29%) Big Data
9 3 (4.29%) DynamoDB
9 3 (4.29%) OLAP
9 3 (4.29%) OLTP
9 3 (4.29%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Git
1 4 (5.71%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.57%) Public Sector
3 9 (12.86%) Finance
4 7 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.71%) Banking
5 4 (5.71%) Marketing
6 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.86%) Legal
6 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Automotive
7 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Electronics
7 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (41.43%) Data Engineer
2 10 (14.29%) Architect
2 10 (14.29%) Senior
3 8 (11.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 7 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 7 (10.00%) Developer
5 6 (8.57%) Azure Data Engineer
5 6 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Lead
7 3 (4.29%) AWS Architect
7 3 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Consultant
7 3 (4.29%) Senior Developer
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Developer
8 2 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Data Scientist
8 2 (2.86%) Optimisation Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Python Developer
8 2 (2.86%) Senior Python Developer
8 2 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.86%) PySpark
2 8 (11.43%) FastAPI
3 6 (8.57%) Kafka
3 6 (8.57%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (4.29%) NumPy
4 3 (4.29%) Pandas
4 3 (4.29%) PostGIS
5 2 (2.86%) Dask
5 2 (2.86%) GeoJSON
5 2 (2.86%) GeoPandas
5 2 (2.86%) JSON
5 2 (2.86%) Plotly
5 2 (2.86%) REST
5 2 (2.86%) RESTful
5 2 (2.86%) scikit-learn
5 2 (2.86%) Streamlit
6 1 (1.43%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.43%) Fluent Bit
6 1 (1.43%) Great Expectations
6 1 (1.43%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.71%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.86%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.86%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.86%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.43%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.43%) Clustering
5 1 (1.43%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.43%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.43%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.43%) SCADA
5 1 (1.43%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (45.71%) ETL
2 29 (41.43%) Data Pipeline
3 25 (35.71%) Data Modelling
3 25 (35.71%) Data Science
4 23 (32.86%) Data Engineering
5 21 (30.00%) Analytics
6 16 (22.86%) AI
6 16 (22.86%) Visualisation
7 15 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (20.00%) Agile
9 12 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (17.14%) CI/CD
9 12 (17.14%) Data Governance
10 11 (15.71%) LLM
11 10 (14.29%) Data Security
11 10 (14.29%) DevOps
11 10 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 9 (12.86%) Generative AI
12 9 (12.86%) Machine Learning
12 9 (12.86%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 39 (55.71%) Python
2 31 (44.29%) SQL
3 4 (5.71%) Java
3 4 (5.71%) Scala
4 1 (1.43%) C#
4 1 (1.43%) HiveQL
4 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.86%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.43%) Degree
6 1 (1.43%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 8 (11.43%) GDPR
3 3 (4.29%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.86%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.86%) QA
5 1 (1.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 5 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 5 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (1.43%) Demisto
2 1 (1.43%) Fluentd
2 1 (1.43%) Kibana
2 1 (1.43%) logstash
Vendors
1 19 (27.14%) Databricks
2 7 (10.00%) Foundry
2 7 (10.00%) Google
2 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.57%) Palantir
4 5 (7.14%) SAP
5 3 (4.29%) Informatica
6 2 (2.86%) Teradata
7 1 (1.43%) ESRI
7 1 (1.43%) Intel
7 1 (1.43%) mParticle
7 1 (1.43%) Oracle
7 1 (1.43%) Talend
7 1 (1.43%) Tealium