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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 246 308
Rank change year-on-year +13 +62 +134
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 98 63 45
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.89% 0.59% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.65% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 46 36
10th Percentile £371 £384 £400
25th Percentile £425 £436 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £537 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +4.78% -14.58%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £608
90th Percentile £738 £750 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £64.50 - £65.00

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 9,916 9,691 14,336
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.59% 90.42% 87.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,478 6,279 9,593
10th Percentile £340 £328 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 184 511
10th Percentile £16.70 £18.30 £15.25
25th Percentile £25.50 £24.42 £23.06
Median hourly rate £52.50 £38.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.25% -19.47% -17.39%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.20 £66.75
90th Percentile £76.27 £75.00 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.54% -7.14% -

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 19 February 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 8 (8.16%) Apache
2 6 (6.12%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.12%) Palantir Foundry
3 5 (5.10%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.04%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.02%) ArcGIS
5 1 (1.02%) Confluence
5 1 (1.02%) GeoServer
5 1 (1.02%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (1.02%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.02%) Eloqua
1 1 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 45 (45.92%) AWS
2 40 (40.82%) Azure
3 16 (16.33%) Serverless
4 15 (15.31%) Azure Data Factory
4 15 (15.31%) Power Platform
5 14 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (14.29%) GCP
6 12 (12.24%) Amazon S3
7 10 (10.20%) GitHub
8 9 (9.18%) dbt
9 8 (8.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
11 6 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (6.12%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 6 (6.12%) Snowflake
12 3 (3.06%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (3.06%) Azure AI
12 3 (3.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.33%) Data Lake
2 12 (12.24%) Power BI
3 11 (11.22%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (10.20%) Metadata
5 8 (8.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (6.12%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (6.12%) Relational Database
6 6 (6.12%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (5.10%) BigQuery
7 5 (5.10%) DynamoDB
7 5 (5.10%) OLAP
8 4 (4.08%) Big Data
9 3 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (3.06%) Neo4j
9 3 (3.06%) OLTP
9 3 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
9 3 (3.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (3.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Git
1 4 (4.08%) GitLab
1 4 (4.08%) Jenkins
1 4 (4.08%) JIRA
2 3 (3.06%) Postman
3 2 (2.04%) Gatling
3 2 (2.04%) JMeter
3 2 (2.04%) LoadRunner
3 2 (2.04%) NeoLoad
4 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.02%) git-flow
4 1 (1.02%) JUnit
4 1 (1.02%) Maven
4 1 (1.02%) Selenium
4 1 (1.02%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.02%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.02%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (17.35%) Public Sector
2 15 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 12 (12.24%) Finance
5 6 (6.12%) Banking
6 4 (4.08%) Marketing
7 3 (3.06%) Police
8 2 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.02%) Electronics
9 1 (1.02%) Law
9 1 (1.02%) Legal
9 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.02%) Military
9 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Publishing
9 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (39.80%) Data Engineer
2 14 (14.29%) Developer
3 12 (12.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 11 (11.22%) Architect
5 10 (10.20%) Senior
6 8 (8.16%) Lead
7 7 (7.14%) Consultant
7 7 (7.14%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.12%) Data Architect
9 5 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Data Consultant
10 3 (3.06%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 3 (3.06%) AWS Data Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) Backend Developer
10 3 (3.06%) GCP Data Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) GCP Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) Lead Data Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) Python Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.31%) PySpark
2 12 (12.24%) FastAPI
3 7 (7.14%) SQLAlchemy
4 6 (6.12%) REST
5 3 (3.06%) Kafka
5 3 (3.06%) LDAP
5 3 (3.06%) OpenID
5 3 (3.06%) PyTorch
5 3 (3.06%) SailPoint
6 2 (2.04%) Hugging Face
6 2 (2.04%) JSON
6 2 (2.04%) LangChain
6 2 (2.04%) OAuth
6 2 (2.04%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.04%) Pandas
6 2 (2.04%) Playwright
6 2 (2.04%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.02%) Matplotlib
7 1 (1.02%) Node.js
7 1 (1.02%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.16%) Algorithms
3 7 (7.14%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.10%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.08%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.06%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.04%) Clustering
7 2 (2.04%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.02%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.02%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.02%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.02%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.04%) Linux
1 2 (2.04%) Windows
2 1 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (39.80%) ETL
2 34 (34.69%) Data Engineering
3 33 (33.67%) Data Pipeline
3 33 (33.67%) Data Science
4 32 (32.65%) Data Modelling
5 23 (23.47%) CI/CD
6 21 (21.43%) Agile
6 21 (21.43%) AI
6 21 (21.43%) Analytics
7 18 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (17.35%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (16.33%) Roadmaps
10 15 (15.31%) LLM
10 15 (15.31%) Machine Learning
10 15 (15.31%) Visualisation
11 13 (13.27%) Decision-Making
11 13 (13.27%) Generative AI
11 13 (13.27%) Prompt Engineering
11 13 (13.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (13.27%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 62 (63.27%) Python
2 40 (40.82%) SQL
3 13 (13.27%) Java
4 5 (5.10%) Kotlin
5 4 (4.08%) Scala
6 3 (3.06%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.04%) Cypher
7 2 (2.04%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.04%) R
8 1 (1.02%) Bash
8 1 (1.02%) C#
8 1 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (29.59%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.31%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.12%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.06%) Degree
6 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.02%) CISSP
6 1 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.02%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (27.55%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.22%) GDPR
3 4 (4.08%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.06%) QA
5 2 (2.04%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.02%) GRC
6 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.02%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (4.08%) Docker
2 3 (3.06%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (12.24%) Terraform
2 6 (6.12%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.06%) Grafana
4 2 (2.04%) logstash
4 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.02%) Ansible
5 1 (1.02%) Fluentd
5 1 (1.02%) Kibana
5 1 (1.02%) QRadar
Vendors
1 19 (19.39%) Databricks
2 10 (10.20%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.16%) Foundry
4 6 (6.12%) Google
4 6 (6.12%) Palantir
4 6 (6.12%) SAP
5 5 (5.10%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.08%) Oracle
7 2 (2.04%) Adobe
7 2 (2.04%) IBM
7 2 (2.04%) Informatica
7 2 (2.04%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.04%) Snow
7 2 (2.04%) Splunk
8 1 (1.02%) Cribl.io
8 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.02%) mParticle
8 1 (1.02%) New Relic
8 1 (1.02%) Okta
8 1 (1.02%) Tealium