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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 251 286
Rank change year-on-year +4 +35 +87
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 126 58 48
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.94% 0.59% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.64% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 45 36
10th Percentile £385 £401 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.23% -18.67%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £600
90th Percentile £735 £619 £729
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% -19.35%
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 £70.75 £38.85 £48.00
% change year-on-year +82.13% -19.07% -43.53%

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 12,096 9,111 11,320
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.97% 91.92% 87.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,615 6,112 7,552
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -4.33% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 694 284 372
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.62 £18.29
25th Percentile £30.35 £17.51 £30.69
Median hourly rate £50.00 £34.48 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.01% -19.81% -14.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £65.09
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.63 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.63 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.54% -38.57% -0.24%

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 August 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 10 (7.94%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.17%) Apache
3 3 (2.38%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.59%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.79%) nginx
5 1 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 5 (3.97%) NetSuite
1 5 (3.97%) Sage X3
2 4 (3.17%) Aladdin
3 3 (2.38%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.79%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 43 (34.13%) Azure
2 29 (23.02%) AWS
3 21 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 19 (15.08%) GitHub
5 18 (14.29%) Snowflake
6 17 (13.49%) dbt
6 17 (13.49%) GCP
7 13 (10.32%) Amazon S3
7 13 (10.32%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (10.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (7.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (6.35%) Entra ID
10 8 (6.35%) Fivetran
11 7 (5.56%) Serverless
12 5 (3.97%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (3.97%) Azure AKS
12 5 (3.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (3.97%) Cloud Functions
12 5 (3.97%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.59%) Broadband
1 2 (1.59%) Firewall
2 1 (0.79%) IPsec
2 1 (0.79%) Network Security
2 1 (0.79%) OpenFlow
2 1 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.63%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 19 (15.08%) Power BI
4 18 (14.29%) Metadata
5 10 (7.94%) BigQuery
6 9 (7.14%) Star Schema
7 8 (6.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (6.35%) Tableau
8 7 (5.56%) Big Data
8 7 (5.56%) Delta Lake
8 7 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (2.38%) Power Query
10 3 (2.38%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.59%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 4 (3.17%) Git
1 4 (3.17%) GitLab
2 3 (2.38%) Postman
3 2 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.59%) JIRA
4 1 (0.79%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.79%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.79%) Selenium
4 1 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (22.22%) Finance
2 25 (19.84%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.94%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.56%) Marketing
5 7 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.76%) Banking
7 5 (3.97%) Billing
7 5 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.17%) Publishing
9 3 (2.38%) Legal
9 3 (2.38%) Retail
10 2 (1.59%) Back Office
10 2 (1.59%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.59%) German Language
10 2 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.79%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 36 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 24 (19.05%) Senior
3 18 (14.29%) Architect
4 14 (11.11%) Developer
5 9 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (7.14%) Data Architect
6 8 (6.35%) Senior Data Engineer
6 8 (6.35%) Snowflake Engineer
7 7 (5.56%) Analyst
7 7 (5.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Azure Data Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Consultant
8 6 (4.76%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (3.97%) Data Analyst
9 5 (3.97%) Python Developer
9 5 (3.97%) Python Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Senior Architect
9 5 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.11%) Terraform
2 10 (7.94%) Kafka
2 10 (7.94%) PySpark
2 10 (7.94%) REST
3 5 (3.97%) PyTorch
4 4 (3.17%) TensorFlow
5 3 (2.38%) FastAPI
5 3 (2.38%) JSON
5 3 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (2.38%) React
5 3 (2.38%) SailPoint
5 3 (2.38%) SAP CAF
6 2 (1.59%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.59%) Node.js
6 2 (1.59%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.59%) SOAP
7 1 (0.79%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.79%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (0.79%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.94%) Data Structures
3 9 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.97%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (3.97%) Clustering
6 3 (2.38%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.38%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.38%) SCADA
7 2 (1.59%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.59%) BYOD
7 2 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.59%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.59%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.59%) Linux
1 2 (1.59%) Unix
2 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (46.03%) Data Pipeline
2 51 (40.48%) Data Engineering
3 49 (38.89%) Data Modelling
3 49 (38.89%) ETL
4 44 (34.92%) Analytics
5 37 (29.37%) CI/CD
6 33 (26.19%) AI
7 25 (19.84%) Business Intelligence
7 25 (19.84%) DevOps
8 24 (19.05%) Agile
9 22 (17.46%) Data Governance
9 22 (17.46%) Machine Learning
10 21 (16.67%) Validation
11 20 (15.87%) Data Transformation
12 19 (15.08%) Data Science
13 18 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (14.29%) Use Case
14 16 (12.70%) Data Architecture
14 16 (12.70%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (12.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (46.03%) Python
2 50 (39.68%) SQL
3 7 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.76%) Java
5 5 (3.97%) C#
5 5 (3.97%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.97%) Scala
6 4 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (3.17%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.38%) Bicep
7 3 (2.38%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.59%) Bash
9 1 (0.79%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.79%) PROC SQL
9 1 (0.79%) R
9 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (20.63%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.97%) SnowPro
4 3 (2.38%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.59%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.59%) Degree
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.79%) CISSP
6 1 (0.79%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (34.92%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.97%) NIST
3 4 (3.17%) QA
4 3 (2.38%) GDPR
4 3 (2.38%) NCSC
5 2 (1.59%) COPPA
6 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.79%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.97%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.59%) Grafana
3 1 (0.79%) Control-M
3 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (22.22%) Databricks
2 23 (18.25%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.94%) Salesforce
4 9 (7.14%) Google
5 5 (3.97%) Informatica
5 5 (3.97%) Oracle
5 5 (3.97%) PagerDuty
5 5 (3.97%) Sage
5 5 (3.97%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.17%) SAP
7 3 (2.38%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.38%) SimCorp
8 2 (1.59%) Adobe
8 2 (1.59%) IBM
8 2 (1.59%) Splunk
8 2 (1.59%) Thales
9 1 (0.79%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.79%) Foundry
9 1 (0.79%) Netezza
9 1 (0.79%) Pega