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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 243 285
Rank change year-on-year +7 +42 +103
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 109 60 53
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 0.62% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.68% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 49 42
10th Percentile £368 £402 £400
25th Percentile £413 £436 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £597
90th Percentile £688 £679 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% -13.33%
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 £55.00 £38.85 £67.50
% change year-on-year +41.59% -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 11,202 8,821 12,907
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.05% 91.36% 87.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,181 6,019 8,691
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £622 £631 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 583 220 575
10th Percentile £17.23 £13.75 £14.93
25th Percentile £31.59 £18.43 £23.88
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.95 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.97% -16.41% -18.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £74.30
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%

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 10 June 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 (8.26%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.59%) Apache
2 5 (4.59%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.67%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.92%) Apache Pig
4 1 (0.92%) Confluence
4 1 (0.92%) SAS
4 1 (0.92%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Aladdin
1 3 (2.75%) SimCorp Dimension
2 2 (1.83%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.83%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.92%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.92%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 42 (38.53%) Azure
2 39 (35.78%) AWS
3 22 (20.18%) Power Platform
4 20 (18.35%) GCP
5 16 (14.68%) Amazon S3
6 15 (13.76%) dbt
7 14 (12.84%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (12.84%) Serverless
8 12 (11.01%) GitHub
9 11 (10.09%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (9.17%) Snowflake
11 8 (7.34%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (6.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (5.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (4.59%) Fivetran
14 5 (4.59%) Prefect
15 4 (3.67%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.92%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.10%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (16.51%) Power BI
3 14 (12.84%) Data Lake
3 14 (12.84%) Metadata
4 9 (8.26%) Star Schema
5 8 (7.34%) Tableau
6 7 (6.42%) BigQuery
6 7 (6.42%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (5.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (4.59%) Delta Lake
8 5 (4.59%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (3.67%) Big Data
9 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.75%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.75%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.83%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.83%) Neo4j
11 2 (1.83%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 9 (8.26%) GitLab
2 6 (5.50%) Git
2 6 (5.50%) JIRA
2 6 (5.50%) Postman
3 5 (4.59%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.83%) Gatling
4 2 (1.83%) JMeter
4 2 (1.83%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.83%) NeoLoad
4 2 (1.83%) Selenium
5 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.92%) git-flow
5 1 (0.92%) JUnit
5 1 (0.92%) Maven
5 1 (0.92%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.92%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.92%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.92%) Zephyr
General
1 22 (20.18%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (18.35%) Finance
3 16 (14.68%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.26%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.42%) Banking
6 6 (5.50%) Marketing
7 4 (3.67%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.75%) Police
8 3 (2.75%) Publishing
8 3 (2.75%) Retail
9 2 (1.83%) Billing
9 2 (1.83%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.83%) Legal
10 1 (0.92%) Advertising
10 1 (0.92%) Back Office
10 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Law
10 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (36.70%) Data Engineer
2 17 (15.60%) Developer
2 17 (15.60%) Senior
3 10 (9.17%) Architect
4 8 (7.34%) Senior Developer
5 6 (5.50%) AWS Data Engineer
5 6 (5.50%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (5.50%) Consultant
5 6 (5.50%) Snowflake Engineer
6 5 (4.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 5 (4.59%) Lead
6 5 (4.59%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (4.59%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 4 (3.67%) Analyst
7 4 (3.67%) Data Analyst
7 4 (3.67%) Data Architect
7 4 (3.67%) Data Consultant
7 4 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (3.67%) Python Developer
7 4 (3.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.76%) PySpark
2 9 (8.26%) REST
3 6 (5.50%) Kafka
4 5 (4.59%) PyTorch
5 4 (3.67%) React
6 3 (2.75%) FastAPI
6 3 (2.75%) JSON
6 3 (2.75%) LangChain
6 3 (2.75%) LDAP
6 3 (2.75%) Node.js
6 3 (2.75%) OAuth
6 3 (2.75%) OpenID
6 3 (2.75%) Playwright
6 3 (2.75%) SailPoint
6 3 (2.75%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.83%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.83%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.83%) Hugging Face
7 2 (1.83%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.93%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.34%) Algorithms
2 8 (7.34%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.59%) Clustering
3 5 (4.59%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.67%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.67%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.75%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.83%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.83%) BYOD
6 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.83%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.92%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.92%) Replication
7 1 (0.92%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.83%) Linux
1 2 (1.83%) Unix
1 2 (1.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (42.20%) Data Pipeline
2 45 (41.28%) Data Modelling
3 44 (40.37%) Data Engineering
3 44 (40.37%) ETL
4 36 (33.03%) CI/CD
5 33 (30.28%) Analytics
6 26 (23.85%) Data Science
7 24 (22.02%) Business Intelligence
8 23 (21.10%) Validation
9 21 (19.27%) DevOps
9 21 (19.27%) Machine Learning
10 20 (18.35%) Agile
11 19 (17.43%) AI
12 17 (15.60%) Data Governance
12 17 (15.60%) Use Case
13 16 (14.68%) Data Architecture
13 16 (14.68%) Platform Engineering
13 16 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (12.84%) Data Transformation
14 14 (12.84%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 57 (52.29%) Python
2 50 (45.87%) SQL
3 15 (13.76%) Java
4 7 (6.42%) Scala
5 5 (4.59%) Kotlin
5 5 (4.59%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (3.67%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.75%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.75%) R
8 2 (1.83%) Bash
8 2 (1.83%) Cypher
9 1 (0.92%) Bicep
9 1 (0.92%) C#
9 1 (0.92%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (20.18%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.51%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.67%) SnowPro
4 3 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.75%) Degree
5 2 (1.83%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.83%) CISSP
5 2 (1.83%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.92%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (33.03%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.59%) GDPR
2 5 (4.59%) QA
3 3 (2.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.92%) COPPA
4 1 (0.92%) GRC
4 1 (0.92%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.92%) NIST
4 1 (0.92%) SLA
4 1 (0.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (3.67%) Docker
2 3 (2.75%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.92%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (10.09%) Terraform
2 6 (5.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.75%) Grafana
4 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.92%) Ansible
5 1 (0.92%) Control-M
5 1 (0.92%) Fluentd
5 1 (0.92%) logstash
5 1 (0.92%) QRadar
5 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (21.10%) Databricks
2 18 (16.51%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.01%) Google
4 7 (6.42%) Informatica
5 6 (5.50%) Oracle
5 6 (5.50%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.50%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.75%) IBM
6 3 (2.75%) SimCorp
7 2 (1.83%) Adobe
7 2 (1.83%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.83%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.83%) Sage
7 2 (1.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (1.83%) SAP
7 2 (1.83%) Snow
7 2 (1.83%) Splunk
7 2 (1.83%) Thales
8 1 (0.92%) New Relic
8 1 (0.92%) Okta