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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 248 318
Rank change year-on-year +17 +70 +124
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 94 63 48
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 0.59% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.65% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 46 36
10th Percentile £380 £384 £400
25th Percentile £447 £436 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% +4.78% -13.14%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £608
90th Percentile £738 £750 £744
UK median daily rate £543 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +5.95% -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 9,667 9,630 14,590
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.56% 90.27% 88.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,310 6,202 9,777
10th Percentile £338 £328 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -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 403 183 504
10th Percentile £16.31 £18.28 £15.19
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.75 £22.52
Median hourly rate £51.21 £38.00 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.76% -19.58% -17.83%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.93 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £83.80
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -4.41% -1.68%

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 16 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 7 (7.45%) Apache
2 6 (6.38%) Palantir Foundry
3 5 (5.32%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (5.32%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.13%) Apache Superset
5 1 (1.06%) ArcGIS
5 1 (1.06%) Confluence
5 1 (1.06%) GeoServer
5 1 (1.06%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 44 (46.81%) AWS
2 38 (40.43%) Azure
3 16 (17.02%) Serverless
4 14 (14.89%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (14.89%) Power Platform
5 13 (13.83%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (13.83%) GCP
6 12 (12.77%) Amazon S3
7 9 (9.57%) dbt
7 9 (9.57%) GitHub
8 7 (7.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (7.45%) Amazon EMR
8 7 (7.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (6.38%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 6 (6.38%) Snowflake
10 3 (3.19%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (3.19%) Azure AI
10 3 (3.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.02%) Data Lake
2 11 (11.70%) Power BI
3 10 (10.64%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (9.57%) Metadata
5 8 (8.51%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (6.38%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (6.38%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (5.32%) BigQuery
7 5 (5.32%) DynamoDB
8 4 (4.26%) Big Data
8 4 (4.26%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (3.19%) Delta Lake
9 3 (3.19%) Neo4j
9 3 (3.19%) OLAP
9 3 (3.19%) OLTP
9 3 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
9 3 (3.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (3.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.26%) JIRA
2 3 (3.19%) Git
2 3 (3.19%) GitLab
2 3 (3.19%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.19%) Postman
3 2 (2.13%) Gatling
3 2 (2.13%) JMeter
3 2 (2.13%) LoadRunner
3 2 (2.13%) NeoLoad
4 1 (1.06%) JUnit
4 1 (1.06%) Maven
4 1 (1.06%) Selenium
4 1 (1.06%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.06%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.06%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (18.09%) Public Sector
2 15 (15.96%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (14.89%) Social Skills
4 12 (12.77%) Finance
5 6 (6.38%) Banking
6 3 (3.19%) Marketing
6 3 (3.19%) Police
7 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.06%) Electronics
8 1 (1.06%) Law
8 1 (1.06%) Legal
8 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.06%) Military
8 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Publishing
8 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (40.43%) Data Engineer
2 14 (14.89%) Developer
3 12 (12.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 11 (11.70%) Architect
5 10 (10.64%) Senior
6 8 (8.51%) Lead
7 7 (7.45%) Consultant
7 7 (7.45%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.38%) Data Architect
9 5 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Data Consultant
10 3 (3.19%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 3 (3.19%) AWS Data Engineer
10 3 (3.19%) GCP Data Engineer
10 3 (3.19%) GCP Engineer
10 3 (3.19%) Lead Data Engineer
10 3 (3.19%) Python Developer
10 3 (3.19%) Python Engineer
10 3 (3.19%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 3 (3.19%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.89%) PySpark
2 12 (12.77%) FastAPI
3 7 (7.45%) SQLAlchemy
4 6 (6.38%) REST
5 3 (3.19%) Kafka
5 3 (3.19%) LDAP
5 3 (3.19%) OpenID
5 3 (3.19%) PyTorch
5 3 (3.19%) SailPoint
6 2 (2.13%) Hugging Face
6 2 (2.13%) JSON
6 2 (2.13%) LangChain
6 2 (2.13%) OAuth
6 2 (2.13%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.13%) Pandas
6 2 (2.13%) Playwright
6 2 (2.13%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.06%) Flask
7 1 (1.06%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (1.06%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.77%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.51%) Algorithms
3 6 (6.38%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.26%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.19%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.13%) Clustering
8 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.06%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.06%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.06%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.06%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.13%) Linux
1 2 (2.13%) Windows
2 1 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (41.49%) ETL
2 33 (35.11%) Data Engineering
3 32 (34.04%) Data Science
4 31 (32.98%) Data Pipeline
5 30 (31.91%) Data Modelling
6 22 (23.40%) CI/CD
7 21 (22.34%) AI
7 21 (22.34%) Analytics
8 19 (20.21%) Agile
9 18 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (17.02%) Roadmaps
11 15 (15.96%) LLM
11 15 (15.96%) Machine Learning
12 13 (13.83%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (13.83%) Decision-Making
12 13 (13.83%) Generative AI
12 13 (13.83%) Prompt Engineering
12 13 (13.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 13 (13.83%) Validation
13 12 (12.77%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 60 (63.83%) Python
2 38 (40.43%) SQL
3 13 (13.83%) Java
4 5 (5.32%) Kotlin
5 3 (3.19%) Scala
5 3 (3.19%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.13%) Cypher
6 2 (2.13%) R
7 1 (1.06%) Bash
7 1 (1.06%) C#
7 1 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.96%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.38%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.19%) Degree
6 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.06%) CISSP
6 1 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.06%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (25.53%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.70%) GDPR
3 4 (4.26%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.19%) QA
5 2 (2.13%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.06%) GRC
6 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.06%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (3.19%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
1 3 (3.19%) Docker
2 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (11.70%) Terraform
2 5 (5.32%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.19%) Grafana
4 2 (2.13%) logstash
4 2 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.06%) Fluentd
5 1 (1.06%) Kibana
5 1 (1.06%) QRadar
Vendors
1 19 (20.21%) Databricks
2 8 (8.51%) Foundry
2 8 (8.51%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.38%) Google
3 6 (6.38%) Palantir
4 5 (5.32%) SAP
4 5 (5.32%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.19%) Oracle
6 2 (2.13%) IBM
6 2 (2.13%) Informatica
6 2 (2.13%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.13%) Snow
6 2 (2.13%) Splunk
7 1 (1.06%) Cribl.io
7 1 (1.06%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.06%) mParticle
7 1 (1.06%) New Relic
7 1 (1.06%) Okta
7 1 (1.06%) Talend
7 1 (1.06%) Tealium