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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 246 293
Rank change year-on-year +12 +47 +95
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 124 62 54
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.94% 0.63% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.69% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 50 41
10th Percentile £357 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £567 £588
90th Percentile £700 £671 £720
UK median daily rate £540 £503 £500
% change year-on-year +7.46% +0.50% -16.67%
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 11,785 9,050 12,709
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.51% 91.75% 87.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,540 6,160 8,549
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £620 £634 £638
90th Percentile £725 £755 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.79% -4.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 641 251 554
10th Percentile £16.85 £13.00 £15.05
25th Percentile £32.00 £19.00 £24.56
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -18.60% -18.10%
75th Percentile £71.91 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.25 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.81%

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 1 July 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 (7.26%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.03%) Apache
2 5 (4.03%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.23%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Pig
4 1 (0.81%) Confluence
4 1 (0.81%) SAS
4 1 (0.81%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (4.03%) NetSuite
1 5 (4.03%) Sage X3
2 3 (2.42%) Aladdin
2 3 (2.42%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.81%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.81%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.81%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 46 (37.10%) Azure
2 40 (32.26%) AWS
3 23 (18.55%) GCP
4 22 (17.74%) Power Platform
5 17 (13.71%) Amazon S3
6 16 (12.90%) GitHub
7 15 (12.10%) Snowflake
8 14 (11.29%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (11.29%) dbt
8 14 (11.29%) Serverless
9 11 (8.87%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (8.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (8.06%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (6.45%) Amazon EMR
12 8 (6.45%) Fivetran
13 7 (5.65%) Entra ID
14 6 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (4.03%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (21.77%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (15.32%) Power BI
3 16 (12.90%) Data Lake
4 15 (12.10%) Metadata
5 10 (8.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (8.06%) BigQuery
5 10 (8.06%) Star Schema
6 8 (6.45%) Tableau
7 6 (4.84%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (4.03%) Delta Lake
8 5 (4.03%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.23%) Big Data
9 4 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.42%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.42%) Power Query
11 2 (1.61%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 9 (7.26%) GitLab
2 5 (4.03%) Git
2 5 (4.03%) JIRA
2 5 (4.03%) Postman
3 4 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.61%) Gatling
4 2 (1.61%) JMeter
4 2 (1.61%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.61%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.81%) git-flow
5 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.81%) Selenium
5 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (18.55%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (17.74%) Finance
3 18 (14.52%) Social Skills
4 12 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.65%) Banking
5 7 (5.65%) Marketing
5 7 (5.65%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.03%) Billing
8 4 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.23%) Publishing
9 3 (2.42%) Legal
9 3 (2.42%) Police
9 3 (2.42%) Retail
10 2 (1.61%) Back Office
10 2 (1.61%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.81%) Advertising
11 1 (0.81%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.81%) Law
11 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (35.48%) Data Engineer
2 22 (17.74%) Senior
3 17 (13.71%) Developer
4 12 (9.68%) Architect
5 8 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
5 8 (6.45%) Senior Developer
6 7 (5.65%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (5.65%) Snowflake Engineer
7 6 (4.84%) AWS Data Engineer
7 6 (4.84%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (4.84%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (4.03%) Analyst
8 5 (4.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (4.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 5 (4.03%) Consultant
8 5 (4.03%) Data Analyst
8 5 (4.03%) Data Architect
8 5 (4.03%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 5 (4.03%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.29%) PySpark
2 8 (6.45%) REST
3 6 (4.84%) Kafka
3 6 (4.84%) PyTorch
4 5 (4.03%) SailPoint
5 4 (3.23%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.23%) React
5 4 (3.23%) TensorFlow
6 3 (2.42%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.42%) JSON
6 3 (2.42%) LangChain
6 3 (2.42%) Node.js
6 3 (2.42%) OAuth
6 3 (2.42%) Playwright
6 3 (2.42%) SAP CAF
6 3 (2.42%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.61%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.61%) LDAP
7 2 (1.61%) OpenID
7 2 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.45%) Algorithms
3 7 (5.65%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.84%) Clustering
5 5 (4.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.03%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.23%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.42%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.42%) SCADA
8 2 (1.61%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.61%) BYOD
8 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.61%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.61%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.81%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.61%) Linux
1 2 (1.61%) Unix
1 2 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (45.16%) Data Pipeline
2 54 (43.55%) Data Engineering
3 50 (40.32%) ETL
4 47 (37.90%) Data Modelling
5 41 (33.06%) CI/CD
6 36 (29.03%) Analytics
7 30 (24.19%) AI
8 29 (23.39%) Data Science
9 27 (21.77%) Machine Learning
10 26 (20.97%) Business Intelligence
11 25 (20.16%) Validation
12 23 (18.55%) DevOps
13 22 (17.74%) Platform Engineering
14 21 (16.94%) Agile
14 21 (16.94%) Use Case
15 20 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
16 19 (15.32%) Data Governance
17 18 (14.52%) Data Architecture
18 16 (12.90%) Data Transformation
19 14 (11.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 64 (51.61%) Python
2 50 (40.32%) SQL
3 14 (11.29%) Java
4 7 (5.65%) Scala
5 6 (4.84%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.03%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.03%) Kotlin
7 4 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (3.23%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.42%) C#
8 3 (2.42%) R
9 2 (1.61%) Bash
9 2 (1.61%) Bicep
9 2 (1.61%) Cypher
10 1 (0.81%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (23.39%) Security Cleared
2 25 (20.16%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.03%) SnowPro
4 4 (3.23%) Degree
5 3 (2.42%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.42%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.61%) CISSP
7 1 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.81%) PhD
7 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (34.68%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.84%) GDPR
3 5 (4.03%) QA
4 3 (2.42%) NCSC
5 2 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.61%) COPPA
6 1 (0.81%) GRC
6 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.81%) NIST
6 1 (0.81%) SLA
6 1 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (4.84%) Docker
2 4 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.61%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.81%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (12.10%) Terraform
2 8 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.42%) Grafana
4 2 (1.61%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.81%) Ansible
5 1 (0.81%) Control-M
5 1 (0.81%) Fluentd
5 1 (0.81%) logstash
5 1 (0.81%) QRadar
5 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (18.55%) Databricks
2 17 (13.71%) Microsoft
3 12 (9.68%) Google
4 9 (7.26%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.65%) Informatica
5 7 (5.65%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.84%) Oracle
7 5 (4.03%) PagerDuty
7 5 (4.03%) Sage
8 4 (3.23%) OpenAI
8 4 (3.23%) SAP
9 3 (2.42%) SimCorp
10 2 (1.61%) Adobe
10 2 (1.61%) IBM
10 2 (1.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (1.61%) Splunk
10 2 (1.61%) Thales
11 1 (0.81%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.81%) New Relic