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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 248 280
Rank change year-on-year +5 +32 +83
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 129 60 53
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.96% 0.61% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.66% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 47 39
10th Percentile £386 £401 £420
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -2.44% -18.00%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £594
90th Percentile £731 £652 £724
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% -20.00%
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 12,092 9,024 11,307
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.90% 91.98% 87.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,594 6,025 7,497
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 709 287 345
10th Percentile £16.33 £12.62 £18.50
25th Percentile £30.00 £18.17 £30.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £35.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -18.60% -14.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.26% -37.90% -4.71%

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 26 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 (7.75%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.10%) Apache
3 3 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Pig
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.78%) nginx
4 1 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 5 (3.88%) NetSuite
1 5 (3.88%) Sage X3
2 4 (3.10%) Aladdin
3 3 (2.33%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.78%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 46 (35.66%) Azure
2 28 (21.71%) AWS
3 22 (17.05%) Power Platform
4 19 (14.73%) GitHub
5 18 (13.95%) Snowflake
6 17 (13.18%) dbt
6 17 (13.18%) GCP
7 15 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (10.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (10.08%) Amazon S3
9 13 (10.08%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (6.20%) Entra ID
11 8 (6.20%) Fivetran
12 7 (5.43%) Serverless
13 6 (4.65%) Azure AKS
14 5 (3.88%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (3.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (3.88%) Cloud Functions
14 5 (3.88%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.33%) Broadband
2 2 (1.55%) HTTP
3 1 (0.78%) Firewall
3 1 (0.78%) IPsec
3 1 (0.78%) Network Security
3 1 (0.78%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (19.38%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (15.50%) Data Lake
2 20 (15.50%) Power BI
3 18 (13.95%) Metadata
4 10 (7.75%) BigQuery
5 9 (6.98%) Star Schema
6 8 (6.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (6.20%) Big Data
6 8 (6.20%) Delta Lake
7 7 (5.43%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (5.43%) Tableau
8 5 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.33%) Power Query
9 3 (2.33%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.55%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Git
2 4 (3.10%) GitLab
3 3 (2.33%) Postman
4 2 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.55%) JIRA
5 1 (0.78%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.78%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.78%) RStudio
5 1 (0.78%) Selenium
5 1 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (21.71%) Finance
1 28 (21.71%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.83%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.98%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.43%) Marketing
4 7 (5.43%) Telecoms
5 6 (4.65%) Billing
6 5 (3.88%) Banking
6 5 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.10%) Publishing
8 3 (2.33%) Legal
8 3 (2.33%) Retail
9 2 (1.55%) Back Office
9 2 (1.55%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.55%) German Language
9 2 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.78%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 36 (27.91%) Data Engineer
2 23 (17.83%) Senior
3 20 (15.50%) Architect
4 13 (10.08%) Developer
5 9 (6.98%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (6.98%) Data Architect
6 8 (6.20%) Senior Data Engineer
6 8 (6.20%) Snowflake Engineer
7 7 (5.43%) Analyst
7 7 (5.43%) Consultant
7 7 (5.43%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 7 (5.43%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 7 (5.43%) Software Engineer
8 6 (4.65%) Azure Data Engineer
8 6 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (3.88%) Data Analyst
9 5 (3.88%) Senior Architect
9 5 (3.88%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.63%) Terraform
2 13 (10.08%) REST
3 12 (9.30%) Kafka
4 11 (8.53%) PySpark
5 5 (3.88%) PyTorch
5 5 (3.88%) TensorFlow
6 3 (2.33%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.33%) FastAPI
6 3 (2.33%) JSON
6 3 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (2.33%) SailPoint
6 3 (2.33%) SAP CAF
6 3 (2.33%) Spring
6 3 (2.33%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.55%) React
7 2 (1.55%) SOAP
8 1 (0.78%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.78%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.78%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.40%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.75%) Data Structures
2 10 (7.75%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.88%) Clustering
4 5 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.10%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.33%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.33%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.33%) SCADA
6 3 (2.33%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (1.55%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.55%) BYOD
7 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.55%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.78%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.55%) Linux
1 2 (1.55%) Unix
2 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (46.51%) Data Pipeline
2 52 (40.31%) Data Engineering
3 51 (39.53%) ETL
4 49 (37.98%) Data Modelling
5 45 (34.88%) Analytics
6 43 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 34 (26.36%) AI
8 27 (20.93%) Business Intelligence
9 26 (20.16%) DevOps
10 24 (18.60%) Machine Learning
11 23 (17.83%) Agile
11 23 (17.83%) Data Transformation
12 22 (17.05%) Data Governance
12 22 (17.05%) Validation
13 19 (14.73%) Data Science
14 18 (13.95%) Data Architecture
14 18 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (13.18%) Platform Engineering
15 17 (13.18%) Stakeholder Management
15 17 (13.18%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 59 (45.74%) Python
2 52 (40.31%) SQL
3 8 (6.20%) Java
3 8 (6.20%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.88%) C#
4 5 (3.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (3.88%) Scala
5 4 (3.10%) Bicep
5 4 (3.10%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.33%) Bash
6 3 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (2.33%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.78%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.78%) PROC SQL
7 1 (0.78%) R
7 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.73%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.88%) SnowPro
4 3 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.55%) Degree
5 2 (1.55%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (34.11%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.88%) NIST
2 5 (3.88%) QA
3 3 (2.33%) GDPR
3 3 (2.33%) NCSC
4 2 (1.55%) COPPA
4 2 (1.55%) SLA
5 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.78%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (3.88%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (7.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.55%) Grafana
3 1 (0.78%) Control-M
3 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (24.03%) Databricks
2 24 (18.60%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.75%) Salesforce
4 8 (6.20%) Google
5 5 (3.88%) Informatica
5 5 (3.88%) Oracle
5 5 (3.88%) PagerDuty
5 5 (3.88%) Sage
5 5 (3.88%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.10%) SAP
7 3 (2.33%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.33%) SimCorp
8 2 (1.55%) Adobe
8 2 (1.55%) Splunk
8 2 (1.55%) Thales
9 1 (0.78%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.78%) Foundry
9 1 (0.78%) IBM
9 1 (0.78%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.78%) Pega