Data Ingestion Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Ingestion
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Ingestion skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Ingestion over the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 320 435
Rank change year-on-year +64 +115 -19
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 59 45 70
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.55% 0.28% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.31% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 36 52
10th Percentile £377 £400 £450
25th Percentile £435 £431 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% -14.58% -
75th Percentile £700 £591 £625
90th Percentile £750 £744 £688
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -0.38% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Process and 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 9,614 14,290 25,895
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.26% 87.85% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,372 9,570 18,226
10th Percentile £328 £338 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 530 535
10th Percentile £17.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £22.61 £32.50
Median hourly rate £39.04 £44.87 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.99% -21.97% +69.62%
75th Percentile £64.76 £64.88 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £80.15
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -1.52% -5.71% +45.83%

Data Ingestion
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Ingestion as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Ingestion trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Ingestion.

Data Ingestion daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Ingestion
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Ingestion over the 6 months to 6 March 2025.

Data Ingestion daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Ingestion
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Ingestion.

Data Ingestion hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Ingestion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (10.17%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.39%) Apache
4 1 (1.69%) Confluence
4 1 (1.69%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Aladdin
2 2 (3.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.73%) AWS
1 14 (23.73%) Azure
2 9 (15.25%) Power Platform
3 6 (10.17%) Amazon S3
4 5 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (8.47%) GCP
4 5 (8.47%) Serverless
5 4 (6.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (6.78%) dbt
6 3 (5.08%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.39%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (3.39%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.69%) GitHub
8 1 (1.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.69%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (40.68%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (15.25%) Big Data
2 9 (15.25%) Power BI
3 8 (13.56%) NoSQL
3 8 (13.56%) SQL Server
4 7 (11.86%) Data Lake
5 5 (8.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (8.47%) Hadoop
5 5 (8.47%) Relational Database
5 5 (8.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (6.78%) RDBMS
7 3 (5.08%) BigQuery
7 3 (5.08%) Metadata
7 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (5.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.39%) DynamoDB
8 2 (3.39%) Looker
8 2 (3.39%) Oracle Database
8 2 (3.39%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.08%) ER Studio
2 3 (5.08%) ERwin
2 3 (5.08%) GitLab
3 2 (3.39%) Git
3 2 (3.39%) MLflow
4 1 (1.69%) JIRA
4 1 (1.69%) JMeter
4 1 (1.69%) Postman
4 1 (1.69%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.69%) Selenium
4 1 (1.69%) TestNG
4 1 (1.69%) Travis CI
General
1 22 (37.29%) Social Skills
2 19 (32.20%) Finance
3 15 (25.42%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.39%) Banking
6 2 (3.39%) Front Office
6 2 (3.39%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.39%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.39%) Military
6 2 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.69%) Dutch Language
7 1 (1.69%) French Language
7 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (40.68%) Data Engineer
2 14 (23.73%) Senior
3 6 (10.17%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (10.17%) Developer
4 5 (8.47%) Lead
4 5 (8.47%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Software Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) Analyst
5 3 (5.08%) Architect
5 3 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 3 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) Data Modeller
5 3 (5.08%) GCP Data Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (3.39%) Data Architect
6 2 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (3.39%) Software Developer
6 2 (3.39%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.56%) .NET
2 7 (11.86%) Kafka
3 5 (8.47%) PySpark
4 4 (6.78%) .NET Core
4 4 (6.78%) .NET Framework
4 4 (6.78%) Entity Framework
4 4 (6.78%) LINQ
5 3 (5.08%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.08%) FastAPI
5 3 (5.08%) React
6 2 (3.39%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.39%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (3.39%) Vue
6 2 (3.39%) WinForms
7 1 (1.69%) HTML
7 1 (1.69%) JDBC
7 1 (1.69%) JSON
7 1 (1.69%) NumPy
7 1 (1.69%) Pandas
7 1 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.78%) Fixed Income
3 3 (5.08%) Data Fabric
4 2 (3.39%) Life Science
4 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.39%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.69%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.69%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.69%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (54.24%) ETL
2 23 (38.98%) Data Pipeline
3 20 (33.90%) DevOps
4 17 (28.81%) Data Modelling
4 17 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (27.12%) Agile
6 14 (23.73%) Data Engineering
6 14 (23.73%) Data Integration
7 13 (22.03%) CI/CD
8 11 (18.64%) Computer Science
9 10 (16.95%) Analytics
9 10 (16.95%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (15.25%) Data Science
10 9 (15.25%) Migration
11 7 (11.86%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (11.86%) Data Governance
11 7 (11.86%) Data Transformation
11 7 (11.86%) Decision-Making
11 7 (11.86%) Software Engineering
11 7 (11.86%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (54.24%) SQL
2 29 (49.15%) Python
3 9 (15.25%) C#
3 9 (15.25%) Java
4 7 (11.86%) T-SQL
5 6 (10.17%) Scala
6 3 (5.08%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.39%) Bash
7 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.39%) VBA
8 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (18.64%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (18.64%) Degree
2 8 (13.56%) Security Cleared
3 6 (10.17%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.08%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.69%) CEH
6 1 (1.69%) CISSP
6 1 (1.69%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (22.03%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.39%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (11.86%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) LXC
2 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (10.17%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.39%) Terraform
3 1 (1.69%) Control-M
3 1 (1.69%) Kibana
3 1 (1.69%) Oozie
Vendors
1 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.86%) Databricks
3 4 (6.78%) Murex
3 4 (6.78%) Oracle
4 3 (5.08%) Google
5 2 (3.39%) Splunk
6 1 (1.69%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.69%) Citrix
6 1 (1.69%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.69%) Vertica