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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 256 315
Rank change year-on-year +22 +59 +119
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 104 52 44
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.90% 0.51% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.56% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 41 37
10th Percentile £364 £367 £400
25th Percentile £425 £436 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +2.10% -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £588
90th Percentile £693 £750 £733
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.43% -0.43% -8.70%
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 £66.75 £78.70 £67.50
% change year-on-year -15.18% +16.59% -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 10,283 9,216 14,067
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.97% 90.35% 87.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,716 6,286 9,379
10th Percentile £350 £330 £335
25th Percentile £416 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 203 543
10th Percentile £17.00 £15.25 £15.17
25th Percentile £25.38 £21.38 £23.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £39.04 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.88% -2.40% -29.05%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.50 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 20 March 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 (8.65%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.73%) Apache
3 5 (4.81%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.88%) Apache Superset
4 3 (2.88%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.96%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.96%) Confluence
5 1 (0.96%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.96%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (0.96%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.96%) Eloqua
1 1 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.96%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 51 (49.04%) AWS
2 47 (45.19%) Azure
3 17 (16.35%) GCP
3 17 (16.35%) Power Platform
4 15 (14.42%) Amazon S3
4 15 (14.42%) Azure Data Factory
4 15 (14.42%) dbt
4 15 (14.42%) Serverless
5 14 (13.46%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (11.54%) GitHub
7 7 (6.73%) Amazon EMR
7 7 (6.73%) Snowflake
8 6 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (5.77%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 4 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (2.88%) Azure AI
10 3 (2.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (18.27%) Data Lake
2 18 (17.31%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (13.46%) Metadata
4 13 (12.50%) Power BI
5 8 (7.69%) Tableau
6 7 (6.73%) Relational Database
6 7 (6.73%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (4.81%) BigQuery
9 4 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (3.85%) Star Schema
10 3 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.88%) Big Data
10 3 (2.88%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.92%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.92%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.92%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (5.77%) GitLab
2 5 (4.81%) Git
2 5 (4.81%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.81%) JIRA
3 3 (2.88%) Postman
4 2 (1.92%) Gatling
4 2 (1.92%) JMeter
4 2 (1.92%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.92%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.96%) git-flow
5 1 (0.96%) JUnit
5 1 (0.96%) Maven
5 1 (0.96%) Selenium
5 1 (0.96%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.96%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.96%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (14.42%) Finance
3 14 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.58%) Social Skills
5 6 (5.77%) Banking
6 3 (2.88%) Marketing
6 3 (2.88%) Police
7 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.96%) Electronics
8 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.96%) Law
8 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.96%) Military
8 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Publishing
8 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (40.38%) Data Engineer
2 15 (14.42%) Developer
2 15 (14.42%) Senior
3 13 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 8 (7.69%) Consultant
4 8 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 6 (5.77%) Architect
5 6 (5.77%) Lead
6 5 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (4.81%) Data Consultant
7 4 (3.85%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.85%) Python Developer
7 4 (3.85%) Python Engineer
7 4 (3.85%) Senior Manager
7 4 (3.85%) Senior Project Manager
7 4 (3.85%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 4 (3.85%) Snowflake Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) Backend Developer
8 3 (2.88%) Lead Data Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.46%) PySpark
2 12 (11.54%) FastAPI
3 7 (6.73%) SQLAlchemy
4 6 (5.77%) Kafka
5 5 (4.81%) REST
6 4 (3.85%) PyTorch
7 3 (2.88%) LangChain
7 3 (2.88%) LDAP
7 3 (2.88%) Node.js
7 3 (2.88%) OAuth
7 3 (2.88%) OpenID
7 3 (2.88%) SailPoint
8 2 (1.92%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.92%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.92%) Hugging Face
8 2 (1.92%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.92%) Pandas
8 2 (1.92%) Playwright
8 2 (1.92%) React
8 2 (1.92%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.46%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 6 (5.77%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.81%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.81%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.85%) Clustering
6 3 (2.88%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.92%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.92%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.96%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.96%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.92%) Linux
1 2 (1.92%) Unix
1 2 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (39.42%) ETL
2 38 (36.54%) Data Engineering
3 33 (31.73%) Data Science
4 32 (30.77%) Data Modelling
5 31 (29.81%) Data Pipeline
6 28 (26.92%) CI/CD
7 25 (24.04%) Agile
7 25 (24.04%) AI
8 22 (21.15%) Analytics
9 19 (18.27%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (17.31%) DevOps
10 18 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (16.35%) Data Governance
11 17 (16.35%) Machine Learning
11 17 (16.35%) Roadmaps
12 16 (15.38%) Validation
13 15 (14.42%) LLM
14 14 (13.46%) Data Architecture
14 14 (13.46%) Decision-Making
14 14 (13.46%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 67 (64.42%) Python
2 47 (45.19%) SQL
3 13 (12.50%) Java
4 5 (4.81%) Kotlin
5 4 (3.85%) Scala
5 4 (3.85%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.88%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.88%) R
7 2 (1.92%) Bash
7 2 (1.92%) Cypher
7 2 (1.92%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.96%) Bicep
8 1 (0.96%) C#
8 1 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.35%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.88%) Degree
4 3 (2.88%) SnowPro
5 2 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.92%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.92%) CISSP
6 1 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.96%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.77%) GDPR
3 5 (4.81%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.92%) QA
5 1 (0.96%) GRC
5 1 (0.96%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (3.85%) Docker
2 3 (2.88%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (8.65%) Terraform
2 7 (6.73%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.88%) Grafana
4 2 (1.92%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.96%) Ansible
5 1 (0.96%) Fluentd
5 1 (0.96%) logstash
5 1 (0.96%) QRadar
Vendors
1 22 (21.15%) Databricks
2 14 (13.46%) Microsoft
3 10 (9.62%) Google
4 6 (5.77%) Informatica
5 5 (4.81%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.85%) Foundry
6 4 (3.85%) Oracle
6 4 (3.85%) SAP
7 3 (2.88%) IBM
7 3 (2.88%) Palantir
8 2 (1.92%) Adobe
8 2 (1.92%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.92%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.92%) Snow
8 2 (1.92%) Splunk
8 2 (1.92%) Thales
9 1 (0.96%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.96%) Okta
9 1 (0.96%) Remedy
9 1 (0.96%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud