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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 254 286
Rank change year-on-year +17 +32 +88
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 136 60 55
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.00% 0.60% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.65% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 48 42
10th Percentile £360 £385 £400
25th Percentile £413 £444 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £600
90th Percentile £725 £639 £736
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 12,176 9,249 11,517
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.85% 91.73% 87.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,718 6,242 7,713
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -3.43% -2.33%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 698 280 402
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.62 £17.52
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.89 £30.88
Median hourly rate £53.00 £34.48 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.71% -19.81% -14.00%
75th Percentile £71.91 £65.00 £65.20
90th Percentile £85.00 £71.27 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -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 5 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 (7.35%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.41%) Apache
3 4 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.94%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Pig
4 1 (0.74%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 5 (3.68%) NetSuite
1 5 (3.68%) Sage X3
2 4 (2.94%) Aladdin
3 3 (2.21%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (1.47%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.74%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.74%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 45 (33.09%) Azure
2 37 (27.21%) AWS
3 25 (18.38%) Power Platform
4 19 (13.97%) GitHub
5 18 (13.24%) GCP
5 18 (13.24%) Snowflake
6 17 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 17 (12.50%) dbt
7 14 (10.29%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (10.29%) Serverless
8 13 (9.56%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (9.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (5.88%) Fivetran
11 7 (5.15%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (5.15%) Entra ID
12 6 (4.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (3.68%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.47%) Firewall
2 1 (0.74%) Broadband
2 1 (0.74%) IPsec
2 1 (0.74%) Network Security
2 1 (0.74%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (20.59%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (16.18%) Power BI
3 21 (15.44%) Metadata
4 19 (13.97%) Data Lake
5 11 (8.09%) BigQuery
6 10 (7.35%) Star Schema
7 9 (6.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (6.62%) Tableau
8 7 (5.15%) Big Data
9 6 (4.41%) Delta Lake
9 6 (4.41%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.68%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (2.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (2.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (2.21%) Power Query
13 2 (1.47%) DynamoDB
13 2 (1.47%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 7 (5.15%) GitLab
2 5 (3.68%) Git
3 3 (2.21%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.21%) Postman
4 2 (1.47%) JIRA
5 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.74%) git-flow
5 1 (0.74%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.74%) Selenium
5 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (19.12%) Finance
2 23 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (16.91%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.09%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.62%) Marketing
5 7 (5.15%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.41%) Banking
7 5 (3.68%) Billing
7 5 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.94%) Publishing
9 3 (2.21%) Legal
9 3 (2.21%) Police
9 3 (2.21%) Retail
10 2 (1.47%) Back Office
10 2 (1.47%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Advertising
11 1 (0.74%) Law
11 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (32.35%) Data Engineer
2 27 (19.85%) Senior
3 17 (12.50%) Developer
4 15 (11.03%) Architect
5 9 (6.62%) Analyst
5 9 (6.62%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (6.62%) Snowflake Engineer
6 8 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
6 8 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 8 (5.88%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 7 (5.15%) AWS Data Engineer
7 7 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (5.15%) Data Analyst
7 7 (5.15%) Data Architect
7 7 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (4.41%) Azure Data Engineer
8 6 (4.41%) Consultant
9 5 (3.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (3.68%) Software Engineer
9 5 (3.68%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.03%) PySpark
2 10 (7.35%) Kafka
3 8 (5.88%) REST
4 4 (2.94%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.21%) FastAPI
5 3 (2.21%) JSON
5 3 (2.21%) OAuth
5 3 (2.21%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (2.21%) React
5 3 (2.21%) SailPoint
5 3 (2.21%) SAP CAF
5 3 (2.21%) scikit-learn
5 3 (2.21%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.47%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.47%) Node.js
6 2 (1.47%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.47%) SOAP
7 1 (0.74%) Apache Beam
7 1 (0.74%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.74%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.09%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.62%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.15%) Algorithms
5 6 (4.41%) Clustering
5 6 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.68%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.94%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.21%) Reference Data
8 3 (2.21%) SCADA
9 2 (1.47%) BYOD
9 2 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.47%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (0.74%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.74%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (46.32%) Data Pipeline
2 56 (41.18%) Data Engineering
3 53 (38.97%) Data Modelling
4 49 (36.03%) ETL
5 45 (33.09%) CI/CD
6 43 (31.62%) Analytics
7 31 (22.79%) Business Intelligence
8 30 (22.06%) AI
9 26 (19.12%) Data Science
10 25 (18.38%) Agile
10 25 (18.38%) Data Governance
10 25 (18.38%) DevOps
11 24 (17.65%) Machine Learning
11 24 (17.65%) Validation
12 22 (16.18%) Data Transformation
13 20 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (13.97%) Use Case
15 18 (13.24%) Platform Engineering
16 17 (12.50%) Data Architecture
16 17 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 63 (46.32%) Python
2 54 (39.71%) SQL
3 11 (8.09%) Java
4 7 (5.15%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.41%) Scala
6 5 (3.68%) C#
6 5 (3.68%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.68%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.21%) Bicep
9 2 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.47%) R
10 1 (0.74%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.74%) Bash
10 1 (0.74%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (22.06%) Security Cleared
2 26 (19.12%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.68%) SnowPro
4 3 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.21%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.47%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.47%) Degree
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.74%) CISSP
6 1 (0.74%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.94%) NIST
2 4 (2.94%) QA
3 3 (2.21%) GDPR
3 3 (2.21%) NCSC
4 2 (1.47%) COPPA
5 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.74%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.41%) Docker
2 4 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.74%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (11.03%) Terraform
2 8 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.47%) Grafana
3 2 (1.47%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.74%) Ansible
4 1 (0.74%) Control-M
4 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (18.38%) Databricks
2 24 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.35%) Google
3 10 (7.35%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.15%) Informatica
5 6 (4.41%) Oracle
5 6 (4.41%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.68%) PagerDuty
6 5 (3.68%) Sage
6 5 (3.68%) SAP
7 3 (2.21%) Adobe
7 3 (2.21%) IBM
7 3 (2.21%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.21%) SimCorp
8 2 (1.47%) Netezza
8 2 (1.47%) Remedy
8 2 (1.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.47%) Snow
8 2 (1.47%) Splunk
8 2 (1.47%) Thales