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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 281 364
Rank change year-on-year +47 +83 +126
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 74 55 40
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.76% 0.45% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.51% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 39 27
10th Percentile £409 £417 £456
25th Percentile £475 £478 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £513 £625
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -18.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £640 £628 £688
90th Percentile £738 £750 -
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +10.00% -20.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £58.75 £28.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +106.14% -62.00% -

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 8,994 10,850 16,876
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.90% 88.08% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,982 6,831 11,841
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 233 397
10th Percentile £13.85 £18.50 £18.19
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.25 £26.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.44% -18.10% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.60 £75.00 £86.35
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £38.50 £43.17
% change year-on-year -34.87% -10.81% +30.80%

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 22 October 2025.

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 7 (9.46%) Apache
1 7 (9.46%) Apache Spark
2 6 (8.11%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.35%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (50.00%) Azure
2 32 (43.24%) AWS
3 16 (21.62%) GCP
4 13 (17.57%) Amazon S3
4 13 (17.57%) Power Platform
5 12 (16.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (16.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 12 (16.22%) Serverless
6 9 (12.16%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (10.81%) GitHub
7 8 (10.81%) Snowflake
8 6 (8.11%) Amazon EMR
8 6 (8.11%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (8.11%) dbt
8 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (6.76%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 4 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) DNS
1 1 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.97%) Data Lake
2 12 (16.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (14.86%) Power BI
4 10 (13.51%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (10.81%) BigQuery
5 8 (10.81%) Metadata
6 7 (9.46%) Delta Lake
7 6 (8.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (8.11%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (6.76%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (5.41%) Big Data
9 4 (5.41%) NoSQL
9 4 (5.41%) Relational Database
10 3 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (4.05%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (4.05%) DynamoDB
10 3 (4.05%) OLAP
10 3 (4.05%) OLTP
10 3 (4.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Git
1 4 (5.41%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.22%) Public Sector
3 10 (13.51%) Finance
4 9 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.16%) Banking
5 4 (5.41%) Marketing
6 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.70%) Legal
6 2 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Automotive
7 1 (1.35%) Billing
7 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Electronics
7 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.35%) Retail
7 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (44.59%) Data Engineer
2 11 (14.86%) Architect
2 11 (14.86%) Azure Data Engineer
2 11 (14.86%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (13.51%) Senior
4 8 (10.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 7 (9.46%) Data Architect
5 7 (9.46%) Developer
6 3 (4.05%) AWS Architect
6 3 (4.05%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) Consultant
6 3 (4.05%) Lead
6 3 (4.05%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.70%) AWS Data Architect
7 2 (2.70%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) GCP Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) Python Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.92%) PySpark
2 8 (10.81%) FastAPI
3 6 (8.11%) SQLAlchemy
4 5 (6.76%) Kafka
5 3 (4.05%) JSON
5 3 (4.05%) NumPy
5 3 (4.05%) Pandas
6 2 (2.70%) Dask
6 2 (2.70%) GeoJSON
6 2 (2.70%) GeoPandas
6 2 (2.70%) Plotly
6 2 (2.70%) PostGIS
6 2 (2.70%) REST
6 2 (2.70%) RESTful
6 2 (2.70%) scikit-learn
6 2 (2.70%) Streamlit
7 1 (1.35%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.35%) Fluent Bit
7 1 (1.35%) Great Expectations
7 1 (1.35%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.76%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.70%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.70%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.70%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.35%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.35%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.35%) Clustering
5 1 (1.35%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.35%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.35%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.35%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.35%) SCADA
5 1 (1.35%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (47.30%) ETL
2 31 (41.89%) Data Modelling
3 30 (40.54%) Data Pipeline
4 26 (35.14%) Data Engineering
5 25 (33.78%) Data Science
6 22 (29.73%) Analytics
7 18 (24.32%) AI
8 17 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (21.62%) Visualisation
10 14 (18.92%) Agile
10 14 (18.92%) Data Governance
11 13 (17.57%) CI/CD
12 12 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
13 11 (14.86%) Data Architecture
13 11 (14.86%) Data Security
13 11 (14.86%) Generative AI
13 11 (14.86%) LLM
14 10 (13.51%) DevOps
14 10 (13.51%) Machine Learning
15 9 (12.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 42 (56.76%) Python
2 35 (47.30%) SQL
3 8 (10.81%) Scala
4 5 (6.76%) Java
5 1 (1.35%) C#
5 1 (1.35%) HiveQL
5 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.76%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.70%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.35%) Degree
5 1 (1.35%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (31.08%) Data Quality
2 9 (12.16%) GDPR
3 3 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.70%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.11%) Kubernetes
1 6 (8.11%) Terraform
2 1 (1.35%) Demisto
2 1 (1.35%) Fluentd
2 1 (1.35%) Kibana
2 1 (1.35%) logstash
Vendors
1 22 (29.73%) Databricks
2 9 (12.16%) Google
3 8 (10.81%) Microsoft
4 7 (9.46%) Foundry
5 6 (8.11%) Palantir
6 5 (6.76%) Informatica
6 5 (6.76%) SAP
7 2 (2.70%) Teradata
8 1 (1.35%) Intel
8 1 (1.35%) mParticle
8 1 (1.35%) Oracle
8 1 (1.35%) Tealium