Data Ingestion Jobs

Data Ingestion
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Ingestion skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Ingestion over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 765 550 783
Rank change year-on-year -215 +233 -70
Permanent jobs citing Data Ingestion 142 444 527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.47% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.49% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 98 163 182
10th Percentile £52,350 £51,250 £47,750
25th Percentile £60,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +16.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £111,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £140,000 £94,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +30.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Ingestion is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Ingestion as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Ingestion in the UK

Data Ingestion
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Ingestion.

Salary trend for Data Ingestion in the UK

Data Ingestion
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Ingestion over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Ingestion in the UK

Data Ingestion
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Ingestion within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -243 104 £75,000 -6.25% 52
UK excluding London -4 92 £65,000 -7.14% 26
Work from Home +43 59 £71,500 -4.79% 21
London -144 45 £80,000 -20.00% 23
Scotland - 34 £75,000 - 1
North of England +43 19 £69,750 +7.31% 10
Midlands -14 16 £65,000 +85.71% 3
West Midlands -10 15 £65,000 +62.50% 2
North East - 15 £77,000 - 1
South West -20 11 £55,000 -26.67% 5
South East -29 8 £53,750 -28.33% 4
East of England +1 4 £75,000 - 2
North West -10 3 £68,000 +4.62% 8
East Midlands -23 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £55,000 - 1

Data Ingestion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (13.38%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.93%) Apache
3 3 (2.11%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.11%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 55 (38.73%) AWS
2 47 (33.10%) Azure
3 30 (21.13%) GCP
4 28 (19.72%) SaaS
5 25 (17.61%) Snowflake
6 24 (16.90%) dbt
7 21 (14.79%) Power Platform
8 16 (11.27%) Amazon Kinesis
9 11 (7.75%) Amazon S3
9 11 (7.75%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (5.63%) GitHub
11 7 (4.93%) Boomi
11 7 (4.93%) PaaS
12 5 (3.52%) IaaS
12 5 (3.52%) Prefect
13 4 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (2.82%) Serverless
14 2 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.93%) Firewall
2 4 (2.82%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (2.82%) Network Security
3 1 (0.70%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (26.06%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (16.20%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (15.49%) Data Lake
4 21 (14.79%) Power BI
5 20 (14.08%) SQL Server
6 18 (12.68%) BigQuery
7 17 (11.97%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (8.45%) Data Mining
9 10 (7.04%) Looker
9 10 (7.04%) Tableau
10 9 (6.34%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (4.93%) NoSQL
12 6 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (3.52%) Redis
14 4 (2.82%) Big Data
14 4 (2.82%) MySQL
14 4 (2.82%) Relational Database
15 3 (2.11%) Bigtable
15 3 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (2.11%) RethinkDB
Development Applications
1 9 (6.34%) Git
2 2 (1.41%) ERwin
2 2 (1.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.41%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.70%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.70%) Toad
3 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (38.03%) Social Skills
2 42 (29.58%) Finance
3 34 (23.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (21.13%) Marketing
5 28 (19.72%) Law
6 24 (16.90%) Games
7 15 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.82%) Agriculture
8 4 (2.82%) Banking
9 3 (2.11%) Retail
10 2 (1.41%) Automotive
11 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (49.30%) Data Engineer
2 26 (18.31%) Lead
3 24 (16.90%) Software Engineering Director
4 18 (12.68%) Lead Data Engineer
5 16 (11.27%) Senior
6 15 (10.56%) AWS Data Engineer
6 15 (10.56%) AWS Engineer
6 15 (10.56%) Principal Engineer
7 11 (7.75%) Principal Data Engineer
8 9 (6.34%) Python Data Engineer
8 9 (6.34%) Python Engineer
8 9 (6.34%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (5.63%) Architect
9 8 (5.63%) Developer
10 7 (4.93%) Data Integration Engineer
10 7 (4.93%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (4.93%) Team Leader
11 6 (4.23%) Azure Data Engineer
11 6 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (4.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.04%) GraphQL
2 9 (6.34%) RESTful
3 7 (4.93%) PySpark
4 4 (2.82%) Kafka
4 4 (2.82%) Pandas
5 3 (2.11%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (1.41%) .NET
6 2 (1.41%) LAMP
6 2 (1.41%) React
7 1 (0.70%) Micronaut
7 1 (0.70%) Node.js
7 1 (0.70%) Unreal Engine
7 1 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.90%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.97%) Client/Server
3 15 (10.56%) Data Structures
4 13 (9.15%) Online Games
5 10 (7.04%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (4.23%) Reinsurance
7 5 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.82%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.82%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.41%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.41%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.70%) CSOC
10 1 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.70%) Linked Data
10 1 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.70%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.41%) Linux
2 1 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (54.23%) Agile
1 77 (54.23%) ETL
2 56 (39.44%) Data Modelling
3 50 (35.21%) Data Pipeline
4 44 (30.99%) Computer Science
5 40 (28.17%) Data Engineering
5 40 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (27.46%) Decision-Making
6 39 (27.46%) Machine Learning
7 33 (23.24%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 33 (23.24%) Software Engineering
8 32 (22.54%) Visualisation
9 31 (21.83%) Mathematics
10 30 (21.13%) Data Transformation
10 30 (21.13%) Natural Language Processing
11 29 (20.42%) Artificial Intelligence
11 29 (20.42%) Data Integration
12 28 (19.72%) Data Science
13 27 (19.01%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (19.01%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 84 (59.15%) Python
2 78 (54.93%) SQL
3 20 (14.08%) Java
4 14 (9.86%) Scala
5 6 (4.23%) C#
6 5 (3.52%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.70%) Bicep
7 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (19.72%) Degree
2 14 (9.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.82%) CISM
3 4 (2.82%) CISSP
4 2 (1.41%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.41%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.41%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (29.58%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.11%) PSD2
2 3 (2.11%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.70%) HDFS
2 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (6.34%) Terraform
2 3 (2.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (11.97%) Databricks
2 16 (11.27%) Google
3 14 (9.86%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.93%) MuleSoft
5 5 (3.52%) Splunk
6 4 (2.82%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.41%) Confluent
7 2 (1.41%) Oracle
8 1 (0.70%) Brio
8 1 (0.70%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.70%) Commvault
8 1 (0.70%) Informatica