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 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 766 552 774
Rank change year-on-year -214 +222 -60
Permanent jobs citing Data Ingestion 143 467 516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.48% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.50% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 100 167 181
10th Percentile £51,000 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,375 £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 £165,000 £93,750
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 86,141 93,563 159,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.33% 95.54% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 60,433 55,405 83,263
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -217 105 £72,500 -9.38% 89
UK excluding London +16 94 £65,000 -7.14% 52
Work from Home +38 56 £71,500 -4.67% 32
London -173 44 £80,000 -20.00% 63
Scotland - 34 £75,000 - 2
North of England +56 20 £68,000 +4.62% 8
Midlands -13 16 £65,000 +81.82% 4
West Midlands +3 15 £65,000 +36.84% 3
North East - 15 £77,000 - 1
South East -17 10 £50,500 -32.67% 28
South West -19 10 £55,000 -26.67% 6
North West +3 4 £67,750 +4.23% 7
East of England 0 4 £75,000 - 3
Yorkshire +68 1 £55,000 -
East Midlands -23 1 - - 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 (13.29%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.90%) Apache
3 3 (2.10%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.10%) Luigi
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 53 (37.06%) AWS
2 46 (32.17%) Azure
3 28 (19.58%) GCP
3 28 (19.58%) SaaS
4 25 (17.48%) Snowflake
5 24 (16.78%) dbt
6 21 (14.69%) Power Platform
7 16 (11.19%) Amazon Kinesis
8 12 (8.39%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (7.69%) Amazon S3
10 8 (5.59%) GitHub
11 7 (4.90%) Boomi
11 7 (4.90%) PaaS
12 5 (3.50%) IaaS
12 5 (3.50%) Prefect
12 5 (3.50%) Serverless
13 4 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.20%) Firewall
2 3 (2.10%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (2.10%) Network Security
3 1 (0.70%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (28.67%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (16.08%) Amazon Redshift
2 23 (16.08%) SQL Server
3 22 (15.38%) Data Lake
4 21 (14.69%) Power BI
5 18 (12.59%) BigQuery
6 17 (11.89%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (8.39%) Data Mining
8 10 (6.99%) Looker
8 10 (6.99%) Tableau
9 9 (6.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (6.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (4.90%) NoSQL
10 7 (4.90%) Relational Database
11 5 (3.50%) Redis
12 4 (2.80%) Delta Lake
12 4 (2.80%) MySQL
12 4 (2.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (2.10%) Big Data
13 3 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (5.59%) Git
2 4 (2.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (2.80%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.40%) ERwin
3 2 (1.40%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.40%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.70%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.70%) Toad
General
1 52 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 41 (28.67%) Finance
3 33 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (20.98%) Marketing
5 28 (19.58%) Law
6 24 (16.78%) Games
7 16 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.80%) Agriculture
8 4 (2.80%) Banking
8 4 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.10%) Retail
10 1 (0.70%) Automotive
10 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (51.05%) Data Engineer
2 27 (18.88%) Lead
3 24 (16.78%) Software Engineering Director
4 19 (13.29%) Lead Data Engineer
5 15 (10.49%) AWS Data Engineer
5 15 (10.49%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (9.79%) Principal Engineer
6 14 (9.79%) Senior
7 10 (6.99%) Principal Data Engineer
8 9 (6.29%) Python Data Engineer
8 9 (6.29%) Python Engineer
8 9 (6.29%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (5.59%) Architect
9 8 (5.59%) Developer
10 7 (4.90%) Azure Data Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Data Integration Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Team Leader
11 5 (3.50%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.99%) GraphQL
2 9 (6.29%) RESTful
3 6 (4.20%) PySpark
4 4 (2.80%) Kafka
5 3 (2.10%) Pandas
5 3 (2.10%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (1.40%) .NET
6 2 (1.40%) LAMP
6 2 (1.40%) React
7 1 (0.70%) JSON
7 1 (0.70%) Node.js
7 1 (0.70%) Unreal Engine
7 1 (0.70%) XML
7 1 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.78%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.89%) Client/Server
3 15 (10.49%) Data Structures
4 13 (9.09%) Online Games
5 10 (6.99%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.50%) Reinsurance
7 4 (2.80%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.10%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.40%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.40%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.40%) 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 (1.40%) Linux
2 1 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (55.94%) ETL
2 75 (52.45%) Agile
3 57 (39.86%) Data Modelling
4 49 (34.27%) Data Pipeline
5 42 (29.37%) Computer Science
6 39 (27.27%) Data Engineering
7 38 (26.57%) Decision-Making
7 38 (26.57%) Machine Learning
7 38 (26.57%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (23.08%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 33 (23.08%) Visualisation
9 32 (22.38%) Software Engineering
10 30 (20.98%) Business Intelligence
10 30 (20.98%) Mathematics
11 29 (20.28%) Artificial Intelligence
11 29 (20.28%) Data Integration
11 29 (20.28%) Data Transformation
11 29 (20.28%) Natural Language Processing
12 28 (19.58%) Data Science
13 26 (18.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 82 (57.34%) Python
2 80 (55.94%) SQL
3 18 (12.59%) Java
4 13 (9.09%) Scala
5 7 (4.90%) C#
5 7 (4.90%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.80%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.70%) Bicep
7 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (18.18%) Degree
2 12 (8.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.10%) CISM
3 3 (2.10%) CISSP
4 2 (1.40%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.40%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (28.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.10%) PSD2
2 3 (2.10%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.70%) HDFS
2 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (6.29%) Terraform
2 3 (2.10%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (11.89%) Databricks
1 17 (11.89%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.49%) Google
3 7 (4.90%) MuleSoft
4 4 (2.80%) Splunk
5 3 (2.10%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.40%) Confluent
6 2 (1.40%) Oracle
7 1 (0.70%) Brio
7 1 (0.70%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.70%) Commvault
7 1 (0.70%) Informatica